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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Those who aren’t fastidious can see others who are as too attentive to detail, too fussy, although most of us play both of these parts depending upon the task in hand and our partiality for it. Only two ghits, but google isn’t everything:
Hi PeoplesHi PeoplesThe cat has a new nickname, now known as Outback Cat due to the new red tinge that her white feet have gone and not even the fusstidious …
www.pocketmail.com/journal/?m=20050524 – 52k – Cached
I am a Qualified Engineer and DIYer …. VERY fusstidious with detail. Occupation: Refrigeration Engineer & Maintenance,Electrical,Plumbing,Knowledgiable …
www.zillion.co.nz/members/alwkgalpal/ -
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Very nice. Your post led me to look for another way of seeing fastidious, as becoming tedious, fast.
Software best practices:
Managing those on with the cli can become very fast tidious and also some dialoug boxes will require you to scroll / resize all the time to figur out which Name you are really seeing.
(http://www.mingle-mangle.org/2009/01/na … nventions/)
Blog:
Michael Moore makes fun of and critisizes the president for his reaction to the news that the nation is under attack while sitting in on an elementary class. George just sits there and lots of looks go across his face but nothing hysterical, and then he reads them a story. And when I saw him I almost cried I felt sorry for him because what would you do if somebody told you that when you were president? Some people are really good at these things , or at least think they are, and would make a fast, tedious decision and maybe it would turn out good.
(http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuse … =251876442)
Planting vulnerabilities into software:
To avoid this, all appearances of a program’s real name and version have to be changed. A task that can get very fast tedious and if some clues remain, will be in vain.
(http://vents.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrp … llenge.pdf)
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I love burred’s third example, but the first thing I thought was, “It sounds like a German having trouble with the placement of adverbial phrases in English.” And then I noticed the .de address. I’ve since gone to the doc, and though the English is pretty good over all, it’s clearly the work of a NNS—and the comma placement sure looks German to me. I think they were just trying to write, “A task that can get tedious very fast….”
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Another example:
Blog comment “Perhaps I am just more fast-tedious about my appearance than that sloppy hound.”
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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