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RE: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar

Subject: RE: Evaluating Candidates Using Tests, Logic Questions, and Similar
From: "Fred Ridder" <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: vrfour -at- verizon -dot- net, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:35:37 -0500

Disclaimer: It's Friday afternoon and I'm in the mood to pick a nit or two.

ARRRGH! I swear, you people on this list are so picayune...oh wait...that
might be a good thing for a tech writer. Still, I stand by my original
statement: ARRRGH!

Issues and things can be picayune, but that adjective is not appropriate
for people. Here's a definition from Wordnet:

S: (adj) fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty,
picayune, trivial ((informal) small and of little importance) "a fiddling sum
of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with
those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute
over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts";
"giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems
to be a picayune infraction"

Admittedly, some of the synonyms given (esp. "petty") can be applied
to people, but to call a person "small and of little importance" is a much
greater insult than you probably meant. "Picky" and "picayune" are very
different.

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