Conversation with a pedant.

 

One of life's most frustrating tasks is holding a coversation with a pedant. Only the most ernest interlocutor is able to persevere. 

The constant interruption and correction of insignificant details is an insuperable impediment to the transfer of information, or indeed, any conversation at all.    

Unless the attempted transfer of information is of an urgent nature such as THE FUCKING HOUSE!  FIRE!!! (which would require spittle-enhanced shouting with no regard for grammatically formed sentences with nouns and verbs), the message becomes mired as its deliverer's mind becomes bogged in the attempt to simultaneously deal with the distraction of deciphering pedantic interruptions, and simply gives up.

Most would just let their minds wander, looking into the middle distance, nodding occasionally to create the impression of intense interest as your previous attempt at conversation is forensically dissected, while simultaneously regretting once again your decision to agree publicly to commit to some pretty damn serious commitments at your wedding in front of all your relatives and friends.

Pedantry is a transmitted by a non-sex-linked recessive dominant gene. So if you don't want to live your life being corrected by your offspring, and you aren't able to surreptitiously feign interest in the review of the factual / grammatical errors in your most recent attempt at verbal communication with them while you once again regretfully revisit in your mind your decision to forego that vasectomy you declined when you were young and hadn't yet grasped the details of being a father of teenage daughters, or you haven't been held in high enough regard by the Big Man In The Sky to be stricken by age-related  conductive deafness (in which case you can sneakily switch your hearing aids off),  you're gonna have to just suck it up.

The best tactic to avoid offence in a conversation with a pedant is to feign interest, occasionally inserting a comment along the lines of a Syble Fawlty dialogue - " Oh, I know, I know" ------  Eventually they will run out of steam.