Nit-picky

"Nit-picky" in a Sentence (2 examples)

It is not the case now, but wasn't I the nit-picky type?

For a linguist, Tagalog's grammar may seem more complicated than English's or Chinese's. Yet, the complexities in Tagalog's grammar aren't so nit-picky, hair-falling-off like English's "their" versus "they're" versus "there" or "every day" versus "everyday."

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