Originally Posted by
dedhed
It's spelled "Didactic"
And "Pedantic" ... which pretty much applies to each of us detail-oriented types, in such discussions.
Of course, electronic "typing" and spell-check tools have rendered the age-old task of actually
proofreading and editing things nearly obsolete. Heck, these days, even the NY Times, Washington Post and LA Times seem to have fallen down that hole, skipping over the basic proofreading. (Which only prods the second-stringers like us to be even less attentive.)
Gotta love the modern world, sometimes.
A great read, for some, on the flip-side of the spelling coin:
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero-Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, by Lynne Truss.