On Jun 17, 2009, at 12:24 PM, John Berry wrote:
Just what *is* a viable standard? To what degree should content
be valued over courtesy? Just how anal do we have to become?
You are the only one being anal about it so far...
The term anal-retentive (or anally retentive, anal retentive),
commonly abbreviated to "anal", is used conversationally to describe
a person with such attention to detail that the obsession becomes an
annoyance to others, and can be carried out to the detriment of the
anal-retentive person. The term derives from Freudian psychoanalysis.
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentive
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
