Original sentence: Pedantry can come about as the overzealous application of intellectual rigour, but equally can just be a habit brought on by lack of social interaction
Edited sentence: It is especially annoying to people who think grammar and usage do not matter, and who do not wish to be reminded of how poor their own usage is, as it reminds them of times in school when their teachers would humiliate them.Pedantry can come about as the overzealous application of intellectual rigour, but equally can just be an annoying habit brought on by lack of social interaction.That leads them to write articles like this one, characterizing pedants as being mentally ill, as with the following...