As many readers of 'foreign teachers in China forums' are aware, Roger is not a native speaker of English. I suspect that he continually endeavours to improve his command of English. I suspect that, in the process, he comes across words and phrases that take his fancy without realizing they are very low frequency, i.e. obscure, not known to many people.

Criticaster means a contemptible or vicious critic.

I am aware of two mistakes in my April 30 post; "The article provide ." lacks an s and "2 for the India" should not have the. Both errors resulted from lack of attention to detail.