Is “Grammar Nazi” PC?

[Vault 10]

different rim.

Same job.

[Curious Inquiry]

I prefer "Grammar Gestapo."

Ve take your posts avay in ze nacht, und you neffer see zem again!

[Ravea]

I prefer "Grammar Gestapo."

what about "Consonant Constable"

Linguistic Mystic?

[Saint Clair Island]

"So you're some kind of Grammar Nazi?" "Yup! I just annexed Grammar Czechoslovakia and duped Grammar Neville Chamberlain, and now it's on to Grammar Poland and Grammar World Conquest!"


The term should be banned. It's insulting and offensive! Don't you know some of my family died in the Holocaust? You heartless bastards! I much prefer "Individual who is exceptionally sententious regarding the proper usage of syntax, spelling, grammar, and punctuation". Or its handy abbreviation IWIESRTPUOSSGAP. Much less offensive for all parties concerned!

[Lizardiar]

I thought that being Grammer Nazis meant that they try and make you correct your spelling or word choices.

[Grays Harbor]

different rim.

Same job.

the famous wobbly-headed doll caper?

[Saint Clair Island]

I thought that being Grammer Nazis meant that they try and make you correct your spelling or word choices.

You'd be wrong. Grammar Nazis actually round up punctuation marks they don't like and send them to concentration camps while making speeches about how they are establishing "a thousand-year empire for semicolons".

[Galloism]

I thought that being Grammer Nazis meant that they try and make you correct your spelling or word choices.

You'd be wrong. Grammar Nazis actually round up punctuation marks they don't like and send them to concentration camps while making speeches about how they are establishing "a thousand-year empire for semicolons".

You mean colons. Semicolons are a half breed and barely tolerated within the elite Grammar society.

[Lunatic Goofballs]

In other news, grammar nazis sounds politically correct. You can say nazi and grammar, so putting them together couldnt make it worse.

Thanks Ted. You stay classy, San Diego. I'm Ron Burgundy, and remember kids, rim job safely.

Ron you can't say 'rim job' on television.

Why not? You can say rim and job, so putting them together couldnt make it worse.

Or George Carlin's example: on the radio, you can say "I pricked my finger, but not..." I don't know, actually. He was on the radio, so they bleeped it out. Hmm. I wonder what it was.

You can prick your finger but don'd finger your prick.

[Saint Clair Island]

I thought that being Grammer Nazis meant that they try and make you correct your spelling or word choices.

You'd be wrong. Grammar Nazis actually round up punctuation marks they don't like and send them to concentration camps while making speeches about how they are establishing "a thousand-year empire for semicolons".

You mean colons. Semicolons are a half breed and barely tolerated within the elite Grammar society.

There is a place for colons in our society, but it is only a place; they do not rule supreme the way the semicolon does.

For semicolons are no half breed; they combine the forcefulness of the colon with the versatility of the comma, breeding a master race destined to rule the earth!

|considers designing a Grammarian's Salute|

[Heinleinites]

The Grammar Nazi is bad, but still not as bad as the Dancing Hip-Hop Linguist.

What time is it?

[Apertior]

I'm sure some German politicians would have a few choice words, but I see no real issue with it.

[Bryn Shander]

I thought that being Grammer Nazis meant that they try and make you correct your spelling or word choices.

You'd be wrong. Grammar Nazis actually round up punctuation marks they don't like and send them to concentration camps while making speeches about how they are establishing "a thousand-year empire for semicolons".

Actually, the concentration camps are for people that repeatedly violate the rules of grammar and need to study in peace.



It's when they keep using letters and numbers as substitutes for words that we gas them.

[Saint Clair Island]

I thought that being Grammer Nazis meant that they try and make you correct your spelling or word choices.

You'd be wrong. Grammar Nazis actually round up punctuation marks they don't like and send them to concentration camps while making speeches about how they are establishing "a thousand-year empire for semicolons".

Actually, the concentration camps are for people that repeatedly violate the rules of grammar and need to study in peace.



It's when they keep using letters and numbers as substitutes for words that we gas them.

wh4t? 1 c4n't r34d th3 sm4ll pr1nt 1n th4t l45t l1n3!

[Bryn Shander]

wh4t? 1 c4n't r34d th3 sm4ll pr1nt 1n th4t l45t l1n3!

Hi. If you could come with me we have a free complimentary shower with multiple massaging heads for you in this room over here...

[Kryozerkia]

Let's back this up before anyone gets offended by thus, Bryn.

[Heinleinites]

Hi. If you could come with me we have a free complimentary shower with multiple massaging heads for you in this room over here...

Because for every Grammar Problem, there's a Grammar Final Solution.

[Saint Clair Island]

wh4t? 1 c4n't r34d th3 sm4ll pr1nt 1n th4t l45t l1n3!

Hi. If you could come with me we have a free complimentary shower with multiple massaging heads for you in this room over here...

Ooh, a complimentary shower?! Wow, that's awesome! Who said you guys were spartan and militaristic?

Smells a bit, mind. But hey, it's free!

[Bryn Shander]

Let's back this up before anyone gets offended by thus, Bryn.

Que?

[Lancaster of Wessex]

Let's back this up before anyone gets offended by thus, Bryn.

Que?

Final Solution, Zyklon B showers etc. is getting borderline offensive is what the mod is suggesting, methinks.

[Buffett and Colbert]

Holy crap it's just a saying! And if your so uptight about the word nazi, why would you use the term for yourself? I believe a is in order.

[German Nightmare]

I prefer "Grammar Gestapo."

Damn you! ( That would've been my line. )

[Bryn Shander]

Let's back this up before anyone gets offended by thus, Bryn.

Que?

Final Solution, Zyklon B showers etc. is getting borderline offensive is what the mod is suggesting, methinks.

Who said anything about Zyklon B? I was going to use helium. It's an oxygen displacer so you breathe normally and don't get the stress that carbon dioxide buildup or poisons cause.

Plus they sound like a chipmunk right before they pass out.

[Saint Clair Island]

Que?

Final Solution, Zyklon B showers etc. is getting borderline offensive is what the mod is suggesting, methinks.

Who said anything about Zyklon B? I was going to use helium. It's an oxygen displacer so you breathe normally and don't get the stress that carbon dioxide buildup or poisons cause.

Plus they sound like a chipmunk right before they pass out.

[squeaky voice]
I do not sound like a chipmunk! ... Wait ... Damn.

*thud*
[/squeaky voice]

[Galloism]

Ok, I'm sticking a flag into this thread:



I claim this thread for me!


Now, I may be a little bit of a grammar nazi, but I am by no means completely anal about it. If a person generally uses periods, question marks, and exclamation points where need be, I'll let it go if they screw up commas. If I harped on commas all the time, I'd never post anything useful around here. I try not to judge people too harshly. I'm well aware that my own grammar is not stellar, but people who come in and use no punctuation whatsoever bother me. I can't stand it.

Grammar Nazi is a perfectly accepted and PC term, as it stands for someone who does things a certain way (in this case, the correct way), and persecutes all those who don't do it that way. It's a play on The Soup Nazi.

I made this post just so I could post that flag.