What do you call a grammar nazi?
What do you call a grammar nazi?
But the writers I have in mind are the purists –also known as sticklers, pedants, peevers, snobs, snoots, nit-pickers, traditionalists, language police, usage nannies, grammar Nazis and the Gotcha!
Why do we say grammar nazi?
The phrase is recorded on a peeves-themed Usenet forum as early as 1990, five years before the TV sitcom Seinfeld featured its domineering Soup Nazi character. The irony about grammar nazis is that many of the “rules” they like to impose on people are just flat-out bogus.
What do you call someone who corrects grammar?
“orthographizer”, derived from “orthographize” meaning “to write or spell correctly”, which (I think) nicely emphasizes the transitive nature of his compulsion (i.e. not only ensuring his spelling is perfect, but yours, too), or.
What is the plural of Nazi?
Nazi /ˈnɑːtsi/ noun. plural Nazis.
What’s another way to say Nazi?
What is another word for nazi?
| villain | rogue |
|---|---|
| devil | scamp |
| caitiff | rapscallion |
| rascal | savage |
| scallywag | varlet |
Do you have to capitalize Nazi?
Lowercase is permitted. I would recommend lowercase, if you are not actually referring to the Nazi party, its members, or principles.
Is it rude to correct someone’s grammar?
But unless you’re a language teacher or have been explicitly asked to help, lay off the grammar lessons in general conversation. That brings us to why it’s generally rude to correct the grammar of others. It’s simply not appropriate to correct other people’s behavior.
Is fascism capitalized?
General terms describing political movements and their adherents are lower-cased unless they are derived from proper nouns: fascism, fascist. democracy. Marxist.
Is Communist capitalized?
The editors of Orbis have adapted this rule as follows: “communist” is capitalized only in reference to a party with the word “communist” in its official name: the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; the Communist Party in the former Soviet Union; the Communists under Stalin; Bolsheviks; the Communists in China.
Is OCD a thing grammar?
It used to be we thought that people who went around correcting other people’s grammar were just plain annoying. Now there’s evidence they are actually ill, suffering from a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder/oppositional defiant disorder (OCD/ODD). Researchers are calling it Grammatical Pedantry Syndrome, or GPS.
