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Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.
John Green
With whom,” Logan corrects from his booth making me want to give him a big grammar Nazi high five.
Sherry D. Ficklin (Losing Logan (Losing Logan, #1))
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed." Hubbard, Elbert
Brandon Collier
I guess I'm too much of a grammar nazi!" ... Ava wondered, not for the first time, why anyone would so proudly declare themselves to be any kind of nazi.
Nino Cipri (Finna (LitenVerse, #1))
I am nothing if not misanthropic," declared Sebastian. "I think you mean philanthropic," said Henry. "God, you are so perdantic." "That would be pedantic." "See! You're even perdantic about the word perdantic.
Kevin Ansbro (The Fish That Climbed a Tree)
No one understands us seventh-sense people. They regard us as freaks. When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to "get a life" by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves.
Lynne Truss (Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation)
These letters may have been the closest Hester Leggett ever came to romance: chattering pastiches of a young woman madly in love, and with little time for grammar.
Ben Macintyre (Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory)
Most of these editors, as they call themselves, couldn't even effectively edit a haiku.
Frank Black
Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, police grammar on the Internet.
Ruadhán J. McElroy
Yes yes yes, we'll get the grammar police onto her first thing. Do they have actual powers of arrest, do you think? Or will they just hang her from the nearest participle?
Mick Herron (London Rules (Slough House, #5))
Wick raised his voice over Neer's, "There are five main swear words that are frequently used in the English language to hurt people's feelings. When used with lesser cuss words, you can procure hundreds of derogatory names. When combined to make compound words, your options go into the thousands, even higher if you aren't particularly worried about the grammar Nazis. If you insist on insulting me, I'm going to have to ask that you change it up each time. It keeps our romance alive, keeps the spark in our relationship.
Havan Fellows (Wicked's Way Collection)
You do this pronoun shift. You may not even be aware of it. If it’s a ‘bold idea,’ it’s ‘ours.’ If it’s a ‘nutty idea,’ it’s ‘yours.’” “Grammar Nazi. Would it be enough to say I want to be president to . . .” “I’m listening.” Randy said, “I was about to say, ‘To give something back,’ but it sounds so pathetic. What it really boils down to is, I’d like to be in charge for just five minutes. Balance the books. Get us out of debt. Be nice to our friends, tell our enemies to fuck off. Clean up the air and water. Throw corporate crooks in the clink. Put the dignity back in government. Fix things. What else . . .? Can’t have Arabs blowing up our buildings, certainly, but I now know that we don’t need to be sending armies everywhere. Among other things, it’s expensive. . ..” “I’m sorry, were you talking? I went to sleep after ‘balance the books.
Christopher Buckley (Boomsday)
1. True trolls are internet users who set out to ruin someone else’s day. Everyone else is merely someone who disagrees with you, which is allowed. It is hard to differentiate between someone who is ‘generally disagreeable to the entire world’ and ‘currently disagreeing with me’. So we move to… 2. They can’t speak proper, innit. Their punctuation, spelling or grammar is so far round the spout it’s actually random. Of course, this could also indicate someone with a learning difficulty, so to be kind we need to check off some more identifying factors such as… 3. They say extremely unreasonable things. Not just ‘Yeah well, so what, copper?’ but posting on the Facebook memorial pages of murdered children that they deserved it, searching out women to call them whores, or sending rape and death threats. This isn’t normal debate. 4. They are not friends with logic. If you question them, ask them why or suggest substantiating this or that, they will scream, kick a table or call you a Nazi. 5. The sheer volume of their posts –either in word count or frequency –indicates a serious personality disorder. 6. If you saw them on the bus, you would sit elsewhere.
Susie Boniface (Bluffer's Guide to Social Media (Bluffer's Guides))
Autocorrect: making Twitter pedants delete and re-tweet since 2007.
Cassandra Page
grammar Nazi
James Newton (Paperwhite Users Manual: The Complete Guide To Getting Started With Your Kindle Paperwhite, Plus How To Find Unlimited Free Books And Other Advanced Hacks (Paperwhite Tablet, Paperwhite Manual))
Is language actually getting better, shorter, and easier? Nowadays we often hear exactly the opposite. Teenager slang is awful, students no longer learn Latin, our children — not to mention our president — cannot put together a grammatical sentence. The whimsical poet Ogden Nash was at least half serious in his “Laments for a dying language”: Coin brassy words at will, debase the coinage; We're in an if-you-cannot-lick-them-join age, A slovenliness-provides-its-own-excuse age, Where usage overnight condones misusage. Farewell, farewell to my beloved language, Once English, now a vile orangutanguage.
Charles Yang (The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World)
Language guardians have often blamed linguists as defenders of bad language: moral and cultural relativism is often tossed in at no extra charge. We as a profession are supposedly promoting the idea that anything goes in grammar... But no, we have never said anything goes in grammar. (...) When it comes to the proper use of language, universal grammar is the ultimate authority. It is not about what rules are deemed reasonable or popular; it is about what rules are true. And one sign for a true rule is that it appears in young children, long before they are polluted by dubious grammatical advice.
Charles Yang (The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World)
Sonnet of Grammar Grammar, Oh Grammar, Whatever you are, Go away and bother, The intellectual scholar. I ain't no intellectual, Nor am I a scholar, So bother me not, With your snobbish affair. My words come from the soil, My structure is born on the street. I didn't even graduate college, What do I know about literary creed! Time has come for me to put you in place. Be an aid to discourse, not an uptight nutcase!
Abhijit Naskar (Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth)
I played pinochle with my grandmothers. I thought I was the only person under the age of sixty who knew how to play. He also used the Oxford comma. That has to mean something, doesn't it?
Amy Bellows (A Handkerchief for Kade (Alaskan Pebble Gifters, #5))
…condemning others’ grammar is one of the most universally accepted snobberies in Western culture.
Amanda Montell (Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language)
Language pedantry is snobbery and snobbery is prejudice,” [Deborah] Cameron says. “And that IMHO, s nothing to be proud of.
Amanda Montell (Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language)
For example, I screenshot typos that big companies make online. I’m not a grammar Nazi. Their so uptight, and its’ easier then ever too freak them out if your interested.
Jon Acuff (Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset))
Maintain consistency, achieve success...even with expletives.
Erika M. Weinert
While correcting others, a grammar nazi forgets that he is the prey of the life-error
Bhavik Sarkhedi
They look at a random sequence of events and try to find connections that don’t even exist. The societal conditioning transforms their behaviors and thoughts to look for intricate theories that explain unsystematic happenings and I have a problem with that.
Ryan Suvaal (Fireside Chat with a Grammar Nazi Serial Killer)
See, I believe randomness is pure beauty because it’s free of rules and constraints. So I would let randomness revel in its lawless rebellion.
Ryan Suvaal (Fireside Chat with a Grammar Nazi Serial Killer)
Just stop thinking out of the box all the time because one day you are going to go inside the box, forever. Death is the eventual commonality, the concluding connection that ties us all.
Ryan Suvaal (Fireside Chat with a Grammar Nazi Serial Killer)
As with my other targets, I had been observing Dr. Solovaar for a few days. And something in me told me that I should first meet him. One day, I decided to meet him at his university office. I acted as a jolly yet earnest psychology student who was desperate to start her Ph.D. under him. I went in with fake student getup, mark sheets, recommendations, and the whole shebang. But the moment I met him, the moment I gazed into his empty eyes, I realized that man had no soul. And the worst part is he realized it about me too.
Ryan Suvaal (Fireside Chat with a Grammar Nazi Serial Killer)
We stitched little rugs for the children to lie down on and I painted the small tables and chairs for them. The school fortunately provided all the art material that I needed, so I took advantage of this and decorated everything! My little Ursula loved being in class with me and appeared to be in seventh heaven. One day Herr Erdmann, the Nazi Civil Affairs Supervisor or Ortsgruppenleiter, came on a visitation and inspected my work. Not being familiar with titles I mistakenly addressed him as Mayor or Burgermeister. I knew that he liked me since he readily approved of nearly everything I did and offered to get almost everything I needed. He was short in stature with a baldhead, rosy cheeks, and a large white mustache. Although he was a Nazi autocrat in Bischoffsheim, he had a jolly disposition and was easy to talk to.
Hank Bracker