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Grammar Nazi
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Somewhere along the line, Grammar Nazis got more into the form than the content. To them, the rules of grammar are Serious Business. The name was, of course, invented and first used by people with poor syntax, spelling or punctuation as a snarky way to snip back at those who corrected their errors. The "grammar" in their name has a broad application, meaning Grammar Nazis will also happily pick on you for any perceived errors in spelling, punctuation, word usage, semantics, syntax, sentence structure, capitalization... On wikis, Grammar Nazis sometimes leave snarky little notes in discussion areas about the correct use of italics or where the apostrophe goes in "its/it's." They don't add any new content — except possibly passive-aggressive "help" articles on proper usage of the semicolon. At their worst, they are known for insisting on "rules of English" which are derived from French and other Latin-descended languages and were invented for the sole purpose of annoying English speakers. They'll also likely become a Serial Tweaker, careful to quickly correct their own mistakes. (We hope.) To give an example of how complicated and factious this can become, the French faction believes one is never to split infinitives because Latin and many other European languages cannot. Ending a sentence with a preposition is also something they will not tolerate, even if it invariably leads to awkward or confusing renderings.note That is, to use the old joke, it's something up with which they will not put. This is incorrect because up is here part of a phrasal verb, not a preposition. More moderate Grammar Nazis, ironically, strive to treat English like the Germanic language it is. And in German, a Germanic language, Infinitiv mit zu (infinitive with zu) is never split, although it could be. Merke dir, niemals den Infinitiv zu trennen. Meanwhile, a Descriptivist will show up to point out that English is free to follow its own grammatical rules and even Shakespeare was known to occasionally split an infinitive. A Flame War ensues. Can't we all just get along? No, because "along" is a preposition... It is worth noting that those who are properly educated about such things realise that the prohibitions on split infinitives are artificial and incorrect. Similarly, they will know that it is okay to start a sentence with "And" or "But", or to say "It is me", rather than the supposedly superior "It is I". Professional Linguists are the opposite of Grammar Nazis: they consider "correct" language to be the way it's "actually" used, rather than pinned to specific rules because language is always changing. A Spelling Nazi is a subtype of Grammar Nazi, specializing in spelling. A Spelling Nazi would actively fight the Rouge Angles of Satin. A Spelling Nazi would make sure that "definately" was written by "definitely" and not "defiantly". A Spelling Nazi would always spell the names of the characters, settings, attacks, and MacGuffins in its fandom correctly if the correct spellings are known (and if they aren't, then expect those of different ideologies to try to tear one another's throats out over which is more "correct"). And God save us all if a British Spelling Nazi ever meets an American one. If a character insists on using impeccable grammar in conversation, it's equal parts this trope, Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic, and Spock Speak. We have a Just for Fun page for Grammar Nazis now. No relation to Those Wacky Nazis — well, except for certain ironic cases— or grandma Nazis. If Godwin's Law becomes an issue, "Grammar Police" is another accepted term, and since Spain didn't know about the Nazis, our Spanish-language page on this trope is called Talibán Ortográfico, or "Grammar Taliban". Compare Grammar Correction Gag. See Artistic License – Linguistics, The Big List of Booboos and Blunders, Rouge Angles of Satin, Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma, and Tenses for errors that are likely to invoke Grammar Nazis' wrath. If you want to make a Grammar Nazi upset, add an Acquired Error at the Printer to something they wrote. If there's an error everyone can see, it may be a Tyop on the Cover. The Grammar Nazi is the sworn enemy of the Malaproper. May overlap with Caustic Critic and Accentuate the Negative. Usually a form of Single-Issue Wonk. Note: If you feel the urge to correct grammar on This Very Wiki, the preferred approach is Repair, Don't Respond. After all, we all make mistakes sometimes, and nobody wants to look like an asshat. |
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Valvatorez in Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten. He storms the Information Bureau not because it would be a huge blow to the Corrupternment but because they spelled "Prinny" wrong in their newspaper. | |
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The title character of Sherlock. In the Batman Cold Open of "The Great Game", a prospective client describes the events leading to his wife's murder but is repeatedly interrupted by Holmes to correct his grammar (see the quotes page for complete exchange). He did it to Molly on his website, too. "'It's' not 'its.'" |
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Animator vs. Animation: In "Autocorrect", all of the main stick figures serve as this correcting Alan's letter to DJ; fixing the spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. However, this leads to a point where they start to rewrite Alan's letter, turning it into a formal letter, leading to Alan, in all-caps, telling them to stop and just let him type, prompting Yellow to add a period at the end of Alan's sentence. | |
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Ross Scott was invaded by these over the title of his review show Ross's Game Dungeon, with complaints that there should not be an "s" after the apostrophe. His response is on the Quotes page. | |
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In Loaded Weapon 1 we have this exchange: | |
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Kent of Other Space has been raised in a cold academic environment free from social slang. He is frustrated by his friends' inability to speak correctly. | |
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Lobo: In one story, Lobo is captured by Grammar Nazis who force him into a competition to see if he'll be allowed to join them in their crusade to cleanse language from error (and exterminate malaprops). It ends when Lobo tries to get his grade school teacher out of the competition, only for her to reveal that he cut her legs and then preparing to kill him by shooting... and removing him from the gas trap that was keeping him at bay. No Grammar Nazis survive the encounter. | |
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Sluggy Freelance parodies this with Grammer[sic] Gorilla, who attempts to be one, but his own grammar is atrocious. A strip shortly afterward features reader mail by a self-proclaimed Grammar Nazi trying to correct the spelling of Grammer Gorilla's name (as if it's not intentional); a much later strip features a random mook with the same name as this reader being more horrified at a grammar mistake than the actual horrible thing that's going on. | |
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The Undeclared War: John Yeabsley uses his lunchtime partly to correct other people's spellings. Then once Saara first speaks to him, he quickly corrects her grammar use too. It later tips Saara off that his interview on Russian TV is fake, since he uses an ungrammatical phrase which he corrected her over. | |
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Diane does this on Cheers a lot with Sam: | |
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The Baby-Sitters Club: Janine Kishi frequently corrects the club members' grammar. Most notably in the first book, she spends a serious amount of time puzzling over whether the girls are "The Baby-Sitters Club", a club of several or more babysitters, or "The Baby-Sitters' Club", a club belonging to several or more babysitters. (Either is technically correct.) Karen gets a special softball uniform that says "Kristy's Crushers", not "Kristy's Krushers", because she's upset by the idea of wearing a misspelled word. |
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The Simpsons: In "Trilogy of Error", Lisa creates a robot called Linguo that is designed for this very trope. Things get very amusing when it starts correcting Lisa's grammar. Later in the episode, Linguo ends up surrounded by Springfield's resident mafiosos, and their terrible English overloads the poor robot, causing him to explode. From "Pray Anything": |
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Also used as a gag in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus: A German Nazi is sizing up two Klansmen, and tests their ability to speak German. Hilarity Ensues when the two Klansmen can't even say the German phrase of "thank you" right, and the Nazi quickly losing his patience: | |
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The Reddit community is notorious for its insistence on perfect orthography and grammar. When US President Barack Obama did a short Q&A on the site during his 2012 election campaign, the most upvoted response to his answers was a grammar correction:"an asteroid, Mr. President." | |
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Along the same lines, people on Tumblr can get very nitpicky when it comes to grammar. The most widespread version of this (almost to the point of memetic levels) is the difference between "your" and "you're". This◊ sums it up perfectly. Ironically, Tumblr is considered guilty of a brand new range of grammatical errors, including large numbers of posts without capitalization or punctuation. | |
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Cyanide and Happiness: One strip has a character being dragged away by a Nazi: The grammar sheriff, who shoots a fellow sheriff when he says, "That don't seem like no kinda sheriff to me." The grammatical-errors-allergic guy, who starts coughing up blood when the person he's talking to uses "me and Steve" instead of "Steve and I" and has homophonic grammar errors in his speech bubble. |
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Ozy and Millie: As Millie puts it, she "just invaded Grammar Czechoslovakia and duped Grammar Neville Chamberlain, and now it's on to Grammar Poland and Grammar World Conquest!". Ozy proceeds by calling her an Analogy Nazi. | |
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In Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, Harlan Ellison is a recurring character, and in his first appearance, he goes into an angry tirade over Shaggy's habit of peppering "like" into his sentences. | |
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Elliott from Elliott & Win is always correcting Win's grammar. When Win says, "I don't want no more", Elliott serves him a large helping of chicken salad because he used a double negative. | |
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The humorous short G.I. Joe fic Sergeant major School'Marm features a Grammar Ranger — the premise is that Beach Head is getting tired of deciphering poorly written reports, and drags several of his soldiers in for a refresher course. | |
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Happens in 1776 when, of all people, John Adams objects the Declaration of Independence, claiming that Thomas Jefferson used the word "inalienable" when he should have used "unalienable". Jefferson refuses to change it, and Adams withdraws his objection, saying he'll speak to the printer later about it. Funny thing is? He did. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Strip 2011-12-31: How to make a grammar Nazi self-destruct? Strip 2013-09-04: A guy complains about the grammar of what turns out to be The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. |
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In With Honors Joe Pesci's character, Harvard Bum Simon, has the following exchange with a snooty Harvard professor. | |
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In Dragon Age: Inquisition, Varric reveals that his editor is one of these. She once killed a man over a semi-colon.note hard to know if this is an exaggeration or not; Varric's known for embellishing his stories He never publishes anything without her help and approval. | |
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Rat from The Wind in the Willows debates with Badger about the phrase "We'll learn them" as opposed to "We'll teach them", with Rat being in favor of "teaching". His grousing is comically shunted aside to him muttering to himself for a paragraph or two. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: Miss Brooks herself is a mild example; as an English teacher she's often heard correcting Walter Denton or Stretch Snodgrass' grammar. Here, it's justified. | |
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At one point, someone asks Lemont of Candorville who died and made him the grammar police. He responds that he's actually being the idiom police. | |
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Animaniacs: One short has Mr. Plotz hire a very strict teacher to deal with the Warner Siblings. Her first scene has her give Ralph an "F" for using the double negative "ain't never". A "Pinky and the Brain" short spoofs Orson Welles's tirade about the poor writing in a frozen peas commercial, with Brain re-creating it verbatim. (The speech is a favorite of voice actor Maurice LaMarche.) However, it's given the twist that when Brain storms out of the studio at the end, he's confronted by a waiting room full of other actors ready to read for the role, and, chastened, dashes back to the studio to record his lines as written. |
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Monty Python's Life of Brian: A centurion (played by former Latin teacher John Cleese), catching Brian in the act of writing anti-Roman graffiti, makes him correct his Latin grammar at sword point. Then he makes Brian write it out 100 times — all over the walls of the palace, after threatening to cut his balls off! | |
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Y: The Last Man: Yorick is an English major and as such often points out grammatical mistakes, though these mistakes, including splitting infinitives and ending sentences in prepositions, often aren't actually grammar rules. For example, he tells a journalist that she splits more infinitives than Gene Roddenberry. | |
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Nerf NOW!! #2907 has two characters commenting on wanting to stop doing door gags before they get stale. Then a Nazi kicks open the door and yells at them for using a comma splice instead of a period. | |
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One column in The Times by Philip Howard was a The Canterbury Tales pastiche, describing a bunch of celebrities who complain about technical faults with English (split infinitives, misplaced apostrophes...) while their own more fundamental abuses of the language go unchecked (one is a spin doctor who twists the truth, another is a book pundit who never reads or writes but uses book events to cadge free drinks, and so on). | |
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Grammar Nazi / int_49b587be | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_4a94a5fc | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_4a94a5fc | comment |
Similar to the above, in Maskerade Salzella reports to Mr. Bucket that the recently-murdered Dr. Undershaft, whose body was found hanging from the curtain ropes, had been strangled before he was hung. Bucket absently corrects Salzella that it's "hanged" because it's dead meat that's hung. Salzella responds "Well in that case Dr. Undershaft was strangled. Then he was hung." | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_4a94a5fc | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_4a94a5fc | featureConfidence |
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| Maskerade | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_4a94a5fc | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_4e45b093 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_4e45b093 | comment |
Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory does this incorrectly as part of being an Insufferable Genius. The subjunctive would be appropriate if Penny had said "wouldn't" rather than "can't". |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_4e45b093 | featureConfidence |
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| The Big Bang Theory | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_4e45b093 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_4fb9eb7b | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_4fb9eb7b | comment |
A non-comedic example in Finding Forrester, where Jamal shows up an English professor in front of the class by correcting his usage of "farther" (a measure of distance) to "further" (a wider usage). The professor gets him back for this. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_4fb9eb7b | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_4fb9eb7b | featureConfidence |
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| Finding Forrester | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_4fb9eb7b | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_4fe631e7 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_4fe631e7 | comment |
Lewis Brindley of the Yogscast has his moments, often towards Minecraft map makers with atrocious spelling or grammar. Simon Lane has at times called him "Grammar Hitler" or "Grandma Hitler". | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_4fe631e7 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_4fe631e7 | featureConfidence |
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| Lewis Brindley (Lets Play) | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_4fe631e7 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_52a96e4c | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_52a96e4c | comment |
Lassic Wert in Felsic Current is one mainly through the constant presence of his partner Geal Tromautein, who could be described as a verbal dyslexic. Were Lassic not constantly busy correcting his friend's mispronunciations (like that one), he might not have developed such a reflex for linguistic accuracy. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_52a96e4c | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_52a96e4c | featureConfidence |
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| Felsic Current | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_52a96e4c | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_553051f | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_553051f | comment |
Green Lantern: The miniseries Emerald Dawn 2 shows Sinestro correcting the syntax of people he's beating down back when he's Hal Jordan's Corps-appointed mentor. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_553051f | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_553051f | featureConfidence |
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| Green Lantern (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_553051f | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_5589ebc1 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_5589ebc1 | comment |
In the first Deathlands novel, Krysty Wroth points out to Ryan Cawdor that he's used a double negative. Later when Ryan goes to have a word with the local baron after finding out his Dragon-in-Chief has nerve-gassed all Ryan's associates (including Krysty, he thinks) it becomes an Ironic Echo. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_5589ebc1 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_5589ebc1 | featureConfidence |
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| Deathlands | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_5589ebc1 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_5755b96a | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_5755b96a | comment |
The Order of the Stick: Vaarsuvius frequently corrects grammatical errors done by other characters. In a Dragon strip, V breaks the protection spell that was making them invisible to a pair of wights to admonish them for ending every sentence with a preposition. Xykon, the Evil Sorcerer lich, can be this. Mostly about how his name is spelled, but not exclusively (although it should be noted that Xykon has killed people for less): |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_5755b96a | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_5755b96a | featureConfidence |
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Grammar Nazi / int_5755b96a | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_58907201 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_58907201 | comment |
In Sinfest, literal ones beat up Slick for not using the subjunctive. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_58907201 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_58907201 | featureConfidence |
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| Sinfest (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_58907201 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_59ea5b9b | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_59ea5b9b | comment |
In the Confessions, teachers in Roman Africa would beat their students for errors in speech, but reward them for good grammar even if they praised murder or adultery in the process. St. Augustine himself internalized this rhetorical mentality and it ruined his life for years to come. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_59ea5b9b | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_59ea5b9b | featureConfidence |
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| Confessions (Saint Augustine) | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_59ea5b9b | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_5b59aae7 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_5b59aae7 | comment |
Nelson from If You Could Say It in Words is like this. He attributes it to his grandfather, who was a very strict English teacher. He and his family got so used to correcting each other that he still automatically corrects other people. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_5b59aae7 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_5b59aae7 | featureConfidence |
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| If You Could Say It in Words | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_5b59aae7 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_5c83d42c | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_5c83d42c | comment |
Ed Reardon, writer and misanthrope, the main character of Ed Reardon's Week. Malformed plurals or possessives have been known to send him into histrionics. The first life lesson he gives his eight-week-old grandson is: "Now, to the children's section. There's an apostrophe between the N and the S. Remember that and you won't go far wrong." | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_5c83d42c | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_5c83d42c | featureConfidence |
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Grammar Nazi / int_5c83d42c | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_5e11dafe | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_5e11dafe | comment |
Grammar is just one of the many things that makes Butch of Chopping Block completely flip out. For example, in one strip, he murders a farmer with a rake over the Greengrocers' apostrophe. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_5e11dafe | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_5e11dafe | featureConfidence |
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| Chopping Block (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_5e11dafe | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_6059314b | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_6059314b | comment |
xkcd: Luke starts critiquing Palpatine's grammar, and then he and Vader start arguing about it. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_6059314b | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_6059314b | featureConfidence |
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| xkcd (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_6059314b | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_60596307 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_60596307 | comment |
In (x, why?), one character corrects another's mistake... even though the error was spoken and not written. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_60596307 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_60596307 | featureConfidence |
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| (x, why?) (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_60596307 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_64791462 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_64791462 | comment |
In A Feast for Crows, Amerei Frey cries to Jaime to help avenge her father, who she claims was hung by outlaws. Her mother corrects her that the word for executing men by rope is "hanged". "Your father was not a tapestry." | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_64791462 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_64791462 | featureConfidence |
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| A Feast for Crows | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_64791462 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_68d7b51d | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_68d7b51d | comment |
You'll find these people across the Internet at times. We'll leave it at that. The start of such an argument on 4chan is announced with "STOP. GRAMMAR TIME." | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_68d7b51d | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_68d7b51d | featureConfidence |
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| 4chan (Website) | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_68d7b51d | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_6b2909ea | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_6b2909ea | comment |
Music/Negativland's Pastor Dick once held a fund-raiser in which he asked callers to confess up to three sins. Sure enough, a young man phoned in that he had ended a sentence with a preposition. (His other sins: taking advantage of a girl in the back seat of a movie theatre, and letting his subscription to Heavy Metal run out.) | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_6b2909ea | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_6b2909ea | featureConfidence |
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| Heavy Metal (Magazine) | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_6b2909ea | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_70814599 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_70814599 | comment |
In Stargate SG-1, Jack O'Neill does a surprising amount of this. Of course, he's only doing it to annoy people. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_70814599 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_70814599 | featureConfidence |
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| Stargate SG-1 | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_70814599 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_71c01786 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_71c01786 | comment |
Similarly, the late Tony Randall corrected the host's grammar on at least one appearance on The Hollywood Squares. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_71c01786 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_71c01786 | featureConfidence |
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| The Odd Couple (1970) | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_71c01786 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_72a84021 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_72a84021 | comment |
Hitler Rants: One Downfall parody lampshades this trope after Günsche mixes up the words "you're" and "your": | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_72a84021 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_72a84021 | featureConfidence |
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| Hitler Rants (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_72a84021 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_74fb542e | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_74fb542e | comment |
One skit from That Mitchell and Webb Look involves Mitchell's character shooting employees who spell or pronounce words wrong (he mentions shooting his wife for, ironically, getting "mispronunciation" wrong). He goes even further: he shot someone for pronouncing H "Haitch" instead of "Aitch". When he makes a mistake, he has a "What have I done?" moment and shoots himself. He manages a Last Breath Bullet when someone says "whoever" instead of "whomever". | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_74fb542e | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_74fb542e | featureConfidence |
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| That Mitchell and Webb Look | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_74fb542e | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_77d34f06 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_77d34f06 | comment |
In Marvel: Avengers Alliance, Maria Ross interrupts one of Fury's mission briefings to correct a who/whom error. Fury's response? "New S.H.I.E.L.D. executive order: grammar corrections will be met with gunfire." | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_77d34f06 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_77d34f06 | featureConfidence |
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| Marvel: Avengers Alliance (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_77d34f06 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_7950511c | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_7950511c | comment |
Lionel from Murder by Death, who continuously corrects Sidney Wang's Asian Speekee Engrish throughout the film. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_7950511c | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_7950511c | featureConfidence |
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| Murder by Death | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_7950511c | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_79620aaa | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_79620aaa | comment |
Sandra's grandma in Sandra and Woo gets in trouble when correcting graffiti. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_79620aaa | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_79620aaa | featureConfidence |
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| Sandra and Woo (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_79620aaa | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_7b0dba33 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_7b0dba33 | comment |
Lucy Fitzmartin from A Pearl for My Mistress, in more ways than one. She will correct your wrong use of dative case and she is an actual Nazi sympathizer. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_7b0dba33 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_7b0dba33 | featureConfidence |
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| A Pearl for My Mistress | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_7b0dba33 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_7ec653e7 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_7ec653e7 | comment |
A Good Woman Is Hard To Find: After Sarah says Leo Miller must "stay away from me and my children" he corrects this to "my children and I". | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_7ec653e7 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_7ec653e7 | featureConfidence |
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Grammar Nazi / int_7ec653e7 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_81f9d9f5 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_81f9d9f5 | comment |
The New Yorker is known for its rather odd rules on spelling and formatting; for example, using a diaeresis where most other people would use a hyphen ("coöperate", instead of co-operate or cooperate) or spelling out numbers in full, no matter how big of a mouthful ("forty-two thousand five hundred and sixty-two dollars" instead of just writing $42,562; probably done because there's less chance a typo will significantly alter the number, the same reason contracts have every number written out in digits and letters). | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_81f9d9f5 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_81f9d9f5 | featureConfidence |
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| The New Yorker (Magazine) | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_81f9d9f5 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_83e716b1 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_83e716b1 | comment |
Carol on The Last Man on Earth is one of these, having a near-fanatic belief that sentences are not supposed to be ended with prepositions. It drives fellow apocalypse survivor Phil (even more) crazy. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_83e716b1 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_83e716b1 | featureConfidence |
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| The Last Man on Earth | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_83e716b1 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_869a0304 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_869a0304 | comment |
In a parody book called The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo, Kaal is described as "not the biggest, bravest or fieriest dragon in Scandragonia, but he was certainly the most pedantic." Hence, when Helltrik Vagner talks about "farming of goats, sheeps, and pigs", Kaal has to correct him on it. This leads to three and a half pages of the two interrupting Vagner's story to revive the argument. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_869a0304 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_869a0304 | featureConfidence |
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| TheMillenniumTrilogy | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_869a0304 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_87b55b5d | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_87b55b5d | comment |
From a 1997 issue of The Onion: "Nation's Educators Alarmed By Poorly Written Teen Suicide Notes". | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_87b55b5d | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_87b55b5d | featureConfidence |
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| The Onion (Website) | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_87b55b5d | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_898a1932 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_898a1932 | comment |
Journey to Chaos: The Royal Ordercraft Security and Compliance Team insist upon correct, standardized, grammar from those they interact with. Their leader once scolded Eric for saying "can I go" instead of "may I go". | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_898a1932 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_898a1932 | featureConfidence |
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| Journey to Chaos | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_898a1932 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_8c87467 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_8c87467 | comment |
This is part of Alan Statham's extremely pedantic and anal personality from Green Wing. In one episode he's joining a local political party and somebody comes along to see how he'd fare, so the interviewer pretends to be a mother who's complaining to Statham about the local clubs for her children. Alan gets distracted and begins pointing out the grammatical errors in "her" sentences. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_8c87467 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_8c87467 | featureConfidence |
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| Green Wing | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_8c87467 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_8d81f086 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_8d81f086 | comment |
After losing his job as a police consultant, Monk applies for work to a magazine. While waiting, he picks up one of their past issues and proofreads it in his spare time. Then he shows it to his interviewer. He gets the job, although one of his corrections is no longer valid. The word "decimate" may have started as "reduce by one-tenth", but its far wider usage of "destroy completely" has officially been entered into dictionaries as the second meaning. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_8d81f086 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_8d81f086 | featureConfidence |
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| Monk | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_8d81f086 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_8dd0bbcc | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_8dd0bbcc | comment |
A Series of Unfortunate Events: Josephine Anwhistle is a perfect example of a typical Grammar Nazi, going so far as to point out that Sunny Baudelaire's utterances are nonsense even if she's too young to be expected to speak coherently. Played with somewhat in that she uses bad grammar to relay a secret message to the Baudelaires. Unfortunately, she corrects the Ax-Crazy villain's grammar as well... Count Olaf in his disguise as Captain Sham pretends to be one of these too, to gain Josephine's trust. Hypocritical Humor abounds when he says "There ain't nothin' better than good grammar!" |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_8dd0bbcc | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_8dd0bbcc | featureConfidence |
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| A Series of Unfortunate Events | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_8dd0bbcc | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_91c94c76 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_91c94c76 | comment |
Twenties: Ida B's response to Hattie sending a sexy text? Correct her spelling. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_91c94c76 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_91c94c76 | featureConfidence |
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| Twenties | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_91c94c76 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_923dd091 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_923dd091 | comment |
CollegeHumor has a pastiche of Inglourious Basterds (specifically, Chapter 1 "Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France") takes this trope literally and shows that some Grammar Nazis are, in fact, actual Nazis. It all ends with the Nazi being Hoist by His Own Petard, by using a dangling participle. |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_923dd091 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_923dd091 | featureConfidence |
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| CollegeHumor | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_923dd091 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_93963211 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_93963211 | comment |
Most members on the noble side of mysterious organization V.F.D. are revealed to be this, in Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography. An editor's note stated that "Some of the photographs in this book were taken by Julie Blattberg", which was promptly followed by a note from Mr. Snicket reading: | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_93963211 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_93963211 | featureConfidence |
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| Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_93963211 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_93dc2587 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_93dc2587 | comment |
In Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, the detective pursuing the eponymous pair chastises his underling for ending a sentence in a preposition. The underling later struggles to reform his sentences to avoid this (apocryphal) rule. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_93dc2587 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_93dc2587 | featureConfidence |
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| Beavis and Butt-Head Do America | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_93dc2587 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_957922a4 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_957922a4 | comment |
On a mid-'90s Alvin and the Chipmunks country collaboration album, Simon is paired with Aaron Tippin to sing Tippin's "There Ain't Nothin' Wrong with the Radio". When Simon starts singing, he corrects the grammar "flaws" on the fly, but eventually, Aaron gets him to lighten up on the Grammar Nazism. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_957922a4 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_957922a4 | featureConfidence |
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| Alvin and the Chipmunks | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_957922a4 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_9854aa26 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_9854aa26 | comment |
In Northanger Abbey, Catherine offhandedly describes a book as "nice". Her crush Henry teasingly asks if she means that it has neat bindings and then goes on a small diatribe about how a word that used to mean precise, proper, delicate, or refined, is now being all rolled up into the one meaning of "pleasant". This gets him a lot of eye-rolling from his sister, who calls him "more nice than wise" and tells Catherine to use whatever word she likes to praise favorite books. (The book was written in 1803, proving that certain English speakers have always been upset about the fluidity of their own language.) | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_9854aa26 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_9854aa26 | featureConfidence |
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| Northanger Abbey | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_9854aa26 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_9b31d06 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_9b31d06 | comment |
Ross of Hat Films, if their podcast "Hat Chat" is anything to go by. Minor errors such as "you're versus your" tend to be the things that annoy him, and he doesn't go on about it constantly. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_9b31d06 | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_9b31d06 | featureConfidence |
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| HAT Films (Lets Play) | hasFeature |
Grammar Nazi / int_9b31d06 | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_9cdcaa6d | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_9cdcaa6d | comment |
Where Talent Goes to Die has Reiko Mitamura, the Ultimate Proofreader. Fitting with her talent, and her personality as The Perfectionist, she frequently corrects her classmates when they make grammatical errors. | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_9cdcaa6d | featureApplicability |
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| Grammar Nazi / int_9cdcaa6d | featureConfidence |
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Grammar Nazi / int_9cdcaa6d | |
| Grammar Nazi / int_9d3237c8 | type |
Grammar Nazi | |
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Addressed in Adam Ruins Everything (of course), where he schools a schoolteacher on those "sacred rules" she holds so dear. As he demonstrates, many famous British and American writers have been known to use what is now considered incorrect English. Even the usage of "literally" to mean "figuratively" goes back quite a long time. | |
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The Foundation Trilogy: In Isaac Asimov's "The Mule", Mayor Indbur III corrects the grammar before he signs anything. It's evidence of his bookkeeper personality that he must correct the improper usage of commas before he places a document in his Out Tray. | |
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Leela from Futurama in the episode "Möbius Dick". When the crew ventures to another planet to pick up a monument of the first Planet Express crew, Leela points out a grammatical error in the plaque and orders the carver to make an entirely new statue. | |
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In one episode of Jonathan Creek, part of the solution relies on the fact that the name of the house is spelled "GHOSTS FORGE", with no apostrophe in "GHOSTS". | |
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Preacher: Herr Starr destroys a subordinate's report with a handgun for "Improper use of inverted commas!" (The subordinate had used quotation marks, instead of a bold or italic face, for emphasis.) | |
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"Psychic Powers", a video by ShinyObjects, sees Curly enforcing grammar rules via the title powers. | |
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Demons in Hell(p) generally have horrible grammar and spelling, and Marcus is furious about it, even though he's probably the last person you'd expect to care. Word of God implied that demons might be doing it on purpose to tick off poor Grammar Nazis. | |
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Kissing Jessica Stein: Jessica finds it a deal-breaker with one date that the guy lacked proper diction. | |
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Pravus Gaming is infamous for nitpicking grammar and spelling in the Plague Inc. custom scenarios he plays, to the point where some suggested scenarios lampoon this trait. | |
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Game of Thrones: There is this exchange between King Stannis Baratheon, Principles Zealot extraordinaire, and his former smuggler advisor Davos Seaworth: This becomes a Brick Joke in Season 5 when a Night's Watch member makes the same error and he corrects him, and again when Davos corrects Jon Snow in Season 7. Tyrion corrects Cersei's word use several times. "Plots" and "schemes" are the same thing! Tywin deduces that Arya is a highborn girl when she calls him "my lord" instead of "m'lord." She quickly covers by claiming that her mother was a handmaiden who taught her to speak "proper... properly!" |
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Andy Fox of the comic strip FoxTrot has been known to rant at her children for using improper grammar. In one strip, she explains to her older son that she couldn't help correcting him in the previous strip because, as an English major, she believes that proper grammar is important. | |
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On TV Tropes, making edits with egregiously bad grammar can be grounds for a suspension. (We're not trying to be Grammar Nazis; the mods just don't like our site to look sloppy, understandably enough.) Fortunately, for those in need of writing assistance, the forums offer a thread for you to get help with English here. And for the rest of us, remember to just Repair, Don't Respond. | |
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Spider-Man: Minor villain Spellcheck is such a stickler for grammar, syntax, and usage that he, inspired by the letter-and-punctuation-themed Typeface, puts on a costume and beats people up over it. He goes after Spider-Man because the hyphen (-) between his Super Hero name is unnecessary. | |
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His song "Close but No Cigar" (a style parody of Cake) describes the narrator dumping otherwise perfect girls because of minor flaws in their personality or appearance. One of the said girls consistently uses "infer" when she should be using "imply", prompting the narrator to wonder why some people put up with that. | |
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Happens in The IT Crowd when Roy is singing "Another Brick in the Wall". | |
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After reading the Major Crimes Unit detail's Door Stopper of a report requesting phone surveillance on the Barksdale gang, Rhonda Pearlman comments, "You guys can't spell for shit." | |
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El Goonish Shive: Mr. Raven is presented as one, complaining that "Awakenings" isn't a word, and when Catalina replies that it sounds cool, he says that there is nothing cool about improper grammar. He's later referenced as this in the commentary of a later strip, where the author notes that he would no doubt slap him upside the head if he added the caption "Can I has a hug?". His Hitler Forelock does not help his case at all. Charlotte can also be one, though in one comic she changes her mind on the issue of "begging the question" after deciding that the common use is more useful. |
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Used as a gag in Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. Blazkowicz finds a Nazi mook who insists on correcting his friend's poor German. A literal Grammar Nazi. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The bookish Twilight Sparkle has shades of this occasionally. In "MMMystery on the Friendship Express", she tries to correct Pinkie Pie talking about a mystery as a "whodunnit" to "who did it", but this only makes Pinkie worse ("who did done dood it").note Note that Pinkie was correct in using "whodunnit/whodunit", which means a mystery or detective story, but its accuracy in that situation depends on whether she was aware she was in a fictional story. Maud's boyfriend Mudbriar from "The Maud Couple" when he first meets Pinkie Pie: |
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Doctor Who: The Doctor, on rare occasions: In "Revenge of the Cybermen", the Doctor moans about the bad English when the Cybermen use the word "fragmentise". The Tenth, in "The Sontaran Stratagem"/"The Poison Sky", corrects Luke Rattigan on his misuse of a "conditional clause", mainly to irritate the Insufferable Genius who was largely responsible for the catastrophe. Rattigan later gets back at him, as he snottily points out that "ATMOS system" is incorrect, since the acronym stands for "Atmospheric Emissions System", meaning that he's actually saying "Atmospheric Emissions System system". Ten also delivers us this gem from "The End of Time". The Master does this in the Eighth Doctor movie. |
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Father John Misty's Anti-Love Song "The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment": | |
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The Wire: Judge Phelan admonishes Jimmy McNulty for a report plagued with grammatical mistakes. In "The Target", Rawls insists that McNulty's punishment report be written in a certain format with no spelling mistakes. And be sure to use those little dots. The deputy likes dots. When Jimmy relates his task to his Sergeant, Jay Landsman doesn't give a shit about it. Several cops laugh about an incident report stating that a perp fell "prostate" instead of "prostrate". After reading the Major Crimes Unit detail's Door Stopper of a report requesting phone surveillance on the Barksdale gang, Rhonda Pearlman comments, "You guys can't spell for shit." Being a grammar watchdog is part of the job description of Gus Haynes, the City editor for The Baltimore Sun. In one of his first scenes, Gus schools Alma Gutierrez, a rookie journo, on the usage of "to evacuate". Buildings are evacuated, not people unless you mean the person is getting an enema. Series creator David Simon was chastised similarly back in the day, but Alma is not entirely incorrect. This gets a Brick Joke in "Clarifications" when McNulty and Christeson are looking at a body: |
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Scott appears to be one in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, though it only comes up once. | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: "Oath to an Ed" has a moment after the Eds ruin some new clothes that were already far too uncomfortable for them. | |
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In Risen 2: Dark Waters, the gnome leader is this of all peo... err, individuals. When learning the human language he put so much effort into this that he got the rules better than pretty much all the humans (including the main hero) and is constantly correcting the conversation partner on the proper use of grammar (again, including the main character, which drives him nuts). It stands out especially hard since gnomes, in general, do not speak the human language at all and are not known for their intelligence or regard to any rules. | |
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At least one episode of David Mitchell's Soapbox was devoted to David grumpily complaining about people not using the rules of spelling and language properly. This leads to an amusing Continuity Nod a few episodes later when his comedy partner Robert Webb shows up as a guest host and spends the episode calling David an "arse" because of this (as well as noting some hypocrisies with another episode where David discussed what he saw as the pointlessness of efforts to preserve the Gallic language). | |
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In Insecticomics, when dealing with a teenage girl who refuses to spell correctly, the annoyed English tutor threatens to hit her with a chair. | |
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Dave Made a Maze: Harry constantly corrects people's grammar, even when it's at a very inappropriate time. | |
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In LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, Captain Britain shows this to a mild degree. He's quick to point out that in Britain, it's f-a-v-o-u-r, since he naturally uses British English. | |
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In Our Little Adventure, for Joyelle (a Lawful Evil Devil) the use of contractions calls for abuse. | |
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Homestar Runner: Strong Bad will often correct people's grammar in the e-mails he receives. He can get rather creative with it: "Y-O-U-R. Y-O-U-apostrophe-R-E. They're as different as night and day! Don't you think that night and day are different? What's wrong with you?" | |
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Jacksfilms has a long-running web series that deals with atrociously bad grammar, called "Your Grammar Sucks". This overlaps with other shows he does, such as "JackAsk". | |
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Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady is introduced with a song about how atrocious it is that everyone English doesn't speak the Queen's English. For most of the movie, though, he just acts like a more general Jerkass; sure, he's teaching Elisabeth to speak properly, but that's his job and has a point at that stage... so Higgins is also troping hard on Strawman Has a Point. | |
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Guys Being Dudes: Arlo regularly corrects other people's grammar, which Spark finds endearing. His colleagues just find it annoying. | |
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Dear Mr. Henshaw: Beverly Cleary's Strider has Leigh Botts dealing with an English teacher, Ms. Habis-Jones (whom Leigh privately calls "Old Wounded-Hair"), who's one of these. Perhaps the most notable example is when he writes a paragraph featuring two people who don't speak with perfect grammar, and she tells him to change it so they are speaking the way she wants. When he protests that doing so would make it incorrect (because people don't speak perfectly in real life), she scolds him and tells him that he needs to fix his attitude. Luckily, his next English teacher is far nicer. | |
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Family Guy: In "And I'm Joyce Kinney", the local pastor banishes Lois from the church because she "made a porn" years ago. Lois interrupts her objection to tell him that it's either "You made porn" or "You made a porno". | |
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A rather infamous line in Mass Effect: Andromeda has Director Adison correct the PC's grammar from "who" to "whom", and then in the same conversation say "less" when she means "fewer". This could be taken as meaning that she isn't quite as smart as she lets on, depending on how generous you are to the writers. | |
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In Saints Row IV, when rescuing Shaundi from her simulation, you end up in a rematch with DJ Veteran Child, who after being "killed" like in his original appearance makes dozens of copies of himself to attack you. When the Boss remarks, "that's a lot of Veteran Children", Kinzie interrupts to correct the Boss that, since it's his name, the correct plural would be "Veteran Childs". | |
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In She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Sergeant Quincannon is drilling his troops and orders them to "Fix them bandoliers!" or something to that effect. Immediately someone yells out from the ranks: "Fix them grammar!" | |
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The Fairy of Good Grammar from Spelling the Vacuum, whose grammar powers tie the universe together. | |
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Niles Crane, from Frasier, is known for this. Just two examples: Martin is writing a letter to an old army friend. Niles isn't even present in this scene: |
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Ross from Friends is often this kind of Nazi, or at least his irritated friends have the opinion that he is. He has a habit of correcting people when they misuse "who" for "whom" and can occasionally become quite irate when confronted with bad grammar (or he'll get angry about something else but still feel compelled to nitpick). Joey, of all people, turns this on a ranting Ross, who, told to complain about something, asks "To who?" Joey corrects this to "To whom?", and while the gang stares at him in astonishment, smugly nods. |
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Ultra Magnus at one point throws someone in the brig for punctuation errors on a warning sign. He even uses his custom font when writing, which has more right angles than normal font. Rodimus even uses it against him; whenever Magnus objects to something he wants to do, Rodimus phrases it in bad grammar, so Magnus gets sidetracked correcting him rather than complaining about whatever reckless idea Rodimus just had. Unlike a lot of Magnus's issues, this one doesn't seem to be tied to his early nervous breakdown; he keeps doing it into the later seasons. To a lesser extent, Thunderclash. At one point, Thunders is forced to modulate his life signs to send a coded message via his medical equipment. He makes sure that said coded message is correctly punctuated, even though this notably shortens his life. |
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In TheOdd1sOut's comic "Your Next", someone notices a grammar mistake in a death threat next to a murder that reads "YOUR NEXT" and proceeds to correct it with the blood of the murdered person. | |
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Wolfenstein: Used as a gag in Wolfenstein: The Old Blood. Blazkowicz finds a Nazi mook who insists on correcting his friend's poor German. A literal Grammar Nazi. Also used as a gag in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus: A German Nazi is sizing up two Klansmen, and tests their ability to speak German. Hilarity Ensues when the two Klansmen can't even say the German phrase of "thank you" right, and the Nazi quickly losing his patience: |
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In The Half-Life of Planets, Liana's dad is always correcting people's grammar. He likes it so much that he wrote a successful grammar check program. | |
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Raoul and Monsieur Andre do this subtly in The Phantom of the Opera, in this exchange with Monsieur Firmin: | |
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In the Gravity Falls finale "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls", Ford corrects Stan's statement of "Between me and him" to "Between him and me", and he chides him for his bad grammar. This proves to be Stan's Rage Breaking Point, causing him to attack Ford, breaking the cosmic chain and allowing Bill to gain the upper hand. | |
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