GrammarNazi
#57007
This Toper is a grade Q grammar nazi.
#57008
Of note is that Irnoy is his catchphrase.
#57009
I'm a relaxed grammar nazi most of the time, but my roommate is even more ridiculous than me.
#57010
This Troper is also a Grammar Nazi, despite her numerous typos.
#57011
I'm not a grammar Nazi, but my teacher is ''ridiculous''. On the first assignment of the year (given on the first day of school, due on the second), I got a B. Why? Because of two grammar mistakes. I put the comma outside of the quotation marks in one sentence, and used a period instead of a question mark on another. It's just a high school English class! I know that I should have caught those mistakes, but dropping the whole assignment an entire letter grade for two grammar mistakes was a bit too much, especially since the assignment was supposed to be graded on participation. If it was a grammar assignment, it might make sense, but it was a "getting to know you" list of questions about study habits. And her grading keeps getting more and more ridiculous.
#57012
Putting the comma outside of the quotation marks is CORRECT anyway!
#57013
It depends: "I killed Bob," said Alice, "then I killed Charles and Derek is next on my list." here the comma belongs inside the quotes because it is part of Alice's speech. "I killed Bob", turning to face Aeryth, Alice snarled "and you are next." is correct because there is no comma in Alice's speech.
#57014
This troper is despised by certain writers on Fanfiction.net because of her reviews on their atrociously-written stories. Sorry, but if you can't take the time to run your story through a basic spelling and grammar checker, I'm not going to torture myself by reading it.
#57015
My friend had bad spelling, but her spell-checker was atrocious. Villains arrest Heroes and chain them with manacles. My friend mis-spells "Manacles", spell-checker insists that the Villains chain the Heroes with "maniacs." When she wrote with pen and paper there were occasional mis-spellings and occasional getting there/their/they're wrong. When she wrote by computer and spell-checker, there were dozens of errors and every single there/their/they're was wrong.
#57016
Now this troper wonders if the above troper is secretly her....
#57017
This troper started pointing out all of a friend's typos and errors during an Msn conversation. Our first one. We'd never met before (we were mutual friends) and I irritated the crap out of him, so he started calling me a grammar Nazi (helped along by the fact that I had German words in my screen name). It's now a running joke and we're practically best friends.
#57018
Can I have permission to correct every spelling mistake on the page?
#57019
''May'' I have permission to correct every spelling mistake on this page?
#57020
You already have permission. That is the way wikis work.
#57021
Separate guy here, but I fixed a few simple mistakes that looked accidental. Grammar does not have an e, dammit.
#57022
This Troper freely admits to this, to hating gratuitous use of XtremeKoolLetterz, and to occasionally misspelling words on purpose.
#57023
I'm not a written grammar Nazi, however I have a very precise way of speaking and it makes me batshit insane when my words are taken to mean something entirely different.
#57024
This, so much so. It's more spelling than grammar, though, for me, but grammar is still important! I mean, is it too much to ask for someone to glance down at their keyboards and try to, at the very least, make sense? I'm sorry, but if it takes thirty minutes to decipher a sentence that you typed, I really don't think you should be on the internet.
#57025
This troper isn't so much a grammar Nazi as he is a spelling Nazi. Even if it takes me twice as long, I spell out every single word in a forum post.
#57026
Not to be a capitalization Nazi, but it's "Nazi." Not "nazi."
#57027
This troper is definitely this: if something doesn't make sense grammatically (or is incorrectly spelt), I will normally register it (whether I will point it out depends on the seriousness of the mistake and what the work is). I also do not use text speak (unless it is the only way to get my point across in a word count), speak fairly obviously (by this, I mean that I do not employ subtle meaning or aim to cause confusion when I speak (frequently results in accidental innuendos if I'm not paying attention to what I'm saying)). My sister, annoyingly, is the opposite of me, which results in frequent notes of "things to bring up when she gets married that will annoy her about her previous spelling mistakes" (my personal favourite is when she recently spelt "Handkerchief" as "Han chief" in her A-Level Othello essay and mispelling Cassio (she forgot to add one "s" to his name) when her copy of Othello was next to her, still unopened. Her English teacher is the head of the subject and the strictest teacher in the school. Anyone who has read Othello will find that particularly funny. Those who haven't...won't. I hope she isn't considering a job as a professional writer, because I don't think anyone other than me will have a chance of understanding anything she has written. Which means I'll have to be her editor/proofreader/publisher/whatever role fits the description.)
#57028
This troper had an English professor in college who would have us analyze poems and then give us sentences from the analysis with grammatical errors and we would have to correct them.
#57029
This troper is a grammar Nazi and a songwriter. PERFECT!
#57030
This troper lives in Norway, runner-up country in the "birthplace of Gratitious English" contest. I have a tendency of annoying people with even the smallest grammatical errors (Like someone pronouncing the word "warfare" as "warefare") It's starting to annoy quite a few people.
#57031
This tropper Troper is somewhat of a grammer notsee Grammar Nazi. He CRINGES whenever someone mistakes "Your" for "You're" and vice versa, and even corrects other people's spelling mistakes. If this troper recalls, he even made someone {{Ragequit}} due to my this Troper's good grammar.
#57032
This troper remembers a day in Social Studies class when one kid misspelled "Nazi" as "Nahtzee". It didn't end well for him.
#57033
This troper just has one question for the Grammar Nazis on this page: What the hell is the problem with putting prepositions at the end of a sentence? I like putting my prepositions wherever I want about the sentence!
#57034
When this troper sees something like "your a bad. [sic]," he lampshades this by calling out Godwin.
#57035
My pastor's father is a bit of a Grammar Nazi, combined with a bit of {{Deadpan Snarker}}dom. For example, when my pastor was a kid and he said something like, "I'm anxious about the big game tonight," the father would say, "No, you're ''excited'' about the game. You'd be anxious if you woke up in a bear cage." His response to, "I was so angry my head literally exploded."? "You recovered well."
#57036
One of my friends tried to be funny and put a grammatical mistake on a poster which she placed on the door of our English teacher's classroom. We were out of the building before she felt the need to run back and correct the mistake.
#57037
This troper's a bit of one. #QUOTE# '''Troper''': *peeking over the shoulder of a friend, who's texting his girlfriend* ...you misspelled amazing. #QUOTE# '''Friend''': FUCK YOU!
#57038
This troper bears a Grammar Nazi badge of honor (metaphorically speaking).
#57039
Yeah, this describes me pretty well. Friends know not to let me see them text.
#57040
I used to work as one. I was a copy editor for a company that has a department that processes science journals. I got fired about 2 weeks ago, and some of my old habits from the Grammar Nazi department are still in effect. Funnily enough, I got axed because my error rate went up due to confusion with statistical copy.
#57041
After learning the proper use of the word "whom" (which, funnily enough, was in German class) this troper feels the need to correct anyone that uses "who" in the wrong place.