After all, we all make mistakes sometimes, and we have the Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment to remember. Note: If you feel the urge to correct grammar on This Very Wiki, the preferred approach is Repair, Don't Respond. May overlap with Caustic Critic and Accentuate the Negative. The Grammar Nazi is the sworn enemy of the Malaproper. If there's an error everyone can see, it may be a Tyop on the Cover. If you want to make a Grammar Nazi really upset, add an Acquired Error at the Printer to something they wrote. See Artistic License – Linguistics, The Big List of Booboos and Blunders, Rouge Angles of Satin, Wanton Cruelty to the Common Comma, and How Do I Used Tense? for errors that are likely to invoke Grammar Nazis' wrath. If Godwin's Lawbecomes an issue, 'Grammar Police' is another accepted term, and since Spain didn't really know about the Nazis our Spanish-language page on this trope is called Taliban Ortográfico, or 'Grammar Taliban'.Ĭompare You Make Me Sic. No relation to Those Wacky Nazis- well, except for certain ironic cases- or grandma Nazis. We have a Just for Fun page for Grammar Nazis now. If a character insists on using impeccable grammar in conversation, it's equal parts this trope, Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic, and Spock Speak. 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.
Similarly, they will know that it is OK to start a sentence with 'And' or 'But', or to say 'It is me', rather than the supposedly superior 'It is I'. It is worth noting that those who are properly educated about such things realise that the prohibitions on split infinitives are artificial and incorrect. They'll also likely become a Serial Tweaker, careful to quickly correct their own mistakes. 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. 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 actually add any new content - except possibly passive-aggressive 'help' articles on proper usage of the semicolon. 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.
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. To them, the rules of grammar are Serious Business. Somewhere along the line, Grammar Nazis got more into the form than the content.
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