and other holiday reminiscences, Reverend George Alan Rekers, Ph. D.
They all say they were in the Resistance.
Excellent advice. I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I am Sviss!
I think I’ll set up my computer (and phone and iPad) to insert “Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there” whenever I type in the 2 word phrase ‘grammar nazi’.
Or maybe I’ll just start using grammar pretorian.
Yup - I’ve been doing that for quite a while as well. I’ve also extended it to anyone who can’t seem to find the shift key on their keyboard - but that’s just a personal peeve that I don’t expect others to adopt.
Agree. Myself, I’d need to see some bona fide credentials before I even consider buying his claim that he’s a scientist. :dubious:
FWIW, he doesn’t sound like any scientist I know. And I know quite a few, including a couple of the mad ones 
Apparently not so obvious that you spotted this discrepancy in less than 5 months.
Dammit, 2square4u, I killed this thread 5 months ago - now we have to put it down again. I can’t do anything right…
Damn, I’m sorry :smack: I came from the other zombie and didn’t realize what both that one and this were.
Don’t mind me, I’ll just go and find a convenient hole to bury myself in :rolleyes:
You know who else called all the people around him Nazis?
Mr. Rogers?
A recent comic book had the following line (intended to be Elizabethan English):
“Who doth thou seeketh?”
I wrote them a polite letter, suggesting they learn how to write Elizabethan English rather than just blindly going along and adding “-eth” to the ends of words.
I designated myself a “Grammar Fascist.”
Is that an acceptable appellation?
:dubious:
What’s so confusing about that? Pet peeves rankle some people’s nerves more than others. If that’s the case, it’s best to just avoid anyone that might do so. It’s not that hard to understand.
I have never seen this phrase before. Looking it up lead me to this book, which I have just downloaded.
Thank you, Slithy Tove. I anticipate many hours of glee. But I must know: how did you come across this phrase?
Walt Disney?
Grammar nazis know all the oldest slang.
Fantastic. Now I know why she looked at me with disdain when I told her, “You dance very well – that you do.”
(viz. the chapter on “Awkward Vulgarities.”)
Because of the nature of neurological function, a useless education, while nowadays a thwart on success, is proof against imbecility in old age.