# Is the American "grammar Nazi" in Finnish "comma fucker?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 20, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-american-grammar-nazi-in-finnish-comma-fucker/769137 "2016-10-20T14:23:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-american-grammar-nazi-in-finnish-comma-fucker/769137/1 "2016-10-20T14:23:54Z")
See query. I can’t remember if I read that or made it up. Because I like it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-american-grammar-nazi-in-finnish-comma-fucker/769137/2 "2016-10-20T14:35:27Z")
Absolutely not. Translating that term to Finnish gives you “Kielioppi natsi”. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-american-grammar-nazi-in-finnish-comma-fucker/769137/3 "2016-10-20T14:41:14Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Absolutely not. Translating that term to Finnish gives you “Kielioppi natsi”. The concept, not literally. [Apparently, that is the/an equivalent idiom.](https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/pilkunnussija) I do not have any personal information, so perhaps a Finn can check in. ---
**Author:** ![Surreal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-american-grammar-nazi-in-finnish-comma-fucker/769137/4 "2016-10-20T19:21:33Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Absolutely not. Translating that term to Finnish gives you “Kielioppi natsi”. Nice try, but this isn’t the sort of question that Google Translate can answer for you. ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-american-grammar-nazi-in-finnish-comma-fucker/769137/5 "2016-10-20T21:27:45Z")
I like how ‘fucker’ in Finnish looks like it sounds so close to NAZI. The FINNS must have had fun with that in WWII. It even has its own NSFW [image](http://image.spreadshirtmedia.net/image-server/v1/compositions/130263402/views/1,width=280,height=280,appearanceId=1,version=1450089781.png/pilkunnussija-kalsarit_design.png). ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-american-grammar-nazi-in-finnish-comma-fucker/769137/6 "2016-10-20T22:18:07Z")
> [@Marion\_Wormer](#): > > … > It even has its own NSFW [image](http://image.spreadshirtmedia.net/image-server/v1/compositions/130263402/views/1,width=280,height=280,appearanceId=1,version=1450089781.png/pilkunnussija-kalsarit_design.png). :p:):eek:😃 ---
**Author:** ![Svejk\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-american-grammar-nazi-in-finnish-comma-fucker/769137/7 "2016-10-21T00:21:00Z")
In Dutch, an overly critical person (not necessarily wrt grammar or usage) can be called ant fucker (mierenneuker) or comma fucker (kommaneuker). Or someone who puts salt on all snails (iemand die op alle slakken zout legt). ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-american-grammar-nazi-in-finnish-comma-fucker/769137/8 "2016-10-22T21:10:27Z")
“Comma fucker” would indeed be the Finnish term translated, and it does cover more than grammar: anyone who is annoyingly obsessive over correctness and detail can be called that - obviously a vulgar term.