I am usually one
of those grammar nazi jerks pointing out other's retardation, but here I am stepping in and slipping in it.
No matter what kind
of grammar Nazi you are, you should not edit your own book.
I don't care how much
of a Grammar Nazi you are, you will miss stuff in your own work.
I also misspelled «from» to get the attention
of grammar nazis.
Not exact matches
looks super cute and useful, but the
grammar nazi in me is kind
of freaking out: * media * is already a plural (comes from latin; the singular form is medium)-- so i'm afraid «medias» is grammatically incorrect.
I studied English in college, but I won't go out
of my way to be a (total)
grammar nazi.
I ignore the
grammar Nazi especially when she critiques dialogue, but she picks up on lots
of other things such as the overuse
of a certain word.
You don't have to be a
grammar Nazi to conclude that this collection
of reheated press releases should never have been published.
And quadruple if, on those readers» forums, you start talking about how «we self - publishers aren't bound by your
Nazi rules
of grammar, it's all about free expression.»
Anyway, a
grammar -
nazi, within the meaning
of my comment above, is someone who picks on the form
of the expression rather than the substance
of the discussion, and the problem
of form does not have to lie strictly in the area
of grammar.
I averaged about one minor correction per page, stuff that most readers would pass over, but the sort
of things that drive a
grammar nazi bonkers.
My mother is a
grammar nazi and was compared to Steinbeck by a couple
of reviewers when she was still writing and doing the traditional publishing circuit.
Wielding my lasso
of truth, I am the combination
of nerd passion and
grammar nazi.
Plus, if you read this article about sentence structure and nouns and prenominal modifiers, you can have a leg up grammatically, too, which is one
of the Internet's other favorite things (and when you get called a «
grammar Nazi» you can throw «garbage person» right back in their face).