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I got kicked out of the role of Grammer Nazi after the Grammer Nazi elections here in ATT. I haven't seen any Grammer Nazi action lately, so am I allowed to resume my post?
Grammer Nazi Can I resume?
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 01:27 AM
Under no circumstances. I mean, WTF is "grammer?"
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 01:47 AM
If you can't spell it, then you can't be it. 
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 10:12 AM
Those darned "grammers" and "barears"!!!!!
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 12:48 PM
A quick peek at the election results reveals that you most certainly did not win.
So no.
So no.
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 12:51 PM
The less Grammar Nazi's we have less of, the better with which we shall be. And here follows a sentence I place a preposition at the end of.
At the end of which I place a preposition.
Damn it, I just can't force myself to do it even to make a point.
At the end of which I place a preposition.
Damn it, I just can't force myself to do it even to make a point.
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 03:07 PM
Wow. Everywhere I look, aside from here, I se it spelled "Grammer" and not "Grammar." Although my computer does see it as "Grammar....
Well, duh, what did I say in my topic? I said something to the effect of how I lost the elections and how there's been no Grammar Nazi activity around.
So, now that I've gotten that straightened out (and learned the proper spelling for Grammar) can I resume my post as Grammar Nazi? I have been seeing a lot of uncorrected errors lately, even if not around here.
dude3, on Mar 23 2008, 09:48 AM, said:
A quick peek at the election results reveals that you most certainly did not win.
Well, duh, what did I say in my topic? I said something to the effect of how I lost the elections and how there's been no Grammar Nazi activity around.
So, now that I've gotten that straightened out (and learned the proper spelling for Grammar) can I resume my post as Grammar Nazi? I have been seeing a lot of uncorrected errors lately, even if not around here.
Mein Hut, der hat drei Ecken
Drei Ecken hat mein Hut
Und hat er nicht drei Ecken
Dann ist es nicht mein Hut
Drei Ecken hat mein Hut
Und hat er nicht drei Ecken
Dann ist es nicht mein Hut
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 03:08 PM
Captain Zaphod Beeblebrox, on Mar 23 2008, 04:07 PM, said:
Wow. Everywhere I look, aside from here, I se it spelled "Grammer" and not "Grammar." Although my computer does see it as "Grammar....
Well, duh, what did I say in my topic? I said something to the effect of how I lost the elections and how there's been no Grammar Nazi activity around.
So, now that I've gotten that straightened out (and learned the proper spelling for Grammar) can I resume my post as Grammar Nazi? I have been seeing a lot of uncorrected errors lately, even if not around here.
Well, duh, what did I say in my topic? I said something to the effect of how I lost the elections and how there's been no Grammar Nazi activity around.
So, now that I've gotten that straightened out (and learned the proper spelling for Grammar) can I resume my post as Grammar Nazi? I have been seeing a lot of uncorrected errors lately, even if not around here.
You left out the second "e" in "see".
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 03:44 PM
I get the point. I'm not fit for Grammar Nazi anymore. 
Mein Hut, der hat drei Ecken
Drei Ecken hat mein Hut
Und hat er nicht drei Ecken
Dann ist es nicht mein Hut
Drei Ecken hat mein Hut
Und hat er nicht drei Ecken
Dann ist es nicht mein Hut
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 05:01 PM
Captain Zaphod Beeblebrox, on Mar 23 2008, 04:44 PM, said:
I get the point. I'm not fit for Grammar Nazi anymore.
2 b teh gramer naht-zee u hav 2 studee mor gram0rz so u can korectt ppl mor beter
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 05:22 PM
I think we've been through this before.
2 To be the Grammar Nazi, you have 2 to study mor grammar more so you can correct people mor better.
You nominated me for Grammer Nazi, remember?
Sponge Tom, on Mar 23 2008, 02:01 PM, said:
You nominated me for Grammer Nazi, remember?
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Mein Hut, der hat drei Ecken
Drei Ecken hat mein Hut
Und hat er nicht drei Ecken
Dann ist es nicht mein Hut
Drei Ecken hat mein Hut
Und hat er nicht drei Ecken
Dann ist es nicht mein Hut
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 05:44 PM
Listen Zaphod, I just don't think you're cut out for the job.
To be a true Grammar Nazi, and not just a regular old Grammar Fascist, you need to know everything there is to know about grammar.
For example, can you tell me the two proper uses of the semicolon?
How about the six classes of adjectives?
Can you tell me how to identify a comma splice?
Do you know when to use the Dative case and all that it entails?
Can you recite the lyrics to Conjunction Junction, What's Your Function? from memory?
You see, Beeblebrox, being a Grammar Nazi isn't just a job. It's a lifestyle. Grammar must consume you entirely. You must eat, sleep and breathe it. Grammar must become more important to you than your own health.
Do you really think you're up to the task, Beeblebrox? Do you?!
To be a true Grammar Nazi, and not just a regular old Grammar Fascist, you need to know everything there is to know about grammar.
For example, can you tell me the two proper uses of the semicolon?
How about the six classes of adjectives?
Can you tell me how to identify a comma splice?
Do you know when to use the Dative case and all that it entails?
Can you recite the lyrics to Conjunction Junction, What's Your Function? from memory?
You see, Beeblebrox, being a Grammar Nazi isn't just a job. It's a lifestyle. Grammar must consume you entirely. You must eat, sleep and breathe it. Grammar must become more important to you than your own health.
Do you really think you're up to the task, Beeblebrox? Do you?!
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 06:25 PM
I'm up for it. I am up for it!
I will do it! I... will... LIVE...! on Grammar.
I will do it! I... will... LIVE...! on Grammar.
Mein Hut, der hat drei Ecken
Drei Ecken hat mein Hut
Und hat er nicht drei Ecken
Dann ist es nicht mein Hut
Drei Ecken hat mein Hut
Und hat er nicht drei Ecken
Dann ist es nicht mein Hut
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 06:41 PM
You'll never make it. I haven't the faintest idea of what the dative case is beyond that it has something to do with 'whom,' and I've completed the requirements for two college degrees. I know worthless crap like I'm not supposed to be using single quotes to represent scare quotes in American English, but I doubt that anyone much gives a damn and would be annoyed if a real grammar nazi were to point that error in my previous sentence out to me.
Not only do you need to eat, sleep, and breathe grammar, you have to learn and manage to remember more pointless crap about entirely uninteresting things than even I am willing to memorize. That's a tall order.
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Not only do you need to eat, sleep, and breathe grammar, you have to learn and manage to remember more pointless crap about entirely uninteresting things than even I am willing to memorize. That's a tall order.
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 06:47 PM
Pufer, on Mar 23 2008, 07:41 PM, said:
You'll never make it. I haven't the faintest idea of what the dative case is beyond that it has something to do with 'whom,' and I've completed the requirements for two college degrees. I know worthless crap like I'm not supposed to be using single quotes to represent scare quotes in American English, but I doubt that anyone much gives a damn and would be annoyed if a real grammar nazi were to point that error in my previous sentence out to me.
Not only do you need to eat, sleep, and breathe grammar, you have to learn and manage to remember more pointless crap about entirely uninteresting things than even I am willing to memorize. That's a tall order.
-Pufer
Not only do you need to eat, sleep, and breathe grammar, you have to learn and manage to remember more pointless crap about entirely uninteresting things than even I am willing to memorize. That's a tall order.
-Pufer
But it can be done. If he does not become The Chosen Grammar Nazi, then who will?
And I'm pretty sure you have to eat, sleep, breathe, and listen to grammar.
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 07:45 PM
Sponge Tom, on Mar 23 2008, 07:47 PM, said:
And I'm pretty sure you have to eat, sleep, breathe, and listen to grammar.
You don't have to listen to grammar to understand it. That's why philologists are able to do what they do.
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 09:10 PM
Okay, so I can't be Grammar Nazi. What other title can I have?
Mein Hut, der hat drei Ecken
Drei Ecken hat mein Hut
Und hat er nicht drei Ecken
Dann ist es nicht mein Hut
Drei Ecken hat mein Hut
Und hat er nicht drei Ecken
Dann ist es nicht mein Hut
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 09:26 PM
Grammer Nazi. [sic]
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 09:37 PM
Pufer, on Mar 23 2008, 07:41 PM, said:
I haven't the faintest idea of what the dative case is
The only reason I know is because we learned about it in German because it's actually important there.
It's sort of funny how learning foreign languages actually teaches you a lot about your own language too. That's probably a bad sign, actually.
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 10:20 PM
Captain Zaphod Beeblebrox, on Mar 23 2008, 10:10 PM, said:
Okay, so I can't be Grammar Nazi. What other title can I have?
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Rickton, on Mar 23 2008, 10:37 PM, said:
It's sort of funny how learning foreign languages actually teaches you a lot about your own language too. That's probably a bad sign, actually.
It makes a lot of sense. We learn our native language naturally, but formal grammar is not natural. Technical terms and rules governing the use of nearly archaic but still "proper" forms (eg who vs whom) and all those other little bits of boring grammatical minutia are all things that must be learned formally.
This is what they tried to teach you in middle school English class, but unfortunately, learning the formal grammar of a language you know natively is excruciatingly boring. Because you take so much for granted, everything that you already know seems obvious and everything you don't know seems unimportant.
When you learn a new language, you can't take anything for granted, so you actually pay attention long enough to understand the obscure stuff. Then, realizing that there was more going on than you previously thought, you can turn around and apply that knowledge to your own language.
"For a writing to be a writing it must continue to 'act' and to be readable even when what is called the author of the writing no longer answers for what he has written..."
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 11:14 PM
Mispeled, on Mar 24 2008, 12:01 AM, said:
I'm just ######ing glad that English nouns don't have gender.
Possibly the only way that English is actually easier and makes more sense than other languages.
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Posted 24 March 2008 - 12:22 AM
A Chinese immigrant that I know once compared learning to speak English to learning how to write Chinese. There's no particular rhyme or reason to it or logical system underlying it, it just gets to the the point that you know it.
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