I'm A Grammar Nazi.

I really am. I even catch my English teacher's grammar mistakes. I catch all sorts of spelling errors on product documents, like using 'Very' in place of 'Vary,' 'Then' in place of 'Than,' using there, they're, and their interchangeably, using it's when it should be its, or you're when it should be your, saying "should have got" when it should be "should have gotten," saying "should have went" when it should be "should have gone," saying "should have came" when it should be "should have come." PAST PARTICIPLES, PEOPLE! LEARN THEM! I get peers coming to me all the time asking me to proofread their papers for grammatical errors.

 

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I'm generally a joker, but I'm kind of OCD when it comes to grammar. It's part of having Asperger's Syndrome. Now see, I actually still knew what you were saying.

 

I would have used a small "a" rather than a capital "A" in the thread title.

 

Me too, but by the time I saw it, it wouldn't let me change it. Prepositions are always lower-case.

 

High Grammar Nazi pleesed too meat you.

 

I've always prided myself on writing correctly. I might not get all my grammar spot on but I think I do a good job especially considering English was not my first language.

On the other hand, I write it like I say it. So, this lets me use a lot of pauses, and commas, like... ya know?

 

Maybe you could ask the mods to change it.

 

You should invent a grammar mnemonic along the lines of "You spell the sequence as ie unless it comes right after c or when it is pronounced the long way as in neighbor, inveigh, and weigh.

That's a actually a pretty bad mnemonic, but that's why we need more.

 

I'm guessing you used meat in place of meet on purpose, to see if I'd catch it?

 

More grammar Nazis?

 

Nah, too much work.......and I don't know how to.

 

Quite the opposite, I'm a Contextualist and to me grammar is merely an issue of proximity to syntax. That's another reason mnemonics are really worthwhile because they can display metaphorical proximity. For example, "Bad boys race our young girls behind victory garden walls" is the color code for resistors and having a colorful mnemonic to go with it helps people remember.

 

I'm not good at mnemonics.

 

Ooooh you are good.

 

no, that wasn't mine. I'm good at music, not mnemonics.

 

Without syntax, grammar would be impossible! Learn your metaphors and you could be a poet and never even know it, a grammar Nazi famous throughout the land!

 

Wel you are the grammer Nazi of the thred.

 

I struggle with the urge to correct the grammar of others and the awareness that my own grammar isn't spectacular, and the fact that being a grammar Nazi makes you look like a douche.

 

I Am Cowering Under My Puuuter Desk In Fear and Dread He's Going To Start On Moi

For Being A "Cap's Addict" Next ...... :hitsfan:



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