Category: Grammar Nazism

Speed Bump #7,694

Grammar Nazism

Here we go again:

I don’t care about the story’s content or subject — on my interest scale, the hobbies of little fegelehs who jump into water rank somewhere below the sex lives of tarantulas — but FFS.

The knitting term is “PURL” and not “pearl”, you illiterate fucking scum of the earth.

There will come a time when I go over to Britishland and pay a visit to the offices of the Daily Mail, carrying my trusty cricket bat.  It will not be a pleasant site*.

 

*I know.  I just thought I’d pass it on.  Or you can take it as a pun.  Whatever.

New Expression

Grammar Nazism

As Longtime Readers know, I am generally not in favor of “verbing” — turning a noun into a verb.  I do like using existing words or terms appropriately to create a fresh description of something altogether different.

Here’s a good example from Combat Controller:

I like it.

Nobody said it has to be over the ocean…

Speed Bump #845

Grammar Nazism

From Breitbart News:

“Coronate”?  Ain’t no such fucking word.  At a coronation, one is crowned, not “coronated”.  Guess who coined the term?  Jesse Jackson, back in the 1990s (saw it on TV).

Hell, I even saw Mort Kondracke say it on a Fox News panel discussion once, and the host didn’t hit him over the head with a chair, like I would have done.

Note the reaction from SpelChek (in this very post):

Of all the times for my AK-47 to be at the pawn shop… and STG, if someone tells me they found this abortion of a word in some poxy modern dictionary ergo  it’s okay to say it, I’m going to come to their house.  With a Molotov cocktail.

Speed Bump #867

Grammar Nazism

“A NASA astronaut captured eerie glowing lights hanging in Earth’s atmosphere while aboard the ISS, revealing a rare phenomena that happens 50 miles above the surface.”

One phenomenon, two phenomena.

Does anyone check grammar at the Daily Mail  nowadays?

Speed Bump #754

Grammar Nazism

Ripped from the headlines:

FFS.  You mean, “…left us standing for hours”?

Once again, in the words of the late great Tony Dennis Farina:  “You guys invented the language;  why don’t you fucking speak it?”

Speed Bump #218

Grammar Nazism

“A doctor shared some interesting intel with me that left me shook – and he’s not the only one that’s noticed the surprising trend.”

#1:  the word is “shaken” (not “shook”, which is transitive, e.g. “he shook the illiterate woman till her neck snapped”)

#2:  unless one is referring to a thing or place, it should read “not the only one who’s (or who has) noticed the surprising trend”.

Of course, the tart in question is Australian so one might consider some grammarian latitude, but fuck ’em:  they also cheat at cricket.