Category: Grammar Nazism

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.

Speed Bump #287

Grammar Nazism

Aaaarrrrgh.

Oy.  “Everyday” is an adjective, e.g. “an everyday occurrence” is something that occurs, well, every day.  Which is what should have been written in the above headline, but Chief Editor Spell-Check doesn’t recognize the difference.

Fucking illiterate assholes.

Speed Bump #246

Grammar Nazism

Aaaargh.

For the want of a space… it’s “WALK [space] OUT”, you fucking illiterate morons.  People who walk out from their jobs can be said to be staging a “walkout” (which is a NOUN).  Here’s another example, from a different article:

The mum added that she goes to the gym but has been struggling to find the time to workout.

That’s “work [space] out”, you sub-morons.  A “workout” is what you get when you exercise [he explained patiently].

First we had “verbing”, where nouns are turned into verbs (e.g. he
“exited” the room grrrr grrr grrrrr), and now we have the reverse… “nouning”, where verbs are turned into nouns?

I know what this calls for: