Declaring yourself to be a Grammar Nazi is like wrapping yourself in freshly-cut bacon and locking yourself in a wolverine cage. Sure it's a great way to get attention, but all it's really doing is painting you as a big target. Let's face it, there are a couple of mistakes in your jpg. I'd point them out, but let's face it; I'm not clever enough to make it amusing.
Depends on whether you want the real answer, or one that sounds good. It's just so.... there. One huge sentence fragment profressing your Nazism for Grammar. How can it not be commented on?
In all seriousness, it's because of the nature of posts like this. Grammar Nazi is something silly and unconfrontational. Talking about the more serious things either leads to awkward comments or a written wankfest. Mentioning that almost every hobby invariably just leads to being better at that hobby, that's why they're called hobbies and not work just seems stupid. Taking the obvious route of existentialism says that the only meaning is what we give it is even worse.
We could feign ignorance: "By jove! She's a morose individual. There's no way we could have known that!" I could ask how you can freaking love your body but hate your uterus, but that's going into, quite literally, no man's land. There just isn't a whole lot to be said, but we want to express that we read it, and acknowledge it. Not that you care or anything.
So, as a Grammar Nazi, you can send people to Grammar Hell, right?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I own Grammar Hell. Your mom was the chief lieutenant.
ReplyDeleteAre we not Grammar Nazis together, Camilla? To this day, the phrase Grammar Nazi reminds me of Lit Mag.
ReplyDeleteSumma Camilla
ReplyDeleteDeclaring yourself to be a Grammar Nazi is like wrapping yourself in freshly-cut bacon and locking yourself in a wolverine cage. Sure it's a great way to get attention, but all it's really doing is painting you as a big target. Let's face it, there are a couple of mistakes in your jpg. I'd point them out, but let's face it; I'm not clever enough to make it amusing.
ReplyDeleteOf all the things in this post to latch onto and obsess over, people choose "Grammar Nazi"? It's like you people don't even like me at all.
ReplyDeleteDepends on whether you want the real answer, or one that sounds good. It's just so.... there. One huge sentence fragment profressing your Nazism for Grammar. How can it not be commented on?
ReplyDeleteIn all seriousness, it's because of the nature of posts like this. Grammar Nazi is something silly and unconfrontational. Talking about the more serious things either leads to awkward comments or a written wankfest. Mentioning that almost every hobby invariably just leads to being better at that hobby, that's why they're called hobbies and not work just seems stupid. Taking the obvious route of existentialism says that the only meaning is what we give it is even worse.
We could feign ignorance: "By jove! She's a morose individual. There's no way we could have known that!" I could ask how you can freaking love your body but hate your uterus, but that's going into, quite literally, no man's land. There just isn't a whole lot to be said, but we want to express that we read it, and acknowledge it. Not that you care or anything.
Jeez.
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