Am I a grammar nazi?
dramaqueen45
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Okay people, you LOSE weight, and then your pants are LOOSE. You don't loose weight, you really don't. I just had to say it somewhere. End of rant. 
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This has been posted just about once a week since the forums began. But I'm sure this time will be the one post that sets everyone straight. Because it's never a typo or someone updating from their mobile device or a person for whom English is a second language (or third, or fourth, or fifth). We all just don't know any better and need to be shown the light. Thank you. Thank you. This will be the post that ends all of the annoying confusion.0
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diannethegeek wrote: »This has been posted just about once a week since the forums began. But I'm sure this time will be the one post that sets everyone straight. Because it's never a typo or someone updating from their mobile device or a person for whom English is a second language (or third, or fourth, or fifth). We all just don't know any better and need to be shown the light. Thank you. Thank you. This will be the post that ends all of the annoying confusion.
Once a week? Try once a day!
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Using the word, Nazi isn't bad grammar but it is in bad taste.0
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MooninCancer wrote: »Using the word, Nazi isn't bad grammar but it is in bad taste.
Completely agree! Grammar police is a better term.0 -
deja vu0
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Absolutely agree, that using Nazi in any context apart from discussing the German ruling party before and during WWII is in bad taste. I'm a veteran English teacher and am frequently annoyed by poor use of language. But I raised to mostly keep that to myself unless I have been hired to give you a grade.0
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dramaqueen45 wrote: »Okay people, you LOSE weight, and then your pants are LOOSE. You don't loose weight, you really don't. I just had to say it somewhere. End of rant.
Spelling is not grammar..... and as a German and grand daughter of a survivor of the holocaust, I don't know how I feel about the use of the worrd " Nazi " in this context. Well, I know how I feel, but don't want to get into it here.
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yeah agreed with the english teacher
...unless you rape, torture, and kill semi-innocent minorities in grammar then i'd drop the use of nazi as well0 -
thank you... lol0
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scare006jack37 wrote: »yeah agreed with the english teacher
...unless you rape, torture, and kill semi-innocent minorities in grammar then i'd drop the use of nazi as well
Nice use of semi-innocent. That was both semi-accurate and semi-nice.![:\](https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/resources/emoji/confused.png ":\")
It's just proof, those who do not know history, are damned to repeat it.
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scare006jack37 wrote: »yeah agreed with the english teacher
...unless you rape, torture, and kill semi-innocent minorities in grammar then i'd drop the use of nazi as well
Nice use of semi-innocent. That was both semi-accurate and semi-nice.scare006jack37 wrote: »yeah agreed with the english teacher
...unless you rape, torture, and kill semi-innocent minorities in grammar then i'd drop the use of nazi as well
Nice use of semi-innocent. That was both semi-accurate and semi-nice.
It's just proof, those who do not know history, are damned to repeat it.
...and over use commas along the way.
I probably did. Slept til noon yesterday, had three hours of sleep last night. It's catching up with me.
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I, freaking, love, commas,0
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OP: Nothing wrong with making an apology to the people here you offended. It's the proper thing to do.0
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scare006jack37 wrote: »yeah agreed with the english teacher
...unless you rape, torture, and kill semi-innocent minorities in grammar then i'd drop the use of nazi as well
OH God help us ALLLLL.0 -
This one drives me crazy.0
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I post a picture a few years back in another online forum that basically said something about "Spelling Nazi's" and got a temporary ban because of it from one admin. The main admin actually re-instated me after I asked what was up with that. The forum was US based/ran forum with one of the admins (the one that temp banned me) being from the UK. I didn't mean it in the literal sense but as way of poking fun at someone that always harped on spelling. Some people take the meaning "Nazi" literal because of history, where they live and their misunderstanding on how other cultures/countries talk. I think it's more sensitive and/or offensive word to use for people living in Europe than elsewhere.
Personally the word doesn't bug me and I don't usually care to correct others grammar or spelling...because I'm not perfect in that department.
I do find it funny though that countries that basically speak the same language (English) are so diverse in spelling, meaning and usage.-1 -
Mapanggulo wrote: »I post a picture a few years back in another online forum that basically said something about "Spelling Nazi's" and got a temporary ban because of it from one admin. The main admin actually re-instated me after I asked what was up with that. The forum was US based/ran forum with one of the admins (the one that temp banned me) being from the UK. I didn't mean it in the literal sense but as way of poking fun at someone that always harped on spelling. Some people take the meaning "Nazi" literal because of history, where they live and their misunderstanding on how other cultures/countries talk. I think it's more sensitive and/or offensive word to use for people living in Europe than elsewhere.
Personally the word doesn't bug me and I don't usually care to correct others grammar or spelling...because I'm not perfect in that department.
I do find it funny though that countries that basically speak the same language (English) are so diverse in spelling, meaning and usage.
I'm Canadian, what the heck are you talking about??? Only Europeans don't like it?? And Of course I know what she was implying. But...ok. I will stop. This is useless!0 -
What are you talking about? I loose weight frequently in the bathroom (and infrequently in the woods).
The usage is dead on.0 -
But I set my weight loose to run free....0
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Moral of the story: Don't throw the Nazi term around loosely.0
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Lose the word "Nazi"?0
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None of y'all wrote letters to Seinfeld when they aired the Soup Nazi. Get over it, not everything is offensive.
OP, you're a bit of a grammar Nazi if you're judging people based on internet forum posts. If you're a teacher and your kids are writing papers misusing the spelling of lose or loose then yeah mark it wrong. I wouldn't let it bother you on a forum. It would only bother me if I were having a conversation in person and they misused the word.-1 -
DevilandhisAdvocate wrote: »I'm Canadian, what the heck are you talking about??? Only Europeans don't like it?? And Of course I know what she was implying. But...ok. I will stop. This is useless!
I didn't say only Europeans dislike it.
I stated " I think it's more sensitive and/or offensive word to use for people living in Europe than elsewhere. "
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I'm speechless.
(and I'm a language specialist)0
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