Talk:grammar Nazi

Is this sum of parts? Generic noun + Nazi? Mglovesfun (talk) 21:13, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

I think "Nazis facilitated the murder of millions" isn't a correct statement. (83.42.52.184 11:52, 12 December 2012 (UTC))

I've changed it to "were responsible for". - -sche (discuss) 18:11, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

I've never seen anyone show offense at being called a grammar Nazi, and I've seen a lot of grammar Nazis in my time. Can anyone find contextual examples that 'grammar Nazi' is a perjorative in the corpus? If not, I think that this line is unnecessary. Gigacannon (talk) 01:04, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

It might not be offensive to many American or British nitpickers, but if you called a German, Romani or Jewish person a "grammar Nazi", that person would most likely take offence... and no matter who you call a "grammar Nazi", some people take offence at the perceived trivialization of Nazism. - -sche (discuss) 01:56, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

The term is used to criticize those it refers to, so it is pejorative.--Simplificationalizer (talk) 19:14, 15 March 2017 (UTC)

Etymology

I don't really feel familiar enough with the conventions and standards of such things to make any edits myself, but regarding the origins of the phrase, there is some very useful discussion of this at http://www.wordorigins.org/index.php/forums/viewthread/844/ . Specifically, it is noted that there are citations of the use of the phrase that predate the Seinfeld "soup nazi" reference, so that is clearly not the origin of this phrase. The same discussion also notes that there is a reference in the OED to the use of "safety nazi" in a similar way in a 1982 article, and also a 1973 Guardian article describing "Nazi" as "an indiscriminate political cliché applied to insensitive bureaucrats", both of which seem to be more likely origins.. -- Foogod (talk) 21:20, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

RFD discussion: September–October 2017

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Sum-of-parts – see sense 3 of Nazi and the discussion of spelling nazi above. — SGconlaw (talk) 18:57, 2 September 2017 (UTC)

• Keep since this phrase is peculiar to English, from what I can see; we don't say this in Czech. I would like to see how productive is this sense of "Nazi" in English; if it is shown to be very productive, I would reconsider. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:24, 3 September 2017 (UTC)

  @Dan Polansky: F/fashion n/Nazi, K/kitchen n/Nazi, S/spelling n/Nazi, P/pasta n/Nazi, S/sugar n/Nazi, C/carb n/Nazi, A/attendance n/Nazi, B/baggage n/Nazi, etc. It seems fairly productive to me. DCDuring (talk) 05:26, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

  Thank you. Of these, "grammar Nazi" seems to be much more common: google:"grammar Nazi", google:"fashion Nazi", google:"kitchen Nazi", google:"pasta Nazi", google:"spelling Nazi". --Dan Polansky (talk) 06:20, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

  Since when did relative frequency (other than with respect to spellings) become part of CFI? I must have missed the vote or other revision. DCDuring (talk) 13:17, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

• Unsure, because this particular example is overwhelmingly more common than any other "X Nazi". --WikiTiki89 00:54, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
• keep per Wikitiki. --Barytonesis (talk) 08:46, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
• I don't like the word but it has become a word and even penetrated other languages verbatim. Russian граммар-на́ци (grammar-náci) seems attestable. Keep. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 14:12, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
• Delete Frequency not a CFI consideration. N/nazi highly productive in making SoP compounds. DCDuring (talk) 13:17, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

  If someone would take the trouble to attest in English (I recommend UseNet.) at least one spelling of grammarnazi, WT:COALMINE would resolve this definitively and without controversy. DCDuring (talk) 13:26, 19 October 2017 (UTC)

   Done, I hereby utter the magic word(s, YMMV) COALMINE. Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 12:56, 20 October 2017 (UTC)

Passed. — SGconlaw (talk) 02:29, 31 October 2017 (UTC)