Hi Joe,
Of course I am not talking Amir, he's a nice guy. I think "language
bully" probably works here. Thanks for tip ;)
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 6:25 PM, Joe Matazzoni <jmatazzoni(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Petr asks:
Out of curiousity, how would you say
"grammar nazi" or "language nazi"
with absence of word
"nazi”
Interesting question (in the abstract—meaning as long as we’re not talking about Amir).
There is no standard phrase that comes to mind. Tyrant and despot are too classy,
authoritarian too long, stickler not pejorative enough…I’d go with bully.
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> On Aug 15, 2018, at 9:10 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
Out of curiousity, how would you say
"grammar nazi" or "language nazi"
> with absence of word
"nazi" so that it still has same effect and
> doesn't sound dull?
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 8:31 AM, Bináris <wikiposta(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2018-08-13 18:35 GMT+02:00 Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com>om>:
>>
>>> Is that
>>> what we turned into? From highly skilled developers and some of best
>>> experts in the field to a bunch of language nazis?
>>>
>>
>> Folks, please never use the word "nazi" for people in any context
except
>> definitely stating they are nazis in the origonal meaning of the word.
>> Neither with prefixes or suffixes or in compositions.
>> I know you didn't want to say anything bad with that and many people use
>> this phrase, but to call somebody *any kind of a *nazi or comparing any
>> behaviour to nazis is much more abusive then to use the f word for a lot of
>> people in whose personal or local history nazis appear and play a role.
>>
>> This is not addressed to you, Petr. This is just an example, that people
>> deal with one thing and don't even notice the other one, and don't
realize
>> the importance of this or that.
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