Are any aspies here grammar nazis?

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I hear a lot about aspies correcting others' mistakes in posts and all, so could anyone here be called a "grammer nazi?"

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All I'm gonna say.

I don't always correct people's spelling and grammar, but I do get angry when people make grammatical errors or make a spelling mistake that I know couldn't have just happened because they accidentally hit the wrong key.

Yes, at least in my own language, which is Swedish. I spoke fluently at the age of one year, read and wrote at the age of three, have studied English for ten years in elementary and high school, German for more almost ten years in elementary, high school and at the university. To that I can speak with Norwegians and Danes (the Scandinavian languages are pretty similar, except for Icelandic), read Dutch and know some Latin and Greek from my philosophy studies. I simply can't stand people with a bad grammar.

Last edited by Litigious on 30 Sep 2006, 3:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.

When people claim they're excellent spellers, I first quote their original post then re-quote it, all properly spelled and gramaticially correct.

i'm pretty ok with people's spelling and other grammmer for the most part.

but there is one thing that get's on my nerves to no end...

when people don't use these kinds of words properly:

"your" and "you're" or "there", "their" and "they're"....


and it happens all the time...

Look at this: "tomten" are two different nouns in Swedish. One means "the estate" or "the ground", the other means "Santa Claus"! In the first case, it's pronounced tómten, in the other tómtèn. We have more words like that, for example "anden", which means either "the duck" or "the spirit". Most foreigners never learn the correct pronounciation.

NTs can never be expected to properly learn any language. They can hardly even speak their own native language correctly.

If someone with AS uses improper grammar, spelling, and/or punctuation, it's because they were taught by NTs. My English teacher
uses capitalization randomly.

iT LOokS kinD oF LiKE thiS.

I'm just glad she's not teaching 1st graders who would think that was how you were supposed to write.

Swedish teachers can't spell or write nowadays either. We haven't had capitalization for over hundred years now, but they make other obvious mistakes. For example, all nouns in Swedish are written as one word, not two like they're many times in English. The correct writing for "sailing ship" in Swedish is "segelbåt", but many teachers (not to mention the pupils/students) would separate the words "segel" and "båt"...

When it comes to spoken grammar, I am a Grammar Nazi.

I could care less, when it comes to written grammar.

I can't stand people using l33t speak or text language on the internet. Whenever I see something like 'h3y how iz evry1' I wish I could give them a good wallop. The odd abbreviation on the internet is ok, but when it becomes hard to read, it's almost like they're not typing English at all. Apostrophe mistakes in shop windows, books etc also annoy me so I suppose I am a Grammar Nazi

Thats another thing annoying me. In Swedish we never use apostrophes at all to express the genitive form, we just put an "s" at the end of the word, but many people must think that we speak English, because they put apostrophes there anyway.

Anyone here could be, by any individual who cared to use the term.

Anyone called a "grammer nazi", though, might take a little satisfaction in the event,
while noting one more small example of ignorant or sloppy typing.

If poor typing and handling of English is ignorance, it adds to an evaluation of the poster.
If it is down to indifference, it does something very similar.

There is legitimate flexibility in English, by region, mood and occasion, for three instances.
So I'm not a Nazi. Neither national nor socialist, really. But I do see the 'whelming threat that powers their fanaticism.