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[[File:Grammar Natzee revised by doommech33 7836.jpg|frame|Sieg Whom!!]]
[[File:Grammar Natzee revised by doommech33 7836.jpg|frame|Sieg Whom!!]]



{{quote|'''Perrier Lapadite:''' I swear I do not know where Mademoiselle Dreyfus was at!
{{quote|'''Perrier Lapadite:''' I swear I do not know where Mademoiselle Dreyfus was at!
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Compare [[You Make Me Sic]].
Compare [[You Make Me Sic]].
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== Advertising ==
== Advertising ==
* [[Orson Welles]] became one when he did a voiceover commercial for [[wikipedia:Frozen Peas|frozen peas]].
* [[Orson Welles]] became one when he did a voiceover commercial for [[wikipedia:Frozen Peas|frozen peas]].
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* [[Lobo]] had once been captured by Grammar Nazis who forced him into a competition to see if he would be allowed to join them in their crusade to cleanse language from error (and exterminate malapropers). It ended when Lobo tried to get his grade school teacher out of the competition, only for her to reveal he had cut her legs and them preparing to kill him by shooting... And removing him from the gas trap that was keeping him at bay. No Grammar Nazi survived the encounter.
* [[Lobo]] had once been captured by Grammar Nazis who forced him into a competition to see if he would be allowed to join them in their crusade to cleanse language from error (and exterminate malapropers). It ended when Lobo tried to get his grade school teacher out of the competition, only for her to reveal he had cut her legs and them preparing to kill him by shooting... And removing him from the gas trap that was keeping him at bay. No Grammar Nazi survived the encounter.
* The [[Green Lantern]] miniseries ''Emerald Dawn 2'' shows Sinestro correcting the syntax of people he's beating down back when he's Hal Jordan's Corps-appointed mentor.
* The [[Green Lantern]] miniseries ''Emerald Dawn 2'' shows Sinestro correcting the syntax of people he's beating down back when he's Hal Jordan's Corps-appointed mentor.

== Comic Strips ==
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* Andy Fox of the comic strip ''[[FoxTrot]]'' has been known to rant at her children for using improper grammar. In one strip she explains to her older son that she couldn't help correcting him because, as an English major, she believes that proper grammar is important.
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* Rose Gumbo from ''[[Rose Is Rose]]'' is shown to be this in a few strips.
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* Someone once asked Lemont of ''[[Candorville (Comic Strip)|Candorville]]'' who died and made him the grammar police. He responded that he was actually being the idiom police.
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* Joe's mother from ''[[Jump Start]]''.
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* The [http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/StrunkAndPtah 6 October 2011] ''[[Non Sequitur (comic strip)|Non Sequitur]]'' features a nonsensical version of this trope in ancient Egypt.




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* On a mid-'90s [[Alvin and The Chipmunks]] country collaboration album, Simon is paired with Aaron Tippin to sing Tippin's "There Ain't Nothing Wrong with the Radio". When Simon starts singing, he corrects the grammar "flaws" on the fly, but eventually, Aaron gets him to lighten up on the Grammar Nazism.
* On a mid-'90s [[Alvin and The Chipmunks]] country collaboration album, Simon is paired with Aaron Tippin to sing Tippin's "There Ain't Nothing Wrong with the Radio". When Simon starts singing, he corrects the grammar "flaws" on the fly, but eventually, Aaron gets him to lighten up on the Grammar Nazism.
* It may be apocryphal (although I think they've told it themselves on at least one occasion), but there's a story that Neil Tennant of [[Pet Shop Boys]] used to return fan mail with all the grammar and spelling errors meticulously corrected. As he used to edit magazines for a living, this kind of makes sense...
* It may be apocryphal (although I think they've told it themselves on at least one occasion), but there's a story that Neil Tennant of [[Pet Shop Boys]] used to return fan mail with all the grammar and spelling errors meticulously corrected. As he used to edit magazines for a living, this kind of makes sense...
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc "Word Crimes"] by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] is three minutes and forty-six seconds of ranting at stupid grammar errors and the people who make them.




== New Media ==
== New Media ==
* You'll find these people across the internet at times. We'll leave it at that.
* You'll find these people across the internet at times. We'll leave it at that.


== Newspaper Comics ==
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* Andy Fox of the comic strip ''[[FoxTrot]]'' has been known to rant at her children for using improper grammar. In one strip she explains to her older son that she couldn't help correcting him because, as an English major, she believes that proper grammar is important.
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* Rose Gumbo from ''[[Rose Is Rose]]'' is shown to be this in a few strips.
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* Someone once asked Lemont of ''[[Candorville (Comic Strip)|Candorville]]'' who died and made him the grammar police. He responded that he was actually being the idiom police.
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* Joe's mother from ''[[Jump Start]]''.
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* The [http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/StrunkAndPtah 6 October 2011] ''[[Non Sequitur (comic strip)|Non Sequitur]]'' features a nonsensical version of this trope in ancient Egypt.




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