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|From a parody<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vf8N6GpdM This one, in fact.]</ref> of ''[[Inglorious Basterds]].''}}
Somewhere along the line, Grammar Nazis got more into the form than the content. They sometimes leave snarky little notes in discussion areas about the correct use of italics or where the apostrophe goes in "its/it's." They don't actually add any new
For example, the French faction believe one is never to split infinitives because Latin and many other European languages cannot. [[Prepositions Are Not to End Sentences With|Ending a sentence with a preposition]] is also something they will not tolerate, even if it invariably leads to awkward or confusing renderings.
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== Fan Works ==
* A humorous short ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6414487/1/Sergeant_major_SchoolMarm fic] features a Grammar
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== Literature ==
* Lassic Wert in ''[[Felsic Current]]'' is a
* Avril Incandenza of [[David Foster Wallace]]'s ''[[Infinite Jest]]'' made her ''career'' out of this, leading a wave of linguistic prescription including ''riots'' over the damned thing, incorporating rigorous education in English grammar in the [[Elaborate University High|Enfield Tennis Academy]] curriculum (which in fairness is based on the medieval ''trivium'' and ''quadrivium'', which ''did'' include [Latin] grammar), and leading a group called the Militant Grammarians of Massachusetts, whose primary activity seems to be hassling supermarkets over "10 items or less" signs on express lanes ("It should be 10 items or ''fewer''!").
** This is likely an [[Write Who You Know|exaggeration of his own mother]], a community-college English professor who raised her children with songs about grammar mistakes and pretending to go into a coughing fit whenever one of them used a solecism (which Wallace in retrospect admitted was rather chilling). On the other hand, she never got ''nearly'' as grammar-crazy (much less anything else-crazy) as [[Stepford Smiler|Avril Incandenza]]...
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Taken to almost literal extremes in ''[[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten]]''
* In [[Risen|Risen 2: Dark Waters]] gnome leader is this of all peo.. err, individuals. When learning human language he put so much effort in this that he got the rules better than pretty much all the humans (including the main hero) and is condtanlty correcting the conversation partner on proper use of gramar (again, including the main character which drives him nuts). It stands out especially hard since gnomes in general do not speak human language at all and are not known for theit intelligence or regard to any rules.
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{{quote|'''Tsukiko:''' We need a new Head Executioner, you know. Xykon killed the last one for spelling "guillotine" wrong on his daily reports.}}
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Mr. Raven is [http://egscomics.com/?date=2008-04-18 presented] and [http://egscomics.com/?date=2008-06-20 referenced] as one, and his Hitler Forelock does not help his case at all.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' parodied this with Grammer[sic] Gorilla, who attempts to be a
* ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'': As Millie puts it, she "just invaded Grammar Czechoslovakia and duped Grammar Neville Chamberlain, and now it's on to Grammar Poland and Grammar World Conquest!". Ozy proceeds by calling her an Analogy Nazi.
* Grammar is just one of the many things that makes Butch of ''[[Chopping Block]]'' completely flip out. [http://choppingblock.keenspot.com/d/20090505.html Case in point.]
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