[LMB] OT: Language changes
A. Marina Fournier
saffronrose at me.com
Tue Sep 21 02:47:41 BST 2021
On Sep 18, 2021, at 8:34 PM, Matthew George <matt.msg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Like the "Soup Nazi" from Seinfeld. Or "grammar nazis". The Nazis have
> been so heavily overused that they're little more than generic baddies that
> can be killed without remorse in popular culture.
I read — and don’t seem to have kept a link — saying that one of Hitler’s men, possibly the one in charge of propaganda, was rather strict in his language usage, and thus, the grammar Nazi.
I’ll stick to hidebound language/grammar police in my self-reference.
A. Marina Fournier
saffronrose at me.com
Je persisterai quand même, car j’ais survécu d’être née
Valley of Heart’s Delight. CA
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