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Peanuts vs. the grammar nazis

Via several friends on Facebook, this image from Bob Lucas’s wall photos:

On the snowclonelet X nazi, with special reference to grammar nazi, see here and here.

And note that the Peanuts takeoff is about spelling rather than grammar — that is, it’s about garmmra.

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March 24, 2013 at 7:55 am | Reply
[…] a snowclonelet composite, an instance of the pattern X Nazi/nazi. (Discussion on this blog here and here, with links to Language Log and other discussions.) In the C&H strip, the soldier turns out to […]

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