History Quotes / GrammarNazi

-->-- '''Richard Castle''', who later corrects who/whom and improper use of the word "[[{{Irony}} ironic]]", ''Series/{{Castle}}''

-->-- [[BeamMeUpScotty Attributed to]] '''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill'''[[note]]Yes, this apocryphal communique in which he dismisses civil servants' fixation upon proper grammar [[PrepositionsAreNotToEndSentencesWith ends with a preposition]].[[/note]]

->''"Bloody hell, Tony! Will you stop shooting people for saying things wrong?"''
-->-- '''Luke as played by Creator/RobertWebb''', ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook''

-->--'''Anonymous'''

-->--'''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphrys_law Muphry's law]]'''

->''Ohhhh, if you want it to be possessive, it's just I-T-S,''\\
''But if it's supposed to be a contraction, then it's I-T-apostrophe-S…''\\
''Scalawag!''
-->--'''Strong Bad''', ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''

->''Ego sum rex romanus et supra grammaticam.''\\
Translated as: ''I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.''
-->--'''Sigismund I, Holy Roman Emperor'''

-->--'''George Eliot''', ''Middlemarch''

->''This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put.''
-->--[[BeamMeUpScotty Attributed to]] '''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill'''[[note]]Yes, this apocryphal communique in which he dismisses civil servants' fixation upon proper grammar [[PrepositionsAreNotToEndSentencesWith ends with a preposition]].[[/note]]

->''Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.''
-->--'''Jack Lynch'''

->'''Avery:''' What are you, some kind of grammar nazi?\\
'''Millie:''' Yep. I've just invaded Grammar Czechoslovakia and duped Grammar Neville Chamberlain, and now it's off to Grammar Poland and Grammar World Conquest!!
-->--''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie''

->'''Henry:''' You see [[TheHero Simon]], there's [[RuleOfThree three]] kinds of "there". There's "there", t-h-e-r-e: "There are the donuts." Then there's "their", t-h-e-i-r, which is the possessive: "It is their donut." Then finally, there's "they're", t-h-e-y-apostrophe-r-e. A contraction meaning: "They're… they're the donut people." Got it?
-->--'''Henry Fool'''

-->--'''Music/WeirdAlYankovic''', "Close but No Cigar"

->'''Homer:''' Linguo… dead?!\\
'''Linguo the Grammar Robot:''' Linguo… '''IS'''… deeeeeaaaaad… ''(dies)''
-->--''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Trilogy of Error"

->''Whoever killed her… also murdered the English language.''
-->--'''Richard Castle''', who later corrects who/whom and improper use of the word "[[{{Irony}} ironic]]", ''Series/{{Castle}}''

->'''Agent Bork:''' Chief, you know that guy whose camper they were whacking off in?\\
'''Agent Flemming:''' Bork! You are a federal agent. You represent the United States Government… never end a sentence with a preposition. Try again.\\
'''Agent Bork:''' Oh, ah… you know that guy in whose camper they… I mean that guy off in whose camper they were whacking?\\
'''Agent Flemming:''' That's better. Yes?
-->--''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtheadDoAmerica''

->''Y-O-U-R. Y-O-U-Apostrophe-R-E. They're as different as night and day. Don't you think that night and day are different? What's wrong with you?''
-->--'''Strong Bad''', ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''

->''We must invade the Bureau and bring them under our control! They WILL correct this typo!''
-->--'''Valvatorez''', ''VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten''

-->--''Webcomic/ASofterWorld''

->''Yes, they're the sort of dribbling unpardonable cretins that use "party" as a verb and, when I'm in charge and have established my Reich, those people are going to be punished.''
-->--'''Creator/CharlieBrooker''', ''Series/{{Newswipe}}''

->'''Her'ak:''' No matter what you have endured, you have never experienced the likes of what Anubis is capable of.\\
'''O'Neill:''' You ended that sentence with a preposition! Bastard!
-->--''Series/StargateSG1''

->'''Prisoner in Belarus:''' She's always gettin' at me, saying I weren't a real man…\\
'''Franchise/SherlockHolmes:''' Wasn't a real man.\\
'''Prisoner:''' What?\\
'''Sherlock:''' It's not "weren't", it's "wasn't".\\
'''Prisoner:''' …oh.\\
'''Sherlock:''' Go on.\\
'''Prisoner:''' Well, I don't know how it happened, but suddenly there's a knife in my hands, and me old man was a butcher, so I know how to handle knives, he learnt us how to cut up a beast…\\
'''Sherlock:''' Taught.\\
'''Prisoner:''' What?\\
'''Sherlock:''' ''Taught'' you how to cut up a beast.\\
'''Prisoner:''' Yeh, well, and I done it.\\
'''Sherlock:''' Did it.\\
'''Prisoner:''' ''(annoyed)'' Did it! STABBED HER! Over, and over, and over, and I looked down and she weren't… ''(Sherlock just sighs)'' …''wasn't''… moving no more… ''(Sherlock rolls his eyes)'' …''anymore''. ''(calmer)'' God help me, I don't know how it happened, it was an accident, I swear! ''(Sherlock gets up to leave)'' Hey, you gotta help me, Mr. Holmes! Everyone says you're the best. Without you… I'll get hung for this.\\
'''Sherlock:''' No, no, Mr. Bewick, not at all. ''(beat)'' '''Hanged''', yes.
-->--''Series/{{Sherlock}}''

-->--'''Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw''', letter to the ''Times'' of London

->'''Amerei Frey:''' He gave them the money, but they hung him anyway.\\
'''Mariya Darry:''' Hanged, Ami, not hung. Your father was not a tapestry.
-->--''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''

->'''Becker:''' Whoa, whoa, whoa. I don't know nothin', I didn't see nothin', I didn't say nothin'.\\
'''Luger:''' "Nothing". The word is "nothing", not "nothin'". There's an -ing on the end of it, "nothing".\\
'''Becker:''' Ok, nothin''g''. Nothin''g''. NOTHIIIIIIIIING. 'K, you happy?\\
'''Luger:''' That's better. But that's not what you told York.\\
'''Becker:''' I don't know no York, and where's my food?\\
'''Luger:''' We ate it. And please, no double negatives.\\
'''Becker:''' Sorry. I don't know ''any'' York.
-->--''Film/LoadedWeapon1''

->''Alright, if you say "You laughed so hard you literally pooped your pants", there better be actual poop in your actual pants… or literally you're a little illiterate.''
-->--''WebVideo/GloveAndBoots'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ2SHSg5rIY "Fix Your Grammar"]]

->''When you're insulting someone's intelligence on the internet, one should be mindful of their own spelling and grammar. In other words, don't call someone a retard when ''you'' spell like a retard.''
-->--'''Adam Buckley''', ''WebVideo/ADoseOfBuckley''

-->--'''Creator/RobertWebb''', calling out Creator/{{David Mitchell|Actor}}[[note]]who, for the unaware, is his longtime comedy partner, meaning that at least some of the proceeding was tongue-in-cheek.[[/note]] and, by extension, others for this trope

-->--'''Creator/RaymondChandler''' on a proofreader who changed his split infinitives

->'''Emma:''' If he's who he says he is, then why don't he know the first thing about loops--or even what year he's in? Go on, ask him!\\
'''Miss Peregrine:''' Why ''doesn't'' he know. And the only person whom I'll be subjecting to questioning is you, tomorrow afternoon, regarding the proper use of grammatical tenses!
-->-- ''Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren''

->'''[[TheResenter Stan]]:''' See, between me and him, I'm not always the bad twin!
->'''[[InsufferableGenius Ford]]:''' Between 'him' and 'me'. (''beat'') Grammar, Stanley.
->'''Stan:''' [[IWillShowYouX I'll 'Grammar, Stanley' YOU]], you stuck-up son of a gun!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''

->''"The first thing I want to address is the title of this show: ''Ross's Game Dungeon''. I've had quite a few self-proclaimed 'Grammar Nazis' try to correct me on this, saying there shouldn't be an extra 's' in there. Well, let me tell you, Grammar Nazis: the Grammar SS would have had you sent to the Grammar Russian Front for overstepping your authority! I've had this my whole life. It's'' '''Ross's Game Dungeon''''', not'' '''Ross'''' Game Dungeon'', because that sounds sort of like what a caveman would say. But, moreover, it's the possessive form of a '''proper name'''. ''The Chicago Manual of Style'' and ''The New York Public Library Guide to Style'' agree with me. I'm really '''not''' a grammar expert, but I do know this '''one''' particular rule. See, this is why the Grammar Nazis lost Grammar World War II."''
-->-- ''WebVideo/RosssGameDungeon'', "Follow-up Episode #1"

->'''Dib:''' Today, things are gonna change! I'm gonna do something! I'm not gonna just sit back and watch Zim get away with his.. his things he do! I mean...
->'''Gaz:''' "''Things he dooo?''" What's your problem?
-->--''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''

->'''Tommy Williams''': I don't read so good.\\
'''Andy Dufresne''': Well. You don't read so *well*. Uh, we'll get to that.
-->--''Film/TheShawshankRedemption''

->''"Guys! I told you guys not to make memes in this fucked-up Japanese!"''
-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFXDZAlUXqU Coco Kiryu]]''', WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}

->'''Vi:''' That's one big ice cube!\\
'''Leif:''' It's more of a rectangular cuboid, Vi.
-->--''VideoGame/BugFables''

->'''The Humbug:''' A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect!
-->--''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth''

-->--''VideoGame/BugFables''

-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFXDZAlUXqU Coco Kiryu]]''', WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}

-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFXDZAlUXqU Coco Kiryu]]]''', WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}

-->--''Film/TheShawshankRedemption''

-->--''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''

-->--[[BeamMeUpScotty Attributed to]] '''UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill'''[[note]] [[DontExplainTheJoke yes, this apocryphal communique in which he dismisses civil servants' fixation upon proper grammar]] [[PrepositionsAreNotToEndSentencesWith ends with a preposition]][[/note]]

-->--
''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''

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-->--[[BeamMeUpScotty Attributed to]] '''Winston Churchill'''[[note]] [[DontExplainTheJoke yes, this apocryphal communique in which he dismisses civil servants' fixation upon proper grammar]] [[PrepositionsAreNotToEndSentencesWith ends with a preposition]][[/note]]

->''And I loved her even more than Marlon Brando loved soufflé\\

-->--'''[[Series/{{Castle}} Rick Castle]]''', who later corrects who/whom and improper use of the word "[[{{Irony}} ironic]]"

-->--'''[[VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten Valvatorez]]'''

'''Becker:''' Ok, nothinG. [=NothinG=]. NOTHIIIIIIIIING. 'K, you happy?\\

-->--'''Creator/RobertWebb''', calling out Creator/{{David Mitchell|Actor}}[note]]who, for the unaware, is his longtime comedy partner, meaning that at least some of the proceeding was tongue-in-cheek.[[/note]] and, by extension, others for this trope

->''A couple of weeks ago, I was interested--[[TakeThat in the loosest possible sense of that word]]--to watch [an episode of ''Creator/DavidMitchell's Soapbox''] about Gallic, in which David proclaimed his lack of sympathy for the plight of the dying Gallic language. "Who needs it?" fumed the red-shirted [[Literature/HardTimes Mr. Gradgrind]]. "Language is about communication; it's not about maintaining a secret code for the few." Which, I suppose, is fair enough--if a little bloody bleak. Until, that is, you [[{{Hypocrite}} compare it to the desperate huffing and puffing that went on a few weeks earlier]]. The one about spelling, where David's own little secret code was under discussion. Suddenly, upholding arcane language rules was ''tremendously'' important and everyone else was told very sternly to pull their socks up and knuckle down to learning where the apostrophe goes just like he had to. No worries about a secret code now, no observation that ''communication'' was key. No, now people who were communicating perfectly well--and more other, in the organic evolving way which people have ''always'' used language to communicate--they were suddenly not trying hard enough and made to feel bad for not using a certain set of tools to which they may or may not have access or even need. Well, I say ''that's rubbish'', and it's far more valuable to spend time, energy and even money on preserving an entire language than getting all red in the face because someone's put an extra 'u' in 'manoeuvre' at precisely no expense to either meaning or poetry. David, you are an arse. Thanks for listening.''
-->--'''Robert Webb''', calling out Creator/DavidMitchell[[note]]who, for the unaware, is his longtime comedy partner, meaning that at least some of the proceeding was tongue-in-cheek.[[/note]] and, by extension, others for this trope