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Guilty as charged. I was going to ask what people called grammar Nazis before WWII, but it turns out the term itself isn't even twenty years old, first noticed in usenet forums. Though the terms Soup Nazi or fashion police may have lent inspiration as well.

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Where on God's green Earth do these quotes come from? Please tell me that they are not from JWfan-ers.

A Youtube video of the cue 'Destroy that Amulet' from DRAGONSLAYER set to the visuals, with the dialogue and sound removed. It's since been taken down by Paramount, but I kept the quotes.

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Where on God's green Earth do these quotes come from? Please tell me that they are not from JWfan-ers.

A Youtube video of the cue 'Destroy that Amulet' from DRAGONSLAYER set to the visuals, with the dialogue and sound removed. It's since been taken down by Paramount, but I kept the quotes.

They probably removed it because there was no concern for the human aesthetic in it, the trash.

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Guilty as charged.

And that's fine. There's nothing wrong with wanting another person to communicate properly.

The "grammar Nazi" reply is the equivalent to saying "let me live in world of absolute fucking ignorance, please".

We can't all be newspaper editors, so we resort to scolding random posters on the internet about where that comma should go.

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I generally do my best to avoid trying to correct someone....although sometimes it's necessary. I'm not that great at certain words but it doesn't take a genius to go to Google and type up a word to see the correct spelling.

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Guilty as charged.

And that's fine. There's nothing wrong with wanting another person to communicate properly.

The "grammar Nazi" reply is the equivalent to saying "let me live in world of absolute fucking ignorance, please".

Ofcourse, but when doing it on a forum of which a large amount of it's membership includes people for who English is NOT their first language, it can come of as beligerent.

The level of English spoken (written) here is extremely high. So do we really need snobby American cunts calling the non-English out on the occasional mistake.

Most of them don't even speak a second language themselves.

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The spell check features on most web browsers are pretty simple to use, too.

Actually, there very simpel too yous.


So do we really need snobby American cunts calling the non-English out on the occasional mistake.

Most of them don't even speak a second language themselves.

Yes, you do need the snobby American cunts calling people out on the occasional mistake. Otherwise, we'd have nothing else to live for but McDonald's and Nascar.

And most of us don't speak a second language because America.

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Lemme tell you, working in an airport is a veritable breeding ground for pet peeves. I can't stand it when people get off an escalator and then stand and pause to look around and see where they're going next. They're completely oblivious even to the possibility that people are landing behind them.

There are others, but Brian Regan lays it out much better than I could (especially the last bit about the moving sidewalks):

Guilty as charged.

And that's fine. There's nothing wrong with wanting another person to communicate properly.

The "grammar Nazi" reply is the equivalent to saying "let me live in world of absolute fucking ignorance, please".

Ofcourse, but when doing it on a forum of which a large amount of it's membership includes people for who English is NOT their first language, it can come of as beligerent.

Yep. And I learned ages ago that expending effort grammatically correcting internet forum posts amounts to the voyage of the damned. Talk about a job that never ends. . . .

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Smug, contrarian, pretentious keyboard warriors, foisting their armchair intellectualism on the internet. Ye gods. The urge to reach through the computer screen, grab them by the scruff of their neck, and beat their faces to a pulp is strong.

Serenity now.

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Critics (usually in their 20's, straight out of film school) who regularly bash orchestral scores as "manipulative" or "bombastic".

When TV stations crop 2.35:1 movies to be 16:9.

This is as bad as the new trend of cropping 4:3 TV shows to 16:9. It's the new pan and scan.

I've known these snooty film student types who think they're King Shit and that orchestral film scores are meant to make the dummy masses respond to a film a certain way. Isn't film or art meant to evoke, provoke and manipulate?

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It's the whole package. Editing, acting, lighting, camera angles, music. They're all designed in such as was as to touch on certain emotions. I never understood why people complain about a movie being "manipulative". Of course it is. Now, not all directors are Steven Spielberg, and not all composers are John Williams, but every film, even documentaries, have a point of view and try to, on some base level, create an emotional feedback loop.

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