ecstaticBack in 2005, I wrote a message in Hebrew to the Hamakor discussions, noting that illegal copying of software, as undesirable as it may be, is not "stealing" or "theft". I signed my message "(The Semantics Nazi)" (in English).
Someone was offended, and after a brief discussion decided to publish this article on the front page of linmagazine.co.il (=an Israeli Linux news, blogs and forums site). The discussion is very amusing. Someone asked "What does it have to do with anything? Did Hitler use Linux?". Another one has misapplied Psalms 34, there, while I had to correct him. In any case, I haven't stopped calling myself and others "nazis".
Now it seems that Millie is a "Grammar nazi" and proud of it:
Since I am often correcting people's grammar, syntax, etc. (mostly in Hebrew), I also consider myself a Grammar nazi. So I've decided to form a conspiracy of:
- Spelling nazis
- Grammar nazis
- Syntax nazis
- Punctuation nazis
- Idiomatic talk nazis
- Semantics nazis
- Netiquette nazis
- Applied logic nazis (e.g: logical fallacies)
And may all "Anti-'nazi' nazis" be damned!
Here's for a better, clearer, and more correct human-to-human communication (in all languages). Note that I always appreciate reports on errors in my own text, which is especially problematic in English.