Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Thought of the Day: Ich bin ein Grammar Nazi

6 comments:

elinn said...

That's one of my favorites as well, but I don't believe you're currently fulfilling the terms of xkcd's Creative Commons license in the way the post is displayed.

Eyck Freymann said...

The Creative commons license says "hotlinking with< img> is fine". I'm also licensed by Creative Commons.

One thing I don't do is plagiarize.

Eyck Freymann said...

The Creative commons license says "hotlinking with< img> is fine". I'm also licensed by Creative Commons.

One thing I don't do is plagiarize.

elinn said...

Never mind, I didn't realize that it was just a link. I also thought that attribution was required in a verbal format, rather than being implied in the link, but apparently I was wrong.

Anonymous said...

If you really want to be anal about it, minuscule "Grammar." In German, adjectives aren't capitalized, though nouns are.

Also, it should be "one thing that I don't do," but I'll let that one slide. :D

The fact that you're crossposting xkcd makes up for the questionable grammar.

(Please note that I'm just having fun. I don't mean to be a grammarfreak-cum-pain—in—the—rear, and I don't mean to be obnoxious- but, if we're having a correcting-folks'-grammar party, I want to join in.)

Anonymous said...

Second Leah, unless of course you want to coagulate (yes, I'm using it transitively) "Grammar Nazi" into one Germanic compound: "Grammarnazi", or somesuch.

Yay, languages!

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