Grammar Nazi

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Originally Posted by smc

Just to be clear, and then I will leave the discussion to others: I did not raise an objection because the word is offensive (although it is). My objection is to the effect that using a word like effectively compares something relatively innocuous (correcting people's grammar) to something horrific (putting people to death for being non-Aryan, for instance), thus diminishing the power of the word's original meaning over time.

While it may diminish the word Nazi, the purpose was to exaggerate the term grammar police, which is already an exaggeration of what those who are sticklers for grammar do, to even greater extremes. And that's ok. While the term grammar nazi may confuse a cheap AI program, the human mind is able to figure out what is meant by the term.