Grammar Nazi

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Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

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.

Of course, "the human mind is able to figure out what is meant by the term." But my point was about the diminishing of the term, as you note in the beginning of your post. As we "normalize" the use of highly charged terms over time, and they lose their original specificity, we create -- I argue -- a problem that we could have avoided. Apparently, you don't think so, but can you really argue that over a long period the human mind's figuring out will be full and accurate?