Talk:Grammar Nazi

Why do we have this page? It is just defining a term that has no use to the PPC (As far as I know). In addition, the title itself is just an offensive term. The PPC has no need to define Grammar Nazi, as the definition is simply somebody who cares about Grammar. Jellyity (talk) 23:42, August 19, 2018 (UTC) Jellyity


 * I'm kind of back-and-forth on this myself. On the one hand, this expression is a pretty old one, and because I've heard it since I was growing up, it doesn't really feel like a dangerous term to my ear.  Also, having a page to define and discuss a term doesn't necessarily promote that concept.  We have pages on rape and incest, after all, and those are primarily criticism of how those concepts are used in fanfiction, not endorsements of them.


 * But that leads into the counter-argument, which is that, as Jellyity said, the term "grammar nazi" really doesn't have much relation to the PPC, at least not in recent years. I'm sure the phrase may have been used more in the PPC's earlier years, but I don't recall it being used since I joined.  Couple that with the facts that various forms of white nationalism are resurfacing around the world, and that trivializing Nazis is getting significantly less funny by the day . . . I feel like we could lose this page without any significant loss to the Wiki or the community.  There's no real content on it, per se.  What do other folks think?


 * Doctorlit (talk) 17:20, August 20, 2018 (UTC)