commafucker
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Calque of Finnish pilkunnussija.
Noun[edit]
commafucker (plural commafuckers)
- (Internet slang, vulgar, derogatory) A person who is pedantic about grammar.
- Synonyms: grammar Nazi, nitpicker, pedant
- 1998 May 3, H Gilmer, “spring haiku (any haiku lovers here?)”, in rec.arts.poems[1] (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-04:
- I'm not a big fan of government-binding syntactic theory in its extremes, but I still don't see why Chomsky is filed under prescriptivism. He is not a prescriptivist, or even a lousy commafucker (that last phrase courtesy of Fred Landman, formerly of Cornell University).