A Gramar Nazi’s Mortal Enemy.
(Yoda)
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Apparently a spelling Nazi’z worst nightmare as well…
ROFL
Actually, Grammar Girl calls Yoda’s syntax unorthodox but not incorrect. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/subject-verb-object-order.aspx
When nine hundred years old you are, sideways you will speak too, yes?
lol
its 800. “When 800 years you reach, look this good you will not.”
You guys are just sad… and I know this has been said many times already in comments but I’m a Spelling Nazi and I just can’t resist… It’s GRAMMAR!! TWO Ms PEOPLE!!!!
…double negative.
I learned that from my eight grade teacher.
Its tru. he follows sheakspeare’s idamic pantameter. i win?
=D
Indeed it is.
Funny, but it should have been “A grammer Nazi’s mortal enemy, am I, hmmmm?”
You mean “grammar?”
Christopher D is right it is grammar.
Ha ha ha!
Dammit! (Yes, that’s not correct spelling either.) I have a craptastical (Yes, that is not a real word.) keyboard. I am sorry if this picture and its corresponding caption has offended anyone on the internet.(I’m serious about the apology thing though. Sorry about the spelling error.
)
I think the grammar Nazi would spell it Damit! Oder?
burn!
Actually, good grammar, Yoda always has. Use a ton of commas, he does.
Incorrect his grammar is not.
i concur.
That would be “concur, I do.”
I resent the idea that Yoda’s grammar is wrong, and I am a grammar nazi. Although his speech is outdated and syntactically awkward, it is not grammatically incorrect, and he avoids many common mistakes by speaking that way. I have never heard Yoda dangle a participle, use the wrong type of pronoun, or end a sentence with a preposition, which is more than I can say for any other person, fictional or otherwise.
How do you really feel?
I tend to dangle my participles often.
Ironically, that sentence ended in a preposition.
Which sentence ends in a preposition?
‘How do you really feel?’ ends in a verb.
‘I tend to dangle my participles often’ ends in an adverb.
sorry to have repeated your comment. i don’t know what i was thinking of.
{rolling eyes}
Oh my, what have I done?
I love to dangle my participles! I don’t know what everyone else uses their participles for. O.O
You know if I didn’t know what “paticiple” meant, awkward convesation this would be!
preposition? what preposition? excuse me if i’m being obtuse. i’m not seeing the sentence that is supposed to end in a preposition. which sentence are you referring to?
That was a mistake on my part, for some reason I thought “often” was a preposition. Fortunately for my dignity, you have ended two sentences with prepositions: “I don’t know what I was thinking of,” which seems like it may have been intentional, and “which sentence are you referring to.”
JULIAN FTW!
XD
Back in ’93, I rescued a dangling participle to fulfill a side-quest that resulted in the acquisition of a spellbook.
No wait, that was a video game…
That was brilliant.
Kings Quest! You had to give the Dangling Participle to the bookworm. The book worm also introduced you to his friends, Oxymoron and Dipthong!
Does your dipthong get stuck too?
No, my participles usually prevent my dipthong from doing that.
This might be my favorite response ever.
My bf wants to know what kind of spellbook…lol.
And he would know how to spell “grammar”.
Before this discussion gets any more pedantic, I would like to say that it is not technically wrong to end a sentence with a preposition in most cases, although it is sometimes considered bad form. That idea stems from the medieval belief that English should emulate Latin. It should be avoided in formal writing, but is not incorrect to say, for example “which sentence are you referring to.” I have a much bigger problem with the use of the wrong pronoun or misuse of the conditional tense and subjunctive mood.
whenever i find that i have just ended a sentence with a preposition, such as: “…referring to,” i usually try to change it to something like: “to which i was referring.”
just say’n.
I can’t believe I forgot my number one blood-pressure-raiser: The use of an apostrophe to form a plural! (We won’t even mention the failure to distinguish between its and it’s….)
Julian, I feel your pain. If I see one more sentence like this one, I’m going to scream: “I wish I would have gone with you.” This is, however, only one of a plethora of English errors that plague us in this modern world. One of my personal pet peeves is the use of voice-recognition software by people who are too lazy to examine the results for homophonic spelling errors (e.g. ‘board’ for ‘bored’, ‘hoard’ for ‘horde’, etc.). The “wild hyphen” is another, a term I use to describe the nearly universal failure to understand the correct use of the hyphen. I find them stuck in everywhere they don’t belong and left out where they do.
I seen your comment and thought I needed to.
Who wants to get in line for that one?
Another thought:
My biggest peeves are misuse of apostrophes & misuse of possessives. Misuse of quotation marks are annoying, too.
Nerd.
I know, and I’m okay with it
Interesting.
I’ve never thought about Yoda and his dangling participles before.
I’ve thought about his dipthong too.
Just a thought: shouldn’t “syntactically” be “syntaxically?”
I wondered about that, but dictionary.com says syntactically
Dictionary dot com also leaves out a lot of interesting words with more than one pronunciation: “brooches” can be pronounces either with the “oo” sound or the long o sound. I’ve done some comparisons with current definitions and spellings versus older dictionaries like The American Vest Pocket Dictionary (copyright 1951) and Funk & Wagnalls Stndard Desk Dictionary (copyright 1964 -1981) frequently have different spellings and/or definitions. Just a curiosity to mention. (I do know that was a sentence fragment.)
Spelling is hard.
this is disappointing on many levels. learn to spell.
Spelling fail, you displayz.
Syntactically versus syntaxically is NOT a spelling fail. I’t merely one of those words that is so uncommon that different dictionaries have different spellings. I’m fairly certain that both spellings are correct. I was merely curious.
He’s referring to the spelling fail of “gramar” in place of “grammar”. In no way was he referring to your comment.
Yoda’s grammar is not incorrect, his word order follows the traditional latin style of the verb being last. Seriously, word placement has little to do with grammar. (At least in Yoda’s case.) It’s not funny, people.
Regardless of whether the picture was funny, the comments sure are!
I think the picture and the comments are funny.
And I’m a grammar nazi AND a spelling tyrant.
A grammor nazy and a sellling tirant…
Wow. I thought I was the only one. Are you a fashionista and period/costume nazi, too? There are so few of us around these days!
Latin sentence structure doesn’t put the verb last. German does. Apart from that your point is correct–since English is a Germanic tongue, not a Romance language, it could be argued that Yoda is simply speaking a more archaic form of English, which is appropriate for the ancient, wise mentor-character he’s supposed to be.
Your comment that the verb goes last in German is not always true. The only time a verb will go last is if there are two or more verbs in the same clause. Otherwise, the verb is in second postition.
I think we should all begin talking like Yoda.
Nothing is always true. And English is a mix of German and Latin — which is a romance language. So English does have some romance it its blood. (I’m happy about the fact that I used ‘its’ correctly!)
Knows the definition of “grammar”, this one does not.
Nor the spelling of it, for that matter.
-sighs-Good spelling this one knows not.
Do or do not; there is no try. Pass English, you did not. A shame this made it to the front page, it is.
Smart and funny, Leah is.
Smart and funny, dipthong and dangling participles are.
Will people calm the I don’t want to say it down about the spelling thing! I said I’m sorry!
Dumass he is, yes.
Way to go, Spelling Fail!
Humor-impaired, some seem to be. Funny this is, as odd Yoda’s grammar seems to the modern human ear. Technicalities important are not!
Hey, Yoda…
Sidious’ new apprentice Darth Spelling would like to have a word with you.
HA!
someone take a screen shot and put it up on fail blog….
Sorry, I can’t take Yoda seriously – not since I found out he was voiced by Frank Oz. Fozzie Bear as a Jedi Master, hmmm?
I like to think of Miss Piggy as a Jedi Master… it sounds more amusing…
Miss Piggy = Yoda…
Frank Oz, we love you dude…
Luke, use the Force. HIIIIIIII-Ya!
ROFLMAO! But I still prefer to think of Fozzie having the Force
Why did the chicken cross the road?
Force pushed, he was.
That’s actually not true. Yoda’s grammar is perfectly correct, it’s just an abnormal sentence structure…
……..
Reading that, I realize just how much of a nerd I am… le sigh.
Yoda Fail!
Spot on Yoda’s grammar is.
A bit odd (yet, still correct) Yoda’s sentence structure is, however.
yeah, and a “gramar nazi” would also notice u spelled grammar wrong
Yoda’s grammar style is very correct. It just uses a Latin structure, which tends to place main verbs at the end of the sentence.
SPELLING FAIL
Wow. Is this how nerds flirt? Or are you guys just avoiding work?
Spelling fail!
Yoda is soooooooooo awesome!!!!!
I happen to be a grammar Nazi of sorts, and I don’t see anything wrong with Yoda’s grammar.
I do, however, see something wrong with your spelling.
What a brilliant use of the word “however.” I do so like it appearing in the middle of the sentence.
*mildly arrogant sniff*
Bravo.
I was going to comment on the fact that “grammar” was spelled wrong, but then noticed that several people already noticed that.
How ironic…
His grammar is just fine, it’s his syntax that’s diffenet. There’s nothing actually wrong with it though, it’s just unusual.
grammar Nazi, i am. but like Yoda’s speaking, i do.
Very true, that is.
doesn’t yoda teach english in korea now?
GRAMMAR! GRAMMAR!! *facepalm*