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Someone who believes it's their duty to correct any grammar and/or spelling mistakes they observe.
"Your awesome!"
"Actually, it's 'you're'. Your shows ownership. I don't own an 'awesome.' I'm Grammar Nazi. "
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A captious individual who cannot resist the urge to correct a spelling and/or grammar mistake even in informal settings. After pointing out the linguistic shortcomings in others, a Grammar Nazi feels a strange sense of twisted and unconstructive intelligentsia delight.
In reality, they are making someone else feel bad for no reason and unintentionally implying that their "superior" grammar skills are all they have to show for a wasted liberal arts education.
While proper grammar usage is all well and good, a Grammar Nazi cavils even insignificant errors in English to somehow win an argument. Of course, rather than being genuinely persuasive in an argument, pointing out English errors is a weak attack only on the typist's credibility and never has any bearing on the underlying premises and assertions therein.
In other words, this is simply a disguised ad hominem argument which intelligent and logical people disregard.
Still, one should strive to spell and use words properly, but arrogant and unsolicited advice is not a very persuasive way to teach English.
Average High Schooler: So U R their in Britin, than?
Insecure English PhD (aka Grammar Nazi): I am in England studying here at Oxford, sir, and I prefer you talk to me only in Ye Olde Englishe like a good chap because language can never evolve.
Some High Schooler: LOL!!!!11 Hve fun nvr getting laid!1111!!!!
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One who corrects the grammar of all people, not just Jews and Gypsies.
The Grammar Fascist corrected me when I told him that I wanted to 'get an good grade' on the Spanish test.
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Often inaccurately defined as a Grammar Nazi (even here on the Urban Dictionary, see tags), a Grammar Troll is, most simply, someone who corrects the grammar of other people. Grammar Nazis may also correct grammar, but there are differences to be noted.
1) Grammar Trolls have no inhibition. They will correct all grammatical mistakes they see. Unlike a Grammar Nazi, they will correct trivial spelling a punctuation errors and nitpick word choice, especially when those minor errors or diction do not affect the meaning of the statement.
2) Grammar Trolls will do nothing but correct grammar. Most Grammar Trolls are aroused when finding themselves in arguments they realize they cannot win. That is when they resort to pettily correcting the most trivial mistakes, especially the misuse of homophones, in an attempt to undermine their opponents' credibility while not actually attempting to refute their opponents' points nor defend their own.
3) A Grammar Troll may use improper grammar while making these corrections and attacks. It is important to note that even true Grammar Nazis make mistakes. However, if while correcting someone a person makes a painful grammatical blunder that should not have been made, especially if multiple are made in succession, that person is a Grammar Troll.
4) Grammar Trolls are generally assholes. Generally, a Grammar Nazi will be respectful in correcting grammar. But a Grammar Troll is in almost all cases condescending, smug, and spiteful.
I had hoped he might give me a good argument, but he was only a Grammar Troll who gave up when I began proof-reading my comments.
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someone who perpetually corrects the grammar of both himself and others, either mentally or aloud
Bill: Yeah, there were way less people then I thought there would be.
Jane: Don't you mean "there were way FEWER people THAN I thought there would be"?
Bill: You're a grammar freak.
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The supreme leader of all the Grammar Nazis. He is the ultimate Grammar Nazi and puts all others to shame with his amazing grammatical-ness.
Oftentimes synonymous to 'English teacher', unless your teacher happens to be of the lazy I'm-only-here-for-the-cash variety who spends all of class on Facebook.
Jake might be a Grammar Nazi, but Josh really is the Grammar Hitler.
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Stuff you'll never find on this website. Basically every definition looks like a bunch of illiterate five-year-olds who just learned how to use the computer wrote them. Common mistakes include mistaking "your" for "you're" or vice versa, using "their," "there," and "they're," "loose" and "lose," or "who" and "whom" interchangeably, not knowing the difference between hyphens, en dashes and em dashes, problems with capitalization, run-on sentences, sentence fragments, lack of subject-verb agreement and/or punctuation, etc.
Proper grammar's extremely hard to come by these days.
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