grammando

One who is particularly particular about the accuracy of grammar, punctuation and syntax.

Tony:"At the end of a sentence, should I use a single space or two?"
James:"I heard people are now using just one."
Chris:"What?? That's crazy, I was taught it was ALWAYS two!!"
Muffy:"Dude, just ask my professional writer/columnist/blogger friend Mandy, she's a total grammando, so she should know."

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grammando

A person who likes to correct other people’s grammar and judge them by it.
(this definition taken from a book review on bookriot.com)
An obvious portmanteau of "grammar" AND "commando."
Someone like Sheldon, of The Big Bang Theory, who is constantly on the alert for
any opportunity to find a flaw in one's presentation of data/information and then
bombastically inform one (and anyone else within earshot) of that flaw,
right down to the tiniest misplaced comma or improper verb tense.
Being an internal monologue grammando while reading or watching TV is fine, so long
as it's just for your own amusement/improvement, but engaging your outer grammando
during an author's book reading is likely to see you educated with a LART

(Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool) by that author one of his/her/its fans.

Sports trash talk would not be improved if it was refereed by a grammando stopping the proceedings to remind
us that correct expression would be "Eat shit THEN die!"