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u/chickie1461 Aug 26 '26
I will fully relapse for possessive plural
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u/Aquilenne Aug 26 '26
It's not a possessive plural. The grammar nazi is anonymous, and the game is to find it
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u/Crafter-the-box1987 Aug 26 '26
It is a possessive plural.
I possess it.
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u/Fluid_Explorer_3659 Aug 26 '26
Hear me out... This is a version of the Anonymous hacker group, but formed by Grammar Nazis.
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u/huphelmeyer Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 27 '26
Hear me out.... Leaving out or adding an apostrophe is technically a punctuation error, not a grammar mistake.
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u/Shimigidy Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 29 '26
Tom Clancy’s splinter cell
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u/Fluid_Explorer_3659 Aug 26 '26
What if the splinter cell is made up entirely of Tom Clancys
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u/g_r_e_y Aug 26 '26
i will never let go of my sweet child possessive plural
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u/CaptainBlobTheSuprem Aug 26 '26
The real question is possessive of singular ending in s, and the possessive plural of that
I will die by buses’
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u/bladesire Aug 26 '26
wouldn't it be busses'?
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u/electronic_reasons Aug 27 '26
Busses means kisses. So "busses'" means "possessed by kisses."
N.B. This is from Merriam-Webster. It's since 1961, so it's modern and may be US only.
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u/buzzsawjoe Aug 27 '26
Busses also mean groups of wires carrying parallel data. Left brain electrical engineer here
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u/Bigfops Aug 26 '26
So it the Grammar Nazi's's meeting?
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u/RPDRNick Aug 26 '26
Sounds like your going to loose your mind.
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u/Uuuuuii Aug 26 '26
I hate it so much, it burns
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u/cackling_fiend Aug 26 '26
In German, possession doesn't get an apostrophe. But we learn in school that it's a thing in English. Yet somehow mostly driving schools add it to their (German) names. They seem to have the sweet spot of intelligence where they know it exists but use it wrong. Don't get me started on people combining that with Comic Sans.
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u/OneSketchyGuy Aug 26 '26
"Hi my name is Jim and I'm a grammar Nazi, today I am officially 15 years free of corrections and there shouldn't be an apostrophe right there-FUCK"
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u/mal2 Aug 26 '26
Jim can't be the Grammar Nazi. The sign tells us the Grammar Nazi's Anonymous.
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u/sonic_couth Aug 26 '26
I think it means the Nazi is in possession of an Anonymous, a close relative of the Anonymoos.
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u/Abbot_of_Cucany Aug 27 '26
As a typography Nazi, I need to point out that you used a hyphen (-) where you should have had an em dash (—).
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u/Pencil-Sketches Aug 26 '26
I don’t think of myself as a grammar Nazi, but misplaced apostrophes fucking drive me crazy
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u/Gorzoid Aug 26 '26
Same I ca'nt fucking stand it
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u/CouchTomato87 Aug 26 '26
It’s mostly in the plural’s. It’s like a pandemic. People see word’s that are slightly different than other’s and just stick apostrophe’s on them.
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u/Wompatuckrule Aug 26 '26
I worked at a place where the top boss of my division would send out emails with that error all over the place. And that's not even getting into his homonym spelling errors and poor sentence structure. If ever there was a man who needed to live back in the era when a secretary handled all of the typing for their communication from dictation he was it.
There were performance reasons that I didn't have a lot of respect for him, but that just bolstered the case in my mind that we were being led by a fucking idiot.
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u/phonetastic Aug 27 '26
in English i have to wonder if its and it's are to blame, partially:
it's very small
Tim's very small
same construction, similar meaning.
Tim's very small dick
its very small dick
different construction, similar meaning.
also no rearrangement of the words, just the addition of one, and all of a sudden the apostrophes all switch
words like "it" are usually taught fairly early, and when early words upend the rules, what's the point of the rules in the eyes of a miscreant little child
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u/CouchTomato87 Aug 27 '26
It’s probably a systemic failure of teaching. The most important thing is to emphasize that (possessive) pronouns like ‘its’ and ‘whose’ are always one word with no apostrophe. And contractions always have apostrophes
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u/ajc89 Aug 26 '26
Let's be real. Most of the time the worst offenders of this are people who grew up speaking English and only English. 😅
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u/Fresh1492 Aug 26 '26
Shouldn't've is one of my favorites. Technically correct, but it doesn't look good at all.
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u/Skyerocket Aug 27 '26
In a similar vein, I take every chance I get to end sentences with awkward contractions.
I'm ready when you're.
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u/CouchTomato87 Aug 26 '26
Shouldn’t of drives me more nuts though. Sometimes I just write shouldn’t have but read it my mind as shouldn’t’ve
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u/Wompatuckrule Aug 26 '26
Read the book Eats, Shoots and Leaves, you might be more of a grammar Nazi than you think and it's a fun book (believe it or not).
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u/labe225 Aug 26 '26
What drives me crazy is how often my phone will incorrectly "correct" my lack of apostrophe. I look like an absolute fool if I don't catch it before I send the message.
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u/Casual_Deviant Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
Hope you guys enjoy. I’ve been submitting cartoons to the New Yorker for about 2 years now and they just recently published my first one (they passed on this one, but it did find a home elsewhere).
For more of my cartoons, come stop by my subreddit: r/BummerParty
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u/chipperpip Aug 26 '26
Ah, you see this one broke the cardinal rule of New Yorker cartoons needing to work with their caption replaced by "Christ, what an asshole."
The one they accepted didn't. The rule holds!
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u/Arinoch Aug 27 '26
These are both great in different ways and i appreciate that. Congratulations on being published! I’ll definitely be following your sub.
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u/racinreaver Aug 26 '26
Congratulations! Both are great, but I definitely like this one more. The extra second or two to get the joke make it a better laugh.
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u/Mcarrollcb7 Aug 26 '26
Why this getting downvoted
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u/TomCryptogram Aug 26 '26
Redditors hate it when people are proud of their accomplishments. IDK why
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u/ArenSteele Aug 26 '26
Redditors don’t typically have accomplishments. It’s a crabs in the bucket scenario
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u/hymen_destroyer Aug 26 '26
Some people feel this sort of content should only be on /r/comics so they lash out at the OP
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u/Theory89 Aug 26 '26
It's up to 156 upvotes now. The angry squad have been outvoted.
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u/sopertt Aug 26 '26
Also would have accepted “This will be you’re first test”
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u/billwrtr Aug 27 '26
Not I!
Back in seventh grade in 1960 at Woodbury Junior High, Mrs. Smith taught us that “this” requires a specific antecedent. The sentence should read, “This activity will be your first test,” or “This test will be your first of many.”
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u/Another_Road Aug 26 '26
Honestly, I’m kinda all for grammar Nazis now. Being able to write properly has regressed so much that being corrected by dicks on the Internet might be the only way people learn how to use proper grammar.
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u/luvgun00 Aug 26 '26
I told a hiring manager not to hire the guy with typos and grammar errors on his resume. Did he listen? No. Who became his manager? Me. Who was stuck correcting his work until we laid him off? Me. This was someone with a M.S. I’m now dealing with a PhD in the same manner. WTF is going on??!
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u/BropolloCreed Aug 26 '26
People who grew up texting and typing instead of putting pen to paper have come of age and entered the workforce.
It's been a decade-long war in my house, fighting against kids who have grown up with texting shorthand and the "Cali-YouTube" vocal affect; but we're making progress.
The interns we get at work are the worst. A memo was circulated from leadership back on Monday to remind "all employees" about "proper tone and process" in email communications.
But I'm the same way as you are when it comes to hiring. I'm in a legal department of a large company, where attention to detail isn't a skill, it's a necessity. Any application that lacks attentiveness to basic grammar gets chucked immediately.
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u/DomLite Aug 26 '26
I'm here as well. I've seen so many people that don't know how to use basic phrasing these days that it blows my mind. I'd have been docked points when I was in school for writing "should of", and it would have kept happening until "should have" was engraved on the wrinkles of my brain.
Then there's this strange thing where I see younger people suddenly inventing words by stapling 2-3 extra syllables on to actual words to create some Frankenstein's monster of a word for something that already exists. I keep hearing "comfortability" everywhere and going "Do you mean comfort? The word that is the root of that word you just made up? The word that is four syllables shorter than your made up word and means exactly what you think said maid up word means?"
It is painfully obvious that the education system has taken a backslide, and it was already in a sorry-ass state before it did. If I'd written half of the stupid shit I see people use all the time online, I'd never have been able to hold down half the jobs I had, if I could even get hired in the first place.
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u/PBandBABE Aug 26 '26
His anonymous WHAT?
Tell us already! The suspense is killing me.
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u/Silent-Wolverine-756 Aug 27 '26
If we told you everyone what it is, then is it really anonymous?/j
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u/eltedioso Aug 26 '26
If we're really being pedantic, punctuation is an aspect of usage, which is arguably distinct from grammar.
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u/dilwoah Aug 26 '26
Misspelling the title when its right there in the comic is next level infuriating.
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u/overbarking Aug 26 '26
NO apostrophe needed. I am the head of the grammar Nazis.
Even the Kelsey Grammer Nazis.
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u/Lieutenant_0bvious Aug 26 '26
It's not even grammar nazis anymore, Reddit collectively struggles with very basic plural and possessive forms. Apostrophes are added to a shockingly large number of posts where a simple plural form is needed. Just like in the picture. And I always think to myself: I'm not that smart, and even I know that!
I'll forgive people for "it."
"It's" is a contraction.
"Its" is the possessive.
This is counterintuitive and the only acceptable mistake. ;b /jk
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u/JackOSevens Aug 26 '26
This is therapy for me. Please continue noticing, we can change things. Next up, commas and semi-colons.
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u/DaGriffon12 Aug 26 '26
The amount of chronic internet users I've seen who don't use punctuation is honestly depressing.
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u/blazblu82 Aug 27 '26
Couldn't agree more. Reddit is a boiling pot of uneducated dumb dumbs who defend uneducated dumb dumbs. And it's not only Reddit, people out there in the wild can talk to each other effortlessly, but fail hard when asked to read simple sentences, perform basic math or spell words. I'm not perfect, either, but I do try.
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u/GoombasFatNutz Aug 26 '26
It's and its is bullshit though. 'S is to show possession with literally every other word in the English language. I wanna who the asshole was that decided it's will just be the contraction for it is instead of picking something else.
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u/SharkFart86 Aug 26 '26
His. Theirs. Hers. Yours. Ours.
None of these use apostrophes to show possession. “Its” fits into this same group.
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u/carmium Aug 26 '26
Never mind the apostrophe, I protest the use of Nazi to describe people who value the structure and clarity of proper English. The term grammarian would do, as would English teacher. Correctors of English have neither started a war nor persecuted those who abuse the language. To call them Nazis diminishes the nature of the real thing while childishly attempting to apply a pejorative to those who appreciate comprehensible language.
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u/_arch1tect_ Aug 26 '26
There all just sitting their looking uncomfortable.
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u/johnny_johnny_johnny Aug 26 '26
Why didn't you throw in an incorrect "they're" while you were at it?
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u/Srikandi715 Aug 26 '26
Oh, so you want to see a grammar Nazi in action?
This isn't a grammar error. It's a spelling error (purely orthographic). The structure of the noun phrase is fine. So the joke fails 😉
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u/Lupius Aug 26 '26
While I'm onboard with what you're saying, the joke doesn't fail because the people who need to be corrected are the same people who insist on a broader definition of the word "grammar".
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u/SurfAndSkiGuy Aug 26 '26
Despite knowing it’s “Alcoholics Anonymous” for some reason I’ve always thought of it as “Alcoholic’s Anonymous” like… conceptually. It’s THEIR anonymous group.
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u/Glitch29 Aug 26 '26
Are they really Nazis if they're standing up against war crimes? The grocer's comma is pretty jarring, and it's an easy mistake to avoid. Correcting someone who writes signs will literally save everyone who reads one of their signs for the rest of their life from 1 second of confusion, 2 seconds of conscious attention, and 15-60 seconds of mild annoyance at having had a parser fault caused by someone's lack of diligence. It's a worthy investment, in my opinion.
Side note: I feel like the the idea of actual Nazis has become too real for "____ Nazis" to remain the colloquial term for people who engage in mild pedantry.
Also pedantry, pedantic, and pedant are all fun words to say.
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u/_WhatchaDoin_ Aug 26 '26
And I stupidly focused on the "will be' instead of 'is'. 🤦♂️
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u/foosbabaganoosh Aug 26 '26
Lol me too I was looking at the bottom text for so long wondering what the hell I was missing.
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u/Alewort Aug 26 '26
Just ask everyone present their name, and the one who refuses is the grammar nazi.
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u/Phatnerd1996 Aug 27 '26
I feel like an idiot. I skipped the banner completely and tried to find the error in the quote at the bottom..
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u/mustisetausername Aug 27 '26
It’s a contraction. It means the enforcer of grammatical rules intends to remain anonymous.
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u/FlockOfSnowbirds Aug 27 '26
The fact that people who don't know how to use the apostrophe have a vote that counts as much as mine is a violation of my human rights.
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u/fidgeter Aug 26 '26
It’s the guy on the left. The grammar Nazi that is anonymous is that guy. That’s why his hand is up, so he doesn’t have to look at the sign.
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u/helen269 Aug 26 '26
If I would have studied grammar, I would be able to spot the error in this sentence.
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u/psychologer Aug 26 '26
It is a special kind of funny that the OP has the correct spelling of the word 'grammar' in the image and just chose to ignore it and wrote it wrong anyway.
Or I'm just a stupid sheep that's falling for engagement bait.
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u/daredaki-sama Aug 27 '26
I actually miss the years when grammar Nazis were normal on Reddit. Reddit felt more intelligent before. Now, feelings matter more than technically correct, the best type of correct.
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u/ottersintuxedos Aug 27 '26
An old woman wearing a swastika stands up, “I think I’m at the wrong meeting”
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u/OriginallyTroubled Aug 27 '26
If you say "I seen..." I think less of you. Down vote all you want. It sticks out like every sore thumb I ever seen.
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u/EiNZ13 Aug 28 '26
I have to admire the fact of the title being spelt wrong when its right in the picture lmao
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u/Pretend-Departure603 Aug 29 '26
I would have never guessed that the cyber vigilante group Anonymous had a Nazi wing.
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u/terradaktul Aug 26 '26
I’ve been known to be a little pedantic about grammar, and especially the possessive plural, but I have to admit I still mix up “it’s” and its” occasionally
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u/SmokeMoreWorryLess Aug 26 '26
I don’t like how uncomfortable the grammar in this comment section makes me
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u/jdemack Aug 26 '26
Grammar nazi's are kinda annoying, there always correcting you're grammer like their some sorta English expert, when most people dont really care weather everythings spelled rite or not, aslong as you understand what there saying who really cares about apostrophe's comma's and all that punctuashun stuff anyways.
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u/Drifter747 Aug 29 '26
The negative branding of proper grammar is all part of the dumbing down of America.
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u/CornCobMcGee Aug 26 '26
To be fair, if the one running the group is also a grammar nazi, then the sign is grammatically and contextually correct, even if not correct of intent.
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u/slarsson Aug 26 '26
Good thing this isn't punctuation Nazis anonymous. Get rid of that apostrophe, you dingus!
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u/MattieShoes Aug 26 '26
I was annoyed at the greengrocer's apostrophe before I even read the bottom text :-)
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