Verboticism: Grammarcracker

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DEFINITION: n. A person who constantly corrects other people's grammar. v. To habitually correct the grammar of everyone with whom you speak regardless of the social context or the minuteness the perceived error.

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Grammarcracker

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: gramerkraker

Sentence: James hates e-mail, not for its intrusive nature but the way most people use it. Worse yet is text messaging. (He refuses to call it texting) When someone sends him a message, he replies with a corrected edition of the original message with commas, hyphens, spelling and proper verb tense. He won't respond to the content until the originator sends it back in its corrected form. His friends have started calling him a grammarcracker. He is amused by the term but won't actually type it because it isn't in the dictionary.

Etymology: grammar (the whole system and structure of a language) + cracker (a fine example of something)

Points: 533

Comments: Grammarcracker

wayoffcenter - 2009-01-16: 04:46:00
I h8 txtn 2.

silveryaspen - 2009-01-16: 10:12:00
And a very nice play on graham crackers!

Nosila - 2009-01-16: 20:44:00
Show them no Grammercy!

metrohumanx - 2009-01-21: 15:35:00
Those purists can really contaminate our ebonics.