Commafucker

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A person who is pedantic about grammar. Internet, derogatory, vulgar

    "I'm not a big fan of government-binding syntactic theory in its extremes, but I still don't see why Chomsky is filed under prescriptivism. He is not a prescriptivist, or even a lousy commafucker (that last phrase courtesy of Fred Landman, formerly of Cornell University)."

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grammar nazinitpickerpedant

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"I'm not a big fan of government-binding syntactic theory in its extremes, but I still don't see why Chomsky is filed under prescriptivism. He is not a prescriptivist, or even a lousy commafucker (that last phrase courtesy of Fred Landman, formerly of Cornell University)."

Etymology

Calque of Finnish pilkunnussija, equivalent to comma + fucker.

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