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.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Syntaxidermist: /sin taxi der mist/ Lynn Gwistik was secretly known as Marian the Grammarian. She was a stickler for correct grammar. She was neither passive nor active, but always very tense. When she fell in love with the object of her desire, Jerry Und, she knew he was not perfect and she would have to try and modify him, because he was such an onomatopoeian. He had prepositioned her and when their ellipsis met, he was superlative. But we all know that love is of a transitive nature and when she tired of his dangling modifiers, her clause came out and she attempted a ligature on him. Jerry had not known that Lynn was a syntaxidermist before she had tried to have him mounted on her trophy wall with her other antecedents. Thanks to his testimony, she is serving an indefinite,run-on, compound sentence for her crimes. Etymology: Syntax (the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences; studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences;a systematic orderly arrangement & Taxidermist (a craftsman who stuffs and mounts the skins of animals for display) Created by: Nosila.
Comments on Syntaxidermist:
karenanne, 2010-06-02: 15:49:00
That was a lot of thought on your part – very clever! I voted for yours but forgot to sign in first.karenanne, 2010-06-02: 15:51:00
I count 18 grammatical references, plus the two punny names.Nosila, 2010-06-03: 00:11:00
They call me the Queen of the Pundra…what can I say?karenanne, 2010-06-03: 19:37:00
SO – you are on the site at 11 min. past midnight – THAT’S how you do it. Most of your REM sleep is probably spent on dreaming up words and sentences for Verbotomy!
Cunnilinguist: /“Kun-EE-leeng-WIST”/ Everyone dreads the Thursday afternoon staff meeting: Bob, the office manager, makes what should be a 30-minute meeting addressing staff concerns a 2-hour lecture on correct grammar. Bob is such a cunnilinguist he spends more time correcting every little mistake people make when speaking than actually hearing what they are saying. If Bob reminds us that his name is a palindrome one more time, I swear I will scream! Etymology: Combination of the words “cunning” and “linguist” Created by: lplybon.
Comments on Cunnilinguist:
XMbIPb, 2010-06-02: 19:34:00
Brilliant !!!
Pedaunt: /pedd ant/ emma was a pedaunt, she took after her gramma Etymology: pedant, aunt Created by: galwaywegian.
Comments on Pedaunt:
Nosila, 2010-06-02: 23:43:00
it’s all relative…good one!
Lexactitude: /lek ZAK tih tood/ Lexie’s constant correcting of what everyone was saying was really wearing thin. I told her I was chomping at the bit to get out of there because I found her lexactitude so annoying, and she responded, “Actually, it’s ‘champing at the bit,’ not ‘chomping.'” I told her something she could chomp as I was leaving. Etymology: lex- (prefix meaning “word”) + exactitude Created by: karenanne.
Comments on Lexactitude:
Nosila, 2010-06-02: 23:41:00
Lexie…love it!
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