{"id":538,"date":"2009-01-20T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=538"},"modified":"2009-01-20T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T16:00:01","slug":"parsnickety-man-you-loving-bestest-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=538","title":{"rendered":"Parsnickety: Man, you loving bestest ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"

DEFINITION:<\/strong> n.<\/em> A person who constantly corrects other people’s grammar. v. intr.<\/em> To habitually correct the grammar of everyone with whom you speak regardless of the social context or the minuteness the perceived error.<\/p>\n

\"Man,<\/p>\n

VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n

Parsnickety<\/strong>: \/par-SNIK-ety<\/em>\/ Being a stickler for grammar, Miriam was always quick to correct even the most insignificant grammatical blunders, and was especially critical of her boyfriend, Maxim, whose grammar skills were particularly weak. Etymology:<\/em> Blend of ‘parse’ (To break (a sentence) down into its component parts of speech with an explanation of the form, function, and syntactical relationship of each part.
\n) and ‘persnickety’ (Overparticular about trivial details; fastidious) Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n

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Comments on Parsnickety:<\/strong><\/p>\n

silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, 2009-01-16: 02:09:00<\/em>
Excellent!<\/p>\n

Jabberwocky<\/a><\/strong>, 2009-01-16: 16:14:00<\/em>
love it<\/p>\n

Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, 2009-01-16: 20:49:00<\/em>
He should MAXIMize Miriam’s skills as his own personal editor…great word.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Correctolingweenie<\/strong>: \/cur-RECT-ALL-linguine<\/em>\/ Maxine and Clem were deeply in like. Clem was always sanguine and adored Maxine’s crimson clothing and gutsy attitude. Maxine had moxie, but she was constantly irritated by Clem’s use of the word “less” instead of “fewer”. Maxine flew into a rage when she heard someone say “podiums” instead of the correct plural form, “podia”…Yes, Clem may have been an unsophisticated proto-boor, but Maxine was an unbearable CORRECTOLINGWEENIE -and an unwanted voluntary proofreader for all the world’s bad grammar. When they inevitably broke up, Maxine found that she had less friends than before, and Clem had fewer fun, despite shaving off his sideburns and growing a unibrow. Etymology:<\/em> Okay, try to bear with me on this one……….CORRECTOL+LINGuist+WEENIE=
\nCORRECTOLINGWEENIE…CORRECT:to make or set right,to amend,to alter or adjust so as to bring to some standard,to point out usually for amendment the errors or faults,to punish (as a child) with a view to reforming or improving; Middle English, from Latin correctus, past participle of corrigere, from com- + regere to lead straight…ALL:the whole amount, quantity or extent of,as much as possible; Middle English all, al, from Old English eall; akin to Old High German all…CORRECTOL: The Woman’s Gentle Laxative.” Its slogan: “For Gentle, Dependable overnight relief\u00e2\u20ac\u009d…LINGUIST:a person who believes they are accomplished in languages;Latin lingua language, tongue…LINGUINE: a hot Italian dish, tasty and hard to resist;Italian, plural of linguina, diminutive of lingua tongue, from Latin…WEENIE:alteration of wienie, Informal. A wiener; Slang. A person who is regarded as being dorklike yet not subject to ordinary social inhibitions (tweaked). Created by:<\/em> metrohumanx.<\/p>\n

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Comments on Correctolingweenie:<\/strong><\/p>\n

metrohumanx<\/a><\/strong>, 2009-01-16: 01:41:00<\/em>
http:\/\/drminz.com\/v4\/random4.html<\/p>\n

metrohumanx<\/a><\/strong>, 2009-01-16: 08:03:00<\/em>
SAY IT!
\nToy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.
\nToy boat. Toy boat. Toy boat.<\/p>\n

Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, 2009-01-16: 20:50:00<\/em>
Your etymology is logical, Mr. Spock!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Grammarcracker<\/strong>: \/gramerkraker<\/em>\/ 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:<\/em> grammar (the whole system and structure of a language) + cracker (a fine example of something) Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n

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Comments on Grammarcracker:<\/strong><\/p>\n

wayoffcenter<\/a><\/strong>, 2009-01-16: 04:46:00<\/em>
I h8 txtn 2.<\/p>\n

silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, 2009-01-16: 10:12:00<\/em>
And a very nice play on graham crackers!<\/p>\n

Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, 2009-01-16: 20:44:00<\/em>
Show them no Grammercy!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wrecktify<\/strong>: \/Rek ti fy<\/em>\/ Killsay was excellent at morphemes and constituents. He was born a Grammar. Killsay was very in tense, and always in the accusative. He was overly generous in sharing his grammar. Killsay would restruckture the speecch of any one. No was was safe from his guydance (guidance) … shuffling his feet, waving his finger, tweaking your verbose, nitpicking through one’s words … he would wrectify everything said. Etymology:<\/em> RECTIFY, WRECK. RECTIFY – correct, amend, revise. WRECK – to damage and destroy with too much revision. — (Morphemes are basic word-building units. Constituents are sentence-building units. They are true grammatical words, not verbotomies.) Killsay Grammar is a pun on actor Kelsey Grammer, star of the tv show Frasier. Created by:<\/em> silveryaspen.<\/p>\n

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Comments on Wrecktify:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mustang<\/a><\/strong>, 2009-01-16: 04:17:00<\/em>
Bet she had a bad rectutation….<\/p>\n

mweinmann<\/a><\/strong>, 2009-01-16: 08:12:00<\/em>
After she irritates enough people, she might turn a wreckluse.<\/p>\n

silveryaspen<\/a><\/strong>, 2009-01-16: 10:03:00<\/em>
Thank you for the clever comments. But Killsay is a he … not a she! Men are guilty of doing this, too!<\/p>\n

Jabberwocky<\/a><\/strong>, 2009-01-16: 16:16:00<\/em>
nice<\/p>\n

Nosila<\/a><\/strong>, 2009-01-16: 20:43:00<\/em>
Killsay Grammar…love it!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:

\nhttps:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=grammar<\/a><\/p>\n

Be Creative, <\/p>\n

James<\/p>\n

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DEFINITION: n. A person who constantly corrects other people’s grammar. v. intr. 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) Parsnickety: \/par-SNIK-ety\/ Being a stickler for grammar, Miriam was always quick to correct … Continue reading Parsnickety: Man, you loving bestest ever!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,93,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}