Comments on: X Nazi http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/x-nazi/ A blog mostly about language Tue, 21 May 2013 18:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Cyanide and Happiness roundup | Arnold Zwicky's Blog http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/x-nazi/#comment-47627 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:55:10 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=1896#comment-47627 [...] Nazi is a snowclonelet composite, an instance of the pattern X Nazi/nazi. (Discussion on this blog here and here, with links to Language Log and other discussions.) In the C&H strip, the soldier [...]

]]> By: X porn « Arnold Zwicky's Blog http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/x-nazi/#comment-21439 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 18:18:11 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=1896#comment-21439 [...] Nazi/nazi (link, link, among others) [X fascist etc. [...]

]]> By: Peanuts vs. the grammar nazis « Arnold Zwicky's Blog http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/x-nazi/#comment-18706 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:57:56 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=1896#comment-18706 [...] the snowclonelet X nazi, with special reference to grammar nazi, see here and [...]

]]> By: Grammandos and more « Arnold Zwicky's Blog http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/x-nazi/#comment-16205 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:55:08 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=1896#comment-16205 [...] Grammar Nazis (though we’ve posted on the X Nazi snowclonelet; see, for example, here, here, here, here (specifically on Grammar Nazi), and [...]

]]> By: Un « Grammar Nazi » est-il un grammairien ou un nazi ? | La pensée du discours http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/x-nazi/#comment-6153 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 20:38:31 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=1896#comment-6153 [...] English Dictionary, comme l’explique Arnold Zwicky sur son blog, dans un billet intitulé X-Nazi, qui allonge par ailleurs le paradigme lexical avec safety nazi et aerobics nazi : « The [...]

]]> By: arnoldzwicky http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/x-nazi/#comment-1778 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:37:47 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=1896#comment-1778 Commenter Alex on Geoff Pullum’s health Nazi posting cites Richard Littlejohn, here, with more X nazi cases, plus X fascist (health fascists, diversity fascists), plus some with stormtrooper, communist, gestapo, commisar, commando.

]]> By: mollymooly http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/x-nazi/#comment-1769 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:08:06 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=1896#comment-1769 @h. s. gudnason
I guess “X Nazi” would have a different resonance in Austria.

]]> By: h. s. gudnason http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/x-nazi/#comment-1758 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:46:56 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=1896#comment-1758 I just found the linked article in a language column in an Austrian paper. The writer quotes an attorney acting on behalf of smokers protesting against a ban on smoking in Austrian restaurants, who calls the law’s advocates “nicotine Taliban.” Seems to be the same construction.

http://derstandard.at/1263706535646/Nikotin-Taliban?_lexikaGroup=1

]]> By: Sam http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/x-nazi/#comment-1747 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:17:07 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=1896#comment-1747 Hacker jargon has had “fascist” for some time, as attested here:

http://catb.org/jargon/html/F/fascist.html

and here

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/know.your.sysadmin.html

]]> By: arnoldzwicky http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/x-nazi/#comment-1745 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:15:55 +0000 http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/?p=1896#comment-1745 Mark Liberman has added a comment to Geoff’s health Nazi posting, with cites for clothes nazi, surf nazi, and jazz nazi.

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