Office Grammar Nazi - That Mitchell & Webb Look

[shazbots]

This is something Brian and Stewie would have done.

[Chibbox]

Was this made before or after collegehumor made theirs?

[proprodigySD]

@Chibbox Before. Trust me, the Brits always get there first.

[Chibbox]

@proprodigySD Hehe, i know ex. Being Human US an original series...yeah right. Anyways thanks, wanted to know before I started bashing on someone and was to lazy to Google it.

[styx123456]

wh0 needz spelin newayz lol

[frankiethefrank]

Surely... "Saying things incorrectly", not "Saying things wrong"... I think they missed a trick there!

[BoydMort]

@frankiethefrank

Nice observation, makes good sense. =]

[ShatteredxSpiritx]

How I see any moron who points out apostrophes.

[ProphetOfTheTeapot]

@ShatteredxSpiritx Point's.

[AcehighLawnmowers]

Are there actually people who pronounce it "haich" and "pecifically"? I've never heard either in my life.

[CuckooNow]

@AcehighLawnmowers I've heard 'haich' many times, but I admit 'pecifically' is completely new to me.

[ffles]

@AcehighLawnmowers a lot of people in Australia say it as "Haich".

[carebare47]

@AcehighLawnmowers I've encountered both. 'Pecifically' does tend to be the result of a speech impediment, but shoot them anyway.

[S45or1]

Mark Corrigan finally snaps.

[Needham90]

Some companies call it 'expresso'... but it's not.

[geoboy333]

1:25 it's pronounced "miss-pro-nunce-iation, not nounce-iation

[BoydMort]

@geoboy333

Keep playing it until it sinks in. =]

[geoboy333]

@BoydMort got there, it's been one of those days :)

[BoydMort]

@geoboy333

It goes by so quickly, i didn't clock it at first myself.

[OwenShellie]

@geoboy333 he says that on purpose, that's what his wife said, she said it wrong that's why he shot her.

[Usernameping]

@geoboy333 He says that she ironically mispronounced the word as mis-pro-nounce-iation. It's like when he explains that it's specifically, not pacifically. He has to say the error for them to know what error was made.

[heismykryptonite]

Also acronyms are pronounceable words made from initials. What HHH was, was an initialism

[MinecraftLover14]

Plus, Ignoramus is in fact, a noun.

[richjmetcalf]

@MinecraftLover14 Ignoramus is a noun in English, true enough, but the Latin word it derives from is a verb, meaning "we do not know". Ergo, you cannot make it plural by using the Latin plural noun ending.

[mikeykm1993]

is it bad that untill i saw this i thought the word was expresso?

[fearguis]

@mikeykm1993 I worked in a coffee shop for a couple years, and found that MOST people think it's expresso... even the ones that read the word right off the sign, lol.

[BronwenDuMor]

He didn't shoot Robert for saying 'wrong' instead of the correst adverb "wrongly".

[jerseydevs2000]

I do occasionally find bad grammar irritating. Still, it's not that great a sketch. You shouldn't just shoot someone if they make a mistake, irregardless of whether.... *urk* *falls dead*

[DARKSHADEDX]

@jerseydevs2000 "Irresgardless" is not a word. Google it. =P

[audball911]

@DARKSHADEDX That was the joke...

[DARKSHADEDX]

@jerseydevs2000 *Irregardless

[tidalwavedave305]

This is right on. This idiot at my work always says 'expresso' instead of espresso. It's a real pisser.

[MinecraftLover14]

All you guys trying to pick out fault in this video, look up the word irony.

[MisanthropyMatt]

But it's not ironic, except for Mitchell saying Ignorami, instead of Ignoramuses.

[MinecraftLover14]

@MisanthropyMatt Look up the definition.

[amc4994]

The grammar Nazi should have been shot in the first twenty seconds; H-H-H is not an acronym, its a abbreviation.

[KellixD]

@amc4994, an acronym is just a type of abbreviation...

[maxochic1]

@amc4994 Wrong. It's both.

[ProphetOfTheTeapot]

@amc4994 It's an initialism. Oh, fuck off Youtube. Why the fuck is initialism underlined in red, as well as Youtube, which is the name of the fucking website, as well as colour, humour, centre, realise, programme, counsellor, quarrelled, dependant, aeroplane, moustache, which are all spelt correctly, and yes Youtube, spelt is a word, not to mention it doesn't offer any alternative spelling because their is none. Initialism is the only way you can write it. It knows the word fuck, but not spelt.

[alancliddell]

@ProphetOfTheTeapot it's your browser's spellcheck, not YouTube's. Also, I've never heard of the term initialism. We always just called it an abbrev.

[ProphetOfTheTeapot]

@alancliddell Oh okay, thanks, but the word is initialism. An abbreviation is when you use things like abbrev. and w/o whereas when you use letters to stand for things it is either an initialism or an acronym. An initialism is when the letters are said seperately, such as in HHH or ATM. An acronym would be... TEEL, said as one, a way of writing paragraphs, or ASAP, when said as a word, I am aware some people say it as individual letters. Understand? I'll try to 'fix' my browser's spell check.

[InkyBloc]

phonology nazi?

[acountddd]

lol dis skit is 4 realz fnny

[range567W]

@acountddd fale

[Twoplusfouris7]

that isn't even grammar you faggots

[BoydMort]

@Twoplusfouris7

SHIT!!! URE RITE!!!! O.O

[gahzeyboe]

Fuck yeah, I spotted all the mistakes.

[sk8THC]

How come nobody in the room knew that H H H is not an acronym, since it's not pronounced as a word? 

[Selinor578]

@sk8THC Yes, and when Webb says "will you stop shooting people for saying things wrong", Mitchell doesn't pull him up for saying "saying things wrong" instead of "saying things wrongly".

[TheMchap123]

Never have I ever heard of anyone pronouncing specifically as 'pecifically

[kelebraish]

im not good at gramering

[timmy47]

ugh i hate when people at my work say "expresso".

[dayati]

Their copying Colledge Humour...or was it the another ways around.?'s Im not shure

[BoydMort]

@dayati

Negative, neither has anything to do with the other. Title is coincidental.

[dayati]

@BoydMort Things fly over your head often, don't they?

[BoydMort]

@dayati

Yeah, see them all the time, waaaay up there spraying shit into the air. Something's afoot.



[kurtmcfried]

@dayati Also the term "Grammar Nazi" was around long before either of these jokes were written - it's what inspired the College Humor video in the first place, and what inspired the name of the video (not the subject).

Also, it's "college", not "colledge". *shoots*

[dayati]

@kurtmcfried Good grief. I thought I put enough errors in that comment so people would realize I was half kidding. You're going to correct "colledge", but miss "their/they're", humour (American spelling is humor), the ..., the poor puncuation, the fucking "'s" after the question mark, the missed apostrophe in "Im", spelling "sure" as "shure", and last but not least, not having a period at the end of the sentence. Jesus fucking Christ man.

[kurtmcfried]

@dayati It would have been perfectly reasonable of me to assume you were typing on a phone or something else that makes a lot of punctuation errors no-one can be bothered to correct, and I just wanted to make the reference; pointing out ALL the errors in it would've really clogged it down. It's not like I expect everyone on the Internet to have any modicum of sense/intelligence/spelling ability. :S

But if you want to get in a rabid fever about it, froth away.

[GeordieBoi9]

@dayati obvious troll is obvious but just for my own satisfaction...they're* college* the other* way* sure*

[dayati]

@GeordieBoi9 LOL...thank you...you're the first response that realized my comment was tongue in cheek. BTW, their "humour" is spelled "humor" and there's a bunch of punctuation errors as well :P

[BoydMort]

@dayati

Didn't you think it was a bit sussed i didn't pull you up on the atrocious spelling too?

Oh... Realised. If you're speaking from the "Queens" of course.

Cheers for the great input. =]

[slightlygothic666]

@dayati College Humor got grammar nazi from an internet saying, they didnt think it up..

[sheridanpickett]

HHH is an initialism, not an acronym

[yintontiddlyipo]

You're, not your, and bloody yank 'can I get a' drink, has polluted the English language for 'please could I have'.

You're not getting anything from me.

[kennyftwxd]

cool hwhip?

[trje246]

another pet hate is people who say 'ask' as "arks"

[Ub3rtim2]

@trje246 They're usually black.

[mikeymikemikey1]

no one uses "whom" in speech any more, not really needed I guess

[thesafewordisbanana]

@mikeymikemikey1 It is in New Zealand as far as I am aware. Although we probably pronounce it incorrectly.

[margondine]

@mikeymikemikey1

Yes they do.

[TheDominionOfElites]

Yeah, no, those aren't grammatical errors. Those are mispronounciations.

[Orberror404]

@TheDominionOfElites Whoever (Whomever) is a grammartical error.

[reallifeprincess]

I'd like to mention that all of these errors are errors of pronunciation, and are therefore USAGE errors, not grammar errors.

[MrKangdon]

Ironically he didn't pick up on ``... for saying things wrong''. Should be ``wrongly'' or, better, ``incorrectly'' shouldn't it?

[xoDann]

David Mitchel couldn't look more out of place holding a gun.

[soundslave]

You're telling us that 'H' starts with an 'A'? It's Hay-ch David!

[AngryChamois]

If you ask me it makes more sense to pronounce it haitch rather than aitch, at least the haitch pronounciation contains the sound that the letter is meant to carry.

Then again my native language is German where the letter Y on its own is pronounced "üpsilon", so clearly I'm not just preaching to the choir here, I'm substituting for the preacher of next town's choir while at home an angry mob is burning down my church.

[fleebness]

Of course, everyone has already honed in on that. Heh.

[fleebness]

NOTE: He failed to shoot his partner after he said, "Would you stop shooting people for saying things wrong?" The correct word is 'wrongly'. Wrong is intended to modify how the person is saying things, which requires an adverb. The adverbial form of the word 'wrong' is 'wrongly'. Wrong, an adjective or noun, is being used here as an adverb.

[ST4leave]

This is like in the bible (judg. 12:16-18) when the Ephraimites were slain because they could not pronounce the letter H.

[77Mrmario]

"H" OR Hache sounds really wierd now!!!!

[benaharris]

todays cops

[Azdsts]

collegehumor much...?

[MiG2880]

Isn't this nice? Everybody is making an effort. It's as if this comments section is full of people wearing their Sunday best.

XD

[theEarlofChip]

@MiG2880 you slipped up with the "XD" at the end

[superglump]

Haha, the first thing out of Mitchell's mouth is wrong. HHH is an initialism, not an acronym!

[Obsidian1392]

I knew that about ayche!

[TomMarsden98]

@ulodetero Not if they mean saying things that are wrong rather than not saying them correctly.

[ulodetero]

"Will you stop shooting people for saying things wrong"

Shouldn't this be "wrongly"? (adverb, not adjective)

:)

[JTProud]

0:18

It's an initialism, not an acronym.

[8DX]

@JTProud Additional dictionary definitions of acronym and general usage include initialisms as a kind of acronym.

[uiruu]

@8DX Maybe so, but in regular life, initialisms are AT&T and BBC and such, whereas acronyms are NASA and Laser.

[JDLupus]

Arguments about Grammar Nazis should end quickly anyways because of Godwin's Law.

[BoydMort]

@JDLupus

Ihr Papierjude!!!

[ljoekelsoey4]

@BoydMort you paper jew?? what a great insult :L

[BoydMort]

@ljoekelsoey4

I thought it was Your papers Jew. Shows my great abundance of German. Haha!

[G3Du]

Not an acronym, it's an initialism

[JaytheOstrich]

Imagine the police report on this one.

[ElTeleron]

Unfortunately it stops being funny when Webb isn't instantly shot for using the word wrong wrongly...

[baldurus1]

"Fight amongst yourselves on this one"

Where are we exactly supposed to fight?

Where is this place you're referring too?

I think you meant, fight amongst yourselves about this one. As it is the video we are supposed to fight about, and not physically on the video.

If i made any grammatical fuax pas's in my comment, please feel free to shoot me. ;D

[BoydMort]

@baldurus1

The first rule of Grammar Club is you do not talk about Grammar Club.

Second rule of Grammar Club is: You DO NOT talk about GRAMMAR CLUB.

Third rule: If someone says "stop" or goes limp, taps out the fight is over.

Fourth rule: Only two guys to a fight.

Fifth rule: One fight at a time fellahs. =]

Sixth rule: No shirts, no shoes.

Seventh rule: Fights will go on as long as they have to.

Eighth rule: If this is your first night at Grammar Club, you HAVE to fight.

[acountddd]

@BoydMort I think the eighth rule is: If this is your first night at Grammar Club, you HAVE to proof read a novel of your choice within a selection as chosen by the governing body.

[BoydMort]

@acountddd

A fitting rule. =]



[CowLunch]

@BoydMort

Once more unto the Grammar, dear friends, once more! Or close the Grammar up with our English Grammar! In Grammar, there is nothing so becomes a man, as Grammar Grammar, and Grammar. But when the Grammar of war blows in our Grammar, THEN imitate the Grammar of the tiger! Stiffen the Grammar, summon up the Grammar! Disguise fair Grammar with hard favoured Grammar!

Then lend the Grammar a terrible aspect: let it pry through the Grammar of the Grammar, Like the Grammar cannon.

[BoydMort]

@CowLunch

Bravo. That is a commendable effort indeed, good sir.

[Mrjmaxted0291]

@baldurus1 *faux pas

[baldurus1]

@Mrjmaxted0291 *plural.

[curzmg]

@baldurus1 'on this one' or, 'on that one' are both idioms. 'If i made any grammatical fuax pas's in my comment,' it is spelt faux pas, even when plural; so there you go, consider yourself shot.

[Reyson01]

@baldurus1 Not exactly. 'This one' could refer to something like 'topic' or 'subject' , which would make it "fight amongst yourselves on this topic", making it a correct sentence.

[tHickman95]

@baldurus1 Actually, 'on' is also correct. 'On' refers to the topic which it is assumed we will disagree upon.

Also, I notice you used no quotation marks when referencing the video description, rather a comma. This is wrong.

The fullstop between 'one' and 'As' should be a comma.

The 'and' in that paragraph is superfluous, and makes the syntax sound messy.

Not only that, but you neglected to capitalise 'i' [sic], and, finally, you do NOT use an apostrophe when pluralising a word.

Sit down.

[baldurus1]

@tHickman95 I did use quotation marks referencing the video.

No, they were different sentences.

No. Because the second part refers to the first part of the sentence, leaving the "and" out would not tie the second part with the first.

Capitalizing(note that capitalize is spelled with a z not s) i is not required as is not capitalizing you, me, us etc.

You do use an apostrophe when pluralizing(again it's spelled with Z, not S) a word ending with S, else the word would have been pass.

Nice try!

[tHickman95]

@baldurus1 Okay, here we go.

Sorry, I should have clarified; your correction should be in quotes too.

They should not be different sentences, that's my point.

It would have flowed much better without the 'and'- commas can and should be substituted, where appropriate, for basic connectives.

I'm English. 'Capitalising' etc. is correct in England.

Are you stupid, of COURSE you capitalise the word 'I'.

No, the only time you use an apostrophe in pluralisation is if it is an abbreviation.

[baldurus1]

@tHickman95 No, the correction was not a quotation it was a correction.

No you don't have to capitalize i, both are correct(since the 16th century).

[tHickman95]

@baldurus1 (Sorry for comment break)

You should have simply left is as 'faux pas'.

I can believe I'm arguing about grammar over the internet...

[baldurus1]

@tHickman95 You mean, i can't believe i'm arguing about grammar.

You know what.

I can't believe it either, i mean you're so good at it. :)

[kievins1]

'You can't just shoot people for saying things wrong' *wrongly.

[bradwood20]

@kievins1 or *incorrectly

[FrankThePidgeon]

'pacifically' banning violence actually makes perfect sense!

[thoughtadventure]

does "anal retentive" have a hyphen?

[hamsta891]

David Mitchell is a great actor when he goes WHAT i pissed myself.

[encliticcopula]

Funny enough, Mitchell's character is shooting people for committing errors of diction, not grammar.

[etilleta]

what's wrong with expresso?

[Toffeefeemonster]

@etilleta The proper name for the coffee is espresso (from the italian cafe espresso meaning pressed coffee) but most people tend to mispronounce the word and say expresso instead. If you look at the menu when you next go into a Starbucks or a Costa you will see that they serve 'espresso' and not 'expresso'!

[Shcroft2]

Pronunciation of "H" is a matter of preference, "HHH" is an initialism, not an acronym.

[SupermewX300]

@Shcroft2 No it's not. There is only one way. The right wauy. End.

[DasNutellamaedchen]

@SupermewX300 It's "way", not "wauy". *BANG!*

[SupermewX300]

@DasNutellamaedchen An accidental typing error in a youtube comment is acceptable. Bad pronunciation in real life is not.

[DasNutellamaedchen]

@SupermewX300 Oh dear... what if you got an accent?

[SupermewX300]

@DasNutellamaedchen Accents have nothing to do with it, if you can't pronounce it, then speak another language.

[cdeavin]

@Shcroft2 My thoughts exactly

[Qaellow]

I used to be an Office Grammar Nazi, but then I took a bullet to the head- oh no wait, I can still shoot people afterwards.

[BoydMort]

@Qaellow

FUS ROH DA!

[karry299]

@BoydMort

Two brainless meme parrots detected.

[BoydMort]

@karry299

Sod arra' t'knee!

It's "Nerve gas being authorised for use by the Peelers." now.

[doubleem12]

Isn't HHH an initialism, not an acronym?

[jjdecani]

"... saying things wrong."

He could have had the bastard there. WRONGLY.

[lostfanvanjellies22]

1:23 saying ironically*

[IceyOnly]

I only say H like Haetch on the phone. I rest of the time it's Aetch.

[mariosencario]

'we are ignorant' places the word ignorant in the category of adjective, surely?

[BoydMort]

@mariosencario

It's still a verb because 'we' as a collective, are doing the ignorance? o.O

It's not describing us as the ignorant.

[BoydMort]

@BoydMort

Cor blimey i just confused myself, but my previous nonsensical comment still stands. Slappy goo fear ivverya.

[Anergyne]

@mariosencario In English, yes. However, in Latin 'being ignorant' is one word (ignorare), and therefor a verb. The first person plural (we are ignorant) is ignoramus, but because it's a verb, and not a noun, and because it's already plural, it doesn't get an -i at the end instead of the -us.

Therefor, when the word becomes an English noun, the plural of that noun is ignoramuses, not ignorami.

:)

[JollyJosh99]

4 people got shot

[XatEpicJona]

4 people don't know what proper comedy is

[IcyThrills]

Other than the last two, those mistakes genuinely piss me off:L

[handsomebrick]

@Insubordinate90 I don't follow.

[torchred2]

I still dont understand why aussie sent me here !

[BoydMort]

@torchred2

aussie is as aussie does.

[LinkRnr1]

@torchred2 i was thinkin about being the only one:))

[aliencheesemaker]

Initialism, not acronym. Acronyms are pronounceable.

Dfftubba!

[fleabag500]

@aliencheesemaker

No.

[Xozny]

@aliencheesemaker Lol yes I also thought of that!

[DannyEastes]

@aliencheesemaker HHH is pronounceable.

just exhale

[rubikscube42]

I noticed two grammar mistakes in that:

1. An H.H.H. is not an acronym. Hhh is an acronym. An acronym is pronounced as a word in its own right.

2. 'Saying things wrong' is wrong. To describe 'saying' (a verb), you would need to use an adverb, so it should be wrongLY.

[Xozny]

@rubikscube42 Wrong is also an adverb though, just like ”fast”.

[keeperofthecheese]

HERRRBAL

not bloody 'erbal.

[KawaiiSyringa]

We used to have that exact same clock....

[buttersyrupnpancakes]

lololol i hate when people say H with an h in the beginning.

[Sozzie16MJ]

Love this xD

[thirdsphere145]

Native speakers always have the worst grammar because they don't learn it systematically and go by gut instincts and how it sounds correct to them. When you grow up hearing your language, you just don't think about rules and have more freedom. Those that learn English as a second language, cannot speak quickly what's on their mind, but will have a more systematic knowledge of grammar and feel confined in it. Actually becoming fluent in a second language is hard precisely bc worrying about rules.

[BoydMort]

@thirdsphere145

I agree, people become complacent with their first language (or only, in my case.) This is why we have this God awful text talk thing that has permeated into social norms.

[anjelgiofu]

@thirdsphere145 Or, you know, it's acquired through media for foreigners. Sure, we're taught English at an early age, with rules and whatnot. But I cannot name a single rule to save my own life. Oh, and I can speak my mind, with ease, in English. ;>

Reasonable hypothesis though, I suppose.

[ega95jch]

@thirdsphere145 Good observation.

[OldishTim]

@BoydMort For my own purposes, I'm going to imagine you come from Tromso (alphabet failure noted). Nice talking to you, all the best.

[BoydMort]

@OldishTim

Haha! Much obliged, a little too far North but close enough. XD

You're welcome sir, keep up the good 'Queens'.

[OldishTim]

@BoydMort Nice to hear from someone else who's at home on a Saturday night. I agree with most of what you've said - but I fear that poor English isn't confined to people who come from a non-white background (I'm assuming that's what you mean by "Ethnic") or people who live outside the South East of England. Where are you from? (Btw, the word is "appalling", sorry.)

[BoydMort]

@OldishTim

It's just a moniker i've coined for the usual text talk mumbo jumbo used these days, even here in South East England. Originally from the Great White North myself, been undercover in England for a while now. *looks around* "Shhhh.......".

Normally i'm quite good with my spelling yet won't use the spell checker, automation kills the memory skills so to speak.

[ToneDeafecation]

@OldishTim By the way BoydMort and OldishTim,'Ethnic Urbanite speak' is a NOUN and not a VERB,so it's 'the most notable being'....No 'e' in 'notably' either!....That'll learn the pair o' ya!!

[BoydMort]

@ToneDeafecation

Much obliged for the input, that'll learn me indeed. =]

I type how i talk so my syntax is crap. Haha!