Hyperbole is, I believe, the term grammarians use for it. ❋ Basil King (1893)
For the Latin I loved; not what my first masters, but what the so-called grammarians taught me. ❋ Unknown (1999)
He also calls him the son of M+ShQ+ (mesek,) concerning the meaning of which word grammarians are not agreed. ❋ 1509-1564 (1996)
'The doctrine of the Vaw conversive is simply a figment of so-called grammarians; language is not an artificial product, but a natural mode of expressing ideas. ❋ Yonge, Charlotte M (1873)
The unit of the tongue remains the word, not the sentence, and we find no immeasurable words, expressing in themselves a whole paragraph, such as grammarians like to quote from the ❋ Various (1868)
Apparently all depends on the 'grammarians' who chose to base spellings on Latin or ❋ Bluegal (2011)
Middle Ages of the West, is very weak from the literary point of view, but yet possessed a number of interesting and valuable historians (Joseph of Byzantium, Comnenus, etc.) and skilled and learned grammarians, that is professors of language and literature (Eustathius, Cephalon, Planudes, ❋ ��mile Faguet (1881)
The ancient authorities from Homer to the Byzantine "grammarians" occasionally succumbed to the itch and offered explanations and derivations of the names of their characters; and jolly silly they often were, in the class of the etymology that was offered by sixteenth-century antiquarians for the origin of the name of the town of Windsor on the Thames: "Because the wind bloweth sore there." ❋ Unknown (1983)
"The grammarians are a sort of military body, who disturb the public peace. ❋ Ludvig Holberg (1719)
Refusing to split infinitives (a sub-heading of verbals) seems illogical to me, seeing as grammaticians/grammarians seem not to frown on ‘splitting verbs’ (specifically main verbs containing subordinate clauses from said clauses). ❋ Unknown (2009)
Let the prescriptivists call themselves prescriptivists, or philologists, or whatever, but WE are the grammarians. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There is evidence, too, that some of the old-school grammarians didn't take themselves nearly so seriously as might be thought: John Ash's "Grammatical Institutes" (1763), for example, contains this marvelous explanation: "A Parenthesis (to be avoided as much as possible) is used to include some Sentence in another." ❋ Barton Swaim (2011)
Mr. Hitchings finds that some of the most stringent 18th- and 19th-century grammarians were far more thoughtful about language than their modern descriptivist critics have supposed. ❋ Barton Swaim (2011)
This urge for clarity remains despite the best efforts of academic linguists and other "descriptivist" grammarians who dismiss the notion of grammatical "correctness" and insist that "rules" are wholly determined by usage. ❋ Barton Swaim (2011)
Le Guin's 1994 afterword for The left Hand of Darkness, called The Gender of Pronouns: What a very dry, dull matter, of no conceivable importance to anyone but grammarians and pedants! ❋ Unknown (2009)
With the passion of a thousand suns do grammarians hate irregardless. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Daniel: I agree with you that most of the people who call themselves “grammarians” are prescriptivists that probably do think English would be better as Latin. ❋ Unknown (2009)
That grammarians would get upset over something like this is interesting; and it is also very interesting to see how far back its usage actually goes. ❋ Unknown (2009)
My [english teacher] [swears] she's a [devout] Grammarian. ❋ Chris R (2006)
"I am a [grammarian] and have studied the ancient languages from Latin to [Romulan], [thusly], I have quite the command over the English language and a period does not go at the end of a sentence." ❋ Bobbert Smift (2015)
u [fuckin] grammarian ❋ Hi :p (2018)
