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Pilkunnussija (Finnish)

Literally: a comma fucker. A pedant; a person who corrects trivial or meaningless things.


  • Posted by Sandra
    December 16th, 2010 at 11:11 am

    Great one! You meet so many of these in the translation industry, pretending to proofread your work and just wasting time changing commas.

  • Posted by Silch
    December 29th, 2010 at 8:06 am

    LOL

  • Posted by Julie
    January 12th, 2011 at 11:45 am

    :)

    It’s also a danish version: Flueknepper (fly-fucker)

  • Posted by required
    January 17th, 2011 at 1:17 pm

    Well, you can translate it into German as “Krümelkacker”

  • Posted by Name
    January 29th, 2011 at 7:01 am

    In English, it’s “grammar nazi”.

  • Posted by Atte
    February 12th, 2011 at 9:20 am

    But “grammar nazi” only applies when they’re actually correcting someone’s grammar. A pilkunnussija can be annoingly pedantic or nit-picking about anything.

  • Posted by Anna
    April 17th, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    Similar in Dutch: muggenzifter (mosquito-sifter) or mierenneuker (ant-fucker)

  • Posted by Erin
    June 28th, 2011 at 7:37 am

    Wouldn’t this just be “nit-picker”, then?

  • Posted by simon
    July 16th, 2011 at 9:26 am

    Also in French = “enculeur de mouches” (“sodomiser of flies”) has the same sense. Yes, Erin, “nit-picker” is how it’s often translated, but perhaps the image has more of a sense of unnecessary pedantry!

  • Posted by MustBeAnAsshole?
    March 3rd, 2012 at 7:08 am

    I’m confused… is there something wrong with speaking the language correctly? Or is it best to just sound like an asshole? Example: all of the above.

  • Posted by ru
    May 21st, 2012 at 9:52 am

    in austrian german it’s “i-tüpferl-reiter”. (someone who’s literally riding the dot above the “i”)

  • Posted by Pilkunnussija
    June 2nd, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    You must mean: “I’m confused. Is there something wrong with speaking the language correctly, or is it best to just sound like an asshole?”

  • Posted by A shit storm in 140 characters « Sally Baxter
    June 29th, 2012 at 9:55 pm

    [...] Finnish word for pedant is pilkunnussija, literally ‘comma f*cker.’ But an Attack of the Pilkunnussija can be anything but [...]

  • Posted by L.VonMatterhorn
    March 8th, 2013 at 12:34 am

    In spanish it would be “follaRAEs” or “follaortografías”

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