Q: Who are you? I’m guessing you’re one of those tight-assed, milquetoast English Ph.D.’s from a small liberal-arts college (I sense Grinnell perhaps?) who can’t get laid and thus spends all his time haranguing well-meaning speakers and writers as a means of mitigating his own inadequacy.

A: Let’s see here. Tight-assed? Milquetoast? Can’t get laid? Check, check, and check. As for the rest, not so much. I’m in fact a reformed technical writer who has a perfectly unremarkable marketing job that involves precious little grammar and barely a modicum of style on a daily basis. (Hey, it’s marketing, after all.) And no, no fancy doctorates here, either, although I do have a fairly useless master’s degree. Does that count?

Q: So what good are you? Can I, like, ask you a question and you answer it? How?

A: If you merely “like” ask me a question rather than actually asking me a question, it probably won’t be too productive. But yes, that’s the general gist of things. Either join the discussion on the blog by commenting on an existing thread, or email a question to The Nazi to generate a new post on your topic—replete with grammatical wisdom and biting sarcasm.

Q: I’ve noticed some grammatical errors on your site and some questionable stylistic choices. Does that mean you are not as infallible as you claim to be? Seems awfully pompous that you should claim to be the world’s foremost authority on English grammar and the proper elements of style when you don’t even write properly yourself.

A: You are a clever one, aren’t you? Yes, the sharp-eyed among you will occasionally catch a grammatical error or stylistic faux pas on the site, but those are in fact purposeful errors introduced after the editing process to provide fodder for future discussions. This is a blog, after all. Dialogue is important.