| Phrase | # of Google hits (at the time of entering the list) |
|---|---|
| grammar nazi | 188,000 |
| music nazi | 122,000 |
| love nazi | 85,600 |
| food nazi | 75,000 |
| movie nazi | 50,300 |
| porn nazi | 47,100 |
| health nazi | 25,100 |
| republican nazi | 19,000 |
| code nazi | 13,000 |
| moral nazi | 11,800 |
| house nazi | 8,140 |
| democrat nazi | 7,320 |
| Jesus nazi | 5,100 |
| dance nazi | 4,400 |
| cleaning nazi | 4,050 |
| underwear nazi | 3,950 |
| peace nazi | 3,760 |
| bible nazi | 3,000 |
| political correctness nazi | 2,780 |
| math nazi | 2,680 |
| health insurance nazi | 2,530 |
| relevance nazi | 252 |
| linguistics nazi | 224 |
| encapsulation nazi | 4 |
I plan to extend this list, send me your ideas!
Careful, you should exlude hits like „… without regard to their relevance. Nazi Germany is invoked …“ – although I don’t know how, yet.
Suggestions:
Music Nazi: 122.000
Code Nazi: 13.000
Communist Nazi: 78.300
music nazi 122,000
movie nazi 50,300
republican nazi 19,000
moral nazi 11,800
democrat nazi 7,320
jesus nazi 5,100
dance nazi 4,400
cleaning nazi 4,050
underwear nazi 3,950
bible nazi 3,000
health insurance nazi 2,530
Let us propose a new shallow semantic measure: naziness(t) := – log freq(„nazi t“)/freq(„t“).
Let me compute the values for your four examples:
naziness(grammar) = 2,28335
naziness(house) = 5,05692
naziness(relevance) = 5,77469
naziness(encapsulation) = 5,90173
The lower, the more nazi (analogous to PH-value in chemistry).
I meant and computed naziness(t) := – log freq(“t nazi“)/freq(“t“), of course.
Careful, you should omit hits like „… without regard to their relevance. Nazi Germany is invoke …“ – although I don’t have an idea how, yet.
Suggestions:
Code Nazi: 13.000
Food Nazi: 75.000
Math Nazi: 2.680
Linguistics Nazi: 224
Dance Nazi: 4.400
Porn Nazi: 47.100
Love Nazi: 85.600
Peace Nazi: 3.760
Health Nazi: 25.100
How about German?
Friedensnazi: 201
Gesundheitsnazi 351
Musiknazi: 15.000
Mathenazi: 363
I think a wiki is more useful:
http://jaehnig.org/wiki/Nazi-Komposita
Gah, I HATE these compounds. Verharmlosung des Begriffs, und so weiter… though „Peace Nazi“ is kinda amusing.
Thanks for all the data, very nice ideas! I will extend the list with these – and „political correctness nazi“ (2,780) and leave it at that. If someone wants to take the list and continue it on a wiki, go ahead. :)
Taabraskifloosok’s method is going in the right direction (but the ‚log‘ part is kind of unmotivated, no? Also, xkcd just did something like this recently, no?). You could also include compounds where the first term is not a noun… not sure, though. ‚Feminazi‘ comes to mind. (To compute the measure, you could consider the frequency of the string ‚t‘ in other compounds instead of counting the words) (Or maybe ‚femi‘ can become a noun after all, if click my heels often enough… „Hey, we need to invite more femis to our party, so far only mascules responded.“)
Measuring the naziness exactly like the PH value in chemistry was mainly motivated by the „acidity“ analogy. No serious scientific considerations behind that, except that you can store the numbers more easily (otherwise they get rather small pretty fast) and probably get nicer graphs when plotting it (which is probably also the reason why xkcd likes plotting stuff using logarithmic scales). My proposal mainly amounts to making really bad science out of this and measure the „naziness“ of concepts. Turns out „grammar“ as a concept is much more nazi than „linguistics“. Who would have thought…
I didn’t want to complain about the measure definition itself (it’s pretty much the most intuitive way to think about such a problem, I think), but about the log modification. I guess it’s a pet peeve of mine; you can find quite a number of authors (definitely in CS papers) that do the same. It’s not wrong per se, I’d say, just… sort of unjustified when they talk about natural language (‚unjustified‘ from what I’ve read so far, not ‚unjustifiable‘ :P). It certainly makes sense when you want to map some values in a limited space (the xkcd size chart example), but in other cases, it’s just another assumption you make as an author. And it does sort of matter, since you don’t preserve the ratio between values.
Damn, look at that wall of text… I hereby apologize for this public display of nerdrage.
jazz nazi! they even have their own facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2202287108.
I’ve put them now on a wiki.
Neat!