What's the difference between grammarian and zoilean?

Grammarian


Definition:

  • (n.) One versed in grammar, or the construction of languages; a philologist.
  • (n.) One who writes on, or teaches, grammar.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I Only Have Eyes for You – The Flamingos Or, to the armchair grammarian, "I Have Eyes Only for You".
  • (2) It's like the Hunger Games, just for prescriptive grammarians.
  • (3) Like not splitting the infinitive, this became a "rule" when taught by grammarians influenced by Latin.
  • (4) But even after a century of nagging by prescriptive grammarians, the "who–whom" distinction remains tenuous in speech and informal writing.
  • (5) The results seem to partly support the notion of Sanskrit grammarians in that their concept regarding the vowel durations gain support from this study.
  • (6) Octavio Paz , in The Monkey Grammarian , says that the sense of the work is a terrifying anticipation.

Zoilean


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the characteristic of Zoilus, a bitter, envious, unjust critic, who lived about 270 years before Christ.

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