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Interesting, but I'm a bit disappointed the author didn't at least try to filter out things like "grammar nazi" or, as might be found in r/seinfeld, "soup nazi"

• comboy 11y ago
  Yeah, or "I did nazi that coming", the bigger the thread the more memes are in it.
  • samcheng 11y ago
    Right; I'd guess that at least half of the 'nazi' mentions are actually lame puns.
  • dTal 11y ago
    Ctrl-F "nazi that"... yep. I don't think we can draw any conclusions from this beyond the fact that the Reddit hive mind thinks Godwin's law is hilarious and mentions Hitler at every opportunity.
• gkya 11y ago
  > In this post, I’ll only try to find out how many Reddit comments mention Nazis or Hitler and ignore the context in which they are made.
  • jshevek 11y ago
    Did you think the person posting didn't see this text? He is commenting directly on this choice.
    • gkya 11y ago
      He may have skimmed the text and missed it. His comment does not imply that he read the sentence I quote.
      • eridius 11y ago
        I read the sentence you quoted.
        • gkya 11y ago
          How do I know that, sorry? Let's not spam the thread.
• gist 11y ago
  Sure but is there really a big difference between these sentences: "And in the end anyone who feels like that reminds me of the Nazi's" "The Nazis did that and you see what happened to them" "The way he makes comments it's like he's a grammar nazi"
  • sosborn 11y ago
    > Sure but is there really a big difference between these sentences: Yes.
• zumatic 11y ago
  ...and what about words which contain the string "...nazi...", such as "Ashkenazim"? They don't seem to give the exact query, that I could see.
  • ry_ry 11y ago
    I'd imagine Ashkenazim doesn't turn up often enough to be statistically significant.