schoolmarm

Split infinitives are definitely a schoolmarm invention (borrowed from Latin, where the infinitive is an inflection and thus inseparable).

You will sound like a schoolmarm, but then again it's not as if you were going to avoid that.

This type of Aggressively Conventional tone policing is befitting of a schoolmarm hall monitor, not HN.

One became a sort of underground environmentalist, the other became a rather conservative schoolmarm (which to me was a rebellion).

I encourage respect and politeness, but the tone of Jari's email seems a little condescending and schoolmarm to me.

It is the rule of the old and sick, the moralizing scolding of the middle aged schoolmarm hysterically meddling in other peoples affairs.

Its a contradiction in terms - you cannot be a spiritual scold or schoolmarm and mold a set of likable characters from this essence.

And many more that make it feel like I'm being scolded by a schoolmarm.

The real competition isn't the mythical fantasyland where everybody learns everything perfectly and retains it forever as a result of the gentle teachings of the schoolmarm.

It's a matter of whack-a-mole, doomed to fail: make life easier for people instead of being a punitive, incompetent schoolmarm that only serves to inconvenience and infuriate people with much greater concerns in their lives.

This sometimes occurs in English, apparently violating the "schoolmarm" rule to not end sentences with a preposition.

Pick "tutting schoolmarm" or "internet tough guy".

I feel like I haven't heard the word "mindfulness" (outside of the context of a schoolmarm telling a 19th-century child to be mindful of her work) until recently, but now it seems to be everywhere.

> Pick "tutting schoolmarm" or "internet tough guy".