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Ad Graminum

An attack on an opponent's grammar to completely discredit his/her argument.

See Ad hominem.
Faiz: I spent a good half-hour typing out an argument for nothing, because someone used Ad Graminum and pointed out my "your" that should have been "you're".

Julian: You deserved that.

Brian: The Lakers are fundamentally a much better team, they're offense is-
Julian: HA! "THEIR"!
Brian: Fuck you.
Ad Graminum by jschoo March 12, 2012
Related Words

Grasping at straws 

Doing and trying anything to resolve a dangerous / bad situation
To inform law enforcement of illegal activity. To snitch. To rat on someone.
Karen went viral for grassing on her neighbors, who were selling water without a permit.
Grassing by The Angry Britt September 17, 2020

Graminix 

The ship name of two men named Dominic and Neko16gram
Graminix is cool right?
Graminix by Colony28282 April 2, 2021
A popular shorthand to describe work performed by software engineers. Related terms are coding, programming, hacking. Can be used as grammin, gram.
I've been grammin it up for 8 hours straight trying to fix these crazy bugs.
grammin by Veekrum October 3, 2006

grasping at straws 

When you're on the spot and you're looking to say some concrete shit but you have nothing to say.
Donald Rumsfeld explained to the committee where the WMD's were, but he was clearly grasping at straws.