Sunday TOON - Imagine There's No Facebook

[JHB]

Bonus: Yesterday's strip also seems relevant

For today's Doonesbury, brooklynite already has it up. Give it a K&R.

[apcalc]

1. Love them both!

[FakeNoose]

2. Not an English teacher here

... but alright/all right has always been a pet peeve of mine.

[Hugin]

4. I've noticed my spell/grammar check seems okay with both...

There is no context!

Gah!

[Karadeniz]

7. There is an already, as in I've already done that vs. Are we all ready to go? Different meanings,

Different spellings.

All right/alright has one meaning, so only one spelling needed... and it's all right, two words, puristically speaking. If a spellchecker is using both (mine just showed alright), the programmer either doesn't know the difference or has accepted the change in language.

We need to teach kids a model. I already asked if we were all ready. Maybe someone here knows a teaching trick!!!!

[Hugin]

8. I have no problem with the evolution of dialects.

They tend to be consistent in their structure/meaning and eventually lead to new languages.

However, it seems to me 'alright vs all right' is laziness leading to nothing except confusion.

[MiHale]

9. Re-read the last panel, then party on.

[Karadeniz]

12. I was merely explaining. I am not a subterranean grammarian, thank you. See the last sentence

Of my post below.

[MiHale]

13. Done and okay...

[tblue37]

22. That's because it's alwrong.

[niyad]

3. Love them!

[2naSalit]

5. I suspect...

That if he were here, John Lennon might approve of the revised lyrics.

Thanks!

[mountain grammy]

6. Great! K&R

[Karadeniz]

10. But, but... What about the partitive genitive? No one seems to care about that anymore! I try my

Best, but I can't fight that battle by myself!!!

I have noticed that even in the media, one can still from time to time detect a gerund being preceded by a possessive... or should that be "a gerund's being preceded"?

The most important aspect to spelling and grammar: Don't let such technicalities become a tool for judging others as in some way inferior.

[MiHale]

11. Both are awesome

[steventh]

14. Thanks for posting Sunday TOON - Imagine There's No Facebook

Thanks too for the link to Brooklynite's Doonsbury post.
k&r

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Thank you for the cartoons

[planetc]

16. Yay! Sunday toons!

[planetc]

17. What I want to know is: what about "alrighty"?

First, you have to have one word to attach a -y to. And next, it's one of my favorite words, because when I use it, I always hear the tone of voice used by Strother Martin in "Cool Hand Luke" as he says: "What we have here is failure to communicate." I intend to go right on using alrighty whenever I feel like it after I make sure Greg the Grammarian can't hear me.

[BobTheSubgenius]

18. I can certainly see the upside of the disappearance, or at least the severe curtailment of it.

Social media can be a scourge and a drain on your life. But the cat pictures!!!

[dalton99a]

19. Kick

[Blue Owl]

20. K&R

[Hekate]

21. Kicktoon for "Imagine there's no Facebook"-- splendid!

I read it over my morning coffee and now can’t get the tune out of my head, though

[murielm99]

23. Thank you.

[burrowowl]

24. Really good toon!