Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 17, 2013

Frazz would NOT have laughed

grammer police are evil.

Pronunciation is not grammar.

I do rather agree with @kieth kunz. Wince and move on. Wonder what the stuff is in “leaves and stuff”. A Sasquatch perhaps?

“It’s a moot point”. Oops. :D

…and as those of us who despise “smooth jazz” have noted, “New Age” rhymes with “sewage.”

By the way, is this strip a repeat? I could swear I saw this gag in one of the Frazz books…

Grammer police? I think she’s a spelling cop. Nothing wrong with that. Except that it won’t make you any friends with the low-brow demographic.

I thought she said it on purpose. The trip probably foiled her original plans for the weekend.

As the potato said after being wrapped in shiny aluminum before being put in to the oven: “Curses, foiled again!”

Correcting people in public is bad? What are teachers supposed to do when a child makes a mistake in front of the whole class? Or the same child is out with parents and does something VERY wrong? Are they to allow the behavior to continue until an ‘appropriate’ time at some unforeseen time in the future? NO. Correct IMMEDIATELY when the problem is detected! Then drop it. Don’t harp on it, just continue on. It gives the person time to think about it without being focused on. If the behavior continues, it’s not a new one, and it’s ingrained. You should have paid them more attention before then.

I wish I was going to see the Fall leaves!

such a subtle difference in pronunciation is irrelevant . what gets me is when forte is pronounced with the e

Farte’?

The eastern sierra fall color was just jaw dropping this year, especially against a little early snow. High elevations are all browned out now, but hiking weather is just perfect.

I don’t know… I always intentionally mispronounce things. It’s an ongoing joke in my family and most of my friends to emPHAcise the wrong syLLAble. That, or say something like Foilage (rhymes with spoilage) to say fo-li-age… I wonder if it’s something like that in Glenda’s family, and she just didn’t think about it before saying it to someone who doesn’t get it.

Say something about the subject, correct quietly, and NO laughing..

Funny!, Today we have people correcting people correcting people.

Lookin at leaves ain’t bad – rakin them is something else…

How about new-cue-ler instead of new-clee-er (for nuclear)? Or preventative instead of preventive? They were both wrong when I was in school, but now even news reporters use them. Luckily, my schools also taught me that language evolves as people use it.

“well the 6 letter word I want to use has no word that rhymes with it…….it starts with an “r”, ends with an “m”

But it’s easy to detect ’em.

The one that gets me is when “oriented” is pronounced “orientated”

You’ve made a nice play on words. Mute implies no capacity for speech. Moot, would indicate the issue is open to argument. You’re correct, of course, correcting someone in public is very rude. Enjoy your day… SSJ

Strip snot funny at fall any more.

one of my top pronunciation pet peeves!