New Adventures of Queen Victoria by Pab Sungenis for April 15, 2010

as someone who IS articulate, i’d rather be fun.

I think that this should have been dative case, but I’m not a brachiopod.

what’s a synonym for thesaurus?

Pass. I once got a 54/100 on a grammar test.

I’m having trouble reading the script in panel one. Is this guys suppose to be Ben Franklin or something?

Thank you!!! And sorry about misreading the title – that font is brutal to read!! :-)

Pumetto dell Irte?

Rough translation… your Dell’s got a tree in it

Fumetti dell’arte. He’s been here before.

jukeofurl: You received…………

If you can’t say it well – don’t.

‘Fumetto’ (comic [strip]) for ‘commedia’ (comedy) in ‘commedia dell’arte’. Cute.

Dude looks like Sam Johnson, except that he’s smiling. Maybe it IS Sam Johnson, and he’s smiling because another doofus actually kicked the rock.

The case for grammar.

Kelsey Grammer’s case?

Grammar with her suitcase?

Uh… doesn’t the verb “to be” take a predicate nominative?

What is Gramper doing during all this?

In the immortal words of Calvin, “verbing weirds language.”

Huzzah!!!

English once had, like distant cousin German still has, separate accusative and dative cases, used to distinguish direct and indirect objects. But as English simplified from a heavily inflected language loaded with grammatical endings for gender and numerous cases (like Latin, German, or Russian), along the way the accusative forms disappeared and the dative became the modern objective case. (Compare “him” and “whom” with German dative “ihm” and “wem” while the English equivalents of accusative “ihn” and “wen” disappeared.)

I just wish that the whole who/whom distinction would also have gone away. If someone asks “Who should I give this to?”, is there anyone who doesn’t know what it means?

I am in favor of languages continuing to evolve toward greater simplicity, and I would love to see “whom” someday go the way of “thou art” or “he sayeth”.

Isn’t english the United States speaks, sometimes considered “American” (not trying patrotric or something) because its changed considerably from “Queen” English?