Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for July 18, 2015

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    rpmurray  over 9 years ago

    Contractions are the devil. Ask any woman in labor.

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    Pedmar Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Never use apostrophe’s to make plural’s of word’s.

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    strangeanimal  over 9 years ago

    hmmm, interesting little sprout

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    WaitingMan  over 9 years ago

    My pet peeve is people who dont understand the proper use of apostrophe’s.

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    cocavan11  over 9 years ago

    Since grammar is the topic, why use “how come” when you mean “why”? Also, I hope WaitingMan’s use of <’s> to pluralize “apostrophe” is intended to be ironic.

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    David OBrien  over 9 years ago

    @WaitingMan: Can I quote you on that?

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    Stellagal  over 9 years ago

    It is not just apostrophes, unicorns would never think of saying things like “wanna” and “gotta”

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    Ermine Notyours  over 9 years ago

    My teacher told me: “Don’t use contractions.”

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    Comic Minister Premium Member over 9 years ago

    Oh boy.

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    Stephen Gilberg  over 9 years ago

    I like having a main character who uses no contractions, too.

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    Marscaleb  over 9 years ago

    I love how Marigold looks in panel 3 so very very much.

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    sjsczurek  over 9 years ago

    With all respect for learning, schooling, proper grammar, et cetera, I’m going to submit what I know will be considered blasphemy or something of that sort.

    I say that the word “ain’t,” which we’ve been told since early elementary school is wrong, improper, and everything else bad, is a natural contraction for “am not.” Think about it: you don’t say “I are not ready,” you say “I am not ready.” I know that you can (and are “supposed” to) say “I’m not,” but I submit that “I ain’t” is a logical and, by its use, a natural contraction of “I am not.” And I stand by this, so go ahead and draw and quarter me. I ain’t going to back down.

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    scyphi26  over 9 years ago

    What the grammar nazis typically overlook is that language is not static; it is continually evolving, always has and always will. Therefore, what they see as “degradation” I see as simply “change into something new.” And change isn’t necessarily a bad thing, y’know.

    Plus, from a writing perspective, using these little “quibbles” in language that cause such issue helps to give a character, well, character. Like how Marigold here does not use contractions when what we’re used to are frequent use of contractions. That’s part of her character. You get the idea.

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    BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 9 years ago

    A couple of months ago Marigold DID use a contraction and I pointed it out. She said “mustn’t”.

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    Kark_The_Red_Canadian_Dragon  7 months ago

    Hmpf! I would’ve guessed that she was a fan of Data from Star Trek: TNG fame. :P

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