Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 22, 2016

When they have the funeral for the word “like,” I will shop with my tap shoes on to dance on the grave.

The phrase “hot mess” should have a stake driven through its heart. I’ll gladly provide the hammer.

I’m with Goat in the second panel. Did he get lured into one of Rat’s traps to embarrass him?

OOOO! A RAT trap! Good one Pastis!

Score one for Rat. Good grammar in the English language has went.

Thank you!

Soon, all the words will be dead as Latin.

After very careful review, I’ve found the grammatical error in the third panel — he’s not “The Rat”, he’s just “Rat”.

And now for a funeral for “affect”. Nothing affects anything now. It “impacts” it.

@AKHendersonThank you.

i don’t get it ….

Oh yes. For non-native speakers, it’s hell. Always guessing do I understand correct, or it’s right the opposite?

Just noticed that our comments here say “said” :)) Should be more like “naive is like, …”

It sounds much smarter if you call it “the quotative be like”

Rat with a neck-tie !

This actually plays off an old Peanuts strip, with Linus pointing out (to Lucy, if I remember right) that “says” has been replaced by “goes.” Though at that time, “like” and “all” were still a way off…

Have a funeral for “decrease” also. It hasn’t been seen or heard in public for at least the last three years. “Diminish” killed it.

Rat is right for once.

literally

wait…. where did he go?

the words “twerk”, and “selfie” needs to be dead, and buried

And how about all the people out there who are “in shock”?

Today’s “Pibgorn” says it all.

“Should’ve” is a contraction for “should have.” Like “don’t” for “do not.” Hariseldon59 is correct, people just write it out wrong.-They should also hold a funeral for the word “are.” No one says “where are you?” anymore. It’s always “where you at?” -The following is from a notice I saw posted at a grocery store. The corrections in parenthesis are mine.-“Notice to Employees—-It has come to our attention that fony (phoney) 20 dollar bills are being past (passed.) If you see one of these bills do not except (accept) it.”-There was a lot more, but I can’t remember it. I thought it was a joke, and asked if I could copy it. The girl behind the counter told me no. She was rather upset by my laughing. I wonder if she wrote it.

I’ve often made this observation. What is the current health status of ‘says’ and ‘sez?’-——————“So I sez to him, I sez, ‘Who sez that?’ I sez.”

Amazing and awesome usually aren’t, please jump in the casket.

I will scream the next time someone says they will “reach out” to me, instead of just call me!

I’m with you, leftwingpatriot !! It’s impossible to talk to anyone nowadays and not hear the word “like” as either an adjective, noun, verb, or any other type of punctuation. They’ll have to retitle the novel “He Said, She Said” to “He’s Like, She’s Like” ! lol

Another word dying is “lit”. Used to be a lit cigarette, now its a lighted cigarette. A lit christmas tree, lighted christmas tree.

I’m like stunned, I mean, you know, a hot mess over this…not to mention “no problem”

And “more unique” is just wrong, Wrong, WRONG!

I’ll throw a funeral for “reach out” if people will go back to saying “contact”.

Here in the Deeeep South, if we post our bedroom furniture on The List, we have a chester drawers for sell. Look it up. I am not kidding

@JP Steve.now that was funny !!!!

My first thought on seeing the first panel was a funeral for Edward Said, but he died 13 years ago…

I agree. I think that word is used far too much. However if it’s in our vocabulary then what can we do about it?

xxx

I remember all the cranky old people complaining about this exact usage when I was in high school in the 80s, so at least some things never change.

That’s what she said.

I’m sad that said is dead.

Right, said Fred.I’m too sexy for this strip….

I recently read an article that said some people (I don’t know who those people are) want to do away with cursive writing.

Who will translate documents in the future? Sad, sad, sad.

That said, can we bury it now?

“See what I’m saying?” No, I don’t see what you’re saying, but I do hear it.And what’s with SO at the beginning of just about everything, today??

Every time I hear or read an Englishman saying something is “different to” something else, my teeth grit and I want to shout “different from, you idiot!” and commit serious mayhem Why can’t the English speak English?

Bit ironic for me as I just attended a funeral today.

Shouldn’t someone contact the webmaster here so we could get a little more up to date with our comments? Everyone here seems to have just “said” whatever they had to say.

What we need is a rally to KILL “so.” Ask a question, get an answer beginning with “So…” regardless of what it is. "What flavor cone do you want? “So, chocolate.”

Catching up on my comics, but had to post my pet peeve. I hate the use of the word “issue” instead of “problem”.

DEATH TO THIS STUFF: “I’m like he’s like” etc Grammar is now dead

“was like” is an indirect quote. “said” is a direct quote. learn the difference