Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for September 20, 2018

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    jagedlo  about 6 years ago

    Turned over by the grammar police and ready for his punishment!

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    oldpine52  about 6 years ago

    Then we’ll work on ‘your and you’re’ and ‘sight, site, and cite.’

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    x_Tech  about 6 years ago

    Then we’ll move on to the proper uses of lay, lie, and laid.

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    wldhrsy2luv  about 6 years ago

    Harsh!

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    enigmamz  about 6 years ago

    Finally, someone is cracking down on these internet bastards!!!!

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    rebeccaofficer Premium Member about 6 years ago

    This will affect you so much that it’ll have the effect of teaching you the difference between affect and effect.

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    SusanSunshine Premium Member about 6 years ago

    I usually don’t post here… but the idea of correcting the flagrant misuse of “peak, peek and pique” has piqued my curiosity….

     

    Perhaps, if the holding cell isn’t too full….

    might there be room to add those, even magazine writers, who can’t tell phase from faze?

    I’ll be waiting with “baited” breath….. sigh….

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    Nachikethass  about 6 years ago

    I am with the Fink here! Time someone stood up for good language!

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    Gent  about 6 years ago

    Let him have it, Fink.

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    josballard  about 6 years ago

    A required piece of educational equipment in every English class.

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    docforbin  about 6 years ago

    Thus the King of Id became the world’s first grammar Nazi.

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    Troglodyte  about 6 years ago

    Not everybody would support the Fink’s radical approach to education, but there’s no such thing as stretching it too far in Id!

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    uncleskull  about 6 years ago

    King is write about that!

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    Fred  about 6 years ago

    Sounds as though he’s stretching things a bit….

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    ted.66bird  about 6 years ago

    Excuse me! ‘Theirs’ no excuse for that!

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    dorotheac928  about 6 years ago

    Compliment vs complement

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    smgray  about 6 years ago

    That’s stretching the point.

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    petern0582  about 6 years ago

    You forgot to include the cell phone.

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    sandpiper  about 6 years ago

    Did not appreciate that grind in school, but truly am happy now that it stuck. As a former teacher of language and mechanics, I also experienced the frustration my teachers must have felt, which made me appreciate their efforts all the more. I had days when I could hear their laughter in the background.

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    Scorpio Premium Member about 6 years ago

    Oh yes. I approve of this as a way to teach people the difference.

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    flagmichael  about 6 years ago

    I imply from this that he should of bin smarter, to.

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    keltii  about 6 years ago

    then we of the UK/Canada/Australia language, get reprimanded for our use of colour, neighbour, centre, flavour, arbour, calibre, and so on….

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    Dr_Zinj  about 6 years ago

    The Fink is a substitute English teacher? Who knew?

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    Iron Pounder  about 6 years ago

    Ya gotta love the English (or American, as the case may be) language. Now, if Microsoft could just come up with a homonym checker.

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    David Illig Premium Member about 6 years ago

    Then and than, loose and lose, its and it’s, apostrophes in plurals… If the people who make such errors only knew what the errors tell us: “I am ignorant because I don’t read.” Words matter. Writing is the most important invention in human history and its importance cannot be surpassed by any future invention.

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    vp  about 6 years ago

    He is guilty of even more: your, you’re, refuse, refute, reply, revert

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    h.v.greenman  about 6 years ago

    You need to speed up the process, your majesty. There are roughly 7 billion internet users in line waiting for that lesson

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    joefearsnothing  about 6 years ago

    I am to tired too count two to! ;o}

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    kimodb Premium Member about 6 years ago

    Please do the lay/lie lesson next! And I/me/myself after that!

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    Nyckname  about 6 years ago

    YES!!!!!

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    Stegozard  about 6 years ago

    Is it bad that I empathize with the king on this matter?

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    Cerabooge  about 6 years ago

    I’ve used this one before…

    As the grammar police held their demonstration of contractions by holding up signs in the park, a stranger asked about a particular word his buddies were displaying. The response was

    Their “they’re” is over there.

    Now rearrange the words.

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    Plods with ...™  about 6 years ago

    Someone finally gets it.

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    William Bednar Premium Member about 6 years ago

    Next. Compare “its” to “it’s”.

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    bateria  about 6 years ago

    And I’ll still wear my crown!

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    Al Nala  about 6 years ago

    NO ONE EXPECTS the Grammar Inquisition!!!

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    eladee AKA Wally  about 6 years ago

    And I thought my English teacher was tough!!!!

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    MeGoNow Premium Member about 6 years ago

    Really worked. Unfortunately, when they let him off the rack, he told them, “Hey, its not so bad.”

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    blakerl  about 6 years ago

    He is just working in his part time job as a chiropractor.

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    meg_grif  about 6 years ago

    Word Crimes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc

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    Andrew Moore  about 6 years ago

    Yeah, and verily. The Internet has brought out all the dolts in the wide world.

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    Ivan Araque  about 6 years ago

    I remember the great Gary Larson addressing complaints about this kind of humor (should we really make fun of torture?), and his response was something like, “I hope my critics are taking a look at the Wizard of Id!!!” Say, nobody beats this Wiz… ;)

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    tuslog1964  about 6 years ago

    She too had to try on two tutus.

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    tuslog1964  about 6 years ago

    They’re over there by their luggage.

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    Rose Madder Premium Member about 6 years ago

    Grammar police got him. Another wastrel re-educated..

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    jbarnes  about 6 years ago

    My dyslexic younger daughter has forced me to re-think my former membership in the grammar police. She says she likes the spelling in Spanish better, because it follows (mostly) consistent rules. Maybe one day I will even learn to tolerate it when people use the word “loose” instead of “lose”.

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    ChukLitl Premium Member about 6 years ago

    They’re picky about their language there.

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    Dennett Premium Member about 6 years ago

    That’s the way we learned it in the old days…

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    KevDoneIt  about 6 years ago

    Why isn’t phonics spelled like it sounds? Also the way fish is spelled – ghoti.gh as in enough, o as in women, and ti as in attention.

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    KevDoneIt  about 6 years ago

    ghoti spells fish, gh as in enough, o as in women and ti as in attention.

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    mywinedatabase  about 6 years ago

    what about “yore”, as in days of … ?

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    flagmichael  about 6 years ago

    A friend once told me a very common contraction was not in the dictionary, then she hauled out her dictionary and showed me the absence. I checked my own dictionary and found it wasn’t there. It was a common one, one of the “not” contractions, I believe, but we have lost touch and now I can’t remember what the word was.

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