I favor ughlessness, the spelling of the future. (Already great strides if you consider how we’ve managed to ditch it from plow, hiccup, thruway, tho, sluff, and many others; eventually we’ll be down to just bughouse, where the 3 letters are spread over 2 separate syllables.)
It’s no less annoying than when people misuse their, there, and they’re! Or your and you’re… or to and too…. heck, any misspellings are annoying. We have spellcheck for a reason!
These mistakes are only cute when they are from little first and second graders learning to write. You have to expect little ones to make writing mistakes. In their case, it is just wonderful to see that they are making the effort. By the end of elementary school, they are supposed to have learned enough to get beyond most of Trump’s mistakes in writing.
the point of the article is to show what a buffoon trump is because all of these “misteaks” are his on twitter. all of these misspellings are by the miss-speller in chief. grammatical as well as spelling.
Looking at all these comments, it would appear that the bots have won. The American political system is just a pretty bad denial of service attack on its constituents.
English spelling is the most idiotic in the world Phonetic spelling would be far better. Example Korean. Back a thousand years or so ago they Used Chinese, which only the government bureaucrats could spell or read. So one of the kings back then called in his best and brightest and told them to make a language that everyone from the peasants on up could read.. They did and today Korean is one of the easiest written languages to learn. Its phonetic for one thing, meaning how you pronounce the word is how you spell the word and its alphabet has fewer letters in it than English does. Unlike English, where how words are spelled and how they are pronounced makes English one of the hardest languages to learn, yes, even for those of us born in the US.
And I would have thought Trump would have reserved the use of those alternative spellings to himself, the way the color purple was once reserved for the use of royalty.
In case no one’s been listening: Trump’s base voted for him because they resent “educated” people mocking them all the time as “deplorables”, bad spellers, etc. Trump now uses such mockery as fuel to energize his base, so while it may be momentarily satisfying to the mockers, they’re really helping him stay in power, which is too bad, for obvious reasons. The timing of this strip is particularly inapt, coming as it does just after the ghastly Kavanaugh debacle. Stop feeding the beast! Thanks.
BE THIS GUY about 6 years ago
USMCA (NAFTA — same old treaty, brand new name).
Richard S Russell Premium Member about 6 years ago
I favor ughlessness, the spelling of the future. (Already great strides if you consider how we’ve managed to ditch it from plow, hiccup, thruway, tho, sluff, and many others; eventually we’ll be down to just bughouse, where the 3 letters are spread over 2 separate syllables.)
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace about 6 years ago
And don’t forget: Dicktater
kaffekup about 6 years ago
Either someone has three logins here (possible), or there are three deplorable friends have decided to hijack this strip on Sunday’s.
Oh well, easy enough to scroll past their stupid names.
Rosette about 6 years ago
It’s no less annoying than when people misuse their, there, and they’re! Or your and you’re… or to and too…. heck, any misspellings are annoying. We have spellcheck for a reason!
dadoctah about 6 years ago
Still nothing new on “covfefe” then?
socalvillaguy Premium Member about 6 years ago
Apparently, proper spelling wasn’t necessary to get into Wharton (only Daddy’s money was needed).
tudza Premium Member about 6 years ago
I thought many women voted for Trump. I think of them as the wives of Gilead.
And, it’s Fa3ke. The 3 is silent.
wdgnas about 6 years ago
dadoctah:would the confetti be for celebrating the nomination of kavanaugh?
Melki Premium Member about 6 years ago
And, don’t forget to ask Kavanaugh how many *F*s are in FFFFFFourth of July.
Masterskrain about 6 years ago
“Trump”(A$$hole)
jeffiekins about 6 years ago
I did get a laugh out loud from the last panel.
montessoriteacher about 6 years ago
These mistakes are only cute when they are from little first and second graders learning to write. You have to expect little ones to make writing mistakes. In their case, it is just wonderful to see that they are making the effort. By the end of elementary school, they are supposed to have learned enough to get beyond most of Trump’s mistakes in writing.
uniquename about 6 years ago
Hopefully he’s unpresidented after 2020. Hopefully the Dems put up someone decent to run.
Lotta hopes.
oakie817 about 6 years ago
ka-fake
Radish the wordsmith about 6 years ago
Just face it, Republicans have no morals,
any decent person would vote them out in November.
babka Premium Member about 6 years ago
also Amerikkka
mourdac Premium Member about 6 years ago
Ah, the Ministry of Truth is in fair form today.
Linguist about 6 years ago
Great zinger by Rick in the last panel. That got a loud guffaw out fo me, this morning.
As for the misspelling …. what do you expect from a man who is barely literate, and by his own admission, hate to read ?
nimbus560 about 6 years ago
the point of the article is to show what a buffoon trump is because all of these “misteaks” are his on twitter. all of these misspellings are by the miss-speller in chief. grammatical as well as spelling.
RobinHood about 6 years ago
What has spelling have to do with Twitter? Or Grammer?
willie_mctell about 6 years ago
Noo Orthongrafee
Display about 6 years ago
Looking at all these comments, it would appear that the bots have won. The American political system is just a pretty bad denial of service attack on its constituents.
fuzzbucket Premium Member about 6 years ago
Wasn’t it Jefferson who said, “I have nothing but contempt for a man who can only spell a word one way.”
DanVirgil about 6 years ago
meanwhile in real news >>>outside the sphere of far left liberalism (aka fantasy land) we have https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkmrgnk3RIc
Teto85 Premium Member about 6 years ago
It was funny and then the last panel was ROTFLMFAO funny!! GBT has it.
timbob2313 Premium Member about 6 years ago
English spelling is the most idiotic in the world Phonetic spelling would be far better. Example Korean. Back a thousand years or so ago they Used Chinese, which only the government bureaucrats could spell or read. So one of the kings back then called in his best and brightest and told them to make a language that everyone from the peasants on up could read.. They did and today Korean is one of the easiest written languages to learn. Its phonetic for one thing, meaning how you pronounce the word is how you spell the word and its alphabet has fewer letters in it than English does. Unlike English, where how words are spelled and how they are pronounced makes English one of the hardest languages to learn, yes, even for those of us born in the US.
DanVirgil about 6 years ago
and now for the truth !! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkmrgnk3RIc
Bob Blumenfeld about 6 years ago
And I would have thought Trump would have reserved the use of those alternative spellings to himself, the way the color purple was once reserved for the use of royalty.
Squoop about 6 years ago
“would” (wouldn’t)
Flatworm about 6 years ago
They also gave us “Dewey Beats Truman.”
mrwalker008 about 6 years ago
I prefer Malaria.
mikeg52 about 6 years ago
I’m just adding to this comment to keep the Russian troll from being the ‘featured comment’…
NickWright about 6 years ago
In case no one’s been listening: Trump’s base voted for him because they resent “educated” people mocking them all the time as “deplorables”, bad spellers, etc. Trump now uses such mockery as fuel to energize his base, so while it may be momentarily satisfying to the mockers, they’re really helping him stay in power, which is too bad, for obvious reasons. The timing of this strip is particularly inapt, coming as it does just after the ghastly Kavanaugh debacle. Stop feeding the beast! Thanks.
Dennett Premium Member about 6 years ago
Gawd! Another six years of comic strip angst to put up with… SAD! ;-)
Dragoncat about 6 years ago
As if I didn’t have enough reasons to stick to British spelling…
bunrabbit99 about 6 years ago
wow, gbt really gave it to 45 this week! ouch!
mikel52 about 6 years ago
Seldom have so many used so many words to say so little, nearly all of it inaccurate.
cocavan11 about 6 years ago
Frau Sarah forgot “pore” (poor).
wagnertinatlanta about 6 years ago
You know who else couldn’t spell? Theodore Roosevelt — but he wrote 47 books, which sold — and not all to Republicans.
wagnertinatlanta about 6 years ago
You know who else couldn’t spell? Theodore Roosevelt, but he wrote 47 books, which sold — not all of them to Republicans.
kzturtlegirl about 6 years ago
ooh, SNAP, Rick!
bakana about 6 years ago
FaKKKe. Subtle.
astere about 6 years ago
If fake means truthful, does that mean he’s really saying all these “fake news media” are telling the truth about him?
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member about 6 years ago
Here’s another: “President” = Trump.