Frazz by Jef Mallett for June 05, 2020

Of course, half the time they’ll even use excuses you don’t provide. ‘sigh’

LOL! If you didn’t listen, how could you tell Frazz what she said?

Too Stinky, Didn’t Listen

Proved her point.

And he used a excuse not to hear her idea.

That’s way too true though.

This is my first time seeing this kid. I hope he becomes a regular.

It makes me cringe when people say “I seen…”

Yesterday, the kid mentioned ‘all your red marks.’ His spelling was so sloppy, she wasn’t just nit picking, she was wading through a field of them. Kid has a long way to go.

LOL! Misspelled malefactor in second panel!

Bad perfume is the worst!

She makes an excellent point, and it is sad when those who have good points to make encounter others who either purposely or due to a distraction fail to grasp the revelations imparted, but horrific when trolls and their ilk misuse what is said to not only refuse growth but to keep it from others.

There’s a lot of people shouting in the desert.

I would have given anything to have a teacher explain that to me at that age. I was just told I didn’t “apply myself”. Worthless.

In this day of spellcheckers and Otto Connect it makes no sense to not use them.

Thorstein Veblen dubbed English spelling an example of “conspicuous consumption”—its correct acquisition requires years of effort, the difference between correct and incorrect spelling is invested with a very high social value, the utility of “correct spelling” is minimal, and its imperfect acquisition is easy of detection. (He was wrong about its utility, consistent orthography no matter how weird or straightforward makes a text very much easier to read.)

Poor grammar and poor spelling will devalue an essay. People will assume the intelligence of the writer is low if the article is poorly composed.

Mrs. Olsen speaks a powerful truth today.

Y’know, I feel much the same way about people who post links to videos to explain something when text would work (for me: I’m actually literate) so much better. It annoys me, so I just don’t click the link (or I just close the tab if I have already clicked it). And yet I can often summarize the point of the video because: redundancy.

Or, as sadly seems to be the case on so many limited-space fora, “Skip over all those useless facts and stupid reasoning. Just go straight to the bottom line: What’s in it for me?”

Boy, is this ever accurate!

Perfume: the new smoking. Only wear it outside and, preferably, not at all. If you stink, take a shower with plain soap and wash your clothes. I’m like Caulfield in that if I can’t breathe in your presence, I can’t concentrate on what you’re saying.

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Frazz16 hrs · And there you go. None of us got to choose our era, but maybe we can choose how we try to navigate it. We can surf the good waves and try not to let the bad ones hold us under too long. We can swim against the current or we can float where it pushes us or we can swim perpendicular to the rip and do our own thing when we’re back in more benign waters. And we can communicate like we mean it. I don’t know if careful spelling is enough to convince everyone we mean it, but sloppiness is plenty to convince anyone that we don’t.