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The Elderberries by Corey Pandolph and Phil Frank and Joe Troise for February 09, 2014
February 08, 2014
February 10, 2014
Transcript:
Dusty: Dagnabit!! Professor: What's wrong, Dusty? Dusty: Feller can't git hisself no customer service by phone, no how! General: You don't speak in a gramatically correct manner. Perhaps you're misunderstood. Dusty: Izzat so? Professor: Indeed! For instance... I've heard you say "the scissors is in the drawer" and "my car don't run so good..." therefore, each time you speak incorrectly, I'll correct you! Dusty: Oh, woe is me!! Professor: Actually, Dusty... to be correct, it's oh, woe is I!
bkybl about 11 years ago
It’s the Professor who’s wrong in the last panel.
codedaddy about 11 years ago
Shouldn’t it be " Woe AM I"? (turn it around – “I is woe” is incorrect)
pschearer Premium Member about 11 years ago
The Prof is wrong along with a few of you. “Woe is me” is an old idiom that was also expressed as “Woe to me”. German has the same construct in “Weh ist mir” or just “Weh mir” (which also appears in Yiddish), “mir” being dative case which in English absorbed the accusative case to become the modern objective case, which means it’s “me” and not “I”. You can look it up.
Wendy Emlinger about 11 years ago
Boy, is the Prof wrong! The reference to self lands after the verb so it should be ‘me’ not ‘I’ and the verb wouldn’t be ‘is’ at all, it would change to ‘am.’ Dusty has it right with ‘Oh, woe is me.’ To use the ‘I’ he’d have to place it first, ‘Oh, I am woeful.’