Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 25, 2018

Are we supose too cownt the misteaks?

The guy’s grammar sense is tingling!!!!

This guy gets angry about grammar errors everywhere!

As an former English teacher, what worries me is the huge number of people (many who will claim to have college education) who will NOT notice the mistakes.

Are you allowed to say “me to” if you weren’t sexually harassed?

Poor grammar can be really effective at affecting me.

That’ll learn ’em!

Bet the guy feels the same way about the crocs.

Ain’t gonna let him reed Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, his head is likely to explode!

Get a life, buudy!

Jut don’t lie on my lei…

I know where he’s coming from. Me and him have a lot in common.

Laughed, did I;!

But there’s a guy in Washington, D.C. that doesn’t see anything wrong with it at all!

My pet peeve is people who dont understand the proper use of apostrophe’s.

All this talk of grammatical errors is making my family hungry – so let’s eat Grandma!

My pet peeve is people who make a ton of spelling and grammar mistakes on their FB posts yet play million-dollar words on Words With Friends! Cheat much?

Your seriously upset about incorrect grammar?

Surely their must be something else to focus on.

Your silly to get upset about grammar. Its not a big deal. Their are more important things to worry about.

Stefans muther an grammer never learnd him nuthin and thats two bad! ;o{

Shouldn’t he have spelled it “Harrisburgh”? You know, like Pittsburgh.

I never correct grammar on the internet with one exception: when someone else corrects grammar. Then I’ll comb the corrector’s post for every mistake I can find, and quote it back with “[sic]” after every error.

Whoa! Does anyone even actually read this comic? :D

Most of the errors in today’s strip are not grammatical issues, but incorrect spelling.

Language purists are just annoying. They try to follow every BS rule in the book, like not ending sentences with prepositions. I have a correspondent who writes awkward sentences just to avoid endpreps (Sorry for the new portmanteau word purists. Heh, heh.), and berates me for using endpreps. I ignore her.

No Grampa error’s?

In Pennsylvania, this guy is now a roadside attraction. They sell sammiches and jellies out front. I’ve seen the tour busses.

Education is important, but woodworking is importanter!

I was very careful to use correct grammar on my dissertation. I am not trying to impress anyone, or get them to give me a degree on this blog. I am having fun. Looking up a word to be sure it is spelled correctly isn’t fun.

The English language is one huge mistake. If someone had been actually trying two do it wright, we wouldn’t have too figure out how two reed and right write and language instruction could be completed in about to years.

I relate.

I don’t know what the affect of all this will be, but it will effect every purist who reads it¿

Not just grammar, but speeling erors two.

Once again, 9th grade English teacher loves it, Stephan, especially the lay/lie problem.

The real irony being that people in western PA leave entire words out of their sentence and say things like “I need to go bathroom,” or “needs trimmed.” What happened to ‘to the’ and ‘to be’? Have fun in Harassmentburg, man

Their, they’re, there; real axe ^ y’all. This are humour, not ment too be token cereal. (I spelt honour the rite way, since i are Kanadianish)

Language is one of the finest accomplishments of humanity, ’tis a sin to misuse or abuse it.

eros, plural of era (Swedish)

Does the Big Guy get offended by the nighttime prayer " Now I lie/lay me down to sleep…"?And what about Bob Dylan “Lay lady, lay. Lay across…”Or Eric Clapton “Lay down Sally…”

An other winy jerk off ended bye everything.

The lownger u luk the wers it becums

Ooh, Steven, you be’s so mean!

We are regresing az a sosiety and its disterbing. (sic) Beecuz of texting, many peepul dont noe english anymore. (sic)

“Arabians learn Arabian with the speed of summer lightning.And Hebrews learn it backwards, Which is absolutely frightening. But use proper English you’re regarded as a freak.” – Songwriters: Alan Jay Lerner / Frederick Loewe in My Fair Lady.

Spooky action at a distance…

Jokes for grammar nerds—I love it!

Me loved it!!!

I’m sorry, but, as a former riter, they’re is nothing more halarius then someone trying two post an impashoned opinion and there post is rife with speeling and grammatical eras. I cant stop laughing sometimes. Don’t these peeple no how dumb it makes them look?

If this strip upsets a guy in Harrisburg, PA, then he’d be gobsmacked by the comments for the Nancy strip.

Hey! I even have people correcting my grammar on this website.

Just comfort him – there, their, they’re.

Someone famous (WC) has had a remark attributed to him. When someone corrected his prepositional placement for a speech, he said “This is something up with which I will not put!” My hero!

125 comments (now 126)!

What do you want, good grammar or good taste?

And the most simple solution of all is…stop reading it.

My reaction? I’m like the guy in Harrisburg! Punish Cartoon-Boy for his gross abuse of the English language, and also for his puns while we’re at it. Rat, get your bat!

Well, I don’t live in Harrisburg but this strip would have been hair-raising were it not a piece of humour.

Please please please let this be a real letter.

!HAHahAha

Eye yi eye!

Now, I only cringe on the inside when I hear and read grammatical errors. Because correcting people is an exercise in futility.