Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 19, 2013

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    Bilan  over 10 years ago

    At least Alright, Fred would have been better last words than what he finally said.

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    BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Alright Said Fred.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 10 years ago

    I always seem to get “alright” and “all right” wrong when it comes to situations like that. But what ticks me off a little more is “alot” (it’s really “a lot” for crying out loud).

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    amyhre2001  over 10 years ago

    Disrespect can be a verb. Many nouns can be turned into verbs in English. Disrespect is to show a lack of respect for someone or something. And vice versa, sometimes nouns can be derived from verbs.

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    Snoopy_Fan  over 10 years ago
    “Drop dead, Fred!”
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    wcorvi  over 10 years ago

    ANY noun can be verbed.

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    orinoco womble  over 10 years ago

    Love the floating lemming! Cartoon physics rules OK!

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    Inkwell Files  over 10 years ago

    “Alright” as opposed to “all right” has always confused me. I’d like to know the origin of the error, because it sure is widespread.

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    Sisyphos  over 10 years ago

    Bon voyage, Bob, you ninny!Congratulations, Fred; you are an admirable, well-schooled lemming (but a suicidal jerk, nonetheless)!

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    doublepaw  over 10 years ago

    How about your/you’re and there/their…….

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    luvcmx  over 10 years ago

    And ‘loose’ for ‘lose’…

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    jmartin1955  over 10 years ago

    Your welcome – LOL

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    JudyAz  over 10 years ago

    “capital” crimes. The only ones who commit “capitol” crimes are in Congress!

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    orinoco womble  over 10 years ago

    You’re/your etc. And yet when I write the word “it’s” and ask people what it means, they all know to say “it is!”

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    gilmccarthy  over 10 years ago

    Fred is seen jumping in the second panel. Somehow he gets back in the jumping line. Huh?

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    jessegooddoggy  over 10 years ago

    Weather-wise, money-wise, food-wise…..when did this form of speech become grammatically accepted at all levels?? It still makes me, like, cringe.

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    Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 10 years ago

    When Pastis hands us lemmings, should we make lemming-ade?!?

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    puddlesplatt  over 10 years ago

    All Right, the end result is all the same.

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    Sportymonk  over 10 years ago

    What does it matter what your last words are? 5 seconds later it doesn’t matter what you said or what you saw or anything, its over.

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    Strod  over 10 years ago

    Dunno. Methinks the spelling “alright” is alright. So does the New Oxford American Dictionary (well, kinda): alright |ˈˌɔlˈraɪt|variant spelling of all rightusage: The merging of all and right to form the one-word spelling alright is first recorded toward the end of the 19th century (unlike other similar merged spellings such as altogether and already, which date from much earlier). There is no logical reason for insisting that all right be two words when other single-word forms such as altogether have long been accepted. Nevertheless, although found widely, alright remains nonstandard.

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    GoodQuestion Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Could be worse, if a hyphen ate him . . . ☻

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    corzak  over 10 years ago

    Modern English is spoken by more that a billion people. Working knowledge of it is required in science, medicine, transportation, business, and diplomacy. All because of its flexibility and readiness to assimilate new words and concepts.Stop whining about grammar.

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    JohnFredC  over 10 years ago

    Ha ha. Maybe Mr. Pastis does read our comments after all.

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    js  over 10 years ago

    That bugs me alot!!!!!

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    gamer2k4  over 10 years ago

    “Irregardless” is a word. It’s just a stupid word, because it means the exact same thing as “regardless.” Sort of like “flammable” and “inflammable.”

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    togo1960  over 10 years ago

    “’Alright’ is all wrong.” Thanks, Maris St. Cyr, for a high school English tip that has lasted a lifetime!

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    hcr1985  over 10 years ago

    Grammar Nazis…even unto the end!!

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    ncalifgirl58  over 10 years ago

    I think those that feel they are the grammar police should jump off a cliff.

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    susan.e.a.c  over 10 years ago

    Alrighty, then.

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    ChessPirate  over 10 years ago

    This conversation is “literally” making my head explode! :)

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    HankTheSock  over 10 years ago

    I love these strips! xD

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    BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Yes, a living language evolves.

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    Sherlock Watson  over 10 years ago

    Sing along with Sherlock::“I’m alright,

    Nobody worry ’bout me,

    Why you got to gimme a fight?

    Can’t you just let it be?"

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    dbmeyer99  over 10 years ago

    If irregardless is written, read, and spoken in English… doesn’t that make it a “real” English word? Not to be an ass but what exactly would an unreal English word be?

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    knight1192a  over 10 years ago

    Actually alright is a word and has been in Webster’s since 1887. That’s just 75 years after all right was re-introduced into dictionaries after being banned for 400 years.

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    Snoopy_Fan  over 10 years ago

    I suppose “alright” is alright, to distinguish it from “all right,” just as “altogether” is completely different than saying “all together.”

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    Bill Chapman  over 10 years ago
    And here I thought the most common “last words” were, “Oh Shit!”
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    Randolph Larrabee  over 10 years ago

    I love the satire. Someone is committing suicide and all the grammar Nazis’ can think of are language rules. It is pathetic.

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    Pelahnar  over 10 years ago

    While it’s great that language can be flexible and open to change, at the same time that doesn’t mean anything goes. Grammar rules that are enforced just because they always have been – rather than having a specific, logical reason – are ridiculous, but at the same time, if rules are changed just for the heck of it, they’re rendered useless and the language they’re supposed to regulate becomes incomprehensible..I think that as long as there are people fighting both for regulation and for flexibility in language, the change will be slow enough for people to understand, but not completely set in stone. (Personally, I am on the stricter side when it comes to language.)

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    TIMH  over 10 years ago

    Languages evolve or die. What constitutes improper English today, may become standard usage in the future.

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    Tyrnn  over 10 years ago

    It’s just a bad a crime to keep perpetuating the myth of Lemmings leaping to their death.

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    orinoco womble  over 10 years ago

    English grammar and spelling were not actually codified until the late 18th century, so the rules haven’t been around all that long.It’s my day job.

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    comicsnerd74  almost 9 years ago

    This is an actual complaint!!

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    comicsnerd74  almost 9 years ago

    Isn’t this a common complaint….?

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    comicsnerd74  almost 9 years ago

    Great way to turn those stupid Grammar Nazi e-mails into a productive strip.

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    Elaphe Gutatta  over 8 years ago

    Gasp! “Crap” on the comics page! Kids read this section!

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