Get Fuzzy by Darby Conley for April 03, 2020

Gots it, Buck.

Okay so Bucky writes like the preponderance of Cabbies in a metropolitan area that shall remain unnamed.

Bucky writes like Bucky speaks.

Understooded Buck.

I better not say anything.

Somehow I think Shakespeare is not turning in his grave.

Try again Oh Pink One ;-)

This strip IS dialogue gold! I be me it appreciatedly.

Terrible grammar yes, but it can be read and does convey the message.

It looks like Yoda wrote those words.

It hurts to read that. Silly kitty.

Grammar is for making yourself understood and not appear stupid. Here’s a perfect example from an e-mail I received this morning from my boss: “We new this was coming.” Duh.

If we’re gonna’ speak the ‘language that Shakespeare spoke’, bring in the expert. Enter Mac Manc McManx.

I dunno for me it’s more like, “I’m constantly having to correct my cat’s grammar.”“Wait, you have a cat that can talk?”

Why does Bucky have a problem when he writes dialogue? He speaks normally and grammatically (mostly, sometimes anyway)?

Yet Bucky’s grammar is relatively impeccable in the first panel. And right on the money as well, for that matter.

Yeah, what he said.

Bucky was not lucky enough to have Mrs. Pugh for freshman English

Sounds like a script for “The Room”.

The second panel is one of those rare things that make you laugh even when you see it for the eighteenth time.

Grammar still means something to people who are careful about they say. I wince every time Google forces me to click a button labeled “It was me.” No it wasn’t, “It was I”, doggonit!

Check todays Brewster Rocket comments if you really want to get into it.

I understand you Bucky. I just gave Mike my shopping list

And so ends another Presidential press conference

If grammar and spelling and the other niceties that compose the body of our language exist to make communication clear and easily understood, why is English so rife with ambiguity and double entendres? French, for example, tends to be much more specific and French native speakers often say things in English that lead to amusement because of the possibility English provides for an off-colour interpretation which would not have existed in French.

Rob should also realize that if language used according to conventions is for understanding and communication, then it makes absolute sense for Bucky to eschew that; Bucky Katt has no interest in the opinions of others so he’s usually talking to himself and thus he can communicate in deviant ways that only he understands….