Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for September 21, 2012

Dinn’t I razed ya bettur ’n dat?

I’ll smack ya upside da head, boy!

Funny, but so sadly true.

‘cause we ain’t in Joisey anymoe..

For a comic called ‘Off the Mark,’ this one is actually pretty much dead-on the mark.

My first grade teacher used to say “Hows come?”

A sign of how bad the education has gotten.

Cause undar’ da knew gradn’ poolishy Teach ain’t allowed to get out no F’s.

Geez ma, I can’t imagine why.

It’s the schools’ and the system’s fault, they haven’t kept up with the rapid developments in English Language Variations and Change.

@tuna1

You tuna-ed in to the wrong locale.Today’s strip portrays a h.s. in Brooklyn.Chris Christie doesn’t approve of your message.

OMG IDK!

“Me fail English? That’s unpossible!”

There is no D in “English”. But there is an angma.

Would have been better to also use the word “Engrish”.

Dunno.

Is this a bad boy Brooklyn/Jersey accent?

Sounds like a facebook accent. Wrong and intellectually vacant.

“I’s so prowd! I knowd yous’d dos beter’n me!” ;-)

My cousin(who is 10 years younger), got through the public school system by reading “abridged young-adult” editions and comic book editions of the books he was assigned to read by his teachers. You know the ones – they took “Tom Sawyer” and made it into a little square book with about 100 pages … " Frankenstein" was a comic book series – all of 5 comic books.The public school system is a “feel good” system teaching zilch.

Strewff. Ye recken us`n speak English any better uvver ere in Blighty then? Dun all talk like Her Maj The Queen y`know…;-)

We did have a College history teacher who spoke of the “Modren” era—and an English teacher with an outrageous Hungarian accent (he came to the West in 1956 as a young adult) but they were both good teachers and very intelligent men.

Youze gots ta ask DAT question!?

I learned it from you, Mom! I learned it by listening to YOU!