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Is it cold in here?:
Criticism of terminal prepositions goes back at least to Dryden in 1672, but even cranky prescriptivist Fowler called it a "superstition".

More than you probably wanted to know about ending sentences with prepositions

JHarpur:
Hey, is there anywhere to list typos so that Jeph can easily just go fix 'em?
If not, that's cool too - it means he's busy drawing newer stuff for me the needy needy masses.

If this thread right here is it: # 1460 frame five, bubble three, first word second line: "how", not "hot".
[Unless it's intentional and she's nervously stumbling over her words...]

jonarus_drakus:
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

lunchmeat:

--- Quote ---"Remember that guy off in whose trailer they were jacking?"
--- End quote ---

Y'know....that's actually completely incorrect. "Off" isn't a preposition, so the person who wrote that line for the movie really fucked it up. "Of" is a preposition - remember when people used to say "off of"? Yeah. "Off" just kinda wiggled its way into our regular grammar, but it isn't really right.

Regardless, since "jacking off" is a phrase in itself, it shouldn't be split.

Technically, it should be "Remember that guy in whose trailer they were jacking off?"

But whatever. I'm a spelling and grammar nazi and I respect people who are able to use the English language intelligently. Talking is one thing, but if you're going to write, you might as well do it right. Note that this doesn't extend to writing natural dialogue.

Sorry.

Eris:
Guys, the last post in this thread before it was necroed was in November. November. Why was it brought back up again? Why are we still having this discussion? Who cares about typos, really? It's not that hard to work out what he is trying to say, and most of the time Jeph fixes them himself, so a thread about typos makes everyone look ridiculously nitpicky.

jonarus_drakus, if you don't have anything to say then don't fucking post. It's a pretty simple concept.

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