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WCDT Strips 3356-3360 (21st to 25th November 2016)
Thrudd:
--- Quote from: DonInKansas on 20 Nov 2016, 15:30 ---Better than her inner Michael Knight.
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How about a K.I.T.T. Kat then?
cesium133:
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 20 Nov 2016, 20:22 ---
--- Quote from: DonInKansas on 20 Nov 2016, 15:30 ---Better than her inner Michael Knight.
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How about a K.I.T.T. Kat then?
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Give him a break.
edit -- New comic
mmm... yeah... condense that ethanol... that's one hell of a sexy distillery.
TheEvilDog:
You guys are NERDS
cesium133:
You say that as if there's something wrong with it. :-P
oddtail:
OK, so here's the thing.
I believe, or try to, in the descriptivist, not prescriptivist approach to language. If people* speak in a certain way, that means that is the "correct" way, because artificial constraints about what is "correct" are there only because a certain dialect or sociolect is associated with higher social status, and screw that kind of language imperialism.
Basically, the notion of "this is incorrect" does not apply to language, even if a particular form is not considered "correct". That's why it annoys me when people claim sentences can't be ended with a preposition. That's why I don't consider double negation in English to be incorrect, because there are non-standard variants of English where people speak like that.
Where am I going with this? Well, I'm a huge hypocrite, because seeing the word "pissed" in the meaning "angry" makes me angry to the point that an anime-style vein appears on my forehead. I know that's the common term in American English in general, but ARGH. The proper term, to me, is "pissed off", the way most dialects of British English tend to use it. "pissed" properly means "drunk", and for some mysterious reason the fact that Americans tend to say "pissed" when they mean "angry" is infuriating to me. Especially in a comic that is both about someone being angry and someone else being drunk. That's just confusing on top of being annoying**.
Besides, it's inconsistent and illogical. I've checked - pretty much nobody says "that pisses me". Everyone, and that includes Americans, says "that pisses me off". So the term SHOULD be "pissed off". According to my Google search, the phrase "that pisses me" without the word "off" following it appears extraordinarily rarely, and in 90% of cases, it's because "off" is misspelt as "of".
Bottom line - "pissed" means "drunk", "pissed off" means "angry", and I stubbornly refuse to acknowledge any other use of the terms is correct, despite it being the case for hundreds of millions of people who are native speakers of the language. I'm not even sure how that use of "pissed" evolved in the US (I assume lazy use of language***).
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* Well, native speakers of the language. Not just anyone.
** "Emily found some booze Faye stashed in the shop and we cracked it open. Hanners got pissed (...)" can be easily read, without the context of the previous comic, to mean "Hanners got drunk", after all. Heck, I did a double take of that sentence.
*** Lazy language is the source of pretty much ALL language evolution, anyway ;)
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