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grandhighpoopah
Posted: Oct 22 2009, 02:38 PM


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Hello again smile.gif.

This is your friendly, neighborhood watchdog smile.gif. In the last comic, the cute scientist with the pink goggles has a very oddly constructed English phrase in the first panel, "...there's no way to knowing...." It sounds a bit awkward inherently, but it's also incorrect grammatically. The phrase could be "...there's no way to know..." or "...there's no way of knowing..." either of which would work, but the current construction is a bit odd.

Enjoying the comic, as always,
Humbly,
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Blitz
Posted: Oct 24 2009, 08:49 AM


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Ah, see, what he have here is a rare example of the "trans-mutating F." Originally, that awkward, nonsensical "to" was the word "of." However, an as-yet-unidentified viral agent not only caused the F to become dislodged and drift to the other side of the O, but also left the curved to of the letter ridged and pointy, giving it the illusion of a "T."

As for the general awkwardness, that was KIND of deliberate, in that I intentionally left it that way. I figured that Kiki would be more concerned with pouring out all the important facts than sounding natural (scientists are kind of funny that way)
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