Posts and discussion about the webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Hugo Award-winning author Zach Weinersmith (and related works)
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New comics posted whenever they get posted on the site, and old comics posted every day until we catch up in a decade or so
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In the final round, they pelt you with eggcorns.
Bonus panel
"descriptivism" is a great defence against getting a word wrong. It's a huge gamble, as you look like a dick and incorrect, but you be you.
Illigitimus non-irregardless carborundum
Fun fact: "nuclear" comes from the Latin nucula, 'little nut'. The c and l being adjacent in modern forms is due to metathesis, the same process that results in some people pronouncing "ask" as "ax".
Have linguistics degree. Can confirm.
this causes me physical pain
I unironically love descriptivism because it acknowledges languages in active use as not dead, and not static.
Most of y’all nerds know that “nice” and “mean” used to have very different definitions 😄
I knew about nice, but what did mean mean?
As an adjective: lowly, common, inferior.
You’ll have to scroll a bit but here should give a better explanation
Quick — what is the original plural of “syllabus”?!
sittybōs is the plural of sittyba - "syllabus" has been a 600 year old misreading of a Greek word from a Roman library and it's time to set the record straight.
syllapodes
Someone's got a case of the syllies
Sill-ap-po-dees
Syllabub
Syllabeese