![[0049] Graffiti](http://www.sandraandwoo.com/comics/2009-04-08-[0049]-graffiti.png "[0049] Graffiti")
A new comic on Wednesday since Sandra and Woo is updating three times this week.
I got the basic idea for this comic strip from my own grandmother. No, she didn’t do something like this!
A more fitting title would have been “The dangers of being a real-life grammar nazi”, but that would have given away the joke for all the people who read the title first.
- Graffiti: Barak Obama is an communist pig
- Sandra: Grandma is in custody for one of her patented graffiti stunts!
- Richard: AGAIN?!?!
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In communist Russia, they can spel.
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Josh M, duh, they should. If they know the right way to spell and write it, even without a degree
freedom of expression means you have the right to express your opinions any way you choose… however, two wrongs (three in this instance) don’t make a right
I know a lady who wouldn’t have corrected the graffiti herself, but she would have hunted down the “artist” (author?) and made HIM correct it. And she’s the type of lady where he’d do it and be glad nothing worse happened.
Perfect English isn’t necessary, but keeping it as good as possible is important. Anybody who intentionally makes communication difficult should be ignored – communication with them is not worth the effort. Non-native speakers of the language and small children should be given more lenience, of course.
Good English is especially important on the internet because there are so many non-English speakers who are attempting to piece together what everybody else is saying. Erroneous things that are really easy for native speakers to figure out are much harder for non-native speakers. They have to stop and wonder whether it’s an error, or a new word that they haven’t learned yet. And the language itself is such a mess that it’s hard to just use intuition to figure out what the person was saying. Languages have different phonetic rules, and English words come from a wide mix of languages. So somebody from yet another language would have trouble looking at a misspelled word and attempting to figure out how it’s pronounced in order to figure out what the intended word was.
What gets me is that those are some pretty basic mistakes up there. If someone can’t get to grips with the spelling of someones’ name (When they’re that famous) or the ridiculously simple A versus AN rule, then they’re beyond hope.
Maybe she’s just a retired teacher…
MrGBH you’d be shocked how often it seems people can’t even get spellings right when they’re copying out someone’s name from an already printed/online source, once you start paying attention to it. Unfortunately having a very large human population means that the outliers of sense and intelligence are only going to get larger. And while that means more clever people (e.g. the genius who came up with that GM – Segway 2 seater thing that was revealed a few days ago), it also means a lot more just-stupid-enough-to-be-annoying ones as well…
Also: love the “PATENTED graffiti stunt” thing. I’m in fear that she might actually have done that (she seems like the formidable kind of woman who would go to that extent), and next time I find myself drunk, with a coloured pen, in a toilet stall with much misspelt graffiti, she’ll come charging in demanding licensing fees :p
haha looking back at it i just realised the *only* reason she went in the store was to get the spraycan
and i bet it’s red, too.
not to mention.. AGAIN? Yep. She’s a retired teacher. I know too many teachers, active and former. Old habits die very, very, very hard!
romanes eunt domus
I would want to fix it too… though thats what makes it even more hilarious
Somehow, I can’t help thinking the punk at the register should have found this visual a little stranger than he apparently does. Oh well, I guess the youth of today are just too jaded to be thrown by ANYTHING…
I am wondering what kind of shop that actually is. The casual style of the clerk. Multiple cans of spray paint that appear to be unsecured. The sign of the store appears to be in graffiti fashion. Large speakers that I suspect don’t play casual jazz or elevator tunes. (Something far harder in nature, most likely.) Street clothes and perhaps music CD’s.
I think the nature of the shop reflects in the non-concerned attitude of the clerk about who is buying the paint.
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I bet they only have written that for this effect
I would have wanted to correct the mistakes as well
Freedom of expression IS okay. But not in graffiti form. That is called vandalism.
In Communist Russia, Grammar corrects you!
I would probably have done that as well. As soon as I read that added N, I started drawing out a rough idea pool on how to find and murder the one who did it.
@ gabrielsthoughts:
Grammar is very important! Don’t mock it till you’ve tried it, and grammar is important to try!
It reminds me a teacher I had! She could have a heart attack because of an ortography mistake…
I’m so glad this didn’t turn into a liberal comic.
*Sniff*
I actually AM a real-life Grammar Nazi…
Grammar Nazi Grandma.
@ wolli:
Awesome! Life of Brian was my first thought too!
Grandma must have been a Language Arts or Spelling or English teacher in her younger days!
@ Gusty:
Graffiti and vandalism are two different things, once again. You can do graffitis without making the walls dirty and ugly… when you have walls specially dedicated to graffitis in your city. Unfortunately, this spaces of free expression lack a lot in our cities. And sometimes, graffiti is not just a little stupid sentence : it can be a real art!
And to conclude on this comic : I can’t bear the misspellings on the hypermarket shelves, so that I correct’em with a pen when the vigils don’t watch ^w^”
Reminds me of the days when I used to carry around a black permanent marker with me for one very specific purpose:
Every time I saw the word “pilates” written somewhere… on a sign or a poster or whatever… I’d turn the “l” into an “r”.
I was just so damned furious at everyone misspelling “pirates”.