Sweetheart is apparently still so off-balance due to the poor kerning that she’s now making grammatical errors. “Who’s killing who?” (Should be “Who’s killing whom?”). Get that lady a margarita, stat!
A margarita wouldn’t make any difference. Her souped up metabolism wouldn’t even notice. Now, a bathtub full of margarita, that might be a different matter.
As an educated speaker of American English living in the Northeast, I find “whom” in this context to be somewhere between quaint and precious. Language changes over time, and this is one of the places.
“whom” is just as borderline obsolete there, and indeed in every current English dialect I am aware of. It’ll be gone completely in two or three hundred years, I bet.
(I’m a home counties British English speaker, and I find “who’s killing whom” to be so clunky that I’d assume the speaker was trying to make some sort of pretentious point: so clunky that it obscures the meaning. It’s not anything anyone would naturally say, not any more.)
Yep, this is one of those dark humors; the staff was expecting someone else, Unity’s gonna kill’em so there’s no witnesses, and she’s already been (accidently) goaded on by Sweetheart.
Actually, I think those might be Dr. Lee’s old co-workers. Either way, how did they (the surprise party people) know that they (Our Heroes) were coming?
(On my phone, I’ve had autocorrupt replace a correctly spelled common word with a different, less common word. And of course, it does so just as my attention moves off the word I finished typing and I start the next word, so I on’t always see it happen in time.)
First, I’d like to say that I adore how sweetly delighted Unity looks in the last panel! I also could swear that when I first read this strip, the cake (which I suspect is a brain frosted with radioactive waste) had Unity’s name inscribed on it! I know, I must be hallucinating…
Happy birthday to… H.T. getting caught in a bear trap?
Sure, I’ll celebrate that.
We can also celebrate Unity discovering Brains with Butter.
Sweetheart is apparently still so off-balance due to the poor kerning that she’s now making grammatical errors. “Who’s killing who?” (Should be “Who’s killing whom?”). Get that lady a margarita, stat!
A margarita wouldn’t make any difference. Her souped up metabolism wouldn’t even notice. Now, a bathtub full of margarita, that might be a different matter.
As an educated speaker of American English living in the Northeast, I find “whom” in this context to be somewhere between quaint and precious. Language changes over time, and this is one of the places.
Sweetheart is Canadian. Which dialect of American is that?
“whom” is just as borderline obsolete there, and indeed in every current English dialect I am aware of. It’ll be gone completely in two or three hundred years, I bet.
(I’m a home counties British English speaker, and I find “who’s killing whom” to be so clunky that I’d assume the speaker was trying to make some sort of pretentious point: so clunky that it obscures the meaning. It’s not anything anyone would naturally say, not any more.)
But this is Sweetheart we’re talking about. Like OP said, she’s just thrown a fit about *kerning.*
Indeed, if anyone is going to be pretentious about who vs. whom, it’d be Sweetheart.
Ah but Sweetheart is a pedant. Pedants cling to the use of ‘whom’ in the way that Odysseus clings to a fig tree.
Yep, this is one of those dark humors; the staff was expecting someone else, Unity’s gonna kill’em so there’s no witnesses, and she’s already been (accidently) goaded on by Sweetheart.
No need to kill ’em, just say it’s a random shoe inspection – they’ll be totally cowed.
I was gonna say just apologize for being late for the party.
Agreed. If anyone can ingratiate themselves into a party it should be Tip!
Are those the ladies for whom Unity became a notary?
Actually, I think those might be Dr. Lee’s old co-workers. Either way, how did they (the surprise party people) know that they (Our Heroes) were coming?
I have to doubt stealthiness is an attribute Annex One possesses…
I can’t believe Sweetheart of all people wouldn’t realize that it’s “Who’s killing whom?”
And what the deal with airline food?
Also, what’s the deal with bloody autocorrect subverting my contracting “what” and “is”? I mean, gee’s!
Lowest bidder.
More cameos from Shaenon’s friends? That cake looks… subtly worrisome.
ITYM “autocorrupt”.
(On my phone, I’ve had autocorrupt replace a correctly spelled common word with a different, less common word. And of course, it does so just as my attention moves off the word I finished typing and I start the next word, so I on’t always see it happen in time.)
Turn it off. Auto correct keeps telling me my name is misspelled.
Hmph. Supposed to be a reply to Jim … *sigh*
So who’s the surprise party *for*?
The cake is a lie
+1
Actually, the cake is true. Everything else in this setup is a lie.
First, I’d like to say that I adore how sweetly delighted Unity looks in the last panel! I also could swear that when I first read this strip, the cake (which I suspect is a brain frosted with radioactive waste) had Unity’s name inscribed on it! I know, I must be hallucinating…
“Look, a hallucination cake!”
“What? Where?!”
*bam! Leg sweep!*