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2011-10-17

by shaenon on October 17, 2011 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Once and Future
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  1. Leigh
    December 9, 2013, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

    Spurious punctuation error! That should be Penii! šŸ˜›

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      January 13, 2014, 7:47 am | # | Reply

      And that should be “spurious pluralization error”. Neither word contains any punctuation.

      And yes, I just started two sentences with coordinating conjunctions. That’s actually grammatically correct. What are you going to do about it?

    • jdreyfuss
      April 9, 2014, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

      “Penii” would be the plural of “penius.” “Penis” is properly pluralized as either “penises” or “penes.”

  2. Sailorleo
    July 15, 2014, 6:12 pm | # | Reply

    Penes isn’t correct either. Wrong declination for that in Latin, and the only standard English path for a word ending in s is -es.

    • Whoops
      January 15, 2015, 11:26 am | # | Reply

      Penes would be using the Greek pluralization thingies. Also using the standard path for pluralization in the original language is acceptable for loanwords.

      So… it could be a standard English path for pluralization. Technically.

    • NoĆ«lle Anthony
      February 26, 2016, 6:18 pm | # | Reply

      A year and a half late, but you’re mistaken – “penes” is the correct plural in Latin. It’s third-declension i-stem, and is declined like so:

      penis penes
      penis penium
      peni penibus
      penem penes
      pene penibus

      But “penises” is perfectly correct English. (“Penii” is right out, as is “virii” as a plural for “virus”.)

    • Dementron
      December 15, 2016, 6:00 am | # | Reply

      I’ve seen penes used in a scientific context before. Specifically hemipenes, the paired penises of some snakes and lizards. In english, though, penises is perfectly acceptable.

  3. SotiCoto
    August 20, 2014, 4:21 am | # | Reply

    This is the point where I note that using slang is a lot easier, on account of there being no rules to follow and thus no possibility of it being distinctively “wrong”.

    And writing “p33n0rz” is totally viable.

    • Ardacil
      February 25, 2015, 10:52 am | # | Reply

      And yet, you claim that “y’all” isn’t a word…

      • KA$H
        February 4, 2016, 10:24 pm | # | Reply

        I love this community. y’all should never change.

      • Dementron
        December 15, 2016, 6:05 am | # | Reply

        Pretty sure he’s trolling.

        • Carl Muckenhoupt
          August 18, 2018, 8:48 pm | # | Reply

          Or just sarcastic. For what it’s worth, there are options beyond “everyone must talk the way I was taught in elementary school” and “there are no rules, everything you can say is equally valid”. Slang has rules. They’re not rules that anyone was taught as rules, but people can tell when you break them all the same.

  4. cjack99
    November 4, 2014, 11:16 am | # | Reply

    I love this comic!

  5. TheLivingNick
    March 18, 2015, 9:18 am | # | Reply

    For some reason this is the first thing that popped into my head:

    http://ozyandmillie.org/2001/09/05/ozy-and-millie-751/

  6. eddurd
    June 22, 2017, 11:08 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Brass In Pocket”, The Pretenders)

    Zombie wants … to just be
    A real-live … notary, so see!
    Application, then initiation!
    And I drew a, drew a, drew a penis!

    The Abbess said … what lies ahead,
    She doesn’t smile … a deadly trial!
    A reward? Writing is hard,
    So I drew a, drew a, drew a penis!

    And I drew a thing,
    And I drew a dong,
    And I drew a wang,
    And I drew a weenie,
    And I drew a pee-pee,
    And I drew a, a, a, a tallywhacker …

    ‘Cause I … really wanna be
    A badass public … notary!
    Got keen-ness … and mean-ness …
    So in each blank I drew a penis!
    (with a scrotum!)

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