Unknown. The great greengrocer’s apostrophe epidemic of ’63 was a little before their time. The revelation that the outbreak originated from a sample in government deep freeze is what eventually lead to the dissolution of the Office of Grammatical Affair’s and the formation of the Federal Grammar Police as we know it today, along with embezzlement scandal involving billion’s of dollar’s worth of “misplaced” government modifier’s.
No need to slaughter them: if you replace unwanted apostrophes’ helium with nitrogen they will float gently to the ground, where they can be carted off and reused as commas.
We’re in Alternate Reality, though, right? Maybe it’s (The Apostrophe of Doom, because that kind of thing just hijacks all our big brains, “blah blah blah OMG MISPLACED APOSTROPHE blah blah”) one of those things that signal which of the parallel universes we’re in now. Like that Larry Niven story – For a Foggy Night? – where the protagonist thinks he’s made it back to his original universe at last and destroyed the gate thingy, but then he sees a newspaper and …. there’s no letter “i”. Traaaaaaaaped in the Wroooooong Uuuuuuniverse!
Anyway. It’s a bit convoluted, but i find it more believable than that Shaenon made that kind of goof.
Scanning quickly back over the last few weeks (note: scanning quickly, so maybe i missed something) i don’t see any previous uses of the word “want”. Or possibly in this universe, “wan’t”.
So in today’s strip there’s an interdimensional gate thing, a major character getting grabbed by a giant mutant plant, and a usually stable, nonviolent character uncharacteristically instructing a usually unstable, hyper-violent one to go get a weapon … and yet every comment but one so far is about a stray apostrophe in the dialogue.
I heart Skin Horse fans so much. Y’all are, like, the bacon-wrapped rocket-launching pony* of fandoms.
*Go ahead and parse that however you darned well want. You’ve earned it.
“wan’t”?
It’s a scene of wan’ton destruction. Soon zombie John Houseman will appear, one of the four Housemen of the Apostrophe.
First “Renolds”, then “wan’t”. Next thing you know, we can’t get the fire door shut…
Surviving catastrophes is the Skin Horse team’s specialty. And if there isn’t a catastrophe, then they’ll cause one and survive the sh*t out of it!
But how are they on surviving apostrophes?
Unknown. The great greengrocer’s apostrophe epidemic of ’63 was a little before their time. The revelation that the outbreak originated from a sample in government deep freeze is what eventually lead to the dissolution of the Office of Grammatical Affair’s and the formation of the Federal Grammar Police as we know it today, along with embezzlement scandal involving billion’s of dollar’s worth of “misplaced” government modifier’s.
I see a few of them escaped, and are now surviving in the wild.
Feral apostrophes are a real problem. Please, spay and neuter your apostrophes. And slaughter all apostrophe’s. For humanitarian purposes.
No need to slaughter them: if you replace unwanted apostrophes’ helium with nitrogen they will float gently to the ground, where they can be carted off and reused as commas.
You have to be careful introducing excess commas into the grammatical ecosystem, you can easily get an outbreak of comma splices.
Probably Sergio heard all about Colma from his friend the monster swamp. (Swamp monster?) Probably they’re both prisoners of Anasigma…
Apostrophe’s to the left of them, apostrophe’s to the right of them, into the valley of Strunk and White rode the six hundred
I’d say this piling on apostrophes is a bit much, but I wouldnt’ want to have missed Pygars comment.
Fearless Leader has fixed”wan’t”, but not “Renolds”. Now I understand how Poe died…
We’re in Alternate Reality, though, right? Maybe it’s (The Apostrophe of Doom, because that kind of thing just hijacks all our big brains, “blah blah blah OMG MISPLACED APOSTROPHE blah blah”) one of those things that signal which of the parallel universes we’re in now. Like that Larry Niven story – For a Foggy Night? – where the protagonist thinks he’s made it back to his original universe at last and destroyed the gate thingy, but then he sees a newspaper and …. there’s no letter “i”. Traaaaaaaaped in the Wroooooong Uuuuuuniverse!
Anyway. It’s a bit convoluted, but i find it more believable than that Shaenon made that kind of goof.
Scanning quickly back over the last few weeks (note: scanning quickly, so maybe i missed something) i don’t see any previous uses of the word “want”. Or possibly in this universe, “wan’t”.
Um. That was “Traaaaaaaaapped”. 🙂
So in today’s strip there’s an interdimensional gate thing, a major character getting grabbed by a giant mutant plant, and a usually stable, nonviolent character uncharacteristically instructing a usually unstable, hyper-violent one to go get a weapon … and yet every comment but one so far is about a stray apostrophe in the dialogue.
I heart Skin Horse fans so much. Y’all are, like, the bacon-wrapped rocket-launching pony* of fandoms.
*Go ahead and parse that however you darned well want. You’ve earned it.
1. They have corrected the apostrophe. Never let it be said that Our Esteemed Authors do not listen to their audience.
2. Does Panel 4 mean Tip’s superpower extends beyond the species line into the plant kingdom now?
Ohhhhh-kay. I really liked my multi-universe hypothesis. 😉