A Punctuation Joke
I didn’t read this carefully the first time, so it took me a moment to get the joke. Do you?
“Eclipse” does look rather like “ellipsis.” Ellipsis is the name of those three dots in text to represent something left out; it looks like this: …
It’s a geek joke, I guess.
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A Correct “Only”
Usually I post about mistakes, but the mistake of putting “only” in the wrong place is so common, I’m posting an example of it being used correctly! In the only speech in the comic: People often say “…only covers your parking.” Wrong! Always put “only” directly in front of the word it refers to, not […]
What’s the Plural of “Basis”?
Okay, a serious post today; no comic. Here’s a quote fro the July/August Scientific American, page 59. It’s from an article about quantum mechanics: …In this scenario, a qubit can be in some superposition of the values +1 and -1. Measuring a qubit involves specifying something called a basis—think of it as a direction. Now. […]
My Most Famous Spelling Error
Not much of a lesson today (I hope). This word got some significant “advertising” when I was in 6th grade. Our reading lessons featured a pioneer family and this was the winning word in a spelling bee in their one-room school house. Considering who the writer of this comic is, I’m pretty sure the error […]
Can You Add to this List of Synonyms?
Not much of a list—only two items. Can you add to it? My question, actually, is what’s the difference between those two terms? I suspect that a nerd is not just a college-educated geek. And which are you? Nerd or geek?
