The Cartoonist Beat Me To It!

I don’t usually post comics that contain profanity, but I do like it when someone gets their grammar right…

I got to the third panel and decided to post the comic with a grammar correction, then I got to the fourth panel! At least the monster didn’t say “your so easy.”

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I don’t recommend doing this live person-to-person, though.

But it’s funny.

I wonder how he got that ball to perch on that sloping skateboard, though.

—Some of the time, anyway. Tech docs have a reputation for not being read, but that’s because we make the info so clear, people sometimes think they didn’t read it. Details after the comic.

Five things about writing instructions well:

• Number the instructions.
• One instruction per instruction. (Except you can end with “and press Enter” when appropriate.)
• Start with an imperative.
• Tell the result of doing it right.
• Include a picture afterwards if possible. The goal is to make it possible to follow the instructions just by looking at the pictures. Hence the reputation of not being read.

It’s called A Word A Day. Here’s a recent first line:

The word pentasyllabic actually has five syllables. The term seventeen-lettered actually has 17 letters. TLA (Three-Letter Abbreviation) has three letters.

https://wordsmith.org/words/today.html (today = June 20, 2022)

Click the link and go look around: https://wordsmith.org/

The first lesson I’ve mentioned before: use the subjunctive with “if.” The kid doesn’t, which is incorrect. First panel:

He should say “If I were left-handed.” “If” implies contrary to fact, hence the need for the subjunctive.

So what’s the answer to his question? Could he be left-handed and right-footed? Yes! Herein lies lesson two, a vocabulary lesson. When you are right-one thing and left-another thing, that’s called being cross-dominant. I happen to be cross-dominant—right-handed and left-eyed, so that’s how I know.

What about you? Might you be cross-dominant?