Subject Verb Object, Right?

But we English speakers are rather used to other orders of those parts of speech. Third panel:

For one thing, it’s not a sentence; no verb—all three words are nouns. So she read it as “Customers: do the appreciation today” or something like that. How would you re-word the sign?

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Well, maybe “backwards” isn’t quite right. Maybe “He got the wrong end” would be more precise. Second panel:

Alliteration refers to the beginning of words. Rhyme involves the end of words.

“Bad” in the sense that nobody says them. They still meet the definition of palindrome; the letters are in the same order both forwards and backwards.

I like What Adam first said to Eve: “madam, I’m adam.” Note that it’s the order of the letters; spaces don’t count.

Got a palindrome that you like?

“Foots” instead of “feet,” but maybe it makes sense…

What do you think? Might there be a place for “foots”? What’s the plural of that mouse next to your keyboard?

Tech writers say that all marcom people are insane. Marcom is the tech writers’ word for “marketing communications.” The purposes of marketing and technical writing are a world apart. They purpose of marketing is to persuade people to buy something. The purpose of technical writing is to tell the truth, be it describing what’s going on, or describing how to do something.

Here’s an example of marcom:

Yes, the comic is funny, with all those contradictons, but the marcom is disturbing to me, a tech writer. I think Luann might become a tech writer.