I See This Spelled Correctly About Once a Year

It’s supposed to be “all right” instead of “alright.” So here’s a guy who got it right for this year. First panel:

I think that character is a professor or something…

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I often see people say they can’t wait when they actually wait (or have to wait)—just impatiently. Here’s someone who couldn’t wait:

I had a friend in high school (hi, Jim!), who, whenever he heard someone say they couldn’t wait, said “you’ll have to.” I’ve imitated him ever since.

It’s about using “like” for “said.”

I don’t know whether it drives parents nuts, but it drives at least this tech writer nuts. Note that they’re using better verbs, too.

This is why I try to avoid pronouns. Last panel. Whose nose???

Pronouns typically need a noun they refer to, called the antecedent. The topic of the conversation is some famous classmate, but the closest noun is “another kid.” So did the kid shove the hot dog up his own nose, or up the nose of the kid who ate the ketchup? Which one is the antecedent?

—When it’s used as a relative pronoun to introduce a subordinate clause. Not that I like the conversation in the comic, but the speech in the second panel is a good example of how using “that” after the verb “sorry” removes ambiguity.

I’m a technical writer by trade, and I hate ambiguity. The period also removes the ambiguity, but you can’t hear a period.