Absolutely Not True!

Yes, it’s a comic about tech writers, but I have yet to meet one who doesn’t like their job! I agree that many of my colleagues are not well paid, though.

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When you have a compound sentence, put the comma before the conjunction. Applies to semicolons, too. I think the big guy looks angry because the little guy has it wrong. Right???

No comment. What do you think?

I think irony has to be more deliberate. (So okay, I made a comment.)

Look at the last panel:

Should it be “bite” or “bites”?

I’ll make the correct answer more obvious:

• of those old ladies who bite
• one …who bites

Yes! the correct verb is “bites”! The plural “ladies” goes with the preposition, and the noun clause (who bites) refers to the singular noun, “one.”

The plural is closer, hence the mistake. This error is called “attraction.”

It’s “Last but not least.” I remember in high school kidding about having a two-point talk, and calling them “first and foremost” and “last but not least.” I see the expression a lot in business memos, and it always makes me roll my eyes and ask which point is least, then? (That “then” unnecessarily at the end of the sentence is a Minnesota-ism.)

Here’s finally a correct “last but not least”:

You know that the higher your golf score, the worse off you are, fight?