Standard Mistake, Standard Correction

Not standard circumstance.

The problem with this error is that it’s two errors (putting yourself first and using “me” instead of “I”) and grade school teachers tend to correct both at once. Consequently, their students tend to use “I” even when they should use “me.”

So:

• Use “I” when it’s a subject
• Use “me” when it’s the object of a preposition
• Be humble—mention the other guy first.

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is a pretty good source of intellectual humor.

Do you see the redundancy?

Well, I think it’s funny. When you have some time, look up “quine.” Or maybe “quine’s paradox.” Willard Van Orman Quine invented a type of self-referential sentence.

We often have a choice of synonyms that we can choose among to show how strongly we want to assert something. We call these differences of degree. For example, we can say “somewhat” or “very.” Many times we can choose from among more than a mere two choices:

What might you include in this list? Where would you put your addition (or additions)?

I don’t need to say much about this one…

I don’t hear the word “graffito” very much.

Panels two and three:

I confess I’m not much up on current slang, but he makes sense. I think.