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- I have a Lansbury in Day 1 of Angela Landbury week - curated by the inimitable @PeopleIKnow:
http://t.co/PKl4X1p02011/12/05 - Eurozone economics? Ah, it's all Greek to me.2011/12/05
- Fun fact: Whenever Picard had the Enterprise drop out of warp he'd suffix the command with 'Make it slow'.2011/12/05
- #blackmirror is excellent! Hats off to @charltonbrooker. Catch it on C4+1 at 10pm if you're not watching it now.2011/12/04
- Go and SEA today's comic:
http://t.co/kDU1WMXN2011/12/04
That looks like it could be on my dating application.
Ah, so that’s why I didn’t get any replies.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=less
This one is me. It’s why I can’t get a date.
Loved it.
Who uses a calligraphy marker on an application of any kind? If you must do that, at least take the time to practice your penmanship.
I can’t imagine why there were no replies
Who wants someone that’s gonna go around correcting you all the time?
I think 50 words or less is fine, as is 50 or fewer words. The fewer applies to 50. And less applies to the quantity formed by ’50 words’
aimono has it right. “Less” is perfectly acceptable and correct.
I was going to say exactly what Cloud9ine said, but he/she already said it!
Less than 50 words, eh? So I guess you couldn’t just draw a picture.
but a picture = 1000 words
but isn’t it “interchangEable”?
haha. FAIL! Less works fine.
I have less money than you. Money is most definitely countable. And I do not have “fewer” money than you.
Money is an abstract noun, so in itself it is not countable; you cannot have ‘monnies’.
Moneys or Monies, is acceptable, it seems. I think a good example would be talking about different forms of currency — or bartering material — being used to together and lumping them under the term moneys.
I guess since money is so often used as an abstract, like water, it’s odd to think of it in terms of referring to unique items.
cite: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/money
Actually, “moneys” is a word… see http://www.moneys.com
lol, dating agencies with paper… what is this the 90′s?
If it happened to be a girl who wrote this quite exquisite paragraph, I would marry her.
That looks like it was written with Adobe Flash. But I hope it wasn’t…
Considering this is a comic site I’m guessing it’s not supposed to be real
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how exactly does this look like it was written in adobe flash? there’s no animation. no tweening. it also isn’t even a flash document (swf). to me it looks as if it were written on paper, with a fountain pen. but for the sake of the intarnets, it was ‘shopped’. probably not, but then again who really cares. toodles.
I used a very special pen
I’m not talking about an animation. Have you used Flash before? It has a very nice calligraphy style brush that makes strokes just like that. That and the reason that the black dots are easily seen underneath the writing (opacity…) makes it seem possible. I’m not trying to poke holes in this or anything; I’m just suggesting the possibility… for the sake of the intrawebs. But it was probably just a nice pen.
I drew this with a graphics tablet and Adobe Photoshop elements 3.0 if I remember correctly (no paper was harmed in the making of this comic). Flash is unfortionately very expensive, and you can do layering and stuff on Photoshop quite well.
Thanks for your comments!
L
Believe me, I can’t either afford Flash… *wink
50 words or less? Ok, “less” Am I taking you too literally?
Ummm. It’s not necessarily incorrect by the way. The last part of the sentence was intentionally left out (“or less [...]“), yet this comment assumes it would have ended with “or less words”. In THAT case, yes, it would have been incorrect, but it could just as well have ended “or less than that”.
So it’s actually not necessarily a mistake!
As a language aficionado (or grammar Nazi as some people would say), I agree. The correct way to use “fewer” here would be to say “Describe yourself in 50 or fewer words”. “Describe yourself in 50 words or fewer” is less correct (or at least feels less correct/ more stilted) than “Describe yourself in 50 words or less”, because “less than that” is definitely implied here. It’s not quite the same situation as “12 items or less” in express checkout lanes because there it’s all about the exact number of items, but here it’s about how detailed the description should be.
actually, the way the question (well, order) is phrased it doesn’t imply “or less than that”. It implies “less words” (on the principle that you want to imply as little as possible). And “less words” is absolutely, demonstrably, incorrect.
Well, the guy is using a calligraphy pen.
So, y’know, doesn’t have much room to criticize a grammatical error.
You’d think that someone who cares so much about the grammatical difference between “less” and “fewer” would know how to spell “interchangEable”
actually i think the term is “monies” like having the benjamins
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/monies
So if that’s the case, I guess P. Diddy must have truly been “all about the monies” back in the day. Maybe/Maybe Not.
well after reading all the comments left before me I just have one thing left to say…
I think this is hillarious…
it’s interchangeable not interchangable.
he’s correct
The misspelling, though unintentional, will not be corrected. Maybe it kinda adds an extra layer to the joke?
may be he …………
Gee.. Is the person who filled the form a teacher?
I would totally date them - it pisses me off that people use ‘less’ in that way!
oh yea appropriate literary applications doesn’t even matter what sex it is these two will have a go
I agree with him. It is one of my pet peeves.
Try not being such a ****ing grammar nazi if you don’t know how to spell, yourself.
1) This is not real. It’s a COMIC. The grammar Nazi thing is part of the JOKE.
2) Your comma between “spell” and “yourself” is completely unnecessary.
you’re awesome.
Thumbs up for Luke.
Bonus bad pun:
So everyone at the dating agency had to use lighters instead of matches.
Yes, I’m truly sorry for that one.
I’d date the guy, too.
But he DID tell us alot about himself
@uhh
“Try not being such a ****ing grammar nazi if you don’t know how to spell, yourself.”
I know how to spell yourself, so can I be the grammar nazi?