Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 14, 2020

oh, drat

Oh my – Bernice in her sleep – hilarious?

I was right – Luann the spoiler.

How did that slip by the proof reader? I’m with Bernice – that would bother me too.

Look fellow Ichthyologists, a new dog fish species, Puddles?

I love mer-Puddles with his little fishy tail. :D

Nancy Degroot will be disappointed that Bernice can’t de-stress.

Grammar always! It’s far more important than romance.

Lovin’ Mer-Puddles!

Editing a fantasy. The epitome of sad…

A lot of people get bent out of shape by grammatical errors like that. And publishing housed have gotten really bad about proofreading because they think “with spell-check who needs a proofreader.”

And Luann waiting in the background? I see the rise of the Green-Eyed Monster

PS – I’m a terrible proofreader because I know what I wrote and never see what I typed.

Typical rigid, uptight Bernice. Can’t even have a romantic dream/fantasy without criticizing and or correcting others.

First and last time Bernice lets Nancy recommend a book.

The Evanses don’t allow premarital kissing anymore, not even in fantasy sequences. Sorry, Bernice. Next to go will be lap sitting. Sorry, Gunther.

In that sentence, how on earth can Bernice hear “your” when the context is clearly “you’re?”

The grammar sent Jack to Luann.

So, Beatrice, you do have this niggling fear of a potential love triangle which your dream seems to reveal. Rest assured – she is not interested in Jack BUT she might pull a Tiffany, though.

Am I the only one who is confused as to why girls are expected to like this crap even if they’re smart? Stories like these are AWFUL.

Well, THIS comes as No surprise.

Like I said yesterday, Luann “Wins” the guy. Even in Bernice’s dreams, Luann “WINS” the guy. Luann ALWAYS Wins when comes to a guy. Deal with that Harsh Reality Bernice.

Now if this arc continues Monday, would it be too much to ask that when Bernice wakes up, she comes to her senses, forgets about Jack (who in truth, has been little more than an unneeded distraction for last couple months) and makes up her mind to FINALLY, deal with the “Ben problem” once and for all?

Or will Bernice decide to “dumb-down” in order to “fit-in” with the masses?

And will the scalpers hoard the new PS5’s and try to sell them on eBay for 4 times their value the same way they did the Nvidia RTX 3070, 3080, 3090 graphics cards, the No-Good, Money Grubbing, Greedy, So and So’s? ;)

We men have a saying about this kind of dreaming.

My, my. The merman meanders.

As a former English teacher, I’ve seen many stories with great premises be ruined by poor grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

Yep, hilarity ensues and the dream swims off chasing Luann. All because of your.

On a subconscious, as much as Bernice is physically attracted to Jack. She wants intellect and she thinks he’s all brawn and not much intellect. Even if her dreams she’s stressed out. She won’t let herself relax.

Luann makes for a nice mermaid.

Even dream Bernice doesn’t like Bernazi Bernice. Oh well, it would be nice if she would wake up and resolve to not be so uptight.

Poor Bernice. Forever tongue-tide.

Hello, a dogfish!

Bernice is actually lucky she dodged Mer-Jack now because of grammar. It would’ve been really awkward later when his spelling deficiency caused him to declare that “I’m so glad I got to meat you!”

The misuse messes me up too. That and prepositional phrases like “to he and I” rather than “to him and me.”

Other than that, put some tail fins into your plans.

Oh, wait. This is Saturday. The end of the week and clearly the end of the arc. There will be no more of Beatrice and Jacques. Monday will be a pivot to either Gunther (haven’t seen him in a while, Tiffany or Shannon if only because the writer has no idea what to do with either Gunther or Tiffany. A flashback to TJ cooking in the Ferrel household kitchen would be nice, give us closure on that story. Of course it would be nice if Luann had an arc. I know: Fay and her classmates want to put on a play but there school no longer has a theater instructor so she asked if Luann could direct the play. That would be a nice week of clashing egos, drama queens and rowdy boys dragooned into being in the play.

Bernice has too many inner forces that are fighting each other. It appears that she just lost this argument with herself.

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Oh, yeah, and she just lost Jacques as well.

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Now, if she can just carry what she learned in the dream to her waking life and not make the same mistake. But this is Bernice we are talking about.

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One last thought – yesterday was Greg’s 73rd birthday. Happy late birthday, Greg!

pppppffffffffFFFFFFFFTTTTTTT HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAA!!

“Yo! Luann! Wait up (with your c-cups)!”

This is where Bernice starts planning on murdering Luann in her sleep..

There was a gag on the show “Friends” where one of the guys wonders if he ever turned away a woman who was his perfect match because she pronounces it “supposably.”

Hey! Look! A dogfish! His name is Paddles!

Now that’s the funniest “Luann” in ages. :)

Gee, the water got cold all of a sudden!

So back on Nov. 2nd, Jack asked Bernice “YOU WALK ALOT?” Some pointed out the grammatical slip, bit not Bernice. Now. all of a sudden she goes all Grammar Nazi on herself!?!? What is greg playing at here?

If Bernice were a real character, her preconscious mind is intruding into her dream/fantasy world. Once again demonstrating that Bernice needs some Mrs. Phelps time! (Hey! It worked for Tiffany!)

There goes a dogfish

Chased by a catfish

Bernice, you’re such a grammar nazi and now, you blew your chance for your first dream kiss.

[Your, you’re, yore] seriously [pixxing, torquing] [me, myself, and I] off by being a one-twit nit-picking grammar police force!

ROTFLMAO! That is just “so” Bernice!

Hey, Bernice! Freud called. He wants his superego back.

Now THAT’S funny!!

Grammar is The Law.

Beatrice does grammar in her sleep, I do math problems in my sleep. Whatta curse.

No way the editors missed that contraction.

Now cue the dream sequence

Maybe this is a teaching moment… Bernice might see that her know-it-allness is holding her back from enjoying herself.

“You’re” and “Your” sound the same when spoken. Was there a court reporter making a typo transcribing this conversation?

Most editors would have caught that before publication.

Yo, Luann! Wait up ….perfect ending.

Other shoe dropped…

The most common misconception among aspiring writers is “Oh, the publishers won’t care whether your spelling and punctuation is flawless as long as you make sure the actual plot is good enough to sell.” What the publishers will actually think is that you don’t care enough about your book to fix the errors.(The same rule/advice applies to writers saying that “Chapter 1 isn’t great, but do read on, because it gets really good at chapter 5…”)

Puddles is the best part of this comic today. I hope my grammar is ok, or Bernice might track myself down.

Hey! Leave the pedantry to the experts!

Their, their, Bernice.

I’ve found incorrect grammar in books also. Grrr. Makes me furious.

Bernice has met her enemy, and is herself…. Her obsessive thinking and rethinking about everything and her mania for perfection haunt her even in her most romantic dreams. Poor thing. Let’s hope she will be able to do a psychologically correct interpretation of this dream. But HOORAY!!! MERMAID LUANN IS BEAUTIFUL ♡♡♡!!! And MerPuddles is so cute.

Well at least we finally have a love triangle that isn’t a blatant “Betty and Veronica” with Tiffany in the Veronica role.

That’s Bernice in the nut shell.

I am worried about people who use the expression “grammar nazi”. If you see it from the nazi angle a grammar nazi should be invading, conquering, enslaving and destroying based on fake premises of being superior. But when correcting a grammar mistake, one isn’t acting on a fake pretense since the mistake is real. And if you see it from the grammar angle, then it means the nazis were people who liked to make wrong things right. It’s very uncomfortable. Either it’s a disguised praise for nazis, a display of ignorance about nazis or saying that anyone who points out a mistake is evil.

Of course if the person pointing out the mistake demands for the one who made said mistake to be executed then the expression might be somewhat valid. But it seems to me it’s used most of of the time toward anyone who corrects a mistake. Some might say that it’s not the right time to correct the mistake because we should focus on the message being delivered. But hey, the right time to correct the mistake is when it happens.

Though I’d like to see another version, the “grammar kgb”. They don’t say anything at the moment but one day your hear a knock at your door at 5 am and when you open you see two guys in trench-coat telling you "remember on october 14 2018, on the Luann discussion thread when you wrote “your” instead of “you’re”? Follow us to the reeducation camp"

Luann isn’t a ‘spoiler’ in this instance. This is Bernice’s DREAM. It suggests that Bernice does, in fact, see Luann as a threat vis a vis her feelings for Jack, though…

Are you suggesting romance novels are poorly written?

Bern’s two sides battling each other—is this a dream that will make her change her ways?is it a learning lesson that will enable her to prevent future gaffes? or is it a preview of what is to come, a statement about how Bern’s critical nature will never change?

My English Major roommate in college got a mash note (look it up children) from a gal he didn’t like all that much, corrected it for grammar and spelling and returned it. I’m pretty sure that ended that relationship.

Lol! That’s great! Even her fantasy self is criticizing her subconscious!Reading books and papers with grammatical errors annoys me, too, but in a dream sequence? Nope. So now what will she do, swim after him? Or will someone knock on her door and wake her?

Beautiful! Bernice trolls herself!

Having grammar corrected by your dream, THAT is definitely a new one….

Confession: I underline mistakes in the books I read. It’s just for my benefit; it doesn’t matter if anyone else ever sees it. I feel like if you have something you want to share with others, you should try your best to make it right if they’re going to take the time to read it. (Especially if they PAY for your words!)

Waitaminnit. Don’t your and you’re sound exactly alike when spoken? Wasn’t Jaques the merman speaking? That being true, isn’t it a matter of spelling and not grammar? G&K could have shoehorned in a more accurate grammar joke.

So the point isn’t that Berenice is a grammar nerd; it’s that she can’t compete with Luann?

That reads like something I’d do. (sigh)

Poor Berniece! She’s her own worst enemy.

Bernice listen to your inner mermaid and live in the moment.

Jack: The Murmur Merman ! … (not stuttering there). :)

That is funny. I actually laughed at a Luann comic.

I read a grammatical error and it takes me right out of the story.

I hope today is the end of this story. It has been a very awkward week. Bernice should stick to books and leave romance alone.

I’m loving this trip down fantasy lane with Berniece.

Total empathy for Bernice here; my dreams are full of my own stumbling blocks.

Now I’m wondering about the NAMES of the characters in the mermaid fantasy book. Are they REALLY “Beatrice” and “Jacques” as printed on the pages? So Bernice can easily re-imagine herself and Jack in those roles? If so, WHAT AN AMAZING COINCIDENCE!

Just think… if the characters were named “Constance” and “Francois”, then she wouldn’t be having this dream at all?

When Nancy was reading page 218 of this same book, I wonder who she was dreaming of? Frank? unlikely. Quill? Maybe.

Just for the helluvit I looked this up:The first vertebrates moved by flexing their spines side to side. This is the mode of locomotion retained by fish and sharks, as well as reptiles and amphibians.

But mammals in their evolution changed to moving by flexing their spines up and down. This enabled them to gallop on all fours with their legs projecting directly under their bodies.

When ancestral whales returned to the water, they inherited and kept this fundamental mammal way of moving. As a result their swimming stroke is an up and down beat with their tail, which is enhanced by horizontal tail flukes.

Bern is sometimes her own worst enemy.

Sunday: Another Shannon special !!!

Bernice’s anxiety has wandered into “look into getting some help with this” territory. Next she’ll be compulsively checking things and handwashing excessively, even for a pandemic.

Jack also murmured. That should be “mermured”.

Puddles is in his element!

Sniff! Unrequited love is the saddest of all.

Not grammar. Spelling. Same difference. (But isn’t Beatrice more or less asleep? Well, dreaming sort of?)

Many of the commenters here were apparently potty-trained at gun point.

Oh Bernice…really? In a “fantasy?” Too funny. The only way Luann “spoils” anything is that Bernice left the door open.

Puddles is a “mer-dog”!

OCD?

There’s definitely something fishy about this arc.

I think Bern and I are kindred spirits… I have to admit, this made me laugh!

Ah…Bernice..Alone Again…naturally

puddles is a merdog

Whatever happened to Bernice’s previous boyfriend whose name escapes me—the one in the wheelchair? I don’t recall how he finally left the strip.

Bern is so uptight she sabotages her own dreams. Jack has shown no interest in Bern beyond Monstro and casual conversation. It’s not even mixed signals. Swim along, nothing to see here.

Love the Puddles dog fish! Lol!

Little ditty, about Jack and Luann….

Grammar is always serious! Jack, on the other hand, seemingly is not. Luann wins by default….

Yep. Been there.

Sometimes a poorly composed sentence will kick your “Suspension of Disbelief” right out of the book.

Or, as a friend used to say:

“I don’t mind Suspending my Disbelief, but don’t ask me to Hang it by the Neck until Dead.

Hasn’t anyone notice that she is asleep, has been for since at least the last day’s comic?

She isn’t reading bad grammar. She is dreaming bad grammar and then correcting it!

How sad. You know you’re uptight when you can’t even have a successful romance in your dreams. But I understand. I was communicating with someone via an online dating service once and lost interest because of bad grammar and misspelling of words.

Perhaps I’m reading too much into it, but it seems to me this is what happened in this comic. Bernice is asleep, but she pops awake just long enough to read the incorrect word in the book. (No “Z” shows her to be asleep in the first panel). She then falls back asleep (with a “Z” to indicate that) and has the correction in her mind, messing up the whole dream situation.

In high school we had a show and one of the songs was “100 Ways To Lose A Man” One way was when the guy says “You’re the one to who I give my heart.” and she corrects him about how he should have said “whom” instead of “who”.

Typos like that have been popping up in a number of books that I’ve read recently, both fiction and non-fiction. Apparently editing is becoming a lost art.

Luann’s shells are larger than Bernice’s shells.

LOL!! The critical Brain eclipses the heart! …. And, other parts…! well played, Greg!!