FoxTrot by Bill Amend for March 13, 2022

No one gives a darn when you’re partially asleep, Andrea.

She got it confused with “pendejo” maybe?

Capitalizing the word earth fits with the Karen motif.

Actually, it’s all caps.

“Cartoonist opens stuck pickle jar.” Well that’s good news!

My sister’s BF is insufferably pedantic about pronunciation like that. The few times I spend time with him, I purposely emphasize our regional dialect and pretend not to notice his corrections just to bug him.

The rule I was taught is that “earth” should only be capitalized in an astronomical context — for instance, a list of planets. Even for me, though, that is a very iffy rule that I am willing to break. I usually break the rule about the final punctuation mark being sucked inside quotation marks, because that makes no sense whatsoever.

Italian sailors say “Terra! Terra!” when seeing land. Terra also means the planet Earth. A joke has two Italian astronauts returning for splashdown. One says “Terra! Terra!” and the other replies “You can really say so!”

Bringing up the “Daylights Saving Times” argument thing is annoying.

Today’s classic Sunday strip we’re missing:

https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2001/03/11

Bah. Not rules but conventions, subject to change with shifts in popular use.

The “Daylight Savings Time” thing is less annoying than “anyways”

Not really. She was using all caps!

My wife’s superpower is a very acute sense of smell. Which may explain my showering 6 out of 7 times a week.

As an effort in self discipline, I usually manage not to correct such errors. Although at work, I seem to be the one who gets asked, “is this correct?”

I just find it interesting she’s reading a newspaper…

If we went to triple DST we’d get to see the midnight sun!

That’s the way I sometimes feel about people who post here – who could never pass 3rd grade grammar.

Andy is one of the single most annoying characters in comic strips. If I were one of her kids, I couldn’t wait to grow up and get out on my own.

There’s a special place in Heck for people like you, Andy.

Daylight saving time is the worst thing ever

Breaking the Fourth Wall!

I call it #DalightWastingTime!

How anal can you get?

They speak in all caps, so how does she know Paige purposefully capitalized Earth?

Well, Earth IS the name of the planet…

It’s not when teenage girls say it! WHAT everrrr!

Reminds me of The Unnecessary Pedant from the Sheldon Comics

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/150929.html

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/150925.html

http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/150928.html

We change our clocks from afternoon to evening, then knowing what is coming, I was awake until after 11 so I took Tylenol, not for headache, just to relax so I could get to sleep.

There’s also cold tofu for breakfast…

Why would Paige get up before she was done sleeping? She has no where to go on Sunday so she could have woke up naturally after she had enough sleep.

great way to get out of a discussion you don’t want to be in. Correct their use of language and they’ll go away.

Andy’s second job is monitoring comments in Gocomics

She’s right Andi, it is stupid.

Andy should have married Lemont from Candorville. They would be very happy (and grammatically correct) together.

Ahem (koff) I can find no authority that indicates that pedantic ever had a tonic first syllable.

My teacher somehow does this and has gave a kid an F. (The kid misspelled “Missouri” and a lot of states/capitals)

She is an English major. Probably explains why she hasn’t had a job in a while.

Nice swipe at the “Grammar Police”! O<[|;o)

Mother Fox is channeling Dottie Cobb from Jumpstart, a well-known member of the Grammar Police.

Daylight saving time is such a hassle, but think of how many more hours of sunshine we can get.

As a recovering grammarian, I say don’t add insult to injury, Andy. But I’m with Paige in hating Daylight Saving Time.

It is pronounced E-arth.

She’s MOM.

Oh, I didn’t actually know that one (saving singular). I try not to be obnoxious about grammar stuff, though. I notice a lot.

Please just dump the cereal on the old smart-a$$es’ head. It will be totally worth it.

reading the speech bubble lol. she has broken the comic rules

Even more impressive is that she could tell Earth was capitalized when the speech bubbles are all caps. ;-)

You better give it up, Page. You’re out of you intellectual depth.

Grammar Nazi! That world hates grammar Nazis.

The final punctuation is moved inside the quotation marks to prevent it from being broken in type setting.

I’m shocked that he didn’t go into a mathematical discourse about Quantum Mechanics to explain why changing the clocks twice a year is actually required to prevent the Universe from imploding.

Heard on the radio that the US is going to remove time change

But the font used for Foxtrot is all caps!

CRINGE

all the letter r capitalized