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World of Warcraft, Eh?
An amusing look at World of Warcraft, with just a delicate hint of Canadian humour. Goes well with a sharp cheddar. Updates Mondays. IF YOU'RE NEW HERE, I WAS HACKED A FEW WEEKS AGO. A NEW SITE UPDATE IS IN PROGRESS. THANK YOU!
…why are they eating the furniture???
LMAO!
“uh.. nurse..” fitted perfectly with the sight of rampaging treants xD
Uh wow.. that last panel.. wow… it looked like Cadistra and Kelly or Kissless had some some kind of baby and treant in the background is holding up the offspring.
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oh god Cady’s expressions in the first one were great, although i’m pretty sure that’s what she would look like in that situation anyway.
Actually, Mr. N/A is incorrect. In this case it really is “Kissless and me”. The rule isn’t that any time there is another name and a personal pronoun the pronoun must be me. The rule is that to determine which pronoun to use, you remove the other names. “Pulling the strings on I” is incorrect. It should be “Pulling the strings on me”. When you add in Kissless, it becomes “Pulling the strings on Kissless and me”, or more commonly, “Pulling the strings on me and kissless.”
Now, if she had said, “Me and Kissless are tired of you pulling our strings,” then Mr. N/A would be correct and it would need to be “Kissless and I.”
Technically, the rule is that you use “I” when the pronoun is the subject of a sentence. You use “me” when the pronoun is the object. In other words, if I am the one acting out the verb, I use “I.” If the verb is acting on me, I use “me.”
Not to be a grammar Nazi or anything. I only mention this because I was confused about this for years, always getting points subtracted on my homework for screwing it up. One day I finally figured it out. Maybe other poor souls who still suffer under the wrath of grammar teachers can benefit from this. Or at least not sound like an idiot in their next board meeting. And it’s good to know _why_ the rule works, so that when other people (like Mr. N/A) erroneously correct you, you can patiently explain why they are the ones who are idiots, not you, and point them to a grammar website if need be to prove it: http://www.elearnenglishlanguage.com/difficulties/ime.html
And to preempt any real grammar Nazis out there, yes, I know I am often inconsistent and “incorrect” in my nesting (or lack thereof) of punctuation within quotation marks. I am a programmer. Placing non-quoted punctuation inside the quotation marks seems completely incorrect to my mind and for the most part I just ignore that rule and do things my way. Especially if I’m talking about code, in which case precision is far more important than grammatical correctness – if I quote code and the code does not end with a period, the period does not belong in the quotation marks because then it would be ambiguous whether there should be a period there, or if that’s just my sentence terminator. So typically I place my periods and commas outside the quotation marks. But I have been working on a paper over the last week, so I have been using the “correct” method for that (it’s a group paper, and I’m not willing to chose my own sense of correctness over my groupmembers’ grades), so now my fingers are confused and I’m not being consistently “incorrect”. Meh.
@Pizzasgood
I recently discovered the same issue with pronoun usage. This test really showed me how little grammar I know …
http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/grammar_mastery.asp
Hopefully those two websites will help others as much as they helped me
. I also totally understand your issue with putting the punctuation inside the parenthesis – maybe because I also have a hobby of programming?
I’m so glad that someone else pointed out the grammar before I could get to it =P It’s so annoying when people correct the “me vs. I” issue when they don’t really know what they’re talking about.
I also think it’s strange to put punctuation inside quotation marks when they didn’t exist there in the thing I’m quoting from, but that’s just because that’s how my English teacher taught me to do it in high school, and I don’t care what the “rules” say at this point. Said English teacher is the one who originally taught me nitpicky things like how to know when to use me vs. I, and when to correctly use that vs. which (something that annoys me to this day because it’s messed up in professional novels and magazine articles all the time).
About sums it up?
Thank you, Kelly for posting my comic!
Aug… I didnt know i came here for a spell check! 0_0
If that actually happened to you in the hospital Cadychan, I am sorry….want me to get my chainsword? I use it for tanking the low level instance in the Colderra….
Come on….Nexus Chainsword Massacre!!!
Woot 80! good for you Mrs. Kelly
Dood, if I had treants doing my bidding, I’d be sitting pretty, I’d think. x3
Good thing there not DKs…an army of ghouls later and she would be fighting the zombie apocalypse. And that is soemthing the doctors tell you not to do after surgery. Get well soon!
@Critis
I agree a hoard of zombies not so good, but i think it is a funny idea >:)
I like the sleepwlking in the first one that was different. Hope you get better soon Kelly!
Ok, Geradr’s comic was possibly the funniest thing I’ve seen all week! I would like to see more of his/her work!
@Kiryn
there is no substantial difference between “which” and “that”
they are interchangeable
the real difference involves whether a comma is necessary or not
which (without a comma) = that
which (with a comma) — cannot be replaced with that
Why are the second comic so small? I can’t read a single word… -.-