Sketchbook Comic for Saturday, Jul 23, 2022

[mlooney 3,417]

Here is.
Conan can't seem to catch a break. First with Grace, now with Rhoda. Diane and Lucy are right, however tall Rhoda is very cute.
The Dan needs to make Conan officially canon and have him have speaking lines in a main stream comic.  Or for that matter have him show up as a background characters, he's distinctive enough to be recognized.

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,586]

If this Sketchbook is Artillery, I am not at all certain when it would happen.  

By the point where we last saw Diane & Rhoda in the main story, a confirmation of magic like this on Rhoda's part to Diane would not generate shock or desire.

Rather, concern.  "Rhoda, Nanase's friends have been asking about you and possible magic.  But they won't tell me for what exactly they are looking."

[Don Edwards 548]

8 hours ago, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

But they won't tell me for what exactly they are looking."

GAAH! What an awkward sentence!

But you're doing it to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition, which had been perfectly acceptable for several hundred years - until it was prohibited less than 200 years ago because English is derived from Latin (it isn't) and ending a sentence with a preposition isn't even possible in Latin (it is both possible and grammatical, but only in certain sorts of usage).

And in spite of this silly misguided prohibition, great writers kept on doing it anyway.

[Darth Fluffy 302]

10 hours ago, Don Edwards said:

GAAH! What an awkward sentence!

But you're doing it to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition, which had been perfectly acceptable for several hundred years - until it was prohibited less than 200 years ago because English is derived from Latin (it isn't) and ending a sentence with a preposition isn't even possible in Latin (it is both possible and grammatical, but only in certain sorts of usage).

And in spite of this silly misguided prohibition, great writers kept on doing it anyway.

The best way to end a sentence is with proof of innocence, a court ordered annulment of the sentence, and a compensatory payout for time served.

There are a lot of really bad ways to end a sentence. Being shanked by Roberto in the yard mere days before your release would probably be in the top ten.

[mlooney 3,417]

1 hour ago, Darth Fluffy said:

The best way to end a sentence is with proof of innocence, a court ordered annulment of the sentence, and a compensatory payout for time served.

There are a lot of really bad ways to end a sentence. Being shanked by Roberto in the yard mere days before your release would probably be in the top ten.

“This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.”  - Winston Churchill

https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/wschiess/legalwriting/2007/07/prepositions-ending-with-understanding.html

 

[Darth Fluffy 302]

7 hours ago, mlooney said:

“This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.”  - Winston Churchill

https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/wschiess/legalwriting/2007/07/prepositions-ending-with-understanding.html

Sounds like errant pedantry to me.

 

[Darth Fluffy 302]

Ending a sentence with a preposition: "You are released from prison."