Of course they are. Journalism students have to learn about form, copy, spelling, punctuation, proper formatting, and all the niceties so they can ignore every last little bit of it when they become bloggers.
Don’t forget fumbling homophones (your/you’re/yore, to/too/two, there, their, they’re) and a ignoring the proofreading comments after 5 minutes.
You should see what these kids try to write in on-air graphics in newscasts. Brevity is key! Just because you can dump entire sentences into a lower third, that doesn’t mean you should!
Jamie
I’ve never seen someone use “yore” when they mean some permutation of “you”. Please tell me this really happens.
Needfuldoer
I’ve seen it happen in a severe case of The Tpyos.
Agemegos
The student paper at my first university was Tharunka, where the compositor managed to spell “students” as “studnets” more often than not. I never figured out whether that was some sort of surreal joke. It doesn’t seem funny, but they often don’t.
Clif
Studnets is teh joke. Funny is where you find it.
Marsh Maryrose
This is a qwerty-o. While your left middle finger is moving from d to e, your right index finger is hovering over the n, just raring to go, and sometimes jumping the gun.
Agemegos
Australian English is non-rhotic, so we add “yaw”.
Clif
I’m not really sure what rhotic English is, but over here unless you’re pitching we spell yaw as y’all.
Dellaran
“Rhotic” means you pronounce the R’s. Boston English is famously non-rhotic (“pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd”), but “standard” Midwestern American English is rhotic (“parrrrk the carrr in Harrrvarrrd Yarrrrd”).
English /r/ is weird anyway. Most other languages do a trill or a flap, and we do this weird retroflex approximant. If you hear a Japanese person (for example) struggling with R’s and L’s, spare them some pity: our L is normal-ish, but R is harrrrrrrrd.
Yumi
Fuck the r ⟨ɹ̠⟩ sound!
Sincerely,
My speech-impaired self
(Also, the r sound is kind of the l sound pulled back. Like, that was an exercise I did in speech therapy– start out making the l sound, pull it back to the r sound. One time I was working with this person who was learning English with Korean as her native language, and she was having a hard time pronouncing the word “leprechaun” (a solidly weird word) and that was how I explained hitting the right sounds for it.)
Needfuldoer
It’s even moah obvious down aroun’ Rho’ Dylin. We tawk real funny down heah.
Michelle J. Caboose
Heh. When I read “pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd,” Weird-ass me heard it in JFK’s voice.
Then when I was posting this, I heard it in RFK’s voice. And both of them were dead before I was born. o_O
Chris
The thing to understand about rhotic R is that despite everything you were ever taught in school, it isn’t a consonant. It’s a weird vowel. And in non-rhotic dialects of English, it shifts to some other vowel sound.
neeks
“Fumbling Homophones” has such a nice ring to it i might actually consider it in place of “Jeremy Tingle Has No Chill” for my band name on Rock Band.
Clif
Jeremy Tingle and the Fumbling Homophobes?
Clif
Homophones. That was spell correct. Honest.
He Who Abides
Ri-hi-hi-hi-hight.
Michelle J. Caboose
Still, “Fumbling Homophobes.” I kinda like that. 😀
Oh, I could never be a blogger, then. I’m always going back and totally rewriting things. There doesn’t even have to be an error. I might’ve just thought of a cleverer (or at very least, more pleonastic) way of phrasing something, and obviously once I do that I have to rewrite the entire paragraph around it.
Yeah my UNi has a now very politically correct Paper and then each college has one as well with varying levels of snowflake …. well except for the Engineers … The SJW and spineless admins killed that century old rag because they refused to kowtow to the student council that contained zero engineers and a token science student. Mind you Political Science is an oxymoron.
I want to blow stuff and look at it. Openheimer and his team of scientists watched the test of their first atom bomb.
abysswatcher1993
I mean, that weapon was a bad idea, but I still want to look at stuff blow up. I am not a jaded asshole like Billie and Archer Emiya.
Clif
I understand what you mean by saying the weapon was a bad idea, but it saved a huge amount of lives in what would have been an extremely bloody and destructive war as the Allies invaded Japan where each Japanese warrior would have taken out as many as they could before going down themselves. Honor meant that decision of surrender could only come from the top. The lives lost in the war in the Pacific would have been nothing. It also shifted all the deaths to one side, which was kind of the point.
abysswatcher1993
Yeah, but the consequences were horrible! Thousands of deaths by radiation, and then the cold war! Humanity almost died close to 1990 because of a dick measuring contest between the USA and Soviet Russia.
BBCC
I’m perfectly comfortable saying war crimes are always unacceptable. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were civilian targets.
BBCC
And for the record? The bomb was dropped to test out the capabilities of the atomic bomb and to intimidate Russia. It had jack all to do with saving anybody. Japan was on the verge of surrendering due to lack of resources (thanks to the Allied blockade) and the Soviets were about to enter the war. This is a common but inaccurate argument.
Barton J. Bernstein’s The Atomic Bomb, William D. Leahy’s ‘I Was There’, Norman Cousins’ ‘Pathology of Power’, Henry Stimson’s Diary, and Len Giovannitti and Fred Freed’s ‘The Decision to Drop the Bomb’ all include quotes from the report by the US Strategic Bombing Group, Dwight Eisenhower, William Leahy, Douglas McArthur, William F. Halsey, Henry Stimson, Lewis Strauss, and even those deploying the bombs against it’s necessity and the choice of location if you want to check them out.
Oppenheimer and nearly everyone else wore welder’s goggles. Except for Feynmann; he figured that ordinary auto-glass would screen out the ultraviolet which was the only real danger at that range, so he watched it direct through a jeep’s windscreen.
Joyce is into something, and maybe she got lessons from Chibi RWBY about admiring your own destruction. Also, walking slowly while an explosion happens behind you will cause your death, so better run away and look at the fireworks from a safe distance.
137 thoughts on “Published article”
Ana Chronistic
Next strip: Ruth has the article enlarged to poster size and framed, hangs so it’s the first thing visible in her room
Billie: “WHAT”
Arawn
Ruth then turns away as Billie explodes. Sunglasses descend.
AntJ
“badass RAs don’t look at explosions”
Needfuldoer
Caine’s Law says that you have to say a punny one-liner before you can put on sunglasses in these situations.
He Who Abides
And then Pinball Wizard starts playing.
BiOnyx
No, wait. Seriously, ARE School newspapers still a’thing’?!
(I’ve been outta college a LONG time.)
BBCC
Yeah, mine has one.
Regalli
Yep.
Bicycle Bill
Of course they are. Journalism students have to learn about form, copy, spelling, punctuation, proper formatting, and all the niceties so they can ignore every last little bit of it when they become bloggers.
Clif
Depressingly accurate.
Needfuldoer
Don’t forget fumbling homophones (your/you’re/yore, to/too/two, there, their, they’re) and a ignoring the proofreading comments after 5 minutes.
You should see what these kids try to write in on-air graphics in newscasts. Brevity is key! Just because you can dump entire sentences into a lower third, that doesn’t mean you should!
Jamie
I’ve never seen someone use “yore” when they mean some permutation of “you”. Please tell me this really happens.
Needfuldoer
I’ve seen it happen in a severe case of The Tpyos.
Agemegos
The student paper at my first university was Tharunka, where the compositor managed to spell “students” as “studnets” more often than not. I never figured out whether that was some sort of surreal joke. It doesn’t seem funny, but they often don’t.
Clif
Studnets is teh joke. Funny is where you find it.
Marsh Maryrose
This is a qwerty-o. While your left middle finger is moving from d to e, your right index finger is hovering over the n, just raring to go, and sometimes jumping the gun.
Agemegos
Australian English is non-rhotic, so we add “yaw”.
Clif
I’m not really sure what rhotic English is, but over here unless you’re pitching we spell yaw as y’all.
Dellaran
“Rhotic” means you pronounce the R’s. Boston English is famously non-rhotic (“pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd”), but “standard” Midwestern American English is rhotic (“parrrrk the carrr in Harrrvarrrd Yarrrrd”).
English /r/ is weird anyway. Most other languages do a trill or a flap, and we do this weird retroflex approximant. If you hear a Japanese person (for example) struggling with R’s and L’s, spare them some pity: our L is normal-ish, but R is harrrrrrrrd.
Yumi
Fuck the r ⟨ɹ̠⟩ sound!
Sincerely,
My speech-impaired self
(Also, the r sound is kind of the l sound pulled back. Like, that was an exercise I did in speech therapy– start out making the l sound, pull it back to the r sound. One time I was working with this person who was learning English with Korean as her native language, and she was having a hard time pronouncing the word “leprechaun” (a solidly weird word) and that was how I explained hitting the right sounds for it.)
Needfuldoer
It’s even moah obvious down aroun’ Rho’ Dylin. We tawk real funny down heah.
Michelle J. Caboose
Heh. When I read “pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd,” Weird-ass me heard it in JFK’s voice.
Then when I was posting this, I heard it in RFK’s voice. And both of them were dead before I was born. o_O
Chris
The thing to understand about rhotic R is that despite everything you were ever taught in school, it isn’t a consonant. It’s a weird vowel. And in non-rhotic dialects of English, it shifts to some other vowel sound.
neeks
“Fumbling Homophones” has such a nice ring to it i might actually consider it in place of “Jeremy Tingle Has No Chill” for my band name on Rock Band.
Clif
Jeremy Tingle and the Fumbling Homophobes?
Clif
Homophones. That was spell correct. Honest.
He Who Abides
Ri-hi-hi-hi-hight.
Michelle J. Caboose
Still, “Fumbling Homophobes.” I kinda like that. 😀
BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
Oh, I could never be a blogger, then. I’m always going back and totally rewriting things. There doesn’t even have to be an error. I might’ve just thought of a cleverer (or at very least, more pleonastic) way of phrasing something, and obviously once I do that I have to rewrite the entire paragraph around it.
Hazel
I can only speak for my Australian uni, but yup, still a thing.
anonamousethatscurriesinthedarkness
Yeah my UNi has a now very politically correct Paper and then each college has one as well with varying levels of snowflake …. well except for the Engineers … The SJW and spineless admins killed that century old rag because they refused to kowtow to the student council that contained zero engineers and a token science student. Mind you Political Science is an oxymoron.
Clif
If there is not an underground Engineering newspaper as a result, then students have really changed since the 60’s.
Yumi
Yay.
Solenoid
Student newspapers are still a thing. It’s local newspapers that kinda aren’t.
Yumi
COOL GUYS DON’T LOOK AT EXPLOSIONS
astrocom
They blow things up, and then walk away.
abysswatcher1993
I want to blow stuff and look at it. Openheimer and his team of scientists watched the test of their first atom bomb.
abysswatcher1993
I mean, that weapon was a bad idea, but I still want to look at stuff blow up. I am not a jaded asshole like Billie and Archer Emiya.
Clif
I understand what you mean by saying the weapon was a bad idea, but it saved a huge amount of lives in what would have been an extremely bloody and destructive war as the Allies invaded Japan where each Japanese warrior would have taken out as many as they could before going down themselves. Honor meant that decision of surrender could only come from the top. The lives lost in the war in the Pacific would have been nothing. It also shifted all the deaths to one side, which was kind of the point.
abysswatcher1993
Yeah, but the consequences were horrible! Thousands of deaths by radiation, and then the cold war! Humanity almost died close to 1990 because of a dick measuring contest between the USA and Soviet Russia.
BBCC
I’m perfectly comfortable saying war crimes are always unacceptable. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were civilian targets.
BBCC
And for the record? The bomb was dropped to test out the capabilities of the atomic bomb and to intimidate Russia. It had jack all to do with saving anybody. Japan was on the verge of surrendering due to lack of resources (thanks to the Allied blockade) and the Soviets were about to enter the war. This is a common but inaccurate argument.
Barton J. Bernstein’s The Atomic Bomb, William D. Leahy’s ‘I Was There’, Norman Cousins’ ‘Pathology of Power’, Henry Stimson’s Diary, and Len Giovannitti and Fred Freed’s ‘The Decision to Drop the Bomb’ all include quotes from the report by the US Strategic Bombing Group, Dwight Eisenhower, William Leahy, Douglas McArthur, William F. Halsey, Henry Stimson, Lewis Strauss, and even those deploying the bombs against it’s necessity and the choice of location if you want to check them out.
BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
Looking directly at an atomic bomb going off is also a pretty bad idea, though.
Mister Sparkle
Most of them saw it through dark glasses but of course
Mister Sparkle
… as I was saying, of course Feynman had to look at it bare-eyed.
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2016/04/what_its_like_to_actually_see_an_atomic_explosion.html
Clif
It was hard to be cooler than Feynman. Still is.
NelC
Oppenheimer and nearly everyone else wore welder’s goggles. Except for Feynmann; he figured that ordinary auto-glass would screen out the ultraviolet which was the only real danger at that range, so he watched it direct through a jeep’s windscreen.
truk2
Cool HEDGEHOGS don’t look at explosions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd4xjPnMr00
Keulen
Billie obviously needs to show Joyce that video.
Sunny
While we’re on topic.
https://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/comic/cherry-cherry-sweet-caroliiiiine
hof1991
As my sons (trained combat engineers) say, if you can see the explosion, the explosion can see you. No professional would let an explosion see them.
Stephen Bierce
*plays “Dirty Laundry” on the hacked Muzak*
Marsh Maryrose
“Kick ’em when they’re up, kick ’em when they’re down” — the unofficial motto of DYW.
Needfuldoer
Everyone loves hearing this come on the radio in the news van.
I played it over a temporary PA setup as a test once. The station manager was not happy. (I started playing Zappa’s I’m the Slime instead.)
AeromechanicalAce
Cue Lonely Island Jokes
Yumi
Sometimes you gotta link to the obvious video
ValdVin
“I mean, kinda, yeah, definitely.”
Joyce has more people smarts than her innocent blue eyes would let on.
SuperZero
Billie took that surprisingly well.
BBCC
Awwwwww, Ruth’s adorable!
Billie, you’re right, but this means you don’t get to keep your first article.
King Daniel
Little late for that: http://www.dumbingofage.com/2012/comic/book-2/03-the-first-step-towards-recovery/byline/
BBCC
Yup, forgot about that one. Whoops. NBD then, yeah.
Although Billie should probably try to keep her copy on her computer though, if only for stuff like portfolios.
BarerMender
I was editor of a newspaper and I kept a copy of every issue. And read it, too.
LeslieBean4shizzle
I know, right?
SOOO CUTE!!!
**SQUEE**
Needfuldoer
Yes!
She’s got this weird thing on her face though, right below her nose.
fire_daws
A smile? Yeah, let’s go with that.
Keulen
I’m not used to Ruth looking this adorable. I like it.
Sheason
“Ladies and gentlemen! Please join me in welcoming: Mister Neil Diamond!”
Mr. Random
Being cool’s overrated.
Being happy is awesome.
abysswatcher1993
I agree. I stopped caring about looking cool and just want my pizza, my games and a to get a job so I can continue playing more games.
Clif
It’s good to know what your priorities are. I’ve heard worse. Much worse.
Regalli
‘Do I LOOK like someone who requires that kind of validation?’/‘yes.’ Is just delightful. Also aww, Ruth smiling with hearts. Yay Ruth.
Corey
Oh Ruth youre god damned adorable
abysswatcher1993
Joyce is into something, and maybe she got lessons from Chibi RWBY about admiring your own destruction. Also, walking slowly while an explosion happens behind you will cause your death, so better run away and look at the fireworks from a safe distance.
abysswatcher1993