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[–] cannedtuna 107 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I think the comic works better without the bottom two panels.

[–] TragicNotCute 54 points 3 months ago (2 children)

“Oh how cute, I’ll send this to my significant other…oh nevermind”

[–] riodoro1 20 points 3 months ago

I did anyway. She knows im joking… hopefully

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Just crop them off

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Agreed though I do like the look of the cat on panel 3

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

But then there's no implied murder after the fact.

[–] grue 102 points 3 months ago (6 children)

"You're already" what?

I kinda hate the author even more than the husband.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, and I can't quite explain why it's so wrong. You're is technically a substitution for "you are" but it's never used like this. Maybe because it doesn't sound like the way it'd be spoken like it does normally?

[–] grue 82 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I actually know this! Or at least, I half-remembered it barely well enough to find the Tom Scott video that taught me about it: there’dn’t’ve.

TL;DW: trying to use a clitic without an object to go with it creates a syntactic gap and has weird stress patterns. Or something like that; IDK I'm not a linguist.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Congrats on finding the clitic!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

I thought it was a myth

[–] Tudsamfa 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
  • "He was ten times the man you're"
  • "I'm greater than he's"
  • "Who do you think you're"
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Interestingly enough it's often pronounced like that just because common parlance lends itself to elisions.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It was weird to me too.

In fairness to the author, I can find a way to speak those two words aloud in a way that works, and sounds like something someone could genuinely say, but that requires a pretty specific stress and pitch.

You're already!

But the first time you read the words it's just not going to come out like that.

And that's the problem. As a writer you can't just put words on the page the same way you yourself might speak them, and expect people to read it that way. The spoken word does not translate perfectly to writing.

You need to have an awareness of how people are likely to parse the words on the page, and choose wording that doesn't cause people to trip or stumble, even if it isn't the exact phrasing you'd use in organic speech.

The comic fails on that at the final line.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Relax, it's what it's

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

You are already (fat and fluffy) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

As a german it dosen't sound wrong for me, but we would also say "bist du schon" or "bist du doch schon" in german and that practicly translates to it.

[–] WayTooDank 7 points 3 months ago

Yeh it should of been "You already're,"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

She is alreqdy fluffy and fat

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Everyone who wants the cropped version is weak and in a dishonest relationship

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Calling or even implying ur gf is fat is playing with fire. That’s like relationship 101

[–] taiyang 40 points 3 months ago

I recall seeing her post this on Reddit. She's Ukrainian and English isn't her first language, hence the odd English.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

"You already are."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

That’s why I love her.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Mr.Data attempting to use contractions

[–] tb_ 5 points 3 months ago