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May 18, 2019 @ 11:17 am · Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

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Today's SMBC:


Mouseover title: "Our electronics division will be called Your'e. "

May 18, 2019 @ 11:17 am · Filed by under Linguistics in the comics


4 Comments

  1. unekdoud said,

    May 18, 2019 @ 1:40 pm

    He, She, You are Chinese surnames, which easily leads to a Who's on First situation in written English without any of these shenanigans.

  2. ktschwarz said,

    May 19, 2019 @ 12:24 am

    The company has apparently trademarked "their" in lowercase, guaranteeing endless squabbling over whether outside writers should capitalize it: always? never? only at the beginning of a sentence? See craigslist, eBay, etc. All the more reason for a hate-buyout!

  3. B.Ma said,

    May 20, 2019 @ 1:05 am

    Hu's on First?

  4. Chandra said,

    May 21, 2019 @ 3:40 pm

    There's already a website called "them", so if "their's" were the possessive form of "their" then "them's" would be theirs.

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