![]() Normally I’d complain to the commenter, but though he gave me a name then, he didn’t supply a usable address for reply, and his name was so common that I couldn’t unearth such an address for him. (It turns out that I let this commenter get away with something similar back in 2013, after he’d posted a germane comment on an earlier posting, but then posted a link to a cartoon he thought I’d enjoy, as a comment on a posting where it wasn’t relevant. Warning: The comments section of a posting is for comments on that posting, not for messages to the blogger (my e-mail address is very easy to find, by the way), and it’s not a space where people can write on whatever they want (that’s why people should have their own blogs, or use social media where free discussion is welcome). Add to Cart Download now from 11 License Pricing. ![]() Inscription, inscriptions, ancient egypt, ancient egyptian, ancient egyptians, ancient history, pictorial languages, logographic, logograph, non sequitur. (The cartoon was unattributed there, but I happen to know that it’s a Non Sequitur cartoon, and I enjoyed it when Mark Liberman posted it, under the heading “Strunk and Ptah”, on Language Log on 10/6/11.) Grammar Police funny cartoons from CartoonStock directory - the world's largest on-line collection of cartoons and comics. ![]() A little while ago, a comment appeared on my “Confessions of a Grammar Queen” posting that had nothing to do with that posting instead, it was a message (since deleted) to me, suggesting that I would enjoy an “Ancient Grammar Police” cartoon the commenter had found on the American Mensa site. ![]()
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