Bill says:

Kiel – Good call.

Koko says:

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Rakarich says:

Marve’s marketing department is great at it’s job. But this time I think they are doing the “overkill” on this one so far.

Matthew Craig says:

That’s the old Spider-Man font (Todd Klein: one of yours?).

A STRONG HINT, if EVER I saw one.

Todd Klei – I mean Spider-Man is a Skrull!

Also, THE EYES.

//\Oo/\\

Kiel Phegley says:

Just so I could make that joke.

David Frankel says:

The continued extinction of “whom”.

Pet peeve #612; collect them all

Bill Cunningham says:

Amazing! No matter how thin you slice it, it’s still baloney!

Daniel says:

C’mon, PAD. Whom has been dying for years and it’s not a great loss. Language is carbon-based, not silicon. Let it evolve.

John Platt says:

Amended: Peter David wins by a knock-knock!

Scott Bieser says:

Actually, it will shake out that the way to tell a human from a Skrull is that humans know how to use who/whom properly. Skrulls always get it wrong. So, the ending to PAD’s scene is:

“No. Objective case whom.”

“BLAM! BLAM!”

Adan Jimenez says:

It’s almost as if language doesn’t evolve or something. As if it’s frozen in time, never to change.

I’d like to ask PAD when the last time he used “thee” or “thou” was.

David C says:

I like ‘whom’. It makes me feel important.

But seriously, if we start deleting all the difficult parts of language that are irregular or difficult and calling it “evolution”, one day we’ll be left with “I finded mooses in my garden. Its bad and your 2 blame.”

David C says:

Hmmm… Alright Daniel, y’gots a point.

I still think learning the rules and using them (to a point) betters cognitive process (as does having a larger vocabulary), but that article has partially won me over.

Dreamer says:

learning about and the continual usage of the delicacies of a language also enriches and preserves a greater part of the cultural processes that human civilization as a whole have developed until this point, besides the proposed cognitive advantage above ..

that pseudo-intellectual argument aside, who do you trust sounds about right and don’t think it should be considered a big issue anyway.. :p

rich says:

I read Calvin Trillin’s remark in an issue of WRITER’S DIGEST long ago:

“As far as I’m concerned, ‘whom’ is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.”

So does this mean this Jarvis is a skrull?