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Notes: Originals from this period are a different size and shape — 11 inches wide x 16 inches tall.
White-out corrections in all three panels.
In third grade, I tried to do something like this, but I ended up burning the paper I had written and writing it again. At least it was a good reason to burn something. *maniacal grin*
I have long held the same desire and still play around with it every once and again.
I could never purchase this strip. I would be forced to eventually burn it.
See my comment on the previous strip for where this leads.
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the historical US drive that did exactly this.
Millie could try learning Gregg shorthand, as Woodstock used in the Peanuts cartoon.
Things would get worse from there, here in real life…
Over here in hispanic countries, some clowns would invent the “inclusive language”, suggesting that people should use a neutral form for words instead of feminine or masculine terms. For example: when you reffer to “all”, in spanish you say “todos”, which is a masculine form and also the general way to say “all” in spanish”, but there exists “todas” for “all” in feminine, which is used to reffer the total set of feminine subjects or objects, like “todas las mujeres”: “all the women”. But then came these clowns who claim that we should use a neutral form, but they claim that we should use “todes” instead of “todos” or “todas”, which is totally wrong, a destruction of our spanish language by the invention of a totally nonexistent form of those words and it’s also pointless. Not just on that word, but also with every word with a masculine of feminine: for “niños” (boys) and “niñas” (girls), they want to use “niñes”; for “compañeros” (partners or co-workers) and “compañeras”, they want to add “compañeres”. They even made memes of that one. IT’S TOTALLY RIDICULOUS! Instead of learning a foreign language or sign language, or braille (these two real inclusive languages), they want to come up and babble nonsense and they even want it to be official or legal. They’re crazy!