Coach Griers is also adept at the Voice of Command.
Also, because the song is stuck in my head and has been a constant factor while drawing the last couple strips, have some Mars Volta. It’s loud, so be careful if you’re at work. XD
Forget it, Giselle; It's Chinatown.
Fifth panel, poor kid looks devastated that Selkie lead the bullies away and got hurt because she was alone.
Um, I identify as “mostly gay” (I’m a lady), and I still would love to marry Coach Griers, he is AMAZING!
All good teachers have Voice of Command. It’s genetic. 😀
Most mothers of more than one child also acquire that skill. 😛
Some of them learn ‘fear aura’ instead…
Dave> the “voice of command” is from Dune isn’t it? Or is that just a parent thing? Also, is the coach new not to know Selkie? Or is he just bad with names?
It’s a sort-of Dune reference (I’ve never read Dune but references to these things work their way in some way or another), but more referring to that particular way of speaking that compels people to listen and get stuff done.
And the status of Coach Griers will be made somewhat clearer in a few strips… ;P
I kept reading that as “statues of Coach Griers”, and while it made no sense, I also kept thinking ‘he’d look good in bronze, on a rearing horse’. 🙂
My sister (an elementary school teacher) has both the Voice of Command and another one she calls the Voice of DOOM. The funny thing is, she LOOKS like a pushover, so when she was subbing she had a lot of fun disabusing kids of that notion.
Still hoping that the teacher’s realize ALL the children need to be punished for this, not just the one’s who’re ‘privileged’ enough to not be orphans.
hmm i picture him more using the word keisters instead of rear ends, just seams to flow with his assumed persobality more
i like him though hes a fun character, somthing seams off with him but maybe im just over reading him ^^
THEY started it, YOU took it over and turned it into something other than a friendly snowball fight. Not feeling a lot of sympathy, kids.
Great page. 😀
Since no one has mentioned it yet, there’s a typo in the second panel. “Ya’ll” should be “Y’all,” since it’s a contraction of “you” and “all.” I think you’d know that where you’re from, but tacking on the explanation for others!
Also, I love the Mars Volta. :0
Not necessarily. I’m from New Orleans and while I don’t say “nawlins”, I do spell it ya’ll. It looks more even that way.
“There is evidence that the original spelling was ya’ll. The spelling of ya’ll could have originated from the contraction of ya-all because ya was a common spoken slang form of the word you. 19th and 20th century authors like William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and Carson McCullers used ya’ll. Though becoming less common, the spelling of ya’ll is still used within the Southern United States.”
Huh! Learn something new every day.
I was gonna fix it to y’all, but now this conversation is happening and I don’t wanna wreck it… XD
Dave. Please. Please fix it. Ignore the guy who can’t spell, and please fix it. Thanks. <3
I always thought it was “y’all” in Texas and the Western states and “ya’ll” in the Southern states. The northeastern states seem to prefer some form of “you’s” or “you’se guys”
I have also hears “youse all” and “youse all guys.” In Chicago you might hear “all youse guys over by dare”
How would “ya’ll” be pronounced differently from “y’all”?
It wouldn’t, but people write in all the states
Odd, and cool! I’ve never seen it spelled “ya’ll” in my life, but that does make sense. I still personally think that if you’re using “you” and “all” mentally, the spelling “y’all” does a better job of it. xD An “even” contraction just looks weird to me, when won’t, can’t, don’t, wouldn’t, (ain’t), and all of them are kinda skewed.
While “y’all” is correct, I’ve grown a pretty tough skin about “ya’ll”. It’s like seeing “your going to do that” fourteen gazillion times. You know it’s wrong but you get tired of correcting people.
It’s the morons that insist that “y’all is singular, all y’all is plural” that annoy me.
Then you are spelling it wrong. Y’all is a contraction of “you all”, and the apostrophe goes where the letters are taken out. You wouldn’t write “do’nt,” would you?
How can you say they can’t spell? You have been given very good reasons as to both spellings being correct.
Because the supposed “very good reasons” are wrong.
[citation needed]
Which of those were 19th-century writers, by the way?
I agree with Hillary, it should be y’all since it’s a contraction of you all, and contractions always place the apostrophe at the omitted letters. I’ve lived in the South my whole life, and it was understood by everyone, even those who were ignorant enough to think that y’all was more grammatically correct than “you guys”. As far as evidence of the “original” spelling being ya’ll, that’s kind of silly since the term was never considered proper grammar. While Faulkner, McCullers and Paula Deen may have some credibility, Hemingway was never a Southerner, so his spelling doesn’t hold much water. Besides, as language evolves so does spelling, which is why it’s not considered incorrect if we write color instead of colour. Y’all is pretty much accepted as the way it should be written today.
Dave – don’t let this thread change your mind because anyone reading the comments would understand that there was a change and what it was just by reading the comments.
Peter Ustinov: “The insistence on accurate spelling at modern schools is an effort to invest a living language with rigor mortis”.
I don’t wholly agree, but surely it’s OK to use non-standard spelling to denote accents in dialogue. Ower lot locally ews VOWels very differently to ‘er Majesty- weeah Welsh ew see.
Not only is it not considered incorrect to use ‘color’ instead of ‘colour’, I have yet to encounter a spellcheck that hasn’t told me that ‘colour’ is wrong and needs fixing. Annoys me to no end…
Yes THANK YOU America, we are FULLY aware you wrote this program, now QUIT TRYING TO TELL ME MY LANGUAGE IS WRONG!
Maybe they just do that to be all “We ain’t British no more so we can spell crap DIFF’RENTLY so’s no one’ll ever forget it!”
…. but GAH it bugs me. I am CANADIAN. I will use CANADIAN spelling if I damn well want to, and your stupid little squiggly red lines are not going to change that! Just because it’s DIFFERENT doesn’t make it WRONG!
…. also, I bloody well hate seeing ‘grey’ spelt witb an A. It just looks stupid to me.
I sometimes find myself defaulting to grey instead of gray, but I think it’s because I played too much Dragon Age. 😀
Boston native here, and I’ve always used the “y’all” spelling, and I noticed the difference but it doesn’t particularly bug me.
For me the incongruity is “you lot” in panel one. Jarringly British to my American ear, and that does bug me, especially with “y’all” right after it. I don’t know if this is typical Canadian usage, but to me he’s either British or trying hard to sound British.
If this is the biggest thing people are complaining about, that just confirms this is an awesome comic! Can’t wait for more!
I also thought “you lot” was odd; I don’t think I’ve ever heard it from an American.
You know you can add words to the dictionary in Word, right? You can change it so colour and grey are acceptable. I think you’re being oversensitive about this.
I could see a child trying to cry “They started it” to get out of trouble, but the vehemence the pigtailed girl is using makes me think she actually believes it. I don’t see ANY way she could possibly say that the other kids “started” it unless she views Tony’s invitation (and the fact that he was with Amanda’s cronies) as being the ones who started it since he invited them over. It’s not like he had to prompt then. He basically just asked if they wanted to be bullies.
Agreed, it may not have been her idea, but she did not hesitate to join in.
And she really can’t blame Heather&Co. for switching sides later. After all she made them do so by insulting them.
Where’s Chanelle? Did she drop out of the snowball-fight, or is she just off-panel?
She’s just off-panel.
For the record: Chanelle got edited into the Orphan crowd scenes on pages 309 and 316 in the meantime, making here whereabouts quite clear.
I spell “colour” with a “u” and I’m American, born and raised. I blame Lovecraft for it. Reading his stuff taught me to spell. 🙂
I jope Selkie isn’t too sick from the cold, poor dear.