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English is bent to our will in daily life and yet people act like God wrote the law on how to speak English and we’re all committing sins of biblical proportions.

No. You know what ? “Me and Mark” is perfectly okay because you understood exactly what the sentence meant. That’s the purpose of language.

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38 points

Several counter-points:

  • There is an unnecessary space before your question mark.
  • Ideally, you should use single quotes when distinguishing words or phrases within the text
  • The phrase ‘and yet’ is redundant. Simply “yet” would have been more appropriate.

I believe if you check closely, this rebuttal is ironclad.

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24 points

Your rebuttal has no iron or steel covering any spots, thus it cannot be considered ironclad

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13 points

It is also not a rebuttal. It criticizes the grammar and punctuation, but does not offer a counter argument.

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10 points

Mark and I hate you

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2 points

So do me and Mark

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22 points

Knowledge is knowing that the monster isn’t Frankenstein.

Wisdom is knowing that the monster is Frankenstein.

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5 points

Intelligence is knowing that Scooby Doo taught us that the real monsters are the humans.

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5 points

Intelligence is knowing that haircut is fucking terrible.

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17 points

Now I want to see a party of all pedants where everyone enjoys correcting others. Finally, that phrase won’t be sarcastic!

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9 points

Come have a seat at my D&D table…

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2 points

rolls dice threateningly

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3 points

Party of pendants. Huh…

He’s the model of a major grammarian.

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16 points

Since red guy is totally not a monster, it makes much more sense to compare them to the creator than to the monster. And since this is a comic, the words are written and therefore read/ seen or – in universe – watched.

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18 points

No, Red killed and ate his wife.

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7 points

Guess I suck at reading between the lines…

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7 points

honestly, the fault is on you, everyone else (literally everyone) noticed it but you

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1 point

I will be with you on your wedding night…

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6 points

But his hair looks like the stereotypical description of Frankenstein’s monster, not Dr. Frankenstein who as far as I am aware doesn’t have a stereotyped hair style

That said, my favorite pedantic response would be: Dr. Frankenstein was the monster. And his child should share his last name anyways.

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3 points

Frankenstein didn’t have a doctorate, and the monster murdered people in cold blood. I suppose you could argue that Victor was also a monster (particularly for allowing Justine to die when he could have saved her if he’d spoken up and taken responsibility for his actions) but the monster was definitely a monster, albeit a sympathetic one.

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Seeing as there is very clear paternal symbolism throughout, and even internal dialog of the minster monster referring to the “doctor” as his father, I think it’s pretty reasonable to assume the minster monster took the same surname.

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6 points

There’s no way the monster would take Frankenstein’s surname. He hated him.

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2 points

Many people hate their fathers and still keep their surnames.

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4 points

I read that as minister and not monster and was very confused. I thought I must have missed a reference to a different movie.

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Ah, I made the same mistake!

I suspect it was when he wrote “minister” that led me to read it as “minister”, but it really could have been anything. I’m kind of tired, so that might have been it.

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