It’s a crappy situation no matter how you look at it… I feel for the guys on laundry duty….
I find it extra funny the guy in the lower right corner of panel five looks like the kid from Akira.
Just realised he says “shitted” and that I must’ve been automatically translating that to “shat” in my head every time I’ve visited this page.
Is “shitted” more common than “shat” where you are, Chris?
Also, anyone else is invited to respond to that. I’m now genuinely interested in where shit is treated as a regular or irregular verb.
I think it’s the different between tenses. Shitted might be full past tense while Shat is ‘just happened’.
It’s about whether it’s treated as a regular or irregular verb.
Regular verbs don’t suddenly gain an irregular past participle for when it “just happened”, the regular past participle is used and preceded by ‘just’. Case in point: ‘happen’ is a regular verb, its past participle is ‘happened’ (happen +ed), and to represent something that just happened, it gets preceded by ‘just’.
If you need an example of a verb that’s regular in some variants of English, but irregular in others: “to prove” is regular when the past participle is “proved” (British English, etc.) but irregular when it’s “proven” (US English, etc.). In neither variant does the past participle change depending on how recent the proof was.
No, I just think ‘shitted’ is a lot funnier than ‘shat’. It’s a creative choice rather than an observation, for sure
* sigh * All that drawing talent… then the sense of humor of C&H. Such a cruel fate…
C&H rule!
same guy who made breaking hobo btw
Incredibly deep cut. My first digital animation? Now I work on multi-million dollar theatrical movies. Dreams really do come true
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An army marches on its stomach upsets.
It’s a crappy situation no matter how you look at it… I feel for the guys on laundry duty….
I find it extra funny the guy in the lower right corner of panel five looks like the kid from Akira.
Just realised he says “shitted” and that I must’ve been automatically translating that to “shat” in my head every time I’ve visited this page.
Is “shitted” more common than “shat” where you are, Chris?
Also, anyone else is invited to respond to that. I’m now genuinely interested in where shit is treated as a regular or irregular verb.
I think it’s the different between tenses. Shitted might be full past tense while Shat is ‘just happened’.
It’s about whether it’s treated as a regular or irregular verb.
Regular verbs don’t suddenly gain an irregular past participle for when it “just happened”, the regular past participle is used and preceded by ‘just’. Case in point: ‘happen’ is a regular verb, its past participle is ‘happened’ (happen +ed), and to represent something that just happened, it gets preceded by ‘just’.
If you need an example of a verb that’s regular in some variants of English, but irregular in others: “to prove” is regular when the past participle is “proved” (British English, etc.) but irregular when it’s “proven” (US English, etc.). In neither variant does the past participle change depending on how recent the proof was.
No, I just think ‘shitted’ is a lot funnier than ‘shat’. It’s a creative choice rather than an observation, for sure
* sigh * All that drawing talent… then the sense of humor of C&H. Such a cruel fate…
C&H rule!
same guy who made breaking hobo btw
Incredibly deep cut. My first digital animation? Now I work on multi-million dollar theatrical movies. Dreams really do come true