…has been featured in the last three Big Nate strips, starting with this one:
Then:
And today:
This may go on all week.
Some past LL commentary on the specific issues involved:
"Dictionary Daftness, Dan Brown Style", 8/10/2010 (Comment on irregardless)
"X-ward(s)", 2/21/2011
"Lie or Lay: Some Disasterously Unhelpful Guidance", 4/10/2004
"Caring less with stress", 7/8/2004
"Negation by association", 7/13/2004
"The care less train has left the station", 6/20/2005
"Half a century of (not) caring less", 11/1/2010
"Be appalled; Be very appalled", 8/8/2011 (More on lie/lay)
"How to defend yourself from bad advice about writing", 11/1/2006 (A discussion of anti-prescriptivist violence)
But when it comes to anticlimatic, I'm afraid we've got nothing but a bad pun, whose link I'll spare you.
[Tip of the hat to E. Gilman]
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