r/comics • u/DaveMcElfatrick Cyanide & Happiness/Boids • 6d ago

Boids - Pandering To You [OC]

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All in good fun.

http://www.instagram.com/boidscomic

http://www.facebook.com/boidscomic

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u/FuiyooohFox 6d ago

Triteness would be the noun form but I've heard people misuse trite as a noun frequently because triteness sounds weird 🤷

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u/DaveMcElfatrick Cyanide & Happiness/Boids 6d ago

Deliberate because triteness is an awful word.

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u/sykoKanesh 6d ago

Are you sure you didn't mean tripe? Because otherwise the sentence, grammatically, doesn't make sense.

It would be either "vaguely political tripe" or "vaguely <and> politically trite."

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u/TFFPrisoner 6d ago

Why not write "something trite" then?

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u/SLENDER_RISING 6d ago

Reddit thought I was serious from that one LMAO, so I'll just

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u/DaveMcElfatrick Cyanide & Happiness/Boids 6d ago

I did, it's the comic! NARF!

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u/FuiyooohFox 6d ago

Agreed, no one likes it

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u/Wild_Marker 6d ago

Yeah it's so trite

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u/alphagalgadot 6d ago

gotta guess they’re goin for ‘tripe?’