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  • Mark Sullivan (Vertiginous Mod) December 25, 2014 at 11:42pm

    Pretty funny. I wish comic books had that kind of cultural impact. I'd point to texting, but maybe that's just me. <shrug>

  • Rob Staeger (Grodd Mod) December 25, 2014 at 11:53pm

    Yeah, those words (shrug less so) are all used as indicators in comics -- but if kids today are using them, it's from texting. Because with texting, they're not just reading those things, they're typing/saying them as well. That's a big difference.

  • Richard Willis December 26, 2014 at 1:53am

    I think there's an assumption in the general public that comic books are still read by most kids and teens. If only that were true.

  • ClarkKent_DC December 26, 2014 at 7:48am

    There's also a similar assumption by the general public that most of the readers of comic books are kids and teens, and that hasn't been true for a long while.

  • Mark S. Ogilvie December 26, 2014 at 8:17am

    I've seen that response more on sitcoms than in comics. How come no one blames sitcoms?

  • Jeff of Earth-J December 26, 2014 at 8:45am

    I generally like Miss Manners (I love her acerbic wit!), but she was off target this time. (She;s right about it being bad manners, though.) I take only the Sunday paper (The Dallas Morning News), and while it runs Dear Abby and Carolyn Hax without fail, I'm lucky if it runs Judith Martin's column even once a month. Sometimes it goes for months without running it.

  • ClarkKent_DC December 26, 2014 at 10:19am

    I wonder which "Miss Manners" wrote that. The original, Judith Martin, is easing off on her workload and has been letting her son and two daughters write some of the columns.

  • Jeff of Earth-J December 26, 2014 at 10:22am

    I didn't know that. One might expect her children to be more in touch. Then again, one might not.

  • Ron M. December 26, 2014 at 10:36am

    Avoid the phrases Kapow and Bam.

    Interesting how when people that don't read comics talk about the medium that show is still what they think of.

    I've seen shrug used as a response in the comic strip Zits but I doubt it's that influential.

  • Wandering Sensei: Moderator Man December 26, 2014 at 11:18am

    I think Zits is probably more a reflection of the way current teenagers talk, rather than the opposite. I've heard kids say "shrug" as well as all kinds of inane acronyms ("YOLO" disgusts me, especially), but as they would say on A Way With Words on NPR, this is just the evolution of language.

    Ron M. said:

    I've seen shrug used as a response in the comic strip Zits but I doubt it's that influential.

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