I Mean Seriously
Spotted: 9/20/2016
Creator: @bitter sweet sarcasm_
This meme is being fixed by request. The problems here are multiple and various.
I mean seriously is a fragment—not even an actual sentence. But it could be interpreted as an exclamation, so that’s how I recast it in the fixed meme. Based on that interpretation, it needs both a comma and an exclamation point.
Nowadays is a word. Now a days makes no sense at all. Naturally, in order to fix this, I had to reflow the text below it.
The final “sentence” is another fragment, which only makes sense if it’s connected to the previous one, which is actually a question. So of course, I had to join up the clauses, give it a comma and (most importantly) a question mark. I could’ve used an em-dash instead of a comma.
So here’s the deal. This is undoubtedly something somebody would say. People talk like this. But it’s almost always possible to punctuate real-sounding speech in such a way that it’s grammatically correct. It’s often a challenge, but it can be done.
I was originally going to change unkept to unkempt, but the original actually works:
- unkept: 2. not tidy or cared for.
- unkempt: (especially of a person) having an untidy or disheveled appearance.
From the context, I’d say either word works.
I won’t venture further comment on beards and vaginas, but if you want to make such a comment, I’d recommend that you use my version of this meme:
