Latest blog post: Redraw of chapter 1 is happening (2024-05-11)

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Satellite (one T)... happen (two P's) ... recommend using "if there are any" or "if there're any" rather than "if there's any" since there should not be an 'is' in the phrase to contract.

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"There're" is a fairly unnatural construction that combines the colloquial register of contractions with a formal adherence to verb agreement; casual speech will often use more common forms of contractions even when it violates normal agreement and/or word order (see for example "Didn't you do it?" rather than "Did youn't do it?"). "If there's any" (or similar phrases) would be entirely unremarkable in typical speech or informal writing, with expansion to "if there are any" generally indicating either a desire to emphasize the verb (e.g. to express a likelihood that there aren't any) or a categorical desire to avoid contractions.

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You said it Ashu! Under the tail with 'em!

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transfer our [satellite]
cannot allow that to [happen]

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They kinda need to send a recovery expedition anyway, survivors or no. If just moving their spy satellite to a lower orbit is a detection risk they're hesitant to take, what price an actual crashed shuttle sitting right on the planet's surface?

BTW, is Leaving the Cradle on Topwebcomics?

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It should be. Last time I checked it was somewhere in the bowels of the rating, 200th page or so.






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