Comic #7030: fossils-4

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Panel 1: A person with curly brown hair and a headband appears frustrated while raising their arms and speaking. They say, "Linguistic evolution is a lie! God made the languages as they are today and they are unchanging!"

Panel 2: Another character, a light-skinned person with short hair, responds, asking, "What about fossil words? Like how you can say 'to and fro' but 'fro' no longer exists outside that one phrase?"

Panel 3: The first character, now with a more animated expression, exclaims, "Fossil words were put there by Satan to trick us!"

Panel 4: The second character argues back, "Just because it makes you sad doesn’t mean it’s wrong."

Panel 5: The first character states, "If language can evolve then there is no law! Improper use of everyone's subjunctive! Plural pronouns getting with singular subjects! Every modifier dangling, every infinitive split, people sticking prepositions in their endings!"

Panel 6: The first character is shown with an indignant expression, saying, "My granpappy weren't no speaker of Proto-Indo-European!"

Throughout, each character’s expressions and gestures contribute to the comic's humor and argument about language evolution and rules.