Today’s Bizarro:
The two relevant senses, from NOAD2:
1 causing laughter or amusement; humorous: a funny story | the play is hilariously funny.
2 difficult to explain or understand; strange: I had a funny feeling you’d be around | a funny thing, democracy.
The patient in the cartoon above believes that funny applies in both senses to New Yorker cartoons. And so it sometimes does.
March 11, 2014 at 6:53 am |
I think the point is actually that the doctor thinks New Yorker cartoons are “funny” in sense 1, but the patient thinks they’re funny only in sense 2.