Today’s Bizarro takes us back to the early days of language:
(If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 3 in this strip — see this Page.)
But then there’s the circularity. Caveman A announces that he has thought of a word W with a novel property. But then he characterizes this property by using W. How can Caveman B understand this characterization if he’s unfamiliar with W?
(Meanwhile, of course, Caveman A talks in Cavemanese.)
June 3, 2016 at 4:28 am |
This one bothered me a little, I’ll admit. The last bubble should have read “syllables” with an s. Otherwise Caveman A is shown to be using *two* three-syllable words.
Whether “syllables” and “syllable” are different words, I suppose, could be argued either way. But I can’t help feeling the joke would have landed more solidly if it had contained only one three-syllable word.