Adventures in cross-dialect understanding in the One Big Happy strips of 2/1 and 2/2, both featuring Ruthie and Joe’s playmate James: (#1) (#2) The generic Tough Kid. James is hard to place socially, beyond the fact that he’s supposed to be hard-core working class. The features (phonological, morphological, lexical, syntactic) he exhibits mix stereotypes of … Continue reading Hard Tundra