Charles Schulz’s Peanuts strip from 12/31/57, in which Snoopy takes on a penguin persona:
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Archive for the ‘Linguistics in the comics’ Category
The dog who would be penguin
January 23, 2019On the euphemism watch
January 22, 2019The Daddy’s Home cartoon (by Anthony Rubino Jr. and Gary Markstein) for January 20th:
Doubly peculiar euphemisms heck and gosh: they’re replacing straightforward religious uses of hell and God, rather than transferred uses in cursing; and in any case the taboo associated with these cursing uses has ebbed to such a degree that euphemizing them has a decidedly quaint feel.
Stay ware!
January 20, 2019Sandra Boynton’s celebration of the day:
Be aware! Stay ware! Be constantly conscious of the significance of penguins. If that takes having a penguin shine a bright light in your eyes, so be it.
pinochle
January 5, 2019The One Big Happy from 12/9, in which Ruthie is rotfl over the name of a card game:
Exactly my response when, at the age of 7 or 8, I first heard the name of this card game. I mean, pea-knuckle!
Private conlangs in the comics
January 5, 2019Yesterday’s Sally Forth (by Jim Keefe):
Ted and Sally are recalling an absurd private language they constructed for themselves to talk about nearby people in public — a language that only they would know. Their Monkeyish was absurd because, with only 12 words (7 of them prepositions!), there was clearly almost nothing that they could say.
Nighthawks on New Year’s
January 2, 2019A memorable New Yorker cover for the New Year: an Owen Smith parody of Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks (one of a great many such parodies):
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Three things: Nighthawks parodies, Owen Smith, and party hats.
Annals of indirection
January 1, 2019Chip Dunham’s Overboard strip from December 28th:
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An exercise in both syntax/semantics and semantics/pragmatics: on syntactic constructions and their semantics, and on the indirect conveying of meaning in context.
Above, what will become example (c) in the syntactic discussion:
(c) I don’t think I’ve told you today what a wonderful dog you are
which will lead to a related example, Sir Van Morrison’s song line in (d):
(d) Have I told you lately that I love you?
Ruthie x 3
December 29, 2018In my comics feed for One Big Happy: The Huskies play Oregon (11/23), Money is the root of boll weevil (11/28), ABC order (11/30):
Nighthawks in search of an artist
December 29, 2018Passed on on Facebook, this Bill Whitehead cartoon, with some broad art humor:
Before Edward Hopper discovered the sad diner and immortalized it in Nighthawks.
bait and tackle
December 27, 2018A coordination of two nouns, conventionally paired in bait & tackle shop, referring to a store that provides supplies for sport fishermen. Like this place in Benicia CA:
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And elaborately played on in the Bizarro from December 23rd:
