From quite some time ago, this cartoon, posted on a variety of websites:
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An eating-utensil version of the question so often asked of same-sex couples: which of you is the man and which is the woman?
Archive for the ‘Linguistics in the comics’ Category
Chopsticks
January 5, 2015Bad behavior on the net
January 5, 2015
Conjugal visit
January 4, 2015Today’s Bizarro:
(See this 5/6/11 posting for cartoonist Scott Hilburn’s take on conjugational visits, with information on the adjective conjugal and on conjugal visits.)
Miss Portland
January 3, 2015Today’s Zippy, on the passage of time:
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We’re in Portland ME, at the (old) Miss Portland Diner.
Giving signals
January 2, 2015Today’s Zippy, with exquisitely (indeed, preposterously) specific hand signals:
Griffith takes up this theme every so often.
Watch what you do with your hands in Dingburg!
No problem
December 31, 2014Today’s Mother Goose and Grimm:
Mother Goose objects to (what she sees as) an innovation in politeness routines, seeing it as recent (and characteristic of kids) and especially associated with serving people. These criticisms has been leveled by many others.
Mastering a style
December 31, 2014Today’s Calvin and Hobbes, in which Calvin shows his mastery of tabloid headline writing:
Calvin’s doing well on the headline register (simple present tense for reporting events, omission of articles) used with other stylistic features (lexical choices in ichthyoid, grim melee, devours) and a breathless framing of the report, to reproduce the genre of tabloid headlines.
Snowtoons
December 30, 2014Yesterday I posted a “starving artist” cartoon featuring Frosty the Snowman, but wasn’t able to identify the artist. This morning’s advance was that Larry Schourup found a copy with the artist’s signature not cropped off — but he couldn’t read the signature! I’ve managed to decode it: Chad Carpenter, of the strip Tundra. Snowmen are one of his specialties.
Starving artist
December 29, 2014From a while back, this cartoon on the subject of transitory art:
It came from Aric Olnes, following up on a Calvin and Hobbes cartoon about transitory art, specifically Calvin on the aesthetics of melting snow art.
Name that hero!
December 29, 2014Yesterday’s Rhymes With Orange:
Naming up is hard to do.
On the next try, they streamlined the name and got the prosody right.