Today’s Zippy:
The strip treats word balloons as physical objects, revealing the thoughts of whoever holds it.
Archive for the ‘Linguistics in the comics’ Category
Speech balloons in Dingburg
October 8, 2013Sunday puns
October 6, 2013Today’s Pearls Before Swine:
Stephan Pastis rolls with the pun (on the idiom/proverb to kill two birds with one stone), and Rat upbraids him (as usual). Rat also produces another pun, on “Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday”, by the Rolling Stones.
Religious coffee pun
October 4, 2013Today’s Bizarro:
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A close similarity to the Starbucks decor, including the logo:
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Plus a pun on the Church of Latter-Day Saints, that is, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, familiarly known as the Mormon Church.
Pig misunderstands (again)
October 2, 2013Today’s Pearls Before Swine:
Paris sites – parasites. If there’s a chance for Pig to misunderstand or misparse, he’ll take it. See him, for instance, on the Ottoman Empire (6/20/13) here, on word divisions (7/12/13) here, on take it as a given (7/21/13) here, on mastectomy (7/30/13) here, on man up (8/11/13) here, on clean someone’s clock (8/22/13) here, and on be expecting (8/23/13) here.
Outrageous pun for the day
October 1, 2013Passed on to me by Tom Limoncelli, this Cyanide and Happiness cartoon:
Groan. I never saw where panel 5 was going, even with complete waste of time in panel 3.
Nursery rhymes
September 30, 2013Today’s Pearls Before Swine, in which Rat updates a nursery rhyme:
A number of people have labored to modernize traditional nursery rhymes or to create new rhymes in the style of the traditional ones. Most of these are sweet or humorous, but some are serious. Consider, for instance, Modern Mother Goose – On The Loose: The Oil Spill by Mary Elizabeth Rumsey (2010), a rhyme on the Gulf Coast oil spill as seen through the eyes of a goose.
Penguins and cartoon porn
September 25, 2013Wednesday miscellanea: an excellent penguin mug and a link to a posting on AZBlogX.
The mug shows a 1921 poster by Charles Paine (seen on this blog in “London zoo animals”):
The AZBlogX posting is on the gay cartoonist Josman, with a small sampling of scenes (very much X-rated) from his porn work. Josman specializes in older and younger males (often fathers and sons) together; you’ve been warned.
Captain Underpants
September 23, 2013Today begins Banned Book Week. From today’s Washington Times: “Banned Book Week opens with ‘Captain Underpants’ under fire” by Cheryl K. Chumley:
Banned Book Week has arrived — and librarians around the nation are asking readers to consult the list and make a selection.
It’s a quiet protest that the American Library Association has waged since 1982, an annual event to draw attention to the more than 11,300 books that have been challenged or outright banned and highlight First Amendment freedoms and oft-ridiculous literary criticisms.
And heading the list of most-challenged on the 2012 top 10 list: “Captain Underpants,” by Dav Pilkey — the entire series. Why? The language and content is seen by many as unsuitable for the targeted age group, the younger than 12 crowd.
Also on the 2012 list of top 10 banned or challenged books: “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” by Sherman Alexie, for offensive language, sexually explicit scenes and racism, The Washington Post reported; “Thirteen Reasons Why,” by Jay Asher, for content that includes drugs, sex, alcohol and suicide; and “Fifty Shades of Grey,” by E.L. James, for offensive language and sexually explicit content.
Job description
September 23, 2013Yesterday’s Dilbert:
The pointy-headed boss clearly has no clue about what Dilbert is talking about (which is an actual issue in programming), and Dilbert responds with an (implicit) blunt criticism of managers who don’t understand what the people they manage do.