The One Big Happy from May 15th:
Months, Muntz, let’s call the whole thing off.
Archive for the ‘Linguistics in the comics’ Category
Mister Muntz
June 11, 2018In case of cartoons, see therapist
June 11, 2018It started with this John Deering cartoon from 11/23/12 (passed on by a series of Facebook posters):
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In the tradition of the signage
IN CASE OF FIRE, BREAK GLASS
and introducing the cartoonist Deering, who’s fond of the Psychiatrist cartoon meme.
I love Moscow with chocolate syrup on top
June 8, 2018Today’s politically pointed parodic Zippy:
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You might not have recognized the Bosco jingle from the 1950’s, so Bill Griffith has helpfully added a jar of the stuff to the strip.
contractions
June 7, 2018The One Big Happy from May 11th, in which Ruthie discovers that there are contractions and then there are contractions:
mean age
June 5, 2018In the May 9th One Big Happy, Ruthie is faced with the ambiguity of modifying mean — and, unsurprisingly, opts for a familiar sense rather than a technical one:
Again with the nose job
June 4, 2018Today’s Zippy is a re-play of a drawing from 2015, now with dialogue:
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Stroke the nose and you slip through the nasal passage in the nose-time continuum to the bulbous-nose Cartoonosity region of Zippyland.
The canine therapist
June 3, 2018Posted by a Facebook foaf today, this Bizarro from 10/14/10:
(If you’re puzzled by the odd symbols in the cartoon — Dan Piraro says there are 5 in this strip — see this Page.)
The Psychiatrist meme, with a talking dog as a bonus. Plus, in my title, a nominal with the pseudo-adjective canine — and it’s ambiguous.
Two little words
June 2, 2018Identify a movie with just two words from it.
“I’m shocked” takes you to Casablanca.
And “Sorry, Dave” takes you to 2001: A Space Odyssey, in “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that” (which you can watch here)
That came to me thanks to a weekly mailing from King Features, with this panel from a Safe Havens strip (a quirky comic new to this blog):
Bathroom words
June 1, 2018The One Big Happy from May 5th:
What to call this room, with the facilities for urination and defecation? Most of the standard terms are named metonymically, by association with other activities often engaged in in such a room: bathroom, by association with bathing; toilet, by association (in French) with dressing; lavatory, by association with washing (Latin lavatorium ‘place for washing’); washroom; restroom.
Narrative theory at the therapist’s
June 1, 2018Today’s Rhymes With Orange, a fresh take on the Psychiatrist cartoon meme:
You don’t get a lot of narrative theory in cartoons, but here’s some basic stuff from Wikipedia: