In the 2/15&22/21 issue of the New Yorker, this cartoon by Kaamran Hafeez and Al Batt:
(#1)
“Now that we can talk, we have to have meetings.”
In the larger domain of Emergence of Language cartoons, this is a subspecialty — on the Now What? theme:
We’re learned to speak / talk / write. We’ve invented language. Now what?
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Today’s Daily Jocks ad, for their Underwear Club, with a caption of my own devising:
(#1) Unkind critics
Assailed his claim that the
Dutch of Brabant is the
Original language the
Garden of Eden’s tongue but he
Smoothly fended them off he
Knows all the moves
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