Zits cartoons
by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
…..
EB, 12/9/04: Dude, no way:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001705.html
ML, 4/26/05: Language and gender: The cartoon version:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002101.html
AZ, 11/11/06: Fully awesome!:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003764.html
ML, 11/16/06: When stereotypes hang out:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003777.html
ML, 11/18/06: Dueling stereotypes:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003786.html
AZ, 12/17/06: More adolescent vocabulary:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003929.html
AZ, 12/18/06: Freaking:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003933.html
AZ, 12/20/06: On the track of the squean:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003942.html
AZ, 12/28/06: Like, a Christmas gift card:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003978.html
AZ, 1/2/07: One last squean and knurl:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003995.html
ML, 1/10/07: Semantic drift in the classroom:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004026.html
AZ, 4/3/07: One more F-word:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004366.html
AZ, 5/12/07: Calling him names:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004486.html
ML, 6/11/07: Contrastive focus reduplication in Zits:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004591.html
ML, 7/29/07: Communicating:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004761.html
ML, 8/27/07: Intimate IM:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004858.html
ML, 9/13/07: Scalar implicature in the funny papers:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004905.html
AZ, 9/28/07: Cartoon quotatives:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004973.html
ML, 10/18/07: Phrasally grateful:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005036.html
ML, 10/31/07: Linguistic change in progress:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005073.html
ML, 11/26/07: FLoP in the funny papers:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005155.html
ML, 12/18/07: Grunt glossary:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005131.html
ML, 4/15/08: Never closer:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=43
ML, 4/17/08: The new biologism answers a rhetorical question:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=49
AZ, 5/30/08: Zits roundup:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=201
AZ, 6/29/08: Teenage boy talk:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=287
ML, 7/13/08: Vacuum hermeutics:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=350
AZ, 8/18/08: Zits communication:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=500
AZ, 10/19/08: Cartoon teenage communication:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=735
AZ, 10/26/08: More dudism:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=766
AZ, 11/3/08: OMG!:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=797
AZ, 11/17/08: Clouds of chatter:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=836
ML, 12/23/08: Reverse Whorfianism and the value of SHAs:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=943
ML, 1/26/09: Emoticons as skin care:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1073
ML, 3/31/09: In a good way:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1283
AZ, 4/16/09: Teens and texting (again):
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1334
AZ, 9/7/09: Teen speech in overdrive:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1725
AZ, 8/1/09: Eskimo snow around the world:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1622
ML, 12/28/09: Implicit restriction of temporal quantification:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=957
ML, 4/7/10: This digitized life:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2238
AZ, 4/12/10: Vwllssnss:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2246
AZ, 4/19/10: Teenspeak, genderspeak:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2262
AZ, 8/26/10: Texting while operating machinery:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2581
ML, 12/27/10: Txt and context:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2867
ML, 1/14/11: The more vowels …:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2904
ML, 3/29/11: “I know, right?”:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3057
ML, 4/22/11: Phone Etiquette 2.0:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3104
ML, 5/11/11: Another meta-obscenicon strip:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3135
ML, 6/6/11: What caused the texting tsunami?:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3183
ML, 6/14/11: Positive psychology:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3196
7/13/11: Playing with morphology:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/playing-with-morphology/
ML, 9/12/11: “The new exclamation point”:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/ll/?p=3426
11/3/11: Formulaic language brought to life:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/formulaic-language-brought-to-life/
11/14/11: GenX so:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/genx-so/
11/25/11: Cartoon technical talk composite modifier pile up example:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/cartoon-technical-talk-composite-modifier-pile-up-example/
AM, 12/1/11: Meh again:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3593
1/31/12: Cartoon 4: guy advice:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/01/31/cartoon-4-guy-advice/
ML, 2/11/12: Perlocutionary force exemplified:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3761
2/22/12: Misfired indirection:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/misfired-indirecion/
3/2/12: lady-wave:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/lady-wave/
3/6/12: Reanalysis and reinterpretation:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/reanalysis-and-reinterpretation/
3/25/12: unfair / not fair:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/unfair-not-fair/
4/10/12: almost not:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/almost-not/
4/25/12: A Zitsmanteau:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/a-zitsmanteau/
6/4/12: I say STD, you say FTD:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/i-say-std-you-think-ftd/
6/12/12: Zits language:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/zits-language/
6/13/12: More Zits language:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/more-zits-language/
7/5/12: That’s so gay!:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/07/05/thats-so-gay-2/
7/9/12: New-ironic:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/new-ironic/
7/14/12: Dinner table conversation:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/dinner-table-conversation-2/
8/20/12: commando:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/commando/
8/27/12: Zits replay, slower and faster:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/zits-replay-slower-and-faster/
8/28/12: Zits relevance:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/zits-relevance/
8/31/12: Deer in the highlights:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/08/31/deer-in-the-headlights/
9/26/12: Monosyllabism:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/09/26/monosyllabism/
9/28/12: Digital physical humor:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/digital-physical-humor/
10/1/12: go with:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/go-with/
10/16/12: Inference:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/inference/
10/19/12: Public slogans:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/public-slogans/
10/22/12: Walking in the rain:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/walking-in-the-rain/
10/24/12: What makes it a book?:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/what-makes-it-a-book/
10/28/12: The domestic relevance duels:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/the-domestic-relevance-duels/
11/7/12: We don’t need no steenkin’ land lines:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/we-dont-need-no-steenkin-land-lines/
11/8/12: Breathless:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/breathless/
ML, 11/8/12: Teen communication:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4294
11/22/12: Fixing things:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/11/22/fixing-things/
12/8/12: What is this postcard of which you speak?:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/what-is-this-postcard-of-which-you-speak/
12/15/12: Emoticons amok:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/emoticons-amok/
12/17/12: It’s all in the wrists and nowhere else:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/its-all-in-the-wrists-and-nowhere-else/
1/4/13: Rhyme, rhyme, I need a rhyme:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/rhyme-rhyme-i-need-a-rhyme/
1/13/13: Putting the man in manicure:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/putting-the-man-in-manicure/
2/16/13: Abbreviation:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/abbreviation/
3/5/13: Chattiness again:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/chattiness-again/
3/18/13: Texting while talking:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/texting-while-talking/
4/1/13: Gossip:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/gossip/
4/5/13: Finger talk:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/finger-talk/
4/6/13: Listening:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/listening/
4/10/13: being like:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/being-like/
4/22/13: More on modern communication:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/more-on-modern-communications/
4/25/13: More girlish chattiness:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/more-girlish-chattiness/
5/10/13: The decline of the book:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/the-decline-of-the-book/
5/29/13: don’t know:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/dont-know/
6/16/13: Holidays and occasions:
https://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/holidays-and-occasions/
6/29/13: Choosing words:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/06/29/choosing-words-2/
7/4/13: It’s been a slice:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/04/its-been-a-slice/
7/16/13: Turn-ons:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/07/16/turn-ons/
8/1/13: Zits goes self-referential:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/08/01/zits-goes-self-referential/
12/6/13: Means of communication:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/12/06/means-of-communication-3/
12/11/13: Generational humor:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/12/11/generational-humor/
12/24/13: Xmas cartoons:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/12/24/xmas-cartoons/
#1
1/21/14: Four cartoons:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/01/21/four-cartoons/
#2
2/26/14: Two Wednesday cartoons:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/02/26/two-wednesday-cartoons/
#2
3/2/14: The power of children’s literature:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/03/02/the-power-of-childrens-literature/
3/6/14: Commit to the bit:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/03/06/commit-to-the-bit/
3/14/14: Three for Pi Day:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/03/14/three-for-pi-day/
#3
3/17/14: A sweep of five:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/03/17/a-sweep-of-five/
#2
3/19/14: Another crop of cartoons:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/03/19/another-crop-of-cartoons/
#1
3/22/14: Three more:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/03/21/three-more/
#2
3/22/14: Another three for the weekend:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/03/22/another-three-for-the-weekend/
#2
3/23/14: Sunday melange:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/03/23/sunday-melange/
#2
3/24/14: Keeping secrets:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/03/24/keeping-secrets/
4/16/14: More cultural references: Zits:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/04/16/more-cultural-references-zits/
4/27/14: Communicators:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/04/27/communicators/
4/30/14: Implicit content:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/04/30/implicit-content/
5/2/14: Three more for Friday:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/05/02/three-more-for-friday/
#2
5/10/14: Party of five:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/05/10/party-of-five/
#1
5/18/14: Five for Friday:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/05/18/five-for-friday/
#7
6/5/14: Four for the Fourth:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/06/05/four-for-the-fourth/
#2
6/7/14: Assorted cartoons:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/06/07/assorted-cartoons/
#2
6/9/14: Getting the message across:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/06/09/getting-the-message-across/
6/15/14: Fathers Day five:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/06/15/fathers-day-five/
#2
ML, 6/15/14: Sticky stereotypes:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=12983
[same as previous]
6/20/14: More octothorpe wrangling:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/06/20/more-octothorpe-wrangling/
7/12/14: dorkage:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/07/12/dorkage/
8/10/14: named after:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/08/10/named-after/
8/16/14: Geezer talk:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/08/16/geezer-talk/
9/6/14: Three Saturday cartoons:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/09/06/three-saturday-cartoons/
#1
10/1/14: Facebook vs. texting:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/10/01/facebook-vs-texting/
11/8/14: Saturday trio:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/11/08/saturday-trio/
#1
11/10/14: Monday quartet:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/11/10/monday-quartet-2/
#1
12/17/14: The dark side of Xmas songs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/17/the-dark-side-of-xmas-songs/
12/21/14: Chatty girls again:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/21/chatty-girls-again/
12/25/14: Prejudicial –ist:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/25/prejudicial-ist/
12/27/14: Set of three:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/12/27/set-of-three/
#2
ML, 1/1/15: Creative overnegation:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=16852
ML, 1/15/15: Social change:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=17144
1/23/15: Said … Heard:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/01/23/said-heard/
2 cartoons
3/28/15: literally literally:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/03/28/literally-literally/
4/10/15: gummi:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/10/gummi/
5/18/15: Don’t shade your eyes:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/05/18/dont-shade-your-eyes/
7/20/15: Couple words:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/20/couple-words/
7/22/15: Disentangling names:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/22/disentangling-names/
8/9/15: A hypothetical question?:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/08/09/a-hypothetical-question/
8/25/15: going better with:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/08/25/going-better-with/
10/4/15: Routine and sub-routine:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/10/04/routine-and-sub-routine/
11/20/15: Crunch Berries time:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/20/crunch-berries-time/
2 cartoons
11/28/15: Bring this upstairs for me:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/11/28/bring-this-upstairs-for-me/
1/23/16: Sara and D’ijjon double-team Jeremy:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/23/sara-and-dijon-double-team-jeremy/
1/28/16: Three Thursday cartoons:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/01/28/three-thursday-cartoons/
#1
3/1/16: Two Z language cartoons:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/01/two-z-language-cartoons/
#1
3/7/16: Jeremy, adulting:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/07/jeremy-adulting/
3/30/16: Three for the 30th:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/30/three-for-the-30th/
4/10/16: The Ascent of MowerMan:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/04/10/the-ascent-of-mowerman/
ML, 4/16/16: Sentence meaning and speaker meaning:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=25162
“dude” cartoon [with links to earlier postings on dude]
5/7/16: binge-bingeing:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/07/binge-bingeing/
5/16/16: Two Monday language comics:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/16/monday-language-comics/
#2
6/11/16: Referent finding in Zits:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/06/11/referent-finding-in-zits/
8/1/16: Cartoon conversations:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/08/01/cartoon-conversations/
#2
11/16/16: Distant compounds: the headgear hair files:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/16/distant-compounds-the-headgear-hair-files/
11/27/16: The band names of middle age:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/27/the-band-names-of-middle-age/
11/30/16: Color-coordinating college:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/30/color-coordinating-college/
12/1/16: The audible asterisk:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/01/the-audible-asterisk/
1/15/17: Extreme emoji:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/15/extreme-emoji/
2/25/17: Ten language cartoons:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/25/ten-language-cartoons/
#8
2/27/17: Two Ztoons on language use:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/02/27/two-ztoons-on-language-use/
#2
5/22/17: Prepositions matter:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/22/prepositions-matter/
ML, 5/26/17: Greeter skillz:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=32880
5/27/17: Memorial Saturday 4:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/27/memorial-saturday-4/
#2
6/7/17: The word came down on Pentecost:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/07/the-word-came-down-on-pentecost/
#7
6/10/17: Music hath powers to repel the savage pest:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/10/music-hath-powers-to-repel-the-savage-pest/
6/15/17: For Saul Steinberg:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/06/15/for-saul-steinberg/
#7, 7a
8/5/17: The clean-gasm:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/05/the-clean-gasm/
9/4/17: Sea foam:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/04/sea-foam/
9/5/17: Obsolete technologies and middle verbs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/05/obsolete-technologies-and-middle-verbs/
2 cartoons
9/6/17: Antique technology and its songs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/06/antique-technology-and-its-songs/
10/24/17: Mistered and Ma’amed:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/24/mistered-and-maamed/
10/25/17: Gendered moments in the comics:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/25/gendered-moments-in-the-comics/
#2, 3, 9, 10
10/31/17: Twicker tweet:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/10/31/twicker-tweet/
11/30/17: Two memic moments:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/30/two-memic-moments/
#1
1/28/18: Four more recent cartoons:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/01/28/four-more-recent-cartoons/
#2
3/25/18: Two (more) Sunday cartoons:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/25/two-more-sunday-cartoons/
#2
4/13/18: Thumbing his thoughts:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/13/thumbing-his-thoughts/
4/28/18: Dad’s tall tales:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/28/dads-tall-tales/
#3
4/30/18: Books and their covers:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/30/books-and-their-covers/
5/1/18: Treasure the asymmetry:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/01/treasure-the-asymmetry/
