How things have changed…
In today's Stone Soup, Val tries to catch up:
Archive for Linguistics in the comics
Zippyosity
Once again, Zippy plays with English morphology. This time it's -ity day in Dingburg:
Noun: The Gerunding
Today's Irregular Webcomic:
According to CGEL, that should be "Noun: the Gerund-participling".
[Hat tip: Paul Bickart]
One's-Self I Tweet
This morning's comics page featured at least two strips focusing on Twitter as a literary genre. There was Doonesbury, in which Larry King demonstrates his command of the form:
And Pearls Before Swine, in which Rat edits Pig's copy of Leaves of Grass:
Four centuries of peeving
Several readers have recommended Wednesday's Non Sequitur:
Ask LL: parents' beliefs or infants' abilities?
Andrew Clegg asks "Is this true?"
Cute
Yesterday, most of the comments on The communicative properties of footwear dealt with the gender associations of the word cute. This linguistic stereotype is often used as the basis of comic-strip humor, frequently in the context of shopping, as in this Foxtrot strip from a few years ago:
And (with a twist) in this Preteena from 6/24/2009:
But in fact, the word cute really is used much more often by women than by men, in modern American culture.
The communicative properties of footwear
Two Cathy strips on this topic that I've been saving up:
A new target language for machine translation
Weasel-speak, as featured in today's Tank McNamara:
There's clearly money in it — and quite a bit of training material out there.
Metapun
When I tried to read Dilbert this morning, comics.com showed me this instead:
Time and the river
The latest xkcd is a brilliant way to introduce the topic of child language acquisition and cognitive development:
Recursive responsibility
Today's Dilbert:
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