Archive for Linguistics in the comics

Doing a literature

Today's Dinosaur Comics:

Mouseover title: “this has TREMENDOUS implications for my two original characters, Anna Phora and E. P. Strophe”

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Freemium worship

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Kinds of science

Today's xkcd — "The Three Kinds of Scientific Research":

Mouseover title: "The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.'"

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Nagoya Dialect and the Marvel Cinematic Universe

[This is a guest post by Frank Clements]

I saw something about Japanese dialects recently that might interest you. The makers of the Marvel movies are trying to recover the enthusiasm that's been lost due to their more recent films being critically panned and scandals with major actors, so they're introducing the classic Marvel villain Dr. Doom, who is traditionally the main villain of the Fantastic Four (created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee). They've brought back Robert Downey Jr. to play him, even though he's already played Iron Man, and they haven't explained how that is going to work.

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Primate preferences

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The wisdom of puns

Recent stock-market volatility reminds us of this KAL cartoon:

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New horizons in word sense analysis

Today's xkcd:

Mouseover title: IMO the thymus is one of the coolest organs and we should really use it in metaphors more."

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IRL reverse dictionary

… or maybe I should say "associative memory"? Or whatever we should call the emerging modes of interaction with Meta Ray-Bans? Anyhow, here's a recently re-published Girls With Slingshots comic (original in 2008):

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Environmental effects on language change

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Another meme collision

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The meaning of bracket symbols

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Mathematical synchronicity in the comics

(…with a bit of philosophy and psychiatry in the mix…)

Dinosaur Comics for 6/17/2024:

The same day's xkcd — "Pascal's Wager Triangle":

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Menu worms

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