AI comic strip creation?
Today's Tank McNamara:
Of course the joke in this strip is the seven fingers on Tank's right hand, and the eight fingers on his left hand.
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Archive for Linguistics in the comics
Retraction Watch: Swamp Man Thing
A recent Dinosaur Comic features a passionate investigation into alleged philosophical plagiarism:
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Digraphs in the gossip column
Today's xkcd — "Linguistics Gossip":
The mouseover title: "The E's wedding invitation definitely used the word LOVE more times than was strictly necessary."
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Data, information, knowledge, insight, wisdom, and Conspiracy Theory, part 2
From Phillip Remaker:
The one that claimed authorship clipped the edge of the unicorn tail.
The only version I have found that doesn't clip the edge of the unicorn tail is this one from farhan
I don't know if that means I found the original or if the author touched it up. The page is not archived on the Internet Archive.
It seems consistent with his other art.
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Named anatomy
Today's xkcd:
Mouseover title: "If an anatomical structure is named for a person, it means they were the only person to have it. Pierre Paul Broca had a special area of his brain that created powerful magnetic fields, enabling him to do 19th century fMRI research."
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It's "Hammie", not "Ammie"
"Baby Blues" by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for January 16, 2023:
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Social media substitutions
Brian McFadden's recent comic on "Social Media Substitutes" starts with this panel:
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Yally-teep
Following up on "Words: Too many? Too few?", T-Rex is discussing lexical issues again:
Mousover title: "as the French say – or will soon say if they know what's good for them – c'est TRES yally-teep."
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