A perfectly spherical politician
… radiating stupidity isotropically. Today's SMBC presents a variation on the traditional "perfectly spherical cow" joke:
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Archive for Linguistics in the comics
"Mine's"
A reader was impressed enough with the recursive possessive form "mine's" to send in a link to Happy Monday Comics:
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Scrambled pairings
Today's xkcd:
Mouseover title: "The Romeo and Butt-Head film actually got two thumbs up from Siskel and Oates."
A less satisfactory alternative method would yield Romiette and Julio, or Abelise and Heloard, or Antopatra and Cleony.
Brilliant
Today's xkcd:
Mouseover title: "Platonic solids for my real friends and real solids for my platonic friends!"
The Universal Apocrypha of Linguistics and Verbal Ordnance
The first panel from today's Girl Genius refers to Traubhünd's Universal Apocrypha of Linguistics and Verbal Ordnance:
…better known these days as the Oxford English Dictionary…
Separating the modern usses from the cave usses
Dinosaur Comics for 2/3/2016:
Mouseover title: "oh wow a comic in which ryan argues the technology that gave us the word "bonertastic" is really important, WHAT A SURPRISE"
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Chinese scout
Listen to what the Chinese scout in this video says at :43. My first impression was that it sounds like he is speaking Cantonese, not Mandarin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRIdJCzCpOg
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