Archive for Linguistics in the comics
January 27, 2010 @ 12:49 pm· Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
Today's Non Sequitur:
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January 23, 2010 @ 9:15 am· Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
We've been reprinting or linking to Rob Balder's PartiallyClips comics for more than six years. (I believe that this was our first link, and this was our second one.) Now Rob has handed the strip over to Tim Crist, who started right out with a lexicographical theme:
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January 6, 2010 @ 4:43 am· Filed by Arnold Zwicky under Animal communication, Linguistics in the comics
A Bizarro leap forward in animal abilities:
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January 5, 2010 @ 1:55 am· Filed by Arnold Zwicky under Linguistics in the comics
A sequence from Pat Brady and Don Wimmer's Rose Is Rose, January 4 and 5:
(Hat tip to JC Dill.)
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January 2, 2010 @ 1:10 pm· Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
Today's Pearls Before Swine:
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December 28, 2009 @ 9:22 am· Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
Today's Cathy:
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December 24, 2009 @ 5:38 am· Filed by Arnold Zwicky under Language and the media, Linguistics in the comics
… and anticipations of media to come (courtesy of the Pinheads):
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December 18, 2009 @ 10:19 am· Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
In Wiley Miller's Non Sequitur for 12/14/2009, Danae resists grammar instruction:
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December 17, 2009 @ 5:01 am· Filed by Arnold Zwicky under Language and gender, Linguistics in the comics
It's been a while since we posted on differences between the sexes, so here's a Zippy on the subject:
Yes, I know, this isn't really about language, but Language Log stumbled into sex differences a few years ago, mostly thanks to Leonard Sax and Louann Brizendine (via David Brooks).
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November 21, 2009 @ 8:54 am· Filed by Mark Liberman under Language and culture, Linguistics in the comics
In today's Stone Soup, Val tries to catch up:
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November 20, 2009 @ 9:46 am· Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics, Pragmatics, Rhetoric
Yesterday's Sally Forth:
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November 19, 2009 @ 4:59 pm· Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
Yesterday's Get Fuzzy:
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November 10, 2009 @ 6:23 am· Filed by Arnold Zwicky under Language play, Linguistics in the comics, Morphology
Once again, Zippy plays with English morphology. This time it's -ity day in Dingburg:
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