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May 26, 2017 @ 7:06 am · Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

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Desmond Fishman is running for parliament, and has discovered (one of) the secrets of political rhetoric:

The first two panels:

May 26, 2017 @ 7:06 am · Filed by under Linguistics in the comics


7 Comments

  1. languagehat said,

    May 26, 2017 @ 9:06 am

    Our two weapons are fear and surprise…and ruthless efficiency…. Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency…

  2. Yakusa Cobb said,

    May 26, 2017 @ 12:38 pm

    Some context:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Rally

  3. Yakusa Cobb said,

    May 26, 2017 @ 1:13 pm

    And here's a link to the original:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROKXlvYMKQc

  4. David Marjanović said,

    May 27, 2017 @ 9:19 am

    Ah, politicians, still stuck with speeches because they haven't discovered Powerpoint/Keynote.

  5. Graeme said,

    May 28, 2017 @ 12:53 am

    Does Desmond Fishman's election agent, Claire, have a very erratic lisp?

    http://scarygoround.com/bobbins/index.php?date=20170516

  6. Graeme said,

    May 28, 2017 @ 1:02 am

    On Claire's lisp consistency the URL is misdirecting. The best example is the panel for 15 May. "dreamth … thuccess… nauthea … Desmond … doorstep … that'th "

    Is such inconsistency – in a handful of contiguous sentences – common or feasible?

  7. Deb said,

    May 29, 2017 @ 8:05 am

    Graeme, the lisp disappears of necessity when using it would make interpreting the dialog impossible. It would be too irritating to try to decipher "thuktheth" as "success."

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