{"id":1631,"date":"2009-08-04T06:32:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T10:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=1631"},"modified":"2009-08-04T06:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T10:38:00","slug":"what-is-it-lassie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=1631","title":{"rendered":"What is it, Lassie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today's <a href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/strange_brew\/2009-08-04\/\">Strange Brew<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/LassiePressure.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/LassiePressure.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThis reminds me of an old joke, which picks up yesterday's theme of <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=1626\">communication by telegram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A dog walks into a telegraph office, gives the clerk the recipient's address, pays the fee for a minimum-length telegram, and dictates: \"ARF ARF ARF ARF ARF ARF ARF ARF ARF\".<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The clerk says \"The minimum fee covers ten words, and you've only used nine. You want me to add another ARF?\"<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The dog responds, scandalized, \"But that wouldn't make any sense!\"<\/p>\n<p>[Hat tip: Alec Baumans]<\/p>\n<p>[By the way, the spelling uncertainty <em>guage\/gauge<\/em> is a big problem for me, in that my fingers naturally want to type <em>langauge<\/em> instead of <em>language<\/em>, for some reason I can't figure out.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today's Strange Brew:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-communication","category-linguistics-in-the-funny-papers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}