\n1. Currently topical, now that California is about to marry same-sex couples and New York to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions (like Massachusetts, Canada, and California). Then there's the old issue about different senses of gay<\/em>.<\/p>\n
And a bonus, from Candorville<\/em> (hat tip to Ned Deily):<\/p>\n Both of these cartoons use the term gay marriage<\/em>. News stories and other discussions sometimes go back and forth between gay marriage<\/em> and same-sex marriage<\/em>, though the latter expression seems to dominate heavily. (You can search on Language Log Classic, on \"same-sex marriage\" for earlier discussions of marriage<\/em> in this expression.)<\/p>\n 2. Somewhat out of season, but this will recall our annual discussions of \"Merry Christmas!\" and \"Happy Holidays!\":<\/p>\n 3. Next, an adventure in (fanciful) etymology:<\/p>\n 4. A play on the word capital<\/em>, which I find funny on its own, though the \"dumb blonde\" theme makes me uncomfortable:<\/p>\n 5. It's all about spelling as Batman confronts Bat Man (both names are noun-noun compounds):<\/p>\n 6. A play on the formula donate one's body to science<\/em>:<\/p>\n 7. A play on widen<\/em> vs. whiten<\/em>:<\/p>\n Even people who lack the distinction in\u00a0Wales<\/em>\/whales<\/em>\u00a0and Wight<\/em>\/white<\/em> (as a great many people do these days) are likely not to have\u00a0whiten<\/em>\/widen<\/em> as homophones (for me, the first has a medial glottal stop, the second a [d] or a voiced \"flap\"), so for most people this is an \"imperfect pun\" (see here<\/a><\/em>). Not that that's a bad thing.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A collection of Bizarro cartoons I've been accumulating for some time:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/198","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/arnoldzwicky.s3.amazonaws.com\/BizarroGayMarriage.gif\")
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