Teresa Dowlatshahi has a new comic using words in foreign languages that sound like English ones; today's installment, for example, describes the Lardil word weel as meaning 'big clouds (that come out of the east in the summer)' and shows several whale-shaped clouds floating over a landscape. Fun.
Posted by languagehat at April 11, 2003 04:22 PMExcellent fun. Hope there will be t-shirts!
Posted by: Sue at April 16, 2003 09:24 PMThis comic is so stupid it sickens me. I was just looking at comics randomly at ucomics and I think I hate it. Some pictures are drawn using the english definition, some are drawn using the foreign definition, while some are drawn with both. Despite this glaringy inconsistency there is one thing that they all have in common; not a single one is funny.
Posted by: Vance at December 1, 2003 03:10 PMDitto to Vance.
Posted by: patricia at October 8, 2004 08:55 AM