Re: Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus

On 4/26/24 9:03 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 4/26/2024 4:33 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/04/26
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Yup, English is hard for the native born.  I pity people who learned English not immersed in the culture.

 Many years ago I predicted that there much be a class of German
language joke predicated on ambiguity in reading that language's
agglutinated words.
 A native speaker in the group confirmed that I was correct.
 Consider breaking the word 'therapist' at a line end.
 

Exactly! My wife recently read a book with that title, very largely displayed on the spine, and my first (and second!) thoughts were "What the heck is she reading...?"
Tony