Sujet : Re: Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus
De : tnusenet17 (at) *nospam* gmail.com (Tony Nance)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.written rec.arts.comics.stripsDate : 27. Apr 2024, 11:01:32
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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