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Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.
If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
As is often true with these Stick cartoon, this one doesn't work for me, either. However, I expect it does work for lots of people. Problem is, for me Lent and lint sound the same (like pen and pin). I can make an effort and say /lɛnt/ or /pɛn/, but normally it's just /lɪnt, pɪn/ for both.
I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 12:05 PM, November 25, 2009
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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At 2:04 PM, November 25, 2009
Wishydig had this to say...
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At 2:42 PM, November 25, 2009
Q. Pheevr had this to say...
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At 4:08 PM, November 25, 2009
mike had this to say...
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At 10:27 AM, November 30, 2009
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->It's a regional thing. For me, there's no effort involved: "lent" and "lint" sound quite different, as do "meant" and "mint", and "pen" and "pin".
When I was a school-kid in Florida, I had to get used to being called a name that sounded like "Mary" with a B replacing the M. In the northeast, "Barry" and "berry" sound very different, as do "Mary", "merry", and "marry". In most of the rest of the U.S., they do not sound different: they're all pronounced close to the way I pronounce "Mary".
And many of the kids in Florida would ask to borrow "an ink-pen", to distinguish their request from one for, say, "a safety pin". I often laughed at that pronunciation, but I was definitely in the minority there.
Not so in New York.
yeah i'm not there with "day of atonal" as a plausible mistake, and i'm not there with that translating to a sing-along. other than by a real stretch of 'singing related' ideas. it's a clumsy joke.
There's also the fact that Yom Kippur was two months ago.
Another possibility, of course, is that it just isn't that well-written or that funny. Given the circumstances under which comics are produced -- ie, relentless time pressure -- I'm sure that sometimes an author will go with an idea even knowing that it's not all that great.
Hmm... they seem to be running late. Today's begins "Today is the autmnal equinox!"
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