Vincent Macropod in “Other Languages Are Funny”
Reverend Matt
Hi all. Uneventful week, basically. Finished all my Xmas shopping on Monday. Um…yep. Hey, I just realized, Xmas will be over by next week’s cartoon. Therefore, please: I urge you to have a happy December holiday observance of your choosing.
Please also enjoy the delightfully wintertime-themed cartoon. Briefly annotated below!
- So I went outside one morning last week, and found that all of the cars parked out in the street appeared to have received a light dusting of snow overnight. The cars, and nothing else. The pavements were clear, the tree branches; what the hell this meant, I do not know. But it did inspire the middle panel of this cartoon, and from there the rest of it.
- The information in the first three panels comes from…uh…some website. I googled ‘Inuit words for snow’ and got a giant list of sites debunking the million-words-for-snow thing. All right! Got it! Jesus! Anyway, in amidst those sites was this one. I do not vouch for its accuracy.
December 19th, 2007 at 3:13 am
Good stuff, Reverend. Reminds me of my continuing aspiration to live in a land with no indigenous word for “work”, but at least five words that mean “slouch on the sofa watching kung fu movies.”
December 19th, 2007 at 8:48 am
I would not eat beef-flavored snow.
December 19th, 2007 at 11:58 am
In Soviet Union, snow shovels you!
Bravo!
December 19th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
I kinda might eat beef-flavoured snow.