I bet you loved the commentary after the cartoon, too, especially this quote.
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The first is "epicaricacy" which is a rare English word (why do we always stop using the best words??) that was once spelled "epicharikaky". The Greek etymology of this word is a compound of epi (upon), chaira (joy) and kakon (evil). Whoo-hoo! I love it!
Little does he know...little do most know. I get Google Alerts for the use of "epicaricacy," and it's usually people who've not heard of it, and they get so excited.
Now, I did get an alert today (I am getting more these days; three today) where the person used it correctly, but the post is very political and really quite disgusting. I'd not want to link to it, and I'd have to check out its accuracy before I did.
Although it's not a word related strip one of my favourites is Garfield minus Garfield which I think I have mentioned before. It's the one where Dan Walsh has (with the approval of Garfield creator Jim Davis) removed everything apart from Jon Arbuckle from the strip leaving a portrait of a sad, lonely disturbed young man struggling to cope with life. I mention it now because it's just wiped the floor with everything else in an internet poll.
Apart from the "young" I identify completely with him.
It may not be to everyone's taste but it is to mine. My favourite is the one for 12th January, but I like most of them.
I confess that I am not a great lover of comic strips - but then many UK newspapers don't carry them (or at least, not full pages of regular characters).
There were 2 word related comics today that I liked. In the first Pickles comic, they talk about learning a new word every day (though you must learn its meaning too!)...today's was plinth. I didn't know it; Shu did.
The second is a Mister Boffo comic where they talk about the origin of Ponzi. That comic has stimulated me to look up the real etymology of the word!
Try replacing the crab in the cartoon with Humpty Dumpty.
Right, if you're going to steal, steal from the best. My immediate thought was "Crab. n. A large egg which has stability problems and is oftentimes tumbling off of walls on which it sits."
Good, Kalleh, but more really about how language is used than how it is evolving, don't you think?
Maybe. I thought the comment "pretty soon everybody will be saying it! Just you wait and see!" interesting, and it showed that if you wait awhile you can make the usage of a word change. I suppose we've seen that most in IT.
Well, if you're looking at today's comic, and you'll notice that the URL is simply the domain name without any further directories or numbers and file extensions to the right of the name, you can be sure that that link is only good on the day you're reading the comic. You can do one of two things depending on how they've organized things on the site. (1) Right-click on the strip itself and choose view image. Then cut and paste the URL to your post; (2) Go to the archives (or pick a date on their mini-calendar) and then come forward to todays day, and cut and paste the URL. That's how I do it. If all that is too complicated, then wait for the next day, find the old comic, and cut and paste that URL to the post.
A warning, though Kalleh. Don't post the comic as an image, using the URL of the graphic. That's called 'hot-linking', and is frowned upon as it uses up their server's bandwidth without anyone accessing the site itself. Often sites will use blocking tactics to stop people doing this.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!
