Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for November 08, 2015

There are some intersections, though, Gunther. For one thing, both of you communicate better when using symbols, rather than words.

And neither of you has figured out where exactly your life is going yet. (And neither have I, come to think of it, and I’m 66…)

The “root” of Tiffany and Crystal’s conversation:Like you, too!What time do you get home?I’d love some pizza! Just double-checking with you… – The “root” of Gunther’s script:Subset A, Gunther-tron rules!Subset B, all other humans, irrelavent…Therefore, return to subset A…(though he forgot to factor in “the Gray matter”….)

“The Clashing Of Symbols”“At The Very Dimension Of Yer Name” (♫)

“…And Dim Sum”“The Thrill Of Vectory”“Sunrise, Subset” (♫)“A Pound Of Hashtags”" @ Ease" “Shorthanded”" @ Tension"“To The Vector, The Spoils”

“Mind Your Language”“My Emoji-cy Contact”or“Ladies And Tangents”

I have no idea what Gunther is talking about, however I have no idea what Tiff is texting. All I can understand is me 2 and something about what time are you going to school tomorrow. Are there texts supposed to be some kind of dialogue or is it just used as an example of Tiff’s life?

“The lines I have written that you read between…It’s parallel lines that will never meet.” (♪)

-“An Atomic and Platinum Band”

Oh the joys of conversations in symbols.

@IamJayBluE

Ironically, couldn’t get the reply button to work!

When communication returns to the use of pictograms (like Emojis and ancient cunieform), we will have lost the ability to truly communicate much beyond basic info…

And many of us will be left behind…

LOL, yup!!!!!

Whaaadeeefuhhhhh????

“Those symbols are clear enough, Tiffany’s anyway.”^Not necessarily. It’s all relative. Some symbols are either ambiguous, or could have more than one interpretation (for instance, the “bus” symbol in the third panel)… and much like Rebuses, one would have to be able to understand the connection between certain nuances like homophones (2, two, to, too), “puns”,general context, along with other factors… not to mention the symbols like the “thumbs up” can be from any context, but unless one visits places like FB, or is familiar with how it’s now becoming a new “meme” (replacing the word “like”), one wouldn’t be able to tie it all together.– Much like one can be an outstanding scholar, and adept in a language or two, but may still have a more difficult time with another (whether with letter script or symbols), only because they may not be familiar with certain concepts that someone who’s already been immersed in has been familiarized with, in practice…

Good point! – Another interesting typewriter would be the one for Braille…

“Nice day out…”^Ha ha ha!!– Did you find that pic from “somewhere in time”, oh, say… in the year 2525(♫) ?

Since he’s speaking out loud, he basically just said “Delta is a delta symbol.”

Next time out, all the things that don’t start with K that the letter K stands for:.Potassium, Absolute temperature, Black, 1000, 1024, Phylloquinone, Strikeout, Lysine, Permeability, Tanker aircraft, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas….

Bill Gates was a geek and he has quite a few $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. The geeks just might inherit the Earth.

Sigh! Doesn’t anyone around here speak English? I feel like a stranger in a strange land….

Funny strip!

Tiffany must have been an Egyptian in a past life….she’s good at hieroglyphics.

Maybe she will get a text from Δ.

And the real dig was at Greg, anyway. Chest thumping. Pfft.

Jargon.

There. You SEE, Gunth?Do You See How Cold and Unfeeling “They” get when “They” Don’t Need YOU to Help “Them” with “Their” Homework?Next Thing You Know, “She” will be Conning YOU into Buying HER Pizza, only to Later, Leave YOU Standing alone in the Rain on the side of a Darkened Country Road after She has Kicked YOU out of Her Car in Favor of Picking Up some Vapid, Handsome, AIR-HEADED Stranger, like that “Piro” CREEP!BAH!!!Strike a BLOW for Male Liberation, Gunth!! The NEXT Time “She” Needs Help. Give “Her” the WRONG Answers, So that “She” May Soon FLUNK Out of School and Make Room For Some Deserving Male Student!

GEEK POWER!

Oh, Heartless Serving Wench?

COFFEE!!!!

“OUR” Day of Jubilee is at HAND!!!

Wow.Rejected much Mordock?

Don’t cryDon’t raise your eyeIt’s only teenage wasteland

So, Gunther and Tiffany are still spending time together. With toddlers it is called parallel play. Interesting.

Let there be poetry, in celebration of the beauties of human language.

Why would Tiff be taking any class with this much math? I’m sure she would not need a class like that.

This is one strange couple. This comic would be a little more interesting if they got more time.

@Brdshtt: re: the brains in fluid-filled jars— Good pix!Such brains were part of a plot in one of the original Star Trek episodes. Sci-fi writer Anne McCaffrey also created a series around shell-persons, too—disembodied brains that were the “computers” for space ships. . ..

Now this is an excellent Sunday strip..!

Congratulations.

It even shows us several useful things that advance the story-lines a bit..THAT GUNTHER AND TIFF ARE RETAINING CONTACT..THAT TIFF IS HAPPY TO HAVE GUNTH AROUND SINCE HE HELPS HER AT MOONEY..THAT GUNTH IS HAPPY TO HAVE TIFF AROUND AND HE FINDS HER DIVERTING...THAT TIFF AND GUNTH BOTH REALIZE THAT THEY ARE BASICALLY INCOMPATIBLE..THAT TIFF IS STILL IN CONTACT WITH CRYSTAL.

Um, how do Crystal and Tiffany have emojis of THEMSELVES? The emojis are sort of like a font, an alphabet of pictures. The pictures seen by the recipient are the same as those sent because the two people’s phones have the same standard emoji character-set, the same “alphabet.”

You can read my words here because we use the same alphabet. I couldn’t make up my own unique alphabet “letters” and expect your computers to show them to you as I intend; your computer doesn’t have those “letters.”

Similarly, even if you could make your own “custom emoji,” it wouldn’t show up for the other person because it wouldn’t be in THEIR phone’s emoji set.

“One day, we may be simply brains in fluid – filled jars with a processing unit supplying us all the input we need.”.I resemble that remark!

back to basics; the first “writings” were symbols; or put another way, “everything old is new again”.

That’s the fun part! Just think of all the things you can introduce one another to. It’s no fun if you both love all the same things and can never surprise each other.

Sounds like SOMA.

What is Gunther referring to ?.Dim(U)or DIMor DLMus.or Dlm(usor dimesor dlmes.or WHAT?

Maybe dim(U) is something like vector space. ??

~Erendirani~ said, 9 minutes ago@ImplausibleYes, I am new…thank you! So, this is a regular event from this Baslim person, then? That’s too bad. I otherwise enjoy most of the comments here, and hope to join in on the fun!-————————————————Best to ignore any comment that tries to run down any other comment. .Luckily, there is not so much of that these days.

Note that G says that their dim(U)‘s don’t intersect VERY MUCH. .That indicates that there are areas where they DO intersect. .What areas are these?

Instead of using words, they are reverting back to using symbolic pictures much akin to petroglyphs or drawings on cave walls..It’s all part of the dumbing down process…

-Ancient Khemet (Egypt) used hieroglyphics (pictographs), and they were hardly dumb, just non-alphabetical.

Gunth, if you want to emphasize the difference between you and Tiff’s dimensions, they should be expressed as DIM (U) & DIM (V), for example.

Its all fine as long as they “intersect” at the right time in the right place.

Yep, Tiff is dressed to intersect.

Wow, all the techno-geeks are coming out……is there a full moon? Personally, I just like seeing these two still together and alone. There’s always the chance for spontaneous combustion.

“Hearts are known metonyms for “love” though these days they stupidly call them “hearts” so when you should be saying “I love you” they now say the nonsensical “I heart you”^Yeah, I feel the same way, saying “I heart you” seems all cutesy, but then again, it’s not as bad as shortening the word “totally” and the word “adorable” into “totes” (ackkk!!!!) and “adorbs” (double ackkk!!). Or even worse, Lol, “amazing” gets made into “amazeballs”, and jealous into "jelllin’ ". Or “pregnancy” into “baby bump”… . – As a second point also, in regards to the relative “ease” of deciphering:

Yes, but then you still have to put one or more together. You can know individual ones, but the meaning can still change, depending on the person. For instance, a broken heart can mean “heartbreak”, but could also mean "he/she’s a “heartbreaker” (truly attractive person that you’d estimate you’d have no chance to be with). Or the “clock” symbol could mean “what time?”, but can also mean “how long?”. It really depends on the language and speech patterns and also the common recognition between the participants of the conversation… – Same way one might “yell” at the TV, when a contestant flubs an answer on “Wheel” or “Jeopardy” or some other game show (including those where you have to solve a picture puzzle). The best example is the new game show “IdioTest”. People have seen the answer to the picture puzzles right in front of them, but still didn’t recognize them, until after they went over the answers in “talking it out” with the host, after their time is up. – The answers that may come easy to us could come just as easy to them, or…. maybe not , but it all depends on our own usage and understanding of a wide variety of things, which, in a funny way, is sort of the gist of the situation here between Gunther and Tiffany. It’s funny that they’re “well versed” in their own form of shorthand, but can’t appreciate the value (both the figurative and literal) of the other’s…

@Brdshtt

Thanks for the laugh – haven’t heard the furlongs per fortnight gag in so long I’d forgotten about it

For some reason, Gunther seems to have his former goofy look. Maybe it’s that his beard (stubble) looks less prominent and he’s wearing an oxford shirt is buttoned to the throat, and the way his face and teeth are drawn…..he doesn’t have that bearded college geekish appearance that he had before.

(pressure:) True, true…

(GK:) Would work. Though I can see the reason that GN gets so much more usage… much easier to roll off the tongue- er, fingertips…. -

I’d even go with Grammar Gestapo, but perhaps that would fall into the same category as “Nazi”, to some. – Maybe as a “happy medium”, we could just go with “Crosby, Stills, Nash and Grammar”…

2 people divided by a common languageYet still friends, or finally friends.

SPOILER ALERT

Is it possible that at least one of the parental units is having second thoughts? The other doesn’t want to have thoughts, apparently…

That’s some VERY lazy texting.

Anything but more Brad and Toni. Their escapades are a complete snoozer. When I see them in the strip, I take a week off.

-Prudence comes to those who have an open room…

I thought ‘prudence’ was something Pres Bush the First counseled us about (“Wouldn’t be prudent” was one of his fav statements.) Note that this is NOT a political statement.

And what is it that comes to those with an open heart?

And a bill…

Is it ? or is it the emergence of a common language spoken to all the youngs of the planet Earth?Internet and social media are definitely gone worldwide and people need a fast language, using small number of character and not native language dependent.For me this isn’t a dumbing down, this is an evolution. And in fact the complexity of some of the iconic texting is rapidly increasing.

The children have always had a secret language. More so the teens and savants.

Hahaha! ‘Greek to me,’ my favorite math joke! Ha ha ha!