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Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 26, 2011
Transcript:
Lucy: OK... so what's your latest plan for world peace? Danae: A universal language! There wouldn't be so many problems if everyone spoke the same language, so I'm creating one! Lucy: Um... how will you get everyone to understand it and use it? Danae: Lumpin frits, vu goombat. Lucy: You just said something not very nice, didn't you... Danae: See? That wasn't so hard, now was it?
Ida No over 13 years ago
The universal language of world peace is Norwegian? Or is that a voice clip from the Swedish Chef?
GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago
Sometimes inflection & body language say it all.
pbarnrob over 13 years ago
No, Radish, you really donātā¦
kreole over 13 years ago
A universal language wonāt do itā¦ā¦people kill each other in English all the time.
Arianne over 13 years ago
Iām guessing that smile that everybody everywhere does in the same language wonāt make it into Danaeās lexicon?A malicious grin or sinister sneer, on the other handā¦
bluskies over 13 years ago
Itās not what you say, itās how you say it. I nominate Lucy in 2012!
Arianne over 13 years ago
Darn tootin! Wouldnāt be the first horseās patoot seated behind the desk in the oval office.
Superfrog over 13 years ago
I know that you believe that you understand what you think I said but Iām not sure that you realize that what you heard was not what I meant.
Olddog1 over 13 years ago
masterskrain: You beat me to it. Iām a bit dissapointed that I didnāt see it sooner.
psychlady over 13 years ago
A universal language that Danae is making up. Will anyone be able to learn it?
tripwire45 over 13 years ago
This has been tried before. Didnāt work out so well.
Ida No over 13 years ago
What, shortwave radio isnāt good enough? What Iāve been told, Godās been receiving season 3 episodes of āI Love Lucyā, in prime time broadcasts, and thatās about as āin personā as anyoneās going to get.
Wiley creator over 13 years ago
Hey! No getting ahead of the storyline!
lutro over 13 years ago
@masterskrain and olddog1: Iām a big fan of Esperanto, so I hope Danae never finds out about it! (On the other hand, Iād welcome Lucy the horse into my linguistic world anytime!)
Mokurai over 13 years ago
eāosai la Lojban pluka ko.
DamnHappyChappy over 13 years ago
Esperanto, Donāt make me laugh. The EU has spent billions on developing this absurdity and it is deader than Latin. I bet half the people that read this strip have never heard of it. Another example of European bureaucrats wasting taxes.
Justice22 over 13 years ago
I LāedOL on this one.
Varnes over 13 years ago
A young girl like her shouldnāt even know what a goombat isā¦ā¦..
Destiny23 over 13 years ago
I have a Teach Yourself Esperanto and Esperanto/English dictionary from the 70s. Iām glad I saved them ā they might still come in handy one day!
Logicman over 13 years ago
@mokurai ā no fair ā Google Translate doesnāt do esperanto! Whatād you say? :) @three steps over Japan ā Most broadcasters are turning off their SW services. Sad but true. If you want to hear them now, you are stuck with local rebroadcasters, (or youāre tethered to the internet, but really, I donāt ever think to ātune inā on the internet so I just donāt listen to them any more!)
Defective over 13 years ago
A universal language would have to be a secondary language, not a primary one, so everyone would have to be taught two languages, and it would be a couple generations (if done NOW) for everyone to learn it, at a minimum. There would be areas of the world that would never learn this language, too. Then thereās the cost of teaching an extra language, when teaching one is barely done, in some areas.
People wonāt accept a replacement of their native tongue. At least not one with any pride in their country, or any culture. Itās already been resoundingly declined.
momazilla over 13 years ago
ON the other hand, Some gestures are understood world wide. (Middle finger salute)
treered over 13 years ago
itās all in HOW you say itā¦ lol! āheartā Wiley!
bmonk over 13 years ago
The other side of this is to work on the universal language of the heartācompassion, love, charity, whatever you call it. (Danae may never understand it, however.)
gedias over 13 years ago
@wiley One thing I always wondered, does Lucy really speak, or does Danae only imagine it?
dabugger over 13 years ago
say what?
androgenoide over 13 years ago
As auxlangs go, I think Iād prefer Interlingua to Esperanto but I really canāt accept the auxlang premise that there are too many languages in the world. The few thousand we have left strike me as too few to offer real insight into the way we construct reality.
doc white over 13 years ago
Okay,MONEY TALKS AND B.S. WALKS.
lbatik over 13 years ago
Oh, yes, Esperanto. But with regard to āmade-up languagesā, may I just point out that there are now more speakers of Klingon than speakers of Esperanto? http://www.kli.org/
autumnfire1957 over 13 years ago
@Masterskrian, olddog, & lutro. I can say Esperanto in ENGLISH.
Hunter7 over 13 years ago
kaltxi frapo ā¦. if I got that right it says Hello everyone. www.Learnnavi.org If not Esperantoā¦ then either Klingon or Na`vi. Heard tell that the fictional languages do bridge some of the communication gap.