Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 26, 2011

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    Ida No  over 13 years ago

    The universal language of world peace is Norwegian? Or is that a voice clip from the Swedish Chef?

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    GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Sometimes inflection & body language say it all.

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    pbarnrob  over 13 years ago

    No, Radish, you really donā€™tā€¦

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    kreole  over 13 years ago

    A universal language wonā€™t do itā€¦ā€¦people kill each other in English all the time.

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    Arianne  over 13 years ago

    Iā€™m guessing that smile that everybody everywhere does in the same language wonā€™t make it into Danaeā€™s lexicon?A malicious grin or sinister sneer, on the other handā€¦

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    bluskies  over 13 years ago

    Itā€™s not what you say, itā€™s how you say it. I nominate Lucy in 2012!

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    Arianne  over 13 years ago

    Darn tootin! Wouldnā€™t be the first horseā€™s patoot seated behind the desk in the oval office.

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    Superfrog  over 13 years ago

    I know that you believe that you understand what you think I said but Iā€™m not sure that you realize that what you heard was not what I meant.

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    Olddog1  over 13 years ago

    masterskrain: You beat me to it. Iā€™m a bit dissapointed that I didnā€™t see it sooner.

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    psychlady  over 13 years ago

    A universal language that Danae is making up. Will anyone be able to learn it?

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    tripwire45  over 13 years ago

    This has been tried before. Didnā€™t work out so well.

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    Ida No  over 13 years ago

    What, shortwave radio isnā€™t good enough? What Iā€™ve been told, Godā€™s been receiving season 3 episodes of ā€œI Love Lucyā€, in prime time broadcasts, and thatā€™s about as ā€œin personā€ as anyoneā€™s going to get.

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    Wiley creator over 13 years ago

    Hey! No getting ahead of the storyline!

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    lutro  over 13 years ago

    @masterskrain and olddog1: Iā€™m a big fan of Esperanto, so I hope Danae never finds out about it! (On the other hand, Iā€™d welcome Lucy the horse into my linguistic world anytime!)

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    Mokurai  over 13 years ago

    eā€™osai la Lojban pluka ko.

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    DamnHappyChappy  over 13 years ago

    Esperanto, Donā€™t 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.

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    Justice22  over 13 years ago

    I Lā€™edOL on this one.

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    Varnes  over 13 years ago

    A young girl like her shouldnā€™t even know what a goombat isā€¦ā€¦..

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    Destiny23  over 13 years ago

    I have a Teach Yourself Esperanto and Esperanto/English dictionary from the 70s. Iā€™m glad I saved them ā€” they might still come in handy one day!

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    Logicman  over 13 years ago

    @mokurai ā€” no fair ā€” Google Translate doesnā€™t do esperanto! Whatā€™d 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 youā€™re tethered to the internet, but really, I donā€™t ever think to ā€˜tune inā€™ on the internet so I just donā€™t listen to them any more!)

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    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 thereā€™s the cost of teaching an extra language, when teaching one is barely done, in some areas.

    People wonā€™t accept a replacement of their native tongue. At least not one with any pride in their country, or any culture. Itā€™s already been resoundingly declined.

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    momazilla  over 13 years ago

    ON the other hand, Some gestures are understood world wide. (Middle finger salute)

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    treered  over 13 years ago

    itā€™s all in HOW you say itā€¦ lol! ā€œheartā€ Wiley!

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    bmonk  over 13 years ago

    The other side of this is to work on the universal language of the heartā€”compassion, love, charity, whatever you call it. (Danae may never understand it, however.)

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    gedias  over 13 years ago

    @wiley One thing I always wondered, does Lucy really speak, or does Danae only imagine it?

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    dabugger  over 13 years ago

    say what?

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    androgenoide  over 13 years ago

    As auxlangs go, I think Iā€™d prefer Interlingua to Esperanto but I really canā€™t 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.

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    doc white  over 13 years ago

    Okay,MONEY TALKS AND B.S. WALKS.

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    lbatik  over 13 years ago

    Oh, yes, Esperanto. But with regard to ā€œmade-up languagesā€, may I just point out that there are now more speakers of Klingon than speakers of Esperanto? http://www.kli.org/

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    autumnfire1957  over 13 years ago

    @Masterskrian, olddog, & lutro. I can say Esperanto in ENGLISH.

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    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.

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