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"People with small vocabularies are easy to mess with."
"Mrs. Olsen, you're looking positively diaphanous today!"
"Why, thank you, Caulfield. You are a veritable prince of palter."
"I can see right through her."
"Don't be so sure."
It’s the pun at the end that got me, since diaphanous = (1) see-through, or (2) extreme delicacy of form. In panel 2, Caulfield used the second definition as a sarcastic comment, but then he referenced the primary definition in the last panel.
whiteseal1333 about 12 years ago
Dictionary anyone?
gedjcj Premium Member over 9 years ago
Point, Mrs Olsen.
symphony40 about 7 years ago
It’s the pun at the end that got me, since diaphanous = (1) see-through, or (2) extreme delicacy of form. In panel 2, Caulfield used the second definition as a sarcastic comment, but then he referenced the primary definition in the last panel.