The Duplex by Glenn McCoy for March 29, 2021

If he gets the words for bear and toilet paper mixed up, he’ll have a problem when he calls the front desk at the hotel.

Now here’s another cartoon that could have been done with Gina.

Eno, that bit of information would make a great pickup line at the bar.

Perhaps I don’t watch enough of it, but I haven’t learned much Spanish by watching a Spanish language channel.

Would that be Creme de Cacka ?

I learned most of my “Spanish” watching Cheech and Chong.

The phrase I learned from excessive commercials: “DVR everything, then learn how to skip”

Those hemorrhoids commercials give me a pain in the butt in any language.

One of the kind-of funny things I’ve picked up from watching a lot of Kung-Fu movies is that one of the Chinese words for “yes” sounds more like “no”, and one of their words for “no” sounds more like “yes”…

(^ ͜ʖ^)

My wife is the linguist and near fluent in French and Spanish, but I can’t really understand any foreign language beyond very simple stuff. I’ve studied Latin, French, Mandarin and Japanese, and can get by enough to make myself understood in the last two, but surprisingly, I probably understand Spanish better than any of them. I grew up in California with half my high school class Mexican-American so I heard a lot of Spanish. I was assigned an interview with a witness to the Rodney King beating but he only spoke Spanish, so I took a Spanish-speaking agent. Of course I knew the questions since I was asking them, but I was surprised that I could understand almost all the answers before they were translated. But I never watched Spanish TV.

Yo quiero Taco Bell, Viva gorditas!

You have to watch with English sub titles.

French? You mean $@#& it?

Alright, who stole Fang’s beer???!!!!!!!!!! :)

At risk of revealing my secret identity I must admit that when we got married I spoke very little Spanish, and my bride spoke almost no English.I learned to speak Spanish watching herMexican "Novellas’…Going on 48 years now and we can at least argue politics, religion, and world affairs Bilingually……She still watches those godammn Novella’s…

Might want to learn a few more French phrases before trying to pick up a French woman at a bar …