Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 06, 2016
January 05, 2016
January 07, 2016
Transcript:
Caulfield: Don't you hate missing a day of swimming? You spend half the next swim re-learning what you forgot. I bet it's that way with algebra and stuff. Frazz: Why the whisper? Caulfield: I like having insights, but it ruins it when people expect it.
I have found three main ways languages get new words. French (not Quebecquoi) turn it over to l’Acadamie Française who study it for a decade before deciding it can be used in legal documents. German describes it in a few words as possible, knocks out the spaces, and cram it together as one word – long, but one word. English looks around to see if some other language has a word for it, and steals it. Since most languages (but not people) use a Roman alphabet, the new word is either misspelled or mispronounced.