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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago (4 children)

If you invert the first two panels you get Loss.

[–] Dagnet 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But then the joke that fox is telling wouldn't make sense

[–] ladicius 5 points 2 months ago

It still is funny but in a slightly darker way.

[–] moakley 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then I won't do that. Thanks for pointing that out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

What a killjoy ;)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] FuglyDuck 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The human brain's capability of pattern recognition is unmatched

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

True, but it's also that I automatically check any 4 panel comic for the loss pattern.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yip yip yip. Yip yip. Yip yip yip yip... Yop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Excuse you, the Yop is clearly cursive

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

God dammit English why must you copy the French for everything

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ah interesting context, thanks for sharing!

This does make me curious though.. how do these languages refer to cursive handwriting vs italicised font?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Looking at Wikipedia, besides the languages calling it cursive it seems there are two camps:

  • Germanic languages seem to call it "Writing letters/style" (German: Schreibschrift, Danish: Skråskrift, Dutch: Schrijfletter, Swedish: Skrivstil)
  • Romance languages seem to call it "cursive script" instead of just "cursive" (French: Écriture cursive, Italian: Scrittura corsiva, Portuguese: Letra cursiva)

Interestingly Italian calls italics "corsivo" and cursive "Scrittura corsiva" so the Wikipedia page for either has a disambiguation link to the other.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago
[–] tanisnikana 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

gekkering

I didn’t even question that this is the verb a fox would use to laugh with.

[–] moakley 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact: I almost embarrassed myself and wrote "geckering", but my wife corrected me at the last second.

Geckering is how monkeys laugh. Foxes gekker.

[–] tanisnikana 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And here I thought my English was pretty good, and I thought you just made this up!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gekker

[–] Soku 3 points 2 months ago

There's also an audio file for gekkering but that's the pronunciation for the word, not the actual example...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It almost is, it would translate as 'crazy ring'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

It really does.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I translated the joke

A fox walked into a tavern and said, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one'."

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 2 months ago

Ah, a fellow Sumerian.

[–] MvPts 2 points 2 months ago

You sent me into a rabbithole..

[–] FlyingSquid 4 points 2 months ago

Huh...

I guess you had to be there.

[–] jordanlund 3 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ladicius 2 points 2 months ago