Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus

[Lynn McGuire]

Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/04/26

Yup, English is hard for the native born. I pity people who learned
English not immersed in the culture.

Lynn

[Mark Jackson]

Post by Lynn McGuire
Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus
   https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/04/26
Yup, English is hard for the native born.  I pity people who learned
English not immersed in the culture.

Which culture?

“England and America are two countries separated by a common language”
- George Bernard Shaw

[Lynn McGuire]

Post by Mark Jackson

Post by Lynn McGuire
Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/04/26
Yup, English is hard for the native born.  I pity people who learned
English not immersed in the culture.

Which culture?
“England and America are two countries separated by a common language”
             - George Bernard Shaw

Yes, that one.

Lynn

[Cryptoengineer]

Post by Lynn McGuire
Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus
   https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/04/26
Yup, English is hard for the native born.  I pity people who learned
English not immersed in the culture.

Many years ago I predicted that there much be a class of German
language joke predicated on ambiguity in reading that language's
agglutinated words.

A native speaker in the group confirmed that I was correct.

Consider breaking the word 'therapist' at a line end.

pt

[Ted Nolan <tednolan>]

Post by Cryptoengineer

Post by Lynn McGuire
Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus
   https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/04/26
Yup, English is hard for the native born.  I pity people who learned
English not immersed in the culture.

Many years ago I predicted that there much be a class of German
language joke predicated on ambiguity in reading that language's
agglutinated words.
A native speaker in the group confirmed that I was correct.
Consider breaking the word 'therapist' at a line end.
pt

[Bice]

Post by Ted Nolan <tednolan>

Post by Cryptoengineer

Post by Lynn McGuire
Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus
   https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/04/26
Yup, English is hard for the native born.  I pity people who learned
English not immersed in the culture.

Many years ago I predicted that there much be a class of German
language joke predicated on ambiguity in reading that language's
agglutinated words.
A native speaker in the group confirmed that I was correct.
Consider breaking the word 'therapist' at a line end.
pt

http://youtu.be/joIr6c-jj4Y

I thought that YouTube clip was going to be the Saturday Night Live
Jeopardy sketch where Sean Connary takes "the rapists" for 200:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LiveFromNewYork/comments/1346z6z/every_time_sean_connery_misread_the_board_on/

-- Bob

[Tony Nance]

Post by Cryptoengineer

Post by Lynn McGuire
Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/04/26
Yup, English is hard for the native born.  I pity people who learned
English not immersed in the culture.

Many years ago I predicted that there much be a class of German
language joke predicated on ambiguity in reading that language's
agglutinated words.
A native speaker in the group confirmed that I was correct.
Consider breaking the word 'therapist' at a line end.

Exactly! My wife recently read a book with that title, very largely
displayed on the spine, and my first (and second!) thoughts were "What
the heck is she reading...?"

Tony

[William Hyde]

Post by Cryptoengineer

Post by Lynn McGuire
Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/04/26
Yup, English is hard for the native born.  I pity people who learned
English not immersed in the culture.

Many years ago I predicted that there much be a class of German
language joke predicated on ambiguity in reading that language's
agglutinated words.
A native speaker in the group confirmed that I was correct.
Consider breaking the word 'therapist' at a line end.

In "Arrested Development" the David Cross character decides that he
should advertise that he is both an analyst and a therapist. He prints
business cards with a portmanteau word that describes this.


William Hyde

[Kyonshi]

Post by Lynn McGuire
Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus
   https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/04/26
Yup, English is hard for the native born.  I pity people who learned
English not immersed in the culture.
Lynn

I constantly have to doublecheck with myself if some stuff you guys are
writing everywhere maybe makes more sense for you. Although the larger
culture is ok, it's the small stuff nobody actually talks about that's
the problem: stuff you eat, stuff you use in your household, things from
school. There's a surprising amount of stuff nobody ever really seems to
talk about but uses every day.

[BCFD 36]

Post by Kyonshi

Post by Lynn McGuire
Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/04/26
Yup, English is hard for the native born.  I pity people who learned
English not immersed in the culture.
Lynn

I constantly have to doublecheck with myself if some stuff you guys are
writing everywhere maybe makes more sense for you. Although the larger
culture is ok, it's the small stuff nobody actually talks about that's
the problem: stuff you eat, stuff you use in your household, things from
school. There's a surprising amount of stuff nobody ever really seems to
talk about but uses every day.

"Go off" and "go on" can have the same meaning, which can really confuse
even native English speakers. It all depends on context.

On a trip I took long ago, I was installing a system in a non-English
speaking country. We had devices that would classify radio signals and
would generate a notice when certain signals were detected.

So the classifier would "go off", kind of like a bomb going off or "go
on" because it was now active. When the signal went away, the classifier
would "go off" because it was now inactive. Our hosts were in a constant
state of confusion