how-to-pick-up-a-linguist
Original: how-to-pick-up-a-linguist on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title: HOW TO PICK UP A LINGUIST AT A BAR
Panel 1:
A man with glasses leans in toward a woman.
Man: "If I told you that you have a beautiful body according to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, it's probable the structure of my language has affected the way I perceive aesthetic standards."
The woman looks at him, unimpressed/skeptical.
Votey:
A close-up of a person's face with a speech bubble. The text inside the bubble is rendered in a stylized, distorted (upside-down/inverted) script, reading: "danny".
Panel 1:
A man with glasses leans in toward a woman.
Man: "If I told you that you have a beautiful body according to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, it's probable the structure of my language has affected the way I perceive aesthetic standards."
The woman looks at him, unimpressed/skeptical.
Votey:
A close-up of a person's face with a speech bubble. The text inside the bubble is rendered in a stylized, distorted (upside-down/inverted) script, reading: "danny".
Alt text
A two-panel SMBC comic titled "HOW TO PICK UP A LINGUIST AT A BAR." In the main panel, a man wearing glasses leans toward a woman at a bar and delivers a pickup line: "If I told you that you have a beautiful body according to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, it's probable the structure of my language has affected the way I perceive aesthetic standards." The woman gives him a flat, unimpressed look. The joke is an overwrought, jargon-laden linguistics version of a cheesy pickup line. The votey (aftercomic) shows a close-up of a person's face with a speech bubble containing text drawn in a distorted, hard-to-read script that reads "danny."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.