party-game
Original: party-game on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A man with dark hair, wearing a grey shirt under a darker open jacket, speaks to the viewer with a slightly smug, lecturing expression.
Man: "English speakers lack a pronoun for the second person dual. They therefore cannot conceive of speaking to more than one person. This explains the extreme individualism of Anglophone culture. It is no coincidence that the use of 'thou' for singular and 'you' for plural fell out of fashion precisely one generation after the publishing of Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations.'"
Caption below panel:
"Party Game: Applying the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to any linguistic quirk"
Votey:
Hand-lettered text inside a roughly drawn square border:
"COMING SOON... BAHFEST 2021: ONLY TORTURED LINGUISTICS HUMOR."
A man with dark hair, wearing a grey shirt under a darker open jacket, speaks to the viewer with a slightly smug, lecturing expression.
Man: "English speakers lack a pronoun for the second person dual. They therefore cannot conceive of speaking to more than one person. This explains the extreme individualism of Anglophone culture. It is no coincidence that the use of 'thou' for singular and 'you' for plural fell out of fashion precisely one generation after the publishing of Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations.'"
Caption below panel:
"Party Game: Applying the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to any linguistic quirk"
Votey:
Hand-lettered text inside a roughly drawn square border:
"COMING SOON... BAHFEST 2021: ONLY TORTURED LINGUISTICS HUMOR."
Alt text
A single-panel comic showing a smug-looking man with dark hair, in a grey shirt and dark jacket, lecturing directly at the viewer. He says: "English speakers lack a pronoun for the second person dual. They therefore cannot conceive of speaking to more than one person. This explains the extreme individualism of Anglophone culture. It is no coincidence that the use of 'thou' for singular and 'you' for plural fell out of fashion precisely one generation after the publishing of Adam Smith's 'Wealth of Nations.'" A caption beneath reads: "Party Game: Applying the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to any linguistic quirk" — the joke being that you can invent absurd, overconfident cultural explanations from any trivial grammar fact. The votey (bonus panel) is hand-lettered text in a hand-drawn box reading: "COMING SOON... BAHFEST 2021: ONLY TORTURED LINGUISTICS HUMOR."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.