prescriptive
Original: prescriptive on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (with dark hair, speaking): Are you a linguistic descriptivist or descriptivist?
Woman (with reddish/flame-like hair): Obviously a descriptivist. The words we use and the language we speak aren't intrinsically better or worse, merely different and interesting ways.
Panel 2:
Man: So we should just accept that sometimes terms change in ways that may offend our sense of sensibilities? Mispronunciations become standardized, words usage decrease, meanings shift, slang becomes commonplace, and former descriptions become slurs?
Woman: Exactly.
Panel 3:
Man: So then you would accept the word "relativity"? As meaning any situation with an unknown outcome in any situation under change with something affects?
Panel 4 (woman's eyes spiral, distressed):
Man: Now I don't know how you're feeling so you're in schroedinger's emotional state.
Woman: Die! Die!
Votey:
A simple line-drawn man (only his face and gesturing hands visible), speaking: Wanna hear my thoughts on the word "relativity"?
Man (with dark hair, speaking): Are you a linguistic descriptivist or descriptivist?
Woman (with reddish/flame-like hair): Obviously a descriptivist. The words we use and the language we speak aren't intrinsically better or worse, merely different and interesting ways.
Panel 2:
Man: So we should just accept that sometimes terms change in ways that may offend our sense of sensibilities? Mispronunciations become standardized, words usage decrease, meanings shift, slang becomes commonplace, and former descriptions become slurs?
Woman: Exactly.
Panel 3:
Man: So then you would accept the word "relativity"? As meaning any situation with an unknown outcome in any situation under change with something affects?
Panel 4 (woman's eyes spiral, distressed):
Man: Now I don't know how you're feeling so you're in schroedinger's emotional state.
Woman: Die! Die!
Votey:
A simple line-drawn man (only his face and gesturing hands visible), speaking: Wanna hear my thoughts on the word "relativity"?
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. A dark-haired man and a woman with reddish flame-like hair stand talking. Panel 1: the man asks if she's a linguistic descriptivist; she answers that obviously she is, because the words and language we use aren't intrinsically better or worse, just different and interesting. Panel 2: the man asks whether she should then accept that terms change in offensive ways, mispronunciations get standardized, meanings shift, slang becomes commonplace and former descriptions become slurs; she says 'Exactly.' Panel 3: he pushes further, asking if she'd accept the word 'relativity' meaning any situation with an unknown outcome under change. Panel 4: the woman's eyes spiral in distress and she shouts 'DIE! DIE!' while the man calmly notes that since he doesn't know how she feels, she's in a 'schroedinger's emotional state.' Votey: a crudely drawn man with a smug grin, only his face and gesturing hands shown, asks 'Wanna hear my thoughts on the word "relativity"?' — the irritating philosopher escalating his trolling.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.