law-3
Original: law-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with reddish hair (gesturing dramatically): "BEHOLD! I, the great Jakubinskij, have discovered the fundamental law governing pronunciation changes for several sounds in a dialect spoken by coastal Croatians during the thirteenth century!"
Caption beneath the panel:
Science Fact: linguists have the most permissive use of "law" found in any scientific discipline.
Votey:
A hand-lettered sign or speech bubble reads: "Lockin' up the Jakubinskij joke audience." Below, a crowd of small caricatured faces is packed together inside a boxed-in space, as if rounded up and confined.
Man with reddish hair (gesturing dramatically): "BEHOLD! I, the great Jakubinskij, have discovered the fundamental law governing pronunciation changes for several sounds in a dialect spoken by coastal Croatians during the thirteenth century!"
Caption beneath the panel:
Science Fact: linguists have the most permissive use of "law" found in any scientific discipline.
Votey:
A hand-lettered sign or speech bubble reads: "Lockin' up the Jakubinskij joke audience." Below, a crowd of small caricatured faces is packed together inside a boxed-in space, as if rounded up and confined.
Alt text
Main comic, single panel: A man with reddish, slightly flame-like hair throws his arms up and proclaims grandly, "BEHOLD! I, the great Jakubinskij, have discovered the fundamental law governing pronunciation changes for several sounds in a dialect spoken by coastal Croatians during the thirteenth century!" A caption below reads, "Science Fact: linguists have the most permissive use of 'law' found in any scientific discipline." The joke: linguists grandly call an extremely narrow, obscure observation a 'law.'
Votey: A small drawing of a crowd of caricatured faces crammed together inside a boxed-off enclosure, with text reading "Lockin' up the Jakubinskij joke audience" — a self-deprecating gag about how tiny and captive the audience for this niche linguistics joke must be.
Votey: A small drawing of a crowd of caricatured faces crammed together inside a boxed-off enclosure, with text reading "Lockin' up the Jakubinskij joke audience" — a self-deprecating gag about how tiny and captive the audience for this niche linguistics joke must be.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.