calque
Original: calque on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A woman with curly brown hair and round glasses, pointing angrily, shouts at a woman with red/orange hair:
Brown-haired woman: YOU CALQUE! YOU DENTALIZED YOD-DROPPING INFIX! YOU SCALAR IMPLICATURE! YOU FRICATIVE BACKFORMATION! YOU CLITIC REDUPLICATIVE ACROLECT!
Caption (below panel): Discovery: linguistics jargon makes fantastic insults.
Votey:
A close-up of an angry, wide-eyed face shouting, with a speech bubble:
Shouting person: YOUR MAMA IS A POSSESSIVE CONSTRUCTION NOUN PHRASE!
A woman with curly brown hair and round glasses, pointing angrily, shouts at a woman with red/orange hair:
Brown-haired woman: YOU CALQUE! YOU DENTALIZED YOD-DROPPING INFIX! YOU SCALAR IMPLICATURE! YOU FRICATIVE BACKFORMATION! YOU CLITIC REDUPLICATIVE ACROLECT!
Caption (below panel): Discovery: linguistics jargon makes fantastic insults.
Votey:
A close-up of an angry, wide-eyed face shouting, with a speech bubble:
Shouting person: YOUR MAMA IS A POSSESSIVE CONSTRUCTION NOUN PHRASE!
Alt text
A woman with curly brown hair and round glasses points furiously and shouts a torrent of linguistics terms as insults at a woman with red hair: "You calque! You dentalized yod-dropping infix! You scalar implicature! You fricative backformation! You clitic reduplicative acrolect!" Caption: "Discovery: linguistics jargon makes fantastic insults." Votey: a close-up of an enraged, wide-eyed shouting face yelling, "Your mama is a possessive construction noun phrase!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.