Plural
Original: Plural on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with mustache: GOT IT. I'LL SEND YOU THE GIFS.
Woman at computer: GIFS? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY GIFS?
Panel 2:
Man: GIF FILES.
Woman (with glasses, dark hair, orange shirt): THE PLURAL IS GIVES. IT'S LIKE SHELVES OR ELVES.
Panel 3:
Man: YOU DON'T PLURALIZE FILENAMES.
Woman (shown in silhouette): OH? SO WHEN YOU GET SEVERAL .MAN FILES, YOU DON'T SAY "I GOT SEVERAL .MEN"?
Panel 4:
Man: ...NO.?
Woman (grinning): YOU SAY "I GOT SOME .MANS?" HA!
Panel 5:
Woman: I GUESS YOU'VE NEVER RECEIVED .JAVAE FILES, OR .ICOI? NEVER A HERD OF DOCXEN.?
Man: I CAN'T TELL IF YOU'RE SERIOUS.
Panel 6:
Woman: ALSO, WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH YOUR WRITEUPS TODAY, SEND ME BOTH TXTICLES.
Man: AHA!
Votey:
Text: "GIVES" IS PRONOUNCED "HYEEVES"
Man with mustache: GOT IT. I'LL SEND YOU THE GIFS.
Woman at computer: GIFS? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY GIFS?
Panel 2:
Man: GIF FILES.
Woman (with glasses, dark hair, orange shirt): THE PLURAL IS GIVES. IT'S LIKE SHELVES OR ELVES.
Panel 3:
Man: YOU DON'T PLURALIZE FILENAMES.
Woman (shown in silhouette): OH? SO WHEN YOU GET SEVERAL .MAN FILES, YOU DON'T SAY "I GOT SEVERAL .MEN"?
Panel 4:
Man: ...NO.?
Woman (grinning): YOU SAY "I GOT SOME .MANS?" HA!
Panel 5:
Woman: I GUESS YOU'VE NEVER RECEIVED .JAVAE FILES, OR .ICOI? NEVER A HERD OF DOCXEN.?
Man: I CAN'T TELL IF YOU'RE SERIOUS.
Panel 6:
Woman: ALSO, WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH YOUR WRITEUPS TODAY, SEND ME BOTH TXTICLES.
Man: AHA!
Votey:
Text: "GIVES" IS PRONOUNCED "HYEEVES"
Alt text
A six-panel SMBC comic. A mustached man tells a woman at a computer (dark hair, glasses, orange shirt) that he'll send her the GIFs. She asks what he means by GIFs, then insists the plural of GIF file is "gives," like shelves or elves. He says you don't pluralize filenames; she counters by asking whether, when you have several .man files, you don't say "I got several .men," then gleefully suggests you'd say "I got some .mans?" She keeps escalating: never received .javae files or .icoi, never a herd of docxen. He says he can't tell if she's serious. In the final panel she deadpans, "Also, when you're done with your writeups today, send me both txticles," and he reacts with an exasperated "AHA!" Votey: a black-and-white note reading "GIVES is pronounced HYEEVES."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.