tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 14 21:09:22 1998
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Re: Comic
ja' SuStel:
>>Comics that appear in American
>>newspapers are often called "the funny papers".
>
>Even more frequently, they're called "funnies."
>
>tlhaQghach.
pIj pervam lo'law' tuqlIj'e'. pongqoqvam vIQoypu'be' jIH.
vIQoybe'bej'pu'. not vIQoy'pu'.
More frequently around *you*, perhaps. I've always heard them called
"comics" or "funny papers", and I've never heard the term "funnies" used
in any context I can recall. It sounds dreadfully close to something
like "teletubbies"...and its weirdness is indeed mirrored by {tlhaQghach}.
-- ghunchu'wI'