Teeny comic I made forever ago (THERE ARE IMAGES!)

[Pick]

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[Duckie]

I am a terrible person. I read this wonderful comic and the first thought I had was "I wonder what the difference between bohma and bohmu is. Case? Number?"

[fgalkin]

Moral of the story: he should have joined a pride of lion equivalents or something.

Rescued from Testing.

I am a terrible person. I read this wonderful comic and the first thought I had was "I wonder what the difference between bohma and bohmu is. Case? Number?"

Not a terrible person, just a grotty linguist. I think it's pretty obvious bohmu is the plural of bohma, I didn't even have to think consciously about it.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

[Duckie]

But then why 'and the bohmu were safe'? Is it a collective noun there?

Also, this is the saddest thing.

[Pick]

Rescued from Testing.

There you go, crushing the art .

[VF5SS]

What happens in Testing stays in Testing.

[fgalkin]

But then why 'and the bohmu were safe'? Is it a collective noun there?

Also, this is the saddest thing.

Replace "the bohmu" with "the cows"

Mystery solved!

There you go, crushing the art

I am mean. It is my nature. I was born with a heart full of communism. I am like the skoll there. He too, had a heart of communism, and look where it got him.

Poor skoll.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

[Ford Prefect]

Moral of the story: you can't trust a herbivore?

[Duckie]

Ohhh, I see. I can't read, Fgalkin, you are right. I keep mentally misassociating -u with latin -um, and -a with latin -a (the plural of -um), even though they're the opposite of what the actual number is, so I kept instinctively associating bohmu for the singular. Man I suck.

[Pick]

What happens in Testing stays in Testing.

Evidently not *huff huff*.

And yes, the skoll is sad. And he dies.

[fgalkin]

Ohhh, I see. I can't read, Fgalkin, you are right. I keep mentally misassociating -u with latin -um, and -a with latin -a (the plural of -um), even though they're the opposite of what the actual number is, so I kept instinctively associating bohmu for the singular. Man I suck.

You have a text in English with a few count nouns from a made up-language that otherwise follow the rules of English grammar exactly. How in the Emperor's Name did you end up applying rules from a completely unrelated language based on visual similarity?

Do you also think your username is plural because an -ie ending is used in Russian to identify plural?

P.S. It's "fgalkin." Capitalization counts.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

[Pick]

Woah, woah, y'all. It's a comic posted on the internet. Taking it seriously is perhaps a mortal sin.

[fgalkin]

Woah, woah, y'all. It's a comic posted on the internet. Taking it seriously is perhaps a mortal sin.

You get Hugos for that, now, you know.

Webcomics are serious business.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

[Pick]

Yeah, but aren't Hugos basically paperweights minus the usefulness?

[Duckie]

Ohhh, I see. I can't read, Fgalkin, you are right. I keep mentally misassociating -u with latin -um, and -a with latin -a (the plural of -um), even though they're the opposite of what the actual number is, so I kept instinctively associating bohmu for the singular. Man I suck.

You have a text in English with a few count nouns from a made up-language that otherwise follow the rules of English grammar exactly. How in the Emperor's Name did you end up applying rules from a completely unrelated language based on visual similarity?

Do you also think your username is plural because an -ie ending is used in Russian to identify plural?

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Oil.

For the same reason why the word 'oil' just made you think of something viscous and immiscible with water- either crude hydrocarbons or olive oil, and not of the irish word for education.

When you speak a language and think in it, it colours your thinking. This is the same reason why an anglophone reading a german text can accidentally sporadically pronounce 'die' as as the english dice cube, or why english speakers will tend to interpret things that do not end in -s as singular and analogise based on that? (eg Spaghettis, even though Spaghetti itself is plural in italian)

[fgalkin]

Oil.

For the same reason why the word 'oil' just made you think of something viscous and immiscible with water- either crude hydrocarbons or olive oil, and not of the irish word for education.

Actually, I thought it was "oi!" until I read the paragraph. But, I see your point

When you speak a language and think in it, it colours your thinking. This is the same reason why an anglophone reading a german text can accidentally sporadically pronounce 'die' as as the english dice cube, or why english speakers will tend to interpret things that do not end in -s as singular and analogise based on that? (eg Spaghettis, even though Spaghetti itself is plural in italian)

Yes, but what does that have to do with linguists who are supposed not to fall victims to this sort of thing?

Also, a good solution to this sort of thing is to speak and think in several languages. Then, you don't do this as often, as your brain doesn't automatically assume it's in your first language.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

[Kuja]

Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven.

[Pick]

How about: the attempt to conform doesn't change you and ultimately you will be unveiled for who and what you are. And such conditions can be unpleasant.

[Kuja]

How about: the attempt to conform doesn't change you and ultimately you will be unveiled for who and what you are. And such conditions can be unpleasant.

As with any good literature, one can find multiple themes meshed together neatly under the surface.

[Pick]

Well to be fair, it was originally posted in Testing because it's an old drawing about an ugly dog getting chomped to death by tiny, communal hippos. I wouldn't read too far into it .

[fgalkin]

Well to be fair, it was originally posted in Testing because it's an old drawing about an ugly dog getting chomped to death by tiny, communal hippos. I wouldn't read too far into it .

Poor doggie. Nobody loves him, not even his creator.

EDIT: Except for that crazy dog lover Kuja.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

[Imperial Overlord]

The poor skoll.

[Crossroads Inc.]

On the one hand, that was terribly terribly sad... I feel so bad for the Skoll... On the other hand...
how do Communal hippos who eat grass able to ripp apart predator apart.

[Cosmic Average]

Hopefully, the bohmu species starved and died out when they ate all of the grass because there were no skoll to keep their numbers down.

[Coyote]

Skoll solidarity!

They killed off the last of an endangered species. Brutes. Republicans.