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[–] muzzle@lemm.ee 54 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If you invert the first two panels you get Loss.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But then the joke that fox is telling wouldn't make sense

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

It still is funny but in a slightly darker way.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then I won't do that. Thanks for pointing that out.

[–] muzzle@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

What a killjoy ;)

[–] Vivendi@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The human brain's capability of pattern recognition is unmatched

[–] muzzle@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

True, but it's also that I automatically check any 4 panel comic for the loss pattern.

[–] Eggyhead@fedia.io 33 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yip yip yip. Yip yip. Yip yip yip yip... Yop.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Excuse you, the Yop is clearly cursive

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

God dammit English why must you copy the French for everything

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Ah interesting context, thanks for sharing!

This does make me curious though.. how do these languages refer to cursive handwriting vs italicised font?

Looking at Wikipedia, besides the languages calling it cursive it seems there are two camps:

  • Germanic languages seem to call it "Writing letters/style" (German: Schreibschrift, Danish: Skråskrift, Dutch: Schrijfletter, Swedish: Skrivstil)
  • Romance languages seem to call it "cursive script" instead of just "cursive" (French: Écriture cursive, Italian: Scrittura corsiva, Portuguese: Letra cursiva)

Interestingly Italian calls italics "corsivo" and cursive "Scrittura corsiva" so the Wikipedia page for either has a disambiguation link to the other.

[–] Molten_Moron@lemmings.world 11 points 1 month ago
[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

gekkering

I didn’t even question that this is the verb a fox would use to laugh with.

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fun fact: I almost embarrassed myself and wrote "geckering", but my wife corrected me at the last second.

Geckering is how monkeys laugh. Foxes gekker.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And here I thought my English was pretty good, and I thought you just made this up!

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gekker

[–] Soku@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

There's also an audio file for gekkering but that's the pronunciation for the word, not the actual example...

[–] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] SteveXVII@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago

It almost is, it would translate as 'crazy ring'.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

It really does.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I translated the joke

A fox walked into a tavern and said, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one'."

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Ah, a fellow Sumerian.

[–] MvPts@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

You sent me into a rabbithole..

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Huh...

I guess you had to be there.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago
[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago