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2013-11-06

by shaenon on November 6, 2013 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My Brother Sam Is Dead
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  1. Jay Eff
    November 6, 2013, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    “Iptay! Ouyay upidstay erkjay!”

  2. ChaoreX
    November 6, 2013, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    Despite its rather unscientific nature, it seems that Virginia is not, in fact, working to make mojo sane.

  3. Nat
    November 6, 2013, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    So is Artie speaking a real language, or is that just some random scribbling?

    • ross
      May 2, 2014, 2:34 am | # | Reply

      that’s arabic

  4. Kwaj
    November 6, 2013, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    …
    …
    What does written Gwichin look like?

    • Malicron
      April 5, 2016, 4:14 pm | # | Reply

      Why would Artie know? His Gwichin is terrible!

  5. =Tamar
    November 6, 2013, 1:02 am | # | Reply

    Gate theory? Unless it relates to the mission, Tip is the only one on point. Lee and Artie are a waste of space, so far.

    • MisterTeatime
      November 6, 2013, 8:37 am | # | Reply

      This whole outing is a pre-mission team-bonding thing to work out their issues with each other, so technically anything that improves relations between any of the three of them is on point. Including casual conversation.

    • =Tamar
      November 6, 2013, 8:34 pm | # | Reply

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      November 6, 2013, 8:36 pm | # | Reply

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  6. Jim
    November 6, 2013, 1:18 am | # | Reply

    Looks like Arabic, Farsi, or some dialect of one or the other. I don’t know enough to either distinguish or translate, though. 🙁

  7. Aindriú
    November 6, 2013, 1:43 am | # | Reply

    I’m thinking it’s Cherokee, although I can’t say with metaphysical certainty. It doesn’t look angular enough to be any of the Canadian aboriginal syllabics.
    Pretty sure it’s not Arabic or Farsi–I can’t read either, but I saw enough of the script growing up to know the look of it.

    • Ahruman
      November 6, 2013, 4:05 am | # | Reply

      It’s definitely Arabic script. I don’t read it either, but my best attempt at transcribing it is مرا?م كلـبك. Google Translate gives me “dog” for “كلـبك”, but going the other way I get “كلب”.

    • MisterTeatime
      November 6, 2013, 8:41 am | # | Reply

      As someone with only a passing familiarity: Cherokee doesn’t string together symbols, nor does it have any individual ones wide/complex enough to be that thing on the right of the dot with the slanted underline.

    • okiegoddess
      November 6, 2013, 8:56 am | # | Reply

      Nope, not Cherokee. Cherokee is a lot less artistic. More circles.

  8. codebracker
    November 6, 2013, 1:46 am | # | Reply

    Maybe “the mojo” works in the laws of the gate theory?

  9. chh01
    November 6, 2013, 2:02 am | # | Reply

    Ano bakayarou wa mada iru? chou dasai, ne!

  10. jrwences
    November 6, 2013, 2:38 am | # | Reply

    Still there.

  11. Anderson
    November 6, 2013, 4:59 am | # | Reply

    The nerdiness will go through the roof once they move on to Klingon and D’ni.

    • Hielario
      November 6, 2013, 9:41 am | # | Reply

      Oh god somone who remembers D’ni.

      • Keiya
        November 6, 2013, 10:35 am | # | Reply

        I don’t remember much of the language, but I could probably still read the numerals… iirc “kemo” is fish though. And ‘shorah’ is literally peace, but idiomatically is used as a greeting. Shorah b’shem’tee is literally “peace to y’all”, idiomatically “hi guys!” (though more formal). ‘eder’ is rest, when used for the name of an age implies a ‘garden’ age. Oh, and intensifiers were, while I don’t remember the actual words, literally translated as “to “, traditionally to 25 is the highest but in informal usage going beyond 25 was used as hyperbole.

        … christ why do I remember all this?

        • iburns
          November 6, 2013, 11:38 am | # | Reply

          The better question is why on earth wouldn’t you? I want to move to New Mexico just to set up my own version of Tomahnah…

  12. edddddthemadgenius
    November 6, 2013, 5:15 am | # | Reply

    damn we need someone who speaks arabic
    thast said, maybe im just crazy, but i still cant ship tip with anyone but tigerlily. i mean i like him with artie, but, i will forever pine for that one crazy bitch who stole his heart

  13. il biggo
    November 6, 2013, 5:20 am | # | Reply

    Shorah, Anderson .-)

  14. Josh
    November 6, 2013, 6:02 am | # | Reply

    “Shame on you” in Arabic.

    • oneuniverse2
      November 6, 2013, 3:27 pm | # | Reply

      Thank you. I think Tip is finally getting a little comeuppance anyway 🙂

  15. Gerald Costlow
    November 6, 2013, 6:20 am | # | Reply

    Poor Tip. Even with a college degree, compared to them HE is the bimbo.

    • Norman
      November 6, 2013, 8:06 am | # | Reply

      Even with a doctorate, he is the bimbo. Do we know if it’s an MD or a PsyD?

      • LogicMouse
        November 6, 2013, 4:49 pm | # | Reply

        He’s always been referred to as a psychologist rather than a psychiatrist, so that’d be a Ph.D. (I don’t think they cover puppets in med school.)

  16. eddurd
    November 6, 2013, 6:21 am | # | Reply

    Oy vey.

    (TUNE: “I’m Walking”, Fats Domino)

    We’re talking … in Chinese!
    We’re yakking … in Portugese!
    We’re mocking … your lack of tech degrees!

    We’re gabbing … like Hindi folk!
    We’re blabbing … a Farsi joke!
    Confabbing … in ways you’ve never spoke!

     Esperanto, French, and Russian too!
     Gonna have a chat now, just us two!
     Chatting in Korean, mocking you,
     Like the nerds who talk in Urdu do!

    In Burmese … you’re at a loss!
    In Maltese … you’re feeling cross!
    We’ll now tease … with breath like taco sauce!

    • Tetra Valent
      November 6, 2013, 5:56 pm | # | Reply

      Next thing you know, they’ll be punning in Spanish….

      • reynard61
        November 6, 2013, 7:56 pm | # | Reply

        Rapping in Romani?
        Speechifying in Sami?
        Jawing in Javanese?
        Jesting in Jem’Hadar?

        • iburns
          November 6, 2013, 10:08 pm | # | Reply

          The Jem’Hadar have no word for ‘jest’.

  17. John Beattie
    November 6, 2013, 8:31 am | # | Reply

    He’s saying “You’re terrible.” Haram is sinful, forbidden, bad. ‘Aleyk is “Upon you.” Sinfulness upon you, you are sinful. “You’re terrible.”

    And I thought I’d never get any use out of my Arabic courses.

    • oneuniverse2
      November 6, 2013, 3:31 pm | # | Reply

      I like your translation, too. 🙂

    • Andrew
      November 6, 2013, 5:49 pm | # | Reply

      And the winner of the Internet today is John.

  18. iburns
    November 6, 2013, 9:17 am | # | Reply

    Shame on you, like Josh said?

  19. davidbreslin101
    November 6, 2013, 9:27 am | # | Reply

    Nice choice- one of the few languages that’s notoriously harder to read than to speak….. I never learned Arabic, but I did try (and fail) to learn the related Urdu script once.

    • Andrew
      November 6, 2013, 5:52 pm | # | Reply

      Thai is also very hard to read. It took the worst of Chinese and Hindu and combined them together.

      Having helped those who had to pass the TOEFL (like my mother), I will say from their perspective, English is probably the most difficult language to master. It’s like it was created by a bunch of drunk Vikings. (Which it probably was.)

      • Miserichord
        November 6, 2013, 7:31 pm | # | Reply

        English is a language created by Norman soldiers trying to pick up the local barmaids, who spoke language created by Anglo Saxons trying to pick up the local barmaids, who spoke a language created by Roman soldiers trying to pick up the local barmaids, all influenced by Scots ans Welsh trying to pick up the local barmaids.
        In addition, while many languages borrow words from other languages, English speakers follow speakers of other languages into dark alley to mug them and rifle through their pockets for words, grammar and sentence constructions.

        • =Tamar
          November 6, 2013, 8:26 pm | # | Reply

          James Nicholl first wrote that last part.

        • =Tamar
          November 6, 2013, 8:28 pm | # | Reply

          James Nicoll first wrote that part about the English language (not English speakers) mugging other languages (not other people) for words.

  20. chicgeek
    November 6, 2013, 9:35 am | # | Reply

    *applauds Ed*

  21. Nomi
    November 6, 2013, 10:44 am | # | Reply

    Art [not Artie] comment for Shaenon: I always assumed that hatching at the edges of some characters was to indicate dark skin, while leaving most of the skin clear for expressiveness. You don’t need to do that now that you have color!

    • Shaenon
      November 6, 2013, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, but I don’t like the way Artie looks without a little shading. He’s got such a big face, he should have cheekbones.

  22. Dave Harmon
    November 6, 2013, 11:12 am | # | Reply

    Ooh, the exes are ganging up on him!

  23. Smithnik
    November 6, 2013, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

    Nomi’s comment is an intereting one, but from the examples of hatching on both Tip and Virginia, it’s also being used to represent shading. So, a shaded area of Artie’s face would still get hatching, to show the direction of the light source if nothing else.

  24. Harold
    November 6, 2013, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

    These last few strips have reinforced my belief that this gentleman [ http://humansofnewyork.tumblr.com/post/30876965775/im-a-mathematician-and-a-painter-and-this-is-a ] is Artie brought into the real world.

  25. Tetra Valent
    November 6, 2013, 5:58 pm | # | Reply

    Maltese … cross…. I see what you did there.

    • Tetra Valent
      November 6, 2013, 6:01 pm | # | Reply

      That was a reply to eddurd’s filk, entered just after my reply that DID get posted in the proper place.

      Sheesh.

  26. Shadowmehr
    November 6, 2013, 6:40 pm | # | Reply

    People wonder why Tip only has one-night stands? This is why Tip only has one-night stands!

  27. BrotherPrickle
    November 6, 2013, 8:40 pm | # | Reply

    So, is Artie distracting Virginia so he can make her “disappear”? We did hear a few strips ago about a Gerbil Man being against Prop 39, and she’s got the brain machine to help make it happen. …I have no idea how Skin Horse could beat a post-human intellect, though. SO I suspect Anasigma will be involved in this kerfuffle too.

    • iburns
      November 6, 2013, 10:07 pm | # | Reply

      They can beat a post-human intellect through their greatest strength: sufficient oddity and bizarreness to make even Artie’s head hurt. ESPECIALLY make Artie’s head hurt.

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