He wouldn’t be able to learn phonetically, since he’s never heard English except from the womb. This is going to be really tough. No adjectives or adverbs. Verbs would also be very difficult to pick up on. But it’s a start.
Ahhhh! A great frosty morning like this releases the roar of the great bull ape within me!And a good morning to you james , ray, katman, apoi and quartermain:)
I’ve often wondered if it is possible for a totally illiterate person to teach themselves how to read in this manner, especially a person who has never even heard the spoken language.
@Quartermain – In regard to your post yesterday at the Annie site. Some of us are reading the Annie archives one strip a day and pretending we’re reading something new. We’ve been doing it since TMS cancelled Annie in June of 2010. You’re welcome to join us. I post the link every day at Annie, 2010, Benitin y Eneas and FoxTrot Espanol. For your convenience, here is Today’s Annie .
Look at that comic right there. That is what america and humanity is about. Its about pushing ourselves to becoming better humanbeings. Its about rising up to challenges and at the other side challengeing ourselves. I owe everything to tarzan and comics for making me the man i am and for the future of teaching my children and the next generation to be great!
“The difference between M-A-N and A-P-E” seems to have been known by somebody well before this point, as Tarzan’s adoptive ape mama slapped that loincloth on him. (I never quite figured out how that happened…).“A-P-E” is not to be confused with “A*P*E,” an incredibly bad Korean rip-off of “King Kong,” most notable for the big monkey flipping you the bird (in headache-inducing 3-D!) and a movie-within-the-movie sub-plot involving an inept director by the name of “Dino.”
My father read the comics to us every Sunday morning. I think graduating to comic books (an old fireman lived next door to me and he said whenever you see my car around and there are comics in the back take ’em ,I am done with them) so I had a great supply and it instilled a lifelong reading habit in me.
Good morning all—Good to see that Katman’s Mate has released him from working on their lair—Welcome back. Yes we all were drawn to the comics , We older guys first started our love for them in the daily and Sunday news papers. Sundays were a real treat and in the early 1930s each comic was a full page! What a thrill it was to go venturing with Tim Tyler and his pet black panther,Fang on the Ivory Patrol in"Tim Tyler’s Luck by Blondie Artist Chic Young’s brother Lyman Young. You are all a good bunch of Lads—fun to be with each morning. Too bad that family values felt that young Tarzan had to be shaded with panties!
profkatz over 12 years ago
Can’t believe I beat you all today at 1:30am, so I’ll wish you all a good morning!
tripwire45 over 12 years ago
Good morning.
APersonOfInterest over 12 years ago
Good morning Katman … and to all Tarzanatics yet to log on.
Ray_C over 12 years ago
He wouldn’t be able to learn phonetically, since he’s never heard English except from the womb. This is going to be really tough. No adjectives or adverbs. Verbs would also be very difficult to pick up on. But it’s a start.
brickhouse over 12 years ago
Ahhhh! A great frosty morning like this releases the roar of the great bull ape within me!And a good morning to you james , ray, katman, apoi and quartermain:)
davidf42 over 12 years ago
I’ve often wondered if it is possible for a totally illiterate person to teach themselves how to read in this manner, especially a person who has never even heard the spoken language.
davidf42 over 12 years ago
@Quartermain – In regard to your post yesterday at the Annie site. Some of us are reading the Annie archives one strip a day and pretending we’re reading something new. We’ve been doing it since TMS cancelled Annie in June of 2010. You’re welcome to join us. I post the link every day at Annie, 2010, Benitin y Eneas and FoxTrot Espanol. For your convenience, here is Today’s Annie .
brickhouse over 12 years ago
Look at that comic right there. That is what america and humanity is about. Its about pushing ourselves to becoming better humanbeings. Its about rising up to challenges and at the other side challengeing ourselves. I owe everything to tarzan and comics for making me the man i am and for the future of teaching my children and the next generation to be great!
puddleglum1066 over 12 years ago
“The difference between M-A-N and A-P-E” seems to have been known by somebody well before this point, as Tarzan’s adoptive ape mama slapped that loincloth on him. (I never quite figured out how that happened…).“A-P-E” is not to be confused with “A*P*E,” an incredibly bad Korean rip-off of “King Kong,” most notable for the big monkey flipping you the bird (in headache-inducing 3-D!) and a movie-within-the-movie sub-plot involving an inept director by the name of “Dino.”
riverhawk over 12 years ago
My father read the comics to us every Sunday morning. I think graduating to comic books (an old fireman lived next door to me and he said whenever you see my car around and there are comics in the back take ’em ,I am done with them) so I had a great supply and it instilled a lifelong reading habit in me.
quartermain over 12 years ago
Good morning all—Good to see that Katman’s Mate has released him from working on their lair—Welcome back. Yes we all were drawn to the comics , We older guys first started our love for them in the daily and Sunday news papers. Sundays were a real treat and in the early 1930s each comic was a full page! What a thrill it was to go venturing with Tim Tyler and his pet black panther,Fang on the Ivory Patrol in"Tim Tyler’s Luck by Blondie Artist Chic Young’s brother Lyman Young. You are all a good bunch of Lads—fun to be with each morning. Too bad that family values felt that young Tarzan had to be shaded with panties!
profkatz over 12 years ago
Are you kidding? They are going to just love coach Jerry in prison! The “shower team” is already anxiously awaiting his arrival.