Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 24, 2011
Transcript:
Danae: When will our new TV get set up? Joe: Just as soon as I find the English version of the manual. OK, here it is... Danae: Sigh... things would be a lot easier if everyone had the decency to speak the same language! Wait... that's it! That's the answer! Bwa ha ha ha!! Joe: Something tells me I don't want to know what the question is...
TURTLE almost 13 years ago
Tower of Babel here we come.
dkendraf almost 13 years ago
:D So much for taking over the world with good girl behavior! LOLOLOL
Ida No almost 13 years ago
If it’s a common world-wide, global language, I vote for Assembler.
FatTonyBalducci almost 13 years ago
pretty soon we’ll all be speaking Cantonese
Varnes almost 13 years ago
Yeah? Something tells me that you’re not going to like the answer, either…
weasel_monkey almost 13 years ago
Based on the number of countries that use it for commerce, tourism and general communication – English is the winner here. If you want to look at numbers of people using a language then there might be an argument for Cantonese.
Hugh B. Hayve almost 13 years ago
Read the instructions? What guy ever does that?
GROG Premium Member almost 13 years ago
New TV’s come with instructions?
CaptainKiddeo almost 13 years ago
Garrison Keillor once claimed he had listened to a lecture on "Esperanto: The Universal Language (if everyone would learn it…)
psychlady almost 13 years ago
Yes, Danae, someday you will rule the world!
rockngolfer almost 13 years ago
If we all spoke the same language we wouldn’t have websites like Engrish funny.http://engrishfunny.failblog.org/
tripwire45 almost 13 years ago
Many countries have an official language. Might be helpful here.
alien07110 almost 13 years ago
don’t forget, a short 600 years ago, the main language of civilized europe was french. before that it was latin. it may be english now, but that is subject to change.
Oh come on! almost 13 years ago
The manual was probably a poor English translation from Mandarin anyway.
Kali39 almost 13 years ago
The reasons we will never have a world language. Because: 1) Polish has no vowels2) Hawaiian has no consonants3) English has no sense.
:-)
bamboodan almost 13 years ago
I thought the universal language was chocolate? Or was that coffee? Or maybe chocolate coffee?
Damn … made myself hungry/thirsty. Need another cuppa ….
hkyjckfjt almost 13 years ago
But then we’d understand everyone’s narcissistic nonsense.
Habogee almost 13 years ago
If there were just one language, local dialects would soon create a new Babel.
Dtroutma almost 13 years ago
Spoken Mandarin, but the written is a bear. English is commerce and transportation (as at airports), but it’s amazing how many “English speakers” no longer actually speak, write, or read it.
PShaw0423 almost 13 years ago
It won’t have to “make” it anything; that will follow simply because it is the most powerful and influential (i.e., wealthiest) nation, and everyone else will want to do business with it in the most convenient way…no coercion needed..But coercion works too, of course. That’s why the common language of the Roman Empire was Greek rather than Latin, long after the dominance of the Greeks had ended. The Greeks imposed their language and culture on everyone they conquered, and it stuck; the Romans were more tolerant..No matter who ends up calling the shots eventually, I suspect that most of this century will be confusingly (and entertainingly) multicultural and multilingual.
dabugger almost 13 years ago
Oho, oho….we bettah all look our….gonna be somethen am afraid…..
Alms4Thorby almost 13 years ago
Nice 01, Rodney.
Hunter7 almost 13 years ago
The rules state this is the language to rule us all.Please note, all rules are subject to change.
yawon almost 13 years ago
Mhfiewj jklcemw ejwollkje!
tex4056 almost 13 years ago
Zamenhoff was about her age when he invented Esperanto.
Pygar almost 13 years ago
More people speak Klingon than Esperanto. And you can at least tell when you are talking to a Klingon. What do Esperaunties look like, and where do they come from?
Ernest Lemmingway almost 13 years ago
English is already the language of trade. Every First World nation now teaches it in mainstream schools simply because of that fact. But also keep in mind most nations are not First World, so no, it’s not the most widely spoken. Too many are busy struggling for the basics of survival to bother learning a second language like English, the second-most difficult language in the world (Basque comes in at first since it’s both entirely unrelated to any known language and spoken largely in my ancestral Euskal Herria).
steelersneo almost 13 years ago
The universal translator would be recognized. We have to transmit the message in Klingon.