Sorry again for the technical complication that caused the strip delay last week. I ordered a new laptop cable and now I’m plugging it in all over the place again. [Insert more inappropriate objects humor here.] So, as per tradition,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged activism
1: Strange Companions (73.1)
I hope everyone had a wonderful Solstice! A “Tulratter” is a Tulrat trader. “Umorik’s daughters” is a joke on the followers of the Church of Fenzar, which is said to worship the daughters of the giantess Umorik. Both terms are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1: Strange Companions (32.3)
Kaian Tree — one of 21 days in the Kaian year. In this case three days before the winter solstice, and the day on which terrorists are reported to have murdered the President of Pærth. The insults given to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1: Strange Companions (26.2)
1: Strange Companions (26.1)
The Pærthian pun somewhat holds up in English. The long protest sign reads: ZTUODTDREHJ KWNI KAINLATGAM! (Zthoo-OHDZ-th-DZREH-hh-j KUH-nee kyne-LAHT-gkahm) or “War-heads out of School!” heit (heh-eet) is a general word for rodents, but it’s particularly common to refer to squirrel-like[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1: Strange Companions (25.2)
1: Strange Companions (24.3)
The signs being held up by the student protest are not particularly clever or unique for the time, but the message is strong. One is easy to explain. The one on the left reads DALJVAL KAKULTAN (Dzhahlj-VAHL KAH-kool-TAHN) or, basically,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1: Strange Companions (24.1)
Aop is looking at a slightly faulty Vûl-to-Ondoko dictionary.