Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 16, 2015

Wasn’t Snorky the keyboard player for the Banana-Splits?

This is EXACTLY the topic of an article I just read today… English just doesn’t have those words!

@KZ71Well, thanks to Hobbes, now it does.

To us Northeasterners, there is the different smells of burning leaves on a clear September day, another for a cool October day, another for being in the local lodge house. A different scent for each of wet burns in October versus November days, another for OHLYSH!!!!!T DRY OCTOBER GONNA BURN DOWN THE CORNFIELDS DAY and late November draw late leaf-peepers in to buy the last minute pumpkins for Thanksgiving (and all of the discounted Halloween salt and pepper shakers for next year).

@KZ71 (reply not working again today): No but we have all those onomatopoeia for sounds. Can’t have it all y’know.

This cartoon was made possible with help of the Watterson’s Animal Dictionary for C&H Fans.

Of course animals don’t think in words – and we think non-verbally far more than a lot of people realise.

Nice

’Twas brillig!

Hobbes uses unknown words!

Nice

Am I weird if smells have different colors?

Everyone is focused on “snorky” while I’m still shocked by Calvin’s use of “evocative.” He must make straight A’s in his vocabulary class at school.

Feel the burn.

You should hear the words they use to describe a bathroom.

Actually the English language does have a number of words for smell: aroma, whiff, stench, odor, fragrance, bouquet, waft, stink, reek, sniff to name a few.

The average woman’s sense of smell is 10 times more sensitive than the average man. This probably explains why men can “hang out” in locker rooms and are willing to sniff that carton of milk that’s been in the back of the fridge since the Carter Administration to see if it’s still fresh.

Smell was one of the first senses to evolve. Animals communicated by leaving chemical trails. Smell is interpreted in the most primitive part of the human brain. That may be why there is such a strong link between smells and memories.

Yellow to me is probably yellow to you, but how can we tell that what’s brunky to me isn’t snorky to you? And why is brambish green to me but orange to you?

Snorky? Brunky? Something smells fishy to me.

my child’s shoes have that brunky, snorky smell!

There are different smells depending on what’s burning. A wood fire is different from a brush fire which is different again from a house fire (drywall/sheet rock really stinks when it burns!).

Interesting

In our neighborhood, the smell of burning leaves is almost nonexistent! Most communities forbid leaf burning…

The squinchy sound of walking in fresh snow is so much nicer than the squooshy sound of walking in slushy snow

The Utah legislature is trying to ban burning wood in fireplaces.

I’m strange because I love smells which other people hate. E.g. Paint.

xxx

Interesting

Amazing how even a stuffed animal can detect more smells than a human.

I like this one

Acrid, skunky, musty, fruity, putrid, decay, fruity, peaty, but I admit, the words we have are for pretty strong odors.

Uhhh… just say that it smells smoky.