Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for January 07, 2010
January 06, 2010
January 08, 2010
Transcript:
hamhock: Tyr, how did you learn to speak english? Tyr: Actually, I didn't....I have a magic talisman that translates for me! hamhock: Really? Lemme hear you without it! tyr: *code* hamhock: Think we could get one of those for the swedish chef? Tyr: some things even magic can't help...
wolfofodin almost 15 years ago
For those of you not well versed in the futhark, Tyr says, “I am Tyr, son of Odin. Fear my mighty right hand.”
debra4life50 almost 15 years ago
Isn’t that dwarf writing from Lord of the Rings?
katayamma almost 15 years ago
You bastich! You made me to a spit take this morning!
Best strip of the day!
And technically those are from the Ruinic alphabet, which is the base for most Germanic languages.
Cheers!
ds133 almost 15 years ago
I think the swedish chef speaks english for the most part…. very bad and heavily accented english, but english all the same.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
ds133, Herndi splern goorten woot dorfen ’english? Mort werdi bernbern flerrrrrr…..!
puddleglum1066 almost 15 years ago
No, Tyr IS speaking English. The English letters have just been transliterated to the runes. Not at all the same thing as his speaking some Scandahoovian language and actually having it translated.
cwreenactor almost 15 years ago
LOL!!!
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Not the same thing, but more fun. Walt Kelly used orthographical jokes in Pogo, writing fake Russian (or Russian-accented English) as English words in a bastardized cyrillic alphabet. The Asterix books do similar things sometimes.
It’s a lot better than supposing that Asgardian gods speak Elizabethan English, like in the “Thor” comics: “Thou shalt feeleth the blow of my mighty hammer!”
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Chikuku, I know better than that, but sometimes the comic-book writers don’t.
deadheadzan almost 15 years ago
A magic talisman explains it well enough for me.
rcerinys701 almost 15 years ago
At last, the origin of the Universal Translator explained!
JP Steve Premium Member almost 15 years ago
http://www.mockfont.com/old/