Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 30, 2015

Ah. Auto-correct. I’ll have to try that.

By the way, if anyone refers to “the Jabberwocky”, I’ll reach through the screen and throttle them.

Beware the Jabberwock

No, no, no.“Jabberwocky” is fine.“The Jabberwock” is fine.“The Jabberwocky” is right out.

Sorry, I’m more worried about the Bandersnatch!

me too……..THE JABBERWOCKYwaiting………….

On a 30th of October, being in a nasty mood due to my unruly students – I gave English lessons – I made them translate the Jabberwocky from English to French. Of course I didn’t warn them that it was utter nonsense. The last laugh was mine for even Google Translate didn’t help them. (evil laughter)

BlueJayRobin, Hee!

I take “bourgeois = moneyed” with a grain of salt, though.It is only appropriate in terms of Marxist philosophy, which would hardly be considered classic.

Wow a school that lets in weapons (pitchfork).

Mrs. Olson and Frazz rendering their version of “American Gothic” ?Classic.

bourgeoise is spelled wrong . . . bourgeois OR bourgeoisie . . .

Galumph, galumph, galumph.

Caufield’s costume is good, but I like that of Frazz even better!

Robert McNally did this back in 1973.http://www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Jabberwocky.html

Mrs. Olsen fishes!!!!!

Since auto-correct tends to make jabberwocky out of perfectly good (if misspelled) English, I guess Caulfield’s little exercise generated meta-Jabberwocky. And the entropy meter just jumped. We should beware a rift in the rhyme-space continuum…

And don’t you suppose that Mrs. Olsen is portraying Isaak Walton’s “The Compleat Angler” (whose title you could never get past auto-correct either)?

Re. “Jabberwockky” in French: The Annotated Alice lists several such. The French translation is at http://www76.pair.com/keithlim/jabberwocky/translations/french1.html. You might know.

Was Billy and the slightly toes Too jarring gamble in the waveAll men see where the buyer goes And the mom rafts upgrade..From my Amazon Fire cell phone, via voice recognition.

Twas brilliant, and the smithy votesDid gyro and gamble in the wave:All Missy were the governesses,And the memo rats outgrew..From LibreOffice, choosing the first suggestion for each word.

khjalmarj Martin Gardner’s Annotated Alice has the German version as well, same page.

I remember one stanza of the German version, though I lack some of the appropriate dicritical markings:

Eins, zwei! Eins, zwei! Und durch and durchSein Vorpals schwert versnifersnuck!Da blieb es tod! Er, kopf im HandGelaumfig zog zuruck!

I think mostly I’m missing umlauts for a couple of ’u’s, (versnifersnuck and gelaumfig, for a start)

*diacritical (please to excuse typo)

It’s the first verse from ‘The Jabberwocky’ by Lewis Carrol (featered in Through the Looking-Glass).

’Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe:All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe.

Ah, I knew it — he’s dressed as “Where’s Waldo”!

Jabberwocky will achieve revenge in it’s own time!

Why I love this strip.

Aaaaarrrghghghgrrrrrrgh!!!.The creature is the Jabberwock. No “y”.Why must you torment me so?

Arggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! The Bandersnatch went frumiouser and frumiouser and got me!!!!!!!!

As far as I know, the words in Jabberwocky are all proper English words, just many of them not in used much now. (although I frequently refer t to the grass growing around our sundial as the wabe). Good fodder for playing Balderdash, but perhaps the spellcheck programs need to be improved.

What a fun-filled “Frazz” week! Great commentary, All! Happy Halloween!!

Great poem, and a fun gag.

This strip is AWESOME!