Mike du Jour by Mike Lester for July 19, 2024

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    Pickled Pete  4 months ago
    I’m trying to connect the dots here..
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    Linguist  4 months ago

    Lance is a graduate of Potts University … or ole P.U., as it’s affectionately known.

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    rhpii  4 months ago

    What no overring? Åå vs. Ää?

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    viniragu  4 months ago

    Reading this gave me diaeresis!!

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    Marney Premium Member 4 months ago

    I believe Germany has the umlaut and not Sweden.

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    mistercatworks  4 months ago

    Should the “U” have two dots over it? :)

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    Kirk Barnes Premium Member 4 months ago

    I really only posted this to display that last sentence. It did what to the who?

    um·laut

    /ˈo͝omˌlout/

    LINGUISTICS

    noun

    a mark ( ¨ ) used over a vowel, as in German or Hungarian, to indicate a different vowel quality, usually fronting or rounding.

    verb

    modify (a form or sound) by using an umlaut.

    “the color of prothetic vowels, unless umlauted by the next syllable, was that of the laryngeal which was vocalized”

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    SrTechWriter  4 months ago

    Personally, I do enjoy many of Mr. Lester’s Mike du Jour cartoons.

    That said, many of you are aware that Mike also produces a series of political cartoons in the GoComics page Mike Lester. Recently, Go Comics saw fit to shut off the comments section of (as far as I can tell) only that “political cartoon”. On 17 July, in the last published comments section, Mike protested the move. He stated flatly that if the comments were shut off, he was done. He also posted in here, asking us readers to protest.

    On 18 July, his most recent cartoon was still there, but it … and all earlier cartoons in that series … were posted without any comments.

    Mike simply could not resist temptation. Today, on 19 July, he posted a new cartoon in that page, one impugning not only the current US President but also the Japanese government as being complicit in some sort of a plot to attack the US, a’ la the attack on Pearl Harbor. No comments were allowed, so there were no refutations of this obvious smear.

    Emboldened, on 24 July, he posted another lying cartoon in the _Mike Lester page. Again, no comments allowed. Go Comics has unleashed both him and EVERY political cartoonist to post whatever lies they wish, and has utterly disabled the public from refuting any of it, with a critical election fast approaching, and Trump and his MAGAts seeking every means they can manufacture to spread their political propaganda poison unrefuted.

    That is classic censorship.

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