Comic #2241: 2011-07-03
Description
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Panel 1:
Text: "TO PUNISH MY HIGH SCHOOLERS FOR OVERUSING THEIR THESAURI, I SET UP A FAKE WEBSITE."
Image Description: A character with brown hair and glasses sits at a computer, smiling. They are wearing a green shirt.
Panel 2:
Text: "IT LOOKED LIKE A THESAURUS, BUT WAS NOTHING BUT FANCY-SOUNDING FAKE WORDS."
Below this text, there's a table:
Conversation:
- synonyms - speechitating, mutuodialogtion, sonocommunicessence
- antonyms - invertoloquacitation, subsussurus, quietictousness
Panel 3:
Text: "SURE ENOUGH THEY WERE ALL INDULGING IN NEEDLESS THESAURUS ABUSE."
A new text box says:
"And Ophelia thusfore, was feigning insanitation, which subsequently morphatoriated into actual insanitation."
"Subsequently, Hamlet, having pretensed his insanitation went insanoist, as he reactified to such a paintastic situatity."
"The inevitable outcome is the morphatorium."
Panel 4:
Text: "I TRIED TO TELL THEM IT WAS A PRANK, BUT BY THE TIME I DID SO, THEY WERE SO USED TO THE FAKE WORDS, I COULDN'T COMMUNICATE."
Different characters express confusion:
- "IT WAS FAKE!"
- "WHATLY REGARDS HER, SPEECHITATING?"
Panel 5:
Text: "SOON, THE ENTIRE STUDENT BODY WAS LINGUISTICALLY INFECTED."
- "WOULDUEST YOU ACCOMPANIE ME IN ONE HALF-FORTNIGHT?"
- "IT WOULDEST BE HONORIBLE TO ME!"
Panel 6:
Text: "I KEPT QUIET AND HOPED FOR THE BEST. IN SOME WAYS, THE EMERGING DALEKT WAS BEAUTIFUL."
Image Description: A character looks contemplative, with their eyes closed, alongside another character speaking.
Panel 7:
Text: "THEN I REMEMBERED THEY WERE ALL WRITING ESSAYS FOR COLLEGE ADMISSION."
- "WHAT SPEECHITATED HARVARD?"
- "THEY ANTI-YESSED MY APPLICATIX!"
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