Comic #5600: party-game

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Text Description of the Comic:

• Top Panel Text: "ENGLISH SPEAKERS LACK A PRONOUN FOR THE SECOND PERSON PLURAL. THEY THEREFORE CANNOT CONCEIVE OF SPEAKING TO MORE THAN ONE PERSON. THIS EXPLAINS THE EXTREME INDIVIDUALISM OF ANGLOPHONE CULTURE. IT IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT THE USE OF “THOU” FOR SINGULAR AND “YOU” FOR PLURAL FELL OUT OF FASHION PRECISELY ONE GENERATION AFTER THE PUBLISHING OF ADAM SMITH’S “WEALTH OF NATIONS.”"

• Illustration: A person with curly hair and a worried expression, wearing a brown shirt and gray jacket, is gesturing with both hands as if making a point.

• Bottom Text: "Party Game: Applying the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis to any linguistic quirk"