More recent cartoons and other images of interest in the study of Language Policy, Sociolinguistics, and Dialectology

• Dagwood learns to understand teenagers' lingo.
  

  

  

  Baldo demonstrates that he's actually trilingual!

  

  A cartoon evoking the myth of 'Eskimo words for snow".

  

   

  

   

  

   

  

   

  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  A cartoon evoking the memory of the southern Senator Strom Thurmond,
  who delivered many long-winded filibusters in the US Senate in his time there.

  

  

  Another cartoon involving Agnes, and her interesting uses of language.

  

  

  A cartoon devoted to "floccinaucinihilipilification", supposedly the "longest word in the English language."

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  This cartoon relies on the reader to know that some Americans (esp. New Yorkers) make a 3-way distinction between 'Mary', 'merry' and 'marry' and ridicules the speaker who doesn't make this distinction.