Re: Conlangs in the Comics!

Staving Tristan McLeay:
>On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Peter Bleackley wrote:
>
> > Staving Thomas Leigh:
> > >All right, so it's just a bunch of gibberish, but check out today's
> > >Dilbert:
> > ><http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2003112198
> 219.gif>http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2003112198219.gif
> > >
> > >Made me smile.
> > >
> >
> >
> > On a similar note, last week's Private Eye had a "First Draughts" cartoon
>
>Is that a pun or does that sense of draft/draught retain that spelling in
>the UK? (In Australia, one has a draft of an essay, though most other
>senses of the word, as well as draughtsman, retains the ugh. Does this
>mean draughtsmen drink a lot? I don't know.)
Mea typo, mea typo, mea maxima typo... Should have been "First Drafts".

Pete

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