Re: Conlangs in the Comics!

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/dilbert2003112198219.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.)

--
Tristan

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