[Peace-discuss] Doonesbury's language

[C. G. Estabrook]

G. B. Trudeau's long-running comic strip is usually the most intelligent and 
progressive commentary in the newspapers in which it appears, but it seems to me 
that, for all the distinctiveness of the strip's visual style (it's drawn by 
someone else, I think), Trudeau's ear is his real talent, not his eye.  He has 
for years captured the argot of people far removed from him in age and station 
-- e.g., student generations not his own.

He's done a particularly good job with political and military language.  Witness 
Sunday's strip:



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