[Peace-discuss] Doonesbury's language

[John W.]

Thanks for sharing, Carl.  Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins - "This Modern World")
is much better, though.  And the guy who does "Get Your War On" (
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war.html).  The humor/commentary is more
consistently accessible.


On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:51 AM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

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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