https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=199.27.133.96&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T10:15:07ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1593:_Play-By-Play&diff=1036861593: Play-By-Play2015-10-21T05:43:40Z<p>199.27.133.96: </p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1593<br />
| date = October 21, 2015<br />
| title = Play-By-Play<br />
| image = play_by_play.png<br />
| titletext = The thrower started hitting the bats too much, so the king of the game told him to leave and brought out another thrower from thrower jail.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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This comic is a parody of baseball. The thrower represents the pitcher, and the king is the Umpire (sounds like Emperor, which is a type of king). White Hat is the commentator, and describes the game in his usual surreal style.<br />
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"Running to second when know one's looking" is stealing a base.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
Beret Guy: For those just joining us, hi! We're on part 5 of a hitting game.<br />
The next guy has a big bat, so he'll probably hit the ball real far.<br />
Wait - he missed!<br />
Oh good, they're letting him try again.<br />
The people sitting on the chair shelves are yelling at this guy but he's ignoring them. Wow.<br />
Rude.<br />
This thrower is good! He keeps making people leave by throwing balls at them.<br />
It's just him, though. None of his teammates are joining in.<br />
That guy just ran to the second pillow when no one was looking!!<br />
Everyone's real mad but I guess they checked the rules and there's nothing that says he can't do that.<br />
Yikes. Hopefully they can fix that once this game is over.<br />
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Title text: The thrower started hitting the bats too much, so the king of the game told him to leave and brought out another thrower from thrower jail.<br />
{{comic discussion}}</div>199.27.133.96https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1443:_Language_Nerd&diff=827991443: Language Nerd2015-01-16T07:56:49Z<p>199.27.133.96: /* Explanation */ - she comments on verbing adverb.</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1443<br />
| date = November 5, 2014<br />
| title = Language Nerd<br />
| image = language_nerd.png<br />
| titletext = Not to go all sentence fragment on you.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{w|Part of speech|Parts of speech}} can be treated fluidly, in English and other languages. For example, "medalled" has been coined as a word meaning "gained a medal" in a sporting competition, implying the existence of the verb "to medal" meaning "to win a medal". [[Megan]], in conversation with [[Cueball]], similarly creates new meanings from existing words: firstly, she uses the {{w|adjective}} "legit" (a slang abbreviation of "legitimate") as an {{w|adverb}} to mean "legitimately"; secondly, she uses the {{w|noun}} "adverb" as a verb meaning "to turn a non-adverb into an adverb"; and thirdly, she uses the {{w|noun phrase}} "language nerd" as an adjective. All three are used in the past tense.<br />
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Megan uses the words "verbed" and "adjectived" without any comment, implying that the acts of "verbing" the nouns "verb" and "adjective" are so natural and long-established that they are unremarkable, even if grammatical purists might decry such usage. An example of a change of parts of speech that is widely accepted is the {{w|gerund}}, which is nothing more than the use of a verb or verb-phrase as a noun; for instance, "I enjoy '''reading'''," and "the best thing for your health is '''not smoking'''".<br />
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Added humor is gained by the self-referential nature of Megan's sentence. She uses fluid parts of speech, and also refers to that very same use, in one sentence.<br />
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The title text, "Not to go all sentence fragment on you," is an implicitly self-referential sentence fragment, containing neither an explicit subject nor a predicate. It can be converted into a full sentence by rephrasing it something like, "I do not mean to go all sentence fragment on you, but..." It is also funnier because, as well as being ''self''-referential, it also refers to the main comic by adjectiving the noun-phrase "sentence fragment".<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:Megan: I don't mean to go all language nerd on you, but I just legit adverbed "legit", verbed "adverb", and adjectived "language nerd".<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Language]]</div>199.27.133.96https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1417:_Seven&diff=75185Talk:1417: Seven2014-09-05T05:17:33Z<p>199.27.133.96: </p>
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<div>Guacamole = 7-layer dip ingredient<br />
[[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.81|108.162.215.81]] 05:08, 5 September 2014 (UTC)Anonymous XKCD reader<br />
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Seventh Seal more likely to be a reference to Book of Revelation (I think he's brought it up before?) or the film? [[Special:Contributions/199.27.133.96|199.27.133.96]] 05:17, 5 September 2014 (UTC)</div>199.27.133.96https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1417:_Seven&diff=751841417: Seven2014-09-05T05:15:14Z<p>199.27.133.96: </p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1417<br />
| date = September 5, 2014<br />
| title = Seven<br />
| image = seven.png<br />
| titletext = The days of the week are Monday, Arctic, Wellsley, Green, Electra, Synergize, and the Seventh Seal.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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Megan is asking Cueball to name the seven dwarfs. He responds with a list of seven unrelated items, where each item traditionally belongs to a different set of seven things:<br />
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* Sneezy: seven dwarfs<br />
* Phylum: taxonomic ranks<br />
* Europe: continents (treating North & South America as separate continents, and counting Antarctica as a continent)<br />
* Sloth: seven deadly sins<br />
* Guacamole: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-layer_dip Seven-layer dip]<br />
* Data Link: Layer 2 of the seven layers of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model OSI model]<br />
* Colossus of Rhodes: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Ancient_World Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]<br />
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The title text has a similar joke, about days of the week:<br />
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* Monday: days of the week<br />
* Arctic: Seven oceans<br />
* Wellsley: Seven Sisters (colleges)<br />
* Green: Colours of the rainbow<br />
* Electra: The seven [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_(Greek_mythology) Pleiades].<br />
* Synergize: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People<br />
* Seventh Seal: Reference to a phrase in the Book of Revelation in the Bible that refers to seven symbolic seals that secure a book or scroll. May also be a (strange) reference to the film The Seventh Seal.<br />
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Each item in the list is part of a group of seven: Dwarves, levels of biological taxonomy, continents, deadly sins, layers of dip, seven-layer OSI model, and wonders of the ancient world.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>199.27.133.96https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1417:_Seven&diff=751821417: Seven2014-09-05T05:14:05Z<p>199.27.133.96: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1417<br />
| date = September 5, 2014<br />
| title = Seven<br />
| image = seven.png<br />
| titletext = The days of the week are Monday, Arctic, Wellsley, Green, Electra, Synergize, and the Seventh Seal.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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Megan is asking Cueball to name the seven dwarfs. He responds with a list of seven unrelated items, where each item traditionally belongs to a different set of seven things:<br />
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* Sneezy: seven dwarfs<br />
* Phylum: taxonomic ranks<br />
* Europe: continents (treating North & South America as separate continents, and counting Antarctica as a continent)<br />
* Sloth: seven deadly sins<br />
* Guacamole: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-layer_dip Seven-layer dip]<br />
* Data Link: Layer 2 of the seven layers of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model OSI model]<br />
* Colossus of Rhodes: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_Ancient_World Seven Wonders of the Ancient World]<br />
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The title text has a similar joke, about days of the week:<br />
<br />
* Monday: days of the week<br />
* Arctic: Seven oceans<br />
* Wellsley: Seven Sisters (colleges)<br />
* Green: Colours of the rainbow<br />
* Electra: One of the seven [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_(Greek_mythology) Pleiades].<br />
* Synergize: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People<br />
* Seventh Seal: Reference to a phrase in the Book of Revelation in the Bible that refers to seven symbolic seals that secure a book or scroll<br />
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{{incomplete|Created by a BOT - Please change this comment when editing this page.}}<br />
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Each item in the list is part of a group of seven: Dwarves, levels of biological taxonomy, continents, deadly sins, layers of dip, seven-layer OSI model, and wonders of the ancient world.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript}}<br />
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{{comic discussion}}</div>199.27.133.96