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9mo ago

Natural Words

Incidental Comics by Grant Snider, Sunday, July 28, 2024.

7 comments

I find it kind of funny that we call pointed things "star shaped" when actual stars are literally just spheres, the least pointed object you can possibly have.
- tell that to my astigmatism lol

The second one is kinda intuitive :)

These are just normal words now.
- Indeed. The idea of the comic is not to be a vocabulary-builder, but an opportunity to enjoy words for their own sake; their sounds, their meanings, the images they can conjure in the mind, the places they take up in our imaginations.
  
  Is it your comic? If so, good job.
  I consider myself to have a decent vocabulary, but I would not have gotten sinuous' definition correct.
  Harbinger I knew, but it's nice to see In a positive example.
  The other two were new to me.

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