Sent this to my wife that's a speech and language pathologist who will without a doubt not laugh but rather answer the question haha.
Edit: called it lmao
This only adds another layer to the joke. Beautiful.
Reminds me of monster house:
Girl: "look! That must be the uvula"
Guy: "ooooooh, so it's a girl house"
Girl: confused look
The German word is beautiful, by the way: Gaumenzäpfchen
"Gaumen" is the roof of the mouth (palate).
And a "Zäpfchen" is a small "Zapfen", which is a thing that protrudes from something, e.g. an icicle is an "Eiszapfen" and a pine cone is a "Tannenzapfen".
It's like someone took the sentence in the picture and made a word out of it. 🙃
It's like someone took the sentence in the picture and made a word out of it.
It's what Germans do, you can't stop them, they'll compound compound words until everything is just one biglongsentenceword. Doesn't work as well in Englisch but w/e
Japanese usually does similar stuff. It's the "mouth cover hang" in Japanese 口蓋垂
Every German word is basically a sentence
It's the, the, whatchumacallit... *snaps tongue* the uvulva! I'm sure of it.
Wait is this not common knowledge? That's what the comic seems to imply
I'd bet this comic is a large part of why it's more common knowledge now. It's the reason I looked it up as a kid.
It seems more common now than when the comic was new
Uvula.
I learned about the uvula once in my 20s when I drank and partied too much. Turns out I snore when i drink and when you snore you dehydrate your already dehydrated self. My uvula was swollen. The doctor (I was living in a country where health care was easy to access) sort of laughed and told me to drink water and reminded me I'm not superhuman.
Not recommended btw.
I was living in a country where health care was easy to access
Flexing on USA here.
Yeah to be fair I'm american so I've seen it from both sides.
Courage hangy-ball
One of several things I learned from Monster House.
Amateurs. I learned it from the original Full House. AKA the Nerve Hangy Ball.
I may well have learnt from far side, or Britannica after the far side comic
Depends. Is it Thursday?
I always remember it because there is a Green Day song: 'Bab's Uvula Who?' Teen me was like, wtf mate? Apparently it's taken from SNL from before I was born 🙈
Cardi B in shambles
I'm pretty sure it's Cardi B that you're trying to reference.
God you're right, fixed.
Gary Larson is amazing. He's in his 70's and apparently still publishing new work like this every day! Good for him!
I love how every post here has this comment now.
My comment is from 1992. I just re-posted it today because Lemmy didn't exist back then.
Uvavu.
Eranu
It's the Vulvula obviously.
