Looking at Wikipedia, besides the languages calling it cursive it seems there are two camps:
Germanic languages seem to call it "Writing letters/style" (German: Schreibschrift, Danish: Skråskrift, Dutch: Schrijfletter, Swedish: Skrivstil)
Romance languages seem to call it "cursive script" instead of just "cursive" (French: Écriture cursive, Italian: Scrittura corsiva, Portuguese: Letra cursiva)
Interestingly Italian calls italics "corsivo" and cursive "Scrittura corsiva" so the Wikipedia page for either has a disambiguation link to the other.
33 Comments
muzzle@lemm.ee · 53 pts · 1y
If you invert the first two panels you get Loss.
Dagnet@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y
But then the joke that fox is telling wouldn't make sense
ladicius@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
It still is funny but in a slightly darker way.
moakley@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
Then I won't do that. Thanks for pointing that out.
muzzle@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
What a killjoy ;)
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y
Yip
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Yop
blackluster117@possumpat.io · 5 pts · 1y
Gekkering
Vivendi@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y
muzzle@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
True, but it's also that I automatically check any 4 panel comic for the loss pattern.
Eggyhead@fedia.io · 33 pts · 1y
WHAT DID THE FOX SAY?
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 16 pts · 1y
Yip yip yip. Yip yip. Yip yip yip yip... Yop.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y
Excuse you, the Yop is clearly cursive
Routhinator@startrek.website · 2 pts · 1y
I think you meant italic?
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 1y
God dammit English why must you copy the French for everything
Routhinator@startrek.website · 3 pts · 1y
Ah interesting context, thanks for sharing!
This does make me curious though.. how do these languages refer to cursive handwriting vs italicised font?
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y
Looking at Wikipedia, besides the languages calling it cursive it seems there are two camps:
Interestingly Italian calls italics "corsivo" and cursive "Scrittura corsiva" so the Wikipedia page for either has a disambiguation link to the other.
Molten_Moron@lemmings.world · 11 pts · 1y
gekkering
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Ylvis can help you.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 1y
I didn’t even question that this is the verb a fox would use to laugh with.
moakley@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
Fun fact: I almost embarrassed myself and wrote "geckering", but my wife corrected me at the last second.
Geckering is how monkeys laugh. Foxes gekker.
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
And here I thought my English was pretty good, and I thought you just made this up!
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gekker
Soku@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
There's also an audio file for gekkering but that's the pronunciation for the word, not the actual example...
Tja@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y
Looks like a Dutch word
SteveXVII@pawb.social · 3 pts · 1y
It almost is, it would translate as 'crazy ring'.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
It is
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
It really does.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
I translated the joke
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Ah, a fellow Sumerian.
MvPts@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
You sent me into a rabbithole..
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Huh...
I guess you had to be there.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
https://youtu.be/PchYGpWtBWk
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Is this ich_eil?
ladicius@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Sprich...