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January 30, 2008 |Permalink |Comments (3)
Bizzaro!
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The only thing that comes to mind is "What?"
Ah! There is something here . . .
Perhaps Bizzaro is the traditional, medical model nursing home and the duckie represents an Elder residing in one?
I'm thinking of "Kahlid the Kind" too. But Bizzaro makes Kahlid appear stupid instead of simply overly kind. :)
Bizarro and the other inhabitants of the Bizarro world used an odd but predictable form of English. The most notable characteristics were:
* The lack of nominative case when using pronouns; Bizarro replaces pronouns that should be nominative with their analogues in the accusative case. Bizarro might introduce himself by saying "Me am Bizarro" instead of "I am Bizarro," for example.
* The lack of proper verb conjugation; Bizarro only uses the first person conjugation for any verb. For example, the verb "is" is always conjugated as "am", leading to sentences like "This am great".
* Speaking the opposite of what is really meant in a situation. Thus, "This am great" would mean that the thing isn't great at all. The exception would be "Me am Bizarro", which would actually mean what was said. Bizarro-English words are thus antonyms of the corresponding English words.
OK MAgS students, pop quiz -- who can shed some light on this for Wendy?
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January 30, 2008 11:20 AM