Pickles by Brian Crane for August 07, 2024

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

even Roscoe knows that’s not a real word

Lots of words coming from Earl’s cranianul.

Earl’s correct. The problem isn’t in making up new words, but rather in getting others to use them. (I majored in linguistics, BTW.)

“How . . . cromulent.” “’Right, Lisa?”

perfectly jellicle

:PPPP

Well, now he’s just being sedacious.

Sigh…neither of my grampas were funny.

I don’t remember the last time I said primulent.

Is that an adjitative?

There IS the comic censor!

Why not? The pharmaceutical companies do it every time they introduce a new drug.

Sounds like a Sniglet to me.

It makes him feel imbiggened.

Okay, how many of us looked up Primulent?

I’m sure Earl is anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctious to have caused Nelson such pericombobulation

especially in scrabble

It’s absitively, posolutely okay. (I’ve actually heard those words used, in an old radio commercial, and they were sung by a bass singer.)

That’s how words work, after all.

Most of our C.E.O.s and politicians are of an age when, very early, they became enamored with antidisestablishmentarianism and schadenfreude.

There’s no need for that word. Cromulent is a perfectly adequate word, and it fits perfectly.

40 years ago I had a psychology 101 class. The instructor said the symptom of making up your own words only the patient knows the definition of is neologisms. “Examples would be de-athenated, wallmationer, and sexiatry, except I think I know what that one is.”

There a’int no such word!

Totally fetch.

Earl is a regular Shakespeare!

Well that’s just unlauded!

Primulent is a perfectly cromulent word.

That Earl. He’s a muse. A muse for Dr. Seuss! Oh, the words I can make!

You mean cromulent. Better embiggen your vocabulary.

I can’t help but think of the comic Norm Crosby with this comic strip today. He used to mess with the English language with comedy. Very funny the way his delivery was!

Nelson it’s the Covfefe thing to do these days.

ok……. ya LOST me on THAT one

I hate it when people use big words just to make themselves sound perspicacious.

Shakespeare made up words all the time

Go for it, Nelson.

I think the last time I used “primulent” was in the middle of a sneeze.

Shades of “cromulent”

Roscoe is like: “WTF”?

it looks like Earl’s left side of the brain is working overtime.

When he was little, my oldest grandson loved it when I used words he’d never heard before and would try to use them – often out of context. Expanding his vocabulary was great … except for his parroting of some words he shouldn’t have overheard!

This strip reminds me so much of him when he was that age. He’s turned out to be an exceptional young man. He’s 30 today, so ¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Allen! from “Gramps”.

Certainly a lot of fartilization going on here.

The Presidential cantidate for on party has done it for the last nine years.

Primulent is a menopause pill.

Against the law? Oh, pish posh!

Had to look p up, just in case. Not a word but two companies with that name one in VA and one in the UK

Just in time for middle school to start with their weird, made up words - scibidi, gyat, rizz ….

How very ‘contubrius’ of him. My friends and I used that word all through high school, and it doesn’t mean a darned thing: “How very contubrius of you!” It could be either positive or negative, depending on context. Silly,that I still use it.

Cromulent, please!I made up the word ‘anfagastatillion’ to mean a very large number when I was a kid.

Frindle

There was an episode on “The Simpsons” where the teachers were using words that weren’t words. I remember “promulent” and “embiggens”. As in the town motto: “A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.” One teacher said she had never heard that word before moving to Springfield. The other said, “Really? It’s such a promulent word.”

Now that is cromulent.

I don’t mind people making up new words. But I hate it when they want to change the meaning of words we already have.

Of course you can make up your own words. How else are you going to embiggen your vocabulary?

I’m pretty sure he meant to say cromulent.