3806: Languages and Liz: English

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Languages and Liz: English

Made by: edderiofer

Explanation

This strip, via both intentional and unintentional methods, essentially flips the premise of 3402: 语言学与丽兹：中文; whereas #3402 had the strip's main language be English and the target language of the gag be Chinese, this strip makes the main language be Chinese and the target language of the gag be English. (The link to strip #3402 in the author's notes is how we can imply the main language of the strip proper as Chinese; as the vast majority of the transcript and author's notes are currently riddled with mojibake, it would have been difficult to discern a target language otherwise.)

Even the later site recoding effort that riddled both #3402 and this strip with mojibake errors show the premise flip. #3402 saw only one line in the transcript, a small portion of its author's notes, and its title hit with mojibake, and that strip's page on this very wiki was created prior to the recoding effort that resulted in the mojibake errors thus its intended content has been preserved; this strip, on the other hand, had almost its entire transcript and almost its entire author's notes riddled with mojibake but had its title left alone, while this very wiki page wasn't created until July 2024, years after the site recoding effort that resulted in the mojibake thus its intended content is currently lost to the public.

This was not the first time English was the target language for the Linguistics with Liz gag; 3405: Linguistics with Liz: English involved English as both the main language and the target of the gag.

The author writes:

作者写道：看到＃3402后，这是不可避免的。

Original strip: 2017-11-17.

Transcript

丽兹：乔恩？
乔恩：嗯？
丽兹：You are a radish.
乔恩：我永远不会懂英语 。
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Trivia

The vast majority of this strip's transcript and author's notes were affected by mojibake errors in a later site recoding effort; the original transcript and author's notes are currently lost to the public due to this.