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Explanation can kill a joke, but... he’s trying to read a layout aloud.
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Explanation can kill a joke, but... he’s trying to read a layout aloud.
As well as commenting on the graphic contribution to language, the drawing also tells us something about genre. We can tell he’s reading a letter, and we know exactly which lines represent the address, the date, the salutation and the signature – in effect, this is the infrastructure layer of a letter, rather than its message.
Cartoon by Jack Ziegler, New Yorker, 2 June 2014. Reproduced by permission.