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Strip by: Redgreen
Liz: Jon?
Jon: Yes?
Liz: Du bist ein Rettich
{Liz leaves}
Jon: I will never understand German
Garfield: I think she just called you a radish
The author writes:
When I saw the source strip, I thought it was odd ​that Liz would be speaking gibberish.
Nyperold commented: My tentative conclusion is that those are just nonsense words, but I'm neither an expert cryptographer nor an expert linguist.
The "expert linguist" part gave me an idea: what if I replaced those nonsense words with the words "you are a radish" in a foreign language? Enter "Linguistics with Liz", where I actually do that, and you can too!
Here's a good template to start out with:
[[Original strip: ​2017-11-17.]]
Original strip: 2017-11-17.