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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/owls/?comic=664
Strip by: manyhills
Delkin: Who's Easter Island's greatest MC? Rapper Nui!
{The moai audience doesn't laugh}
Delkin: Tuff crowd.
The author writes:
Maybe Rapa Nui is highly rhotic and that's why they didn't find it funny.
JOKES EXPLAINED CORNER:
I (correctly) have a non-rhotic accent because I'm (correctly) from London (the one in Europe not the one in Canada). I used to have a girlfriend who had a rhotic accent (a fact we discussed surprisingly often, which tells you something about the sort of scintillating conversationalist I am), and it turns out that saying "she has a rhotic accent" without someone mishearing it as "she has [an] erotic accent" is displeasingly difficult.
Arian Zwegers took the photograph used in this comic, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution.