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– Hi everyone. I was thinking about posting the Christmas comic I had started working on last week, but I decided that its better to get back to our story. So you’ll have to wait till next year to see Modest’s Christmas adventure, but by then she’ll (spoiler) be home again, so that’ll work out better anyway.
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“Mmmhmm, mmhmmm…nope, we don’t understand it, either.”
– The snakes, probably.
There’s one who does.
They’ve read it before.
*sad trombone*
Well, that’s kind of… illogical? Didn’t she go to school for quite a while? Wouldn’t they have taught her to read at least slowly and with some difficulty by now? Not to mention that she’s been playing a lot of video games, most of which have relevant written components? I mean, Pokemon, for one thing – and she’s crazy about Pokemon – you can’t play them properly if you can’t read the card texts. I can’t remember any more concrete cases at the moment, but I have the strong overall impression that Modest was at least implied, if not shown, to be basically literate.
I understand, of course, that she could have learned to read on Earth, and that Yeld could have a completely different writing system, but she doesn’t say “I don’t know these letters”, she says “I don’t know how to read”.
Actually, I found one randomly now: http://modestmedusa.com/comic/best-at-laws/
What she means is she doesn’t know how to read that book.
i can think of another one when she read the same book to light i candle when she first found out that she is technically a boy
Actually, she didn’t read that spell. Her hair did, then whispered the words to her.
… how did she play pokemon on her ds, if she cant read?
What she means is she doesn’t know how to read that book.
But she…. read the other book to turn the torches on?!
She didn’t actually. her hair read it and told her what the words were. It still worked though.
ah, ok. a yeld language barrier or something?
Oh wooow I can’t even remember if Modest’s reading / lack thereof had been mentioned before, but that punchline made me laugh out loud c:
Before you gotta walk you gotta crawl.
Slither*
She’s played enough Pokemon and been to school, so I assume she can read English and this is either magic script or Yeld language.
Draw pictures of sheep doing interpretive dances of what you want to do, then picture them in your mind.
Learn how to spell, before learning how to spell 🙂
Wait – how exactly do you play Pokemon without being able to read?
(Okay, so I played through Final Lap Twin on the PC Engine without knowing a single word of Japanese, but still – at least I could read numbers…)
She means that she can’t read this book.
In part 114, it seemed that the book was written in something other than English, and at least one snake was able to read it…
She doesn’t read Yelp Script, but surely she learned English language in school and playing Pokémon, maybe?
Yes, as Jake mentioned in Season 5 she actually learned to read on her own without any help.
How did she learn to read without help?
You have to at least hear how the words you are looking at sound.
Also how are the people of yield able to speak english shouldn’t they have developed their own spoken language?
Oh well if she could learn English that quickly she can learn Yeldese. No way it’s any harder. Also evidently the spoken language is the same.
Considering the number of responses at the glaring inaccuracies, maybe should have made that a little clearer, Jake. ‘.^~*
My plan was to make it clear in the next strip. It’s a two part joke.
She learned the English language, not Yeldese.