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| Yes, and it's written Emad because he's deliberately mispronouncing it. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.203|173.245.52.203]] 02:23, 30 October 2013 (UTC) | | Yes, and it's written Emad because he's deliberately mispronouncing it. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.203|173.245.52.203]] 02:23, 30 October 2013 (UTC) |
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− | No, Emad is the online name of one of Randall's friends, look it up at http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Emad_%28Explanation%29
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− | [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.73|173.245.55.73]] 05:31, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
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− | Man goes into a shop.
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− | "Half a pound of kiddleyes, please"
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− | "Don't you mean 'kidneys"
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− | "That's what I said, diddleye" {{unsigned ip|141.101.99.217}}
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− | Isn't the whole joke on 'blag' that 'blog' and 'blag' are homonyms according to the wonderful English orthography *unless* one is aware that it is originally portmanteau of words 'web' and 'log' and by convention it is pronounced with 'o', but think for a minute: if one would never have seen nor heard that word ever before, would they not pronounce it something like... blag? [[Special:Contributions/108.162.231.67|108.162.231.67]] 23:42, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
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− | No. Examples to disprove: flog, clog, nog, bog, tog, cog, fog, etc. No reason why they would not pronounce blog in the same manner.[[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.191|108.162.237.191]] 15:27, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
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− | For what it's worth, an Emad is mentioned [http://blog.xkcd.com/2013/07/29/1190-time/ here] [[Special:Contributions/108.162.215.178|108.162.215.178]] 01:39, 16 May 2015 (UTC)
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− | Unforgotten Officer Crabtree's accent (and all that bad “French” of the underground British) in BBC's 'Allo 'Allo series. “Good moaning, I have a massage for you!” etc. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.110.16|172.68.110.16]] 21:58, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
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− | Can you get me some malk?
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− | Before I saw this comic, I thought Randall's "blag" was a portmanteau of "blog" and "brag". [[User:Danish|Danish]] ([[User talk:Danish|talk]]) 16:42, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
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− | OK, is "slogat" in the article a deliberate attempt to misprononce a word? Because, personally, I'd have mangled "slogan" as something like "shlogan". [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 13:06, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
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− | :Note: yes, "misprononce" was on purpose. [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 13:06, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
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