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This is the sixth comic in the [[My Hobby]] series. [[Cueball]] is deliberately mispronouncing words while talking. It's just his hobby. Hobbies in the ''My Hobby'' series are generally annoying or weird, but with an element of cleverness. Here, Cueball persists in mispronouncing his words despite the second character's attempt to correct him.
 
This is the sixth comic in the [[My Hobby]] series. [[Cueball]] is deliberately mispronouncing words while talking. It's just his hobby. Hobbies in the ''My Hobby'' series are generally annoying or weird, but with an element of cleverness. Here, Cueball persists in mispronouncing his words despite the second character's attempt to correct him.
  
In the title text, [[Randall]] explains that he got the idea for this comic from one of his friends.
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In the title text, [[Randall]] explains that he got the idea for this comic from one of his friends, although it could just be his friend's accent.
  
 
Interestingly, when Randall started the xkcd blog in October 2006, 6 weeks after the publication of this comic, he named it "[[Blag]]," and he has used that name in several other comics, such as [[181: Interblag]] and [[239: Blagofaire]].
 
Interestingly, when Randall started the xkcd blog in October 2006, 6 weeks after the publication of this comic, he named it "[[Blag]]," and he has used that name in several other comics, such as [[181: Interblag]] and [[239: Blagofaire]].

Revision as of 10:31, 18 March 2021

Mispronouncing
My pal Emad does this all the time. 'Hey man, which way to the airpart?'
Title text: My pal Emad does this all the time. 'Hey man, which way to the airpart?'

Explanation

This is the sixth comic in the My Hobby series. Cueball is deliberately mispronouncing words while talking. It's just his hobby. Hobbies in the My Hobby series are generally annoying or weird, but with an element of cleverness. Here, Cueball persists in mispronouncing his words despite the second character's attempt to correct him.

In the title text, Randall explains that he got the idea for this comic from one of his friends, although it could just be his friend's accent.

Interestingly, when Randall started the xkcd blog in October 2006, 6 weeks after the publication of this comic, he named it "Blag," and he has used that name in several other comics, such as 181: Interblag and 239: Blagofaire.

Transcript

[Caption at top of panel:]
My hobby:
Mispronouncing words
[Cueball and a friend are talking:]
Cueball: Yeah, did you see what he said on his wobsite?
Friend: ...his what?
Cueball: Wobsite.
Friend: ... I think you mean "website."
Cueball: Why don't you write about it in your blag?

Trivia

Today if you visit https://www.blag.xkcd.com, you get redirected to blog.xkcd.com, but the title is still "xkcd - The blag of the webcomic".


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Discussion

The "airpart" could be referencing a Saint Louis accent, rather than intentional mispronunciation. 130.160.145.185 19:48, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that Emad is supposed to refer to Ahmed, and is some sort of joke about Muslim terrorists.GallantChaos (talk) 18:08, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

Yes, and it's written Emad because he's deliberately mispronouncing it. 173.245.52.203 02:23, 30 October 2013 (UTC)

No, Emad is the online name of one of Randall's friends, look it up at http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Emad_%28Explanation%29 173.245.55.73 05:31, 19 April 2014 (UTC)

Man goes into a shop. "Half a pound of kiddleyes, please" "Don't you mean 'kidneys" "That's what I said, diddleye" 141.101.99.217 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

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? 108.162.231.67 23:42, 15 December 2014 (UTC)

No. Examples to disprove: flog, clog, nog, bog, tog, cog, fog, etc. No reason why they would not pronounce blog in the same manner.108.162.237.191 15:27, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

For what it's worth, an Emad is mentioned here 108.162.215.178 01:39, 16 May 2015 (UTC)

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. 172.68.110.16 21:58, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

Can you get me some malk?

Before I saw this comic, I thought Randall's "blag" was a portmanteau of "blog" and "brag". Danish (talk) 16:42, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

OK, is "slogat" in the article a deliberate attempt to misprononce a word? Because, personally, I'd have mangled "slogan" as something like "shlogan". Nitpicking (talk) 13:06, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

Note: yes, "misprononce" was on purpose. Nitpicking (talk) 13:06, 15 October 2023 (UTC)