Editing Talk:1087: Cirith Ungol

Jump to: navigation, search
Ambox notice.png Please sign your posts with ~~~~

Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.

The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.
Latest revision Your text
Line 13: Line 13:
  
 
The ambiguity is if the "by" in "by an intelligent spider..." refers to "is saved" or "being slaughtered" - is he being saved by said spider, or is someone saving him from being slaughtered by said spider? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.85|173.245.55.85]] 20:24, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 
The ambiguity is if the "by" in "by an intelligent spider..." refers to "is saved" or "being slaughtered" - is he being saved by said spider, or is someone saving him from being slaughtered by said spider? [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.85|173.245.55.85]] 20:24, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 
Shouldn't it have been some pigs?
 
Was it really some pig or just some pig?
 
The answer is in the proof[[User:Weatherlawyer| I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait]] ([[User talk:Weatherlawyer|talk]]) 15:32, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 
 
: I don't fully understand what you are asking in your comment, but 'Some Pig' is the correct phrase from the book. I'm not sure whether the phrase 'Some Pig' might confuse people who don't speak english natively. --[[User:Pudder|Pudder]] ([[User talk:Pudder|talk]]) 16:28, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
 
 
:If I recall the book, the meaning of "Some pig" is "a remarkable pig" (see [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/some#Determiner sense 6] in
 
wiktionary). This message persuades the farmer not to slaughter Wilbur as a runt.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.217|141.101.98.217]] 11:49, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
 
 
:Is that the spider psychology device at the endge of the light? Also, I still don't get the joke.[[Special:Contributions/162.158.93.225|162.158.93.225]] 07:05, 9 March 2020 (UTC)
 

Please note that all contributions to explain xkcd may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see explain xkcd:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!

To protect the wiki against automated edit spam, we kindly ask you to solve the following CAPTCHA:

Cancel | Editing help (opens in new window)