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- achinda99, on 07/18/2008, -9/+349With literary criticism, can you ever actually be wrong?!
- feureau, on 07/18/2008, -13/+212By digging and discussing XKCDs… are we in some way… literary critics?
*Dun-dun-DUNNNNnnn* - OnlyGirlOnDigg, on 07/18/2008, -10/+195My hobby: making up fakes stories on the iPhone, which in turn makes geeks suffer for 6 months until they find out they're made up.
- Origin415, on 07/18/2008, -2/+106I think I like this version better:
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction
Simple English translations of very jargony pages are great. - mrblue182, on 07/18/2008, -5/+84http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction
The page in question. - VinnieDaMac, on 07/18/2008, -5/+80What's the difference between a lit major and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.
- inactive, on 07/18/2008, -1/+63Looks like you're on the right track figuring out the punchline in this comic! congratulations!
- OnlyGirlOnDigg, on 07/18/2008, -3/+60Also, to note, I wear a hat.
- PathDaemon, on 07/18/2008, -1/+56The word hymen comes from the Greek word for skin, membrane or the vaginal hymen.
In deconstruction it is used to refer to the interplay between the normally considered mutually exclusive terms of inside and outside. The hymen is the membrane of intersection where it becomes impossible to distinguish whether the membrane is on the inside or the outside. And in the absence of the complete hymen, the distinction between inside and outside disappears. Thus, in a way, the hymen defies formal logic and is neither outside nor inside, and after penetration, is both inside and outside.
WTF. - blademanx, on 07/18/2008, -9/+60I think the key with literary criticism is to make yourself sound like as much of an obtuse ***** as possible. That way, everyone who isn't enough of an ***** to be in on the joke will be too confused to argue.
- 007isbond1, on 07/18/2008, -2/+47hmm.. i find it strange that ive been an active wikipedia member for 4 years.. and i never realised there was a simple english version..
- bosssmiley, on 07/18/2008, -2/+46Oh. Eng Lit major? ;-)
- vacax, on 07/18/2008, -4/+48Actually, we did study Klingon relatively often in my Linguistics program. The people who made that language were total noobs; they tried to make a language that had rare linguistic properties but pretty much ignored all languages except for English. Most of the choices they made are quite common in world languages.
- eviephenomena, on 07/18/2008, -3/+40I do this with my husband and his friends when they watch football. I just start talking about the different teams, which players are good or bad, what direction the team is going in or what they need to do to improve. I have no idea what I'm talking about, but I seem to be right most of the time.
- DforSpiD, on 07/18/2008, -2/+38I'd consider that a hobby.
- awtripp, on 07/18/2008, -1/+36"it's can" "studing English" "soaked in this *****"
5 seconds is about right. - serif69, on 07/18/2008, -1/+34"That's great, honey, now can you go pick us up another 30 pack?" doesn't mean, "You're so on the money with your analysis!"
- aelias, on 07/18/2008, -1/+34You do realize that there's solid odds they just want you to be quiet so they can watch their game, no?
- iofthestorm, on 07/18/2008, -4/+35No, and that's why literary criticism is such ***** and at the same time completely awesome. My english teacher seemed to have somewhat the same opinion of literary critics, although there are ways to do it without being a complete douchebag, and actually getting somewhere close to the truth, too.
- sk11, on 07/18/2008, -2/+33A pizza will only feed a single American, I have seen it with my own eyes.
- tas08, on 07/18/2008, -3/+33Hey, it must be Friday!
The Dark Knight came out! (finally!) - cdigioia, on 07/18/2008, -3/+32Oooh...and a racist lit major!
- GumdoMike, on 07/18/2008, -2/+305 Seconds
- WallnutBoy, on 07/18/2008, -2/+29I am going to bury your next submission, just to further convey how much of a loser you are.
- Chebsi, on 07/18/2008, -0/+27Thank God! It's been two days!
- CyberSol, on 07/18/2008, -0/+26ooh, too slow.
- arjie, on 07/18/2008, -2/+27451 comics and a few hundred blog posts and they still haven't caught on.
- Sephr, on 07/18/2008, -5/+28Yes, when people disagree.
- inactive, on 07/18/2008, -3/+25try ipodtouchfans.com great place for trolling
- tjmb9, on 07/18/2008, -1/+19A big part of literary criticism is delivery...which is why you probably shouldn't say things like "my english teacher" if you want to impress the grad students...say professor instead.
- MtheoryX, on 07/18/2008, -1/+18I think I've seen that somewhere...oh, yeah, it was in the comic.
- insanecon, on 07/18/2008, -1/+1610 seconds.
- Acglaphotis, on 07/18/2008, -1/+15damnit, three minutes.
- doctorinfierno, on 07/18/2008, -27/+40I actually laughed!
- CH3CH2OH, on 07/18/2008, -4/+17I don't know. Have you tried logarithms?
- inactive, on 07/18/2008, -4/+17Your face sucks
- ElcyionCoire, on 07/18/2008, -0/+13You should have tried handing one back with his or her marks crossed out and "Proof???" written over 'em.
- 437gone, on 07/18/2008, -8/+20No fair. I'm a lit major. As if I needed another reason to second-guess myself :(
- IHaveIssues, on 07/18/2008, -3/+15Spam.
- Tanktunker, on 07/18/2008, -3/+15The Killer was Colonel Mustard in The Study with the Candlestick.
- serif69, on 07/18/2008, -0/+11We're not talking about soda here, junior.
- jimmick, on 07/18/2008, -1/+12Everyone crowd around, XKCD is back!
- GumdoMike, on 07/18/2008, -1/+12Is it hot in here or is it just my temporal somatic sensation in regards to the thermodynamic properties of the molecules within my environment?
- 437gone, on 07/18/2008, -1/+11I'm guessing you're a soc major. Or, judging by your name, possibly a gas station attendant.
- kimbomitt, on 07/18/2008, -3/+13So roughly, the more "pure" the field, the less time it takes for them to figure out you're faking.
- rohan1234, on 07/18/2008, -0/+9Noob? Marc Okrand has a PhD from UC Berkeley on the grammar of Mutsun, a dialect of Ohlone (a.k.a. Southern Costanoan), which is an extinct Utian language formerly spoken in the north central Californian coastal areas
- FredFredrickson, on 07/18/2008, -1/+10Well, yeah... if XKCD were in any way literary, and if your comments were in any way actual criticism, and not just "***** the RIAA."
- facelesscoward, on 07/18/2008, -0/+9450. http://xkcd.com/404/
- ostracize, on 07/18/2008, -0/+9That should be: "Yes, when your professor disagrees."
75%...you can kiss 75% of my ass! - pshuman, on 07/18/2008, -0/+9"All or part of this article may be confusing or unclear."
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction
Classic. -
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