Submitted 2 days ago by xkcdbot@lemmy.world [bot] to xkcd@lemmy.world
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/international_station.png
xkcd #3195: International Station
Title text:
Welcome to the International Space Station Exclamation Point!
Transcript:
Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: xkcd.com/3195/
This took me far longer than I’m willing to admit
I had to read the ‘explained’ 😭
To be fair, it doesn’t really make sense. If it said “transcription error” instead, I’m sure I would have gotten it a lot quicker 🙂.
The title text is factually wrong. The sign actually reads: “Welcome space to space the space International Space Station Exclamation Point!”
According to Wiktionary, Russian uses different words (as do a lot of languages for that matter) for the two concepts, so it's hard to imagine how this could have happened.
Yes, I know it's a joke. I think it would have been a cleverer joke if Russian was a language that used the same word for both, like English.
But then, if you do find a language that does this, the word order is generally different, and the word is generally conjugated into an adjective so it still can't be mistaken for a noun. (This is based on what happens with "European Space Agency" which would otherwise be a better candidate for the joke.)
Yeah, Russians refer to space (the thing up above) as “cosmos” (which also happens to be present in English), and spacebar as probel (i.e. a white/blank segment)
aramis87@fedia.io 2 days ago
Oooohhhh, now I get it!
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Thanks! It’s great to know what half of the bell-curve I’m on today
trolololol@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Maybe they should stick to science jokes and leave the English jokes to another cartoon
regedit@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I must be one of the few who have never found this comic funny, even when it’s a science joke.