Annotated 10-6
(If you haven’t “gotten” the name of the temple yet, say it five times fast. It rhymes with “airy.”)
Around the time we did this scene, Phil was going through a breakup and I was realizing the woman I was pursuing was never going to be ready for a commitment beyond dance classes. This didn’t make us any more cynical about Byr’Nj… if anything, it was nice to escape by thinking about a couple who actually had a shot at working, even given Byron’s enormous problems.
I’m not saying Best cares that much about pulling Byron a couple of feet out of his sinkhole of depression, but you have to admit that Byron’s current frame of mind responds a bit more to the person who’s not telling him he’s a good soul. Even so, Syr’Nj’s encouraging words will have a longer-term impact.
Eylu S’nari? Really? Didn’t notice it before, but you guys couldn’t keep yourselves from punning with the elven language.
I don’t get it, halp? I have a tough time figuring how to read many of these puns, partially since English isn’t my first language.
You just have to sound it out phonetically.
Eylu. Ey-luu
S’nari
Ey Loose snarey
Illus—
The problem is that most non-English languages will sound that “ey” bit as two vowels (ie. the way they sound in “hey”.
Funny. I got “hallucinary”, which is wrong and not a word, but still conveyed the intended meaning.
I got “I loose and airy,” which is even MORE wrong.
(Illusionary)
Yeah, I don’t think I would’ve gotten that. And I’m a native English speaker. I can see Eylu being pronounced “AY-lu” or “EYE-lu” but not “IH-lu”. Plus, when you said it rhymed with “airy”, that gave me the wrong idea about where the stress was. So all I could come up with was “EYE-loo-SNAIR-ee”.
Have you ever played that game called Mad Gab? It’s HARD.
Same here. Sounding out “Eylu” phonetically would only lead me to a first syllable of “ey,” not “il,” and I’ve never heard anyone say “illusionary” with the starting I in a separate syllable from the following L, as “Ey-lusionary.”
Huh. I got “I’ll you snare-y”. I never would have thought to pronounce “eyl” as “Ill”.
Obligatory:
“An illusion?! What are you hiding?!”
Somenthing’s not quite right…
Panel 4 is my favorite picture of Best in the whole strip.
No birds were harmed in the making of this strip.
There’s a reason they used that panel for the cast page
G’d dammit
I don’t think Harky plans on letting human adventurers have three squares a day either, and you already rejected the nice warm bed he tried to put you in permanently, Byron.