Tim Mills#XKCD is getting into some solid #linguistics! Not just that - #phonetics!
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/fluid_speech_2x.png
It's not just a one-off - there was the schwa passage a few weeks ago too:
WeirdAlex03@TimPhon Here are the original comic links:
(Fun tip: if you hover over the comic images on the original pages, you get an extra punchline)
Meowsivɛː@WeirdAlex03 Salutations to the standing in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to oneself gang!
But I'd just like to ask where they put any alt text that actually describes the comics themselves then, since they put punchlines where people would usually expect descriptions. I don't think I have much of a right to talk about alt text, being a sighted person who has only ever needed it in a couple of picture-loading shenanigans before. But it's important, right?
@FormerPlosive Always extra punchlines/comments, unfortunately. (Although in fairness, even though everyone calls it "alt text", it's actually the HTML `title=` field that's being set to show text on hover. The actual `alt=` field is read by screen readers but only ever visually shown if the image hasn't loaded (it's actually also filled in on xkcd, but only with the name of the comic, no other details)
With that said, the fan-run wiki Explain xkcd does write out full (and I mean FULL) transcripts of all the comics. I've seen those used for alt text here a few times. For example, https://www.explainxkcd.com/2942#Transcript