{"id":560,"date":"2026-01-06T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2026-09-27T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T18:43:14","slug":"memes-of-yore-ge-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"MEMES OF YORE: GE-SPEAK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an obscure one that I have only encountered in early Golden Age comics: the German or pseudo-German accent that includes a prominent use of the prefix &#8220;ge-&#8221; as a word modifier, in the same way that a bad French accent might append &#8220;la&#8221; or a bad Russian accent might add &#8220;-ski&#8221; to the end of words.<\/p>\n<p>How widespread was this? Did it exist outside of comics? No clue. How widespread was it&nbsp;<i>within<\/i>&nbsp;comics? That we can attempt to solve by gathering examples here. Perhaps some kind future cultural historian will be able to take the evidence thus presented and rediscover this lost stereotype.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjbgaQQof5bkVMiq3z81NmnBqcucYB2cZaMNIWx8KJkpgm_3Ox-J0slk2ZWwX1cCvnJTq8VzSJIcrwGI6KsDahsVoDB3uxKmo5T0weSh9O4-o2RwRySMgGgZCePlCf9EstR7z62wnsxDlHv2lQ517z1DLDfI2xAdOIs9uWvypQmy_mhwVqJCgUbvNbfw9gD\/w640-h492\/whiz%2023%201941%20a.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1065\" data-original-width=\"1384\" height=\"492\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjbgaQQof5bkVMiq3z81NmnBqcucYB2cZaMNIWx8KJkpgm_3Ox-J0slk2ZWwX1cCvnJTq8VzSJIcrwGI6KsDahsVoDB3uxKmo5T0weSh9O4-o2RwRySMgGgZCePlCf9EstR7z62wnsxDlHv2lQ517z1DLDfI2xAdOIs9uWvypQmy_mhwVqJCgUbvNbfw9gD\/w640-h492\/whiz%2023%201941%20a.jpg\" title=\"ge-charmed\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>(Whiz Comics 023, 1941)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an obscure one that I have only encountered in early Golden Age comics: the German or pseudo-German accent that includes a prominent use of the prefix &#8220;ge-&#8221; as a word modifier, in the same way that a bad French accent might append &#8220;la&#8221; or a bad Russian accent might add &#8220;-ski&#8221; to the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,175,703],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14","category-fawcett-comics","category-memes-of-yore-ge-speak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theskeletoncurse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}