Speech balloon (nonfiction)
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Hieroglyph for "grain" (see Pefsu problem), which resembles a speech balloon.
Speech balloons (also speech bubbles, dialogue balloons or word balloons) are a graphic convention used most commonly in comics, comic books, and cartoons to allow words (and much less often, pictures) to be understood as representing the speech or thoughts of a given character in the comic.
There is often a formal distinction between the balloon that indicates thoughts and the one that indicates words spoken aloud.
The balloon that conveys subjective thoughts is often referred to as a thought bubble.
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Artist-Engineer Don Tasmian harvesting ripe speech balloons from freshly enumerated Diagramaceous soil.
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External links:
- Speech balloon @ Wikipedia