I am correct in assuming today’s xkcd technically doesn’t actually have anything to do with aphasia?
I’m currently dating a speech pathologist, so I feel like this is something I should know.
The joke works with or without the reference to aphasia, but the title is suggesting an aphasia-like problem with the character’s typing. The mistake he makes resembles paraphasia. I’m not an expert on communication disorders and I don’t know if there are any recognized disorders that would affect writing in this way but not speech. Of course, in the comic he obviously doesn’t really have a disorder at all, he’s just distracted.
I read the Wikipedia page on paraphasia after I read the comic, but I didn’t think it really applied. I think the text in the first panel about how he types what he’s saying might have tripped me up. I must have focused on how the substitution of his speech for his writing is what makes the joke, rather than simply the substitution of two unrelated words (remote paraphasia according to Wikipedia).
I still got the joke regardless, but I think I’m trying to take the reference too literally.
By the way, what’s “SMBC” (evidently some web site that likes pictures of animal streetwalkers)?
Hover over the red button beneath the comic for the “votey comic” (similar to xkcd’s alt text).
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, another comic that includes mouseover bonus material (in this case, an extra panel that pops up when you mouse over a button below the main comic).
Frequently (and currently) NSFW, so, a broken link: smbc-comics.com Check out the ‘votey’ (the bonus panel) on this’n.
Huh? The words “virgin” and “sex” are not NSFW.
I don’t know where you work, but two naked people in bed (even if they’re covered) is NSFW.
“Naked but covered” does not mean “naked”, where ever you work. If that were the case, the term “naked” is absolutely meaningless.
Wow, I must be missing some connection here… the mouseover extra on the smbc comic is the extra material mentioned in the xkcd comic! AND! It has nothing to to with the smbc comic. 
The author of SMBC put a picture of a giraffe hooker in the votey because it was mentioned in yesterday’s XKCD.
Yeah, if you scroll down you see that he welcomes all the visitors from xkcd. If you go back to previous comics, and check out the votey’s, it’ll make more sense.
An aphasia is simply a language disorder. The strip is just referencing that in the way he got his conversation lines crossed.
It doesn’t really apply, but it’s intended to be a joke, sort of like saying if you’re so out of shape that you can’t run more than a hundred feet or so you have Couch Potato Syndrome. Plus, while Randall is a pretty smart academic, I don’t think his focus is linguistics, so it’s not inconceivable that he’s not using the word in a spot-on technically correct sense.
In case no one has looked…SMBC is friggen hilarious. Clicking on the random tag is a great way to waste time laughing…a lot.
SMBC is one of my regular reads, so I was amused to see xkcd (another regular read) reference it.
But, I’m almost ashamed to admit, I never knew the button on SMBC gave you another panel. (I knew about xkcd’s alt-text.) Now I have to go though all of SMBC again and read the button comics.
And yes, SMBC is hysterical.
I second this…I also never knew it did anything. So don’t feel bad tan you’re in (good?) company