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WCDT: 2425-2429 (15-19 April, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
westrim:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 17 Apr 2013, 06:59 ---Yes... but on the other hand, English *is* hard enough. We have things like....
AIR- 100 square meters (1/100th of a hectare) [although may also be pronounced AHR]
Ares AIRS- 100 square meter units [plural]
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Your English may have that, but not my English. Which is yet another hardship.
--- Quote from: TheBiscuit on 16 Apr 2013, 20:50 ---I really can't stand Clinton. These attempts to give him a more laudable side to his character aren't working on me at all. A day with no strip at all is better than a strip with Clinton in it for me. He's a nasty little creeper who just automatically thinks the worst of anyone who isn't his sister, and then on top of that he has the gall to criticize her when she's probably doing better in life than he is. His sole redeeming quality is that he thinks he's looking out for her best interests, but in the most obnoxious way possible.
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Pretty sure he didn't think the worst of Hannelore. Or Faye. Or anyone else he's met, at least not to their face.
Personally, I've liked him (as a character, not a person) since he first showed up, since he was at least partially a parody of creepy Hannelore superfans. Now he's outgrown that template, but still interesting enough to avoid the Allosaurus.
--- Quote from: Loki on 16 Apr 2013, 01:42 ---Everyone my age knows that the most suitable way to deal with any bully is challenge him to a game, then kill and/or mindrape him when he inevitably loses because you are the King of Games.
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But if the bully itself is death, then he becomes a member of your band, and helps as you go on to found a new ideology of peace and rocking out.
I suspect I am close to your age, but I have zealously avoided any and all card-based materials.
--- Quote from: Akima on 16 Apr 2013, 03:05 ---
--- Quote from: Indicible on 16 Apr 2013, 02:26 ---Coco Chanel would have been wrong.
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Coco Chanel was wrong about a lot of things...
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*reads*
*scrolls up*
*scrolls down*
Holy damn, she's just a ball of frowned upon historical positions.
Valdís:
--- Quote from: ZoeB on 17 Apr 2013, 06:59 ---Yes... but on the other hand, English *is* hard enough. We have things like....
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Every language with our system of writing works like this, though, and that's fine. They aren't precisely phonetic nor are they logographic, like Japanese Kana and the imported Kanji respectively, they're just representative. This has its own strengths, as pronunciation changes much more easily than the written word that way. Texts from even a few generations ago could become more or less indecipherable, rendering the purpose of that information transfer dysfunctional. Regional dialects of the same language would also be impossible to standardize. So we have somewhat arbitrary close-approximations, just giving a general idea of a way to say it.
Such as with Icelandic speakers more or less being able to read the Old Norse texts a millennium later.
It also doesn't mean I'm "messing with people" because they have pronoun issues.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Valdís on 17 Apr 2013, 07:13 ---Texts from even a few generations ago could become more or less indecipherable, rendering the purpose of that information transfer dysfunctional.
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I recall being taken round a museum in Kyoto, Japan, about 1980 by a group of people from the company I was visiting. At one point I asked about the meaning of a Japanese inscription labelled as being written in about 1870 - but the collective efforts of several intelligent adults were unable to make any sense of it.
Loki:
--- Quote from: Westrim on 17 Apr 2013, 07:00 ---
--- Quote from: Loki on 16 Apr 2013, 01:42 ---Everyone my age knows that the most suitable way to deal with any bully is challenge him to a game, then kill and/or mindrape him when he inevitably loses because you are the King of Games.
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But if the bully itself is death, then he becomes a member of your band, and helps as you go on to found a new ideology of peace and rocking out.
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I am afraid that reference went over my head.
Valdís:
@Paul: Yeah, that's a good example of how you can end up with phonetic spellings. Meanwhile the more static and descriptive writing of Kanji gives you sweet-frak-all idea on how to pronounce things at all.. to the point of the same word being written the same way in completely different languages. I think we have a pretty good middle-ground of the two and really can't understand why people take such issue with it.
I guess it's pretty much a case of Churchill-paraphrasing in my opinion. Worst one, except for the others that've been tried. :-P
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