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WCDT: 2455-2459 (27-31 May, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: nestingkiwi on 30 May 2013, 15:25 ---Between asking Claire for makeouts and going to fetch his toys I wonder if Pintsize has a thing for Claire.
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Welcome, new person!
It was classier than his first meeting with Tai.
KOK:
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--- Quote from: KOK on 30 May 2013, 13:05 ---The name of the letter E is a sound I don't know if exist in English. It is the sound of German e in e.g. Nebel, or French é in e.g. été.
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There are 2 "e"s in Nebel, so I'm not sure if you mean the first or the second, but both sounds exist in English. The first like the "ei" in neighbor, while the second is more like the "u" in pull (which makes sense, weil in Althochdeutsch es Nebul buchstabiert war), although now I think that isn't a perfect match. Of course, we could solve all of these problems if we used the IPA.
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I mean the first. And it is not at all like the ei in neighbor. It is a single vowel, not a diphton. And neither of the parts of the diphton is an E sound.
If I should write those two words in the Danish spelling system, I would write nebel and næjbor. The e/æ distinction carries meaning in Danish. E.g.
hele (whole) vs. hæle (heal, the body part) or seler (suspenders, safety belts) vs. sæler (seals, the animal).
In one of Pohl's Gateway novels, he introduces a character named Payter. Laster he reveals that his name is Peter, which he pronounces in German. So it seems that to Pohl the German long e (a single E sound) sounds like the English ay (an Æ sound glideng to I). I never would have guessed. IPA uses the Esso logo e for what is to a Dane the Æ sound.
westrim:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 30 May 2013, 12:59 ---It's all your fault, you know.
I went to DQ and got a Root Beer Float.
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Mission accomplished!
Except not really, because I can't stand root beer floats. Its constituent parts, yes. I can even have a glass of root beer while eating ice cream. But put the ice cream IN the root beer, and my stomach does flip flops and my nose and taste buds both say "ew." It likely has to do with a bad July 4th experience that, in brief, involved too much food and the rapid evacuation thereof. A root beer float was dessert that day.
Honestly, of all the things I said I didn't expect root beer to be the thing that touched off a wave of comments.
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 30 May 2013, 14:29 --- and a grossly undereducated majority of speakers.
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Did any (living at the time) language until recently have an educated majority of speakers, gross or otherwise?
Loki:
...I was going to suggest Ancient Greek, but then remembered that they were vastly outnumbered by their slaves.
Skaltura:
Pintsize face in panel 4 slays me.
Well played Jacques, well played.
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