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WCDT: 2460-2464 (3-7 June, 2013) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread

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techkid:
Between yesterday's and today's strips I guess I can see a little from all three points of view:

Sam likes to hang around CoD because it gives her a little freedom to be the sort of kid she wants to be (admittedly, Faye is a pretty awesome aunt/big sister). Besides, swords or not, the place is safe for her to be.

Dora, despite objecting to mewling little poo-larvae like Sam (admittedly, she was referring to babies, but sometimes teens can be just as big a bunch of babies :roll: ), doesn't actually mind having Sam around. But the kid should be more honest about where she is, which probably annoys her more than the unexpected responsibility. As IICIH said, phone calls are cheap.

Faye also seems to be siding with Dora on this, and probably took a more responsible approach. Teenagers do rebel against authority figures (not all, or at least not all the time), and as anyone soon learns, being told "NO" without reason, explanation or even talking about it is pretty rude, and makes you ask yourself the question "why not?". By distracting Sam with something cool ("SWORDS!"), and then discussing the issue with her, would get Sam thinking about things like honesty and openness.

Well, things haven't progressed that far yet, but that's how I see it.

ThomasEll:
Sam says she has friends her own age, but it's entirely possible that she doesn't have many friends, or that she isn't particularly close to any of her friends.

Rimwolf:

--- Quote from: Akima on 07 Jun 2013, 03:25 ---"Why do you gotta"...  All those years learning your bizarre language, aspiring to speak it "like a native"... Wasted.  :-D

--- End quote ---

Not wasted, perhaps incomplete. Faye is using an informal register of American English which seems quite appropriate in conversation with a tween-ager in a back alley on a sensitive topic. That construction has been used in a couple song titles: "... Be So Mean", "... Be So Blind", and shows up several times in the lyrics of "Why You Wanna".

Or perhaps you are overly susceptible to prescriptivist poppycock. (You might find Language Log interesting in many respects, one of which is that it has a lot of posts in the last couple of years about the Chinese languages, and the problems of Chinese/English translation, like this one.)

TinPenguin:

--- Quote from: ThomasEll on 07 Jun 2013, 05:11 ---Sam says she has friends her own age, but it's entirely possible that she doesn't have many friends, or that she isn't particularly close to any of her friends.

--- End quote ---

It's quite likely she's the kind of kid who has plenty of friends at school, where there's a kind of forced social interaction, but doesn't see them so much at other times. And being an imaginative, adventurous kid, she probably doesn't mind. She definitely seems to prefer hanging out with adults, but adults who can operate on her level, like Faye or Padma (or, in a manner of speaking, Momo).

someone:
So the kid wants to hang out with Faye and didn't come over to see Dora. I guess Jacques has his limits. Dora was giving her a mom look. If she was to continue acting all tough and disciplinary with the kid, instructing her on responsibility, we would inevitably heard this retort:  Then why does my dad say your girlfriend has Narcissistic Personality Disorder, works when she wants to, gets stoned on the job, has group sex in her dorm, then chases after her employee's ex-girlfriend like a starving, horny vulture with some cheesy line that "I admire the woman you are..." What does my dad mean when he says "Sam, you will see in your life that people with issues are attracted to people with issues. It’s much safer to play with a girl that makes real swords than one that is emotionally like a grenade."

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