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WCDT: 2622-2626 (Jan 20 - 24 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread
Loki:
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--- Quote from: Schmorgluck on 23 Jan 2014, 22:05 ---Yeah, I don't rule it out. I can see just about anything happen but romance.
I can't imagine either saying "I love you" to the other. But I can imagine either of them finding the other cool and maybe cute.
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Considering one is almost a Half-Type Sasquatch.....
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Oh godfuckingdamn it, Cesario. What is it with you and body hair shaming? You are usually better than that, man.
Is it cold in here?:
Marten has a body hair hangup.
KOK:
--- Quote from: Storel on 24 Jan 2014, 00:58 ---
--- Quote from: KOK on 23 Jan 2014, 23:40 ---The English j is not part of the Danish sound system, and gets approximated by dj in loanwords. Or at least is does by me.
I was puzzled by the scene in V for Vendetta when V corrects Evey: it is jukebox, not dukebox. They sound exactly the same to me. Note that this takes place in Britain, where the u of duke is pronounces ju, (as in uniform), not in America where it is pronounced u.
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Ah, interesting. I've read before that people who grow up speaking a language or dialect that doesn't have certain sounds (phonemes) in it often can't even hear the phoneme when it's pronounced carefully (unless they're exposed to other language that do have that phoneme while they're still young), and this seems to be a case of that. (As one example, even native English-speakers who grow up in a region where "nuclear" is pronounced "nucular" often can't actually hear the difference.)
Even pronouncing the u in duke the British way, the difference betweeen jukebox and dukebox is quite distinct to a native English speaker. An initial j is pronounced as a "hard" j, with a sound somewhere in between "zh" (as in French "Jacques") and "ch" (as in English "church", not the Scottish/German/Hebrew "ch").
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Those sounds like sjak and tjørts to me, respectively. Danish does not have voiced s either, and that it is a difference I have great difficulty catching when initial. When final, e.g. "has" or "is", z sounds like the th of there followed by an s to me, and that is how I approximate it.
"The nations of the world are like the letters of the aphabeth, save that there is no z, no useless letter." Baggesen in Labyrinten.
Loki:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 24 Jan 2014, 01:17 ---Marten has a body hair hangup.
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I wouldn't read that as a sign for general hangups with body hair. Pubic hair specifically has certain, uh, practical implications.
Anyway, I still feel the manner body hair is referred to here is unnecessarily unnice.
Lubricus:
--- Quote from: Loki on 24 Jan 2014, 01:32 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 24 Jan 2014, 01:17 ---Marten has a body hair hangup.
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I wouldn't read that as a sign for general hangups with body hair. Pubic hair specifically has certain, uh, practical implications.
Anyway, I still feel the manner body hair is referred to here is unnecessarily unnice.
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+1 to this.
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