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WCDT: 2651-2655 (March 3-7, 2014) Weekly Comics Discussion Thread

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Akima:

--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 03 Mar 2014, 23:33 ---You're probably less likely to use regional slang on the internet than you are when talking with local friends.
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I try to avoid using too many Australianisms. My spelling would preclude "sounding" like anyone from the USA on the internet, of course.


--- Quote from: Storel on 04 Mar 2014, 01:19 ---For White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and The Sea Wolf, I'd say.
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It is probably as well for his reputation that hardly anybody reads Jack London's "The Unparalleled Invasion", though there may be some who harbour similar views who might enjoy it today. London's racism tars him pretty irredeemably as far as I am concerned. Yes, Jack, I am judging you!

Claire's shirt is a very good colour for her.

Detachable Felix:
Akima, when you say "Australianisms", are you referring to those nasal Eastern-State Australianisms? Or what people think we sound like - "shrimp on the barbie"et al ?

(Tbh, I've never really noticed anything spoken here in SA that constitutes an "Australianism")

J:
everything i know about australia, i learned from mad max, 90's jackie chan movies, and that one episode of the simpsons.

Detachable Felix:

--- Quote from: J on 05 Mar 2014, 02:21 ---everything i know about australia, i learned from mad max, 90's jackie chan movies, and that one episode of the simpsons.

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Yes, and stereotype dictates that this is the point where I'm supposed to say "you call this a knife? *this* is a knife", and then proceed to pull out a spoon.

J:
yes, but be warned for i have indeed played knifey-spoony before.

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