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WCDT: 2835-2839 (17 - 21 November 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Lubricus:
That is a very nice depiction, but one shouldn't be fooled by the closeness of related languages - it could be argued, for instance, that Faroese is closer to Norwegian than to Danish, but in the image it is closer to Danish. Anyway, it illustrates well enough the different roots of languages in Scandinavia - the North Germanic (or Nordic) languages are close geographically to Finnish, Sami and Estonian, but the two groups belong to vastly different families.
Apologies to anyone lacking my disturbing linguistic fetish... :wink:
Natswash:
It is not disturbing at all, I have a thing for Viking-era history (and basically every time period before that). So the way the languages develop are actually moderately interesting to me.
I've always wanted to make a Metal Genre to Metal Ore comparison. You know like Symphonic Metal would be Silver, Death Metal might be steel, Classic Metal is iron etc.
Fig:
Claire's pun seemed to be a bit flat. Nevertheless, Marten's reply was a remarkable display of a sharp wit.
Stoutfellow:
Nah, they were both being natural.
Fig:
They did seem to be in harmony and the scale of their puns will bring the world to its knees.
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