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WCDT Strips 3221 to 3225 (16 - 20 May 2016)
Eastrim:
Asking again: where is the cuckoo clock? There's no sign of it on her as she enters the room. Neither hand appears to be in a position to be holding it.
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 19 May 2016, 05:50 ---It took me this long to realize "Brun" is an anagram of "Burn". :psyduck:
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Feel the Brun!
--- Quote from: BenRG on 19 May 2016, 02:28 ---Yeah, sorry about that Eastrim. I was about two coffees short when I posted that.
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No worries.
Rincewind:
--- Quote from: cesium133 on 19 May 2016, 05:50 ---It took me this long to realize "Brun" is an anagram of "Burn". :psyduck:
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Maybe Brun is a Firestarter? :facepalm:
Random832:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 19 May 2016, 07:19 ---...unless you were using a deliberate hyperbole, in which case I withdraw my objection.
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It was some hyperbole, but I also was counting diphthongs that are not mere composition of two adjacent vowel phonemes spelled normally (French "oi" is a big offender there) towards the number of vowels, and I also count different ways of spelling the same sound ('a' as in father and 'o' as in hot, for instance) as distinct vowels, compared to languages that don't have them but instead only have five phonemes each always spelled with the same letter.
Really, the best counterexample to my claim is German, which is somewhere in the middle with a reasonably coherent rational spelling system (as five-vowel languages), but has nontrivial diphthongs ("eu" and "ei" sounding more like "o-i" and "a-i") and three extra base vowels.
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: Lubricus on 19 May 2016, 04:25 ---Was that... Really necessary, Thrillho? :?
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Is it really necessary to call another language strange?
I did it as a human not a mod.
Eastrim:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 19 May 2016, 09:57 ---
--- Quote from: Lubricus on 19 May 2016, 04:25 ---Was that... Really necessary, Thrillho? :?
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Is it really necessary to call another language strange?
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In context, it was a pun on American English and oddtails quote of Near Lurker about it.
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