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WCDT Strips 3226 to 3230 (25 - 27 May 2016)
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: Storel on 28 May 2016, 09:27 ---One last comment on German from Mark Twain, describing a character who tended to speak in very long sentences:
--- Quote from: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ---She had exactly the German way; whatever was in her mind to be delivered, whether a mere remark, or a sermon, or a cyclopedia, or the history of a war, she would get it into a single sentence or die. Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.
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Actually, with the really long sentences, there'll be more like five or ten verbs in his mouth, but Twain was a master of understated exaggeration. 8-)
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ISWYDT. ;)
Case:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 28 May 2016, 08:23 ---
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 27 May 2016, 14:00 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 26 May 2016, 23:15 ---Like others, I want to know how to enunciate an ellipsis!
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Not so hard if you can deal with umlauts. Protip: It's all in the eyebrows.
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Given that you get umlauted versions of vowels by moving your tongue forward I posit that you get the ellipsis by sticking your tongue out.
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:-P :-P :-P
rob49152:
I am new here, but I've read CQ for a long long time now. Hi everyone!!
This arc with Clinton and Brun made me check the forums and want to chime in. My niece is on the Asperger spectrum. She totally reminds me of Brun (minus those wicked eyebrows!!). Her temperament, reactions, sarcasm, lack of communication when over stimulated by events and her surroundings are pretty much 100% spot on. In fact about the 4th comic she was in I started seeing it. There are other little things like her lack of making eye contact. Focusing on one thing (like the clock) to help distract from whats going on. Not understanding something like insurance because she's never had anyone mention it before.
There are other things that might give it away like not liking the texture of something when touching it, or not liking personal contact (hugging and closeness), saying some phrase over and over when agitated to the extreme, then finally melt downs when plans change.
If she does have Aspergers I have to hand it to Jeph. I've always liked his characters because they seem like real people. And this arc is making me extremely over protective of Brun because I can see my niece so clearly in her character (minus the wicked eyebrows!!)
Did I mention the eyebrows?
P.S. WHAT HAPPENED TO BARRY?!?!?!
Is it cold in here?:
Welcome, new person!
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