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WCDT Strips 3246-3250 (20-24th June 2016)
KOK:
--- Quote from: Nepiophage on 22 Jun 2016, 09:41 ---
Quote from OED:
OE. wiš = OFris. with, OS. wiš, ON. viš (Sw. vid, Da. ved): app. a shortening (peculiar to the Anglo-Frisian and Scandinavian areas) of the Com. Teut. *wider- (see s.v. wither a. and adv. and wither-1), perh. taking place orig. in compounds (cf. with- and the parallelism of OE. wižcéosan and wižercéosan to reject, wižstandan and wižerstandan to withstand, etc.).
Maybe someone understands that . . .
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Interesting. "Ved" in Danish means "by". Both close to, as in "by the house" or "by the city", and abstractly as in "by caution and constancy". But now we are getting very far from the topic of this forum.
Morituri:
It's interesting (to me anyway) that wall-eyes have become artist shorthand for "crazy". Whenever you see a wall-eyed person in a comic, he (or she) is crazy. It's a trope.
That particular affliction has affected NONE of the many crazy people I've known. Uh, long story. Won't go into it here. But I've known a LOT of crazy people.
KOK:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 21 Jun 2016, 09:41 ---
I'm pretty sure that for Hannelore it is just a matter of being nice to people, something which she always tries to do. That said, it would be heart-warming in some way if she were to express a sense of kinship toward Elicott-Chatham AIs as being sort of distaff siblings.
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They would be sword-side siblings.
DSL:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 22 Jun 2016, 11:58 ---It's interesting (to me anyway) that wall-eyes have become artist shorthand for "crazy". Whenever you see a wall-eyed person in a comic, he (or she) is crazy. It's a trope.
That particular affliction has affected NONE of the many crazy people I've known. Uh, long story. Won't go into it here. But I've known a LOT of crazy people.
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I think of it more as the still -picture version of the spinning googly eyes of animated cartoons.
Thrillho:
Please tell me that shirt will eventually be for sale.
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