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WCDT Strips 3326-3330 (10th to 14th October 2016)
Kugai:
Northampton - Ya gotta love the town for its hijinks ;D
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 11 Oct 2016, 12:45 ---The letters L and R as they are in English, do not exist in Japanese. But a Japanese R is pronounced in the same way as the English L.
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The consonant concerned can sound like either L or R, in between, or sometimes even pretty much like a D.
I can hear (when they occur closely) that a D sound and the L/R sound which is like a D are actually different; but I can't isolate what is the same in the L/R/D sounds which is presumably what the native-speaking Japanese ear is actually attuned to, even though I know how they are produced physically.
Perfectly Reasonable:
That beast's feet -- is it walking, trotting, cantering? What? Maybe pacing? (the camel is a natural pacer, which is why the Ship of the Desert can make you seasick.)
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Google is my friend: "Reindeer have a relatively high-stepping gait combined with a trot, so their gait is a combination of that of a horse with a camel."
Method of Madness:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 11 Oct 2016, 08:34 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 11 Oct 2016, 06:58 ---I'm pretty sure that's just all she's capable of saying. A permanent "omelette du fromage" state, if you will.
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Nope, you're forgetting the time when Emily "caught" her.
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I had! Thank you.
Clubman8:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 10 Oct 2016, 18:56 ---Next we'll find Marten missing an eye, his left arm replaced with a prosthetic and a chunk of metal lodged in his forehead.
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Dammit, I wanted to make the Metal Gear joke!
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