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WCDT Strips 3356-3360 (21st to 25th November 2016)

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BenRG:
I think that the reason Tai is so good for Dora is that she's the first SO that Dora's had who has had the courage to continuously and consistently call her out when her personal issues make her behave in a bad way. She's even shown the willingness to walk out on her and maybe even dump her if she won't change. That's focussed Dora's mind on trying to change herself for the better before and maybe it will again.

Additionally, yes - IMHO, there is nothing sexy about someone smelling of cheap booze.

@oddtail,
Language is a living and dynamic thing and no definition is forever (sometimes it doesn't even last a generation). 'Pissed' as a synonym for 'angry' is used pretty much universally these days and it has for a while. I think that you can comfortably assume that it is a definition by 'common usage' these days.

anahata:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 20 Nov 2016, 23:37 ---'Pissed' as a synonym for 'angry' is used pretty much universally these days and it has for a while.

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(a) not in the UK, but(I can't speak for other non-American English users.
(b) in this specific (drinking) context, "Hanners got pissed" is comically ambiguous  - but if that was an intentional comedy pun on Jeph's part, it didn't work as such for me.

NyxDarkness:
Keep in mind that Jeph is American, so it is more likely that he would use the American meaning of words/phrases than the UK meaning, unless the dialogue included somebody of UK origin. And in the US (to my knowledge) we only ever use "pissed" as a verb, or with the context of being angry.

On a different note, I always like to see Tai and Dora together. The dynamic between them always seems to be exactly what each needs, whether it's being called on their crap, or it's being comforted. 

I also feel like the problem with Faye being drunk at work, and what caused her to be fired, was the fact that she was consistently drunk at work, all the time. While it was irresponsible of Dora to drink on duty, if it had only been once that Faye had done it, she probably wouldn't have been fired.
I, too, am excited to see where things are headed for Brun.

Akima:
Meh... "Pissed" meaning angry I regard as an Americanism, but English has many dialects, and a competent user should be able to cope with that. In Australia, as in the UK, "pissed" means drunk, or as a verb means "urinated", while "pissed off" means angry, but QC is set in the USA (and Jeph is American) so I'd expect the cast to speak American English.


--- Quote from: oddtail on 20 Nov 2016, 23:22 ---* Well, native speakers of the language. Not just anyone.
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Speaking as a non-native speaker, I take issue with this. The price native English-speakers pay for the convenience of the widespread use of their language all over the world, is that they don't own the language any more. The existence of long-established variant forms of English (American, Australian, British, Canadian, Jamaican etc.) already disproves the notion that all native-speakers agree on what is correct. Where English is used for communication between people who all speak it as a second language, another dialect invariably develops, influenced by habitual structures and ways of thinking derived from their native languages. I have encountered this with ESL speakers from India, in Singapore, and apparently it is happening in Europe too. I believe this happened with Latin too, so it might be the inevitable fate of imperial languages.

Hasn't Tai come a long way from the irresponsible stoner of her early appearances? I think she is good for Dora, but maybe Dora is good for her too.

Tova:
I could care less about this.

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