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WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
Tova:
Yes! I have a couple of friends who misspell my name consistently on Facebook. I have a short name as well. I'm more bemused than annoyed, to be honest. It's actually more common from friends, who I guess "know" my name and thus don't read it, than strangers, who probably read my name carefully when responding.
Stoutfellow:
One of the professional organizations I belong to - and have belonged to for about thirty years - sometimes sends me e-mail about this or that. My name appears, correctly spelled, in the "To:" field. In the body of the message... well, they usually spell it right.
Perfectly Reasonable:
So should diacritics go into the melting pot? Your name is tied up with your family history.
Losing that is a sad thing. My grandfather's name (mine now) was probably mangled at Ellis Island.
My father's eldest brother was insistent that the family be 100% American. So that side of my family history never passed down to me.
On the other hand, my mother's mother was keen on genealogy. Thanks to her, I know that her people helped to found Rhode Island (and Providence Plantations). And I can claim ancestors who were on both sides of the American Revolution.
Sullivan:
So that's what I've been doing wrong! I don't have a closet to cry in!
BenRG:
New Comic!
I think that the point Jeph has been trying to make in this week's strips is the degree to which Faye's own feelings of uncertainty may have been holding her back on a lot of things; her worries about starting a business being only the most immediate. I'm also glad that he spent time to show us that Faye and Dora have regained their ease with each other.
Meahwhile... I really think that Tai is taking her new keep fit regime a bit too seriously. Bubbles look of polite surprise and incomprehension in panel 4 is a real laugh-out-loud moment. She thinks that she should be upset or offended but the whole situation is far too surreal for her to feel that emotion!
Also, we see Dora returning to her accustomed role as 'token sane one' but, unusually, she's having to do this with Tai!
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