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WCDT Strips 3446 to 3450 (27th to 31st March 2017)
Morituri:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 28 Mar 2017, 14:25 ---
A friend of mine is a social worker in North Carolina. She once told me the story of a young teenage mother she was counseling, and of her efforts to talk her client out of naming her son "Shi'thead". Pronounced "shi-THEED", according to the mother. The girl was totally unable to see what her son's name looked like without the apostrophe and would not listen to reason.
I wonder whatever became of young Shi'thead. He'd be about sixteen now.
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It's true though, that in large chunks of the mideast, Shithead (with the pronunciation as you've given it) is in fact still an unremarkable name. It was originally Indian, but has steadily declined in popularity since the Raj - in proportion to the length of time they've been in close contact with English speaking people.
We shouldn't laugh too hard. Remember when Bob Dole was running for president? In Saudi Arabia, 'Dole' - the only way to write it that evokes that particular pronunciation anyway - is the word for 'penis.' The people who had to, on one hand, do translations of the news and on the other, pass censorship restrictions, were tied up in knots about it.
Perfectly Reasonable:
Clinton's attempt to say her name is 'Brooon'. Which tells me that here is indeed an umlaut involved. Like a French 'u'.
So Brün is Brün. And Renée is Renée.
And anyone who feels otherwise can go sit on a cake.
Tova:
Like Jeph, you mean.
Perfectly Reasonable:
I believe that a proper respect for diacritics is part of what makes America great.
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I wish to apologize to any cake-sitters I may have offended. That was crude of me. The mention in the current comic is not an excuse.
Kugai:
I do believe that that is quite the smirk that Bubbles has there.
And getting business advice from Dora - she's gonna enjoy that.
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