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WCDT Strips 3636 to 3640 (18th to 22nd December 2017)

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Gyrre:

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--- Quote from: Bad Superman on 20 Dec 2017, 04:01 ---We still have two more comics this week to find out…

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And since Jeph tends to do fillers in the week between Christmas and New Year, I expect this to be fully resolved by then. One of those strips will be Hanners talking to Tilly. One may be Beatrice trying to understand Hanners.

--- Quote from: dutchrvl on 20 Dec 2017, 04:42 ---How was a shove necessary here? I get that she's angry and wants to sever ties with her mom, but all that could've easily been handled verbally.
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It's OOC yes, but that's basically what was necessary for Bea to actually shut up. A simple verbal notice would have left her with an opening to come back that the shove prevents.

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Damnit, Ben, you beat me to the point

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The shove gives an added bit of emphasis to everything Hanners said. Where Hanners hugged her father as a sign of gratitude and affection during the Station arc, here Hanners is using physical contact (something she has massive hang-ups about) to show just how much disdain she has for her mother at that moment.

OldGoat:

--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 21 Dec 2017, 17:02 ---So it's not as simple as "Use thou when you would use I/she/he, thee when you would use me/her/him, thy when you would use my/her/his, and thine for mine/hers/his"?

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But we (all English speakers, not just non-binary folk or the denzians of this forum) are struggling with third (spoken of) person pronouns and thee/thou/thine is second (spoken to) person.  Using "them" just shifts the awkward bit from number to person.  (I can still hear Sister Mary Knucklewhacker making us chant, "Person, Number, Gender, Case.)

No one faction gets to declare changes to languages, especially English - the larger community will have to arrive at consensus. 

JimC:

--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 21 Dec 2017, 06:57 ---Tilly is clearly his flavour of the month, but the whole build up about the *cutie* has just drastically failed, with a major majority disagreeing on his opinion,

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A majority of the noisy posters here, which must be a tiny minority of his entire readership. I've also seen comments which suggest that the character has not been nearly so negatively received elsewhere. Probably a mistake to put too much emphasis on our ramblings. Remember the poll on Tilly didn't come down nearly as negative as the postings seemed to.

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: JimC on 22 Dec 2017, 00:15 --- I've also seen comments which suggest that the character has not been nearly so negatively received elsewhere.
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OTOH an acquaintance of mine who reads QC but not this forum has asked me whether Tilly is being received as negatively here as he's seen in other places (unspecified).

Reaver:
I like Tilly, they are really cute, and are trying really hard (and are overeager, and tries too hard, but when they did wrong they apologized and I don't see what the hate is for, Faye is way worse....

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