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WCDT Strips 3641 to 3645 (25th - 30th December 2017)
Near Lurker:
I don't think Pintsize would have said "excuse me" or "please."
cesium133:
Until you pointed it out, I had assumed Faye wanted to inspect PenPen's armor for design ideas.
Gyrre:
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--- Quote from: BenRG on 25 Dec 2017, 07:36 ---I find myself wondering exactly what Jeph is saying with this strip. My best guess is that you really, really need to know the lingo to order the food. After all, otherwise there is no guarantee that you even know what you're ordering!
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Venti is Starbuckian for "20 fl oz Cup size". Since Café la Morte is (presumably) located in France, the resident Baristas don't understand Starbuckian, but can readily count to twenty in another romance-language (I've heard this quite often from French or Italian acquantances), so Francohanners assumes that Venti Coffee is supposed to mean 20 Espressos rather than one 592 ml cup of coffee.
A large part of the world uses English as lingua franca, however, this does not mean we all grew up in Flyspeck, AZ - and that's before accounting for English being the Cleptomanic amongst languages. Similarly, Germans will think think you're suffering an anxiety-attack if you tell them you're "angsting" (if they can process your mispronouncing "Angst", that is - the English "a" sounds rather like the German "ä" than the "a"), and might assume that your " Gestalt-experience" means that you encountered a sinister figure somewhere.
And most German barkeeps will be completely at a loss as to how they're supposed to get the beer you just ordered inside a rock, or why anybody would want something like that in the first place.
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Also, when in Germany, say "my temperature is warm", not "I'm hot".
BenRG:
Today's Strip Up!
There are some jobs that are unique to humanform synthetics: Literally something that they and only they can do. In Melon's case that appears to be playing a dying person in a scorpion pit in a cheap 'Chamber of Horrors'-style tourist attraction somewhere. Melon will never get it but the meatsacks seem to find it interesting.
Arthur, meanwhile, is a freelance waste incinerator guy; he uses a domestic cooker to start the blaze. So far he hasn't worked out why the EPA guys keep on having nervous breakdowns when they meet him.
Eh, it's a living.
TheEvilDog:
Well....that’s disturbing.
And then there’s the comic.
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