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WCDT Strips 3766 - 3770 (18th-22nd June 2018)
Neko_Ali:
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--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 19 Jun 2018, 22:52 ---If someone ships Yelling Bird and Tortura, would that be a cloaca and dagger story?
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Wow, that's some old Steam Powered Giraffe there.... *raises my kazookaphone to you*
brasca:
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 20 Jun 2018, 04:01 ---I thought that the bird would have been a holdover from the birdseed incident.
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Yes. I thought Pintsize might’ve transgressed again and was given the option of more psychoanalysis from Bubbles or a mouth full of birdseed and he chose the latter.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: SmilingCat on 20 Jun 2018, 00:20 ---
--- Quote from: OldGoat on 19 Jun 2018, 23:40 ---Yeah, but what the Hell, this IS the Internet after all. Its spelling may be romanized senpai but it comes out sounding like sempai. You start with tongue and lips poised to make an N sound but in the process of shifting things around to make the P the N turns to M. It may have something to do with regional accents, too.
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To be honest, I wasn't sure if it was a typo or part of the joke.
Though I always hear it as Senpai. I don't hear the "m" sound when I hear it spoken in the original Japanese.
(full disclosure, took three and a half years of Japanese language classes in high school, where pronunciation was hammered into us relentlessly to the point that pronouncing the characters properly, and one haiku we had to memorize, is about the only thing I remember twenty years later).
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What you get in HS classes is often more than a little removed from how the language is actually spoken "in the wild." Even more so if the country has distinct regions and mass communications are a relatively new thing. There's nothing like taking classes in the local language from an instructor who teaches a very refined, formal version, then going out and speaking to locals who crack up at how archaic you sound.
And then there's Yanny and Laurel.
TheEvilDog:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 19 Jun 2018, 16:08 ---God help us the week of the 'poisonous/venomous snake' argument.
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If the snake bites you and you die, the snake is venomous.
If you bite the snake and you die, the snake is poisonous.
If the snake bites you and it dies, its suffered a tired and memetic death thanks to the old Chuck Norris meme.
Roborat:
For a very brief second I thought Yelling Bird had returned. Then I was disappointed when I realized it was just a winged rat.
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