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WCDT strips 3841-3845 (1-5 October 2018)
Carl-E:
Many on this forum are ESL (English as a Second Language) speakers. Thrudd, I don't know if you're one or not. However, I do know that many native speakers - of any language - have a great deal of difficulty expressing anything further than what marketers call "WINs" (Wants, Interests and Needs). Infants manage to express these with no language at all...
But you're right about English. It's incredibly flexible, messy, nuanced, and can practically be weaponized in the hands of an expert. Word choice is ridiculously important, as is inflection (which gets lost in print).
I have always found this forum to be a wonderful place to practice and hash out my ability to communicate what my thoughts and ideas are. No one here is afraid to call you out on what they think you meant.
It's a truly educational experience, when taken as such! Sometimes I wish these arguments were more publicly available as examples of how to communicate better...
Is it cold in here?:
> Word choice is ridiculously important
Joseph Conrad said there are no synonyms in English, and Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word was the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 14 Oct 2018, 18:58 ---> Word choice is ridiculously important
Joseph Conrad said there are no synonyms in English, and Mark Twain said the difference between the right word and the almost right word was the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
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Also, Mark Twain seems to have been quite the southerner. He's attributed with the quote "My coldest winter was a summer in San Francisco". Now, San Fran doesn't get particularly warm in summer, but doesn't get too cold in winter either.
OldGoat:
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 15 Oct 2018, 02:35 ---
Also, Mark Twain seems to have been quite the southerner. He's attributed with the quote "My coldest winter was a summer in San Francisco". Now, San Fran doesn't get particularly warm in summer, but doesn't get too cold in winter either.
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He probably wrote that before he moved to Connecticut.
BlueFatima:
I'm laughing like a mad woman about the hair "debate." I could give a flying fart with how society thinks women should style, cut, care for, or whatever with their hair. I must hang out with chill people. Most of them don't seem to care one way or another either. I had short hair most of my adult life, but I am currently growing my it down to my butt, and I'm (gasp) in my 40s. How dare a woman my age grow hair that long! :laugh:
Then I let my elementary-aged kiddo get herself a mohawk. She was going to grow it out until a "friend" told her that her own mom would be "angry" if she got a "boy hairdo" herself, and "no girls" at her school have short hair (kiddo goes to a different school). So my kid asked to go back to the hair dresser and got another mohawk out of spite. :laugh:
As for the comic? It's cute and funny, and that's all I take away from it. I like that Jeph changes up some of his characters. There are female characters (Marigold is one I can think of) who don't change much when it comes to hair/style. Then there are male characters like Clinton and Winslow who ended up with enormous changes. I don't think it's a horrible thing people talk about the hair or changes in appearances. It's easy to become attached to characters, and most of QC's cast happen to be female.
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