Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT Strips 3976-3980 (April 8th-12th, 2019)
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: shanejayell on 12 Apr 2019, 07:48 ---ARGH, cliffhanger. I wanna know if she said YES.
Good Marten Faye bit tho. I kinda miss them interacting.
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What did you expect? something like that never gets resolved on a Friday. Except if that happened on a Monday.
Either we get more of Marty and Faye, because they're each other's goto person for trouble and insecurities, or they'll be pushed further to the background.
And as much as people go "the 'original crew' seems to get retired" - every character that got included got there for a reason, and rather organically.
I just realised we have two social circles going on now - Coffee of Doom and the Secret Bakery. Yes, they don't have that much interaction as there would be if the focus only was on one of them, but we still got every key character we had from the beginning. I'm pretty sure if there hadn't been that many characters, JJ would've gotten tired of everyone by now, and even the second circle might be on a phase out now.
I guess some of the readers are as impervious to change as Marten is.... (and that's not meant as anything, just stating a fact to me.)
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: pecoros7 on 06 Apr 2019, 21:33 ---Silly as it might sound. I swear I can hear a difference between "grey" and "gray" in my head, but any attempt to reproduce the difference aloud fails.
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(Before this starts, I am a cradle speaker of American English, but I've lived so many places that I speak an unusual idiolect.)
In fact, you probably have two vowels which you can distinguish which differentiate the two pronunciations to you, even though no listener can tell them apart. That's a pretty well-established effect in people who learn second languages: they can hear a difference but not pronounce it.
It is entirely legitimate for me to say "I hear them differently in my head, but I can't pronounce them differently.". I hear grey as 'having an /eh/ in the middle, not an /ae/", and I say '/g/ /r/ /eh/ /ee/' instead of '/g/ /r/ /ae/ /ee'/', but most people can't hear the difference unless I hyperpronounce what I'm hearing in my head. As a result, I usually spell the word "grey", even though I don't do so all the time.
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: oddtail on 08 Apr 2019, 00:56 ---Linguistic nerdishness regarding pronunciation incoming.
[long and very useful disquisition omitted for reasons of brevity. You should go back and read it.]
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You might want to go look at Bob Port's old work on mora timing and hypronunciation here. It is *extremely* complicated: it turns out that there really is an orthographic effect, and it can be reliably reproduced.
zzyzx:
--- Quote from: brasca on 11 Apr 2019, 22:02 ---
Perhaps Marten has looked for a more fitting job from time to time and found nothing in Northhampton or anywhere close to it and has settled for what he has right now which he's content with. This webcomic has never really addressed it, but I would think the world they live in is possibly going through an economic change with so many AIs capable of doing jobs humans can do.
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It came up in passing once in a strip that stuck with me for that reason. I think it was in the wake of the robot fighting introduction and Marten told Faye that everyone has to be running scams right now in the post-scarcity economy.
Is it cold in here?:
Tai was using LSD at work early on, which I classify in the Problem category. We haven't seen that in a long time.
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