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WCDT strips 4251-4255 (27th to 1st May 2020)
Gus_Smedstad:
--- Quote from: Tova on 27 Apr 2020, 22:35 ---I honestly thought teasing between friends was normal everywhere.
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Whether it’s “normal” or not, it’s established than Renee and Brun do this to each other. With Brun it appears to be about licorice burps.
Personally, I don’t tease, and I don’t much appreciate being teased. Probably too much exposure to “ha ha only serious” people who are genuinely being nasty while pretending it’s only a joke.
Perfectly Reasonable:
Who uses 'recursive' besides computer nerds?
I don't see computer science in Brün's background.
Thrudd:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 28 Apr 2020, 06:24 ---Who uses 'recursive' besides computer nerds?
I don't see computer science in Brün's background.
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re·cur·sive - adjective
characterized by recurrence or repetition.
Mathematics•Linguistics
relating to or involving the repeated application of a rule, definition, or procedure to successive results.
Her background or education may not include computer science but mathematical basics should be in there somewhere.
Mind I have no idea just how good or bad the particular brand of US education she was given.
As has been demonstrated with respect to her thought processes, she is very logical and concise in her reasoning even though she doesn't implicitly "get" things that the average person would take as a given and doesn't notice things she isn't directly looking for. The algorithm for processing such information and nuances in the background just isn't there so she has to make a conscious workaround by building a database and then using logical reasoning based on that data to come to a conclusion. This was illustrated in the series of panels where she decided to go for brunch with her new neighbour.
Our esteemed author seems to have captured the process quite well in this instance.
Well this is how I am able to fool the outside world that I am a functioning adult a majority of the time.
oddtail:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 28 Apr 2020, 06:24 ---Who uses 'recursive' besides computer nerds?
I don't see computer science in Brün's background.
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I don't think I count as a "computer nerd", nor do all that many of my friends, and both I and people are know have used the word in casual conversation, in a similar manner that Brun does, too.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Tova on 27 Apr 2020, 22:35 ---I honestly thought teasing between friends was normal everywhere.
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I think it's something of a cultural thing?
Probably has to do with a person's temperament and general disposition, too.
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