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Post by TBeholder on Jan 5, 2013 10:55:41 GMT
While this is cool speculation, I'm afraid that it's more likely that Tom is just making a little jab at iPad's OS ecosystem Well, yeah - given the page, it looks like a joke about that fruity product placement in Robocop. ;D
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Post by 0o0f on Jan 5, 2013 17:34:16 GMT
Kat's phrasing didn't sound brusque or rude to me. I thought she sounded like a doctor - "Now I'm going to listen to your lungs, okay? Breathe deeply." Her facial expression also gives me the impression that she's using a tone that's not rude or brusque. ...That sentence might have been a little awkward, though. Anyway, I'm a little amused by Renard in panel 2.
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Post by redfeather on Jan 5, 2013 18:05:22 GMT
If it's any consolation, I like grey better than gray, and sabre better than saber, although colour doesn't strike my fancy for some reason. So you prefer the American version only when it's shorter. You dislike unnecessary typing, then?
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Post by smjjames on Jan 5, 2013 19:50:18 GMT
Finally! A gunnerkrigg question I can answer (being a Biologist). An open ecosystem is one which has outside influences (ie other ecosystems) impacting it. An isolated ecosystem is one which is isolated from all other influences. If you put a rat in a cage and didn't take out the waste and didn't input any food, that is an isolated ecosystem. Except in extreme examples like that, most ecosystems are open. I think that he's symbolizing these robots as a pack, sort of like a pack of hyenas, ganging up on Robot as their prey. I'm not sure if he's trying to say that something changed which brought in these robots who previously wouldn't have interacted with Robot at all. I know what an open ecosystem is, I just wasn't sure what Tom was referring to. Initially I thought he was implying the little robot was a scavenger or something.
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Post by americonedream on Jan 6, 2013 4:14:56 GMT
Just gotta say, the detail of Kat taking off her glove to interact with the touch screen is just so nifty to me. It's the little things. <3
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Post by GK Sierra on Jan 6, 2013 8:30:32 GMT
If it's any consolation, I like grey better than gray, and sabre better than saber, although colour doesn't strike my fancy for some reason. So you prefer the American version only when it's shorter. You dislike unnecessary typing, then? Yeah, pretty much. It all boils down to sloth. ;D I'm not totally on board with all of the two letter switches the Brits have mind you,(centre, for example... it just doesn't look right to my eyes) but in many cases the American version was made different merely for the sake of being different which strikes me as rather childish. If you're going to change the mother tongue, at least have an expedient purpose in mind, you know?
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Post by redfeather on Jan 6, 2013 21:04:26 GMT
In many cases the American version was made different merely for the sake of being different which strikes me as rather childish. If you're going to change the mother tongue, at least have an expedient purpose in mind, you know? It's not really accurate to say that America changed the mother tongue, I feel. At the time the colonies were, uh, colonized, English spelling had not yet been standardized. In England at that time, some people would have written "color" and others would have written "colour", and neither would have been incorrect, because there was no such thing as a correct or incorrect spelling. Both Commonwealth English and American English limited the number of correct spellings in their common ancestor -- American English didn't develop from (modern) Commonwealth English. (That said, in the particular case of removing a bunch of U's, that was a deliberate decision made by Noah Webster to distinguish between American and British English).
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