Gunnerkrigg Court

Looks like a flower. Camouflage and all that.

Possibly a weird parasite that wants to get eaten by a bird.

Oh, and I looked back through and it really does seem like Tony has way fewer shirts than her. Interesting touch.

Looks like that cicada got cordyceps or similar fungus infection.

That's not a cicada with Cordyceps. That's a perfectly healthy treehopper, most likely in the genus Bocydium.

edited 22nd Sep '17 8:33:28 AM by MetaFour

Why does german wikipedia have that but not the english version?

The difference in taxonomy, perhaps? Russian wikipedia has some differences, too.

EDIT: Probably just a topic too obscure for wikipedia.

edited 22nd Sep '17 8:43:53 AM by Millership

It looks as if she was teaching him to call fire.

But he'd have to see a Lion Turtle fir- oh right, wrong series.

Still waiting for Ketrak to show up...

So, how similar are German and English as languages? I just used Google`s auto-translate feature to read that Wikipedia article and it was surprisingly readable.

I'm used to it butchering English/French translations.

Regarding Surma and Tony's escapades: I didn't expect this little detour to be quite so...detailed. I'm ready for things to start moving a bit faster, personally.

edited 22nd Sep '17 4:59:36 PM by GutstheBerserker

German is fairly similar to the half of English that isn't French.

Correction: English is a Germanic language with a lot of imported/stolen vocab (much as Standardised Norwegian is one of the Norse descendants with the least amount of its original Eastern Norse roots, having switched vocab to Western + lots of Greco-Roman-French).

But, the nuts and bolts of how the English language works? Totally Anglo-Frisian-Danish, even to today (including following similar vowel shifts over the centuries). Right down to the habit of ghost letters and the idiosyncratic habit of not reading things as written you can find both Danish and English (which drives everybody else nuts). Also the messing with word order and rhythm changes... for emphasis and just because. (if in doubt, blame Jutes.)

The Modern East and West Frisians and many Northern British English and Scots dialects? Still quite similar in both rhythm, pronunciation and basic, root vocab. Even though the Frisians never picked the Danish bad spelling habits up.

edited 22nd Sep '17 1:53:02 PM by Euodiachloris

Oddly enough, that very video has been recommended to me for weeks, but I've never looked at it...

Urgh. Ænglisc is alive and well enough as it is without that idiocy. It's called "Scots" and "Geordie".

Heck — Norman French (you know, the dialect that hit English hardest) actually had a lot of Germanic vocab imports itself. And, other Germanic dialects and languages have also had Romantic influences, particularly in the sciences and other areas. Why getting rid of it is a thing for some people, I'll never know. I suspect is a silly racist thing.

You'd have to de-Romance a lot of other languages if you wanted to get Pure Germanic™. And, even then... we're all Indo-European.

edited 22nd Sep '17 2:46:26 PM by Euodiachloris

Reminds me of "Uncleftish Beholding".

He actually mentions that in the video.

How strangely poetic, though it makes the explanation three times as hard to understand.

1888

SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED

Now I'm wondering what the title of the chapter is referring to. One of them will lose patience and will literally get lost in the forest? Will there be a Rescue Romance?

Clearly that stick breaking will turn out to be the most important event in this webcomic's entire run.

1889

Something.

I'm guessing those red dots are mites.

So Tom also had a beetle land on a sheet of paper and spread mites?