John gave Michael something to help him sleep. Why wouldn't the doctor prescribe something for that? Why is it John? (My guess is that John could get free samples and that way they save a little money on that prescription.)
Now for fun, what is the difference in sound between wisdom and wiz-dum? This is one of those moments where April's speech issues show up not in her speech but in the spelling of the word she is saying, an affliction unique to comic strip characters. It is similar to those moments when April mispronounces words she is thinking.
Yes. The dialogue is the same no matter where it is presented. The cartoonist is not worried about those kinds of details, because by-and-large, their readers are not concerned about them. We are the ones who appreciate when it is done right.
"th" is one of the last sounds to acquire, so it makes sense to replace it. Th-fronting is the pronunciation of the English "th" is usually as "f" or "v". The most common error with Lynn Johnston is that she does it inconsistently. Here are panels where April can and cannot pronounce "th".
{W}hen a personage talks like an illustrated, gilt-edged, tree-calf, hand-tooled, seven-dollar Friendship's Offering in the beginning of a paragraph, he shall not talk like a negro minstrel in the end of it. But this rule is flung down and danced upon in the Patterson tale.
Nor does it cross the author's mind just how tacky it is to break up with someone that way. Rhetta may have had a poor image of Mike, but the reader had an even worse image of him.
John gave Michael something to help him sleep. Why wouldn't the doctor prescribe something for that? Why is it John? (My guess is that John could get free samples and that way they save a little money on that prescription.)
Now for fun, what is the difference in sound between wisdom and wiz-dum? This is one of those moments where April's speech issues show up not in her speech but in the spelling of the word she is saying, an affliction unique to comic strip characters. It is similar to those moments when April mispronounces words she is thinking.
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Yes. The dialogue is the same no matter where it is presented. The cartoonist is not worried about those kinds of details, because by-and-large, their readers are not concerned about them. We are the ones who appreciate when it is done right.
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The average reader also tends to think a child who cannot pronounce the t-h sound in thing believes the word is pronounced fing so there's that too.
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"th" is one of the last sounds to acquire, so it makes sense to replace it. Th-fronting is the pronunciation of the English "th" is usually as "f" or "v". The most common error with Lynn Johnston is that she does it inconsistently. Here are panels where April can and cannot pronounce "th".
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To paraphrase Mark Twain,
{W}hen a personage talks like an illustrated, gilt-edged, tree-calf, hand-tooled, seven-dollar Friendship's Offering in the beginning of a paragraph, he shall not talk like a negro minstrel in the end of it. But this rule is flung down and danced upon in the Patterson tale.
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Also, we used to see apostrophes and funetik spelling in Michael and Elizabeth's thought bubbles when they were younger.
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Right. Now with Elizabeth and Michael we just get the occasional apostrophe, when Lynn wants to remind us that they are still youngish.
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It amuses me that someone with her poor command of the language is so quick to judge others.
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Finally, if Mike were smart, he'd blame his antics on the doctor drugs John got him.
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Not if wants more of those drugs.
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But they made him think Rhetta was one of the fighting Uruk-Hai. No high is worth that.
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Those last few panels with the way Rhetta was drawn with those giant arms, she was not far from a fighting Uruk-Hai.
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When he breaks with her via text message, it never crosses his mind what her image of him becomes.
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Nor does it cross the author's mind just how tacky it is to break up with someone that way. Rhetta may have had a poor image of Mike, but the reader had an even worse image of him.
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It's like how she doesn't realize how up his own asshole he was when he finally broke it off with Martha.
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