Lint - Latest Comments in 11/25/2008

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riartha — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:44:36 -0000

thank you! i understand better now!~~ :D

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whimsical-wishing — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:41:56 -0000

Dang. You beat me to it.... :)

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Rissa — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:24:55 -0000

Pretty much. The whole trilogy type thing makes me laugh probably more than it should.

In Lint's instance, Al'bert seems to be referring to the fact that Fang is, well, obsessed with his mother much like Oedipus still doesn't want to give up his marriage to his mother even after he finds out that she's his mother. It also has to do with psychology.

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Lady_Nilstria — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:39:17 -0000

CURSE GRAMMAR!!

Just kidding. XD Education is good. ^_^

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Lady_Nilstria — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:37:17 -0000

The word 'oedipal' is based off the Greek story about a son that married his mother. The thing is, in that particular case, the son didn't know she was his mother, because his father tried to kill him and was raised by somebody else, without any knowledge of who his biological parents were. :-)

For more detail:

The king had a son, and then heard from an oracle that his son would kill him. So, he abandoned his baby son on a mountainside. Good for the son, he was found and raised by an enemy king. Later, the son, Oedipas or something or the other, started leading raids and wars, and eventually killed his father and took over his country. Then he married the former queen, who so happened to be his mother. The harpies cursed him, and made him miserable, yada yada. Greeks like tradegies. XD

Basically, the word describes a son marrying his mother, and the mental things that accompany the tendancy.

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riartha — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:55:11 -0000

oh you do! could you explain? :D its a pity if you read Lint but don't fully understand the language games @_@ its all part of the Lint experience! 8D

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riartha — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:49:38 -0000

D: i am evidently not sufficiently astute to grasp the linguistic subtleties of Lint. i shall leave it to the smarties. ignorance is uh...bliss?

*skips off to stop torturing my poor brain and just admires the pretty Al'bert & Bactine*~~ :D

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CFF — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:25:59 -0000

I guess Fang doesn't have to worry about finding a healer anymore.

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Deva Bienevu — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:51:31 -0000

Methinks I need to make a coat like Al'bert's....

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Pondie — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:11:21 -0000

you know hes so freaking smug in the last panel, despite the impish look.

and i love bactines reaction: 'Maybe!'

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colbycheese — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:08:54 -0000

... and knowing is half the battle.

I love how excessively educational things show up in my comments section from time to time.

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Rissa — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:06:33 -0000

I'm proud of myself. I actually understand the 'oedipal' answer. ^ ^

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colbycheese — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:49:31 -0000

Don't go crazy with it. If you've read Fromage, you know everything.

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HelenaHermione — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:16:06 -0000

Oh yeah! Al'bert's arm was broken, I seem to remember that, and Bactine fixed it up...yikes, now she's in trouble!

Oh, and by the way- I have the feeling that Al'bert is referring to the room that belonged to Fang's mother, that Zedwig sleeps in the old queen's bedroom, or something like that...yeah, very creepy, especially with the way he just 'battles and sleeps'. Oh, and Al'bert, we would do anything for you...maybe!

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Falco — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:00:11 -0000

Well, if I'm guessing right, that makes their relationship even *more* twisted than it was in Fromage. Yikes, Fang, yikes.

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Pip — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:04:00 -0000

Actually, the noun phrase "a hundred rooms" is the *notional* subject (with "rooms" as the head of the NP, "a" as the article and "hundred" as quantifier) and "There" is the subject proper, but you are right in that the finite verb should concord with "rooms". However, in spoken English Longman notes that the finite verb is likely to be in singular. So both ways work. Hooray for grammar.

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Ilirien — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:42:56 -0000

<3

I just decided I want Al'bert for Christmas. ; ) He is just too cute.

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Faticia — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:41:57 -0000

Noo!!! Fang is going to figure out that there is another healer nearby!

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Ilirien — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:41:52 -0000

Don't forget Fang's obsession with his mom. The boy is Not Well, methinks.

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Ilirien — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:39:54 -0000

Urgh. "Quite twistedly oedipal" is right. : P

I am on tenterhooks to see what happens next. : o

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Calenlass_Greenleaf — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:56:51 -0000

One at a time, two at a time, three at a time...heh. :D

Loved the last panel. And of course, Al'bert!

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colbycheese — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:25:48 -0000

Well, you're right in that it is in part related to Fang's obsession with Zedwig, but in this particular instance I'd like to invoke the writer's right to abstain from explaining.

Everything's there to piece it together, though.

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colbycheese — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:19:30 -0000

You are so right! I should have remembered that from teaching my kids English last year, but well... I don't have much of a brain lately. Fixed! (Thanks spas & LN)

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Lady_Nilstria — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:14:33 -0000

But there [V-has to be] a hundred {S-rooms} (prep-in this castle.)

There has to be...what? A hundred? A hundred what? A hundred rooms.

So...it should be....

But there have to be a hundred rooms in this castle!

Because 'have to be' is the verb, and the subject is 'rooms' which is plural, so it should be 'have'.

Whoot, I actually remembered something from English class. XD

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Lady_Nilstria — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:08:32 -0000

Ah, well you know how Colby likes having us break out dictionaries for words we didn't know existed. XD

I think it has something to do with Fang's obsession with poor Zedwig. Am I right, Colby? My guess is that Zedwig's room is next to Fang's. If you know where one is, you automatically know the other.

Of course, I could be completely wrong. :-P