NP Comic for Saturday, Jun 21, 2025

[Darth Fluffy 368]

NP Comic for Saturday, Jun 21, 2025

Elliot is confused, he says cool name, but imagines hot. Then forgets his own name. (Not really)

[Amiable Dorsai 73]

The plot thickens!

[Pharaoh RutinTutin 1,653]

 

As soon as any other party guest addresses the prince in Cinderella's presence, the cover shall be blown. 

 

[Amiable Dorsai 73]

I was not expecting wacky hijinks other than the classic shoe drop. This could be fun.

[mlooney 3,768]

9 hours ago, Amiable Dorsai said:

I was not expecting wacky hijinks other than the classic shoe drop. This could be fun.

The ball is supposed to last 3 days.  It's a bit early for the shoe thing.

[Stature 97]

If he's Elrick, then I'm Ellarry.

[Darth Fluffy 368]

On 6/21/2025 at 6:22 AM, Pharaoh RutinTutin said:

As soon as any other party guest addresses the prince in Cinderella's presence, the cover shall be blown. 

This would be true, hence my guess that they will stay alone on the patio. 

[mlooney 3,768]

12 hours ago, Stature said:

If he's Elrick, then I'm Ellarry.

I had a very similar thought about why Elliot chose Rick. I guess there aren't that many things you can add to “El” and still be a name.  At least in English. In Spanish, as I understand, it just means “The” so El Cid would have been an option.  

Of course, that means “The Master” by way of an Arabic loan word, which might not be what Elliot had in mind there.

[Darth Fluffy 368]

7 hours ago, mlooney said:

I had a very similar thought about why Elliot chose Rick. I guess there aren't that many things you can add to “El” and still be a name.  At least in English. In Spanish, as I understand, it just means “The” so El Cid would have been an option.  

Of course, that means “The Master” by way of an Arabic loan word, which might not be what Elliot had in mind there.

In Spanish it means the for a masculine subject. La is the equivalent for a feminine subject. I don't think they do neutral.

German does der (masculine), die (feminine), and das (neutral). also die is 'dee', because German uses the second letter when there are two vowels, so one is long. The weirdest gender thing with articles in German, to me, was that maiden was neutral, das madchen. 

[ijuin 609]

It’s neutral because it ends with the diminutive suffix -chen, which always takes neutral. Compound words in German always take the word gender of the last part of the word, regardless of the gender of the other parts. “Madchen” more or less translates literally as “little maid”.

[Darth Fluffy 368]

9 hours ago, ijuin said:

It’s neutral because it ends with the diminutive suffix -chen, which always takes neutral. Compound words in German always take the word gender of the last part of the word, regardless of the gender of the other parts. “Madchen” more or less translates literally as “little maid”.

Noted. I plan to add '-chen' to every German noun I ever use so I can ignore the der and die, and always use das. Thank you for simplifying this.

[Don Edwards 575]

On 6/23/2025 at 7:40 PM, Darth Fluffy said:

The weirdest gender thing with articles in German, to me, was that maiden was neutral, das madchen. 

Not weird. Just the maiden's father's wishful thinking.