Nah. While it would be in character for Lucas to be jealous of Michael, it would be out of character for Mona to deliberately provoke his jealousy. Mona likes Lucas, but she hasn’t yet figured out that she has feelings for him.
(Of course, if Lucas starts seeing someone else, Mona might feel compelled to break it up, and Michael would be ideally suited for some reciprocal jealousy, but we’re at least two plot developments away from that point. Maybe we’re due for a return of Tiffany, or that “chesty” girl from a while back?)
According to the Amer. Herit. Dict. 4th Ed., the word mail (as in armor) comes from an Old French word maile, but under maillot (the bathing suit) the same source is given as maille, which I suspect is the current French spelling. Perhaps someone who parleys Francaise can confirm that. (I’d check my Fr. dict., but I can’t do everything!)
Just for the record, I don’t think English has any business using diacriticals. If we like a foreign word enough to borrow it, we should Anglicize it to our liking, and if necessary, change the spelling.
Let everyone else in the world have their accents and tildes and umlauts and cedillas and ligatures and all that; it’s their business. But that imposes no obligation on English.
(BTW, if you’ve ever seen the wide-spread comment on the Web that only English, Hawaiian, and Swahili use the Latin aphabet with no diacriticals or special characters, it’s not true. The claim is taken from a report produced in the Sperry Corp. back in the ’70s. I knew that man who wrote it and he told me he just made up the factoid, not having researched it at all. There are others besides those three. So beware of believing everything you read on the Internet. Excepting this, of course.)
margueritem almost 14 years ago
A veritable treasure trove…
Sisyphos almost 14 years ago
Mona is just getting off on the irony of it all, while Donna is getting antsy. Hey, girls, Michael is what he is, and you came to him, not vice versa!
(P.S. typo in 2nd balloon of panel 1: should read “…still….”)
The missing M. Smokey almost 14 years ago
I saw a box labeled “anecdotes”. Now that’s nerdy.
Jaedabee Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Mona in panel 2 and 3 … absolutely hilarious.
fritzoid Premium Member almost 14 years ago
“Mona gonna use him to make Lucas jealous?”
Nah. While it would be in character for Lucas to be jealous of Michael, it would be out of character for Mona to deliberately provoke his jealousy. Mona likes Lucas, but she hasn’t yet figured out that she has feelings for him.
(Of course, if Lucas starts seeing someone else, Mona might feel compelled to break it up, and Michael would be ideally suited for some reciprocal jealousy, but we’re at least two plot developments away from that point. Maybe we’re due for a return of Tiffany, or that “chesty” girl from a while back?)
The missing M. Smokey almost 14 years ago
Mona will use him to irritate Pierre.
pschearer Premium Member almost 14 years ago
According to the Amer. Herit. Dict. 4th Ed., the word mail (as in armor) comes from an Old French word maile, but under maillot (the bathing suit) the same source is given as maille, which I suspect is the current French spelling. Perhaps someone who parleys Francaise can confirm that. (I’d check my Fr. dict., but I can’t do everything!)
RoyalPeer almost 14 years ago
“Maille” is the old English mispelling of “maculla” which is Latin for “net mesh”…
The missing M. Smokey almost 14 years ago
@pschearer, so when can we expect a chain maille bathing suit on Donna?
RonBerg13 Premium Member almost 14 years ago
I defy you to use a diacritic in this blog.
pschearer Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Just for the record, I don’t think English has any business using diacriticals. If we like a foreign word enough to borrow it, we should Anglicize it to our liking, and if necessary, change the spelling.
Let everyone else in the world have their accents and tildes and umlauts and cedillas and ligatures and all that; it’s their business. But that imposes no obligation on English.
(BTW, if you’ve ever seen the wide-spread comment on the Web that only English, Hawaiian, and Swahili use the Latin aphabet with no diacriticals or special characters, it’s not true. The claim is taken from a report produced in the Sperry Corp. back in the ’70s. I knew that man who wrote it and he told me he just made up the factoid, not having researched it at all. There are others besides those three. So beware of believing everything you read on the Internet. Excepting this, of course.)