Chloé
I’m wondering. Does the accent on her name turns my english-speaking viewership off?
Fun story : I should never draw burgers again. I found myself craving for a cheeseburger as soon as I finished coloring that thing. I was eleven PM. I went to McDonald’s.
How do you pronounce it in French?
Also, so far I think I’m most similar to Chloe…eerily so!
It’s pronounced pretty much the same way as the english version. But we need the “é” accent at the end for the “e” not to be silent. Without the “é”, her name would be pronounced “Klo”…
I kinda decided to keep the “é” for the english version of the comic at first…
But then I started to phase it out in more recent strips. I dunno.
Pretty much a lot like me except that I’m a guy
She is everybody.
Not me. Not even remotely.
I mean just to clarify… she is largely the opposite of me.
I mean aside from the obvious gender divide… and completely different nationality…
I only have younger siblings rather than older. I don’t get along particularly well with them.
I cruised through school simply by having a high enough IQ not to have to work at anything.
I’m systematically callous and critical… and have a strict policy of letting people solve their own problems for personal growth.
I fall well into the Pessimism = Realism school of thought. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
Admittedly I’m also lazy, but probably a completely different kind of lazy. I certainly wouldn’t take time out of my day to help people, though I might spare the time to antagonise them.
I don’t drive. Don’t even have a license.
Birthday the other side of the year.
Hair : Ash-Brown, Eyes : Green with gold corona.
Strawberries and watermelon are two of the few fruit I will NOT eat.
Angel cake is vile.
I only play cooperative games. Competitive games contain the worst of human trash and I hate to be subjected to them.
I hate children and quite a few types of bugs.
I find the noise of traffic soothing. Probably because I don’t drive.
Caramel is neat. Not super-awesome, but sufficiently neat.
I get involved in far too many political discussions… though generally speaking just to tear them apart. Totally anarchist.
Am pretty much the definition of a rude and selfish person… though I contend that it is more important to be honest about it. Also that everyone is selfish and I can’t stand those who aren’t honest about it.
So… yeah.
O’course I’d probably not be too harsh on such a person as her if I met her… as I have a bit of a fetish for glasses and red hair. They’re among my few (many) weaknesses.
Accents and most special characters I can handle, thanks to Spanish. It’s full French sentences that leave me feeling inadequate for not speaking many languages.
Wow, looking at likes and dislikes, I predict some friction with Rain…
I try not to have the accents in the english version of the comic, but sometimes, they slip by.
Everything works in a bilingual way in my head.
And lol. Surprisingly, I haven’t made Chloe and Saki interact too much together so far.
As an American speaking person (whose smart enough to recognize that “American” is slightly different from “English” :-) ), I don’t mind the accents at all. Whether I read cafe or café, I still pronounce it the same way (ka-fA…assuming I’m doing the pronunciation thing right).
I pondered about keeping the accents or not for quite a while. Considering most of the cast already had very french sounding names, I didn’t want to alienate my english speaking audience further, so I decided to drop them from the english version. (but sometimes I forget D: )
I guess you guys are more familiar with the “é” from Café or Pokémon, but ê, è, ë and à are a different story…
Well, if you’re asking my opinion, I’d say leave the accents in. However, I’m the kind of guy who calls Venice (i.e. the city in Italy) “Venezia” because that’s what THEY call it. So, yeah, I’m a little different from the norm. :-)
The slanty downy angle is the one that confuses…
Umlauts are easy.
Roof things are… well almost the same thing.
Slanty uppy as you say is used in all sortsa stuff.
But I’ve got no idea when it comes to the slanty downy.
Umlauts are a germanic thing. Those dots are a diaeresis (Tréma, in french) and are not exactly the same thing…
They indicate the vowel has to be pronounced by itself where it would be part of a diphtong with another vowel otherwise.
As for slanty downy, they’re usually used on the “e” in french. E, É, È and Ê all sounding quite different from each other in Quebec French. (much less in France French, though…) Other vowels sometimes have them though, but those are just written differences and don’t really change te pronounciation as far as I can tell…
Hmm… I guess that is a different thing. How confusing. I only ever see the dots in German normally.
I only know what the slanty-uppy works like because it works similarly to the roof accent thingie in Welsh.
I say do what you want. I think most people who are unfamiliar with French pronnunciation will just gloss over the accents. I don’t really notice them.
Thank you! ^^
At least you guys now know what “é” means thanks to Pokémon.
Cool. Same birthday as me.
She’s a summer child.
And so are you it seems.
Who doesn’t like caramel? Actually, come to think of it, my wife’s not hot on caramel. I guess I can answer that question myself.
I really dislike the stuff. But I’m not too keen on chocolate either.
She likes competitive gaming and hates rude / selfish people?
How the hell can she ever smile? That is like enjoying cycling but hating bicycles.
Not everyone playing competitive games is an asshole, you know.
The fact she likes them doesn’t mean she cares about the community, or voice chats with people.
I sure enjoy those games without ever interacting with the people playing ’em.
Bleh. Competitive gaming is the intersection of conflict and the GIFT. People on the Internet are nasty business at the best of times, but put in a situation where they’re actively required to be hostile to each other? Nothing good can come of that.
As far as multiplayer goes, I’m strictly cooperative PvE. Monster Hunter is doing it right.
Ignoreing that you put friendship and competetive gameing together. are average grades considered d’s or b’s i always wondered
Chloe probably had Cs and Bs I guess…
You ate a McDonald’s Cheeseburger and yet live? Are you the chosen one spoken of in prophecy?
Why wouldn’t I live? Those things are delicious.
Oh my whiskers.
SotiCoto is here.
If ANY character lacks an Upper Lip, he will be sure to let you know about it.
Just ask the Blue Lizard.
(shivers)
Yeah, he scares me too.
You draw a webcomic about meganekko. There is no way in hell I wouldn’t be here. <3
It is stated that Chloé drives a 2008 Matrix, while the vehicle depicted later at the start of Chapter 2 is a second-generation 2009-2014 model.
Oops. I was actually aware of that mistake and thought I had taken the 2008 bit away. Seems like I only did it on the french site. It’s fixed now. I first wrote “2008” because the new model was introduced in 2008 (replacing its very ugly predecessor) but of course, that means it was the 2009 model. I decided to remove the years altogether later so my comic doesn’t turn into a period piece along the years. ;)
(J’avais vu du côté français qu’il n’y avait pas de mention d’année-modèle ;) )
I don’t know what’s funnier, that I came down here to compliment Chloé’s choice of automobile or that there was already another comment nitpicking a minute difference in the depicted model year of said voiture. The Matrix/Vibe is a great car, and the fans are a persnickety bunch! – an owner who lurks on car forums
Love the comic so far, will keep reading.
The little girl has a shirt that reads Carpe Diem with an actual carp on it. Clever. Was it based on a real shirt of did you make that one up.
Haha. It’s a long story. That thing was a litte doodle a friend of mine did, and it stuck.
It was supposed to be Mimi’s default outfit, but I decided the pink heart theme would suit her better as a logo.