To be fair, the influence of historical China on the other peoples of East Asia is staggering – you don’t just live next door to a historical juggernaut for millenia and not walk away deeply changed by them.
Everyone who had regular diplomatic contact with China borrowed from them culturally, essentially out of necessity. It’s like how English is the language of business in the modern day, or how French was the literal “Lingua Franca” just a few centuries ago. When a single empire becomes powerful and influential enough, everyone who deals with them starts adopting their culture to some extent or another.
Even hostile neighbors who overwhelmingly warred with or even conquered China weren’t immune to conversion and assimilation into the Chinese cultural heritage. The Mongols, the Jurchens / Manchu, the Japanese… they all historically viewed China as a major rival, and yet still ended up borrowing massively from them culturally.
So called “tiger parenting” is prevalent in Korea, but like so many other things, it ultimately stems directly from Confucian China.
Alas, the original Lingua Franka was a pidgin language based mainly on Italian (as it was spoken at that time – very unlike modern Italian!), with loanwords from Greek, Old French, Portuguese, Occitan, and Spanish as well as Arabic and Turkish. (At that time “Franks” was a collective noun for all Western Europeans, in contrast to the Byzantine Empire, where a debased for of Greek was the “lingua Franca”.)
LIke many pidgin languages it’s grammar was vastly simpler than that of any of the languages it was based on.
My guess is the standard nightmare had to be customized for Nick. Which would argue for Anasigma being the source, since they would have access to his psych profile and family history.
After all, Mr. Green literally disposed of Nick and would probably consider his continued existence a personal affront. Especially since his meat peripheral was restored and ran off with the comfy cushions.
Interesting. I was wondering if these dreams were individually plotted like a VR, or some kind of mental algorithm like ‘have a nightmare about your creator. And GO!’.
When I grew up, babushka meant a hair scarf, because so many older European immigrant women wore them to go outside, especially in my heavily Polish neighborhood.
*Sigh* … D. Walker, I’m afraid you and Shadowmehr may both be a little wrong in your assessments here–but not completely wrong, only about 98 degrees off.
Y’know…Dr. Lee *has* failed. Project Whirligig might have brought her Nick, but as a weapon it bombed, so to speak. And Project U. N. I. T. Y. produced an unstoppable killing machine—at least, unstoppable till Unity joined Skin-Horse.
Dr Lee likely hasn’t been a part of “everyone else” since her age began being measured in double digits. The only one she has to answer to is that copy of her Korean Tiger Dad she keeps inside her head. If he’s content, then it was a success in her mind.
So this basically confirms that the dreams are being targeted then, because anything that blanket affects nonhumans would not affect Nick. I wonder if Tip and Virginia are going to get similar dreams? Are Chris and Marcy from the DoI still with them? How about the Mads?
Airwolf!
*Theme starts playing in my head*
Never did figure out how Nick’s laundry caught up with them.
I told you. Airwolf!
https://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=05012006
Oh I get it, it’s a joke on chinese tiger parenting.
You lost me. Neither one of them is Chinese.
Yeah, she’s Korean, but it really works the same way. Look up disappointed Asian dad memes for the gist.
To be fair, the influence of historical China on the other peoples of East Asia is staggering – you don’t just live next door to a historical juggernaut for millenia and not walk away deeply changed by them.
Everyone who had regular diplomatic contact with China borrowed from them culturally, essentially out of necessity. It’s like how English is the language of business in the modern day, or how French was the literal “Lingua Franca” just a few centuries ago. When a single empire becomes powerful and influential enough, everyone who deals with them starts adopting their culture to some extent or another.
Even hostile neighbors who overwhelmingly warred with or even conquered China weren’t immune to conversion and assimilation into the Chinese cultural heritage. The Mongols, the Jurchens / Manchu, the Japanese… they all historically viewed China as a major rival, and yet still ended up borrowing massively from them culturally.
So called “tiger parenting” is prevalent in Korea, but like so many other things, it ultimately stems directly from Confucian China.
Alas, the original Lingua Franka was a pidgin language based mainly on Italian (as it was spoken at that time – very unlike modern Italian!), with loanwords from Greek, Old French, Portuguese, Occitan, and Spanish as well as Arabic and Turkish. (At that time “Franks” was a collective noun for all Western Europeans, in contrast to the Byzantine Empire, where a debased for of Greek was the “lingua Franca”.)
LIke many pidgin languages it’s grammar was vastly simpler than that of any of the languages it was based on.
My guess is the standard nightmare had to be customized for Nick. Which would argue for Anasigma being the source, since they would have access to his psych profile and family history.
After all, Mr. Green literally disposed of Nick and would probably consider his continued existence a personal affront. Especially since his meat peripheral was restored and ran off with the comfy cushions.
Interesting. I was wondering if these dreams were individually plotted like a VR, or some kind of mental algorithm like ‘have a nightmare about your creator. And GO!’.
Oh, so Bubbe means grandmother. Yesterday’s strip makes much more sense when you’re not misreading Bubbe as “Bubbles”.
Yup, Yiddish. Same origin as the Polish/Russian babushka, if you happen to be familiar with that.
When I grew up, babushka meant a hair scarf, because so many older European immigrant women wore them to go outside, especially in my heavily Polish neighborhood.
I was hoping for a little more of Bubbe Z. We’ve never met any of Nick’s relatives before.
So nice to see the two of them are so in sync.
I dunno – they feel more Backstreet Boys to me.
*rimshot*
*Sigh* … D. Walker, I’m afraid you and Shadowmehr may both be a little wrong in your assessments here–but not completely wrong, only about 98 degrees off.
Do you think she wants it “that way”?
Y’know…Dr. Lee *has* failed. Project Whirligig might have brought her Nick, but as a weapon it bombed, so to speak. And Project U. N. I. T. Y. produced an unstoppable killing machine—at least, unstoppable till Unity joined Skin-Horse.
But Project Whirligig wasn’t a failure on her part. It was intentionally sabotaged by Mr. Green.
And when she saw Unity in action, Virginia considered her a great success.
What is success if everyone else thinks it’s a failure? “He was great, he was magnificent…he was last!”
Dr Lee likely hasn’t been a part of “everyone else” since her age began being measured in double digits. The only one she has to answer to is that copy of her Korean Tiger Dad she keeps inside her head. If he’s content, then it was a success in her mind.
Only saw him briefly at a flashback to Dr. Lee’s dol. And the strip afterwards has her thinking about how she always worried about other’s opinions.
So this basically confirms that the dreams are being targeted then, because anything that blanket affects nonhumans would not affect Nick. I wonder if Tip and Virginia are going to get similar dreams? Are Chris and Marcy from the DoI still with them? How about the Mads?