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Cinderella - 69 - HD
🕑 Added 2025-07-31 03:00:04 +0000 UTCFleeing and stealth - https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/cinder-069
This is the part where I'd paraphrase the "Brave Brave Sir Robin" song from Monty Python and The Holy Grail, but "Sir Robin" and "Cinderella" have a different number of syllables.
Commentary
Technically, Elliot came back inside from a balcony, so I'm not sure that's "emerging". On the other hand, when I did a search on the definition, the first example was emerging from a fog. Could one emerge from the outdoor night? Doesn't sound right to me, but if one wanted to dig in their heels and be extra confusing with their narration, I suppose that would be an option.
- Waiter (a mere two comics ago, but what the heck, here's the reference)
I probably couldn't use it in a sentence, but this comic taught me that "discrete" means separate and distinct, and not phrasing things carefully for various potential reasons, which would be "discreet".
As much as I think autocorrection and the like can make us worse at manually spelling, the suggestion of a different spelling was how I avoided an error I would have needed to fix later.
Assuming one has the time, I guess the compromise to keep one's self sharp would be to look up and understand the word differences, thereby learning something instead of just taking for granted what the robots say is right.
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Comments
Lakana
No "caught in nasty ways?" ;)
Connor Mcharg
Merci beaucoup - I’m learning French, and even without that, I welcome fun little details like this. (for example “factoid” actually means “an item of unreliable information that gets reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact” - though word drift is starting to make it also mean “a brief or trival bit of news or information”)
Raphaël
I'll just share for no specific reason that both "discreet" and "discrete" translate to the same French word "discret / discrète" (masculin vs féminin). En French, we need context to distinguish both meanings. The English distinction in spelling is interesting as they both originate from the same Old French discret, and were both spelled "discrete" in Middle English. I apologize for the nerdy intrusion and I'll just go shyly hide in a corner.
Luci Dragoria
Cinderella ran away. Bravely, Cinderella. Ran away from royal ball. She was not afraid to fly, brave Cinderella. She was not at all afraid, to be caught by her fam'ly. Brave, brave, brave Cinderella.
