Shouldn’t it be “glomp” though? :-/ I thought that was used specifically for when someone is being surprise-hugged from behind? Does “clomp” mean the same thing? Does it mean anything? I’ve never heard “clomp” before…
Finished reading! Great chapter! One thing though:
On page 3, in the bottom third panel on the left side, I think it should be “You didn’t use to be that fast, did you?”.
Or maybe not…It sounds weird, but I see from the internet that both teachers and dictionaries aren’t in complete agreement with each other about this particular case, especially between Americans and the British…It’s like, everyone agrees that “used” is the past tense of “use”, and that you can put “used” after other words, like “never”, to make sentences like “You never used to be that fast, did you?”, but in combination with “did” or “didn’t”, things become more foggy. β(οΏ£_οΏ£)β Oh well, whatever.
Well in the same way, it would never have even entered my mind to put βusedβ there. π
But well, if you Google “didn’t used to” (without the quotes), you’ll see that there’s quite a lot of discussion about it, and that some people provide citations from dictionaries, editors of dictionaries, and teachers, who disagree with each other. So I don’t know. β(οΏ£γΌοΏ£)β It’s no big deal anyway I guess.
There aren’t hard rules for onomatopoeia. As long as it represents the proper sound in a clean and easily-understood way, it is fine.
Getting too hung up on it and demanding commonly accepted version be used every time isn’t a good thing, and if everyone did that, other onomatopoeia which have entered common parlance (such as “fap” or the aforementioned “glomp”) would never have come about.
Read an English-language comic book and you’ll notice they use lots of variation on the particular spellings of the onomatopoeia to give off slightly different feelings.
Fair enough. Also, just to point out: I wasn’t demanding anything, I was just asking (by which I mean I wasn’t asking you to use “glomp”, I was asking you if “glomp” wouldn’t be more correct, and if “clomp” served the same purpose. You provided a perfectly good answer/reply though).
I personally have a distaste for the connotations that “glomp” has accrued over the years, but it actually does a good job of describing the sound, so instead I chose to use a variation.
If I had thought of it at the time, I might have avoided it completely and put something like “bomf”.
Sunday 11th May 2014 
3:09 PM 
Thankyou, though I think on page 2, left panel, 2nd down I think that’s meant to say glomp not clomp right? As shes hugging from behind.
Awesome, thanks a lot!!
I can tell you with no doubt in my mind that “glomp” was never under consideration to go in that panel.
Shouldn’t it be “glomp” though? :-/ I thought that was used specifically for when someone is being surprise-hugged from behind? Does “clomp” mean the same thing? Does it mean anything? I’ve never heard “clomp” before…
It should, but at the end of the day he’s welcome to put what he likes there. I only mentioned as It seemed like a mistake to me.
By all definitions clomp doesn’t suit the scene at all lol.
Ixlone always goes for the lolis as usual (not that I don’t agree in this case though). π Anyways, thanks!
Finished reading! Great chapter! One thing though:
On page 3, in the bottom third panel on the left side, I think it should be “You didn’t use to be that fast, did you?”.
Or maybe not…It sounds weird, but I see from the internet that both teachers and dictionaries aren’t in complete agreement with each other about this particular case, especially between Americans and the British…It’s like, everyone agrees that “used” is the past tense of “use”, and that you can put “used” after other words, like “never”, to make sentences like “You never used to be that fast, did you?”, but in combination with “did” or “didn’t”, things become more foggy. β(οΏ£_οΏ£)β Oh well, whatever.
P.S: Sorry for all the double-posting!
It would never have even entered my mind to put “use” there.
Well in the same way, it would never have even entered my mind to put βusedβ there. π
But well, if you Google “didn’t used to” (without the quotes), you’ll see that there’s quite a lot of discussion about it, and that some people provide citations from dictionaries, editors of dictionaries, and teachers, who disagree with each other. So I don’t know. β(οΏ£γΌοΏ£)β It’s no big deal anyway I guess.
Don’t care what google has, I’m right.
Sure you are… π
Glad to see you agree.
Glad to see your sarcasm detectors are working like they should (hint: that’s me being sarcastic and saying they aren’t working). π
There aren’t hard rules for onomatopoeia. As long as it represents the proper sound in a clean and easily-understood way, it is fine.
Getting too hung up on it and demanding commonly accepted version be used every time isn’t a good thing, and if everyone did that, other onomatopoeia which have entered common parlance (such as “fap” or the aforementioned “glomp”) would never have come about.
Read an English-language comic book and you’ll notice they use lots of variation on the particular spellings of the onomatopoeia to give off slightly different feelings.
Fair enough. Also, just to point out: I wasn’t demanding anything, I was just asking (by which I mean I wasn’t asking you to use “glomp”, I was asking you if “glomp” wouldn’t be more correct, and if “clomp” served the same purpose. You provided a perfectly good answer/reply though).
And I was simply explaining myself.
I personally have a distaste for the connotations that “glomp” has accrued over the years, but it actually does a good job of describing the sound, so instead I chose to use a variation.
If I had thought of it at the time, I might have avoided it completely and put something like “bomf”.
Huh, “bomf”…I like that! π