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Tea v2.0

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/itoons/?comic=957

Strip by: shiningpikablu252

This strip is presented with simplified Chinese as the primary language. For the benefit of wider viewership, subtitles in both traditional Chinese and English are also included. For ease of reading, three transcripts have been provided, one each in simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, and English.

Simplified Chinese in-strip speech:
Drinker: 我喜欢早上的第一杯茶！
Drinker: 咕噜咕噜
Drinker: 咖啡!

Traditional Chinese subtitles:
Drinker: 我喜歡早上的第一杯茶！
Drinker: 咕嚕咕嚕
Drinker: 咖啡!

English subtitles:
Drinker: I love the first cup of tea in the morning!
Drinker: Slurrrrp~
Drinker: COFFEE!

The author writes:

No offense to drinkers who actually prefer coffee, but there are those who would actually prefer tea--such as a large portion of the Chinese, for instance...

(Now watch somebody try a Tea 3.0 now that this one's in the wild...)

Original Awkward Fumbles strip: 2009-11-17.