Hindi? Wow. You'll add a billion or so people to chat

I agree with your thought about grammar 100%. It wasn't until I was forced to learn Spanish grammar that English grammar finally made sense. I LOVE learning Spanish (it's my degree I'm working towards) - I feel like I know this great secret and can communicate with all these additional people! So cool.

I took a year of (classic) Latin in 11th grade, since two years of a language were going to be (supposed to be) a requirement for graduation (that didn't start until a couple of years after I graduated) and it was the only first-year course I could get into. Turns out that learning the basis of all the Romance…

I haven't learned any German, but I had French for eight years in middle school through high school. Learning Latin in college really helped me to see how French sort of developed, as well as Spanish, which I've attempted to pick up a bit in grad school because so many of my lab mates speak it. I always found it to be…

"I'm not a fencer. I'm a thespian. But I know how to make it look good."

Honestly, I think if you want an elegant fight, anything spoken will surely happen when they aren't fighting (like if they reprieve themselves during the fight when it doesn't seem to go anywhere). Mostly because trying to talk is definitely a distraction and overdone. When you're wielding that weapon, your only…

"…classic Batroc the Leaper, the age-old foe of Captain America that got a significantly less-ridiculous update for his brief appearance in Captain America: The Winter Soldier…"

Automatic Elf! That movie is legend!

The Rockford Files was a good show, but the one thing that was memorable about it for me was its awesome theme song, which was released as a single and actually peaked on Billboard's Hot 100 chart at #10; it also won a Grammy. The theme song was composed was Mike Post and Pete Carpenter, and Mike Post went on to do…

And Angel was the dude who warned us, by way of example, not to share too much with our Facebook/online "friends" because he couldn't keep his damn mouth shut or stop "sharing" rumors.

One of my friends described his rural college town as a "50/50 mix of pagans and rednecks," and he was delighted to realize that the words sorta mean the same thing.

You forgot two.

And why borrow from John Williams when you can go straight to the source: Holst's Planets. Brilliant!

"Sure, it ain't one of them la-di-da above ground places, but if you like dank forget about it."

"THEY DYED ME THIS COLOR!"

The gravy pot can go around six times for all I care. It deserves it.

I couldn't help it... it just came to me.

#7. Cod Wars. Possible inspiration for this?

I played 4th Edition D&D once... ONCE.

He's a handsome boy.