Of course Tibetans are human beings! They're Chinese citizens, just like every other Chinese ethnic minority, and have been since the Tang Dynasty.

No it's not, a Mandarin speaker could easily say that word. Or that non-word.

No, a D+ is a 67-69, at least in America. I'm sure it could be different abroad.

Yu[p. Just because she doesn't completely fulfill the idealized abstract of "body positivity" - as defined by some arbitrary subset of people - doesn't mean she isn't body-positive.

English isn't even a Romance language, it just has a crapload of French and Latin vocabulary.

I always give students in the 57-59% range the F+ mostly because it makes them feel bad, when they should indeed feel bad, because the only explanation for them getting that bad a grade is laziness.

As a linguist, I love that they showed Hera code-switching in that scene. And in a much more realistic - not to mention dramatic and relevant - fashion than Firefly ever did.

Which, by the way, people would not shut up about how long it took for them to win a championship.

He's mostly focused on running his football team these days. I think.

it's a third declension noun, the plural would be Odysseis. Or Odyssees. Homeric kunstsprache is a bit tricky.

How can The Doctor be president? WHERE IS THE EARTH CERTIFICATE????

Especially because FMurray played the uncle in the present timeline and the father in the past. Maybe the uncle has aged into looking like his brother used to?

At first I thought Louie had gone to Hungary to chase Amia, and that Todd had followed along because he's a single guy who can do whatever the fuck he wants.

yeah, I noticed that right at the beginning and it was a very effective costume choice

I think because Louie reminds us that this actually happens, that rape isn't just a thing from fantasy books like dragons and ice zombies.

I think that, just as in his comedy bit, he's working to problematize behaviors that are often accepted by many segments of society. The scene with the attempted rape (which is 99.9% the same thing as rape, in my view) is a continuation of the previous episodes with the goal, as I see it, of demonstrating how a…

Are you familiar with the term "middle-aged" or are you, like Amia, someone who does not actually speak English?

The crystal thing was a poisoned, dyed sugar crystal. Just like the "pearl" in the final scene of Hamlet.

No it's not, sadly.

Oh really? That's so odd, I remember them looking much older. Which episode was that again?