Well, two things are getting conflated here that often get conflated in this kind of discussion. On the one hand you have language, the system that exists in the mind of a speaker, and on the other you have writing style and the formalized register of language used in literary, academic, and other kinds of formal…

"A lot of prescriptivists are trying to help prevent language from being manipulated into something it's not."

Well, the "elites" when it comes to language are linguists, who study language scientifically for a living, and they are all descriptivists. You can't be a prescriptive scientist.

I don't understand the world that we're living in. Do the majority of the people who voted in Trump and the GOP also hate old people and children? Is that part of the world? I didn't think it was part of the world, but apparently it is because this is happening?

So therefore this administration will be against it. Is there any way that we can have the poor people turn a wheel that somehow pumps more greenhouse gases into the air?

To be fair, it's not like there's any sort of international diplomatic crisis going on in Asia right now, so who cares what Tillerson's doing over there? The only thing we have to worry about is a rogue state lobbing nuclear bombs at US bases located on one of our closest allies, which, coincidentally, is the only…

I basically clicked on this link just because I saw him in the header image. Whether he crosses over to the US or not, he's definitely one of my favorite actors.

It's literally taking all of my knowledge and experience of both Christianity (the real kind, not the GOP kind) and Buddhism to deal with our current fiasco. It is super hard.

Let's not forget the time she got randomly knocked up by space-light, and then the space-light decided it was going to move on, traumatizing her forever.

I am trying to use the opportunity of the current political climate to further my Buddha-nature and double-down on non-violence. But this guy is really pushing it.

AAAAAAAAH. It is too late for this linguist to see this nonsense. I was just about to finish brushing my teeth and go to bed, and now I have to fume about this for hours instead.

Ah, so Nemesis was the part of TNG where Troi's sole purpose was to get weirdly violated by some sort of sci-fi thing? That narrows it down.

Yes. It was built out of Welsh bluestone hauled across Britain to the Salisbury Plain by Druids thousands of years ago. We used to comment there. It was fun.

Was Tom Hardy the bald Romulan? ::googlin':: Nope, that was Eric Bana in the reboot? I guess somehow I conflated Nemesis and the Star Trek Reboot which I am going to blame on the fact that I have had two children since the latter and I am very tired.

I agree! I've just become so sadly used to the things I love not being good enough for TV Club Classic, and for the TV Club Classic that I love not being good enough for the AV Club.

I don't remember Nemesis very well. Was that one of the better not-so-good TNG movies, or a straight-up not-so-good TNG movie? I know it wasn't First Contact, so it's not the good TNG movie.

Do it on Farscape because if enough people upvote random Farscape comments from several years ago, TV Club Classic will spontaneously revive and finally cover Season 4 of a 15-year-old sci-fi show that had medium-cult status at best! Yay!

I'm finally getting to the second half of DS9 (Seasons 5-7), which I didn't watch when it first aired, because to middle-school-aged me, Worf was the boringest, and I gave up after a season of him.

I have to say, I am not usually one for memes, but today my Facebook thread is filled with Obamas peeking out of microwaves, and I giggle every time.

I belive it's Don't be a Menace to Cabot Cove While Drinking Your Barbituals in Mrs. Fletcher's Chowder.