Aren't you an art historian? We Germans were not friendly to you? I am surprised actually. Sorry on behalf of the friendly southerners at least.

Your response made me really LÖL. Thank you, and I am not being sarcastic or mocking you at all. I am not a native speaker and many people have expressed this idea to me, including my PhD advisor many times, though not as funnily, so, thank you for being so patient, I really seriously mean that.

I understand what you are saying and appreciate the many examples and lengthy response.

It's not though. See response to other person. We do not refer to the Koch Brothers as a "Goliath" because they have not been vanquished for one thing and because they have many adversaries for another. I am not even willing to give up the ghost on more than/over and the use of "gift" as a verb, so about the Goliath…

The commenter, in the diatribe suggesting basically that I STFU, said that I should just say THE BIBLE and that I was just some hormonal crazy college girl for insisting there were both large and subtle distinctions between the Tanakh, Masoretic texts, apocrypha, and so on, and if THE BIBLE was good enough for her, it…

No. I am arguing that this is not a good analogy, in addition to being an improper spelling convention. The story is comparing groups of people vs. groups of people, and the adversary has not in fact been defeated. A modern pop culture analogy to David and Goliath is Erin Brockovich vs. Pacific Gas & Electric, in…

I actually am proficient at it in that I have presented correct information over and against both the wrong use of the word in the story and the vaguely anti-semitic comments of one of the posters, thereby correcting two errors.

In a story about violence against women on college campuses, all the parts of the story are important. I'm sorry you didn't pay any attention to the lessons learned from the poor journalism behind the Rolling Stone UVA fiasco, which has given fraternity boy rapists and colleges-as-corporations more power than they…

I realize you'd have to take a day off from your important job as mayor of Jezebel commenting to actually do some research, but Hebrew Bible is the term archaeologists and scholars use to describe the Tanakh, the canonical Mikra, as it is less westernizing/Christianizing than Old Testament (or scriptures). I'm sorry,…

Was the patriarchy killed by a boy throwing a stone at it? The story suggests quite the opposite, for one thing that the acts of individuals have had little effect. The preferred use in the OED is the formal appellation. I realize Jezebel gives zero Fs about English, semantic shift and so on, but the metaphor is not…

It's "Goliath," a proper name from the Hebrew Bible, and it's not really an apt metaphor in this situation. I know I'm always that person but it is so, so important that these analyses be impeccably written and edited and completely bulletproof in facts, figures, grammar, spelling everything. Otherwise just post a…

cadaverous pig carcass ^repit.

Dudes are really tall, especially those from the north. I short for a German (Bavaria!) and my colleagues from Düsseldorf ... some of them are nearly a full metre taller than me. The women too. I feel like a pug wandering amid a forest of elegant greyhounds sometimes.

German here. I'm doing OK getting the D. Never with Americans though. Never. Trust me, it's us who doesn't want you.

For as much as Jezebel hates the Germans, you sure do love our gendered nouns. How 'bout moving the word for thespians along to the 21st Century, viz. server :: actor.

No, I know, that's very true. Even Wölfflin, Dvorak, etc. were very aware of the somewhat comical, over-the-top aspects of Ruskin. But I do think he unfairly gets no credit for, later, making the outsized personas of people like Greenberg possible, and even Benjamin though not successful at the time does focus on many…

Manic Panic is still going strong. The MP ultra white developer is what people still use to get the totally pale hair that's needed for the bright colors. Other companies – Schwarzkopf and Fudge – make bright temporary colors now too but so still does Manic Panic.

Are you a German person in Italy? Because I totally feel that.

That's actually not true. He was very willing to engage with intellectual arguments, for example with the Pre-Raphaelites and so on, and his critique of their sort of baroque-symbolist mashups which you could argue Perry, visually, borrows from. Ruskin set the stage for Tietze and Dvorak to relate Venetian and Italian…

This is a consistent thread in the posts of Schrayber, Ryan, and Pinkham. The commenters' response indicates that they are already aware of Flula's schtick as are most normal people, something one should hope does not elude a person whose paid occupation is pop culture idolator or whatever.