Traynor is only into women. But my FemShep ditched Liara for a fling with her in the shower of the captain's quarters. Totally worth it.

The term is "LEGO(tm) bricks and toys". God.

OK fine, "this is going to be the breasts." Happy?

That's dope. Extremely dope, actually. I mean, that shit is dunce-cap, solid.

I liked that game quite a bit, but this sounds like it has a whole lot of potential of its own.

To be fair, presidents definitely affect pop culture and this particular one seems to have an especially high likelihood of doing so in certain ways (Twitter involvement, active hostility towards media and the arts, budget cuts to NEA/NEH etc.). No doubt that some of the articles appearing here are a bit of a stretch,…

It's almost as ironic as having your business manager steal all your money. Although… that's technically not ironic so much as awful and sad. Someone should write a song about that.

You mean like, if I had made it another 30 years before that, I wouldn't have even realized it was wrong to joke about slavery to a black person's face? Hmm…

I do what I can.

I think there are already a few, thanks for playing.

"Take" isn't even a verb there. C'mon man, stay focused.

This is basically how language change works in general. Just enjoy the ride— contribute to trends you like and complain about the ones you don't like. It all feeds into the course of the ongoing evolution of English.

I made a "joke" like this to a black friend 30 years ago and have regretted it ever since…

90% though?

I think it's more about an entire system and way of doing things that's evil. Most of the people running that system are surely white (because for almost all X in North America, most of the people running system X are white), but I don't think it's about incriminating white people on the basis of their whiteness.

His science is too tight! (throws cap on ground in defeat)

As a medium-old (41) white fart (and BTW, the idea of fart colors is making me laugh right now), I think "woke" is pretty great— it relates to the idea of "waking up" but it's its own word with a built-in cultural perspective that more people need to be aware of. I can certainly appreciate that some people (like…

I posted something similar (in a different sub-thread here) 20 minutes after you but a bit less polemically. I don't suppose you've read anything interesting on AAVE linguistics recently (that you could recommend)? Last contact I had with linguistic work on it was a couple of papers written by (white) colleagues in…

I refuse to believe that it's Teti. The man behind Gameological would never slap "woke" in the middle of a perfectly good headline like that.

So is that like a rolled/repeated "d" or do you just hold your tongue in the "d" position really tensely for like 15 seconds while glaring at the person you're talking to? Inquiring minds want to know.