Seriously, who calls him Mr. Eko? That's Adebisi! Infinitely more memorably character.

Best possible answer.

Noted. Don't hang out with Drew Fortune.

Sherrod.

I'm pretty sure that after the obvious (Omar), Bodie was everyone's favorite character.

You mean "redshirts." Brownshirts is something else entirely.

Not to be all editorial on you, but the "illusion of something fresh," not "allusion/"

Fuck U2. Once a rock band, then corporate shills, now this bullshit. Vandals. The most obnoxious spamming of all time.

Can we do a Hatesong for this song? Because it is truly the worst record in American history. "American Pie" is to Bob Dylan or Woody Guthrie as Golden Girls is to the wire.

For the record, AV Club, Ice-T's upbringing occurred in Newark, New Jersey, not South Central Los Angeles.

You mean gantlets. Not gauntlets.

I feel like there were supposed to be some jokes in this video, but someone dropped the ball.

Again, the distinction you are referring to is all about describing and understanding languages, not about dictating how people should think about usage going forward. Your argument about there not being an equivalence between less/fewer and more, and this demonstrating that the less/fewer distinct was invalid, was…

It's not a revolution against the oppression of grammar. It's meant to be an approach to the academic study of language, not to the acquisition of the language itself. The latter view would just make it an internet echo chamber for ignorance. We have enough of those already.

There's dialects and then there's written language. When you are speaking, you have a lot more latitude; and it's a little crazy to jump down peoples throats for grammatical errors in spoken English- you don't necessarily know how a sentence is going to end when you begin it. But there need to be very strong rules…

I won't worry. You don't even understand what "descriptivism" means. You're really not going to get very far.

This is disingenuous though. A nice class conflict argument is always effective, but there is nothing more inherently middle class than grammar. It can very simply, with minimal application (only willingness) be acquired by anybody, and can improve one's status both intrinsically (precision reading comprehension)…

That's just really not true. The English language is pretty accessible regardless of class, and it does not take much, besides motivation, to acquire this level of basic fluency. Grammar, like vocabulary, is a pretty good barometer of a knowledge base, since (learning disabilities notwithstanding), the more that you…

This isn't the stuff people who are "overly intense" about grammar freak out about, or that there is any kind of active dispute over traditional versus current usage. These are all fundamental rules of English grammar. No gray area here. Using poor grammar doesn't mean you are an idiot, but it does make you sound…

Thaaaaat's racist!