I was eliminated from the city-wide spelling bee in the 6th grade for spelling amok as A-M-U-C-K, which is now an “accepted alternate spelling.” My bitter lesson in “language evolves!” meaning “if enough people can’t bother to get it right, we’ll just start relabel wrong as right.”

For all intensive purposes it’s a perfectly cromulent alternate spelling.

You’re doing good work here. I read the comments of the “comprise” article. When people say shit like “oh, language evolves and what I said was correct, too”, it’s usually just because they can’t handle being wrong. I’m not perfect either, but bad grammar and usage makes me wince. Can’t we all just allow our own…

You left out “could of”.

Ehh, I’m generally supportive of grammar-naziing; I can’t stand “intensive purposes” or “could care less.” I appreciated the “who/whom” article, but this is esoteric and inconsequential enough, I simply couldn’t care less.

And more often than not, the language suffers as a result, getting more opaque and losing clarity. This is not a good thing, and prescriptionists are the ones keeping us from total linguistic confralamitudes as a result.

I love how the headline both here and at EW make it seem like King was being obstinate, yet Flanagan’s comments make it sound like Flanagan said, “Here’s what I want to do,” and King said, “Okay, cool.”

“One weird thing, though. Once we were finished talking, I said, ‘I’m so excited to become the director of Doctor Sleep’, and King said, ‘You’ve always been the director of Doctor Sleep, Mr Flanagan’.”

Probiotics in kombucha are purported to be good for your gut health, beneficial to energy levels, and a boon to your immune system

You really don’t even need to look.

There are so many layers to everything going on here.

I love the ad guys who were just like “this thing will sell if we can get a picture of Ricardo Montalban waxing the hood in a tuxedo on a pier in Lake Mead at sunset with a 5,000 foot tall Chrysler logo statue in the background imposing its will over the lake.”

Got in a wreck in one of these. She was driving — but can’t remember her name. She worked at a CVS or a Walgreens maybe? She T-boned this girl named Christina. She was driving her mom’s truck. A few months later I ended up dating Christina before I set her leg wax on fire in her mom’s kitchen microwave.

Refutation of point 1:

“vegan donuts”? Fuck that. 

We went to the Exploratorium during a particularly heavy rain forecast afternoon on our most recent trip to SF and it was fantastic. Well-maintained and interesting. Highly recommend.

The Presidio is always fun. I go there a lot.

You’re right about Aquarium of The Bay. I was dragged there once and was very underwhelmed. I was like “that’s it?”. For the money they charge you’re better off at the Academy of Sciences or Monterey.