“Should have.”

Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn... 

The roof of my mouth is already bleeding just reading that description of how he prepares his bread.

Damn, how do you split those hairs so thin?

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…

Yes, the TSA confiscates some pocket knives, but they miss lots of things. It’s primarily about, as I said, “security theater”; making people feel safe because it sure looks like there is security. There is no evidence that they’ve stopped a potential terrorist attack. It was one of many overreactions to 9/11 which…

Lord have mercy the human race cannot be this obtuse...

Okay Karen.

extremely similar

You left out “could of”.

TSA in general is dumb. A very poorly thought out agency.

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.

Sounds like TSA doesn’t trust their agents to see beyond a cognitive bias.

Also security theater is dumb.

I get that these are special for the part, but we’re talking about a plastic bottle that held a soft drink. Yes, yes, everyone can like what they like, and have fun how they like to have fun, but I brought a few fancy plastic drink holders back from cruises and trips to Mexico before I realized that I was just saving…

This article, and indeed, the Voyager DVD featurette, doesn’t fully describe the premise of the original ride. The story was that you were at Star Trek: Experience, about to get on a Trek-themed motion control ride. The staff spoke as if they were theme park employees, and it seemed a little ho-hum, especially for a…