Let's not forget focusing on a propaganda victory in Stalingrad rather than working to further the overall war effort on the Eastern Front and, more significantly, creating an enormous labor shortage by killing off millions of people.

"Faux-medieval dialogue?" Sounds like they really messed up the translation. The dialogue in the Japanese version isn't like that at all.

We are not just mourning the loss of a man. An actor of Philip Seymour Hoffman's talent only comes along once or twice in a generation. The entire cinema art form has suffered a terrible a terrible and irrevocable loss.

"Socially bankrupt?" Try "sociopathic" or just plain "evil."

You, sir, have set an example that all people should emulate.

As a man, I think the best compliment is when a woman genuinely laughs at my jokes.

You are talking about the most common review scores, right?

I want a CEFR/Cambridge/IELTS type of test. They have them for English, so why not Japanese? I have done translation and interpreting, but I certainly wasn't ready for that when I passed JLPT 1.

How much for a picture of one?

Aw, that's so adorably ineffective.

Snow Crash and then another copy of Snow Crash so that they can pass it along to someone else.

The entire country of Japan only has about 500 murders per year. Not gun murders. 500 or so murders total.

If only this were the most serious issue affecting Japanese-Korean relations...

I was in Japan on 3.11 when the earthquake and tsunami hit. The earthquake was a shock, but I remember turning on the news the next day and hearing announcers talking very rapidly about an explosion at a nuclear power plant. In the end, there was no apocalyptic meltdown, but we all thought there might be at any time…

Odd. The states with the most guns seem to be ranked pretty low on this list. I wonder why.

Hi, Sarah. It's good to have you here.

Or it could give them super powers...

It's not just the grammar that's bad. The pronunciation is also horrible. It was definitely intentional, though. You can't mess up the language to that extent without really trying at it.

I know that this was a tentative itinerary and the dates could be changed, but why so little time in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan? For that matter, a whole month in LA? What's there to do for a month in LA?

Metal Gear Solid IV was really good in the first two levels, but after that was pretty ho-hum. When I finished the game, the first thing that came to my head was, "Is that it? Is this really the end of the game?" Still, I loved the first two levels.