Today's marmosets are just lazy. They play too much X-Box. In my day, marmosets played outside more.
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Deadline reports that the Syfy Channel — which seems mysteriously interested in scifi shows nowadays — has ordered a…
In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Inca Empire was the largest South America had ever known. Rich in…
The correct answer is in order of purity:
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An alien language that has never before been seen by humans would not natively use the Roman alphabet. As such, any romanization of human names would have been developed deliberately by human linguists. And when linguists devise a romanization for a language, they tend to avoid unnecessary elements.
There are lots of…
The problem occurs with apostrophes that are used for no reason. Writers will stick an apostrophe in for "foreignness" because they expect their Anglophone audience to ignore them. If the apostrophe actually has a use — especially a phonetic value — then I don't have much issue with it.
In general, I'm in favor of…
I like China Mieville's take on this issues in "Embassytown". If I remember correctly, the aliens speak with two mouths simultaneously at different frequencies. The only humans that can understand them are psychically linked, genetically modified twins. As an art form, the aliens conscript humans to act out similes…
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Or, just add Onius, Ainous or Anous.
When I hear STAR TREK fans complain about all the apostrophes in alien names, I remind them of Chief O'Brien and Lt. D'Amato.
Let's not forget Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who tried to kill Holmes, only to kowtow to demand and brought him back.
When Yankee Lawyer: The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt came out in 1943, a lot of readers were confused. After all,…
Mmm... to start with, with the technology available at that time it was impossible for Spaniars or Portuguese to know how much mineral wealth Brazil had, i don't get where the dumbness is.
It's become a cliché to say, "If I could do it all over again, I wouldn't change a thing." Or, "I'd do the same…
The most terrifying cereal of all-time.
@ Means 'Arroba' in Spanish & Portuguese, which is an (outdated) unit of weight.
Who gives a shit what Whedon thinks about anything?
The basic premise of "heteronormativity is outlawed!" reminds me so much of this book's premise, but with gender:
That picture just reminds me how much I love watching Tron Legacy, against all good judgement. Its just one of those movies I can view over and over for no reason other than the visual and auditory aesthetics of the world.