There are generally two types of foreign words in English - those that have been “anglicised” (ie adopted into English as English words and given an anglicised pronunciation) - and those that are “borrowed” words, still considered to be foreign words and given (altho we might butcher it) the foreign pronunciation.

I’m a native French speaker and I say “fort-ay” because that’s how the word is pronounced in North America and I don’t associate the word with French at all because of the way it’s used. “Forte” is the feminine for strong. If you say, “This is my forte,” you’re saying “this is my [strong female or feminine object]”.…

Forte is entirely its own word in American English at this point, and you’re no longer correct.

I know not everyone has gone to law school, despite it seeming that way, but the law isn’t simply what seems equitable or credible to you. There are things like rebuttable presumptions. If wake up with a sponge in me after a surgery, I don’t have to prove it was the nurse or the doctor or the resident. They are all…

Considering Lucas could’ve just watched the scene in RotJ, he could’ve written Episode III to make sense with it. He didn’t have to write it in a way that requires some bizarre imagined explanation that isn’t actually supported by the films. Which is what I’m getting at with Rebels, etc. I’d like the stories to fit,…

I’d debate that Yoda’s (and Ben’s) error with Vader being redeemable was supposed to be the whole point in the OT. On a narrative level, them being wrong about Vader, them having given up on him, and yet Luke finding a way to redeem him—that’s how their arcs all relate. It cheapens them as characters when they’re made…

And that’s pretty much fine. I just don’t like it when too much of what is in the OT gets watered-down into being half-truths. Ben’s “certain point of view” makes up for enough of that.

I just want Yoda to be *correct* in saying Luke is the last Jedi, not Yoda’s statement becoming the equivalent of “When gone am I, the…

If they do that, it will be the DUMBEST explanation.

Maybe because the idea of Skywalker and Organa being so isolated, homes and family destroyed, the last known potential Jedi in the galaxy far, far away... was quite evocative.

Personally, I think the prequels already weakened most of the existing characters from the OT that were in both. Hell, Yoda himself missed the Sith Lord literally standing right in front of him for years, then after essentially fighting Palpatine to a draw just decides to quit and run off into hiding.

I didn’t realize the Garmillans had joined the Empire!

Again: when Yoda tells Luke that once he dies, Luke will be the last of the Jedi, he also tells Luke that he’s NOT a Jedi yet.

Luke hasn’t completed his training and Yoda still considers him the last of the Jedi. At what stage is Ezra’s training? Is Kanan around by the time of the OT? He never completed his Jedi…

I like Ahsoka. I’d love to see more of her. But I also don’t like the idea of Yoda being retroactively made a liar in RotJ when he says to Luke “When gone am I, the last of the Jedi will you be.”

Sure, you could say “Ahsoka isn’t a Jedi anymore, so Yoda’s wouldn’t be lying if she was still alive during RotJ.” But after…

I think this is the first comic book kiss I ever saw

She is too sweet – and has seen too much of her life’s work come to naught in the face of habitat loss and poaching – to be dismissive. I have nothing against this post’s author, I just didn’t want JG to be tainted thus.

Apparently that’s normal gorilla behavior with babies and adult gorillas to get them to move — not aggression, just their version of grabbing someone by the hand. A baby gorilla knows that’s the cue to scramble onto their parents’ back and get off the ground. A baby human would obviously not have the same instinct.

I drive to work these days and bike for leisure (used to bike commute to school/work) and I’ve been hit once (driver right hooked into me after trying and failing to fully pass me. I was in the bike lane too) and doored once. Even if you’re following the rules it’s dangerous on a bike if there are no lanes... many…

How is it possible for people to be incumbent for their own safety when dangerous driving is responsible for 53% of pedestrian fatalities? (in NYC)

Works the other way around as well: drivers with cycling experience know the limits and frustrations of riding a bike in traffic, and are (should be) better at paying attention to possible bikes and anticipating what their riders will do.

I was thrown off and disappointed by that too. It’s a pretty sexist video in general if you cared to notice, but what else is new?