I think you have the misconception that descriptivists allow people to use language the way they want while prescriptivists insist people speak a certain way. As I understand it, descriptivists do not believe anyöne is in a position to allow or not allow someöne to speak in any way, while prescriptivists are in that…

English teachers should simply make clear that they are teaching several different things.
1) Standard English, which is closer to the native diaälect of some of their students, further for others
2) Clear writing, which can be done in any language/diälect, but for ease of instruction is kept to just the one
3) How to…

False! There are rules to language, and descriptivists seek them out as well. It’s just that the real rules of language are hard, while prescriptivist rules are easy. For example, A prescriptivist will tell you that of
1) Me like to swim
2) Henry and I like to swim
3) Henry and me like to swim
4) Me and Henry like to swim
(…

Or, alternatively, just take the approach they took to Professor X appearing in three more X-Men movies after he died, and just hope people don’t really notice…

Uh, The Search for [Arthur] Curry’s Gold was right there!

Awesome. She’s named (at least on my side) after my great aunt, tho the latter’s name was Adeline. I didn’t know this when my wife and I started talking, and by the time I found out I was wrong, we’d grown too attached to the d-final variänt. Also, we’re both Broadway-obsessives, and love “Guys and Dolls,” so it works…

The guy who played Dracula in Van Helsing has a knack for playing the bad guy in movies I was really excited about that turned out to be disappointing: also includes the count in Moulin Rouge and the Fantom in LXG.

My daughter (Adelaide, tho obviöusly La Signorina Giuseppe on these pages) was born at about four o’clock this morning. She and La Signora are both doïng great. Looking forward to bringing her home, tho as she came earliër than expected, there’s still plenty of cleaning to do.

Max’s? They might still have some of the 9,000 Belgians they had on top for Belgian Bierfest a few weeks back…

Miles? Are you sure miles is the unit of measurement you’d like to use to measure the distance between Boston and Cambridge?!

The one and only book I’ve ever purchased at a thrift store (and I’ve spent a lot of time at thrift stores and even willingly bought plush toys and used socks there) was a coffee table book entitled Monkey Portraits. Worth it!

There’s this website that seeks to compile all the rule34 illustrations (I shan’t name it here, but shockingly, it dœsn’t come until the second page of Google results!), and it actually has no images of Miss Frizzle! Even deviäntArt dissapoints: plenty of good cosplay, and two supposedly naked drawings, but nothing in…

Mine too. Because I only watch their YouTube output, tho, I’ve been missing out on Meyers’s monologues until recently, when they started putting them up. I also subscribe to Conan, tho only watch it if it looks interesting or takes place in a foreign country.

Still there. I added it!

Just read Margaret Atwood’s (yes that Margaret Atwood) Angel Catbird and boy is it as terrible as everyöne says. Do not waste your time.

Just discovered an amazing kids’ group called the Okee Dokee Brothers. Their regular albums are fine (remind me of BNL/TMBG), but their trilogy of albums where they go on outdoor adventures (canœing the Mississippi, hiking the AT, and horse-trekking out west) are suitably epic. Luckily, my three-year-old loves them as…

My son (who is three and thus still tryïng to understand this whole “president” thing) keeps asking if Donald Trump is coming “here” (presumably to our apartment?), and at first I was all “hell naw,” but now instead I say he’s welcome as long as he agrees to certain conditions, mostly undoïng a lot of harm he’d done.

My schedule is cluttered with more hoür (and hoür-plus ahem Sherlock) shows than I can keep up with, but I only watch two half-hoür shows (B-99 and Bob’s), so I welcome at least the chance of a short show to watch when there’s not an hoür left.

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Worse than Hollywood or Hollywood Returns, but still better than Hollywood and Burbank. Then the franchise really showed new promise with Hollywood Begins, peaked with Tinseltown, and then went downhill again with Tinseltown Rises. Now for some reason it’s back in the sequel to The Big Apple called, obviöusly, New…