’96 was Mullholland Falls, tho, so still peak Connelly.

It’s a shame this is the Internet’s kneejerk (yes yes, I know, “that’s not a knee” ha ha) reäction to everything Labyrinth. You’re not at fault, 2¢; if you’dn’t said it, someöne else would’ve.

I always root for the species most closely related to me, except in seal vs. penguin.

Just playing his exactly character from Galavant?

I pronounce “our” and “pour” with one syllable, but “hoür” and “floür” with two; the diäereses represent that. You’re right that it’s not perfect, because the “u” is clearly effecting the pronunciätion of the previöus vowel as well as getting its own phonetic reälization. I like that you’re thinking about these…

BvS is the only movie featuring Batman that I haven’t seen. I’m wondering if I should watch it just so I can make a definitive list of Batman movies by quality. (Yes, this means I’ve seen ’66 as well as the seriäl, altho not the sequel to the seriäl…)

Oh, this would be a good triviä category (on, like, Ask Me Another or something): describe a real movie as if it were a superhero crossover based on parts the actors had played:
-Alfred gœs undercover as a teacher at a school in Maine, but Spider-Man is there too!
-In an alternate timeline, Batman and Wolverine are…

The (then) 102 people like the joke about the silly Martha moment in BvS; less than a dozen like the comment about not knowing what motherboxes are.

Spreadsheets I actually have:
-Every movie I’ve ever seen
-A massive guest list for my wedding with imaginary B and C lists for a really huge event with tables and everything.
-Every croquet game I’ve ever played, with whom I played it, where I played it
-Every game of Pandemic and how it turned out (death by outbreak is…

Dœs your spreadsheet, like mine, have every movie you’ve ever seen on it? Dœs it go all the way back to 1920, and when you made it it inspyred you on a quest to make sure you’d seen at least one movie from every year so that you could have, in some infelicitous sense, a favorite? Are they bold if you saw them in the…

Heathcote?

Sounds sort of like the way people reviewed every graphic novel 10-20 years ago with at least a paragraph about how it Eightball or Blankets wasn’t, traditionally speaking, Batman.

I know fans will hate me for this, but I think Season 5 without Whedon but with most of the main cast was still better than when Whedon came back for Season 6 but they had to air in on Yahoo Screen, with only four of the original crew. Also, 2007 was just too early to be débute a legitimate TV show on the Internet.

I just finished S1 of that (and S2 of Flash) jesterday, and S4 of Arrow as soon as Il Signorino falls asleep for his nap. La Signora have been watching nothing but DCTVU shows in our watching time, so it’s somewhat a bummer that we don’t get a mandated break. (Still have to watch the two most recent Defenders seasons…

Swedish dœsn’t even have ü. Boy, I sure hope Mœ got fired for that blunder!

No, I suppose not. I read it a decade ago, just before embarking on my career as a professional linguist, and devoüred it. I had read The Mother Tongue a few years before that, and it had certainly whetted my appetite for that type of thing, but Crystal (beïng a linguist) blew Bryson away.

I’d say “PBS’s funding…” Their rule is fine, I guess, and consistently applied, but it’d never work for me.

Il Signorino Giuseppe plays that game at the playground sometimes!

Nerds specialize in academic pursuit of a discipline, so a grammar nerd would defend a speaker’s right to speak a diälect where there is no count/non-count distinction between fewer/less. Perhaps it’s grammar geeks that you like?

Would a pedant correct a British person for saying “Maybe you should’ve done” in place of the American “Maybe you should’ve,” or are grammatical differences in language variëties okay if there happens to be a political border between the speakers?