Totally agreed on all points! When I first met La Signora Giuseppe in my mid-twenties, of course I wanted to show her all my “favorite movies,” many of which I hadn’t seen since my early-to-mid-teens: Lensman, The Last Unicorn, Wizards, and Labyrinth. After watching the first three, I was so disappointed that not only…

Certainly there’s no platonic ideal: there’s said to be a diälect continuüm from Western Holland thru Southern Germany where people, at least older people, can converse with those in a certain radiuüs (and the Dutch/German border just happens to be somewhere in there). But I still think that mutuäl intelligibility is…

My pleasure. It really makes my day that you noticed that I do that!

The golf thing really bothers me, tho. Meyers, Colbert, and even Conan are hitting that same Trump-playing-golf punchline almost every night, but I never heard anyöne but talk radiö and Fox News go after Obama for golfing. (I never knew it was a thing until a conservative friend made a joke about it as if it were…

The key is to subscribe to him on YouTube and watch the monologues and whatever else looks like won’t be actively painfully awkward, usually while you’re making dinner or doïng dishes. (This is also how I watch Bee, Colbert, and Meyers)

A. Just beïng obtuse
B. Commenting on the wrong article due to having too many tabs open
C. Commented on the correct article; Disqus put it here just for shits
D. Meta-commenting on Stephen making a similar bargain to the one Barry dœs (if my mother didn’t die, I wouldn’t be the Flash, but I’d have a mom is similar to if…

If it had The Lost Vikings, The Lost Vikings II, and that Dr. Mario/Tetris cartridge, I would pay ungodly sums for it. (Yes, I’ve played them all online, but never in the same place for very long.)

My comment may be guilty of a “No True Scotsman” fallacy (anyöne who disagrees with my assertion is not “a person who knows anything about languages), but I stand by it. I met many Chinese people, since I tutored ESL at an American university for two years, and many probably did think it was a single language, but I…

I once did a phonology problem set on whatever language Huttese was based on. I was having trouble figuring out how the stress pattern worked until I started saying every phrase followed by “…Solo ha ha ha ha ha!” and then it clicked into place!

How dœs taking it seriöusly have anything to do with considering English a fictional language?

I think the point was that you’s have a lot easiër time learning Indonesian or Spanish, where the consonants are almost a proper subset of those used in English, than Klingon (or any real language with, like, a double-digit number of click consonants) which has so many unusuäl sounds in it.

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I don’t think you’ll find a single person who knows anything about language who would propose that there is a single Chinese language.

To make up for his crazy consonant inventory, he uses the familiär five “cardinal vowels” of Spanish, Japanese, etc.

A lot of languages don’t have “to be.” It’s not really necessary, as shown in diälects of English that can say thing like “She crazy!” or “He a doctor now.” (Mebbe you don’t like how those sound, but the meaning is not enhanced by adding the copula.) Arabic has it but only uses it when conjugated, to mark tense, and…

We never got an explanation for the forehead ridges, tho, right? Just an explanation for why the TOS Klingons were lacking them?

Expanded Universe nothing, it was in a broadcast episode of the most-watched series.

Big Wheel gets on the subway

Reading this just makes me feel better that my 3yo isn’t potty-trained yet.

Sir Didymus is still alive. I saw him in that Henson exhibit that was museum hopping a few years back. (Notices that that was 2008; chooses not to edit “a few years” in comment.)