Unfortunately, if they let that fukken hack JJ Abrams anywhere near your ideas, we’ll end up with another “Benedict Cumberbatch certainly is NOT Khan” shit show...

Well, first let’s shitcan broKirk and PunchLogic(tm)Spock and the shitty writing and directing that created them...

Jeezus, Mariner is fukken annoying.

Dr Hfuhruhurr has another way to change someone’s mind...

Or it was “I don’t really give enough of a shit about these people to bother learning how to pronounce their names on what’s got to be one of the biggest nights of their professional lives”.

Also remember that some people may be unwilling or unable to give you a reference... I had an intern that I fired for poor attendance ask to use me for a reference. What exactly did he expect me to say? “Billy was great, when he showed up...”

The appropriate response, in my opinion, would have been “Thank you, Gerrrm”, taking the award, and walking away. When someone calls you on it, say “GRRM is such a weird name.”

You mean he wasn’t heavy-handed with Avatar?

Well, that explains why nobody listens to me anymore...

What about when someone has your name on a list to start with, and can’t be fukken bothered to check the pronunciation of all the nominees?  Christ, there’s only SIX nominees for each category.  I gotta call bullshit on this one -- it would be trivial to provide phonetic pronunciations for all the nominees.

He already did the “fractured couple” trope in The Abyss, though...

This was outdated for business correspondence since Queen Victoria was around.

hahahahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahaha <gasp>

No kidding! What’s wrong with “Hey, I’ve enjoyed my time with you guys, but I have other shit to do now. Talk to you soon!”?

Will read this tomorrow.

Gotta be careful there... You don’t want some hack like Kevin J Anderson weaseling his way into the Dune universe.

Easiest? It’s pretty much the only way to make that happen...

As I said up-thread, if I have read-receipts turned on for you, it’s because I don’t trust you.

There is a time for that — problem co-workers, bosses, employees, customers... anyone you’re communicating with that you don’t trust. I know it’s 2020, but you’d be surprised how many people can’t be bothered to change the default behaviors of the software they use.

The list is incomplete without Pavel Chekov. How would we know about the future history of Glorious Mother Russia without him?