I think you’re responding to the wrong post. I never said you weren’t invaded by others and that French was the only base of your language (which gave me my language). Dutch is quite close in some parts (Ik was = I was). And we’ve been promiscuous in borrowing words (zeitgeist, ladder, umbrella, etc.) Perhaps you mean…

And Bowie only had one before he died - for the short film ‘Blue Jean’ . He had to die before they really acknowledged him. So I agree completely about the Grammys being useless (hence, my Gladys Knight reference)...

If you’re not her audience, you’re not her audience. I’m not a fan of Metallica, but I won’t deny their talent. But go ahead making pronouncements of what’s good according to your taste. That’s what white rock critics have been doing since the beginning of rock ‘n roll.

And French needed Latin. And English imported from just about everyone. So my point still stands...

But you have American knuckleheads who’ll sneering, “Speak English” at non-Yanks. I find it always sobering to remind them that they don’t really speak “English” (I worked two decades with Brits, so I speak both)...

Horrid tribute: it sounded like a horror film theme. THIS would have been a much better tune musically and thematically...

Intellectual property and branding: you can have your sparkling wines, but don’t call it champagne unless it’s grown in that region. You can speak whatever you won’t, but don’t call it English unless it adheres to certain properties. (Plus, after being subjugated by them for centuries, why would you want to use…

He won’t. France does not allow huge punitive damages.

The most he’ll get is court costs and a symbolic euro for the win, though. France does not allow the huge punitive damages that the US does. So he’s SOL.

Good luck here, cheating Frenchman: there is no way in hell that he’ll get more than his court costs and a symbolic euro for his trouble. France does not allow the high damages that US courts allow. What the dude here was trying to do is scare Uber into paying him off to go away for fear of bad publicity. Too bad, too…

Distilling a language down so it’s easier for you to text is not everyone’s aim. And as it’s called, well, “English”, it makes sense for the English to dictate what’s correct in it. Otherwise, we should just call what we speak US American.

Given our current president - elected by 48% of voting Americans, I don’t think we Yanks are in a good position to question Brits on the language that they (at the least the English) originated.

The British would disagree...

The only question: will Putin let him?

Plus, it seems like a rip-off of a Mae West quote: “It’s not the men in your life, it’s the life in your men.”

So do white men. In fact, white men have been the major perpetrators of terrorism in the US in the last decade. But Maher’s too busy focusing elsewhere.

The one thing that brings this into the realm of shade: she didn’t say what she was referring to. Shade is the burn that includes plausible deniability: “When I said that your hair looks good today, I didn’t mean that it looks bad every other day. YOU must feel insecure about your hair if you took it that way.”

Tyra was a Victoria’s Secret Angel and the cover model for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. Oozing sex was one of her job requirements. Rita evidently is not familiar with her boss’ résumé...

Giggle giggle...

Oh, I agree that DeRulo was an idiot - and ANYONE who pulls this shit deserves to be taking the bus from now on. But the original poster (who called himself a “privileged white guy”) ignores that there’s a different standard for what constitutes intimidating coming from a white guy and what’s scary coming from a black…