One of my biggest problems with the movies is that they made Elrond (and all of the other elves) so angry and stodgy, and completely ignored all of the joyful aspects of his character from the books. The elves, especially the Noldor, are a people defined by the way their joy for life is inextricably mixed with sorrow as they fight the long defeat, which is part of what makes them so compelling.

Lol, I spelled it “ov” on my spelling test.

*puerile

This is literally the opposite of what happened. “To damp” was used to mean “to moisten” in the 1670s, a hundred and fifty years before “dampen” started to be used for it also in the early 1800s.

As with many if not most of the pedants in this thread, you’re dying on a hill that’s actually just straight-up wrong.

Natural human languages always have ambiguity. There are plenty of conlangs (constructed languages) specifically designed to avoid ambiguity though if you wanted to use one of those.

If such a version of English were ever made, it would immediately gain ambiguity as soon as people began speaking it fluently (and same for the conlang if a community of speakers began using it fluently as well).

There’s been no meaning shift. The “possessive” and “envious” uses of jealous both date from the 14th century in English, and both senses were present in the ancestors of these words all the way back to Greek.

If there were no surface tension there would almost definitely be no wicking action either. If it didn’t evaporate super quickly, water without surface tension would probably be a giant pain in the ass to clean up.

I just wanted to thank you for bringing this perspective to the conversation even though you’re getting absolutely blasted for it. That’s a great comic too - I’m saving that for later.

This is my favorite romcom.

Gotta love some good, old-fashioned eucatastrophe.

Same. Sauce ruins good fries.

I always just go to America’s Best. $80 for an eye exam and two pairs of glasses is hard to beat.

This sounds like that “can you fry an egg at the top of Mt Everest” game.

Thanks for taking the time to write such an informed and in-depth comment!

Well we know where that got Saruman, Pippin, and Denethor.

Elephants apparently find humans cute, but I doubt that cats would.

… but then you remembered that there are 8,000 languages in the world other than English, and recalled that “ok” has been borrowed into a ton of them.

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What’s good for the goose is good for the gander I suppose. I wish we didn’t ruin people’s livelihoods for bad/unpopular opinions in the first place, but we seem have agreed as a culture that that’s what we do now, so ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted; the last somewhat good game Bethesda made was more than a decade ago at this point.

Maybe people think you’re insinuating that the games are bad because of the workers and not because of bonehead management?