This entire thread is /c/badlinguistics.

Americans Languages do love redundancies.

Why is this so accurate?

I like how everyone in here is like, “that’s (insert one of twelve completely different things).”

Maybe not. It’s possible that he has enough contempt for Han to cover for both, and I just assumed.

Man, fuck Harrison Ford. I have no idea why he has such contempt for the two roles that put him on the map, especially when they’re two of the most beloved characters in cinematic history.

It’s also clear from his interviews that he just completely misunderstands the character of Han Solo.

Edit: Apparently he doesn’t hate Indy like he does Han. That only makes me feel marginally less indignant though.

The Atari 5200 controller is also pretty legendarily bad. It doesn’t look all that bad for the time, but it’s so poorly designed that it practically doesn’t function.

Hey look, it’s me

Do you have a source for him going off on people on set? I’ve looked around a bit but can’t find anything.

I honestly don’t know how much better the result would have been. I think if Jackson has free rein, he still omits the Scouring of the Shire.

Jackson also tends toward the dramatic, like how he changed the Witch King’s mace to a flail that was practically larger than the actor, or the completely unnecessary theatrics of Denethor’s death.

I don’t really blame him for the Hobbit, because when someone is throwing that much money at you, it’s hard to not just do the job and try to forget about it. He’d already finished the work that he wanted to do, after all.

Jackson definitely nailed a lot of important scenes though, and you can tell that he wanted to make the trilogy, which automatically makes it far better than if it were just modern content slop like the Rings of Power.

From what Tolkien himself wrote about proposed adaptations, compared to Jackson’s actual adaptation, on top of what Christopher Tolkien himself said about Jackson’s adaptation, I’m very sure he would take offense at the idea that Sanderson was studying Tolkien and not Jackson.

I completely agree. I love the movies and think they’re probably the best anyone could possibly have done with the property.

Even so, Sanderson is studying Jackson here, and Tolkien would take offense at the implication that he was studying him (that is, studying Tolkien).

He’s not taking notes from Tolkien - he’s taking notes from Peter Jackson. Tolkien would be genuinely offended to have the movies attributed to him.

Where am I?

Unfortunately, the only cement mix we have is the bastardized one handed down to us from Emperor Concretius, but that dates from after Rome had become a sea power, and consequently lost their ability to maintain their characteristically hard public erections.

And we’re lucky to even have that! While it would certainly be nice to have the ability to bless our erections with the near-supernatural potency of our forebears, I highly doubt that we’ll ever be able to get as hard as the Romans were in the foreseeable future.

You can’t reinforce cement - it’s already as hard as we can get it without Roman technology. Are you talking about, like, Roman legion reinforcements? Because I don’t think we’ll master time travel until we at least get usable fusion power online.

It’s true that it looks like most modern public projects are underfunded, but that’s mostly because all roads already lead to Rome so most of the cement work is already done for us.

Cement was invented by the early Roman Empire, back when the Romans had a terrible navy because they were terrified of getting wet, to the point that they turned naval battles into land battles to avoid the water.

For an empire that was so terrified of water that they could literally turn the ocean into dry land, preventing cement from reabsorbing water was effectively a child’s play application of their advanced technology. In fact, they hated water so much that Roman cement actually got even harder when it was submerged.

As is well known, however, the secret of Roman cement, like the mysterious Roman language itself, has been lost to time, and so while we can still poorly replicate their technology without fully understanding it, the question of why even inferior modern cement is able to stay hard in the rain is a mystery that will probably never be solved.

Nah, turned out it’s just nepotism as usual. The woman’s husband personally knows the police chief.

If your husband is personally friends with the police chief, yes.

“Dialectal” or “non-standard” is more accurate than “grammatically incorrect”, since “them there” is perfectly grammatical in those dialects.