Matthew Butcher

Then I'd treat it the same as HANA-BI, which also has a Roman-alphabet title.

I notice your film list goes with "Hana-Bi" in a similar situation. (I forget whether the Wenders movie goes with 東京画 or TOKYO-GA as the primary title, which might or might not be relevant.)

Whatever your favourite style guide recommends for titles with hyphenated compound nouns, I guess. "Ga" = "picture," as in "manga," etc.

Tales of Wonder

Lord Dunsany had this figured out.

www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1...

Leopold II?

Robert Arthur was the actual editor for those anthologies, and the author of most of the early Three Investigators novels.

I've only been to the three in Japan. I found it odd that the two Tokyo theatres listed were both in the Ikebukuro neighborhood. They're good, don't get me wrong, but Tokyo has lots of good cinemas.

Had a look at that thread's replies and it's just another iteration of "name a popular work of art that you hate"; the word "aesthetic" might as well not even have been there

Platner's wife might not even be Jewish. The source for the claim seems to be VDare.

Oh, right. And can't use dashes for a multi-sentence parenthesis. Etc., etc.

I guess the main differences are that em-dashes change the degree of emphasis, they don't nest, and they don't work on stuff like "worker(s)."

Swapping parentheses for em-dashes is fine.—Except when it isn't.—

Blackwater Successor Hunts Immigrants for ICE Constellis Holdings, which traces its roots to Erik Prince’s mercenary firm Blackwater, landed an ICE contract as a bounty hunter.

Right, I'm sure the private mercenary company are a great bunch of guys.

theintercept.com/2026/01/03/b...

This looks way, way more like Grok's default voice than anything I've ever seen from you.

I was with some American friends when I heard of Pete Shelley's death, and I wasn't expecting them to know the Buzzcocks, but I was stunned that they'd never heard "Homosapien." It's a different world down there.

pcqgal was talking about Norse sun wheels, not the specific Himmler sun wheel known as the Black Sun

1550s is Early Modern English, and anyhow you've missed the point

Try doing a search on Google or Bluesky or wherever you like for "degenerate" and then for "swastika." You might notice some significant differences.

Huh. Okay, I wasn't aware of that. Still, as even your own link shows, this claim about 3 Henry VI's authorship isn't "widely recognised," and indeed there are prominent scholars who disagree with it.

shaksper.net/archive/2017...

Borrowings from/hommages to previous writers & minor changes during rehearsal ≠ collective authorship.

No. No, he's not. He's acknowledged to have coauthors on several plays, of course, but Henry VI Part 3 isn't one of them.

The hell? "Degenerate" in Roth seems to link back to either the prowling and the cohabiting with teenage girls. And given that you refer to Shakespeare in scare quotes and imply that he was some sort of collective, I doubt you've got any worthwhile insights on that front either.

“One [of the characters] is quite a degenerate,” Mendelsohn says, “and this guy sort of finagles, 'Maybe we can drive down to Mississippi together."

I mean I can pull quotations all day, as could you if you wanted to, and it's typically innocuous stuff like this.

www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

He uses actual quote marks elsewhere. Here, he's paraphrasing either the boy or his lawyers (the former looks more plausible). The closeness of the paraphrasing varies throughout the piece and I don't think it's obvious how close it is right in this passage.

And I gave a link to the complete Roth essay, so you've got all the context you want.

Huh? It's Westmorland, offended because he thinks Henry is giving the crown away and betraying his heirs. I thought we were talking about word meanings; I didn't realise you wanted a précis of the plot.

I got it from an etymological dictionary, as it happens; "degenerate" there means "debased," which is still pretty much what it means today.

Yes—he barely articulates—he is the victim of police brutality. No, he is not a murderer; a degenerate maybe, but even that is going out the window.

We're talking about both, but fine, here's the noun, as used by Philip Roth.

www.commentary.org/articles/phi...

But again, that's not how the word is being applied in this quotation.

vivllainous 07/25/24 Replying to @vivllainous As for if I’m not a woman… sure, Jan. Whatever you say. I’m legally recognized as a woman in the state of California and I don’t concern myself with the opinions of those who are below me. Obviously Elon can’t say the same because in a ketamine-fueled haze, he’s desperate for attention and validation from an army of degenerate red-pilled incels and pick-mes who are quick to give it to him. Go touch some fucking grass✨

Native speakers generally use it like Vivian Wilson (Musk's daughter) below. There's no through line from race "science" here; it's just the usual way the word has always been used.