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  • Everyone going the biggest and best…

    I suggest:

    Both versions of House on Haunted Hill (evolution of the campy horror genre)

    Both versions of Black Christmas (see horror tropes become them and the retelling)

    Jason X (Jason the undying killer but in space!)

    Teeth (if you needed a movie to really drive home that SA is bad)

    Trainspotting (if you needed a movie to really drive home that drug addiction is bad)

    The Room (a detailed instructional of how not to write a movie)

    Super Mario Bros 1993 (watch as both the main characters appear to become more drunk as the story goes on because their actors actually were) … And the new one I guess. It’s ok but not as entertaining on a meta level

    DOA Dead or Alive (possibly the most true to source video game movie and a fun martial arts movie)

    Patch Adams (if you can watch the whole thing twice, you’re better than me. That third act is brutal emotionally for me)

    Slaxx (do not read anything about it. Go in blind. Enjoy the layers of what the actual fuck is going on)

    Dungeons and Dragons 2000 (about as accurate a oneshot as I’ve ever seen. Also, Jeremy Irons being peak Jeremy Irons)

    What the bleep do we know (Science! Physics! Learning!)

    Wicker man (Cage version during the height of him taking literally any role to pay off debts. Watch him overact and punch a woman in a bear suit)

    Romeo and Juliet (decaprio version. Shakespeare but in modern day Miami. They do not update the language to current English.)

    I’ve got more but that should be good for a few days worth of watching.


  • Read the last part of my comment again. I didn’t miss it. If two speakers agree on a new word and its meaning to the point it becomes adopted by a wider population of speakers, guess what, it becomes a standard word. By how you’re describing it, dictionaries are the progenitors of language. You have that backwards. Dictionaries are records of the language and what words are being used.

    The only languages that do not behave this way are dead languages.







  • The suggestions were just that. All it takes is speakers agreeing with a word for the use and to use it to the point where it becomes the standard.

    No different than how gruntled has reentered the English language after being lost. It also changed meaning upon return so there’s that similarity as well.






  • DokPsy@infosec.pubtotumblr@lemmy.worldOkay, let's try this again
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    10 days ago

    Proposal: either smoosh them together (eg: ella / loas) which preserves the historical gendering of the language while creating a non gendered article Or Create a separate non gendered article that can be used

    Language is made up by and for the speakers of the language. Rules of grammar are not actually rules but just what the collective speakers generally agree upon.




  • “please call so and so, they’re having issues with their browser”

    Call the user, they are out for the day. Leave message to call back

    Either never hear back or the issue was not browser related

    Either way, tell the original ticket creator to have the person having the issue call us if they want prompt service