*snort*

Landline owners, assemble!

I know, I was being facetious ;)

Goodness, is that an actual line from the movie? Say it isn’t so. I’m no PugJesus, obviously, but I somehow don’t think they thought of themselves as living in the Bronze Age or any age. Come to think of it, has ANYONE talked about historical inaccuracies in Nolan’s Odyssey, has there been ANY discourse AT ALL? Or are meant to accept that they weren’t ecstatic to finally move on to Iron?

Caught in some loop, the content warning just keeps popping up when I click Continue. Or maybe my phone is trying to protect me.

Oh dear, are you saying we’re being unfair to him for finding this funny? Good heavens I never.

It is a bit funny when the creation turns on the creator.

Exactly, conspiracy thinking. Maybe tone that down.

Try the rest of the comments.

Attributing this to the (granted, worrying) rise in popularity of the AfD borders on conspiracy thinking. They’re still an opposition party with no legislative power. And then accusing everybody of being Nazis for downvoting, are you on something?

You still can’t portray Nazis as the good guys and nothing has changed.

@india.in.pixels

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Shouldn’t hide the company’s name.

Last time I witnessed queer-baiting this blatant, one of them had wings and the other wore plaid (Tone indicator amused/bit annoyed). Was VERY worried there’d be some Scortegas in the future and VERY relieved at the conclusion (though I kind of think not everybody needs to be buddies but ah well).

I usually don’t notice wardrobe but I fucking loved what Uhura was wearing her party. Ortegas’ antennae though seemed like taping down your eyes to appear “Asian”, what even.

Do humans/Starfleet ever abort negotiations because someone on the other side inadvertently did something culturally insensitive? Has a non-Starfleet culture ever gone to great lengths to accomodate our cultural weirdnesses?

Mir wäre nicht bewusst, dass Probleme mit der Wahl des richtigen grammatischem Geschlechts unter Muttersprachlys grassieren. Woran machst du das fest?

Yes, that doesn’t negate the fact that genderedness serves a purpose. It’s not simply there to annoy language learners.

That’s the thing, it’s only an effort if you’re actively learning the language. Natives think about the gender of nouns only in certain, rare edge-cases that are ill-defined, like loanwords or “artificial” words (Nutella is gender-fluid). It would make more sense to just define those edge-cases than to try to get rid of gendered nouns.

Take this example:

“Bob took his hat out of the bag and dropped it.” What did he drop?

“Bob nahm seinen Hut aus der Tasche und ließ sie fallen.” “Bob took his male hat out of the female bag and dropped her.” Ah, he dropped the bag!

There’s better examples, I’m sure, but having gendered pronouns makes references clearer than everything just being “it”. It’s a way to structure sentences that may not be vital to understanding (because obviously there are languages that work perfectly fine without it) but makes it easier. Like capitalising nouns or clear rules for where to put commas can make reading easier.

I’d be surprised if there weren’t a female “worker” in Polish, “workeress” as it were, same for any other such nouns.

I prefer dealing with complicated but ultimately rule-based stuff like は/が over the utter nonsense that is grammatical gender (and I’m German).

Edit: and because I see heated discussion about it elsewhere: grammatical gender is a very convenient thing to have (not to learn) and I wouldn’t abolish it (just wouldn’t want to learn it).