bgainor

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

A few minutes ago out of nowhere, it suddenly clicked in my brain that I had called "Strange New Worlds" "Brave New World" on here, so I had to come and see people making fun of me. Thank you all for not disappointing πŸ˜†

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I don't know how, but I would love to see more of these characters in live action. Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid were fantastic in BNW.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Tawny Newsome is awesome, so I'm sure this will be good, but there seems to be a fundamental tension between Kurtzman saying Trek can broaden, while Paramount seems to be trying to contract it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is fair. Usually when I hear "prescriptive" I have a knee-jerk reaction to it as something bad because it's usually used to refer to people using made-up rules to enforce systems of oppression rather than fight against them like inclusive language does, but I hadn't thought about it as "prescriptivism for good."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ironic that the actor who seems to be the biggest Trek fan also played my least favorite character. Zeph was a cartoon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Using inclusive language isn't linguistic prescriptivism. Prescriptivism is saying "this word is incorrect English/doesn't mean what you are using it for." Inclusive language is saying "if you use this word, you're being a jerk."