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On The Ex-Pat Revolutionaries of Estonia
The word is expatriate and the short form is expat. None of these guys was previously a Pat. You write an apostrophe in front of “phone,” don’t you?
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On The Comedy Central of Cameroon
OK, wait, you’ve got the linguistics of Cameroon so backwards you end up sounding like imperialist Americans, and that isn’t hyperbole. It’s true that French is the lingua franca of Cameroon (as with many African countries – cf. Rwanda’s Francophone Scrabble tournaments). But Cameroon is like Papa New Guinea in its abundance of distinct languages – easily over 200, not “five.” I know you applied that number to pidgin Englishes, but even half a minute at Wikipedia would have told you that pidgins last one generation; if a kid grows up speaking a hybrid of languages, what that kid is learning is a creole, not a pidgin. Creoles, like everything humans speak to each other, are real languages, not consolation prizes. Really, it takes more effort to correct the post’s errors on Cameroon linguistics than it would be to rewrite the paragraphs to be accurate. One place to start is the Ethnologue entry for Cameroon. The central point that the unifying force of comedy is likely unattainable in a country with so many languages in use remains true. I wish the “facts” you used to back it up had been.
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On If You're Gonna Be Dumb, You Gotta Be Tough: An Ode to Jackass
“MTV had only given the cast $5 million to shoot the feature, and the film garnered twelve times that on it's opening weekend, grossing $60 million dollars”: Sixty million dollars dollars? And are you saying the movie took in five 5 times times 12 twelve or sixty 60 million dollars $ total, and it all happened in one weekend? (“It’s”?) “An astounding $172 million dollars”!
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On Talking to Andy Kindler, Comedy's Unofficial Ombudsman
Surely “principal architect.”
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On Diving Into the Archives of Spy, The Funniest Magazine Ever
Readers may be interested in my extensive sashaying down the Memory Lane that is Spy, viz Ten Years Ago in Spy.
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On The Office's Gay Caricature
Oscar isn’t “prissy,” and this posting would have worked better had it avoided sounding like a leftist grad student’s screed (“privilege,” “other”). What you really should have discussed is Oscar’s unrequited love for Matt, the gorgeous dumbass stockboy. If that isn’t comedy gold, I’m Lady fucking Gaga.
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On List of Jokes and Story Ideas by Former Simpsons Showrunners Hints at What Might Have Been
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On Welcome to Splitsider
How long till you get interviewed by Marc Maron?
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On Stefon's Illustrated Guide to New York's Hottest Nightclubs
It’s Susan Powter. I won’t bother correcting your half-dozen other misspellings. U yung peeple just rite fonetikly.