oh people, please

[threeplusfire]

From a review of 300:

"over all a great movie, if you havent seen it buy it, its worth it for action fans who love the mid-evil type era."

I had to pause for a moment to allow my brain to recover before I continued working.

Comments

[silentjack.livejournal.com]

Ah can haz liturasy?

And a refresher course in World History (let alone discussions about violence, orientalism, etc)?

And basic grammar?

I'd be lying if I said none of the papers by freshmen I've graded didn't look this bad, though... They learn really quickly not to write like this. Red-hot pokers, tasers, leeches, etc. I'm now rambling about occasionally-effective torture as a means to correct grammar: a sure sign I'm sleep-deprived.

[ekatarina.livejournal.com]

I read something awhile ago about concerns that arose when telgram shorthand developed. Some people feared it would infiltrate English.

That didn't last. But then again, people weren't using it everyday.

Sigh.

Ekatarina, who owns a large dictionary and used it twice today

[dine.livejournal.com]

I'd have thought 300 was set more in the early-evil era, myself.

it's really depressing to read something like that, and know that not only was the writer sincere in hir ignorance, but there are many many people who wouldn't see anything at all wrong with the statement

[sykii.livejournal.com]

That sums up 300 better than a smarter person ever could. Wow. Brilliant!

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

*blink*

HALP.

[alainn-sorcha.livejournal.com]

...

Oh, lord.

[coyotegoth.livejournal.com]

Suh-weet.

[geoectomy.livejournal.com]

For dramatic tension, the full-evil eras are usually pretty evocative. I mean, the no-evil eras don't really have a lot of action going on, did they?

Or wait, have we had one of those yet?