Now you've gone and made me have to watch.

Dammit.

(Yes, I do still rememeber fondly both - both! - of those TV movies from the 1990s where Holmes had been cryogenically frozen and then he was unfrozen in the modern world and picked up a female Watson. One of whom was, awesomely, Margaret Colin)

I want to move

to this place.

This is a fun article

They’re, Like, Way Ahead of the Linguistic Currrrve

From Valley Girls to the Kardashians, young women have long been mocked for the way they talk.

Whether it be uptalk (pronouncing statements as if they were questions? Like this?), creating slang words like “bitchin’ ” and “ridic,” or the incessant use of “like” as a conversation filler, vocal trends associated with young women are often seen as markers of immaturity or even stupidity.

Right?

But linguists — many of whom once promoted theories consistent with that attitude — now say such thinking is outmoded. Girls and women in their teens and 20s deserve credit for pioneering vocal trends and popular slang, they say, adding that young women use these embellishments in much more sophisticated ways than people tend to realize.

“A lot of these really flamboyant things you hear are cute, and girls are supposed to be cute,” said Penny Eckert, a professor of linguistics at Stanford University. “But they’re not just using them because they’re girls. They’re using them to achieve some kind of interactional and stylistic end.”

“If women do something like uptalk or vocal fry, it’s immediately interpreted as insecure, emotional or even stupid,” said Carmen Fought, a professor of linguistics at Pitzer College in Claremont, Calif. “The truth is this: Young women take linguistic features and use them as power tools for building relationships.”

The idea that young women serve as incubators of vocal trends for the culture at large has longstanding roots in linguistics. As Paris is to fashion, the thinking goes, so are young women to linguistic innovation.

I had to reread the byline, like, five times before I could process that David Brooks wrote it

And then I kept waiting for a jab at Democrats who don't understand middle Americans who live in office parks, or something ... but it didn't come.

Why am I not surprised....

( Spoilers for last night's H50 )

All the rights of a person

none of the liabilities.

I love all of these actors, forever