Why am I ALWAYS the last to know?

Seriously, this is going to REVOLUTIONIZE answering silly questions.

Two quick articles

One, a post on LanguageLog on the metaphorical use of the terms autism and Asperger's. Well worth a read.

And another on a kid who had trouble being accepted into school because of (most likely) his diagnosis. Not cool.

Fried coke.

It sounds disturbingly delicious. (Or deliciously disturbing, your choice.)

A while back (a LONG while), I asked if anybody had the Moleville scripts for Mario RPG

And now I'm playing the game again, so I'll just type them all up, why don't I - or at least the ones that strike me as wrong.

See, that's the thing. The way the moles talk seems like it's intended to emulate AAVE, with "be" instead of "are" and whatnot. If it is, though, it's doing it wrong. Or maybe not. Maybe it's supposed to be in some other dialect and doing it just right, or maybe it's doing AAVE just right and I don't know because it's not my dialect and I don't catch it. But I'm reading it aloud and it sounds just wrong.

Any insight would be appreciated :)

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