Like ita said, embrace the pop-culture use of "psycho." You'll find it embraces you right back, all warm and snuggly.
Pfft. Her cite doesn't even have a reference past 1990. Next thing you know you'll advocate loose definitions of gerunds and references to Josh Whedon and blithely mistaking Charlotte Bronte as the author of
Sense and Sensibility.
Standards, people! Elsewise, cats and dogs living together...
Elsewise, cats and dogs living together...
So that's who the Others in the woods are!
What would make him non-psycho in that scenario?
PMS. Cranky feelings. Out of coffee. Hungry for human liver.
Apparently the DSM IV and a healthy dose of pedantry.
You
are calling
me
a pedant? Dude, we are coeval in our pedantry at the very least.
Standards, people! Elsewise, cats and dogs living together...
Next on ABC:
When Pedants Roam Free! Prescriptivism Run Amok, Part II....
Her cite doesn't even have a reference past 1990
You're discounting the value of the PCL-R in evaluating psychopathy? Really?
OMGWTF CATDOGS!?!1!!
You might want to whitefont that.
You are calling me a pedant? Dude, we are coeval in our pedantry at the very least.
I think you're pulling ahead, my friend....
GIRLS! GIRLS! You're both pretty pedants.
You're discounting the value of the PCL-R in evaluating psychopathy? Really?
No, no. I'm making a snap, ill-considered judgement based on skimming one paragraph. Totally different vibe.