is it "a" homophobic, or "an" homophobic?

Maybe it's "a homophobe"?

as in "He's homophobic." and "He's a homophobe"

An is generally used before a word starting with a vowel sound.

"A historian told me..."

"An historian told me..."

See, I'm lost on this one. Maybe it comes from too many years of listening to pompous English and Comparative Literature professors (meaning no disrespect to any English teachers here on the board, by and large I adored almost every single one of my professors).

It's the English language: common usage can sometimes trump the rules.

It's not pretty, but it happens.

How many times have you heard people use "thee" for "the" when trying to emphasize the word, when they could just, oh, put more emphasis on it?

Maybe it's "a homophobe"?

No it isn't, because she was using "homophobic" to modify the word "type".

It's the English Language: common usage MAKES the rules.

See also: descriptivists always win. (Neener!)

That said, the article 'the' is pronounced differently depending on if it's stressed or unstressed, and if it's in front of a vowel or not.

Hah. I guess I wasn't looking at the original context.

That's the problem with reading posts individually. I had forgotten the context.

Sincerest apologies. I'll go watch something on DVD and try to stop hitting my forehead.

This, I will state, is new as of about three or four episodes ago.

Night Shifter is where I noticed my attraction to him going up. The hair is better, but the shot of him glaring at Dean as they get frisked & the knife is found (scroll halfway down) is.... well, damn. Boy's growing up. Now, the acting he did in this past ep amped up the attraction a lot.

I just finished watching the BSG tapes of Season 3 that sumi leant me and all I can say is "Wow, uh, yeah, wow". The words 'to be continued' were the smallest shock of the finale. I have no idea how this show keeps surprising and working so well and gut-punching me all at the same time.

I can't wait till it comes out on DVD, because I'm sure there are plenty of deleted scenes. There is so much going on all the time.

I'm so sad about Kat. And what the frak is going on with Starbuck?

I love the way that all of the scenes on the Cylon ship have lovely piano music in the background and all the water falls. My head is too full to be any more coherent.

sumi, I'll be getting them back to you asap. Thank you!

For the grammar police -- is it "a" homophobic, or "an" homophobic?

Either is totally OK. (I use "a" for "homophobic," ironically, but "an" for "historic".)

I saw some first-season Gilmore Girls because the Flatmates are obsessed and know where the ABC Family Channel is. GG-Dean (Padalecki), who was probably, what, seventeen at the time, looks like the Enormous Hall Monitor. It's pretty funny.

To my knowledge, he has never in his life had good hair; if he did, I might find him more attractive.

Oh, I think that Cute!Dean looks like an overgrown puppy. And it doesn't help that Rory is teeny tiny.