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Originally Posted by GusJohnsonGOAT
It's clearly bio-pic. It's not like myopic at all since it's a portmanteau. Seems like one of those dumb words that should never be used because I don't see how using biography instead would never be clear in a conversation.
"I saw this great biography..." seems like 99% of the time how the conversation would start.
Isn't biography ambiguous with respect to written versus filmed? It's usually used for written. If someone said "I saw a biography" one might think this happened at a bookstore or library and a book was seen.
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It's good to use this as a guide but this is after all the English language, with seemingly endless exceptions to every rule (we are lucky it was our born language because it seems like it would be a huge bitch to learn as an adult). Plus I swear I have heard it pronounced "bye ah pic" far more irl, although that doesn't automatically make it right.
Speaking of which, with all this talk of Houston I wonder how many people itt don't realize that people from NYC pronounce that street a completely different way than the city. No doubt they will insist their way is "correct". I didn't know this until about 10-15 years ago.
Houston Street is named after William Houstoun, not Sam Houston (for whom Houston, TX is named). I assume William pronounced it how stun.
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Originally Posted by Dudd
SVU sucks. The courtroom time is virtually nonexistent, and the detectives might as well be parodies, Stabler especially.
Stabler hasn't been on it for a few years, so maybe you could give it another shot. I like the original series the best, followed by SVU. Criminal Intent sucked by comparison, but I still watched quite a bit of it. Couldn't get into it as much as the others.
Claire Kincaid was the best ADA imo. Carmichael was good as well.
One of the best things about Law & Order is the immense number of episodes. Even if you watched all episodes on a loop, by the end you would forget exactly what happened in the first episodes. The rewatchability factor is very high. Add in that you do not need to see the prior episodes in order to understand the current episode, and you have the formula for reruns being played to infinity. TNT seems to be trying to accomplish this...weekend nights they have a huge block of them.
Last edited by Fleebrog; 05-04-2013 at 01:13 AM.