Names appear especially hard to get right, even European ones, which is all the stranger as most American naming conventions haven't ventured far from their origin. This is why we see female Russians with masculine surnames and patronymics used as names or surnames, or why most French characters in comedic works tend to have a [...]

Averted again in "Applesauce" where an apple falls on a toad the word "dead" is used twice. The toad was okay, though. No Cartoon Fish: Fish are essentially the only animals that don't talk, or at least show some level of sapience. One episode even had a talking moth. Probably a good thing, as two [...]

The BBC eventually proved that English naval engineering's planking system would not have produced an Ark strong enough to support its own weight. By contrast, the Answers in Genesis video Noah's Ark: Thinking Outside the Box demonstrated that Sumerian planking was more labor intensive; and involved more complex steps that yielded much tighter vessels. English [...]