thranduilland: whateverhumans: siesiegirl: professorsparklepants: tuesdayisfordancing: ozymandias271: “our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND I didn’t know about zeugmas until just now! That is so awesome, everybody: zeug·ma ˈzo͞oɡmə/ noun a figure of speech in …
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just-shower-thoughts: “You’re” in English is an abbreviation of “you are” and is commonly confused with the possessive “your”. “T’es” in French is an abbreviation for “tu es” (you are) and is commonly confused with the possessive “tes” (your)
misbehavingmaiar: sebastian-bond: but-the-library-of-alexandria: the thing about writing fantasy stories is that language is so based on history that it can be hard to decide how far suspension of disbelief can carry you word-choice wise – what do you call a french braid in a world with no france? can a queen ann neckline be described …
Why do I talk like this????
defilerwyrm: writingwell: godisablackwoman: “No, yeah. ” = yes. “Yeah, no”= no “No, yeah, for sure.” = definitely AWESOME English In “No, yeah,” the initial “no” terminates other discussion and/or cuts off arguments to the countrary, leaving a gently decisive “yes” as in “of course yes.” In “Yeah, no,” the “yeah"is shorthand for “I understand what …
Today, I fucked up… by mixing two languages together
today-ifuckedup: I live in Kyrgyzstan. Here, two languages (Kyrgyz and Russian) are spoken simultaneously by locals and often mixed together. The word for ‘ice rink’ in Russian is “KAtok” while the word in Kyrgyz for ‘penis’ is “KOtok”. Today was my day off and I wanted to go ice skating. When trying to find out …
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morgan-xanthos: linguisticsyall: anovelattraction: arabic-n-politics: arabic-n-politics: Attention language enthusiasts! You need this book. Actually, anyone who is interested in learning how to study efficiently, I highly recommend reading it. The author, Gabriel Wyner, really just breaks down the way our brain sifts through the sea of information that we wade through every day and decides what’s …
prismatic-bell: atomicairspace: copperbooms: when did tumblr collectively decide not to use punctuation like when did this happen why is this a thing it just looks so smooth I mean look at this sentence flow like a jungle river ACTUALLY This is really exciting, linguistically speaking. Because it’s not true that Tumblr never uses punctuation. But …
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aliciiaspinnet: lilypxtter: English: I love you Slovak : Milujem ťa Finnish: Panisin Slovenian: Ljubim te Danish: Jeg elsker dig Portuguese: Amo-te Tagalog: Mahal kita Punjabi: Panchod chup kar Somali: Dhillo iska amus Arabic: انتا حمار Spanish: Te amo Bangla: Tumi ekta kuthar bacha Indonesian : Aku cinta kamu Hindi: Mein ghadhe ka bacha hoon Pashto: …
Steve: Bucky? Bucky: Who the hell is Bucky? Steve: Langauge. Bucky: Oh hi Steve. How could I forget.
beautifulgems01: doctah-plague: l0stkeys: capslockapocalypse: insert-ideal-url-here: digieggofbooty: cowgirltits: daunt: bro-bots: fabledquill: this is the cutest thing ever it would be cuter if i could pronounce it where are the vowels what do the welsh do with vowels? D: They gave them to Hawaii. Alright you wanna know what? Welsh language is RIDICULOUS We don’t even have …
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