There is a common criticism of people (okay, of Tumblr denizens) for being special snowflakes. They make up an absurd number of labels! Why would you want to identify as a requiessexual heteropoetisexual squidgender moongender aroflux lesbian when you could identify as, well, normal?
But, in fact, as absurd as the subsubsubsubsubclassifications get sometimes, Tumblr’s attitude towards sexual…
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There is now officially a version of “Never Gonna Give You Up” in Klingon.
Knock yourselves out, Trekkies.
My fucking God.
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#rickrolling #music #language #oh my god
A lesson in Canada’s bilinguality.
Bilinguisme au Canada: une leçon.French puns on products are seriously one of my favourite things.
Like, sometimes the french translation of a slogan is dumb and long and really bad. And sometimes it’s beautiful.fromidable i’m peeing
When they’re good, they’re really good.
(When they’re bad, they’re Christmas crackers making “where does Christmas come before Thanksgiving? in the dictionary!” jokes, and straight up translating the English without stopping to consider that “Noël” doesn’t come before “Action de grâces” in the dictionary.)
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#our home and cherished land #puns
[image: A tweet by Johanna Fateman (@johannafateman)
people who mispronounce words because they learned them from reading independently are deserving of admiration not scorn
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ALL of this. Encourage people to try new words, to mess them up, to experiment with vocabulary, to learn complicated adjectives and verbs and nouns, because words are fun.
Also, don’t be a jerk.
Like, I learned math from books. So of course the first time I talked about the “Lap-lace transform” I got some weird looks.
I wonder if that Euler guy and that Euclid guy were related? :) Since, you know, their names obviously begin with the same syllable.
(A friend I was hanging with last night learned programming on his own, so he says “ARray” rather than “arRAY,” which is rather charming actually.)
Wait it’s not pronounced “Lap-lace”? How is it pronounced?
Luh-PLOSS. More or less. (I’m from Indiana, even when I’m trying to pronounce French properly there’s a definite… lack of Frenchitude there. ^_^)
…I’m going to have to go look up the pronunciation of Euler now.
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#language #the more you know
Basic order typology, New York style
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#home of the brave #brings back memories of every road trip I’ve taken since I moved to Canada #(we keep meaning to do a *Canadian* road trip sometime) #(but we always end up in New York) #(with rest stop stores filled with I Heart NY trinkets) #also #language
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PSA did you guys know there’s a female equivalent to the word “phallic” ??
Yonic: resembling of vulva/labia/vagina
Yonic, from from sanskrit word Yoni
flowers are yonic, fruit is yonic, i’m so excited that this word exists i literally have only ever heard the word “phallic” until now. YONIC!!
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#language #the more you know
white dude in this horror movie : *translates old arabic text* *somehow it rhymes perfectly in english*
Now I really wanna see a horrible faltering translation from one of these movies, like “Whomsoever enters this room, they shall… well, this word is like… literally it means ‘unbecome,’ but it was used as a euphemism for death, pooping, and—wait, when was this carved? was it 15th century? Cuz it was a euphemism for sex too in the 15th century. This is either a cursed crypt, a bathroom, or a royal bedroom. Who wants to roll the dice?”
“You guys, I’ve gotta be honest, okay? This thing’s written in some kind of weird localized dialect, and I’ve only ever studied the standard form of the language. I mean, this part right here…I can’t even tell if it’s some kind of error, or an obscure slang phrase…whatever it is, I have no idea what the fuck it means.”
‘this is written in ancient sumerian. it’s about… uh… well that word is… uh. okay this is either a poem about farming, or straight-up a nasty sex guide. it might be both. i want a shower.’
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#language
WHAT DO U CALL A DOG THATS A MAGICIAN
A LABRACADABRADOR…
un magichien
#France wins this round
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The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
“She was killed [by zombies.]” <—- passive
“Zombies killed [by zombies] her.” <—- active
(Found from FYCD.)
This is so perfect.
Oh my god, yes. Next time the Ad Sales department submits a piece that’s entirely in passive voice, instead of trying to explain it (which never works) or just rewriting it (which just pisses them off), I’m going to insert “by zombies” everywhere and give it back to them.
Mind = blown [by zombies]
theparadoxymoron, have your students been taught this yet?
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