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queenofattolia:

exhaled-spirals:

« Nonsense can be made to make sense by supposing some alternative context for it. At the start of his revolutionary work Syntactic Structures (1957), Noam Chomsky cooked up a nonsense sentence in order to explain what he saw as the fundamental difference between a meaningful sentence and a grammatical one. “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” was proposed as a fully grammatical sentence that had no possible meaning at all.

Within a few months, witty students devised ways of proving Chomsky wrong, and at Stanford they were soon running competitions for texts in which “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” would be not just a grammatical sentence, but a meaningful expression as well. Here’s one of the prize-winning entries:

It can only be the thought of verdure to come, which prompts us in the autumn to buy these dormant white lumps of vegetable matter covered by a brown papery skin, and lovingly to plant them and care for them. It is a marvel to me that under this cover they are labouring unseen at such a rate within to give us the sudden awesome beauty of spring flowering bulbs. While winter reigns the earth reposes but these colourless green ideas sleep furiously. »

— David Bellos, Translation and the Meaning of Everything

#to be human is to aggressively do poetry at things for no tangible reason#(worth it)

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#still not tired of ”colourless green ideas sleep furiously” jokes #poetry #plants #language

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existentialterror:

botanyshitposts:

ive developed an eccentric character for a hypothetical youtube series called ‘ishtar ray: tactical botanist’ and i feel like i need to get it out of my system so heres the setup

-by the year 2174, plants have evolved into a violent threat against humanity and initiated a plant apocalypse. ishtar is a grad student of tactical botany sent back in time to try to prevent the apocalypse with three missions: 

1. try to teach everyone he encounters about very specific plant biology with the hopes that it will give humanity an advantage when the time comes, 

2. try to intercept current plant research to send back to his time period, as much of the higher research on plant biology was destroyed in the apocalypse. refers to all plant research as ‘intelligence’ regardless of the situation

3. in our time period, the evolution of plants into violent antagonists has already begun. ishtar must venture into the field attempting to find these individuals and eliminate them with his anti-plantometer before they can breed. these individuals are usually depicted as like. a plant with a knife taped to it

-ishtar carries around a camera to document his adventures, which he then edits into episodes (each one focusing on a certain plant/plant subject) and puts onto youtube

-ishtar wears only post-apocalyptic clothes. theres mud and dirt smeared on his face, and within the first episode we become aware that he literally lives in a tent pitched in a comically public area. he wears a military jacket with ‘KNOW YOUR ENEMY’ painted on the back (the tagline of the show), carries his anti-plantometer and various futuristic anti-plant weapons with him at all times, and overall is EXTREMELY out of place in literally every situation in both behavior and clothing to a ridiculous degree and is completely oblivious to it

-teaches the content in a deranged ranting way with the strong implication that the viewer will have to know this to defend themselves, also implies that botany is a military science 

-is HORRIFIED at the idea of houseplants. also refuses to touch any plant with his bare hands and carries salad tongs for this purpose

-once an episode stands in a public area with a relevant picket sign frantically trying to tell people about how dangerous the plant of the episode is

-occasionally interjects weird, vague comments about plant violence from the future. ‘my uncle was killed by a moss. crawled up through his window while he was sleeping. ive never seen so much carnage’. never elaborates on exactly how the killing was done

-acts very seriously but its impossible to take him seriously

-literally never relaxes

-like bill nye but botany-based and chaotic evil

this is the greatest thing I’ve ever heard. please make this.

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#story ideas I will never write #plants #apocalypse cw

injygo asked: You look like a maidenhair fern in a misty forest.

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brin-bellway:

Note:@ilzolende thought I proposed that we deal with the first-degree ask bug by having the OP write their answer in a reblog rather than the “”actual”” answer section. I never actually said that*, but I think I like it, so I’m going to try adopting it. (I will be tagging these “”actual”” answers “zeroth degree asks”, for ease of blacklisting if they start cluttering up the dashboard.)

*I proposed a norm that placed the onus on the reblogger rather than the OP, which we can still resort to for OPs that aren’t formatted this way.

*looks up maidenhair ferns on Google Images*

Maidenhair Ferns

*considers maidenhair fern in misty forest*

Yeah, I can totally see that.

Thank you for answering!

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Relatedly, this is the first image ever associated with Brin, which my current icon deliberately echoes:

(holy crap, why is this picture so hard to find, it should not be this difficult)

(okay, got it; accidentally ran into an old argument along the way, but I got out of there without having to relive it too much)

Brin Typepad Icon

(It’s one of the Typepad default commenter icons. If the commenter doesn’t override their icon, Typepad assigns them one: the assignment is random, but consistent between posts by the same person.)

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#ask meme #tales from the askbox

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happicuppa:

culturenlifestyle:

Adorable Leaf Bags by Gabrielle Moldovanyi

Budapest-based boutique Leafling Bangs provides adorable and quirky bags and backpacks inspired by the shape of a leaf. Creative duo Garbiella Moldovanyi and her partner Adam designed the functional and beautiful bags, which comes in a range of colors and sizes.

Each piece is water-resistant and strong, which makes them an ideal accessory for the outdoors. Find their entire collection in their Etsy shop.

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#pretty things #neat #clothing

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welcometomemehell:

peri-dont:

Once I was at a plant store and I have this subconscious habit of pulling leaves of plants so I did that and stuck the leaf in my pocket and when I got home I found it and felt bad so I dropped it in a pot with a bromiliad and a few weeks later it had taken root and started growing and that’s the story of how I pirated a plant

you wouldnt DOWNLOAD a PLANT