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Something fun about this suffix is that you can tell when a lot of these words were coined by the fact that adding a suffix with a consonant meant you didn’t get subsequent vowel lengthening when the maximal onset principle came into effect, and thus when the GVS occurred the vowels split: thus, “game” has a long vowel while “gamble” has a short one
This is so lovely to see non Welsh people actually talking about Welsh in positive terms, but it's a real shame that the TikTok maker didn't bother to find out the actual spelling of smwddio
The two year-old is now a solid two and a half. Just now, he was sitting on the couch playing with his pretend flip phone and he frowned and said “for gods sake. My battery is empty.”
The other day at breakfast I asked him if he was going to eat any more of his oatmeal and he said “no, I think I’m just gonna move on with my life.”
Today we were walking along and he asked me “How many Octobers is it today?” I told him it was the 21st.
He tried a bite of his hot soup at dinner and made a face and said “Mama, my soup is a little too temperature for me.”
Upon being served 1% milk for the first time, instead of his regular 2%: “is this water?”
Me: “no, it’s milk”
Kid: “but are you sure?”
Came up to me the other day, the middle of his pants totally soaked, and said “mama, I’m having a situation called ‘I peed in my pants.’”
I don’t think I even told you guys about the six months he spent saying “fuck” instead of “truck.”
I have to laugh at the folks in the notes claiming this is fake because “no 2-yr old is that advanced”. My guys, I work at a daycare almost exclusively with 2-3 year olds and let me tell you some of the wild shit I heard this last week alone,
“Uhhh, i ASSUME we’re going to the playground soon??” -2.5 year old girl
“[3 year old boy] pushed me because he doesn’t have a manners.” -2 yr old girl
“Did you spill your water?” “No no no no it’s not a concern” -2 yr old boy (while running away, dripping wet)
Kids are hilarious and smarter than you think
If you don’t have a lot of interactions with young children:
Kids are smarter than you think
Six months makes a really big difference when that is 1/5 of the total time you’ve been alive
All this, and also, they can tell you lots about their favorite things. My 2 year old nephew can tell you all about Star Wars (the 8 movies he’s seen at least) and loves going out of his way to bring up how Anakin was good and bad and good again when he died. Trust me, little kids learn and mimic and reenact all the things they get attached to. Also, he named his first fish Jengo Fett, and all following fish Boba Fett, so juries still out on how much he understands clones.
Kids pick up the language that’s used around and to them. Mannerisms too. They are tiny, efficient mimics and it will come out at the WEIRDEST times. Young kids will ABSOLUTELY say all the stuff listed here.
My cousin was somewhere between two and three, and I’d just arrived at her house, and she’s animatedly telling me a story of some kind, and I listen as I make my way through the house, get to the couch, and kick my shoes off. She stops dead in the middle of her sentence, puts her hands on her hips, levels me with a glare the likes of which I haven’t seen since, and goes, “WHAT are they doing there? Do you think the box at the front door is for DECORATION?”
Her mum, standing in the kitchen and watching all this, was GOBSMACKED. Apparently she said that exact phrase more often than she realised, and her kid had picked it up verbatim and started using it on unsuspecting guests (me).
(I got up and put my shoes in the box at the front door immediately)
My family’s lore includes the time my mother offhandedly said to Cousin’s son–who was maybe five–that Cousin’s wife certainly did have strong opinions about some minor thing, and the kid let out a sigh and said, in the driest and flattest and most world-weary tone you’ve ever heard, “Tell me about it.”
once i was helping with a class of 3 year olds and during drawing time one girl asked for a lion, specifically a lioness. i drew it and she just looked in silence so thinking she wanted a more liony lion i was like “do you want me to draw a boy lion next?” and she gives me this 🤨ass affronted look and says “umm she doesn’t NEED a man.”
Kids will do three things reliably:
Repeat what they’ve heard, incorrectly and/or in the wrong context, to comic effect
Repeat what they’ve heard in exactly the correct context, which is somehow even funnier
Casually knock you on your ass with some offhand, but utterly profound, original statement
My five years old Niece has started going “Too bad, so sad.” And when called on it not being very nice goes “That’s what Mama always says.”
“One price speakers pay for standard dialects is that they change more slowly, since the fact that a standard dialect is used in writing and public media puts something of a brake on change. However, since non-standard dialects are freer to change on the basis of the human child’s linguistic and cognitive systems, non-standard dialects are, in a sense, often ‘more logical’ or ‘more elegant’ from a linguistic point of view.”
— Social Linguistics and Literacies by J. P. Gee (via immersedinarabic)
“One price speakers pay for standard dialects is that they change more slowly, since the fact that a standard dialect is used in writing and public media puts something of a brake on change. However, since non-standard dialects are freer to change on the basis of the human child’s linguistic and cognitive systems, non-standard dialects are, in a sense, often ‘more logical’ or ‘more elegant’ from a linguistic point of view.”
— Social Linguistics and Literacies by J. P. Gee (via immersedinarabic)
Ah, yes the “four Fs” … [@scandalousadventures]
maths drives me nuts!
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THIS is the knowledge I didn’t know I was seeking!
I feel like I’ve reached true enlightenment.
I bet @maybetwice already knows this but I feel like I should page her anyway…
The real reason Ben Solo went to the dark side.
Tsk, tsk.
Ten common mistakes when learning Spanish.
The words "aquí" and "acá" are not interchangeable. "Aquí" and "acá" both refer to a location that is close to the speaker. These words are not interchangeable. "Acá" is used with verbs of motion, while "aquí" is used in other instances. "Juan, ven acá." (John, come here.) Puedes registrarte aquí. (You can register here.)
15 Bad ass Romani ladies you should know about:
1. Papusza (Bronislawa Wajs)
Papusza, born in 1910 to a Polish Romani family, was one of the first Romani authors. [Read more]
2. Cecilia Woloch
Woloch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has published five books and her poetry has been featured in numerous publications. She was also a National Endowment for the Arts recipient. [Read More]
3. Ayo (Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin)
Ayo is Afro-Romani, born to a Nigerian father and a Romani mother. She is a European singer/song-writer and a self-taught musician. [Read more]
4. Sofia Kovalevskaya
Dr. Sofia Kovalevskaya was born in Moscow to a Polish father and a German and Romani mother. She was the first major female mathematician in Russia and made numerous contributions to modern mathematics. [Read more] 5. Ceija Stojka
Stojka was born in Austria to a Lovari Romani family. She is a Holocaust survivor who was interned at both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. She has published several books and her art has been featured in several European galleries. [Read more]
6. Elena Lackova
Lackova was a Slovakian Romani author. She was a graduate of the Charles University in Prague and an advocate for Romani education. [Read more]
7. Encarnación Salazar
Salazar is a Spanish Romani singer and a member of the world famous duo, Azúcar Moreno. She is also a breast cancer survivor. [Read more]
8. Hedina Tahirović Sijerčić
Sijerčić is a Bosnian Romani author, poet and university graduate. She was also the first Romani television and radio producer in Bosnia-Herzegovina. [Read more]
9. Irini Merkouri
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10. Katarina Taikon
Taikon is a Swedish Romani actress and author. [Read more]
11. Ljubica Adzovic
Azdovic was born in Skopje, Macedonia and was a Romani actress. She was featured in Black Cat, White Cat and Dom Za Vešanje. After being the victim of racially motivated threats, she sought political asylum in France. [Read more]
12. Carmen Amaya
Carmen Amaya was born in Barcelona, Spain and became one of the best known Flamenco dancers in the world. [Read more]
13. Cher Lloyd
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14. Philomena Franz
Franz was a Sinti Romani author and a recipient of the Federal Cross for Merits, the highest civilian award in Germany. She was also the first Romani to receive this award. She was a survivor of Auschwitz. [Read more]
15. Victoria Mohacsi
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things my impossibly young looking Roman history lecturer has said
‘listen to your seminar tutors over the booklet, but only for seminars - in lectures i am king. unless you have me as a seminar tutor as well, in which case i am your king and god.’
‘has anybody played Rome: Total War? no?’
‘Cataline tried to burn the city and everyone he hated but he failed because, in short, nobody liked him.’
‘the mediterranean diet didn’t include tomatoes in the ancient world. i know. oh my god. i know.’
‘so of course when Hannibal turns up, the senate goes ‘sod it, lets kick his arse’.’
‘one man’s optimates is another man’s silver-spoon bearing prick.’
‘we don’t have much information about the 70s BC, largely because Plutarch doesn’t care.’
‘i’m not saying Rome: Total War is entirely accurate, but its battle campaigns are surprisingly historically informed.’
[hand drawing a map in chalk because the projector is broken] ‘i’ll give it a go, this is why i hate technology, and oh. well. that’s not italy.’
‘every army needs bakers and prostitutes, this is just a fact of life.’
‘Sulla. He’s a bit of a badass, but also a bit of a prick.’
‘yes, that is a slide from Spartacus. The film, not the series, which is more accurate and less like soft porn.’
‘the Romans liked Campania because its very fertile. they didn’t know this was because of its proximity to a volcano - poor buggers found THAT out later.’
‘Crassus gets given command of Syria and high fives everyone in the senate.’
‘Catullus was very pithy, very hellenistic in style. unlike the Iliad, which is 24 books of tedium.’
‘An Afternoon at Carrhae: the Romans being shot at repeatedly by Parthian cavalry because if there’s one thing the Romans aren’t good at, it’s having a cavalry.’
‘It’s good to have fast legs in war. Caesar moves very fast, not unlike Napoleon. The Usain Bolt of ancient warfare. I’m not sure why I said that, it’s an atrocious analogy.’
‘Athens is the Edinburgh of the ancient world; it has nothing to offer but education and pretty buildings.’
‘Shout out to those of you who spent your teenage years playing Rome: Total War.Which is what I did.’
‘The senate go into a panic and they decide to flee Rome at dawn, but some idiot forgets the treasury. I know. Ridiculous.’
‘Again: don’t use elephants during warfare. They’re not as cool as they look. And given they’re now endangered, it’d just be mean.’
‘I had to use this meme, I’m sorry. You’re all aware of the one does not simply walk into mordor meme right? I’m sorry, we’ll move on.’
‘I put this photo in for dramatic effect but I realise that it’s just a field. I don’t know why people bother going to see battle sites, they’re all really boring. I saw bones once, they were quite interesting. But most battle sites: boring.’
‘Caesar doesn’t tell Rome anything while he’s away in Egypt for a year, so they have no idea Pompey’s dead. All they know is that Antony is being a pain in the ass, which is, in all honesty, not unusual for Antony.’
‘Caesar is very good at one liners. You always draft a pithy one liner before a battle so you have something to say when you win. You don’t want to win and then just be like ‘whoo, thank god for that.’’
this professor seems very cool
Your protagonist is mortally wounded and needs to get out alive. How? (more)
@neil-gaiman came in and gave us some writing prompts. Get writin’!
The Sandman: Overture Deluxe Edition is in stores now.
pro tip: when looking up the meaning of a word first try going to google images and seeing what comes up. that way you aren’t learning by translating but by learning the way that you would in your native language!
Also, once you reach a certain level, try using a monolingual dictionary. It helps SO much!
Another tip: When writing down words from a dictionary, don’t just write down the word itself, if possible - if the dictionary has examples of that word used in phrases, compounds, etc., write them too! That’ll help you recognise the word in more places you will see it than just on its own :)
And if you’re wondering about things like names of organizations or technical vocabulary, try looking up the word or phrase on Wikipedia and then following the links along the sidebar to the equivalent articles in other languages. These other language articles can also be a good source of related vocabulary.
turn out I’m already using all the cool shit tricks :)
Linguistic knowledge versus pedantry, a graph
A. Danger point. Increased linguistic knowledge has led to a surge in linguistic pedantry, resulting in an imblance.
B. Crisis point. Full on pedant. False confidence in good linguistic knowledge has led to pedantic half-truths outweighing facts.
C. The road to recovery. Taking time to understand how language actually owrks has led to a more tolerant outlook.
D. A sensible place to be. The more you know about language, the more you see the nonsense of linguistic pedantry. Be aware that at point D you may be called upon to challenge people at point B. This can be difficult, as people at point B often have the weight of public opinion behind them. Be patient, and encourage them to move towards point C.
(by Rob Drummond on twitter)
haha
I have surely moved from point B, but not sure if I’m still on C or nearing D
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lht_JH2xi6w)
I have a hugest crush on this man
but lets agree: in his early twenties john green was in act in pretentious dick
very cute tho
great vid!
