lɪŋˈgwɪstɪksn miːmz

Languages & Linguistics. Memes. Aquascaping. Turtles. Personal Things.

[so-many-ocs]

[on the verge of having a complete breakdown] i need to make some kind of list or perhaps sort things into categories

[sootchild]

Call of Cthulhu: Masks of Nyarlathotep game but in Adventure Time style!

This obsession takes me places at least.

[cherubicghost]

Tchaikovsky was inspired to create the piece, ‘Swan Lake’ after watching the film, ‘Barbie of Swan Lake (2003)’. Close friends of Tchaikovsky reported him saying it was, “one of the most emotionally thrilling and aesthetically divine” films he’d ever seen.

[fish-plants-somuchmore]

The wire rack shelf that holds my hopes and dreams

[protoindoeuropean]

Hello! I love your blog and you inspire and intrigue me to learn more about PIE. I love etymology too, so my question is, what would you recommend to an amateur, where to start with PIE? I used to read Petar Skok's dictionary of etymology for fun.

The introductory textbooks for PIE are quite accessible, Benjamin W. Fortson’s Indo-European Language and Culture and James Clackson’s Indo-European Linguistics are a bit more friendly for someone just starting out than Michael Meier-Brügger’s Indogermanische Sprachwissenschaft / Indo-European Linguistics, which is a bit denser, though that’s the one I have experience with. I’ve also worked with Eva Tichy’s Indogermanistisches Grunwissen / A Survey of Indo-European, which is even more concise.

Considering you understand Shtokavian – judging by the Petar Skok comment (and I agree, browsing etymological dictionaries is so much fun :D) –, the best option might be Mate Kapović’s Uvod u indoeuropsku lingvistiku.

For the less linguistic aspects there’s J. P. Mallory’s In Search of the Indo-Europeans or his and Douglas Q. Adams’ The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European, as well as Calvert Watkins’ How to Kill a Dragon. The works of Ranko Matasović might also be of interest.

[eastern-bloc-party-archive]

I’m not super involved in this subject matter but I did read David Anthony’s The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (2007). The author is an archaeologist by training but he worked with several linguists to develop his framework for how PIE spread and branched out into what are now modern language families. He uses a lot of reconstructed PIE words and mentions modern day cognates :-) not an easy read but an interesting one!

[betta-butch]

woo we love your shrimp!!!

[blue-fishyfish]

[betta-every-day]

Updated photos from today's maintenance:

The Aquarium:

The Inverts:

And Beastie:

(he noticed me taking pictures after these and hid in the grass 😕)

6/28/2020

[betta-every-day]

[betta-every-day]

That's what I call GROWTH

(about 6 weeks worth??)

[mundanalyst]

Haven’t gotten out for a hike in a minute so I’ve been practicing on my gf’s aquarium.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[itistimetodisappear]

One of my favourite things to do is aquascaping but damn it’s such a bourgeois hobby. ily takashi amano but you created a tonne of elitist prats spending £1000 on lights alone because companies know their dumb, overly-rich asses will pay for it

[czepeku-deactivated20260523]

Our newest map! A long city district, perfect for pickpockets and rooftop chases. Check out the variations here:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/city-rooftop-31978269

[itistimetodisappear]

One of my favourite things to do is aquascaping but damn it’s such a bourgeois hobby. ily takashi amano but you created a tonne of elitist prats spending £1000 on lights alone because companies know their dumb, overly-rich asses will pay for it

[uploadheaven]

Big Momma

[hollypunkers]

kind of obsessed with the idea of the rest of the gaang leaving Toph and Zuko to watch over some cooking food and when they come back its burned and Katara starts fuming but Toph and Zuko are like “we’ve never stepped inside a kitchen in our lives and only have one eye between us, if anything it’s your fault”

[cypresstheworld]