[aspe-blog1]

One of my biggest anxieties is that some day I'll invite a friend over to my house and have to offer them refreshments bc like.... I only drink water, coffee, and tea. Plain. Sugar and milk do not exist here. What is ketchup?? Mayonnaise??? No we only have mustard and vinegar in this house.

So it's gonna be like "May I offer you some fridge water and a pickle?"

[ongwink]

if u have pets, reblog this what u call them besides their name

[aspe-blog1]

Tagging the disorder that's most relevant to the post is chronic illness culture.

[aspe-blog1]

I touched a cold bottle of juice and satan entered my veins. The nerve pain is real y'all. My head is so fuzzy and I have no strength in my arms. Limp noodle mode activated

[aspe-blog1]

I lost power at 7pm on Sunday and now at 10:30pm on Tuesday it's finally back on.

[aspe-blog1]

Day 2 post Irma

Still ain't got no power. Probably won't for a week or so. Our roof is leaking in the bathroom. But we're okay. Relatively speaking.

[aspe-blog1]

Irma is here

[aspe-blog1]

Honestly I'm just waiting for my power to go out.

[aspe-blog1]

My dad got stung by a wasp because he was boarding up our windows. Thanks, Irma.

[peachcookie]

new tumblr discourse

is 75 degrees Fahrenheit too cold, too hot, or just right? discuss

[nervousphantomwombat]

Also tag where u live

[maryblackwood]

24 celsius for those wondering

[rewordfully]

Hit me with them linguistic facts

[prodigyprosecutor]

In Swahili, the exact same word (ndege) is used to mean airplane and bird. The difference in meaning is conveyed by whether you treat is as belonging to the noun class for living beings or the noun class it technically “should” belong to!

[atlantisrises]

“Vodka” is a diminutive of Russian “voda” (water) and is thus cognate with English “water” and “wet”

(They all come from the PIE root *wed-)

[atlantisrises]

Cranberry morphemes are bound morphemes that distinguish one word from another (such as “cranberry” from “blueberry”) but have no meaning or grammatical function of their own. They often come from words which are no longer used in the language, but remain preserved or “fossilized” in their bound forms. The “kempt” in “unkempt” and the “gruntle(d)” in “disgruntle(d)” are cranberry morphemes.

A cranberry word is, similarly, a word or form of a word which only appears bound in a specific phrase, such as the “wend” in “wend your way” or the “quick” in “the quick and the dead” (for the sense of quick that means “alive.”)

Btw I’ve seen it argued that with the advent of things like “cran-apple” and “cran-grape” as flavors “cran-” is no longer actually a cranberry morpheme.

[historical-nonfiction]

Did you know Tibet once controlled an empire? It ruled the Himalayan highlands, Bengal, and the modern Chinese provinces of Gansu and Yunnan from 618 CE to about 840 CE. Between the first and third emperor, their territory expanded eventually to the height shown in the map above. But difficulty of transportation and communication, and religious tensions due to the introduction of Buddhism in the early 700s CE, led to infighting which pitted the royal family against ancient noble families and supporters of the new religion.

The last two emperors were assassinated, one by pro-native religionists, one by a Buddhist hermit. Yes, a Buddhist assassinated an emperor. After the death of the tenth emperor, the Tibetan Empire disintegrated into civil war.

[speedlimit15]

me: im gonna go to bed early and get a good nights sleep netflix: here’s a bunch of 45 minute documentaries on the wildlife inhabiting coastal islands me: hhhdbhnnnnnnnnnnddndkkj coconut crab

[selench]

[languagessi-deactivated20210423]

A

Accent - way of pronunciation particular to a speaker or group of speakers Americentrism - the bias to judge other cultures and nations by American standards or to assume a higher relevance of American standards than those of other countries

B

Bilingual - a person who is able to speak two languages 

C

Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), The - a guideline used to describe achievements of learners of foreign languages across Europe and, increasingly, in other countries

Constructed language (conlang) - a language whose phonology, grammar, and vocabulary have been consciously devised for human or human-like communication instead of having developed naturally

Cultural appropriation - the adoption or use of the elements of one culture by members of another culture

D

Dead language -  a language that is no longer the native language of any community even if it is still in use 

Dialect - a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially

E

Endangered language - a language that is at risk of falling out of use as its speakers die out or shift to speaking another language

Eurocentrism - centered on Europe or Europeans (in langblr community: European languages, especially those of the Indo-European language family)

Extinct language - a language that no longer has any speakers

F

Fluent -  able to speak or write smoothly, easily, or readily

Foreign language - any language used in a country other than one’s own

G

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H

Heritage language - the language someone learns at home as a child which is a minority language in a society, but because of growing up with a dominant language, the speaker seems more competent in the latter and feels more comfortable communicating in that language; the language of a person’s family or community, which the person does not speak or understand but with which they culturally identify

I

Indigenous language - a language that is native to a region and spoken by indigenous people, often reduced to the status of a minority language

Idiom -  an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements or from the general grammatical rules of a language and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics

J

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K

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L

Language family - a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family

Language isolate - a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical relationship with other languages, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language

Langblr - a tumblr blog for languages

Linguistics -  the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics

Linguist - a specialist in linguistics 

Lingblr - a tumblr blog for linguistics 

M

Minoritized language - a language that has suffered marginalization, persecution or even ban at some point in its history

Minority language - a language spoken by a minority of the population of a territory Monolingual -  a person who is able to speak only one language

Multilingual - a person who is able to speak several languages 

N

Native language (mother tongue, first language, L1) - a language that a person has been exposed to from birth

O

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P

Philology - the study of language in written historical sources; a combination of literary criticism, history, and linguistics

Philologist - a specialist in philology

Polyglot -  a person who speaks, writes, or reads a number of languages

Proverb - a short popular saying, usually of unknown and ancient origin, that expresses effectively some commonplace truth or useful thought

Q

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R

Racism -  a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others

S

Sacred language (liturgal language, holy language) - any language that is cultivated and used primarily in religious service or for other religious reasons by people who speak another language in their daily life Sign language - any of several visual-gestural systems of communication, especially employing manual gestures, as used among deaf people

Studyblr - a tumblr blog for studying 

T

Tongueblr - a tumblr blog for foreign tongues; a langblr

U

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V

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W

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X

Xenophobia -  fear or hatred of foreigners, people from different cultures, or strangers

Y

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Z

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[aspe-blog1]

Teracotta??? Did you mean The Absolute Worst Texture I Have Ever Had The Misfortune Of Touching????

[fandomsandfeminism]

It is impossible for Nazis to peacefully protest.

Nazism is inherently and irrevocably violent. To be a Nazi, to preach Nazism, to wear Nazi Symbols, to make Nazi salutes, to shout Nazi slogans ARE acts of violence.