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I love you samosas. I love you empanadas. I love you pasties. I love you dumplings. I love you pirozhkis. I love you savory food in a convenient little carb purse.

luthienne

i wake up thirsty and i think of palestine. i go to the doctor’s office and i think of palestine. a sign in the corner of the waiting room says ‘this is a place of healing, disruptive behavior will not be tolerated’ and i think of palestine. they probably weren’t thinking of bombs and snipers and mass graves in parking lots. i call my parents and i think of palestine. i drive to the grocery store and i think of palestine. i look at the clear blue sky and i think of palestine. i put the dishes away and i think of palestine. i feed my cat and i think of palestine. i listen to music and i think of palestine. i read poetry and i think of palestine. i text my friends and i think of palestine. i think of palestine and i think of palestine and i think of palestine

dopestarfishpanda

What's the point of being able to speak in 5 languages if I have nothing meaningful to say in all of them.

bread--quest

i love languages so much i think they are so beautiful and linguistic diversity needs to be maintained because there are so many languages in the worlds and thats so aweosme *visibly choking back tears over the fact that i will never be able to speak every language ever*

mugueteva

do any other bilingual people start speaking another language when they get exasperated

for me it’s french

defleftist

If I had a dollar for every time a man told me I was “very opinionated” I’d be able to pay off all my student loans.

starlightshadowsworld

For me to write poetry that isn't political

I must listen to the birds

and in order to listen to the birds

the war planes must be silent

- Marwan Makhoul, Palestinian Lebanese poet.

wiisagi-maiingan

You are allowed to exist alone in public btw. You're allowed to go to the movies alone and go out to eat alone and hang out in a park alone and go for a walk alone and whatever else. It isn't weird or creepy, it doesn't make you lonely or a loser or whatever. You are allowed to just exist as yourself.

flukeanalgesics

I want my life to revolve around dying to learn everything about science, politics, literature and music so that I can argue with people with extra intellect and extra delusion (that would be me)

polyglot-sock

my English teacher: I hope this video motivated you to start a new language!

me, who is learning ten languages simultaniously and has no free time because of it: I hope it didn't

bookwyrminspiration

constantly torn between "i wish I could magically learn this language immediately and speak it perfectly" and "part of language acquisition is the process, and learning it immediately wouldn't have as much meaning or significance to me"

vibinwiththefrogs-deactivated20

Me: what if I tell nobody about this language I'm learning and then just come out one day able to have a conversation

Also me, as soon as I try something new: hey y'all check out what silly things I'm up to

capt-sievert

Being bilingual isn't being good at speaking two languages, it's seeing a feather and calling it a leaf, horribly misspelling everything, making up words like it's newspeak and forgetting either language when you need to talk

minamorris1897

Can we talk about how chaotic Narnian battles would feel?? Especially in Prince Caspian. Like, imagine you’re a little Telmarine soldier waiting for the catapults to go and you’ve got all your regiments in nice orderly rows and these two 16 year olds suddenly yell “charge” and the ground opens up beneath you, a mouse with a sword the size of a large pencil takes out your bestie, a griffin drops a dwarf 5 ft away from you and he comes up swinging. As you try to rationalize this, you’re stabbed by a twelve year old with a British accent. Finally, a really freaking big lion shows up, roars, and your entire army collectively pees their pants. At one point in the movie (yes I know the movies aren’t quite the same as the book but they’re still good) Peter says like “we have the element of surprise” like dude, you have drafted the trees I’m pretty sure everyone’s gonna be surprised no matter what.