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[mansand]

mushrooms

[perahbar]

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[qi-mera]

More of you need to learn about these ☝️

[jadenebula]

[feldfrog]

Some people can rotate a cube in their mind. I can rotate multiple cubes, in my stomach. I swallowed some dice

[valentineodium]

[blueelectivire]

אחי מה

שיט

[jack-the-fool]

Rocky: Grace say Hail Mary archives have all Human media yet Rocky still cannot find classic film Goncharov for movie night statment.

Grace: ....What?

Rocky: Grace not know own earth greatest mafia movie ever made question?

Grace: .......

Grace: What?

[teabree-shark]

[m0thmancore]

[adz]

[shegs]

I FOUMDH IT

[princess-anri]

Regular Couple

[pawhold-deactivated20180415]

this ended homophobia

[nikoni]

happy pride month

[pjackk]

Damn! i want mintchimp icecreamo

[homophobla]

Omg pjackk you're back!!

[homophobla]

HUH??? pjackk was just unbanned and then immediately banned again!?

[rabbiteclair]

auto immune disorders happen when the immune system ignores regulatory factors and begins attacking healthy bodily tissues, due to what scientists refer to as "sheer love of the game"

[br1ghtestlight]

spent MONTHS looking for this stupid tumblr post bcuz i constantly want to reference it and it wouldn't come up no matter what i searched despite it being (what i thought) was a popular well-known tumblr post only to find that the original blog turned off reblogs and deactivated and that it only got 12k notes total. but im posting it anyway to preserve its legacy

[mercuryhomunculus]

"כוכב נגה הוא המקום הכי חם במערכת השמש-"

"-חוץ מתל אביב."

~ציטוט מהסמינריון

[indigosfindings]

how do you pronounce the honourific "Ms." in english

"miss"

"miz"

other

unsure/see results

Voting ended onMay 21

[mortalityplays]

really good "shocking number of people are confidently objectively demonstrably completely wrong" poll

[3liza]

i am losing my fucking mind

[avocado-moon]

#we dont use honorifics in my first language so whenever i have to select options (usually for flights) im always so confused#like what is actually the difference between miss and ms#i like miss bc it sounds more historical and im a historian so

"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

"Ms." - prounounced MIZ, btw - is a third option popularized by gloria steinem in the 70s - mainly through her feminist magazine Ms. - which is meant to be a neutral term, usable for any and all women regardless of marital status (hence the soul destroying irony of the tags above). it gained wider general acceptance when geraldine ferraro, the first woman to be nominated as VP on a national major party ticket, started using it widely to avoid confusion, since she was married but used her maiden name professionally. eventually over the years it came into common use though i do think the brits are a little more critical of it than americans (as far as i'm aware lol)

[avocado-moon]

"obscure facts only a tumblr user would know" and it's one of the most influential institutions of second wave american feminism. PLEASE open the schools

[onbearfeet]

Hi. I'm an unmarried woman in her forties. I use Ms. and pronounce it "miz", though I don't correct people who accidentally use a soft S. I use Ms. because it's no one's business but my own whether I'm married, to a man or anyone else, and that's what Ms. means. It means fuck off, my marital status is irrelevant, just as it is for every man who uses Mr.

I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"

That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.

I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.

Also, I've taught English and worked as an editor for twenty years. I am quite literally the grammar police. This use of Ms. is a standard construction. If you didn't learn it in school, someone failed you.

[squeeful]

“Obscure facts” Boo boo I was taught it in elementary school. One with a state standardized curriculum.

Ms. is marriage-neutral and it’s pronounced Miz. It is deliberately different from Miss.

[summergoodwife]

On principle I do just assume people's schools sucked in this regard and didn't teach them it (even if it's "standard" that's not a guarantee) but that only goes to show how much we're missing when it comes to feminist education.

In the current global climate that's so defined by reactionary antifeminism, maybe it's time we start getting loud about Ms. again? So that everyone knows what it was made for, and nobody can ignore why.

[your-local-fools-treasury]

ah yes, cuz english is the only language on the entire planet and everyone knows everything about

who care how someone says Ms.

"oh but it's pronounced like miz"

shut the hell up, it doesn't mean crap

"oh but it's common knowledge that it was part of a feminist movement"

in USAmerica maybe, not in any other country in the world

English isn't the default language, heck, it's not even the first language of most people on the world!

it's the most spoken SECOND language, and trust me, they don't have time or care to teach the difference between Ms. and miss and Mrs.

because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter crap

what do matter is EVERY OTHER PART OF GRAMMAR

and if you dare to be like

"oh but how about history class"

I can assure you, there are more important things in history you need to learn about than one teeny tiny thing from the usa

[janmisali]

were you aware of Ms. ("Mizz") as a deliberate alternative honorific to both Miss and Mrs. that doesn't specify marital status? and are you a native English speaker?

yes I knew that, English is my first language

no I did not know, English is my first language

yes I knew that, English is not my first language

no I did not know, English is not my first language

[show results]

Voting ended onMay 28

^ poll to see if being aware of this is in any way correlated with being a native english speaker

[your-local-fools-treasury]

I don't wanna say I told you so

but I fricken told you so

over ⅔rds of the non native english did not know

and a bit less than ⅔rds of native english speakers knew

[janmisali]

now I will say. yes, people were unnecessarily rude about this and I'm sorry for that. and yes, this is something the majority of non-native english speakers appear to be unfamiliar with, and non-native english speakers are less likely to be familiar with this than native english speakers. you were correct in that sense

however, the majority of people who are unfamiliar with this are native english speakers. it is not fair to conclude that the most likely reason someone might not be aware of this is that english is not their first language. based on this data, there has to be something else going on, and I think you were in the wrong to be so dismissive of the frustration other people expressed that this isn't as commonly known as it should be

[blueelectivire]

also, claiming "english is not everyone's first language so you can't assume everyone knows this" is kinda weird in a conversion about english

like sure, i wouldn't expect someone speaking english as a second or third language to know every construction, but getting upset that people are talking about constructions in english you don't know in a post about the english language that is in english is kinda weird. like there are obviously people in the thread who care about this, what space would you expect them to use for this conversation otherwise?

also i think it would be appropriate to mention english is my second language and i didn't know the differences or the historical context in regards to ms and would most likely have pronounced it with a soft s up until now. i was not taught this in english class in school as far as i can recall, and i definitely did learn mrs and miss. i think part of the problem is that there isn't much media representation for this. like i cannot recall anywhere a woman being referred to as ms, while miss feels like something i heard lots of times before. although that may just be my non-native ear disregarding the difference.

[girl-man-and-the-boy-woman]

I don't think it's weird when the original poll doesn't specify it's for native English speakers only. After that it's implied everyone gets taught this difference in elementary school, and it's an important part of feminist history that you Should know. I don't think it's weird to point out it's US-centric and frankly condescending to a large part of Tumblr users.

[blueelectivire]

two things i have to say about this

in relation to this conversation in particular, i think the non-native english speaker perspective is important, but it can be expressed more constructively. coming into a conversation acting like the entire matter is of zero value and if you don't know something then it is inherently meaningless is not constructive. notice how like the third reblog references a tag by someone who speaks english as a second language. also, i'd argue there is value in knowing history of places other than the one you live in, especially important social movements like the feminist movement, but not being taught that in school is understandable (and you also have no power over that)

in general, native english speakers have found themselves in a weird state regarding online spaces, where the basically don't have any online space of their own without other people. considering that, what do you expect them to do when discussing their own language? write a big disclaimer "non-native speakers dni"? i'd argue that's more condescending