everything i see returns to you somehow

everything i feel returns to you somehow catherine ~ city explorer & coffee drinker & college student

[gustavnyquist]

Bryzzo 🏆

for @joshdonaldsons

[mychuckbartowski]

[delamontee-deactivated20201224]

Team Luke. 🍂☕️ 

Instagram : Delamontee

[peakyavenger]

who should’ve won sexiest man alive

-idris elba

-armie hammer

-chris hemsworth

-jason momoa

-jake gyllenhaal

-matt bomer

-dev patel

-oscar isaac

JUST TO NAME A FEW

[allthingslinguistic]

It is a well-documented fact that by the age of 5 monolingual White children will have heard 30 million fewer words in languages other than English than bilingual children of color. In addition, they will have had a complete lack of exposure to the richness of non-standardized varieties of English that characterize the homes of many children of color. This language gap increases the longer these children are in school. The question is what causes this language gap and what can be done to address it? The major cause of this language gap is the failure of monolingual White communities to successfully assimilate into the multilingual and multidialectal mainstream. The continued existence of White ethnic enclaves persists despite concerted efforts to integrate White communities into the multiracial mainstream since the 1960s. In these linguistically isolated enclaves it is possible to go for days without interacting with anybody who does not speak Standardized American English providing little incentive for their inhabitants to adapt to the multilingual and multidialectal nature of  US society. This linguistic isolation has a detrimental effect on the cognitive development of monolingual White children. This is because linguistically isolated households lack the rich translanguaging practices that are found in bilingual households and the elaborate style-shifting that occurs in bidialectal households. This leaves monolingual White children without a strong metalinguistic basis for language learning. As a result, many of these monolingual White children lack the school-readiness skills needed for foreign language learning and graduate from school having mastered nothing but Standardized American English leaving them ill-equipped to engage in intercultural communication.

What if we talked about monolingual White children the way we talk about low-income children of color?

Excerpt from a satirical blog post from The Educational Linguist that makes a good point about which language skills we value as a society and the problems with talking about a “language gap”. 

(via lingrix)

[zachparises]

[gustavnyquist]

Anthony Rizzo 💪

for @javvbaez

[fleurdalacour-deactivated202201]

succulents + cacti 🌵 ig: imagginations

[tytranosaurusrex]

becoming an adult is essentially having all your friends in different cities and permanently missing someone

[themountainlaurel-deactivated20]

[womenandwanderlust]

More women, more wanderlust…

[bryzzo]

A TEAMMATE AND GROOMSMAN Kris’s teammate and close friend, first baseman Anthony Rizzo, was among the groomsmen (another friend and the bride’s and groom’s brothers rounded out the party).

[snowbairdd]

I may be small But in the biggest, helpfulest way

[patrickwinfield]

Sunset Safari Impossible Project film 28x32"

[cruvcio]

The Houses as Studyblrs  [click to enlarge // info ⚡  insp]

[avpdcommunity]

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[olearypoetry]