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Stuff on language, food, and other obsessions and happenstances

[ckbielefeld]

Dekandenz muss nicht teuer sein! Lieber #lebensmittelretten bevor sie "ablaufen"! #putenoberkeule #buntemoehren #sellerie und #trockenobst aus dem @rewe #reduziert #sparfuchs #8euro #5mahlzeiten #samstagseinkauf #lipper #mealprep #lowcarb #highprotein #fitfem #lieblingskollegin (hier: At Home)

[ckbielefeld]

Krasse Gang, diese NLPler 🤣 #nlp #bethel #vonbodelschwingh #kommunikation #coaching #neurolinguistik kann man nicht #programmieren #graffiti #tag (hier: Bethel (Bielefeld))

[ckbielefeld]

Making ginger-basil ale! #homemade #organic #gingerale #selbstistdiefrau #ingwer #wikihow Rezept bei https://de.wikihow.com/Ginger-Ale-selber-herstellen

[ckbielefeld]

Jippieh, meine Visitenkarten kamen heute an. Dann kann das Netzwerken ja losgehen! --> Link im Profil #coaching #beratung #selbstoptimierung #bielefeld #liebefeld #leineweber #multimodalekommunikation

[ckbielefeld]

Mein Geburtstagsgeschenk von mir an mich: bester Burger der Welt (Runde 2) 😍 (hier: Belfast, United Kingdom)

[allthingslinguistic]

An interesting thread about the discursive function of “waslike”.

Technically speaking, I wouldn’t say that this construction is really a compound verb “waslike”, because it still conjugates like you’d normally conjugate the verb “to be”. (I’m like, you’re like, s/he’s like; I was like, you were like, s/he was like - not I waslike, you waslike, s/he waslikes.)

The linguistic term for it is quotative “like” and there have been several academic papers about it, including this early one from 1990 and this extensive survey of functions of “like” by Alexandra D’Arcy.

[ckbielefeld]

Language change happening!

[ckbielefeld]

In 6 Wochen gibt es Apfel- & Quittenlikör. Omas Entsafter ist der Kracher! #herbst 🍁 #quitten #selbstgemacht #liqueur #ensaften #liebefeld

[pidgeling]

i’m so upset

I just realized that the reason ghosts say Boo! is because it’s a latin verb

they’re literally saying ‘I alarm/I am alarming/I do alarm!!

I can’t

[life-of-a-latin-student]

present active boō, present infinitive boāre, perfect active boāvī, supine boātum

[interretialia]

Recte!

[flightcub]

if it comes from the latin word, they’re actually saying “I’M YELLING!” which is even cuter

[grizzlyhills]

do they speak latin because it’s a dead language

[psychrophile]

[allthingslinguistic]

I looked this up on Etymonline just in case it was actually true, and I found this pretty delightful etymology: 

Boo - expression meant to startle, early 15c., boh, “A combination of consonant and vowel especially fitted to produce a loud and startling sound” [OED, which compares Latin boare, Greek boaein “to cry aloud, roar, shout.”]; as an expression of disapproval, 1801 (n.), 1816 (v.); hence, the verb meaning “shower someone with boos” (1893).

Booing was common late 19c. among London theater audiences and at British political events; In Italy, Parma opera-goers were notorious boo-birds, but the custom seems to have been little-known in America till c. 1910.

To say boo “open one’s mouth, speak,” originally was to say boo to a goose.

To be able to say Bo! to a goose is to be not quite destitute of courage, to have an inkling of spirit, and was probably in the first instance used of children. A little boy who comes across some geese suddenly will find himself hissed at immediately, and a great demonstration of defiance made by them, but if he can pluck up heart to cry ‘bo!’ loudly and advance upon them, they will retire defeated. The word ‘bo’ is clearly selected for the sake of the explosiveness of its first letter and the openness and loudness of its vowel. [Walter W. Skeat, “Cry Bo to a Goose, “Notes and Queries,” 4th series vi Sept. 10, 1870]

So if ghosts are anything like geese, perhaps this means that the correct thing to do is to say boo back to the ghost, to show you’re not afraid. (Or even that ghosts are really just plucking up their courage to face us.)

[ckbielefeld]

Boohoo!

[allthingslinguistic]

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal tackles consonant typology. 

As you can read or see on a map in WALS, the voiceless dental fricative, despite being found in several of the world’s large languages, is indeed rare cross-linguistically. 

[ckbielefeld]

😂😂😂

[gillianaofficial]

But David, I thought you liked latex! #tbt #faketbt (Credit to whoever took the time to create this masterpiece.)

[ckbielefeld]

😂😂😂😂😂

[gillianaofficial]

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[burntcopper]

things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.

[windycityteacher-deactivated202]

WOAH WHAT?

[luninosity]

I think I first came across this idea in a Tolkien essay on language and philology. :-)

[secretlytodream]

It’s actually one of the first things that foreigners learn when they study ESL, and people always go WTF (I know I did lol) and yeah, at some point you do go, like, “it doesn’t sound right hmm”, but you’ll go crazy if you actually try to learn this thing as a rule or something.

[rumagin]

The Rise of the Trump Academic

[ckbielefeld]

:-|

[corbinstudies-deactivated201811]

Learning things you didn’t know you knew about your native language is such a mind fuck

[mikerugnetta]

TRUMP: I have the best temperament. Obviously.   CLINTON: Obviously. Yes. Obviously. You have interrupted me 70 times to say nonsense remarks that indicate you have not the faintest idea what you are talking about. Seventy times. I have spent my life doing this. You decided, like, last year that you were mildly interested in it and that you would probably be great at it. I wish I had that confidence. I wish any little girl did.   If I had coughed even once on this stage, I would have lost this debate instantly. And so you know what? I did not cough. Not even once. You sniffed and you lectured and you made faces and you sighed. And I stood there. Impassive. Like a screensaver. I focus-grouped my number of blinks.   But maybe it worked. Maybe, just this once, America saw a man yammer on for an hour and a half about a subject he knew nothing about to a woman who had spent her lifetime in that field, and America said, “Oh,” quietly, to itself. Maybe. But knowing America, maybe also not.

Last night’s debate, or the mansplaining Olympics - The Washington Post (via liamdryden)

[yeizdol]

[ckbielefeld]

Yes. This also means "no".

[ckbielefeld]

Der Herbst, der Herbst, der Herbst ist da! Knapp 5kg Äpfeln fanden in mir ihren Richter 😆 #apfelmus #marmelade #boskoop #cognac #zimt #herbstanfang