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videofootage

a letter from emma thompson to her 16 year old self (x)

katestewartt

#ME WHEN THERE'S NO MORE TEA

depsidase

peterkavnsky-deactivated2020051

you know what? accents are actually lovely. like you can learn all the languages in the world and you still have a part of your own with you. that’s cute

siyahbeyazhayaller2

the-last-teabender

A little something for Linguistics Tumblr.

So the Crunchyroll newsroom isn't a "room" so much as a Slack channel. We have news writers all over the US, in Australia, and in Japan. This means we have something akin to 'round-the-clock coverage, but it also means that our schedules respective to each other are skewed. For example, when the East Coast contingent is starting their day, the Japan contingent is shutting down for the evening.

Because of that, we started experimenting with greetings that could apply when Party A was coming in for the morning and Party B was leaving for the night. One person came up with "konbarning": a combination of "good morning" and "konban wa" ("good evening" in Japanese). It stuck.

Over the following months, "konbarning" got shortened to "barning" and other permutations. Now, a year or some later, this is how we announce our arrival:

pers-books

Emma Thompson’s daughter shared this on Instagram. 😂

spiribia

we do need to revisit the wording of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" because i don't think it clearly enough conveys that it's more that you can't simultaneously retain a cake and also get to consume it (which would render you cakeless). for years i was like But why not....it's my cake....?

ferrettoy

this fucking problem is how they caught the unabomber

m0thmancore

hey you should uh. elaborate. for my own personal satisfaction

ferrettoy

the unabomber was pedantic about idiomatic phrases like "have your cake and eat it too" and rephrased it to "eat your cake and have it too" (which to be very fair makes sense). fast forward to when he starts writing manifestos. he uses the phrase word for word in his pedantic style and his brother (who has been keeping his eyes on the unabomber shit for obvious reasons) notices the phrase and is like "oh fuck that's my fucking brother no one else fucking says that" and calls in an FBI tip

mariacallous

cosmos-kitty

I've been really into drawing clovers lately ☘️

thatpinkkwitch

i just heard the phrase “if you wouldn’t trust their advice, don’t trust their criticism” for the first time and i don’t think i’ve ever needed to hear anything more