[st0nefoxx]

i can’t breathe. i can’t breathe. i can’t breathe. i can’t breathe. i can’t breathe. i can’t breathe. i can’t breathe. i can’t breathe. i can’t breathe. i can’t breathe. i can’t breathe.

Eric Garner said “I can’t breathe” 11 times before he could no longer speak. Share, converse, use your voice.   (via st0nefoxx)

[cretienne]

Why would they spell their name with a capital C?!

[cretienne]

And it’s not a problem if you’re angry or sad or afraid. It’s just a fact. It’s an unpleasant fact, but so is gravity, because someone could conceivably drop a piano on your head and kill you.

[victoriousvocabulary]

[linguisten]

Zeitfliegen mögen einen Pfeil!

[allthingslinguistic]

I was really tempted to edit the hands of the clock to be shaped like arrows though. 

[fruitsaladchewits-deactivated20]

[peterfromtexas-deactivated20250]

Palestinian lady collects gas bombs fired by Israeli army. She grows flowers in these bombs

[fellowes]

[fellowes]

I made this while bored on Photoshop last night and now it has 300 notes. That’s like 280 more notes than anything else I’ve ever posted has got. Hooray for equal rights lovers. And hooray for my “let’s gradually just get angrier and swear more as we go on” approach to making things.

And graphs. I fucking love graphs.

[the-navel-treatment-blog]

[cretienne]

Opened Tumblr for the first time in ages and what did I find? Sherlock AND Linguistics AND Camus - am I in heaven? :)

the-navel-treatment:

So, the other day, girls-youvegotanotherone and I were having a conversation that gave me an “I’m an idiot! A blind idiot!” Sherlock moment.

She was saying how the German version sort of prevents you from shipping Johnlock, because the translation of “you” that John and Sherlock use when addressing each other is “Sie,” the polite form, rather than “du,” which would be more informal. That sort of interaction, first name + polite form of address, is something that would be used by, as she put it, “Co-workers who have worked next to each other for a long time but don’t actually know each other well.” Definitely not two people who feel something more intimate.

It’s easy to forget, when English is your first language, that many other languages have both formal and informal forms of the word “you.” German definitely, and the Romance languages as well (unfortunately that’s where my knowledge stops). It’s easy to see why, if John and Sherlock are constantly addressing each other formally, it would be harder to envision them ending up together.

So, we had an idea. We’d like to find out how Sherlock is translated around the world, and what impact that has on the perception of their relationship. And we need your help!

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This is a really interesting question, and the replies already collected onOperation Syntax are definitely worth a browse for the question of translation, even if you don’t particularly care whether Sherlock and John get together. 

Translating formal/informal pronoun use when one language doesn’t have the distinction is notoriously difficult in both directions. In the inverse case, I’m reminded of a scene in Camus’s L’etranger where the French reads:* 

Il me tutoyait.

Literally, that’s something like “He used the informal tu with me” or “He addressed me with tu”. 

But the English translation that I read had: 

He was calling me by my first name. 

Despite the fact that the narrator Meursault is never given a first name in the text, this was the closest the translator could get to the effect of the original.

*All quotes from memory, apologies if I’m a word or two off but the point remains. 

[cretienne]

I am such a softy...

... had quite a few tears in my eyes while watching The End of Time - and it was by far not the first time I was watching it!

[galexiefaraway]

The Hameron kiss: 3x15

[still--getting--there]

[freckali]

✰ indie // bambi ✰

[cretienne]

Finally I get to use that expression...

... "the awkward moment" ... when you see the 'about me'-section on the website of your partner's ex and realize that the first paragraph could have been written by you. Made me laugh a lot. Finally I found out what we have in common (apart from a great taste of course ;-) ).

[drunk-on-books]

[cretienne]

Would love to have a house like that!

[cretienne]

I am addicted to headphones... bought some urbanears today.

[asking-jude]

Flippin’ awesome, bro~!

[cretienne]

todayicreatesomethingbeautiful

[kutlukam]

i just want to say about mental “disorders” that anomalies named by experts(!) are not just bad all and also have some positive aspects like curses and blesses. and finally, psychology is a science which gives interesting names to situtations which are not literally understood by itself…

[cretienne]

Not a complete list but still a good view of things...

[discolor3d]

The person I reblogged this from deserves to be happy.

[seeinglife-with-paranoideyes-de]

Everyone who re blogged this deserves to be happy.

[todes-stille-blog]

everyone deserves to be happy

[notabeautifulworld]

Das wird eh keiner rebloggen haha

[cretienne]

winter....