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These beautiful lithographs came today! The background/color is text from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum. They are beautiful and I can’t wait to hang them in Wy@’s room! Who are these from so I can thank you properly? ❤️

#baby gift #please identify yourself 😊😊😊

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If you’d like a birth announcement when Wyatt is born, please click the link and input your address. It’s secure, and makes it easy to collect addresses. If you did this when I posted it before, you don’t have to do it again, unless your address has changed :)

Also, if we aren’t friends on Facebook and you’re not sure if I know your real name, please leave your tumblr handle in the notes somewhere or drop me a note here. If I’m not sure who someone is, I won’t be sending a birth announcement to that address - security and my baby and all. I’m sure you understand.

Thanks!

Evolution

As I evolve, my blog evolves. @perpetualtoska made a good point about how our blogs almost become baggage as we grow and who I am now isn't necessarily represented by the history on this blog. I tend to start over about every three years, apparently it's about that time.

#stay tuned

I love this photo (even though I look HYUGE) - look at how he is looking at me. Ok, so his eyes are closed but you know what I mean. It's that expression on someone's face when they're looking at the person they love. That person is me 🐙 When he's gone - at work or wherever - I long for him. I miss him, even of it's only been a couple hours. I want him around all the time. I want all my adventures to be with him. I want him around for the rest of my life. He's one of the best people to ever come into my life and he's made life before him pale in comparison. I will love him as much as I can, for as long as I can. It's an honor.

#and so much fun!#keith

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saltycashew

Concept: a relationship where you’re both equally obsessed with one another but still respect eachothers space. There is no lack of communication or trust. Lots of sex.

cupcakeasaurus

And it's perfect.

#Keith

threebigolsausages-deactivated2

my party trick is wearing cool socks so people come up to me and say “hey man cool socks”

3 Seems legit. #wonderwhatImeant #threewhat

#wonderwhatimeant #threewhat

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things i love:

-space

-the ocean

things i am terrified of:

-space

-the ocean

beefchoy

normal things with creepy connotations:

stopped clocks

people accidentally speaking in unison

cold wind at night (when it’s not snowing)

seeing a light go off in a window

static in the air - everyone’s hair is standing up

slow piano music in a place that’s otherwise silent

finding something you lost a long time ago sitting in plain sight

59 days until Wy@'s eviction. Sober for 189 days. ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-NINE DAYS.

#189 days #!!!!!!!!!!!

shadow27

Chewbacca… his arms open.

mscottwrites

This is some NEXT LEVEL nerd-ing and I nearly cried reading it.

bass-borot

I don’t get it

bass-borot

Please explain ;_;

magicalgirlmindcrank

There is a star trek TNG episode where Picard encounters a race that doesn’t speak in actual structured sentences but conveys ideas through story parralels. The ones referenced here are “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” - cooperation, “Shaka, when the walls fell” - failure and Temba, his arms wide/open" - signifying a gift.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Tamarian_language

wariowaretrans

nice

flavoracle

OK, but here’s what’s awesome/hilarious about this.

The whole point about why communicating with the Tamarians was so frustrating was because all of their communication was contextual. The problem wasn’t that Picard couldn’t understand what words they were saying (the universal translator worked fine) the problem was that he didn’t understand what THOSE WORDS TOGETHER HAD TO DO WITH ANYTHING.

Why is this hilarious/fascinating to me? Because this is essentially what people are doing today with memes. They are posting pictures and writing sentences THAT MAKE NO SENSE WITHOUT PRIOR CONTEXT.

If Picard beamed down right now, and you told him that Data is a cinnamon roll… you are a Tamarian.

emptymanuscript

Reblogging because A) YES! and B) That commentary. It’s so true, it’s scary.

I also just want more. ^_^

technologistrevolution

Actually, this isn’t something just present in memes but it seems to be a foundation of human language and partly why a universal translator could never work (or if it somehow did, it should be programmable to handle Tamarian). It’s just that most metaphors in language are so accepted or necessary to fluency that we don’t really notice them (or they seem to be a common human perspective… which aliens don’t necessarily have to share).

It is why when speaking German I have to remember it is, “How much Clock is it?” and not “What time is it?”. The metaphor in English seems to be that moments are separate entities/temporal locations that we visit through the day so we need to determine what one we are visiting now. Whereas in German, leaving aside the fact the “clock” can clearly be a stand-in metaphor for “time” the overall metaphor there seems to be that moments in time are accumulative entities that we collect through the day and we need to determine how much we’ve collected.

And speaking of time, human languages tend towards two metaphors, either favouring one or the other or happily indulging in both… either time is a stationary path which the focus moves along (”… as we’re traveling into the month February…”) or time is a river the flows past a stationary focus (”his birthday is rapidly approaching”). Technically those are metaphors to handle an abstract concept, time could just as easily be metaphorically an object that “appears” rather than “approaches” or a location you “turn towards” instead of “move into”… and I don’t know if any human language allows you to metaphorically be a man in a boat traveling up a river (or what that would look like/imply) but it is a possibility (especially if you are considering an alien perspective on time).

Leaving behind time, some emotions are metaphorically a direction. Happy is up, sometimes way up ‘til you’re “on Cloud 9″ (and there’s no obvious reason for it to be the 9th cloud but you accept it) and on the opposite end of that spectrum sadness is down (in the dumps) when it isn’t busy being a colour (blue). And naturally you yourself are a container for your emotions, or more specifically your heart is (at least in English, in Indonesian it’s your liver) and the container can be put under pressure until it is “bursting with joy” or it “explodes in anger”.

And then there are true idioms which actually do reference historic events (which is what I assume is happening in Tamarian’s “Shaka, when the walls fell”) like “Read The Riot Act” or if you “heard it through the grapevine” your people had a mess of telegraph wires at some point and grapevines to compare them to. And “apple of one’s eye” is weird for being a double metaphor… the pupil was once believed to be a solid object metaphorically called an “apple” but then, after Shakespeare popularized the phrase in reference to a person in terms of affection, and science let us know the pupil is not apple-like at all, it came to exclusively mean “this person is very dear to me” and we all forgot why apples were involved in the first place.

Of course, I am far from a linguistic expert so you should take this all “with a grain of salt” ;)

allthingslinguistic

Yes, and there’s even an Official Academic name for this: intertextuality! Aka “texts referring to other texts” – whether those texts are song lyrics, proverbs, historical references, movie quotes, clichés, memes, metaphors, in-jokes, parody, fanfic, and so on.

It doesn’t even have to be as explicit as an idiom or metaphor: even a turn of phrase will do. For example, saying something “is a truth universally acknowledged” invokes Pride and Prejudice, or “a thing of beauty and a joy forever” invokes Keats (although for me it invokes Mary Poppins, because obviously as a kid I watched that movie long before I’d ever heard of Keats), or “Strange women lying in rivers distributing words” invokes Monty Python. Intertexuality is one of the reasons people study literary works within the context of what other literary works were important at that place and time, so as to catch the intertextual references that the author may be making.