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oh. my god. i just noticed something

in the ‘gang goes to hell’ mac’s wearing his beast coast shirt when he “comes out” as gay

mac’s wearing the shirt same in ‘hero or hate crime,’ and presumably throws it out because it’s got a dog shit footprint on it (he was disgusted to see that charlie still had it it)

pretty sure this might’ve been intentional on rcg’s part ??? maybe admitting to how shitty the queer bait last season was (pun intended) ???

in conclusion: coincidence ?? i think not

#TV: always sunny #I'm dying!!!!!!!! whatever!!!!!!!

my mantel looks like an indie film still

#*#photography

2-shane-s

Date someone who will date you

methfall

Need me a freak like that

#text #reuben

#*#photography #flowers

#*#photography #incense

#*#photography #flowers

it’s foggy today

#*#photography

rosamundpikesource

Rosamund has been known to take her corn snake Oswald to dinner and wear him as a bracelet. “People will say, ‘I like your bracelet’ and I say, ‘Thanks, that’s Oswald.’”

#same #p: rosamund pike

sharksfood

*throws waffles into the woods* for eleven

#text

superlinguo

"Where is a frown?" Americans say mouth, Brits say forehead (my mind=blown)

This recent post from Lynne Murphy on Separated By a Common Language created much discussion in my Twitter feed and over dinner with a collection of American, British and Australian English speakers. Many of us have been living with semantic variation staring up in the face. Even (American English) Lynne didn’t realise her (British English) husband had a difference sense from her:

When I tweeted the question “Where is a frown?” British people told me “on the forehead”. When I asked the Englishman in my house, he said the same thing. Fourteen years together and only now do I know that he’s been frowning much of the time.

And like one of the blog commenters, the Brits I talked with had an epiphany: so that’s why Americans say “turn your frown upside down!” to mean ‘cheer up!’.

Older Australian English speakers I talked to identified the forehead frown as the sense that they have, but a frown has always been the opposite of a smile for me, all about the mouth. Otherwise, what is the opposite of a smile? It looks like we have some intergenerational semantic shift happening right under our noses.

See Lynne’s original post on Separated by a Common Language.

allthingslinguistic

I’m Canadian and I also have the mouth meaning for frown (as it seems do Canadians in general per Michael Wagner’s post), so I’ve come to an epiphany of my own: this must be the origin of the expression “it takes [large number] of muscles to frown, but only [small number] of muscles to smile.” Curving your lips down doesn’t feel like it takes that many muscles, but furrowing your brow definitely does.

yahtzee63

I think Americans convey the British meaning of “frown” with “scowl” instead.

sheldrakus

The trouble with this is that I often write about people frowning in puzzlement or concentration (or at least I feel as though I do) - it literally never occurred to me before this that not everyone would read it the same way!

#this is so wild omg #i've lived in england for 5 years and never realized this #i just asked reuben and they said forehead