[judelaw]

[drmscps]

one episode in and I’m in love with this show, and I never even watch television. 

[science-of-noise]

William Jones, who first used the symbol π (pi) to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter was the father of William Jones, who first posited the existence of the language that became known as Proto-Indo-European (PIE).

[allthingslinguistic]

That’s as good an excuse as any to eat PIE pie on March 14th.

[blockbhive]

[silentaffirmation]

INTJ: no it’s okay, do it your way, your way is fine

INTJ: just stand aside and let me fix it

INTJ: you’re doing it wrong

[drmscps]

i’m insufferable.

[drmscps]

O vase of acid, It is love you are full of. You know who you hate. He is hugging his ball and chain down by the gate That opens to the sea Where it drives in, white and black, Then spews it back.

Sylvia Plath, Lesbos

this part has stuck with me for years.

[drmscps]

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

dir. Tom Tykwer

[wordsnquotes]

If you see beauty in something, don’t wait for others to agree.

Sherihan Gamal

(via wordsnquotes)

This

(via dusty-dog)

[studioghiblishy]

castle in the sky 

[quebacan-deactivated20190809]

When I was beginning to discover languages, I had a romanticized view of words like “speak” and “fluency”. But then I realized that you can be nominally fluent in a language and still struggle to understand parts of it. English is my first language, but what I really spoke was a hybrid of teenage slang and Manhattan-ese. When I listen to my father, a lawyer, talk to other lawyers, his words sound as foreign to me as Finnish. I certainly couldn’t read Shakespeare without a dictionary, and I’d be equally helpless in a room with Jamaicans or Cajuns. Yet all of us “speak English.” My linguistics teacher, a native of Poland, speaks better English than I do and seems right at home peppering his speech with terms like “epenthetic schwa” and “voiceless alveolar stops”. Yet the other day, it came up that he’d never heard the word “tethered”. Does that mean he doesn’t “speak” English? If the standard of speaking a language is to know every word — to feel equally at home debating nuclear fission and classical music — then hardly anyone is fluent in their own native tongues.

Tim Doner (x)

The average native English speaker learns about 1 new English word per day between the ages of 16 and 50.

(via allthingslinguistic)

[intplady]

“Pick up the book nearest to you. Go to page 206. The first sentence describes your love life.”

Me: *picks up nearest book–College English Textbook–flips to page 206*

Me: *is greeted by a blank page*

Me: That is creepily accurate.

[draw-berry-deactivated20180101]

“The outhouse was a simple vertical box, undecorated, unadorned, not overly smelly and quite clean.” ?

[drmscps]

“The conviction that a great inevitable catastrophe was about to happen grew stronger in Alyosha’s mind with every hour.”

lol.

[drmscps]

I’ve been having the most vivid, epic end-of-the-world dreams lately. a few nights ago it was an enormous hurricane set in some future dystopian city (with some pretty nice ancient roman architectural influences), and a few of my friends and i were searching for some type of shelter. last night, I dreamed in third person that I literally unleashed a swarm of locusts out of some old, gray castle to consume the earth’s inhabitants. according to my subconscious, the end is nigh, folks.

[drmscps]

Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy, France

although I’m “officially” studying Spanish and Korean, French was what actually awakened my love of language and thus holds a permanently reserved section of my little heart.

[dezeen]

Neri Oxman creates 3D-printed versions of ancient death masks ›

[drmscps]

my views on NFs based on people i’ve met

INFJ: I’m pretty sure I've only ever met one actual INFJ, and if I'm right I really have no idea why they’re stereotyped as being so emotional and dramatic. They seem perfectly capable of being rational and even cold, although they’d rarely express that side of themselves. And it seems like they experience their emotions in a more extrinsic way than most types. Like their feelings go just as fast as they come, they’re extremely empathetic but as soon as the source of the emotional stimulus is gone they move on quickly. Overall a pretty interesting and (in my opinion) underestimated type. 

ENFJ: I’m surprisingly good friends with an older ENFJ lady. at first, there was a lot of tension because she asked me personal questions, which i hate and don’t know how to answer without revealing too much (which is basically nothing except my favorite color). I learned that this was just her way of getting to know me and since I judge people by their intentions, we’re pretty tight friends now. I feel like i could literally tell you guys a plan to blow up the moon and you would find some way to be supportive. A+ friends who will genuinely look after your best interests. PS: i admire your ability to be so open emotionally.

INFP: I’ve had really mixed experiences with/could write a book about INFPs. my ex was an INFP, who was quite immature and manipulative, but one of my good friends is also an INFP and really hilarious, genuinely kind, and sensitive (in an endearing way). i seem to attract you guys for some reason (not necessarily in a romantic way), especially older INFPs. you have such incredible minds, and all INFPs seem to have that Ne wit that I find really challenging and funny when we get to know each other. I think generally INFPs are stereotyped as having a lot of feelings (true) and also as being innocent, pure angels (false, false, false). PS: stop mistyping yourselves as INFJs.

ENFP: you all exhaust me. i admire your quick thinking and charisma but it’s difficult for me to understand why people think INTJs and ENFPs are an ideal match. usually really scattered, friendly, open, intelligent, etc. which is great, but for me, I can only handle the (Ne-Fi) excitement in small doses. But ENFPs can usually find a way to bring me out of my shell that’s on par with ExTPs, and I think there’s something to be said about that. You guys just keep on doing what you do, and I’ll admire/learn from you all from a distance, deal? 

[dezeen]

Chunky concrete staircase spirals through House in Akitsu by Kazunori Fujimoto ›

[ludimagister-deactivated2017063]

[A well-made human being] divines cures for injuries; he knows how to turn misfortune to his own advantage; that which does not kill him makes him stronger. He instinctively gathers his material from all he sees, hears, and experiences. He is a selective principle; he rejects much. He is always in his own company whether his intercourse be with books, with men, or with landscapes; he honours them when he chooses, when he acknowledges, when he trusts. He reacts slowly to all kinds of stimuli with that unhurriedness which long caution and deliberate pride have bred in him—he tests the approaching stimulus; he would not dream of meeting it half-way. He believes neither in “misfortune” nor “guilt”; he knows how to forget—he is strong enough to make everything turn to his own advantage.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo (via third-beer)

[drmscps]

Philological Library, Free University of Berlin – Berlin, Germany