Emer4ld

Language student & hobby multitasker! Fluent in Dutch, Croatian, English and one day French…

[emer4ld-reads]

Hi folks

I'm Emeraude (or Emerald), about to enter my first year of uni 🩵

Welcome to a fresh studyblr ( / langblr / bookblr)

My main subjects are French and Dutch, but I'm interested in language learning in general; etymology, linguistics, translation and the like. So far, I'm fluent in Dutch, Croatian and English.

I don't post that much, but wtvv, I repost things I find interesting (about books I love as well!)

In my free time, I'm also an artist

My ways are sometimes chaotic, but I'm hoping a fresh start in a new field will change my routine up a bit.

Stalk me here as well:

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R4ude uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 26 films watched. Favorites: The Big Hit (2020), Kajillionaire (2020), We Are Who We

[thevampirecrow]

fellatio sounds like a supporting shakespeare character rather than oral sex on a penis to be honest

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m at a point in my Spanish understanding where I can watch native content with subtitles but the problem is that nobody on planet earth has any respect for the art of making good subtitles no matter what language it is

[quotefeeling]

“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”

— Charles Darwin

[one-hell-of-a-sheep]

why does oscar wilde take 150 pages to write something he could literally say in a paragraph

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

gay

[yurious-george]

compelling argument

[mossadspydolphin]

what does this say about victor hugo

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

no he was just french

[jam-the-hologram]

R.R Tolkien?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

autistic infodumping

[elden-12]

Put this together and I dread to think how long a novel by an autistic gay Frenchman would be. :p

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[emer4ld-reads]

my guy could just not pick a struggle

[oorione]

you met me at a very strange time in my life

(@ahotknife has been talking about a pynch fight club AU and I may have become too obsessed with it)

[minimushr00m]

rip Bunny Corcoran, you would have loved chatgpt

[annabelle--cane]

stop. analyse that text through the lens of its author's intentions and original historical context. okay now take the author out back and kill them dead and analyse that text as though it were published by your mutual yesterday and is in direct conversation the contemporary discourse that's most relevant to your life. okay now pick your favorite angle of interpretation and come up with the strongest possible argument against it. now imagine that the text is your best friend and that it means you well and that you naturally give it every benefit of the doubt because you're on its side and you want the best for it. now imagine that the text wants you dead and it'll eat you if you don't eat it first. now pretend that you found this text locked away in a cave with no evidence of when or where it came from and you have to divine its meaning solely through its internal coherence and nothing else. okay now address the elephant in the room aspect of the text you've been ignoring because you find it boring or confusing or uncomfortable and become the number one expert on it. now spend forty minutes assigning all the characters dnd classes with at least three sentences of reasoning each. okay now do the cha cha slide.

[emer4ld-reads]

so basically what our silliest lit professors expect from us

[glittercupcakeunicornpuppy]

gay person: i’m gay

society: ok

your strange vaguely bisexual friend you try to ignore: hey have you read the secret history yet

[kuttithevangu]

Instead of doomscrolling lately I have been reading my PDFs and it turns out if you do this you learn a whole bunch of stuff. I’m afraid I must recommend it

[emer4ld-reads]

pdfs my beloveds....

[polartss]

She'd laughed, and if he could have bottled the sound and gotten drunk on it every night, he would have. It terrified him.

The first of 4 endpapers I got to illustrate for Illumicrate’s special edition of Six of Crows!! So happy I finally got to draw this scene!!

[notgreatbob]

''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

[translatingpoststonynorsk]

ikkjebrarobert

"eg sløste vekk dei åri" kven bryr seg. du levde det einaste livet du kunne ha levt i dei stundene

[icelandictextposts]

ekkifrábærtbob

„Ég sóaði þessum árum“ hverjum er ekki drull. Þú lifðir eina lífinu sem þú hefðir getað lifað á þessum stundum.

[translatingpostsintolatin]

nonmagnusrobertus

"illos annos perdidi" quis curat. solam in illis temporibus vitam vixisti quam vivere poteras

[translatingpoststoyiddish]

נישטגוטבאב

״איך האב ארויסגעווארפֿן יענע יארן״ וועמען ארט עס. דו האסט געלעבט דאס איינציקע לעבן וואס דו האסט געקענט לעבן אין די רגעלעך

[mundart-ch]

"ech ha di joor ferschwändet" schiiss druuf. du hesch s'äinzige läbe gläbt wo deet hesch chönne läbe

[translatingpostsinfrench]

pasunbonbob

"j'ai gâché ces années" on s'en fiche. tu as vécu la seule vie que tu aurais pu vivre à ce moment là

[emer4ld-reads]

geengeweldigebob

"ik heb die jaren verkwist" wie kan het schelen. je leefde het enige leven dat je zou kunnen hebben geleefd in die momenten

[coffeeandmusic]

Thank you for everything, Alice! ❤️🍂

[emer4ld-reads]

Aahhh I remember reading the comic and not even knowing it'd be made into a show a few years later... those were the times frfr

[tench]

Sometimes I stop reading an old sci-fi book just to go check the author's personal life section on Wikipedia, for no particular reason

[mechobj]

Who are you? I love you too.

[emer4ld-reads]

I honestly recommend reading this while commuting 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ or in between tasks

[writingdose]

I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.

the only thing AI checker does is harm genuine artists and people in general too.

[heavensenthousepet]

when the subtitles have slight inaccuracies like synonyms and asynchronous abbreviations/lengthenings to what's actually being said