Effete Brain

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreampt of in your philosophy." Emma | She/Her | 23 | 3w4 | links here!

[diegoandgael]

Mozart in the Jungle, 4x02.

[philosophythorn]

Note: This is a character from the video Violence & Protest | Philosophy Tube and may not represent the views of Abigail Thorn

[emmamalakai]

Bless you for turning this into a gif this is one of my favorite reactions to use in group chats.

[catalystcomet-archive-deactivat]

hello this is my favorite video ever please please

[catalystcomet-archive-deactivat]

el muchacho monday

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[emmamalakai]

Does learning to conjugate Spanish verbs make you want to hit your head against a brick wall?

Same here, but day by day, I feel less agitated by the concept. I think that’s due in large part to this cool app. I’m not affiliated with them, I just think it’s a really awesome tool. The free version gets you LOADS of practice with the present and preterite tenses, and if you decide you love it and want to practice all the tenses, it’s only $6 to support a lovely developer and unlock the whole app for life.

‎ConjuGato – Spanish Verbs

‎With ConjuGato, you don't need to type the answers – just think or say the correct verb and tap to check for yourself (you can enable the t

I use ConjuGato in conjugation with (see what I did there?) SpanishDict’s cheat sheet tables. I write out and sing a silly song to memorize all of the endings for each tense, and then rapid fire (or not so rapid when I’m first learning a new tense) work through as many verbs in ConjuGato as my brain can handle before steam starts rolling out of my ears. Honestly, I don’t even focus very much on learning the infinitive verbs that I don’t know in the app, I just try to breeze through the words.

ALSO, you have control over which tenses it shows you (so when I’m first learning a particular tense, I turn off all of the other ones) and you have the option to turn off vosotros endings if you’re focused more on Latin American Spanish like me :)

Best of luck to you friends!

[emmamalakai]

I just want to be fluent, dammit.

I've been trying to learn Spanish off and on for a couple years now. I have a basic handle on the language, yet I am also certain that I know nothing. I recently started dating a trilingual man, and hearing him transition seamlessly between English, Spanish, and French, leaves me feeling like I have brain soup in my head. I am astounded, and envious.

What I want to tell myself is, "ah, he was put in a bilingual kindergarten so he learned English and Spanish from a young age. I didn't have that boost." but that's a wasted excuse because he learned French in college, and while I have since forgotten 70% of the American Sign Language that I picked up in college, he retained all of his French, and uses it to speak with his colleagues.

I don't even feel like I'm bad at learning languages, I just feel like I'm drowning in words that don't mean anything to me yet, and sentence structures that I can only seem to cobble together in the messiest of formulas. I'm letting the space between where I am, and where I wish to be, overwhelm instead of excite me. I know this. I know I need to approach language learning with childlike wonder instead of aggressive ambition.

But I want to learn it all now. Download it to my brain. Download a couple other languages while you're at it. Ha, trilingual. I'd settle for mostly proficient in Spanish at this point. It's hard work, this language learning thing.

[emmamalakai]

I learned 34 words in February. Learn with flashcards, games, and more — for free.

This is a set of the 34 words that I created Spanish mnemonics (mostly mental pictures) for in February. I've found that shorter lists (never more than 10 words a day) of intensive practice (taking the time with each word to create an absurd or memorable mnemonic) are especially effective for expanding vocabulary. Apps like Duolingo which rely on repetition for memorization, are more effective for getting used to sentence structure and pronunciation.

The words may seem a bit mismatched, as I've been picking my words based on what seems useful or interesting to me in the moment. Above is the Quilt flashcard set, below is the word list itself. Enjoy!

Bird -> el pájaro

mouse -> el ratón

wing -> el ala

car -> el carro

truck -> el camión

bridge -> el puente

farm -> la granja

town -> el pueblo

theater -> el teatro

clothing -> la ropa

left -> izquierda

right -> derecha

straight ahead OR a human right -> El Derecho (or Derechos Humanos)

spoon -> la cuchara

fork -> el tenedor

knife -> el cuchillo

sword -> la espada

spear -> la lanza

candle -> la vela

plant -> la planta

guitar -> la guitarra

guitar player -> el/la guitarrista/o

pillow -> la almohada

blanket -> la manta (or frazada or cobija)

mug/cup -> la taza

year -> el año

bed -> la cama

coat -> el abrigo

spring -> la primavera

summer -> el verano

autumn -> el otoño

winter -> el invierno

closed -> cerrado

open -> abierto

[sjw-dipper]

[inlanguagewedontsay]

In Mexican Spanish we don’t say “accidentally on purpose” we say “sin querer, queriendo” which translates as “without wanting (but) wanting” which I think is even funnier.

Submitted by @studyingenlit

[emmamalakai]

To sleep! perchance to dream: -ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

[dreamingofmermaidscales]

The Signs As William Shakespeare Quotes 🥀:

Aries: “Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”

(Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2)

Taurus: “What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

(Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2)

Gemini: “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

(A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act 1, Scene 1)

Cancer: “I am one who loved not wisely but too well.”

(Othello, Act 5, Scene 2)

Leo: “To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”

(Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3)

Virgo: “The better part of valor is discretion”

(Henry IV, Part 1, Act 5, Scene 4)

Libra: “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.”

(Sonnet 18)

Scorpio: “To be, or not to be: that is the question”

(Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1)

Sagittarius: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.”

(Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 5)

Capricorn: “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.”

(Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Scene 1)

Aquarius: “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

(The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1)

Pisces: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

(Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5)

[wolves-willow]

ITS MARCH YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

[emmamalakai]

But those eyes' expression-when she ate an apple, or examined a found thing, or simply listened to an animal or a person—had changed, as if new layers of reticence and sadness had accumulated, half-veiling the pupil, while the glossy eyeballs shifted in their lovely long sockets with a more restless motion than of yore: Mlle Hypnokush, "whose eyes never dwell on you and yet pierce you.”

- Ada, or Ardor

[emmamalakai]

"Partir c'est mourir un peu, et mourir c'est partir un peu trop”

"To leave is to die a little, and to die is to leave a little too”

- Ada, or Ardor

[emmamalakai]

"And now,” said Ada, "Van is going to stop being vulgar--I mean, stop forever! Because I had and have and shall always have only one beau, only one beast, only one sorrow, only one joy.”

- Ada, or Ardor

[typhlonectes]

[emmamalakai]

Hamlet: A collection of quotes

(The following are quotes I noted down from my read through of Hamlet, listed in order of occurrence in the play. Parentheses indicate stage direction, or my thoughts on the quote/why I wrote it down. Find my full review of Hamlet on goodreads, here.)

Polonius: This above all. to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Hamlet: O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, married with mine uncle, My father's brother; but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month; (I just thought this one was cleverly worded) Ghost: The glowworm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire: Adieu, adieu! Hamlet, remember me. Hamlet: And therefore as a stranger give it welcome. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. (Quite possibly my favorite quote, and the rhythm of this entire scene made it perhaps my favorite in the play) Polonius (reading): 'Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. Hamlet: for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison. Rosencrantz: Why, then, your ambition makes it one; 'tis too narrow for your mind. Hamlet: O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams. Guildenstern: Which dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. Hamlet: A dream itself is but a shadow. (Hamlet has a lot of clever banter like this, which tends to be some of my favorite parts of Shakespeare’s writing) Hamlet: To be, or not to be; that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?--To die; -to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep! perchance to dream: -ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come (Finally, I know this heavily quoted line in context!) Hamlet: yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? (I appreciate that despite being considered mad, Hamlet is one of the most self aware characters in this play, honestly in most of Shakespeare’s work) Rosencrantz: My lord, you once did love me. Hamlet: And so I do still, by these pickers and stealers. Rosencrantz: Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? you do, surely, bar the door upon your own liberty if you deny your griefs to your friend. (I wish this exchange had happened with Horatio so it were more true, but I’m going to appreciate Ros’ line out of context anyway) Hamlet: O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever the soul of Nero enter this firm bosom: Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none; my tongue and soul in this be hypocrites, How in my words somever she be shent, to give them seals never, my soul, consent! Hamlet: I must be cruel, only to be kind: Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. Hamlet: A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. (Yes 90% of these are Hamlet quotes, but he’s got all the best lines!) King: Where is Polonius? Hamlet: In heaven: send thither to see: if your messenger find him not there, seek him i the other place yourself. But, indeed, if you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby. King: Go seek him there. (To some Attendants.) Hamlet: He will stay till you come. (GOD! This man is not mad, he’s just stupidly clever. From the sick burn about his new step daddy burning in hell, to the nasty reminder that yeah of course Polonius will wait for you until you get there, he’s super dead, I love this exchange.) Hamlet: When honor’s at the stake. How stand I, then Ophelia: Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. Clown: Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for your dull ass will not mend his pace

with beating; (There’s always a clown in Billy Shakes work. Also, I’m stealing the insult “dull ass”) Hamlet: Whose grave's this, sir? Clown: Mine, sir. Ham: I think it be thine indeed, for thou liest in't. Clown: You lie out on't, sir, and therefore 'tis not yours: for my part, I do not lie in't, yet it is mine. Hamlet: Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine: 'tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest. Clown: 'Tis a quick lie, sir (More fun word play) Horatio: Now cracks a noble heart.- Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!