English is Inherently Ambiguous

The fancies, fandoms, and feels

[shadowssounds]

Gaff holds bands, concerts, nightclubs—and my boots—together.

[matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll]

I once built dance shoes out of gaffer tape because mine broke right before a show. RIP my man.

[pinupac87]

In theatre, we live and die by gaffer’s tape. This news makes me so sad.

[queerforscience]

Gaffer’s tape is often the default for track boundaries so the derby community should also take a second to pay their respects.

[queenofdaffodils]

Fencing (specifically foil) community is paying our respects. Gaffer’s tape is used on the tip and top four inches of the foil blade to make sure the equipment works properly and doesn’t light up as off target for a hit on target

[runicbasso-deactivated20210419]

I’ve literally closed up wounds on long stagehand gigs with gaff tape. Bless him.

[spellbookbitch]

FIRST Tech teams 🤙

[orriculum]

God I feel the bit about it holding your boots together. Gaff tape holds the film industry together too

[spryfeatborzoi-deactivated20200]

Ten-in-bed

[lord-kitschener]

A bucket of snoots

[gentlealien]

a group of larval Gentle Aliens experience the joy and happiness of The Pile

[gayscreechingnoises]

a goblet of horses

[janainaart]

La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Illustration made for The Enchanted Forest Fantasy Art Book. Art inspired by the poem (La Belle Dame sans Merci) by John Keats.

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janaina.net

[did-you-know]

Scientist Adam J Calhoun removed words from famous novels to analyze their punctuation styles, then converted the data into heat maps. Periods, question marks, and exclamation points are red, commas and quotation marks are green, and semicolons and colons are blue. 

Source

[tomhiddleston-gifs]

I’m here.

[urdone-urdone]

[mankillercalledbunny]

“fuckin AGAIN he ALWAYS ends arguments like this”

[cat1212]

[endless-puppies]

Puppy attack!

[seafarers-deactivated20131211]

[completecontrolla-deactivated20]

Wow this looks amazing.

[tanuki-kimono]

Well named Rosefinch bird, looking like cotton candy in the snow, photo by.

[memewhore]

[itscolossal]

Dina Brodsky Chronicles Her Travels in Detailed Miniature Landscape Paintings

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Tangled visual development by Claire Keane (x)

[reuscaptivus]

[imsopopfly]

Simple guide:

Born before 1980: You’re gen x, why are you even worrying about this. Maybe go do some gen x things like writing articles about how much us millennials suck.

Born in the 80s or early to mid 90s: millennial

Born between like 1996 and 2000: This is the no man’s land. No one knows which generation you are from. Both will welcome you as one of their own, however.

Born in the 2000s: Gen Z

Born in the 2010s: dude you’re like 5 what are you doing on this site? people say bad words on here please leave.

[art--woonz]

By: heidi annalise Instagram: @artwoonz

[gunvolt]

im going to have a stroke

[prideling]

Instead try… Person A: You know… the thing Person B: The “thing”? Person A: Yeah, the thing with the little-! *mutters under their breath* Como es que se llama esa mierda… THE FISHING ROD

[artykyn]

As someone with multiple bilingual friends where English is not the first language, may I present to you a list of actual incidents I have witnessed:

Forgot a word in Spanish, while speaking Spanish to me, but remembered it in English. Became weirdly quiet as they seemed to lose their entire sense of identity.

Used a literal translation of a Russian idiomatic expression while speaking English. He actually does this quite regularly, because he somehow genuinely forgets which idioms belong to which language. It usually takes a minute of everyone staring at him in confused silence before he says “….Ah….. that must be a Russian one then….”

Had to count backwards for something. Could not count backwards in English. Counted backwards in French under her breath until she got to the number she needed, and then translated it into English.

Meant to inform her (French) parents that bread in America is baked with a lot of preservatives. Her brain was still halfway in English Mode so she used the word “préservatifes.” Ended up shocking her parents with the knowledge that apparently, bread in America is full of condoms.

Defined a slang term for me……. with another slang term. In the same language. Which I do not speak.

Was talking to both me and his mother in English when his mother had to revert to Russian to ask him a question about a word. He said “I don’t know” and turned to me and asked “Is there an English equivalent for Нумизматический?” and it took him a solid minute to realize there was no way I would be able to answer that. Meanwhile his mom quietly chuckled behind his back.

Said an expression in English but with Spanish grammar, which turned “How stressful!” into “What stressing!”

Bilingual characters are great but if you’re going to use a linguistic blunder, you have to really understand what they actually blunder over. And it’s usually 10x funnier than “Ooops it’s hard to switch back.”

[idrils]

1. The role and functions of a pawn.

2. The weakest pieces on the board; numerous; interchangeable; existing to be sacrificed for the benefit of the real players.

3. Unlike other pieces, a pawn may not retreat. It can only go forward, one step at a time.

4. A pawn cannot capture a piece that blocks its path. It may only proceed if the opposing piece concedes ground, or if a different route is offered.

5. The en passant capture is a special move that permits one pawn to successfully attack another without directly engaging it.

6. Otherwise, the only way a pawn can capture is by going one step forward and to the left or right, in a single diagonal move.

7. In very rare occasions, if a pawn is allowed to cross the entire board, unscathed…

8. …it may be promoted to a queen, and, perhaps, turn the tide of the war.

(source)

[whaoanon-old]

pats face im always going to reblog this

[coin-what-coin]

are you fucking kidding me