Everything After Childhood

content: magic, enlightenment, spirituality, animals, jokes, postmodern feels, personal rants

[coldstonedreamery-deactivated20]

What's wrong with you?

Depends on the day

[altonzm-deactivated20170213]

I wish that, instead of having internet, I made stained glass in a small welsh monastery

[tytonidyke]

These are so fun to make

[tytonidyke]

@thedisablednaturalist @fagtabulous

Ask and you shall receive!

[inthefallofasparrow]

[tytonidyke]

Love your additions! Birds got that drip

[tytonidyke]

Oh yeah should probably add this one too-

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

I've never done this before

[countriesgame]

What do you most associate with the Czech Republic/Czechia?

Czech beer

Used to be part of Czechoslovakia

Prague (city)

Bohemia

Franz Kafka

Astronomical clock

Krtek, Krteček/The Little Mole (cartoon)

Trdelnik

Sedlec Ossuary

Castles

Defenestrations of Prague

Other (share in the tags!)

Voting ended onDec 12, 2023

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If you have any fun fact about Czechia, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

[depsidase]

[you-are-another-me]

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Us, arriving to Austria to a tiny family hotel owned by an elderly lady

Us: speak only limited German

Lady: barely speaks English

Us:

Lady:

Lady: Czech? Slovak?

Us: Czech

Lady, to herself: Czech, that's a Slavic language right

Lady: understand Yugoslavian?

Us:

Us: yeah that works

[eastern-lights]

Shit like this can really only happen in Europe. Reminds me of the time I took my best shot at ordering at a restaurant in Spain in spanish. The closest language to spanish that I actually speak is latin.

Waiter: Germany?

Me: No, Czechia.

Waiter, in a heavily accented but intelligible Czech: Why didn’t you say so before! We get you guys here all the time!

[krcmelound]

Já v roce 2019 na Ukrajině: OK, takže když použiju tohle staročeský slovo, přidám polský sloveso, své chabé znalosti záhoráčtiny a řeknu to s ruskym přízvukem, tak to projde.

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

[Me in 2019 in Ukraine: ok so if i use this Old Czech word, add a Polish verb, my poor knowledge of the Záhorie dialect of Slovak and say it with a Russian accent, it might pass]

Reminds me of the time when we were in Poland and I tried to order a burger using a truly unholy mix of Slovak, Russian and Ostrava dialect (which in itself is like an unholy mix of Czech and Polish).

I did get the burger

[orion-the-onion]

[mmaurysiek]

[#my grandpa called this "Slavic Esperanto"]

I know Ukrainians who can do this on purpose and masterfully, and it was mind-blowing to hear a speech as immediately understandable to an audience of native speakers of three different native Slavic languages, not just two languages as is common

[alamuts-lair-of-madness]

During one student exchange I (a Pole) got acquainted with two students from Czechia and Russia. At first we talked in English or German, but after a while we’ve noticed, that we could understand each other’s native languages just fine. And if some word was unknown in one language, another one had the right synonym.

*Each of us talking in their mother tongue*

Me: Bla bla bla.

Russian: I don’t know this “bla”.

Czech: Oh, we have “bla”! We also call it “that”!

Russian: Oh I know “that”! It’s a very old version of “this”.

Me: Oh, we have “this” too, but it means something slightly different.

German acquaintance: Was für nen Scheiß zieht ihr da ab? o_O

[leseigneurdelorage]

the reason there aren't slavic people in the bible is that they wouldn't have been surprised or awed to hear the disciples speak in tongues and be understood by people of many nations at once

[alexfeelyx]

Slavs walked away from the Tower of Babel mildly inconvenienced.

[logorrhea5mip]

So basically, the reason for this is that the Slavic peoples all lived in roughly the same place "only" ~1800 years ago(and spoke the same language), and also remained in close contact, literally, culturally and politically. This lead to the languages diverging slower than other language families, and is the main reason why i can understand *some* of any Slavic language, especially when written down.

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Also sometimes while trying to reduce the influence of foreign (usually German) languages, people would borrow words from other Slavic languages to fill in for their own words which have since disappeared.

Essentially it means that some Slavic languages are inbred

[stredoceskykockolit]

Funny part about this is the shitposting.

As memes in other Slavic languages are mostly understandable, but that extra layer make it crispy and more fun.

Soo it's common to found Czechs in Polish shitpost groups.

[todays-xkcd]

Sequoia Brussels sprouts are delicious but it's pretty hard to finish one.

Bassica [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[Cueball, Megan and another Cueball are standing in front of a Giant Sequoia] Cueball: Did you know the Mighty Redwood is actually the same species as broccoli and kale? It's just a different cultivar. Another Cueball: Wow! [Caption below the panel] Every year or two, botanists add another plant to Brassica oleracea and see if anyone calls them on it.

[kassasaurus-rex]

GARRUS VAKARIAN SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALLOWED TO BE A ROMANCE OPTION FOR MALE SHEPARDS I WILL DIE AND ROT ON THIS HILL

[the-aro-ace-arrow-ace]

Vstávat, holoto, čas si dát první čokoládu z kalendáře

[inkflowergarden]

Good news is on the way.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[mylittleredgirl]

my new thing whenever an embarrassing memory jumps up out of some backwater neuron to t-bone my present-day thought process is to declare a statute of limitations. like i can burn down an entire building in the state where i live and the law deems it both unfair and illegal to prosecute me after six years have passed, i think that thing i said in high school can be expunged from my record.

[darthmelyanna]

Okay, but this is actually kind of genius.

[gallusrostromegalus]

My family has a related Policy called "The Five Year Rule". Five years after an embarrassing or dramatic event happens to someone, everyone else has to shut up about it. This rule was created to keep some of my aunts from bringing up shit from fifteen and twenty years ago at family dinners.

So if you need to set a statute of Limitations: If it would be fucking rude of your auntie to bring up at thanksgiving, it's rude for your brain to bring up at 3AM too and it needs to eat some mashed potatoes and shut up.

[internettythings]

[autistic-af]

How I feel in any given moment thanks to alexithymia

How I feel 3 days later when I process everything all at once:

[hempkitty]

can someone please be proud of me like fuck I’m trying

[gremlin-pattie]

reblog to let prev know you’re proud of them

[slutdge]

squint for me real quick

[tartrazeen]

Jumpscare?

Penis?

Loss?

What exactly are you presenting me with, OP? 🤔

[tartrazeen]

i mean alright, might as give that a

OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE