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[beleester]

>#I love how this gag would be funny at any point since the third century BCE

[facebk]

aw what they have special angine de poitrine search art

[swampthingy]

[actuallyapathy]

[the-lumpfish-queen]

I love environmental storytelling

[belphegor1982]

[hotlegsharker]

[berlynn-wohl]

[harleyklawz]

Ita fucking hieroglyphs with you people

[the-big-mood]

At Toba aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[z3bula]

[sivavakkiyar]

Perry Bible Fellowship

[parkchanwoohoo]

[rongzhi]

Work hard, play hard

English added by me :)

[necromancelena]

Die temu ad die

[necromancelena]

Hmm. Accidentally looks like latin.

[chef-boy-ar-girl]

It accidentally is latin

[saanah]

Accidental latin is my new favourite thing.

[santapau]

Found this in the margins of a medieval manuscript.

[qqueenofhades]

This is a very charming illustration and I do approve of Accidental Latin, but unfortunately, that is not what this (Fake) Accidental Latin actually says. Google Translate seems to think "temu" is identical to "timor" (infinitive, "to fear"), which would then be conjugated in first-person singular as "timeo" ("I fear"). "Temu" is not a word in Latin. So that is a very weird leap on Google Translate's part to turn gibberish into... something vaguely etymologically similar sounding? Hmm.

Next, "die" does mean "day," though nominative singular is "dies," i.e. "dies irae." It could be conjugated "die" if it was in ablative or locative case, but "die ad die" would mean something more like "day to day." "Ad" is in a "to" direction and "ab" is from, i.e. "ab urbis," and ablative case is used to indicate the movement of a thing. In short, "by" is not really a way to translate "ad"; we might want "per" here? (Through, by means of, etc.)

Not to mention, it would be weird to put one "die" at the start and another at the end The verb also usually goes at the end in Latin sentences, just for that extra bit of fun. So yes, in short, this is not actually Latin, and Google Translate is very bad at Latin in particular. Nonetheless, still charming.

[nudistcat]

@theshitpostcalligrapher

[sekkitsune]

Agree, @qqueenofhades, except on the matter of breaking “die ad die” apart. It’s a common structure in poetic and oratorical Latin to jam one phrase in the middle of another. I can’t think of an example exactly parallel to this construction, but I could believe a Roman poet would write it!

[qqueenofhades]

Ah, that is true. My Latin is of the reading-medieval-documents (particularly charters and/or chronicles) variety, where the sentence and usage structures are often more formulaic and there is less poetic license to move words around. There is obviously far less fixity for word order in Latin, since the conjugations explain how they grammatically relate to each other rather than placement in the sentence. (Coincidentally, this is why I used to say that the best feeling in the world was walking past a Latin classroom and not having to go inside it. Ahem.)

So yes: true that poetical Latin might be more at liberty to split the "die"-s up that far, though "timeo" (verb) is still more likely in most cases to go at the end, which would place them together anyway ("die ad die timeo," "day to day I fear" if translated in strict word order, which would make sense to an English speaker and sound more poetic anyway). Keep in mind, however, that my Latin is a) fairly rusty and b) mostly used for said formulaic legal document reading rather than freeform verse, so don't super-hard quote me on this.

[sekkitsune]

I saw that ablative “die” and that final -u on “temu” and thought of the ablative supine (as in “mirabile dictu”) but as you observe, there isn’t a verb that “temu” could be, and then also, the ablative supine requires an adjective, as far as I know.

But perhaps “temu” is a hapax legomenon (in which case we would need the rest of the text to gloss it) or a scribal error for temeratu, from temero, “I defile or disgrace”. In that case, and in true Tumblr form, I might translate it as “daily I disgrace, in the manner of the day”, with some errors attributable to the scribe.

[qqueenofhades]

....oh my god. You might be a genius. Because what else does Tumblr do but daily disgrace [itself, oneself, and/or numerous others] in the manner of the day, and make numerous scribal errors.

[laurenthemself]

how dare you say we error on the scribes

[winged-void]

isn't it awesome that red winged blackbirds live so close to humans, are the size of baseballs, and literally just fucking attack them all the time. aren't they so fucking awesome. google red winged blackbird attacks they're so common

[wisdomsavingthrow]

big and ANGRYS my me at you

#myme

[eixd-deactivated20150710]

The rest of the space is going to be pretty pissed when they see this. 

[thesassycat]

did you google how to take a screen shot

[butchtoks]

[harborfreight]

Is my Pinterest broken what the fuck is going on

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[caelestialcorpse]

Friend of mine sent me these screenshots and I wanted to share my interpretation of how it works

[paperflorets]

[storyweavingspider]

So earlier today, I was walkin past the National Museum of African-American History and Culture to get to the bus, and a Black dude was standing at the corner selling his historical fiction alternate US history novel. I have some physical cash, so I think “fuck it, worst case he gets a burger or something and I get a shitty book” and I get it.

He signs it and everything, gives me a QR code for an electronic copy too, I put the physical copy in my bag and pull up the digital version, thinking I’ll read it during errands and on the way home.

Y’all. I wasn’t ready. 😭 below are some outtakes.

TW; summarizations of slavery and all that entails

[dinklebat]

If anyone else is interested, he’s selling it on Amazon as well!

What If: A Historical Fiction Novel [Walker, Carlos] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. What If: A Historical Fiction Nove

You can also find more of his work on his Instagram!

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[storyweavingspider]

She’s libbing out sexual style

[storyweavingspider]

mmghh oh god please put your vote in my ballot please mmmh ffucck your voice matters so much

[storyweavingspider]

This November, make sure to #femailed your ballot or get your vote in if you want to get it in,,,

[storyweavingspider]

I’m #pregnant and I’m hoping it’s your vote 💖 I canvassed your creampie for the best candidate and I’m hoping when it all comes out on voting day, all your districts are belong to me 🥰🥰🥰

[sins-of-sodom]

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL TO ME

[storyweavingspider]

Oh my gods, you like, can’t just ask someone why he’s white?