[imgoingtofighttheocean]

U kno what???? Honestly?? All jokes side about the Duolingo owl, Duolingo is one of the only language education services I know of that doesn’t charge for the full course and I really think we don’t appreciate that enough in a world where knowledge is severely (and increasing) restricted based on income. I just went through the app store and downloaded every language app I can find, and the only two that didn’t charge hefty subscription fees to access all the lessons were duolingo and memrise. Support free education.

[starrywisdomsect]

Covers of various vintage editions of Oscar Wilde’s novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[cubitumm-eamuss]

my current read.

[lovefulls]

Metamorphoses — Mary Zimmerman

[punjabipyaar]

[sespursongles-deactivated201906]

The official government institution for preserving the French language is the Académie française and one of my hobbies is actually reading the updates on their website, it’s always so funny. Just lambasting new English loanwords and trying to shame people into using French terms instead. Some examples of their grumpily anglophobic entries:

“There is absolutely no reason to borrow the word backstage when we already have the perfectly suitable coulisses, although we understand your natural affection for the word stage which the British stole from us in the first place.”

“Why use rooftop instead of toit en terrasse? And if we absolutely must use a foreign word for this concept, let us at least borrow a term from a sunny Mediterranean country. Borrowing ‘rooftop bar’ from a nation famous for its abominable weather is absurd.”

their absolute outrage at any wine vocabulary being borrowed and distorted by wine barbarians (“please only use vintage to refer to porto”)

an entry explains that turning “to feel” into the ridiculous anglo-French verb “feeler” is tragic, “especially since ‘feeler’ is already an English noun that could refer to a snail’s ocular tentacles” and if we French don’t show respect for snail vocabulary who will??

My favourite entry:

“ASAP: This abbreviation, which is far from transparent, seems to accrue most of the vices of a language that conceals its contemptuous and comminatory character under the rags of a spurious modernity”

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[galina]

Yesterday @joyce-grad and I had a working lunch and read through the papers submitted to the university journal we are co-editing. We have both been feeling really down about it because it seemed like we were doing a lot of work and seeing no results, but we just decided that instead of giving up we are going to work even harder to make this journal the best it can be 📑✨

[notordinaryfashion]

Dolce & Gabbana S/S 2013

[lacewings]

@franzibower

[versaillesadness]

Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

[galina]

This week I finally sorted out a bookshelf for the piles and piles of books that have been accumulating by the bed 😌

[thewantonwonton]

hey reblog this if you think girls can study and excel in computer science

[chiisaii]

archive mb for @viminjin

[elienstudies-deactivated2019082]

We’re already halfway the first semester, I can’t believe how fast everything is going… I really need some more time!  These pictures are from my instagram elienstudies

[7-his]

[coffeechatsandjournalnotes]

a serene and tranquil place

[renissance]