almateria @ff3luneth - Tumblr Blog

if you’ve ever left me a message asking me if I’m okay, or liked a post in which I was ranting about my bad day, or liked a selfie, or just anything nice like that- just know that I remember you, I am grateful for you, and you made my day better with your tiny gesture.

#text #mimi queue

jungkookio

honestly it would be nice if 2018 was just… a good year

#text #mimi queue

zeefsterart

A Sylveon with slightly short legs. A munchkin Sylveon?

#photo #pokemon #sylveon #mimi queue

dollmace-deactivated20171023

#photo #mimi queue

decatris

#photo #aes #plants #mimi queue

lavender-lovecraft

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind”- H.P. Lovecraft

#photo #aes #mimi queue

wheel-skellington

If we’re mutuals just know that I love you dearly but I will not hold back in combat

#text #mimi queue

neku-sakuraba-deactivated201806

happy new year!

#photo #tales of #mimi queue

sandytoessaltyair

#photo #aes #food #mimi queue

rockoblanco

idk why but it makes me uncomfortable 2 see someone’s final Pokémon team w/out their starter…..like, u guys started out together as a team..how could u betray ur day1 like that?.,,

#text #pokemon #mimi queue

ghostcries-deactivated20161112

also guys i think it’s time to start spelling ‘small’ right again,, it’s been long enough

princeofdoomrps-archive

see the thing is, at this point, smol isn’t even a “mispelling” of small anymore; it has its own connotations. while small is a regular adjective, smol acts more like a diminutive marker, which English has been lacking

in essence, a smol dog will always be a small dog, but not all small dogs are smol.

nentindo-deactivated20210501

what the fuck are you talking about

daggers-drawn

Linguistic evolution. Accept the smolness into your vocabulary and be cleansed.

shwetanarayan-deactivated202504

@nentindo, assuming you’re asking in good faith & not just trying to dismiss a perfectly accurate analysis, here’s an elaboration of what @princeofdoomrps said:

small and smol mean different things, so they’re different words. smol means something like “small in a cute way” & not just like both small and cute but the two are related. This is what makes smol more like a diminutive marker (c.f. -tje in Dutch, or -let/-ling/-ie [like in kidlet/kidling/kiddie] in some forms of English*)

note that: 1. not all small things are smol. Microbes and electrons? Generally not considered smol.

2. similar-sized things in the same category can be smol or not depending on cuteness. So, a tiny cottage may be a smol house, but an equally tiny tenement room that is an awful place to live? Not smol.

3. smol can refer to youth (e.g. the people I call my “smol frens” are mostly taller than I am but much younger)

4. It also can have implications of fondness/emotional attachment, especially, from what I’ve seen, in fandoms where people call characters things like “my smol son”, which doesn’t have to mean someone who’s actually young, short, or cute at all. Like, IDK if anyone uses that to refer to Hannibal but I wouldn’t be surprised?

So! There are contexts where you could call something/someone small but not smol, and contexts where you could call something/someone smol but not small. This is the textbook definition of “different words”. They are no longer the same word and op, you are very welcome to only use one of them! Anyone is!

Just be aware that pretty much every part of your vocabulary, someone at some point has decried as “wrong” usage and complained about people mangling the language this way, and when you do this thing you’re carrying on a long tradition of pompous silliness.

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* English isn’t completely lacking in diminutive markers just kinda deficient. And some of those markers have become derisive or dismissive in usage, which i hope never happens to my smol word-child, smol.

[edited for clarity]