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Sweet Seals For You, Always
Peter Solarz
Not today Justin
Misplaced Lens Cap
YOU ARE THE REASON
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Discoholic 🪩
Product Placement
Origami Around
ellievsbear
pixel skylines
@theartofmadeline
we're not kids anymore.
AnasAbdin
occasionally subtle
sheepfilms
will byers stan first human second
Monterey Bay Aquarium
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@gekbarna
[See video subtitles for English translation] Ngaye Ngalwakadj, ngayime bu ngadurrkmirri "mini dictionary" nawu Bininj Kunwok ba bu ngangeynan wanjh mandjad ngangeykurrme, yika ngangeyborledke ba bu kabirrinan nawu student nawu university bu kabirribimnan kabirriborlbme mandjad.
“Folks, there’s nothing left from the Linguistics division. We lost all the indigenous languages collection: the recordings since 1958, the chants in all the languages for which there are no native speakers alive anymore, the Curt Niemuendaju archives: papers, photos, negatives, the original ethnic-historic-linguistic map localizing all the ethnic groups in Brazil, the only record that we had from 1945. The ethnological and archeological references of all ethnic groups in Brazil since the 16th century… An irreparable loss of our historic memory. It just hurts so much to see all in ashes.”
— Cira Gonda, translated by Diogo Almeida, about the fire at Brazil’s National Museum.
The Finnish language is one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn as a non-native. It is spoken by roughly 5,5 million people, and only in one country. Finnish is not endangered and nearly all finns speak english. Therefore, finnish is THE most useless language in the world to learn.
1. There is no such language as “the most difficult language to learn”. There are over 7000 languages in the world, how could you possibly know which one is the most difficult one? Besides, whether you find a language difficult or not depends on many factors, such as your native language, the other languages you speak, your attitude towards (learning) the language, etc. 2. Finnish is not only spoken in Finland. It is spoken also in Sweden, Norway, Russia, and many other foreign countries by people who have for one reason or other moved abroad. 3. Nearly all Finns learn and speak English as a foreign language, but in our daily lives we speak and use Finnish. English hasn’t and won’t replace Finnish. 4. No language is useless as long as there are at least two people who speak/understand it. 5. Fuck you, @showerthoughtsofficial.
Point 5 is the most convincing, although it should have been written in Finnish.
This blog post on strong language reminds me of a story. I have a friend with two children, one an academic geeky type guy and the other a more street-wise gal. In the town of Katherine in the Northern Territory of Australia someone sprayed the letters ‘FTP’ across the main road. The visiting siblings discovered the grafitti and the son looked amazed, “Hey look someone’s written ‘file transfer protocol’ on the road ha ha”. His sister rolled her eyes and corrected him “No dummy, it means ‘fuck the police’”. That nicely characterised the differences between these two I thought (both of whom I admire very much by the way).
Pablo Picasso dresses as popeye in 1957
via reddit
Raccoon Crushed To Death By Garbage Truck Hits Jackpot With Reincarnation
“We’ve got to stop burning fossil fuels. So many aspects of life depend on fossil fuels, except for music and love and education and happiness. These things, which hardly use fossil fuels, are what we must focus on.”
Mayer Hillman
Vale Luise Hercus
(from Harold Koch)
We regret to announce the passing of Luise Hercus (nee Schwarzschild), who died Sunday 15 April after a short illness, at the age of 92 years. Up until the last month she was active in documenting Aboriginal languages, songs and traditions, especially from South Australia. Although her early career at Oxford University was devoted to Old French and Indic languages and her teaching career at the Australian National University centred on Sanskrit and related languages, much of Luise’s energy since the 1960s was devoted to the documentation of Australian Indigenous languages—of Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. In addition to purely linguistic research she made tremendous contributions to the documentation of Aboriginal songs, oral traditions, place names, environment, and personal histories. Her research has made a large impact on language revitalisation and the recognition of Aboriginal heritage in the widest sense. Her contribution has been recognised by: her election to the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the awarding of an Order of Australia and a Centenary of Federation Medal, and two Festschriften, Language and History: Essays in honour of Luise A. Hercus (edited by Peter Austin et al, Pacific Linguistics 1990) and Peter K. Austin, Harold Koch & Jane Simpson (eds) 2017 Language, land & song: Studies in honour of Luise Hercus (http://www.elpublishing.org/book/language-land-and-song).
Copyright © The Australian Linguistic Society
Grammar hell.
Tiina Sanila-Aikio, 34, is head of the Sámi people in Finland, the only indigenous population recognized in the European Union. She's also the creator of the world’s first Skolt-language rock albums — a Sámi language spoken by just 300 people.
Dominique Christina - “The Period Poem”
Mother Dominique Cristina responds to a tweet her daughter sent her about a guy breaking up with his girlfriend because her period started while they had sex. (x)
“... and sang you lullabies laced in platelets”
wow, and that’s just the digression?
Male female slave or free Peaceful or disorderly Maybe you and he[r] will not agree But you need h[er] to show you new ways to see Don't let the system fool you All it wants to do is rule you Pay attention to the poet You need h[er] and you know it
-Kerry Lee Crawford, Bruce Cockburn, Fergus John Marsh
THIS IS THE BEST COMMERCIAL EVER
I’ve reblogged this so many times because I truly think every parent should involve themselves with what their child enjoys.
Not to mention this is an act of solidarity. He’s saying “even if the entire world is against you, I’m on your side.” Which I think is important for a kid to know. He’s refusing to be a bully to his child, even if he doesn’t understand.
I work at Hot Topic and we had a white suburban dad in who was buying matching heavy metal/screamo band shirts for him and his teenage daughter and said “To be honest, I think this stuff sounds like garbage, but she likes it so we listen to it together and we’re going to the concert for Christmas.” And it was just really heartwarming to see him so involved in his child’s life and validating her interests.
I WILL NEVER NOT REBLOG THIS.
“I don’t get it, but I love how you love it” is one of the best things anyone can say. My entire family asks questions about comics because they want to share my enthusiasm for them and support me, even though they otherwise wouldn’t pay attention to the industry at all.
I get questions all the time about the things i like, weather it is bands or youtubers from my mom, but when I go over to my dads it is so obvious that he does not understand or know why I like it but it makes me happy knowing that he tries.
Reminds me of this wonderful book:
http://www.farfromthetree.com/
Archie, how do you have time to be a great architect and run a wonderful blog? Are you superhuman, or do you have help?
Thanks! I have the best team at work!
Pull your pants up a bit more Batman...
Arnhem Land plateau, photo Peter Cooke.
when a native speaker asks you “do you know what that word you used means?” and you immediately question your entire knowledge of that language and assume the word has 76342 secret and presumably offensive meanings that you didn’t know about
1. An anthropologist friend of mine working on Cape York holding a picture of his family and pointing out all of his relatives to some Indigenous friends, using the Wik Mungkan language names for each. He uses the word kunch (penis) for his brother, instead of kuunch (sibling). Just a long vowel out. “This is my Dad, this is my Mum, this is my aunt and this is my dick”.
2. Speakers of North American English in Australia who go and “root” for their sports teams. Root in Australian English means “fuck”. Some people will do anything to support their team.
3. There is a word in some Australian (Indigenous) languages that means all of the following:
certain kinds of infectious disease,
something you thought you saw which on closer inspection turned out to be something completely different,
sacred spirit being
penis.
Work that one out polysemy specialists.
Retiring to another country?
Some years ago the British comedians French and Saunders made this commentary on those Brits who idolised a retirement in the Untied States. Hilarious but painfully poignant. Needs a Trump update.
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7b4_1327703157
“I’m looking for the face I had, before the world was made.”
~ W.B.Yeats ▼
