Gnoti seauton

Life with rules is awesome. ,,Rule your mind or your mind will rull you.''

[perfectquote]

“A language is not just words. It’s a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It’s all embodied in a language.”

— Noam Chomsky (via thoughtkick)

[mysteelecreek]

[hirxeth]

The French Dispatch (2021) dir. Wes Anderson

[gnoti-seauton]

Hi

Hi

[little-orkideh]

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

[loveletter2you]

“once upon a time” in other languages

korean: “back when tigers used to smoke” (호랑이 담배 피우던 시절에) [x]

czech: “beyond seven mountain ranges, beyond seven rivers” (za sedmero horami a sedmero řekami)

georgian: “there was, and there was not, there was…” (იყო და არა იყო რა, იყო…)

hausa: “a story, a story. let it go, let it come.” [x]

romanian: “there once was, (as never before)… because if there wasn’t, it wouldn’t have been to told” (A fost odată, ca niciodată că dacă n-ar fi fost, nu s-ar mai povesti…)

lithuanian: “beyond nine seas, beyond nine lagoons: (už devynių jūrų, už devynių marių)

catalan: “see it here that in that time in which beasts spoke and people were silent…” (vet aquí que en aquell temps que les bèsties parlaven i les persones callaven…) [x]

turkish: “Once there was, and once there wasn’t. In the long-distant days of yore, when haystacks winnowed sieves, when genies played jereed in the old bathhouse, [when] fleas were barbers, [when] camels were town criers, [and when] I softly rocked my baby grandmother to sleep in her creaking cradle, there was/lived, in an exotic land, far, far away, a/an…* (Bir varmış, bir yokmuş. Evvel zaman içinde, kalbur saman içinde, cinler cirit oynar iken eski hamam içinde, pireler berber [iken], develer tellal [iken], ben ninemin beşiğini tıngır mıngır sallar iken, uzak diyarların birinde…)

[bleusunday]

[dailykafka]

- June 1, 1912

- The diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1913

[ID: "June 1. Wrote nothing." End ID]

[quotemadness]

“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”

— Zadie Smith

[noosphe-re]

Etymology of ‘vernacular’ (via etymonline.com)

[somethoughtseeds]

[aabbiidd]

“Listen: this world is the lunatic’s sphere, don’t always agree it’s real, even with my feet upon it and the postman knowing my door, my address is somewhere else.” -Hafez • Glacier Breeze, Passu. (Instagram: aabbiidd)

[derakhtesokoot]

when it rains, it storms

it pours and overflows

filling the lungs

and drowning the voice

blinding the eyes

trembling soul

flood overtakes

and whatever remains

must be built anew

[linguisten]

What does a linguist do? | OUPblog

Linguists get asked that question a lot. Sometimes by family members or potential in-laws. Sometimes by casual acquaintances or seatmates on a plane (for those who still fly). Sometimes from students or their families. Sometimes even from friends, colleagues, or university administrators. It turns out that linguists do quite a lot and quite a lot of different things. Many academic linguists do research on sound structure, grammar and meaning, language acquisition, language use or the history and structure of a particular language. Some linguists teach linguistics, or foreign languages or English as a second language (ESL). Careers in ESL or TESOL (as it is also known) can be as close as your own community or can take you around the globe.

[kofeinskakeleraba]

[libertyninteriors]

[journalofanobody]

Haiku

some would call them scars

those marks that she left on me

but I cherish them

– Michael Boiano