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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
Not today Justin
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*gives a sidelong glance so far that I just keep turning my head until I am not even looking at you anymore*
things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.
WOAH WHAT?
That is profound. I noticed this by accident when asked about adjectives by a Japanese student. She translated something from Japanese like “Brown big cat” and I corrected her. When she asked me why, I bluescreened.
What the fuck, English isn’t even my first language and yet I picked up on that. How the fuck. What the fuck.
Reasoning: It Just Sounds Right
Oooh, don’t like that. Nope, I do not even like that a little bit. That’s parting the veil and looking at some forbidden fucking knowledge there.
How did I even learn this language wtf
I had to read “brown big cat” like three times before my brain stopped interpreting it as “big brown cat”
I’m kinda reading “brown big cat” as “brown (big cat)”, that is, a “big cat” - like a tiger or lion or other felid of similar size - that happens to be brown. “Big brown cat”, on the other hand, sounds more like a brown cat that’s just a bit bigger than a regular housecat - like a bobcat or a maine coon cat or something like that.
yeah, a brown big cat is almost certainly a puma. a big brown cat is probably a maine coon.
yeah, if you put the adjectives out of order you wind up implying a compound noun, which is presumably why we have this rule; we stripped out so much inflection over the centuries word order now dictates a huge amount of our grammar
Just looked up why we do this and one of the first lines in this article is, “Adjectives are where the elves of language both cheat and illumine reality.” so I know it’s a good article.
Things this article has taught me:
This same order of adjectives more or less applies to languages around the world. “It’s possible that these elements of universal grammar clarify our thought in some way,” says Barbara Partee, a professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Yet when the human race tacitly decided that shape words go before color words go before origin words, it left no record of its rationale.
One theory is that the more specific term always falls closer to the noun. But that doesn’t explain everything in adjective order.
Another theory is that as you get closer to the noun, you encounter adjectives that denote more innate properties. In general, nouns pick out the type of thing we’re talking about, and adjectives describe it,” Partee told me. She observes that the modifiers most likely to sit right next to nouns are the ones most inclined to serve as nouns in different contexts: Rubber duck. Stone wall.
Rules are made to be broken. Switching up the order of adjectives allows you to redistribute emphasis. (If you wish to buy the black small purse, not the gray one, for instance, you can communicate your priorities by placing color before size). Scrambling the order of adjectives also helps authors achieve a sense of spontaneity, of improvising as they go. Wolfe discovers such a rhythm, a feeling-his-way quality, when he discusses his childhood recollection of “brown tired autumn earth” and a “flat moist plug of apple tobacco.”
Brain scans have discovered that your brain has to work harder to read adjectives in the “wrong” order.
TL;DR: No one knows why we do this adjective thing but it’s pretty hardwired in.
Tolkin’s mother always told him you can’t have a green great dragon.
I should not be afraid of my dad walking quickly...
Me, looking at the sky: So if could just hold off the snow for, like, ever, that'd be super.
I wish I was a gay transgender black girl. Then I’d receive all the scholarship money to go to college.
This will be my new meme
My dad,
who hates rap, is actually an excellent freestyle rapper.
Me: What are you looking at?
Friend: Oh, ya'know, Bowsette.
Me: What?
Friend: Well, they released this power-up that allows Toadette to turn into Peach.
Me: Oh, so you're looking at Toadette turned into Bowser?
Friend: ....Not exactly....
Stock photo vs Doki Doki Literature Club
(on twitter)
I recorded the moment when Amy brought Mark some cookies and milk 😍
And here we see Amy prepping Mark for his Santa cosplay
im not crying, youre crying.
A theorist was born just the other day...
Oh the porridge wall has gone all disco on me.
Benjamin (Yahtzee) Croshaw
David was lying in “Jasper Dies At The End”
So it’s general assumption that the story David told in “Jasper Dies At The End” was a complete lie and, not gonna lie? There is SO MUCH evidence for this.
Take note of how everything is oddly exaggerated and unnatural in the story
The way the counselors say “Oh no! Not Davey!” “He’s such a troublemaker!” sounds very. Exaggerated. Like they’re reacting to a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain.
David’s “trouble making” actions are also the sort of things David would see as problems. Insulting nature, using words like “dang”, littering, etc. Plus the way one of the current counselors says ”Oh Davey! You have so much potential! If only you would apply yourself!” It REALLY sounds like David is trying to make an impression on Max, or send him some sort of message.
Take David’s childhood actions versus Max’s. David says dang, litters, and insults nature Max swears like a sailor, literally starts a camp revolt, and tries to run away a lot. These sort of things would fly over David’s head and just come off as a grumpy kid who hates nature,
But David’s behavior isn’t the only thing he lied about. I think he also lied about how Jasper died.
The scars on his chest from the bear attack are parallel to a few scratches from the photo in episode 11. Not to mention how as a ghost, whenever he’s scared Jasper tends to cover up his chest:
These wounds were left open for the entire night, there’s NO WAY Jasper would’ve survived that. Either Jasper had died in the bear cave, or on his way back to the camp. Additionally, according to David’s story that picture in episode 11 would not be accurate. If David really WAS a grumpy troublesome kid, he wouldn’t be smiling in it. However if the picture was taken AFTER this event, Jasper wouldn’t be smiling because he said he thinks the camp sucks at the end of the episode.
I’m absolutely POSITIVE that David lied about this entire story. He was never a trouble maker and Jasper did NOT survive that bear attack. But why lie? Well, the kids asked why he got that medallion.
He can’t say he doesn’t want to talk about it, that’d seem suspicious. So why not lie to protect these poor innocent children from the truth of your childhood friends gruesome death, while avoiding sounding suspicious? Maybe the truth is that medallion belong to his old friend Jasper, and he didn’t want to let it go as it serves as a reminder of their good times together.
Additional notes I didn’t have any idea where I should put this in:
-The episode title is a lie. “Jasper Dies At The End”. That doesn’t happen. Jasper in this story does not die. Just like David’s story, the title of this is a lie, and our storyteller is an unreliable narrator. -Maybe it was just a joke but child David’s voice seriously sounds like an older man attempting to do an impression of a small boy. It could be a hint towards this just being a made up story, or I’m just over analyzing and this is just a joke for the episode. Who knows!
TL;DR: David’s story in Jasper Dies At The End was a HUGE lie and Jasper died because of the bear attack. There are multiple contradictions and oddly exaggerated points within the episode that support this.
Your logic seems great until the end. Why would he be instinctively smiling when he tells the story? He also, neigh we forget, David is very bad at lying.
While there are some holes I could poke in your theory (like the fact that it only takes place in one day, that Jasper might’ve been upset but turned back around in time for the photo), I think the main thing to recall is that it’s supposed to be a fictional story with obvious character growth.
I highly doubt David was that negative as a child, but keeping such a sad reminder in his car would be idiotic. He keeps it around because it’s the first thing he got at Camp Campbell, unrelated to Jasper. Plus, who would want to return to a camp after watching their friend get mauled by a bear.
Finally, the additional notes. Rooster Teeth has gone on record saying the name was an homage to a book named “John Dies At The End.” David’s child voice was established in a trailer (see below) and they never thought they would have to use it during an actual episode
TL;DRR: While it might seem likely, Jasper could not’ve been killed by the bears in Jasper Dies At The End.
no explanation for this one lads
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Get the fuck outta here with that bullshit. I was expecting like actual info and you throw a joke at me. Fuck this guy.
I’m so angry that I fell for this fucking post!