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laguerradelasgalaxias

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) || Crimson Peak (2015) || The Shape of Water (2017)

dir. Guillermo del Toro

papertownsy

that synchronisation in the last gif x

meiamandrew

The new republican healthcare bill

zangief

runawaymarbles

Linguistic thought of the day

native English speakers don’t tend to say “yes.”

My clients are about 50/50 native and non-native English speakers, and non-native English speakers are pretty much the only ones who say “yes” when I ask them a question.

Native English speakers almost always say “yeah” or “sure”, unless it’s for emphasis. (“Is now a good time?” “Sure” vs “Is this your first baby?” “Yes he is!!”)

datasoong47

I’ve noticed that with yes and no. Both of those sound abrupt by themselves (“no” to a lesser extent than “yes”). “Did you do it?” “Yes”. To me, that would sound like someone who’s annoyed by the question, perhaps because it’s been asked repeatedly. For yes/no to work, they have to be followed by something else, like your example, or by a word like sir or ma'am.

missalsfromiram-deactivated2020

I’ve reblogged a post like this before but I suspect this is an indication that the meanings of yes (and yeah) and no are actually changing - that English is undergoing a shift from a two-form affirmative-negative system to something else, such as an echo system (like Irish or Chinese uses) (except that in English we don’t have to repeat the whole verb, we can just use the auxiliary do).

I.e. this is why, I think, it’s so common for people to use “yeah, no” to deny something and “no, yeah, totally” to affirm something - “yeah” and “no” by themselves are too ambiguous, so we have to reinforce them by, for example, when we deny something, affirming the negative (“Yeah…”) and then denying the positive (“…no”), or when we affirm something, by denying the negative (“No…”) and then affirming the positive (“…yeah, totally!”). Maybe this kind of thing will stick around, or maybe it’ll shift to more of an echo system - I find myself saying “Yeah, I do” and “No, I don’t” a lot more than just the words “Yeah” and “No” by themselves.

This situation reminds me of how, when the Latin demonstratives were turning into articles, writers had to add additional decitic words to ille, illa, and illud in order to make their reference sufficiently specific - e.g. just “that man” by itself was starting to mean “the man”, so to mean “that man” they had to say things like “that aforementioned man” or “that particular man”.

letosatie

so yesterday, someone at work asked me if I like my “secret santa” gift and asked me twice and i said “yes” even though i thought the whole gift exchange was so pointless and the gift useless but i suspected they’d been the gifter. If I’d actually liked it, I’d’ve probably just said something like “It’s amazing, I’m so happy, i can’t believe what a cool thing I got…” It makes sense that I would use a formal Yes to lie

mulaneysbutt

Happy 10 Year Anniversary to “The Shooting AKA Dear Sister”

i-drank-your-milkshake

ayyy my favorite thing on the internet turns 10 today

#saturday night live #snl #shia labeouf #kristen wiig #dear sister #andy samberg

orzesc

i-drank-your-milkshake

the accuracy scares me

i-drank-your-milkshake

every once in a while i find this and die inside a little bit

kawaii-oddball

I’ll just leave this here

officialdankestmemes

perny

Someone in Denmark watched it 317 times and her reasons are just that she really likes the movie.

She doesn’t have kids, it’s not because of the meme status or notoriety it has on the internet… no, she just really likes the movie.

clintbartons

Babysitter Steve is the best Steve

orzesc

i-drank-your-milkshake

the accuracy scares me

vimoradi-deactivated20180806

put a film in my ask

boycub

if a teenager is at your door and they are wearing a costume!! please give them candy!! they are still in it for the halloween spirit and it honestly no different from a little kid in a costume. they are just as excited and happy as all the other lil tykes and dont you dare tell them they are “too old for trick-or-treating” because that will literally break their hearts and that’s not cool.

boycub

Its getting close to Halloween again so I just thought I’d reblog this again

archdemonsblood

And if “don’t be rude to teenagers over a stupid jawbreaker” isn’t enough for you, consider

You can’t tell how old a kid is just by looking. I’ve known multiple 5th graders who were taller than I am, and I’m 25 years old. With their faces hidden by masks, you won’t be able to tell they’re elementary schoolers, but they still are.

Lots of older siblings are expected to take their younger siblings trick-or-treating, and they only get paid in candy.

You don’t know if that teenager is developmentally disabled.

You don’t know if that teenager spent most of their childhood in a hospital or sick and has never had the traditional trick-or-treat experience before.

You don’t know if this is that teenager’s first Halloween in America, and they just want to experience a piece of American culture.

You don’t know if that teenager ever gets candy any other day of the year.

You don’t know if that teenager has eaten anything at all today.

And those are just things I can think of off the top of my head.

thebaconsandwichofregret

and even if it is just a bored 16/17 year old out trying to see what free shit they can get. is it really gonna kill you to give them a fun sized milky way from the multipack you bought at poundland? That thing didn’t even cost you 5p, just give the kid the sugar, say “nice costume”, and let it go.

morriggannlostinfandoms

As part of resurrecting this blog, I’m also announcing a new ‘service’.

I’m an indie author working on an anthology as co-editor, and I’ve published in other anthologies so I know how hard it can get to have your book reviewed.

So, I told myself I could give back by offering book/short story/anthology reviews.

See the review policies page to know the rules and I hope to hear from you soon! 🙂