This started as a language blog

Pierre. Amateur linguist. Vexillogist. Big phonetics & etymology enthusiast

[ashstfu]

the whole point of life is just knowing a bunch of weird stuff and being kinda flirty

[neverniko101]

who up perceiving and reacting to stimulus

[horsesource]

"You can say that [orangutans] are not dependent on social support and approval, and if you admire this in them, that an orang is irredeemably his own person, 'the most poetic of the apes', researcher Lynn Miles told me once in an unguarded moments. What she had in mind was the difference between orangs and chimps in the way they carry on their discourse with the world.

Chimps are much admired for their tool use and for their problem-solving relationship with things as they find them...the orang is, let us say, not so replete with enterprise. Give an orangutan the hexagonal peg and the several shapes of hole, and then hide behind the two-way mirror and watch how he engages with the problem.

And watch and watch and watch--because he does not engage with the problem. He uses the peg to scratch his back, has a look-see at his right wrist, makes a half-hearted and soon abandoned attempt to use his fur as a macramé project, stares dreamily out the window if there is one and at nothing in particular if not, and the sun begins to set. (The sun will also set if you are observing a chimp, but the chimp is more amusing, so you are less likely to mark the moment in your notes. An orang observer has plenty of time to be a student of the vanities of sunset.)

You watch, and the orang dreams...when casually and as if thinking of something else, the orang slips the hexagonal peg into the hexagonal hole. And continues staring off dreamily."

Vicki Hearne, "The Case of the Disobedient Orangutans"

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Important tags from @sashayed

[kephas-rolling]

If you ever wondered, all your memories were actually directed and shot by Wong Kar-Wai

[weepingchoir]

hey man it's me. your old friend. qing dynasty portrayal of the mexican flag.

[todaysbird]

GET YELLED AT

photos by carl bergstrom

[birds-in-posts]

Double-crested cormorant (Nannopterum auritum)

Great blue heron (Ardea herodias)

[greenishness]

WRONG! you have to start with the linguistics

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1959 series of postcards depicting the Soviet republics: Belarusian SSR, Armenian SSR, Georgian SSR, Azerbaijani SSR.

[kephas-rolling]

vos rappeurs/rappeuses préféré.es ? toutes langues confondues

En V2V (vrai de vrai), je n'écoute pas beaucoup de rap. J'aime beaucoup le genre mais j'y suis exposé principalement dans des DJ sets qui me font dévouvrir des morceaux que j'aime beaucoup individuellement.

Si je devais en choisir un, je dirais Travis Scott, mais j'aime aussi beaucoup ICONIKA, Ice Spice, Cardi B aux USA. Sadboi au Canada! Je suis obligé de mentionner SDKid, MIA ou Raleigh Ritchie pour le Royaume-Uni.

En France, peut-être Kerry James, Théodora ou Abd al Malik!

Merci pour la question!

[mapsontheweb]

Poland and Romania shared a border less than a hundred years ago

[kephas-rolling]

I can't believe these two candidates were allowed to run with these name-ass names

[herpsandbirds]

Greater Sooty Owl (Tyto tenebricosa), family Tytonidae, order Strigiformes, Australia

Photographs by Ben Williams

[teaboot]

A number you WANT to like, but can't quite get there?

42

[mobilis-in-mobili]

Mr Boot do you HONESTLY need a better reason than The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

[teaboot]

it's the genX 67

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EIGHT FUCKING MINUTES???

[zoesupreme]

they're saying the roman emperor and his vassals have gone to pay tribute to China after losing their war with Persia

[premierhazel]

didnt even make the top story.

The Tajik century is here; up with the american century of humiliation

[lgbtunis-moved]

Hey I’d really appreciate it if goyim and even ashkenazi Jews would read and rb this

[wosp-reactivated]

She took my fucking mind palace, I'm thinking out of my mind car now.

[kephas-rolling]

It's always a surprise to discover that some people see me as """racially ambiguous""". Over the years, your local city white boy has alternatively been perceived as:

Turkish

Maghrebi

Jewish

Colombian/Peruvian

Happened again last night at a party. Like what ?

Interestingly, it's always coming from fellow white people. I wager that no one from the list I've just made would take me for anything else than white