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I’m coining a new word: Incolaecide

Incolae (inhabitants) + Cide (murder)

Definition: The mass murder of a nation or region’s inhabitants by its rulers, regardless of their race, religion, ethnicity, or extranationality (as opposed to genocide which targets specific groups along cultural lines).

Because I can’t for the life of me find a good word to describe the mass murder of literally anybody and everybody who a dictator perceives as a threat, and there really should fucking be one, because these so-called “leaders” are fucking atrocities unto the human race and their actions are nothing but pure, unadulterated evil.

COMMITTERS OF INCOLAECIDE

missalsfromiram-deactivated2020

The word you’re looking for is democide.

Democide is a term revived and redefined by the political scientist R. J. Rummel (1932–2014) as “the murder of any person or people by their government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder”. For example, government-sponsored killings for political reasons would be considered democide under Rummel’s hypothesis. Democide can also include deaths arising from “intentionally or knowingly reckless and depraved disregard for life”; this brings into account many deaths arising through various neglects and abuses, such as forced mass starvation.

you: *says something*

me, a linguist: that person's choice of lexis, structure, and pronunciation features within this social and cultural context reflect a much deeper meaning than what is denoted by words and grammar alone, complicating the process of determining and assigning said speaker's level of intellect

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lullabyun

● Pathcode vs Mama era ●

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when you spend like 5 minutes trying to form a sentence in your head in your target language but you completely mess it up when you speak

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linguisten

More than four decades after she appeared in a Los Angeles County welfare office, her fate is unclear – but she has changed the lives of those who knew her

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savagechickens

Photo Album.

More learning.

awesomefrench

Dear people learning French, be aware of this

Your accent is more than fine, you don’t need to have a Parisian accent to be a legit francophone. French is spoken by 542 millions of people in 30 different countries, and I don’t even know how many different French dialects may exist… French language is multicultural, and you are part of this big community.

You are a legit francophone even if you make some mistakes. Guess what, I make mistakes too, I check grammar online too, like everybody. French IS complex and French rules are HELL to us, native speakers, too. Seriously, I feel your pain.

It’s okay if you started learning French a while ago, stopped, and then want to get back to it but don’t really know how to do it. You don’t have to apologize. You are not betraying anyone for stopping for a moment, a week, a month, a year… It’s totally okay. We all have ups and downs and you will find motivation in due time. It’s okay if you read French well, write French well but struggle to speak. It takes time to get confidence and speak up. It will come some day, believe me. I learned English just like you are learning French, I had trouble speaking too. Hell, I was impressed by native speakers and lost all my words! You will get confidence as your knowledge will grow, you’ll get more practice and it’s going to be easier for you. Trust me, been there, done that, it’s legit.

Don’t forget that French is awesome and you are awesome for learning it!

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krisinsanity

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margaterich

History is made up of fragments and absences. What is left out is as significant as what is included.

Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History in Illuminations (via linguisten)

won-bora

뿐

~일 뿐이다 ~뿐이다 Just/Only Adding 일 after a noun instead of directly putting 뿐 gives it a slightly negative connotation like “it’s only blah blah so it’s not a big deal”

—뭐야? What’s that? —종이일 뿐이야… It’s just paper… (Like whatever it’s not a big deal)

내가 읽고 싶은 것은 이 책뿐이야 the only thing I want to read is this book

When using this structure w verbs n adj you have to change it to ~ㄹ/을 것

난 자고 싶을 것을 뿐이야. All I wanna do is sleep 난 심심할 것 뿐이야. I’m just bored.

그냥 is pretty much the same

그냥 자고 싶어 I just wanna sleep 그냥 심심해 I’m just bored

Passed tense: ~았/았을 뿐이다

잤을 뿐이에요 I was just sleeping

It can also be used in the middle of a sentence.

난 잤을 뿐 일어나고 싶지 않았어. I just slept and didn’t want to get up.

Then there’s ~ㄹ/을 뿐만 아니라 meaning “not only blah blah but”

저는 심심할 뿐만 아니라 피곤해요. I’m not only bored, but tired