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I haven’t gone through my whole blog yet but anything I now post or reblog that is even mildly suggestive I will use #lonely.nights so block that tag if you don’t want to see it. (I will forget on some post so please read the tags that the authors provide)

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maanoxpaleoart

✦ The Last Unicorn ? ? ?

✦ I forgot about this drawing cause it didn't turn out how I wanted. But here it is anyway :b The whole thing about people comparing Spinosaurus mirabilis to a unicorn inspired this piece.

✦ Here's a close up (the unicorn is an OC of mine).

haunthid

art as a hobby is great because I can just draw whatever the hell I want Spinosaurus mirabilis

thydungeongal

I think it's funny that in French the word for "unicorn" is "licorne" because:

The word "unicorne" was first reanalyzed as "une icorne"

The definite article was then added, making it "l'icorne"

The new definite form was reanalyzed once again, resulting in "une licorne"

thydungeongal

Before any anglophones get on the French people's case on this, consider for a second what y'all did when you reanalyzed the Spanish "el lagarto" ("the lizard") as "alligator."

Reanalysis is fun.

jkcorellia

Oh yeah, everybody does this*. Another English example is "apron", which was once "napron" until we reanalyzed the initial N as part of the indefinite article (a napron -> an apron).

A fun one in Arabic is the city of Alexandria in Egypt. Quite understandably, Arabic speakers heard the initial "Al" and thought "ah yes, the ubiquitous definite article" and Alexandria became al-’Iskandariyya.

In the opposite direction, Spanish adopted hundreds of Arabic words during the Middle Ages due to Andalusian/Islamic influence, and there are very few Spanish words that start with al- that aren't of Arabic origin (and in fact, many words that start with A without being followed by an L, as in about half of cases in Arabic the L in "al-" is elided).

Reanalysis occurs in many other places besides article-noun combos, of course, but it's an extremely common case.

*citation needed, but reanalysis is extremely common

thydungeongal

Oh, this actually explains something I'd just attributed to a quirk of sequence constraints or something; why Alexander is realized as Iskander/Iskandar in Arabic! It makes sense to analyze it as al-Iskander in Arabic!

grungeygoddess

Same thing happened with the word alchemy! Started out as the Arab term "al-kimiya", and when it was transported to Europe, it became "alchemy". This is actually really interesting, because as the term evolved more, it became "chemistry", effectively un-reanalyzing the word!

thydungeongal

Oh actually there's another layer of fun there: the Arabic "al-kimiya" is actually a loan of the Ancient Greek χῠμείᾱ (khumeíā), which was used to refer to the art of alloying metals. Arabic borrowed a lot of Greek terminology owing to Arabic translations of Greek classics (many of which were actually lost in Europe until they were retranslated from Arabic). So, yeah, the Greek khumeíā made a round trip through Arabic, then into medieval Latin as "alchemia," and from there we eventually do get chemistry!

valtharr

Not quite the same thing, but this reminded me of one of the funniest phenomena in the German language.

So, you may or may not know that x-rays were discovered by a guy called Röntgen (or Roentgen, though the ö is the proper spelling). Because of that, they're called "Röntgen rays" in German. Now, the thing is that in the German, the infinitive of a verb is always formed with an -en at the, so, for example, "to run" is "rennen" or "to sleep" is "schlafen." And because of that, it just so happened that the verb for performing x-rays became... "röntgen."

ich röntge, du röntgst, er/sie/es röntgt, wir röntgen, ihr röntgt, sie röntgen

thydungeongal

In the X-rayed lab, straight röntgin it

official-linguistics-post

official linguistics post

nothoardingifbooks

There's a fabulous talk by Terry Moore about how X became the unknown in algebra (Al-gebra - my apologies for any Arabic speakers out there! google only helps so much)

From Persian and Indian scholars, via the Mediterranean into Western Europe: X is the unknown thing because you can't say SH in Spanish.

Terry Moore: Why is 'x' the unknown? | TED Talk

kcokaine

SCP 9345-2 "Hound"

ghoulchurch

Lowkey we should create a giant manmade blood device to attract ticks away from humans and its a giant blood container that pumps like a heart and emits phermones that attract ticks and mosquitos and we should call it Mother

yumykon

Girfailure Miku 💤

smashcut

On the day of Dick Cheney’s death, I’m thinking about a lot of horrible consequences of his actions, but I’m also thinking about Lauren Hough telling Dick Cheney to waterboard her “if it makes him feel better” when she repaired his cable.

lamuliz

Protag and the lil kitty!!!

drenched-in-sunlight

the gamers AU no one asked for 😭

great-and-small

I am constantly thinking about this

great-and-small

This mild Wikipedia sentence is like the understatement of all time

Here are some crazy grasshopper mouse facts for those who are not familiar with the most badass mouse species on the planet

- They are fully carnivorous, and their diet is made up of not only bugs but also snakes, lizards and other mice.

- They hunt like true predators, slowly stalking and creeping up on their prey before ambushing them. They will sometimes let out a screech as they attack.

- Like wolves, they howl to establish territory and have a specially developed throat to produce louder vocalizations. They will stand up on their hind legs and throw their head back to howl- a sound that can be heard from 100 meters away!

- Grasshopper mouse behavior is linked to lunar cycles and they are more active during a full moon.

- These mice have been hunting bark scorpions and evolving alongside them for so long that they’ve evolved a mutation where scorpion venom that is lethal to other animals is converted into a painkiller in the grasshopper mouse’s body.

homunculus-argument

It's amazing how you can know so many perfectly sensible, reliable, competent, intelligent and rational people who are unemployed because nobody will hire them, and then encounter people complaining about their workplace like

"The new hire still doesn't understand she can't just use company keys to let her boyfriend into the employee bahtroom to smoke meth and steal toilet paper, and she is currently arguing with the manager about whether it's ok for her to run off from her work station to chase after a seagull, and proceed to butcher it with her bare hands and eat it raw in the middle of the store where customers can see her. She's making it an argument about whether she's allowed to have a lunch, and says she can use her lunch break however she wants. She wasn't on lunch break when she bolted after the seagull."

sometiktoksarevalid

ekjohnston

*weeps uncontrollably at 9 o'clock in the morning*

God, I love randos on the internet who just want to be kind.

magicratfingers

roadhogsbigbelly

i'm not saying people shouldn't be reading more books, but i do think it's funny how many people thinking "reading comprehension" is just about how good you are at reading books and not like. criticial thinking skills.

fedoranon

Before my niece was in school and her first few summers, I babysat her pretty often, natch. Occasionally I'd take her to a movie (mostly as an excuse to watch a "kids" movie, ha) but there was a lot of PBS and Netflix because then I could lay out the grapes and crackers.

And after the movie, or every few episodes, I'd ask her, you know, what her favorite part was, or what did she think would happen next? Total glass eyes. Okay, okay, favorite is a bit much. Was there a part she liked? A character? ..... Any character's name?

I told my sister I was concerned of course. I got blown off. And then she started school and started getting notes about her reading comprehension and my sister was like but she knows how to read, I know she knows what words mean! And I was like no no no this is what I was talking about and like. Obviously I read the four year old picture books too but the example that came to mind was being disappointed we couldn't finish Carmen Sandiego and either not knowing or not wanting to tell me the main character's name.

And she's like, well that isn't reading.

Okay! So! The skill isn't named correctly but that's what it is!! That's what it is for a 4 year old, they should at least be on that level!

It's not about knowing the most words or the most complicated grammar, it's about being able to give a basic summary of a post and add a semi-relevant anecdote (lol). on its most basic level, it's about not pissing on the poor

parasite-core

A handful of people have told me I should have put my tags in the actual post so here you go:

handsaniti

The good thing about critical thinking skills is that they can be developed and improved upon with patience and practice

clockworkcanary

A lot of the things you think “just come naturally” or are “common sense” are actually things that you learned at some point. You just don’t remember learning them!

The one that I know that I learned in college because I remember having problems with it, and then it finally clicking, was warm and cool colors. Golden hour, or how to indicate cool or warm in art. It’s one of my very favorite ways to play with color, NOW, but, it took me most of a semester in a color focused art class, in my early twenties to SEE it.

Ugh. So many assignments where the teacher was like, “nope, bot there yet.” So many!! (So long ago, too. We were doing slide photography and showing the slides in class, every class meeting)

It was useful, to me, to encounter something that took so much work for me to actually see it. Before that, I had mostly just done what was easiest, what people told me I had a “talent” for.

No. The skill of learning new mental skills? The frustration tolerance to get through and get it to click? THAT was the most valuable thing I encountered in college because it applies to everything all the time everywhere.

And it’s good to understand that it is ALL SKILLS! All of it. The easy and the hard stuff. You CAN learn it. Figuring out how to get yourself to actually grasp it is harder, though. Different people learn in different ways.

The frustration tolerance, though. That was really hard for me. I am still working on it.

fiendishpal

closing time

part i (1/2) "familiarity breeds affection" anthology of akaashi and osamu's chance enounters

takaholic

Would he actually like someone like me? Would he actually think I'm pretty? Would he actually stay interested in me when other more beautiful people exist? Would he actually yearn for me? Would he—SHUT UP. YES. FOR FUCKS SAKE YES. HIS HEART ACHES SO BAD OVER YOU. HES CRUMPLED UP ON HIS SIDE IN BED AND ACCIDENTALLY GAVE HIMSELF A BONER THINKING OF YOU.

#literally my boyfriend this morning #kept mumbling my name and I love you till he won’t himself up #god I love him

antirpg

I’m glad ppl on tiktok are doing ok

ofide

good lord

lifeofcynch

ghostaquarius

normal-horoscopes

YEAH I GOT NOTHING

vonlipvig

i don’t understand a single sentence in this and i’m ok with that

xek-xek

I haven’t stopped saying “it’s called quantum jumping, babe”

arirna

I would genuinely like to know who to blame for making these children so disconnected from the concept of imagination that they think the simpler explanation for what they’re doing is that they’re projecting their consciousness into one of infinite realities where fictional characters are real.