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It’s that time of year again so here is your yearly reminder that the world isn’t ending and people don’t hate you. The sun is just setting at 6 pm.
Please take your vitamin D
HEY SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE GIRLIES, ITS OUR TURN TO ENDURE THE DARK DAYS NOW, BUT STAY STRONG. THE WORLD IS NOT ENDING; THE SUN IS JUST SETTING AT 5-to-6 PM. BUT SHE WILL COME BACK TO US SOON. TAKE A VITAMIN D AND HANG IN THERE.
absolutely love this shot where rose is watching her home planet die off after five billion years and the doctor is just slaying off in the corner
Same image
Is this anything
and the winner of superwholock is officially??? no one. we all lost. congrats team
Average nonusamerican [tumblr] experience be like:
- poll
1. seemingly obvious answer 35%
2. not obvious answer 12%
4. I'm bald 54%
- reblog
I can't believe you guys. This is taught in every AMERICAN school. It's literally part of the AMERICAN syllabus. You must've been a bad person and slept in class or skiving off when your AMERICAN teacher was going through this. If you didn't know this you are a bad person and should be ashamed of yourself
- poll What Continent is this?
Africa 12%
I dont knowwwwwwww 75%
im bald 13%
- reblog
its not our freaking fault the US school system is so bad it failed us all so bad you dont even realise how bads it is here we dont know anything its not oiur fault its not my falts its not my fault
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damn its starting to get a little chilly here
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN ITS GETTING COLD?!!? SUMMER JUST STARTED!!!! THE FUCK ARE YOU MARS??
affirmations for my printer:
you are not out of paper
you have so much paper
it’s okay to function as intended
you are not out of ink
i just refilled that cartridge last month
you can connect to that computer you’re supposed to connect to
you’re allowed to print things
Spin the wheel. Now, imagine you're on a first date with someone who says they`re a [result]. How does this affect the odds of a second date?
100% guarantee I'll want a second date
It's significantly more likely
The odds don't change
It's significantly less likely
There wont be a second date. Absolutely not
Picker Wheel is a wheel spinner for a random picker. Various functions & customization. Enter choices or names, spin the wheel to decide a r
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respecto a la nueva serie de telefe sobre las botineras me parece increíble la decadencia actual del deporte y su cultura pq incluso en épocas mas antiguas y machistas jamás te vendian como algo digno ser la mujer operadisima oxigenada, q vive de giveaways/ser embajadora de marcas pedorras y parirle 2½ nenes al futbolista pelotudo del momento
la selección femenina de fútbol argentina (q clasificó al mundial 2027) mientras tanto en un galpon en tero violado: hola si
girl help they're calling clarice lispector a minor writer who stole latinx valor what the fuck. she was literally raised in pernambuco.
She grew up in Brasil and wrote in Brazilian Portuguese, wrote transcendentally beautiful things in Brazilian Portuguese in fact, immersed in Brazilian culture, which was her culture
Almost can't believe gringos are out here trying to take her latina card away, but they're like that 😭😭😭😭😭
she's brazilian. she got the citizenship. you what she says about ukraine, where she was born? "Naquela terra eu literalmente nunca pisei: fui carregada de colo". if you're not brazilian do yourself a favour and translate her words, I'm not doing it for you.
she grew up and died here. she's more worth of being called latina than a lot of so called latin people from the US.
irl girls are better than anime girls but anime men are better than irl men. this is objectively true
women outperform fantasy while men fail to come close to it
i'm not normally one to make jokes about dialect or accent. but the way that British people pronounce "lieutenant" feels like an in-joke i'm not privy to
Aww, you're feeling lieut out?
Once upon a time there was the Latin word "locus", meaning "place", which had various different declensions, but somewhere along the line in the vernacular in the areas conquered by Rome it had a strong tendency to shift towards something that dropped the last syllable (so "loc" instead of "locus") and then fucked around with the vowel in all kinds of directions.
But then the speakers of Gallo-Romanic dialects went even further and they got rid of the "k" sound entirely and started just saying the l and the vowel, which eventually got us to the Old French "leu".
Now the thing is, right, that in the old languages the spelling is very much a sort of consensus thing. It's not perfectly phonetic, because it can't be: all of the languages in question had phonemes that weren't exactly the same as the Latin that existed when and where the Latin alphabet was formalized, right? So as people wrote down the Old French vernacular, they basically took the letters they were taught and they used them to represent the sounds they were making.
This happens with all the languages; there's a really neat thing where if you look at Visigothic manuscripts, writing in the area that would become Spain and the vernacular form that would eventually be Spanish, you can see the difference between the sound of "v" and the sound of "b" disappearing, so that there are manuscripts where "Ave Maria" is written "Abe Maria", because to the people reading it, b and v made the same sound.
This is relevant to the question because of a fun little fact about mediaeval orthography! Which is that the characters that we now feel are absolutely separate, different letters - that is u and v - were both used for both sounds. It's not that "u" and "v" were the same letter exactly - they weren't - but that the character you used was the same and which you used depended more (properly) on where in the word the letter came, than which one it was.
So the word "hut" would indeed be written with "u", but the word "university" might well be written "vniuersity".
But it gets worse from here, because the sound of the letter we now call "v" and the letter we call "f" were also often used interchangeably. So it might actually be written "vnifersity".
If your eyes are crossing, remember that we still randomly stick "qu" in places to be "kw" and there's quite complicated rules about when the character "c" says a hard back of throat sound the same as the letter "k" and when it says a soft sibilant like "s" and also sometimes when it does something completely different.
Now as it happens the point of writing is to be able to take words from your head, put them on paper (or parchment, in this case), and then send them much farther away in both time and space to someone who absolutely cannot hear you say these words, and then put those thoughts in their head.
Which meant that you have this sort of weird liminal thing where "leu" could be spelled "lev", because u and v were interchangeable, and then also this thing where v and f were interchangeable, and both were being sent around to various places and read to others who may, or may not, do a lot of reading as opposed to a little, or may be reading in a different dialect than they speak (because remember, we're talking about mediaeval France, which means we're actually talking about a country with two major language divisions - Langue D'oc and Langue D'oïl - which then inside of them have a reasonable fuckload of languages that are mostly mutually intelligible most of the time), and so on, which means that the noise for u and the noise for f meet in the middle and may both be represented by "v" and while we're at it they may all just be pronouncing the word differently, and as you saw in the whole move from "locus" to "leu" in the first place, that can involve ending up in quite a different place through a totally logical means.
We don't know for absolute certain if this is why the word "leu", ported over to English with the Normans and added to our language, changed its pronunciation and spelling to "lief" or "liev". You will note that along the way both to Middle English and to Middle French, it grew an "i" in before the "e" sound, because words do that.
We do have some records of Old French that are spelled "leuf" or "lef"; we also got our Frenchishness from the Norman Conquest, which is to say the brand of French very specifically spoken by a bunch of Francicized Scandinavians who spoke a very specific one of those Langues D'oïl. So we do know that the idea that this word ended in the sound we might associate with the letter "f" had already took up in a bunch of different places.
The original idea of "lieutenant" is quite literally a "placeholder" - it was someone you left in your place. So if you were your overlord's "lieutenant" you were the person who gave other people orders in his place, the person he delegated to. Much like "captain", when these words were first used they did not designate a specific rank in a highly developed system with rigid relationships, but rather were the names for roles that people occupied in relationship to the enterprise/activity/whatever.
This is why in the books, the Witch King of Angmar is referred to frequently as Sauron's "lieutenant" - Tolkien knew this shit preeeeetty well and liked using words in those contexts.
So in French, they moved along the path of saying "lieu" as the word is said in French today, with no consonant at the end. Their "lieutenant", their "placeholder", maintained that pronunciation. Americans then actively wanted to distance themselves from the British and were at the time buddy-buddy with the French, so they took that pronunciation on.
Meanwhile at some point Middle English - arising from Old English and Norman French - had shifted to the "liev", the one that had a fricative on the end, which was one of the pronunciations attested in the spelling shift to "leuf".
Et voila.
i love when people point out typos i make and i get to show them the phone screen im rockin with
my toy it has every disease
Sony Vaio PCG-GT1 desktop and Smart Capture application Microsoft Windows Millenium Edition operating system 2000 (x)
If you start reading books again, you’ll feel at least a little better. I promise.
the Asian western diaspora complaining about there not being any queer asian representation are the weakest link because queer media is 1/3 of various Asian countries GDPs
same with the latine diaspora complaining about not having latine representation in hollywood, well actually if you just put on your thinking glasses for a second you'd see there's +20 countries to choose real latin american media from
quien es la peor persona del país
mauricio macri
Javier milei
Hector Magnetto
Galperin
Cristina Kirchner (cupo femenino)
Villaruel (cupo femenino 2)
