Mots

Just words, the origins of words, a spatter of words, the study of words, a fascination of words.

[la-palabra-gris]

i found this story in the comments of a youtube video

[la-palabra-gris]

The other day I was teaching my sister how to tie a slip knot to start her loom. I grabbed the yarn and did it infront of her. When I gave the yarn back she said “Oh, you should have told me, I know how to tie a noose.”

[redadhdventures]

Shout out to my Arabic teacher that looked at us yesterday mid-lesson and said, “I’m worried. You all look exhausted and depressed.”

Of course we were all like, “Oh yeah we’re dead inside, you haven’t noticed?”

And he snapped shut the textbook, threw up his hands and said, “That’s not healthy! No more vocab! Time for dancing!”

And he taught us a dance from Iraq and we danced instead of doing vocab. We didn’t stop dancing until he saw all of us laughing and was satisfied that we were all feeling better. It was perhaps the coolest, most kind-hearted thing I’ve ever seen a college instructor do.

EDIT:

YOU GUYS MADE THIS POST ESCAPE THE TUMBLR. NOW I HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO MY ARABIC TEACHER THAT HE’S INTERNET FAMOUS.

EDIT AGAIN:

It found its way to Facebook and someone tagged me so I gave up and just tagged him.

YET ANOTHER EDIT:

Apparently he’s chill with it.

[snreads]

people who speak two or more languages:

do you ever look at a word in English and for some reason you keep pronouncing it like it would be in your other language? And like you know that it isn’t right so you keep backing up and trying to get it right but it keeps coming out the same way and you don’t know what’s happening? 

[heyemmateach]

I do this a lot with names! I used to work with a Michaela. She would get so annoyed because I always did the German pronunciation. I also had that issue with a student named Leo.

[la-palabra-gris]

Yeah and it’s confusing when people don’t say words with an accent when they are trying to change the language. Like one time my friend told me he was leaving to play football. And I said I thought you played soccer. He said no fútbol. (That’s soccer)

[la-palabra-gris]

“ COFFEE: a decoction of berries

It is said that back somewhere in the year 850, a goatherd named Kaldi become puzzled at the strange way his flock was acting. He noticed that they were nibbling on certain berries, so he decided to try the berries himself. He did, and was so excited at the feeling of exhilaration he got that he rushed off to tell the other goatherds about the bush. The Arabs soon learned how to dry and boil the berries, and they called the brew qahwe. Its use immediately stirred up a great ruction among the orthodox Mohammedans. Some of the faithful drank their qawhe to keep awake during the interminable religious services, but for that reason others thought that qahwe should be hatred as an intoxicant. Turkey took up the brew qahwe, and this gave France her cafè, hence our word coffee”

-Word Origins; A Classic Exploration of Words and Language

[la-palabra-gris]

Teacher: the earth is round

Me: like a quarter?

Teacher: *facepalms*