Aspiring polyglot

Currently learning:French, Spanish, Arabic, and everything else ........................................           Duolingo: Kristenxdancer

[bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190]

“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma

and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND

[tuesdayisfordancing]

I didn’t know about zeugmas until just now! That is so awesome, everybody: 

zeug·ma ˈzo͞oɡmə/

noun

a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).

ISN’T THAT AWESOME??

[professorsparklepants]

#in english class in high school my teacher had us write our own zeugmas in class#and one guy came up with ‘he fell from her favor… and the window’#i am forever looking for opportunities to use that one

[siesiegirl]

She dropped her dress and inhibitions at the door.

[crumbvulet]

What’s this? My favorite rhetorical device showing up on my dashboard?

[thranduilland]

IT HAS A NAMEEEE!! OH MY GOD!!!

[candiikismet]

I LOVE THIIIIIS!!!

[orriculum]

One I’ve loved was “on their weekend trip they caught three fish and a cold”

I love these they’re like a pun and a metaphor wrapped up into one neat phrase

[island-delver-go]

Imagine being this petty

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Honestly, as a German I can not quite understand the obsession of the English speaking world with the question whether a word exists or not. If you have to express something for which there is no word, you have to make a new one, preferably by combining well-known words, and in the very same moment it starts to exist. Agree?

[latveriansnailmail]

Deutsche Freunde, could you please create for me a word for the extreme depression I feel when I bend down to pick up a piece of litter and discover two more pieces of litter?

[thatswhywelovegermany]

um = around

die Welt = world

die Umwelt = environment

ver = prefix to indicate something difficult or negative, a change that leads to deterioration or even destruction that is difficult to reverse or to undo, or a strong negative change of the mental state of a person

der Müll = garbage, trash, rubbish, litter

-ung = -ing

die Vermüllung = littering

ver- = see before

zweifeln = to doubt

-ung = see before

die Verzweiflung = despair, exasperation, desperation

die Umweltvermüllungsverzweiflung = …

[serhumfreysbrokencollarbone]

This is a german compound on the spot master class and I am LIVING

[thatswhywelovegermany]

#my german is still too basic for this but I desperately want a compound word for how much these compound words piss me off

das Monster = monster

das Wort = word

der Groll = grudge, anger, malice, rancor

der Monsterwortgroll = …

[linguistikforum]

Monsterwortbildungsimitationsunfähigkeitsverzweiflungsgroll

[thatswhywelovegermany]

die Bildung = formation

die Imitation = imitation

un- = un-, in-

fähig = able

-keit = -ility

die Unfähigkeit = inability

der Monsterwortbildungsimitationsunfähigkeitsverzweiflungsgroll = anger about the inability to imitate the formation of monster words

[wildflower182]

Linguistikfehdenhandschuhwurf

[thatswhywelovegermany]

die Linguistik = linguistics

die Fehde = feud

der Handschuh = glove

der Fehdehandschuh = gauntlet

der Wurf = throw

der Linguistikfehdenhandschuhwurf = throwing down the linguistic gauntlet

[shiplocks-of-love]

*slowly backs in fear*

[meetinginsamarra]

@shiplocks-of-love, @thatswhywelovegermany

Monsterwortbildungsunfähigkeitsangstverzweiflungsrückzugsecke

Monster=monster // wort=word // bildung(s)=formation

unfähigkeit (s)=incabability  // angst=anxiety

verzweiflung(s)=desperation  // rückzug(s)=retreat // ecke=corner

=the corner in which you retreat when you´re desperate because of your fear when being unable to form monster words

[shiplocks-of-love]

*eye twitch*

But what I want to see now is two germans arguing over the construction of one of these monster words.

[melmey]

@shiplocks-of-love I don’t think that will happen. The words make perfect sense. I think if German is your mother tongue you get a feeling for combining words, like a 

Monsterwortbildungsgespür

Monster = monster 

Wort = word 

Bildung(s) = formation

Gespür = intuition

;-)

[a-german-learning-clown]

🤡

[language-life]

Back to learning Arabic in this new year

[la-galaxie-langblr]

Pros and cons of learning languages:

Pros - languages

Cons - learning

[how-to-make-mistakes]

Scary adult stuff in Russian and French

Vampires, witches and Jack-o’-lanterns are a nice idea for a Halloween-themed vocabulary list — but we all know what’s truly daunting, don’t we?

Accomodation

Собственность — propriété (f) — property

Ипотека — hypothèque (f)/prêt immobilier (m) — mortgage

Снимать (imp.)/Снять (perf.) — louer — to rent

Сдавать/Сдать (внаём) — louer — to lease, let

Квартира — apparemment (m) — apartment

Жильё — logement (m) — lounge, accomodation

Общежитие — dortoir (m) — dormitory

Сосед (-ка) — colocataire (-trice) — roommate/flatmate

Finances

Кредит — crédit (m) — loan

Депозит/Вклад — dépôt (m) — deposit

Процентная ставка — Taux d'intérêt (m) — interest

Банковский счёт — compte bancaire (m) — bank account

Наследство — héritage (m) — inheritance

Стипендия — bourse (f) — scholarship

Бюджет — budget (m) — budget

Валюта — monnaie (f) — currency

Стоимость — coût (m) — cost

Сдача — monnaie (f) — change

Чаевые — pourboire (m) — tips

Доход — revenu (m) — income

Экономить — économiser — to save money

Зарабатывать — gagner d’argents — to earn

Банкротство — faillite (f) — bankruptcy

Бедствовать — être dans la misère — to live in misery, to struggle

Career

Резюме — C. V. (m) — CV

ФИО (Фамилия, имя, отчество)/Полное имя— nom complet (m) — full name

Личные качества — qualités personnelles — personal qualities

Профессиональная квалификация — qualification professionnelle (f) — professional qualification

Навыки — aptitudes (f) — skills

Волонтёрство — volontariat (m) — voluntary work

Рекомендация — recommandation (f) — reference

Вакансия — poste (m) — vacancy

Собеседование — entretien d’embauche (m) — job interview

Работодатель — employeur (m) — employer

Соискатель — candidat (m) — applicant

Сотрудник — employé(e) — employee

Коллега — colleague (m/f) — colleague

Зарплата — salaire (m) — salary

Премия — prime (f) — bonus

Увольнять(imp.)/Уволить(perf.) — licencier — to sack

Устраиваться(imp.)/Устроиться(perf.) на работу — trouver un emploi — to get employed

Повышение — avancement (m) — promotion

Выходной — weekend (m) — weekend

Отпуск — vacances — vacation

Больничный — congé de maladie (m) — sick leave

Health

Медицинская страховка — assurance médicale (f) — medical insurance

Скорая помощь — ambulance (f) — ambulance

Первая помощь — premiers soins — first aid

Аптечка — pharmacie de poche (f) — first aid kit

Прививка/Инъекция — injection (f) — injection

Вирус — virus (m) — virus

Инфекция — infecton (f) — infection

Эпидемия — épidémie (f) — epidemic

Антибиотик — antibiotique (m) — antibiotic

Обезболивающее/Болеутоляющее (средство) — analgésique (m) — painkiller

Таблетка/Пилюля — pilule (f) — pill

Простуда — rhume (m) — cold

Грипп — grippe (f) — flu

Травма — trauma (m) — trauma

Перелом — fracture (f) — fracture

Вывих —luxation (f) — sprain

Порез — coupure (f) — cut

Ожог — brûlure (f) — burn

Пищевое отравление — intoxication (f) — food intoxication

Зубная боль — mal au dents (m) — toothache

Воспаление — inflammation (f) — inflammation

Опухоль — tumeur (f) — tumor

Бессонница — insomnie (f) — insomnia

Месячные — règles — periods

Записаться на приём к врачу — prendre un rendez-vous avec le médecin — to schedule an appointment with a doctor

Принимать медикаменты — prendre des médicaments — to take medications

Психолог — psychologue (m/f) — psychologist, counsellor

Психиатр — psychiatre (m) — psychiatrist

Психическое расстройство — maladie mentale (f) — mental illness

Other

Совершеннолетие — majorité (f) — majority

Ответственность — responsabilité (f) — responsibility

Быть занятым (+instrumental) — être occupé(e) à — to be busy (doing smth)

Тревога — anxiété (f) — anxiety

Стресс — stresse (m) — stress

Измотанность — épuisement (m) — exhaustion

Опустошённость — dévastation (f) — devastation

Безысходность — désespoir (m), — despair, hopelessness

Замкнутый/Порочный круг — cercle vicieux (m) — vicious circle

[fromhersoul]

[tealingual]

Hi Essi! Is there a language you really want to start learning in the future?

Hi! Yes, several: Finnish sign language, Northern Sámi, Karelian, Estonian, all the other Uralic languages, Russian, Latvian, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Albanian, Italian, French, Spanish, Swahili, Somali, Malagasy, Turkish, Farsi, Kurdish, Georgian, Azeri, Nepalese, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Thai, Indonesian, Tagalog, Korean, Japanese sign language, Latin, Ancient Egyptian, Toki Pona… 

[language-life]

Please reblog if you’re an active language blog studying French,Arabic, or ASL

[mrs-n-uzumaki]

useless bilinguals who understand but can’t speak gang, where u @

[anar-ak]

Persian word of the day

Delyār

one of the many ways of saying sweetheart.

Composed of 2 words, del (heart) and yār (friend, partner, helper).

[readyokaygo]

The Palestine Reader

The following is a collection of articles, essays, and books on Palestine. These are not introduction texts to the question of Palestine or the Palestinain-Israeli “conflict”. If you need one read The Palestine-Israel Conflict by Gregory Harms and Todd Fery. Further, this is not an “unbiased” or “neutral” readng list. Everything listed below is counter-hegemonic. I feel absolutely no need to provide anything from the Zionist or Israeli point-of-view when that is the dominant narrative. With that said, I believe this provides a diverse, but in no means comprehensive, overview of the discourse on Palestine. A continuously updated page of this list can be found here.

On Theory

Orientalism by Edward Said

Orientalism Reconsidered by Edward Said

The Question of Palestine by Edward Said

Reading Said in Hebrew by Ella Shohat

Notes on the “Post-Colonial” by Ella Shohat

On History

History of Palestine by Dr. Mohsen Mohammed Saleh

Sabra and Shatila: September 1982 by Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

Peace and its Discontents by Edward Said

On Being Palestinian

What It Means to be Palestinian by Dina Matar

A Narrative of Palestinian Dispossession by Samia Costandi

The Palestinian Exile as Writer by Jabra I. Jabra

My People Shall Live by Leila Khaled

Memoirs, 1948 Part I by Fauzi Al-Qawuqji

Memoirs, 1948 Part II

Palestinian Identity and the Performance of Catastrophe by Ihab Saloul

On Zionism

Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims by Edward Said

Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims by Ella Shohat

Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism by Judith Butler

The Invention of the Mizrahim by Ella Shohat

Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel by Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky

Jewish History, Jewish Religion by Israel Shahak

The Ends of Zionism by Joseph Massad

The Persistence of the Palestinian Question by Joseph Massad

On Imperialism and Settler Colonialism in West Asia by Jamil Hilal

The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman

How the Zionists Took Over Palestine by Adel Safty

Imperial Israel and the Palestinians by Nur Masalha

After Zionism by Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor

On the Holocaust

Respecting the Holocaust by Howard Zinn

The Holocaust: Learning the Wrong Lessons by Boaz Evron

The Victimhood of the Powerful by Jennifer Peto

On Media

Propaganda, Perception, and Reality by William A. Cook

Israeli Cinema an interview with Ella Shohat

Israeli Cinema by Ella Shohat

Palestinian Cinema by Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi

On Al Nakba

The 1948 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

The Saga of Deir Yassin

The Fall of Lydda by Spiro Munayyer

Returning to Kafr Bir'im

How Palestine became Israel by Stephen Hallbrook

The Palestinian Exodus of 1948 by Simha Flapan

Why Did the Palestinians Leave by Walid Khalidi

Selected Documents on 1948

The Limits of the New Israeli History by Joel Beinin

On Genocide

Genocide or Erasure of Palestinians by Kathleen and Bill Christison

Israel’s Slow-Motion Genocide in Occupied Palestine by Steve Lendman

Ongoing Palestinian Genocide by Gideon Polya

The Lessons of Violence by Chris Hedges

The Brutal Siege of Gaza Can Only Breed Violence by Karen Koning AbuZayd

The Olive Trees of Palestine Weep by Sonja Karkar

Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust by Richard Falk

Gaza is Dying by Patrick Cockburn

Israeli Immunity for Genocide by Andrea Howard

Palestinian Misery in Perspective by Paul De Rooij

A Slow, Steady Genocide an interview with Tanya Reinhart

Gaza’s Holocaust by Dr. Elias Akleh

Genocide Hides Behind Expulsion by Adi Ophir

The British in Palestine, A Conveniently Forgotten Holocaust by Robert Fisk

European Collusion in Israel’s Slow Genocide by Omar Barghouti

Genocide in Gaza by Ilan Pappe

Genocide Among Us by Curtis F. J. Doebbler

Bleaching the Attrocities of Genocide by Kim Petersen

The Rape of Palestine by William A. Cook

Israel Plots Another Palestinian Exodus by Jonathan Cook

Slow Motion Ethnic Cleansing by Uri Avnery

Disappearing Palestine by Jonathan Cook

The Problem With Israel by Jeff Halper

Gaza in Crisis by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe

Drying Out the Palestinians

Israel’s Latest Assault on Gaza by Norman Finkelstein

To Gaza I Did Not Go by Gideon Levy

Gaza, the World’s Largest Open-Air Prison by Noam Chomsky

The Most Humane Little Checkpoint by Amira Hass

On BDS

BDS: Winning Justice for the Palestinian People

Why Boycott Israeli Universities?

The Necessity of Cultural Boycott by Ilan Pappe

Companies Supporting Israeli Occupation

On Solutions

Two-State Illusion by Ian S. Lustick

Relative Humanity: The Essential Obstacle to a One-State Solution by Omar Barghouti

Where Now For Palestine? by Jamil Hilal

[thatfunkyopossum]

Nobody ever talk to me about the catholics going off with stained glass again because not one window of jesus has ANYTHING on the Nasir al-Mulk Mosque

Click through this link i’m losing my mind its gorgeous

[royalhandmaidens]

i absolutely love seeing people’s reactions to the pink mosque 😂

the style is called “orsi” and is unique to iran

and stained glass traces its roots to south west and west asia, developed in ancient times and well before the europeans and the roman empire saw it and said “hey i like that, i’ll be leaving with it”

[royalhandmaidens]

and while we’re talking about mosques in iran, may i present persian mirror work in a different mosque in the same city?

every time someone tries to talk to me about western churches and architecture and their superiority to that of “third world countries” i have to laugh a little at the ignorance, especially when our mosques look like this

[julaibib]

Make dua for Muslims who don’t have anyone to spend eid with

[dsm-wannabe-linguist]

every time I attempt conversing with native speakers of my target language I am reminded of the phrase “you know what they say” and can attest that it is absolute bullshit

[hailwestexas]

you mention you know russian once to your friends and they keep sending you every text they find in cyrillic expecting you to translate honey this ain’t russian???

[langblrwhy]

Me during the whole day: I want to do a total of 0 (zero) things

Me at night: I need to get my life together, I want to be fluent in 3 languages, practice different art styles, learn about the modern civilization and economy and politics and watch a bunch of movies and write and read a couple of books and do e v e r y t h i n g.

[my-glitter-heart]

Relatable.

Although I know that I want to do all these things all day.

I just uh, don’t, do, them...