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Cantonese: We’re Not Mandarin, and We Have the Extra Tones to Prove It
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Sprachgeist (the gist of a language)
Cantonese: We’re Not Mandarin, and We Have the Extra Tones to Prove It
Argentina’s new president choked on a fake moustache he was wearing as part of a Freddie Mercury costume at his most recent wedding.
Another entry in “linguists are not kidding when they say that your command of English enables you to understand sentences that have never occurred before in the entire history of the human species.” (via allthingslinguistic)
This three-minute talk by Josef Fruehwald (wearing, I believe, a sweater he knit himself) is about the grammar of knitting and is so very nerdy on so many levels. His slides are available here as a pdf.
~•~Aesthetic~•~
[Pokemon region maps: Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova and Kalos]
Unova’s map was the worst
nice
I was like “Oh sweet they have Maniac Mansion.”
“Oh awesome they have Dragon’s Lair”
“Hahaha, omg, the original Sim City”
and then
MY NOSTALGIA LEVEL IS AT MAXIMUM CAPACITY
GIZMOS AND GADGETS HOLY FUCKING SHIT I CAN’T BELIEVE IT
Good thing there’s this blizzard, then.
when will ppl realise that i’m not a computer expert i just know how to click on things until i find the problem
Donc, voici une histoire tout au sujet D’la façon dont ma vie s’est basculé-renversée Écoutez une minute Je raconte comment faire Moi-même le prince de la ville de Bel Air
What she says: I’m fine.
What she means: I’m hoping the paper mario wii u rumor is real we need a new paper mario adventure that has the style of the first two games and the story telling of super paper mario please intelligent systems please nothing like sticker star ever again the lack of story and characters made it the least memorable mario game in years.
French person: 80 French person: lol blaze it
i just 5 to my knees I laughed so hard
this whole post makes me want to 7 something on fire
i’ve had e9 of this
THIS POST DOESN’T MAKE SENSE I DON’T GET IT AND IT MAKES ME ANGRY
Sweet, sweet 17tion.
10 is making me facepalm so hard.
I feel bad for people who don’t know what this 16
Slamvender Town - Quad City DJ’s vs. Junichi Masuda
WHO ACTUALLY SITS DOWN AND THINKS TO THEMSELVES, THE SPACE JAM THEME WORKS REALLY WELL WITH LAVENDER TOWN???!
WHY DOES THIS GO SO HARD
im so mad that 1. this exists 2. these two actually go well together and 3. someone took time to make this
comic sands
This post was grating on my nerves with every pun. And then, then I read the caption. And I closed my eyes, thinking to myself I know I must deserve this hell. Now I know what it’s like for a post to physically pain me.
This is the best thing that has ever happened to me
"Adult Wednesday Addams vs. Catcallers" is perfect.
-DV
so you're a straight dude and you're a feminist? don't you get sick of being told how terrible and awful straight guys are
I mean, I guess? But not really. Here’s a few things about when people say stuff like “cis het guys are fucking disgusting.”
1. When it comes to harmful comments, being told that cis heterosexual guys are shitheads is the bottom of the barrel.
Do you know why it doesn’t really bother me when I hear shitty things about cishet guys? Because on the wide fucking spectrum of gender and sexuality, we have it easiest by a fucking MILE.
We have the most privilege and the least resistance in a LOT of things. We never have to deal with our actions being called into questions and we’re allowed a stupid and ridiculous amount of wiggle rooms with ideas like “boys will be boys.”
We can do things women would get crucified for doing. Sleeping around doesn’t make us “slutty,” it makes us “studs.” Spending a lot of time focusing on our look and style doesn’t make us “shallow,” it makes us “classy,” even though neckbeard fedora MRA dickheads have ruined that word.
So if a woman wants to call cishet guys gross, it’s kinda like calling a white dude a cracker. You can’t be racist or sexist to the people who are in power, because it’s an institutionalized thing.
2. Here’s the thing. Straight guys are kiiiinda the worst.
I’m sorry, but have you SEEN other dudes? Jesus christ, we’re fucking awful.
It’s gotten so bad that literally like 80 percent of the time I’ve begun to talk to a new girl through the internet, dating sites, tumblr or texting, they seriously make a point to say something like “holy fuck I’m so glad you can have an actual conversation.”
When I see screenshots of dudes texting it’s so fucking terrible. This “what would u do if I was there right now lol” bullshit is so disgusting, charmless, lame and fucking pathetic, it reminds me of me when I was like 18 and I fucking hate 18 year old me. He’s a sexist and a dipshit.
And that’s not even the worst of it. This isn’t even touching the sort of hatred and hostility that a LOT of men have when it comes to rejection. I’ve SEEN conversations women have had with men where, once the woman rejects the guy as politely as she can, he immediately turns on her.
As soon as he has to fathom the idea of a woman not wanting him to shove his terrible dick inside her for 20 seconds, he gets fucking furious. He insults her weight, appearance, anything he knows she might be insecure about. It’s horrible and disgusting.
This is just a SMALL part of the shitty things that cishet guys are capable of because we’re taught to think of ourselves as kings who, if the women are lucky enough, will bestow our kingly dick and balls upon them.
This isn’t even TOUCHING the dangerous ideas of the friend zone or how dehumanizing and manipulative it is, but I’ve talked about that before, mostly because I used to be one of those white knight dudes and I feel horrible about it to this day.
3. The most terrible thing to men? IS MEN.
Somehow, MRAs got this idea that feminism is about killing men and taking their place or something. That just goes to show why feminism has to exist, because somehow men’s rights activists took a movement about women and made it about them.
But here’s the thing. The terrible shit that happens to men? We pretty much do all of it to ourselves.
First of all, there’s the idea of toxic masculinity. We raise boys to believe that they have to be tough. “boys don’t cry,” we try and tell them. And because of this, they feel pressured to be tough and to feel nothing, so they’re emotionally stunted and filled with anger.
Second of all, we throw out dangerous ideas that grant them more freedom to be shitty to each other. “boys will be boys,” we say as we write off bad and violent behavior.
Let’s look at that mixture. We’re telling young boys that they aren’t free to express their emotions in the natural way, so they end up bottling up everything. Then, we grant them the freedom to be physically and verbally aggressive to other people.
That’s a dangerous mixture.
Even beyond that, MRAs are so quick to shout “things are bad for men too” at so many things, then when presented with those ideas, they write them off as invalid.
Whenever we talk about the statistics of women who are raped and how it’s a problem and a crime of aggression, men are so quick to say things like “Men get raped too!”
But if you look on Facebook, as soon as someone posts an article about some 35 year old teacher who raped a 17 year old boy, it’ll literally only be the men who say things like “heh, that boy is so lucky” or “wish I had a teacher like that!”
do you know what it means to claim that men are also raped, and then immediately joke about how lucky it is for a man to be raped by a woman?
It means that you don’t give a fuck about other men. It means that you don’t give a fuck about other human beings. It means that literally the only reason that you said it, without caring about the men who are hurt in those crimes, is because you want to take attention away from the VASTLY higher number of women who are raped and make it about you.
That is why women need feminism.
And that is why I don’t mind seeing jokes about straight(ish) dudes like me on tumblr.
Praise
LISTEN TO THIS
People have offered many potential explanations for this discrepancy, but this ad highlights the importance of the social cues that push girls away from math and science in their earliest childhood years.
Watch the powerful Verizon advertisement to really understand what a little girl hears when you tell her she’s pretty.
This is so important. Girls pay attention. Boys, if you are a brother, father, cousin of a girl, pay attention.
This is CRITICAL
xkd on Quotative Like
Looks like Randall Munroe has also been reading linguistics articles about “like”.