Language yearning

Langblr. She/her, 20s, main @sapphistiquee | Native: Italian | English (C2) | French (C1) | German (beginner) | Japanese (beginner) | Before I die: Arabic & Russian | I study Latin and Ancient Greek as well but not online. -> Original content: #livresselangblr | I also reblog/post positivity & mental health content to promote healthier study habits 📚📖 -> ICON: art by @libbyframe 📌

[fullofbugs84uy894ujui9]

reminder that this blog, while not politically focused, supports BLM. bootlickers and racists aren’t welcome here, and never will be.

[umlauts-are-happy-letters]

Does anyone else just stop everything when they hear a foreign language being spoken in public and think “my language senses are tingling”?

[tealingual]

me: *takes a deep breath*

me: i lo-

anyone who has spent five seconds around me ever: yes, you love languages, we know, you love languages so much, it’s the light of your life, you love it so much, you just love languages, we KNOW , you love languages you fucking love languages ok we know, we get it, YOU LOVE LANGUAGES. WE GET IT.

[aletheyass]

me every time i take a sip of my cappuccino: do they know it's called cappuccino because the color is similar to the sackcloth worn by capuchin friars (cappuccini). do they know capuchin friars got their name from the hood (cappuccio) they wear. do they know cappuccino is a double diminutive as it comes from capo ('robe') + uccio = cappuccio ('hood' but literally 'little robe') + ino = cappuccino ('tiny hood' but literally 'tiny little robe'). do they know

[jirounari]

I love that when Germans are really enthusiastic about something they exclaim: “Ich schmeiß mich weg!” which roughly means “I’m throwing myself away!”

[recoverr-a-deactivated20210530]

if you are recovering from a very dark moment in your life, regardless of what it might be or where you are in your journey, i want you to know i admire all the strength you have had up until now to start all over again. i know it must be scary to acknowledge all of the work you need to do in order to get better, but the fact you already want to get better, move on and feel healthy means the world and nobody should underestimate that. not even you.

[zukosgay]

love the german saying “the child has already fallen into the well” for ‘what’s done is done’/’it’s too late’. yea, man, just keep it there. put a lid on the well. get another kid. oh, it’s screaming? sorry, no can do. yea, no, no need to climb in and rescue it, what’s done is done. :)

[countdeworde]

It’s actually a spin-off of another German proverb:

Den Brunnen (erst) zudecken, wenn das Kind (schon) hineingefallen / ertrunken ist.

You could have done some precautions but you did nothing so a bad thing has happened so now you’re finding a solution for a tragedy/problem you could have prevented.

[hidradigital]

The sexual tension between me & wanting to constantly acquire more knowledge

[bugkeeping]

I havent seen anyone talk about this yet so im making a post. 

So lets say you’re researching something for a paper (or just for fun) and the research paper you want to read is behind a paywall, or the site makes you create an account first, or makes you pay to download, or limits you to only 5 free articles, or otherwise makes it difficult for you to read what you want.

do not fear! copy the link to the article

go to sci-hub.se         (the url is always changing so its best to check out whereisscihub.now.sh to find what the current url is)

slap the article link in there

bam! free access! 

[sixth-light]

#AFAIK the authors don’t make money from jstor 

to be super-clear because a surprising number of people don’t know this: academics do NOT make ANY money from journal articles, in fact they often have paid money to get them published (out of their research grants, not personal money) as well as reviewing and editing other researchers’ articles, for free. they sometimes get royalties for books but…very very small amounts, despite the fact that the books are $$$$$. 

people definitely make money from restricting access to the scientific literature but it’s (some of) the journal publishers, not the researchers themselves. they are mostly poor and precariously employed.  

[vrabia]

absolutely please do pirate academic articles. please. you’re not stealing from researchers, you’re stealing from 3-4 massive journal publishers who do all they can to suck money out of the process so that we get nothing (as @sixth-light said, you might get some royalties but it’s……one of my colleagues recently posted a picture of the royalties check she got from her latest book. it was like $7, her book costs close to $100)

the system is rigged to fuck in favor of the publishers. right now it’s not enough that you publish. if you want to move forward in your career you have to publish in certain prestigious journals (journal rankings are at best a dubious practice) and you have to publish open-access. which is great and something i totally agree should be the norm in academic publications, everyone should have access to knowledge……………………………..if we didn’t have to pay thousands of dollars to get an article published open-access. which, if you’re not tenured and don’t currently have a grant (spoilers: this happens a lot) you can’t afford to do. if i was getting paid even modest royalties per article download i’d have at least some safety-net income, and then i’d be like hey please don’t steal my articles, i might need that $15 to buy groceries next week. but i don’t.

journal publishers also push prohibitive prices when negotiating with universities for access through library services for students and researchers, so that poorer universities often can’t afford this. if not for things like sci-hub, researchers from these universities wouldn’t have equal access to knowledge as those from richer universities and couldn’t advance their work at a similar pace, their universities would have poorer results and more limited access to funding, and so on. vicious circle created and maintained by the publishers.

no academic who knows what they’re doing and isn’t divorced from reality via the higher rungs of tenure will hold it against you for pirating their work. it’s basically getting no money vs. getting no money BUT knowing your work is more widely circulated and people are sticking it up to the publishers.

[everybidenjusthavegoodtime]

mark, my words. *mark brings me my dictionary* thank you mark

[australiansanta]

americans be like i’m looking at myself in the meer

[creolesasuke]

DLJDGSJHLHDKHKSHDHKD

[sillyjimjam]

americans be like im gonna eat an ornge

[jalapeepo]

americans see a tree rodent and go 'look a skwurl'

[zuzusexytiems]

americans be like couldj gemmie a glass uv waddr

[livresse]

my only contribution to the online community is being slutty for languages I hope it’s contagious xx

[starsabovethegreywaterfalls]

*swears in my target language(s)*

Me:

[teacupful-of-languages]

Learning new languages is so difficult when you have depression. It’s hard to stay motivated. It’s hard to get started. It’s hard to concentrate. It’s hard to remember what you have learnt. But fuck it. I will not let my mental illness stop me from becoming a polyglot.

[block]

[ethrealstudies]

*imagines obscure situations (that would never actually happen) in which i need to speak my target language*

me: that was a good studying session

[freedominthedarkmp3]

Obsessed with this title askfjdha

[thetruthaboutlovecomesat3am]

“Does the Covid Vaccine turn you gay? We wish! Sadly, science doesn’t do miracles”

[pengychan]

For the record: this is from the website of a real newspaper. It is not a parody.