Off my rocker high on sugar

hi :) 22M, very normal and can be trusted with Wikipedia rabbit holes

[lonelymountainmonkey]

Need Librarian to make a video about the important things here

[lonelymountainmonkey]

Guess i just like having options

[lonelymountainmonkey]

Good vibes

[lonelymountainmonkey]

Phlegm? I hardly know him

[galaxywarp]

I had to get a couple of ultrasounds last year and I haven’t gotten over how this is indicated in my test results as, among other things, “cervix: unremarkable”

Yes. Unremarkable is an incredibly good thing for a medical examination to be. Nothing out of the ordinary. Everything is fine. This is good news.

But I literally CANNOT STOP laughing at “pussy: basic” being in my medical records.

[lonelymountainmonkey]

My favorite part of tumblr is scrolling thru and seeing some weird passive aggressive call-out post about something that op clearly cares about and the post has a ton of notes, but I don't have any clue what the topic is.

[lonelymountainmonkey]

The sword of Damocles is actually a blatant violation of OSHA Standard 29 CFR 1910.28(c)

[lonelymountainmonkey]

I guess I underestimated the value of a good guy with a gun

[triplemj]

This literally feels like a Black Mirror episode

[holdoncallfailed]

always been kind of fascinated by the fact that so many wikipedia pages for complex emotional states/afflictions are represented by paintings, a disproportionate number of which are by edvard munch

[nyancrimew]

hot take: i feel like sowing is much better than reaping

[nyancrimew]

like i loove fucking around, but finding out? not so much

[nyancrimew]

what's "hubris"?

[memewhore]

[deeperprocess00]

[rlyehtaxidermist]

"immortality sucks because all your friends die" all your friends die anyway. those we do not mourn are those who mourn us.

"immortality sucks because you forget who you are" we always forget who we are. do you remember who you were at four years of age? who you were at fourteen? "who i am" is a shadow cast on the wall.

"immortality sucks because" skill issue. skill issue. skill issue. give me your liver

[cute-catts]

[todays-xkcd]

Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.

Fluid Speech [Explained]

Transcript

[Above the panel:] Fun fact: Experienced speakers constantly merge, drop, and alter sounds when talking at normal conversational speed to optimize for efficient mouth movement.

[The panel shows four labeled side profiles of a mouth with paths of sounds made in different parts of the mouth. There is a label "More fluid" with an arrow pointing to the right.

From left to right:] [Label:] Going to /ɡoʊɪŋ tu/ [Path:] (G O >> I >> NG >> >> ) ( >> T >> >> O)

[Label:] Goin' to /ɡoʊɪn tə/ [Path:] (G O >> I >> N)(T >> >> O)

[Label:] Gonna /ɡʌn.ə/ [Path:] (G O >> NN >> A)

[Label:] How fluent speakers actually say it when speaking rapidly /ɡə̃/ [Path:] (G >> >> ə̃)

[Below the panel:] If you think you don't do this, try to use "hot potato" in a sentence and fully pronounce the first "t" without sounding like an alien impersonating a human.

[chongoblog]

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