20-Somthing, Just Trying to Making it Work

Lanae || 26 yrs old || | Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy, Religion & Society | | This is my main blog | potsandstripes.tumblr.com is my chronic illness blog || [email protected] is my art blog. [Genderfluid. they/she pronouns.] ☆☆☆

[whetherornotitworks]

Formerly @making-it-work

I got a new phone and since I was using an old email address (and 99% mobile) I’m locked out of that account. Anyway it’s still the same blogger so expect similar stuff. 👍

[making-it-work]

Im now @whetherornotitworks

[kaneshiro-takeshi]

Romeo + Juliet (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann

[burgundybralette]

Performance of that era

[iron-sunrise]

Harold Perrinneau is the only person to ever play Mercutio like, truly, its amazing

[note-a-bear]

Look at Harold perrineau, inventing Shakespearean acting. Amazing.

[decayr]

[goldenballads]

Anushka Shetty and Prabhas in Baahubali: The Conclusion (2017)

[sourcedumal]

This is everything

[jumpingjacktrash]

so fancy

[dannydino11]

Okay maybe mama did raise a fool

[anaellefairytale-deactivated201]

[frowningfox]

A Blood Mage goblin, or a “Hemogoblin”, if you will.

[tharook]

I will not.

[mysharona1987]

[stephaniecost]

Alanna of Trebond, final revision.  I meant to make that white thing some part of a burnoose, but it just turned into an abstract shape.  Oh well.

[couleedogs-deactivated20180324]

Minute Rice right after I woke him up to eat… Incase you were wondering what an axolotl yawning looks like!

[paintingsdaily]

‘Séléné’ By Albert Aublet, 1880

[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

[jasnakisapa]

@jwlzrulezz rhetorical device of the day

[chessys]

i have some issues with my past self but she was young and i forgive her my real beef is with present me what is she doing im embarrassed to even look

[burntcopper]

things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.

[windycityteacher-deactivated202]

WOAH WHAT?

[ice-light-red-deactivated201611]

That is profound. I noticed this by accident when asked about adjectives by a Japanese student. She translated something from Japanese like “Brown big cat” and I corrected her. When she asked me why, I bluescreened.

[lady-redhaired]

[liaragaming]

But you can make adjectives part of a noun and have a green Great Dragon.

[yourplayersaidwhat]

“Drugs don’t people, people people.”

Our DM, severely messing up the phrase “drugs don’t kill people, people kill people,” after we tried to tell our Tiefling sorcerer that smuggling drugs wasn't that bad. (It was an accident, we swear!)

[followwhereshegoes]

christmas season is upon us so here are my fav christmas vines

[bonbonlanguage]

You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?

[rk8con]

[suspendnodisbelief]

These are called vocables, a form of non-lexical utterance - that is, wordlike sounds that aren’t strictly words, have flexible meaning depending on context, and reflect the speakers emotional reaction to the context rather than stating something specific. They also include uh-oh! (that’s not good!), uh-huh and mm-hmm (yes), uhn-uhn (no), huh? (what?), huh… (oh, I see…), hmmn… (I wonder… / maybe…), awww! (that’s cute!), aww… (darn it…), um? (excuse me; that doesn’t seem right?), ugh and guh (expressions of alarm, disgust, or sympathy toward somebody else’s displeasure or distress), etc.

Every natural human language has at least a few vocables in it, and filler words like “um” and “erm” are also part of this overall class of utterances. Technically “vocable” itself refers to a wider category of utterances, but these types of sounds are the ones most frequently being referred to, when the word is used.

[classicfern]

Reblog if u just hummed all of these out loud as you read them