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æzra, they/them. linguistics student. i love english historical linguistics and second language acquisition main blog: theseedsofdoom mobile links

[coffeeandpies-deactivated202012]

281219 // *insert productive and aesthetic caption here idek what i should write without channelling my inner misery*

[saykatyphoto]

La Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, France - 2010

[theseedsofdoom]

Regional Variation in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Song Lyrics

The delight of the holiday season is singing those little extra phrases during Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Despite this universal practice, many alternative lyrics exist. Which lyrics did you grow up with? A short little survey (with previous results at the end!) about a funky Christmas tradition.

hey everyone, happy rudolph season. it’s the time of year where you tell me about the lyrics to rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.  

the height of elementary school holiday humor was the call-and-response style lyrics to “rudolph the red-nosed reindeer” (screaming: REINDEER) “had a very shiny nose (screaming: LIKE A…), etc. 

it turns out there’s ~variation~ in what lyrics you add in, somewhat dependent on where you’re from. this survey is an attempt to discover these regional patterns, and is honestly just a fun time. 

the results from the past two years are linked at the end, but if you’ve taken the survey before (either here or on reddit), they can also be found here. 

i am very very grateful for your participation!! putting this together has been really fun!! please feel free to direct comments/question to me in the survey itself or on tumblr! (also please reblog<3)

[luna-is-studying]

21.11.19 - 56/100 days of productivity:

A flower-themed bullet journal spread for this week to counter the coldness and darkness of november 🌸🌸

[stillstudies]

trying to make my weekly spreads as simple as I can lately, including my autumn quarter schedule! so excited to see what this brand new quarter has to offer.

[mang-hoee]

16.11.19 // finally faced reality and made a study plan for finals

[shakespearcean]

my november spread!! this month i planned out all my weeks bc i like the structure plus it leaves the rest of my pages free bc i don’t have to worry about how or where i’m gonna put my todo list!! the two quotes i showed are from @/alien_royalty and @/const4nce_s on instagram ; thank u guys so much!! are there any quotes you love??

[etudiare]

october spread! 🍂

ig: aristotleus_

[sweetpeastudies]

week four and im 100% obsessed with this planning system! this week i went with a yellow theme, still using the same color coding (for tasks, appointments, etc.) as last week. also, this was the week leading up to august 24th: the dreaded sat test date. standardized testing stresses me the heck out. i can’t figure out why i don’t test well, when I’m a perfectly hardworking, successful, and passionate student. these tests have been the source of 98% of my anxiety for the past three years. i know i’m not the only one, so if you’re also struggling with this, remember that test scores do not define you, or your intelligence.

have a wonderful week everyone!!

@passionplanner

[odysseyinink]

August Spread

I’m really looking forward to the last month of true summer! I fly to London on August 31 and begin my study abroad program so there is a lot to prepare for but also a lot to enjoy until then. Anticipation is part of the journey! Here’s to fresh strawberries, Hong Kong style boba, warm nights, binge watching Star Wars, and finishing the books that have been waiting for me to come back to them all year long. 🍓

[stimman4000]

my skater bro roommate talks to my other roommates cat exactly like she’s a person and i love it. she was meowing earlier and he was like “dude do you wanna watch a movie with us? you can come chill with us if you want. we’d love to spend some time with you” blessed

[studywmmotivation]

[cococherryblossom]

[cococherryblossom]

source: pinterest

[wlwellbutrin]

it’s really fucking interesting that accusations of inaccessibility never seem to be levied against The Hard Sciences

[wlwellbutrin]

if someone asks me what i’m doing in lab and i explain a little bit of maxwell’s vortex hypothesis, nobody expects to understand the whole thing. you have to have some foundational knowledge of calculus and electromagnetism, and you need to study faraday’s experimental data; without those, i can give you a summary of maxwell but i can’t possibly make you understand the whole thing. that’s not a failing on my part, your part, or maxwell’s. it’s just how it goes when someone produces a paper in a specialized field, and people generally accept that.

if someone asks me what i’m writing my annual essay on and i say it’s about spinoza’s conception of god as explicated through nature, suddenly i’ll get people who expect that either the entire thing needs to be stated in fifth-grade vocab terms, in which case they’ll shit on the entire field of philosophy for being easy, or i’m being inaccessible and elitist, in which case they’ll shit on the entire field of philosophy for being pretentious and esoteric. it’s striking, actually, the extent to which people have different expectations of subjects i’m in fact studying simultaneously in an interdisciplinary program.

there are plenty of academics who overuse jargon, whose writing is genuinely unintelligible and needlessly convoluted, and who i would like to punch in the face. but the solution to that problem is not to make blanket statements about how knowledge must always be accessible to people outside the field. and even when people do make those statements they never mean them. what they mean is that they think humanities are essentially lower and dumber than hard sciences and that the way students discuss them should reflect that.

[winterswake]

Keanu Reeves in Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

[anniespositivity]

Beginnings are always hard, my love. Whether you are starting a new year of school, decided to switch your job, have moved to a new town, or ended or began a relationship, the first days, weeks, or even months are going to be hard. But that is completely okay, darling. It doesn't mean that you are doing the wrong thing. Your life is changing, maybe even drastically changing, of course you will need some time to get used to it. Do not judge yourself or the situation based on how overwhelmed, stressed, lonely or sad you may feel in the beginning. Give it time, my love. Eventually you will adjust and you will feel that you made the right decision. Do not give up yet - hang in there, for you might not be far from happiness.