[kingpin-of-steel-act3]

[afloweroutofstone]

It’s always fun to be reminded how recent European national identities are. Peasants in 1860’s Sicily had never heard the term “Italy” before, the majority of people in France didn’t speak French at the time of the French Revolution, etc.

[dostoyevsky-official]

[pyjnda]

from the observations of a british diplomat in the ukraine in 1912, quoted in Bini Adamczacks Beziehungsweise Revolution

[when one asks the avarage peasant farmer in the ukraine about his nationality, he will answer, he is "greek-orthodox"; when one pushes him to say whether he is a russian, a pole, or a ukranian, he will answer, he is a farmer; and when one demands demands to find out which language he speeks, he will say that he speaks "the language from around here". ... i.e. when one wants to find out which state he would like to belong to – whether he would rather be governed by an pan-russian or a specifically ukranian government – one will find out, that in his opinion, all governments are a plague on the land, and it would be best, if the "christian peasantfolk" were left to themselves.]

[natalieironside]

Around here we support slackers, cheaters, underachievers, and, especially, burnouts

[childoftheancientforest]

[samuelzachariev]

honestly, romanticise slavic languages, polish is just as hipster as french, bulgarian is as romantic as spanish

[parsabad]

Vakil Mosque/ Shiraz/ Iran

Photography: avesta rezaeizadeh

[livesunique]

Sukh Niwas, City Palace, Rajasthan, Jaipur, India,

Credit: itch13

[academicssay]

[santapau]

Now you know.

[santapau]

I must reblog this comic from time to time to make sure I skip the theatrical curse.

[lalinguistique-blog-deactivated]

the universal aspiring polyglot experience is eavesdropping on anyone speaking another language

[desinteresse]

Seeing your country portrayed in hollywood movies is deeply unsettling

[desinteresse]

Because they go “hm, what does our target audience, americans, think they know about this country?” which means that in the best case scenario its turned into a tourism brochure and in the worst case its a barren wasteland devoid of culture filled with terrorists

[la-venere]

nothing sexier than that picture with the italian players on top of eachother after the win and the english ones going through the 5 stages of grief in the back

[la-venere]

THIS ONE

[phthalooo]

i can see it

[learninglinguist]

Oof you were so close to commenting on standardized varieties but then in the last line you veered in the opposite direction and showed a misunderstanding of the most basic concept of linguistics and now I don’t trust anything in this article

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

Ich geh nicht mehr zur Schule, aber ich hab grad im Radio gehört, dass die Lernplattform Moodle in Baden-Württemberg down ist, weil der Unterricht heute angefangen hat. Deutschland, deine Digitalisierung.

[aureat]

you know that feeling when you’re out in nature at 5 or 6am and everything’s still quiet and the air still smells like night time and it’s fresh so you shiver a bit but then slowly the first rays of sun peak over the edge of the earth and everything is bathed in foggy, golden light and you just stand there watching the earth awaken.. if that’s not soothing idk what is

[recaption]

[thotkumi]

[akebie]