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Linguist in training. Sort of multilingual. I follow from this account, but post language stuff on my langblr @trying-to-be-langblr

[mydearthisbe]

Being a procrastinator with a violent fear of failure is almost hilarious because like 80% of the time I’m like “I’m not even going to think about this” and then there’s like a distinct moment when everything switches and it turns to “I can’t fail oh my god I need to turn this into an A in like a day why am I like this”

[oysters-aint-for-me]

has anyone ever had the problem where you literally never want to do anything that you cannot reap benefits from immediately

like maybe I’m hungry but everything I have in the house at the moment would take 10+ minutes to prepare so I just……put off making the food for WAY longer than it would have taken to prepare the food when I first got hungry

Or i want to order some necessary thing online but the website says it will take a week to get here and i’m like “oh well fuck that” so I put off ordering it for like a week

Or if im like “I should clean my room because I like when it’s clean” but I know it’ll take me a couple hours so I don’t do it for like six months

It’s like there are only two times for me: right this instant and The Entire Rest Of The Future.

[tsunflowers]

also I learned about this project called “queering the map.” the idea is that in the past gay neighborhoods and gay spaces were very clearly defined bc it just wasn’t safe to be yourself anywhere else. as lgbt+ people become more visible and accepted many feel that we are losing our connection to those spaces

so every dot on this map is basically someone’s queer experience: coming out, meeting their future wife, seeing another gay man in public for the first time, anything you can think of that truly left a mark on them

it started in Montreal and is primarily English-language with most pins dropped in the US, Canada, and Europe, but there are people all over the world who’ve shared their experiences. it’s great to look at places near you but it’s also great to see that even people in places you thought were the middle of nowhere are happy with themselves and finding community and living their lives

[sazandorable]

It’s here and it’s SO SWEET?? Just clicking around it’s very personal stories, in first person and a lot of them addressed to a specific “you”, and sooo many in extremely poetic language. It feels like an art installation and it’s so beautiful. ;W; Thanks for sharing!!!

… there’s also a lot of really silly ones (like gay sharks in the middle of the ocean)

[coolnpc]

[captainlordauditor]

I looked at Jerusalem and immediately found two favorites for entirely different reasons.

[stammsternenstaub]

Obviously I love this, but I need to know what the typeface is that is used for the title.  That’s gorgeous! I want it!!

[obsessedpolyglot]

What a cool project!

[mytearsrricochet]

this morning NASA abandoned their mars rover Opportunity (aka Oppy) because it (she) got hit by a storm on Mars and it knocked her camera and wheels out and her last words to the team were “my battery is low and it is getting cold”. I know she’s a machine but I’m devastated. Oppy is the one who discovered water on Mars. RIP oppy ily space baby

[mevsthhighway]

they didn’t abandon her!! they tried eight months to reach her!!!! as their last farewell to her yesterday they played her “I’ll be seeing you” by Billie Holiday:

“I’ll find you in the morning sun

And when the night is new

I’ll be looking at the moon

But I’ll be seeing you”

They love her so much and they tried so hard!!!

[peter-pantomime]

Also!! Mortality and mourning are the most human of gifts!! And it’s sad the battery faded away but it’s not so sad that it went as it was gettin dark - that’s when you can see the stars!!

[discotyphoon-deactivated2020070]

alignment chart for “very stylized mid to late 2000s post flash cartoon you vaguely remember watching as a child but forgot about it completely after leaving elementary/middle school”

[black-cherry28]

My mind is like an internet browser. 17 tabs are open, 4 of them are frozen and I don’t know where the music is coming from.

[rubyredbonnetblue]

Ik ben sterk en onafhankelijk, en

ik

wil

knuffels.

[obsessedpolyglot]

Heck yes 🤫

[pussiesaregod]

the reason i like staying up late so much is because between the hours of 1am-5am, the world is quiet and no one expects anything from me. i could stare at my wall for 4 hours and there would be no consequences. it’s so silent and calm. i love it

[mapsontheweb]

Lakes, rivers and streams in Finland.

[obsessedpolyglot]

I honestly first thought this was an artistic rendering of something like a deer silhouette (:

[obsessedpolyglot]

If you’re into languages...

please consider following my sideblog @trying-to-be-langblr for exclusively language-related posts and hopefully some original content too at some point~

(PS: Not a lot of people will see this probably, because the ‘this person has been inactive but has started posting again’ notification was most likely wasted on an accidental reblog earlier)

(PPS: I should probably have made this blog my sideblog instead of the other way around, but oh well)

THANKS <3

[dailyoverview]

Check out this incredible shot of Mont St. Michel in Normandy, France. Over the past 600 years, the island has functioned as a prominent monastery (accessible to pilgrims only during low tide), a French military fortification, and a prison.

Instagram: http://bit.ly/2CQjuzf

48.635150°, –1.513003°

Drone shot by Garrit Wes Anderson

[obsessedpolyglot]

Does every jury member voting want Petra Mede back as much as I do? (because what else is up with all the points for Sweden?)

[princeandreburakovsky]

Becky writing Leah on the Offbeat:

[linguisten]

Heaven’s Vault is a game about translating an ancient alien language

Initially, the premise for Heaven’s Vault sounds like a typical video game. You play as a young woman named Aliya Elasra, accompanied by her temperamental robot Six, and together you explore a series of moons that were once home to a mysterious ancient civilization. But the ruins aren’t filled with violent aliens to kill or powerful weapons to discover. Instead, what the civilization left behind is words, and it’s your job to figure out what they mean.

[findingschmomo]

i sent this meme to my old ling professor and he made the single greatest joke in the universe that is completely inaccessible to most of the population and its killing me

[languagestudyblr]

from A1 to A2: omg I’m nearly fluent! I understand so much and I just love this language! learning languages is so amazing!

from B1 to B2: day 2746261. dear diary, today I tried to read a newspaper article in my target language and I found 12 irregular verbs, 3 incomprehensible grammar structures, and 7 words I couldn’t find in any dictionary. I will never be “fluent”. This language is too difficult. I hate learning languages.

[parakeet]

[firesigh-deactivated20181118]

this has the aura of being funny but i genuinely have no idea what the fuck any of them are saying

[remakesihavetoremake-deactivate]

bööls of wa’ah

[dangerhamster]

this is what Scottish Twitter is supposed to sound like

[obsessedpolyglot]

@infinite-curiosity @k4ppn Look what stumbled into my dash!!