~A Mess of Flesh and Bones~

Sorrel. Proud plant dad and reigning pizza queen. "More than mediocre" -a reliable source // Preferred pronouns: they/them

[jakefromstatecs]

[jameshathaways]

I think about you all the time. I think about what you’re wearing, and what you’re doing, and who you’re doing it with. I think about what friends you have, I think about what you eat before you work, or what shampoo you use, what happened in your family. I think about your eyes, and your mouth, and what you feel when you kill someone. I think about what you had for breakfast.

[estradiol]

Being gay takes more practise than you’d think

[estradiol]

I mean like feeling comfortable in your identity and rejecting everything negative you’ve been taught about yourself takes constant practise and self affirmation. being gay is a lifelong experience of telling yourself that it’s good and okay to exist and feel the way you do even when your subconscious is against you

[ne0np1nk]

A nonbinary femme fatale is a themme fatale

[matchagirl]

sorry but if your bed isn’t against at least one wall you’re not valid

[hurleyquinnzel]

Are you telling me there are people out there who have their beds just floating in the middle of their rooms like animals?

[sodhya-deactivated20181218]

This got me dying

[the-bitch-goddess-success-deact]

who paid for this study bruh

[glitteryheaux]

it’‘s literally seasoning.  that’s it. that’s what make food taste good.

[fuckingrecipes]

Bro it’s more complex than just ‘ey they used seasoning’ 

It’s HOW they used seasoning, compared to other areas of the world. 

Indian seasoning does this neat color wheel of flavor, fitting a bunch of spices that are very DIFFERENT from each other, to create a huge range of complex flavor. 

Meanwhile in Italy for instance, they tend to use flavors that are SIMILAR. For instance, Basil and Oregano, or Sweet fish with Sweet wine. It makes foods less likely to contrast weirdly in your mouth, and it’s the basis of why fancy european people pair red wines with steak and white wines with chicken. Savory with Savory, Light with Light.   

But the Indian food steps it up a notch. The research is definitely worth a read. 

“ That like flavors should be combined for better dishes—an unspoken but popular hypothesis stipulated by recipe-building in North American, Western European, and Latin American cultures—is an idea essentially reversed in Indian cuisine. “

[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.

[moved--306389]

What the fuck, English isn’t even my first language and yet I picked up on that. How the fuck. What the fuck.

[exomoon]

Reasoning: It Just Sounds Right

[arkthepieking]

Oooh, don’t like that. Nope, I do not even like that a little bit.  That’s parting the veil and looking at some forbidden fucking knowledge there.

[canthinkofaurl-deactivated20221]

How did I even learn this language wtf

[titaniumelemental]

I had to read “brown big cat” like three times before my brain stopped interpreting it as “big brown cat”

[arjan-de-lumens]

I’m kinda reading “brown big cat” as “brown (big cat)”, that is, a “big cat” - like a tiger or lion or other felid of similar size - that happens to be brown. “Big brown cat”, on the other hand, sounds more like a brown cat that’s just a bit bigger than a regular housecat - like a bobcat or a maine coon cat or something like that.

[the-real-seebs]

yeah, a brown big cat is almost certainly a puma. a big brown cat is probably a maine coon.

[whetstonefires]

yeah, if you put the adjectives out of order you wind up implying a compound noun, which is presumably why we have this rule; we stripped out so much inflection over the centuries word order now dictates a huge amount of our grammar

[delphinidin4]

Just looked up why we do this and one of the first lines in this article is, “Adjectives are where the elves of language both cheat and illumine reality.” so I know it’s a good article.

Things this article has taught me:

This same order of adjectives more or less applies to languages around the world.  “It’s possible that these elements of universal grammar clarify our thought in some way,” says Barbara Partee, a professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Yet when the human race tacitly decided that shape words go before color words go before origin words, it left no record of its rationale.

One theory is that the more specific term always falls closer to the noun. But that doesn’t explain everything in adjective order.

Another theory is that as you get closer to the noun, you encounter adjectives that denote more innate properties. In general, nouns pick out the type of thing we’re talking about, and adjectives describe it,” Partee told me. She observes that the modifiers most likely to sit right next to nouns are the ones most inclined to serve as nouns in different contexts: Rubber duck. Stone wall.

Rules are made to be broken. Switching up the order of adjectives allows you to redistribute emphasis. (If you wish to buy the black small purse, not the gray one, for instance, you can communicate your priorities by placing color before size).  Scrambling the order of adjectives also helps authors achieve a sense of spontaneity, of improvising as they go. Wolfe discovers such a rhythm, a feeling-his-way quality, when he discusses his childhood recollection of “brown tired autumn earth” and a “flat moist plug of apple tobacco.”

Brain scans have discovered that your brain has to work harder to read adjectives in the “wrong” order.

TL;DR: No one knows why we do this adjective thing but it’s pretty hardwired in.

[cuzosu-blog]

@deadcatwithaflamethrower Linguistics tidbit.

[miss-ingno]

I have questions, though. If this is so common across languages (which ones?) and hardwired into our brains, how come we have such trouble ‘learning’ this rule when studying a new language?

[tigercobeans]

transphobes aren’t allowed to shop anymore because making a purchase is a trans action ://

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

an octopus but the tentacles end in human hands

[genderfluid-idiot]

did you mean

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

that is exactly and completely what i meant thank you

[coffeepeople]

humans are so harsh to each other. like damn i don’t care if you drink decaf coffee or don’t like to read. we’re all just trying to survive. i love you. i’m proud of you.

[zuzuyams]

Eugene gets me

[aceofsquiddles]

A lesbian couple were smoking weed together.

One was a high femme, the other was a stoned butch.

[shithwa]

pocket_monsters

bonus:

[doesthendnlive]

[when-did-this-become-difficult]

the text of the bill here

al jazeera article explaining what happened here (article published 11/14/18)

KEY QUOTE FROM THE ARTICLE:

If Congress does not pass legislation protecting the tribe and the legal challenge fails, the Mashpee would be stripped of their right to exercise sovereign jurisdiction over their land.

Jessie Little Doe Baird, the tribe’s vice-chairwoman, told Al Jazeera that loss of jurisdiction would prevent the tribe from running indigenous language schools, tribal courts, and housing projects, as well as its own police.

“We have our own police force, which is important because they’re tribal citizens and since we’ve had our own police force, none of our men have been beaten or shot, which we’ve had before with non-tribal police,” she said.

[mspainter]

[ID: a tweet from Ruth H. Hopkins @RuthHHopkins. Text reads: as you celebrate thanksgiving, know that the trump administration is taking away 321 acres of land from the Mashpee-Wampanoag, the tribe that helped the pilgrims survive and were present at the first thanksgiving. Tell legislators to support the Mashpee Reservation Reaffirmation Act. End ID]

[gothhabiba]

Lakota People’s Law Project has another article with background on this & the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s website also has a link to the text of the bill, phone numbers of legislators, posters, etc.

[deathdeal3r]

I’m in the mood to be cuddled kissed & fucked

[southernsideofme-deactivated201]

[niintythreee-blog]

ever since i met you no one else is worth thinking about