Darling Potter

Denise | nonchalant

[pocketfulofpotter]

take it slow we're never growing old driving through the haze we're never coming back

[gifmethat]

So you know what I don’t get? Why people repeat words. (x)

[hyperboreanhapocanthosaurus]

Grammar time: it’s called “contrastive reduplication,” and it’s a form of intensification that is relatively common. Finnish does a very similar thing, and others use near-reduplication (rhyme-based) to intensify, like Hungarian (pici ‘tiny’, ici-pici ‘very tiny’).

Even the typologically-distant group of Bantu languages utilize reduplication in a strikingly similar fashion with nouns: Kinande oku-gulu ‘leg’, oku-gulu-gulu ‘a REAL leg’ (Downing 2001, includes more with verbal reduplication as well).

I suppose the difficult aspect of English reduplication is not through this particular type, but the fact that it utilizes many other types of reduplication: baby talk (choo-choo, no-no), rhyming (teeny-weeny, super-duper), and the ever-famous “shm” reduplication: fancy-schmancy (a way of denying the claim that something is fancy).

screams my professor was trying to find an example of reduplication so the next class he came back and said “I FOUND REDUPLICATION IN ENGLISH” and then he said “Milk milk” and everyone was just “what?” and he said “you know when you go to a coffee shop and they ask if you want soy milk and you say ‘no i want milk milk’” and everyone just had this collective sigh of understanding.

[allthingslinguistic]

Another name for this particular construction is contrastive focus reduplication, and there’s a famous linguistics paper about it which is commonly known as the Salad Salad Paper. You know, because if you want to make it clear that you’re not talking about pasta salad or potato salad, you might call it “salad salad”. The repetition indicates that you’re intending the most prototypical meaning of the word, like green salad or cow’s milk, even though other things can be considered types of salad or milk. 

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Can I make love to this post?… Is that a thing that’s possible?

[pocketfulofpotter]

what I said was I'll miss you what I meant to say was I love you what I wanted to say was that I meant what I said and it's funny how all those things I could have said flooded my head after we said goodbye and I should have told you I'd be willing to hold you until my flesh crumbles into bone because I'm willing to die alone but god knows I don't want to live that way

Shane Koyczan

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Another Paradise by Samelkins.com

Please don’t delete the link to the photographers/artists, thanks!

[pocketfulofpotter]

don't expect an apology when I tell you I'm only held together by a heart that pumps blue it's the strongest muscle in my body and I'm flexing it for you

Shane Koyczan

[pocketfulofpotter]

take me back to bugtong bato

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Self-initiated book jacket redesign of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with interior illustrations.

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[library-heaven]

wow

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[pocketfulofpotter]

peaks and valleys harmony to chaos trust turned to doubt you were my antony I begged you left hearts crossed the great divide

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[pocketfulofpotter]

Teen Mean Wolf

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[pocketfulofpotter]

[goodbyequeen]

PHOX- Evil

With SXSW right around the corner I figured it would be fitting to share a SXSW video of what would soon become one of my favorite bands. Slightly embarrassing that it took a music festival in Texas to lead me to a band in my own back yard. But hey, it happens. 

[pocketfulofpotter]

THIS BAND AHHHHHH

[anamateurexpert-deactivated2016]

I hope Monica Martin goes far. Her band was a bit sloppy when I recently saw them in DC, but she definitely made up for it w/ her beautiful voice & awkwardness in between songs.

[pocketfulofpotter]

the band of the future

[pocketfulofpotter]

Love is always greater than the sum of its evidence.

David Levithan

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that face spoke volumes to me

[pocketfulofpotter]

Visit Original Link

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[urulokid]

this was the worst punked ever you wanted to laugh at justin timberlake but ended up just feeling really sorry for him because he just sits there and accepts his fate

[brianoso]

unf tho so much unf