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Reblog daily for health and prosperity
Some cleansing positive energy for your timeline
not to be rude but some of y'all need to look on the bright side sometimes. like, yeah sure the world is fucked and people suck and we all die whatever, sure, but like. go outside.
ok i phrased this poorly, hang on.
i'm not saying the cure for depression is touching grass. however, if you surround yourself with sad things and talk about how terrible life is and how much you're suffering and never take a breath and remember it's not all bad, you'll end up making yourself worse.
like, i've been diagnosed with clinical depression, and anxiety, and insomnia, and chronic pain, and a million other things that get in the way of me having a simple fucking good day, but you know what?
i watch videos that make me happy and wear pretty clothes and cut my hair in fun styles and do my makeup and drink strawberry tea and take two showers a day and i look on the bright side because goddamnit if god is trying to break me down, he'll have to try harder.
i see so many people talk about how sad they are, who make their depression their first priority, and i get it, i really do, but you know that is actively harming your mental state, right? please, just do something nice for yourself, think positively for one day. i promise things get better when you step back and breathe.
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you can have clinical depression in a dark room while doomscrolling or you can have clinical depression watching cats do silly things on YouTube while you eat some frozen yogurt with strawberries n chocco chips. You might still be sad but at least you got to eat a tasty thing and nothing can take that away from you
Tumblr in December 2022 be like
English is the most gender neutral language, therefore it’s the best language
[Transcript under the cut]
Phrases which, when translated literally, either make no sense or have an entirely different meaning (either English to French or vice versa)
“mêles-toi de tes oignons” means “mind your own business”, but literally it’s “mingle with your own onions” “avoir le cul bordé de nouilles” means “to be very lucky”, but literally it’s “to have one’s ass outlined with noodles” “pleuvoir comme vache qui pisse” means “to rain cats and dogs”, but literally it’s “to rain like a cow pissing” “ça casse pas trois pattes à un canard” means “it’s harmless/it’s not much”, but literally it’s “it doesn’t break a duck’s 3 legs” and, the best for last, “j’en ai rien à branler” means “i don’t give a shit”, but literally it’s “there’s nothing about this i can jack off to”
Okay the quality is awful but as someone who is fluent in Irish (it’s not really called Gaelic here) they must have gotten someone professional to translate this because it’s perfect. My favourite thing is it’s very casual Irish and not the stuff you’d hear on a listening exam. This is how people actually talk in Irish. It doesn’t belong to a specific regional dialect which is interesting to me because most fluent Irish speakers are from smaller places that have their own Irish.
Overall I’m as an Irish person I’m impressed so far by these two episodes.
A few ideas for daily language habits. You can also keep track of your language habits with my printable Language Learning pages on Etsy. Just print out as many as you need and keep track of daily study habits, weekly & monthly goals, and important vocabulary.
Scary adult stuff in Russian and French
Vampires, witches and Jack-o’-lanterns are a nice idea for a Halloween-themed vocabulary list — but we all know what’s truly daunting, don’t we?
Accomodation
Собственность — propriété (f) — property
Ипотека — hypothèque (f)/prêt immobilier (m) — mortgage
Снимать (imp.)/Снять (perf.) — louer — to rent
Сдавать/Сдать (внаём) — louer — to lease, let
Квартира — apparemment (m) — apartment
Жильё — logement (m) — lounge, accomodation
Общежитие — dortoir (m) — dormitory
Сосед (-ка) — colocataire (-trice) — roommate/flatmate
Finances
Кредит — crédit (m) — loan
Депозит/Вклад — dépôt (m) — deposit
Процентная ставка — Taux d'intérêt (m) — interest
Банковский счёт — compte bancaire (m) — bank account
Наследство — héritage (m) — inheritance
Стипендия — bourse (f) — scholarship
Бюджет — budget (m) — budget
Валюта — monnaie (f) — currency
Стоимость — coût (m) — cost
Сдача — monnaie (f) — change
Чаевые — pourboire (m) — tips
Доход — revenu (m) — income
Экономить — économiser — to save money
Зарабатывать — gagner d’argents — to earn
Банкротство — faillite (f) — bankruptcy
Бедствовать — être dans la misère — to live in misery, to struggle
Career
Резюме — C. V. (m) — CV
ФИО (Фамилия, имя, отчество)/Полное имя— nom complet (m) — full name
Личные качества — qualités personnelles — personal qualities
Профессиональная квалификация — qualification professionnelle (f) — professional qualification
Навыки — aptitudes (f) — skills
Волонтёрство — volontariat (m) — voluntary work
Рекомендация — recommandation (f) — reference
Вакансия — poste (m) — vacancy
Собеседование — entretien d’embauche (m) — job interview
Работодатель — employeur (m) — employer
Соискатель — candidat (m) — applicant
Сотрудник — employé(e) — employee
Коллега — colleague (m/f) — colleague
Зарплата — salaire (m) — salary
Премия — prime (f) — bonus
Увольнять(imp.)/Уволить(perf.) — licencier — to sack
Устраиваться(imp.)/Устроиться(perf.) на работу — trouver un emploi — to get employed
Повышение — avancement (m) — promotion
Выходной — weekend (m) — weekend
Отпуск — vacances — vacation
Больничный — congé de maladie (m) — sick leave
Health
Медицинская страховка — assurance médicale (f) — medical insurance
Скорая помощь — ambulance (f) — ambulance
Первая помощь — premiers soins — first aid
Аптечка — pharmacie de poche (f) — first aid kit
Прививка/Инъекция — injection (f) — injection
Вирус — virus (m) — virus
Инфекция — infecton (f) — infection
Эпидемия — épidémie (f) — epidemic
Антибиотик — antibiotique (m) — antibiotic
Обезболивающее/Болеутоляющее (средство) — analgésique (m) — painkiller
Таблетка/Пилюля — pilule (f) — pill
Простуда — rhume (m) — cold
Грипп — grippe (f) — flu
Травма — trauma (m) — trauma
Перелом — fracture (f) — fracture
Вывих —luxation (f) — sprain
Порез — coupure (f) — cut
Ожог — brûlure (f) — burn
Пищевое отравление — intoxication (f) — food intoxication
Зубная боль — mal au dents (m) — toothache
Воспаление — inflammation (f) — inflammation
Опухоль — tumeur (f) — tumor
Бессонница — insomnie (f) — insomnia
Месячные — règles — periods
Записаться на приём к врачу — prendre un rendez-vous avec le médecin — to schedule an appointment with a doctor
Принимать медикаменты — prendre des médicaments — to take medications
Психолог — psychologue (m/f) — psychologist, counsellor
Психиатр — psychiatre (m) — psychiatrist
Психическое расстройство — maladie mentale (f) — mental illness
Other
Совершеннолетие — majorité (f) — majority
Ответственность — responsabilité (f) — responsibility
Быть занятым (+instrumental) — être occupé(e) à — to be busy (doing smth)
Тревога — anxiété (f) — anxiety
Стресс — stresse (m) — stress
Измотанность — épuisement (m) — exhaustion
Опустошённость — dévastation (f) — devastation
Безысходность — désespoir (m), — despair, hopelessness
Замкнутый/Порочный круг — cercle vicieux (m) — vicious circle
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@holdwine @evergrove is this accurate?? 🤣🤣
Yes 😂😂😂
I vote to officially change the English word “dragon” to “salmon snake”. I like it better!
i love this so much XD
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THIS is the bear cave painting i was talking about, the line weight, the proportions, the fine details around the face, and the fact that this all had to be drawn from memory, idk man, it’s incredible to me. if i could meet one person from history it’d be the person that painted this bear 30,000 years ago
Last week, I learned that the English language has more euphemisms for death than any other language. I learned that the ancient Greeks had no word for the colour blue and that the Hawain alphabet has only twelve letters. I spent last week hollowing out a little place in my heart and filling it with worry. What does that say about us? Do we really go out of our way to avoid death like that? How did the Greeks describe the sea? Are twelve letters really enough? Does every language have a word for love? Every language should have a word for love. And compassion. And gentleness. And figs and snow and that soft sensitive part on the inside of one’s arm. We should have words for everything so that we don’t feel alone. We need very very very specific words for all of the different kinds of sad and even more specific words for the kinds of happy. What if we were able to talk about everything? I want to tell you how I feel and I want to be precise. Sometimes ‘good’ just isn’t enough and few understand what I mean when I say that I feel ’like lightning.’
All I can think abt is that one quote that basically just describes that you can’t be your true self in your native language bc there’s too much emotional attachment, but that second languages allow speakers to be truly free with their words
“Some things could only be written in a foreign language; they are not lost in translation, but conceived by it. Foreign verbs of motion could be the only ways of transporting the ashes of familial memory. After all, a foreign language is like art—an alternative reality, a potential world. »
- Svetlana Boym, “Estrangement as a Lifestyle: Shklovsky and Brodsky”
“Bilinguals overwhelmingly report that they feel like different people in different languages. It is often assumed that the mother tongue is the language of the true self. (…) But, it first languages are reservoirs of emotion, second languages can be rivers undammed, freeing their speakers to ride different currents.”
- Love in Translation by Lauren Collins from the New Yorker, August 8 & 15, 2016
One uncanny aspect of translating is when I am grappling with a sentence that would sound particularly wrong if I tried to preserve any part of the original structure or idioms, because nothing about it matches the way one would phrase such an idea in my language, so what I need to do is mentally divorce the sentence from its syntax and vocabulary, to try and find how my language would give form to the same concepts. It always makes me wonder, what am I working with here? What is left when you remove the grammar and specific word choices from a sentence? I don’t know, a shapeless mental porridge of pure meaning, a nebulous feeling of what another brain has tried to express. I find it amazing that your mind knows just what to do with something so unfathomable—that it’s just like “right, right, give me a minute” as it distillates meaning out of words like it’s nothing then lassoes it down from the platonic realm of forms to give it a completely new shape. What is ‘meaning’ and how does it exist in your mind in this liminal moment after you’ve extracted it from a foreign language but haven’t yet found words in your own language that can embody it? I don’t know.
Thoughts on the gendering of Chinese pronouns
the most beautiful thing about learning a language is,
when the world starts to unmute; when you starts hearing or reading things that you didn't understand before, but you understand it now
don't give up, yet
you will soon discover the thrill of understanding the kanji you once learnt with so much fuss because it has too many strokes
you will soon understand the lyrics to your favorite Korean ballad, understand the Vlive, your idol's tweet
you will soon recognize the grammar pattern you once learnt, in a film, a book, or somewhere on the internet
and you know, it's exhilarating
don't give up on your study, yet
Can gifmakers please stop referring to the language Ayo speaks as 'Wakandan?' That's not a language. They're speaking Xhosa.