well-known midwesterner

cate, she/her, 20

[ryebreadgf]

once I snorted a fat line of nuance and everything started depending. watch out

[brucespringsteen]

[release-the-sheep]

just witnessed something devastating

guy on the subway with one ear pierced, little gold hoop. other guy on the subway very quickly and subtly googling "which one is the gay ear". it is not the gay ear. visible disappointment on his face as he puts his phone away.

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

"PANTS SKIRT" (2005), TIFFANY CHIN

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

"schools out" (2006), pezzle

[oozins]

i’m shot to the moon

[psychotic-gerard]

x

[kiragecko]

[Image of text saying,

Some AAVE speakers pluralize 'child' as 'childrens'. People get racist about this ("It's already plural!"), but 'children' actually comes from Middle English speakers doing the same thing: slapping their plural marker on word already pluralized by an extinct plural marker.

To oversimplify: in Old English, 'childer' ('ċildra') was the plural of 'child' ('ċild'). Middle English developed an '-en' plural marker, which we see in 'oxen'. Instead of updating to 'childen', people slapped their preferred '-en' onto the end of 'childer' - so now we have 'child-er-en'. AAVE carries on this tradition with 'child-er-en-s'.

"Pure" language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.

End ID.]

[sumrot]

Now I know something you don’t

[peterfromtexas-deactivated20250]

Facebook themed hindu temple in India

[canyaaadigit]

[cykesav]

The Beatles. Press conference. Minneapolis, Minnesota. U.S.A. August 21, 1965

[achillesinhighheels]

[coldwateronly]

[makefile-dot-in]

[sexchangewerewolf]

[bookends2007]

art garfunkel for the telegraph, 24 may 2015

[silversunsailing]

some people never know