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landscape with several small fires, richard siken

When he told friends he was writing a book, most of them quickly asked if they could come to the party. But one, Drew, asked why. Why was he writing about himself? Why was it important? Grimshaw […] chuckled, awkwardly. I’ll tell you why, Drew sighed, eventually. It’s important, he said, “because you, as a queer, weird kid hanging around with your elderly neighbours, obsessed with music, had laser-sharp vision of what you wanted to do with your life. And then… you actually did it.”

Down from Oldham for a football match with his dad one day, little Nick persuaded him to detour so he could look through the windows of the Radio 1 offices, because when he grew up that was where he wanted to present the breakfast show. “For all the little queer kids feeling left out in suburbia, feeling not at the centre of the party, they can make their own party. They need to know that life is what you make it. And you made it what you wanted.” Grimshaw, for once, was speechless.

– ‘Excerpt from “‘It’s quite scary to achieve your dream’: Nick Grimshaw on life after Radio 1” in The Observer

#nick grimshaw #oh nickkkk

thermocrying

also i wish all media a very Leave Charles And Pierre Alone

lhpics7

🎙️| Carlos Sainz:

“The real problem came when I stopped in the middle of the track and the other cars were coming. I knew they couldn’t see me. I was in God's hands.”

#i feel sick

parcoeurs

How well do you know [Esteban]?

#pierre gasly #f1

acmilancio

#ac milan #acm

nonsaremodellestar

questi occhi lucidi non li supererò mai

weltenwellen

Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

montygreen

The Good Place 3.04 | Abbott Elementary 2.01

fearwakes

Pride & Prejudice (2005) / Succession (2018-)

ihatecispeople

i love it actually when nonnative speakers make mistakes that reveal how their native languages work.

lots of koreans online say they "eat" drinks which would assume they only have one word which covers the concept of consumption.

arabic immigrants in sweden (my mother included) have a hard time differentiating between "i think/i believe/my opinion is" which suggests that in arabic these different modalities of speaker agency is treated as one or at least interchangeable.

swedish speakers in english will use should/shall/have to/must with much higher nuance precision than native english speakers, to the point where they sound well awkward, because the distinction between these commands in swedish is much clearer than in english. i make mistakes between is/am/are and has/have constantly because swedish only has one pronoun covering all grammatical persons.

i've heard speakers of languages without gendered pronouns (finnish, the chinese dialects, and a tonne more) make he/she mistakes because it's hard(!!) to learn two or more gendered pronouns and when to use them correctly.

how neat is that?! it add a charm to international english usage in particular and make our appreciation of both our native languages and our learnt ones stronger...!!

aandriskobold

i love this! one thing i notice with a lot of people (native speakers of polish, romanian, french and others) is no differentiation between present simple (i go) and present continuous (I am going), because those languages only have one present tense to cover both. it's so lovely every time i hear it

i always think one of the most fun things about learning languages is that it teaches you how weird your own is! especially english phrasal verbs (the very different meanings of stand up, stand down, stand off, stand up to), or trying to explain the difference between being up to something and being up for something to my french friend. I love it!

ihatecispeople

another tag reminded me of how spanish speakers often mix up /v/ and /b/ because in panish they pronounced identically!

I wish more people had the ability to become bilingual because you're right, it makes you understand your own language at a more intimate and analytical level!!

ace-and-ranty

Story time: one time I drove my best friend to tears of horrified laughter, by virtue of being bilingual.

See, Portuguese only has one word for "meat" and "flesh". If you're talking about meat off an animal that you buy at the butcher, or your own flesh, it's the same word, which is "carne".

So one time I'm visiting her, and I'm speaking in English cause she is American, and we are in the bathroom. I am trying to open the little valve that opens the water for the bathtub. The stupid thing will not bulge, I am trying to open it with my fingernails, and my grip is shit, and it will not work.

Bestie helpfully reaches over me with a wet towel, uses it to get a good grip, and wrenches it open.

I go, "Shit, thank you. I could feel my fingernails coming off my meats."

She had to sit down to cry-laugh at her bed, and still curses my whole bloodline every time I remind her.