A Shy Rebel

Basia, 30s, she/her, Poland. Doesn't have to be studying anymore. Fell down the video game hole and can't get out, even if she wanted to. Reblogs Discworld, cosplay stuff, linguistics, lots of random shit... Dashboard icon by @blink005 💜 Blog photo by Pictures by Ina 💜

[fishthingdaily]

Today’s fish thing are the Medetai trains, a line of fish themed trains in Kada, Japan! Images from here and here and here and here

[mockva]

Man notices an Eagle eyeing the fish he just caught

[mexicain-sans-frontiers-v2]

[the-davest-of-uncles]

*gets back to the nest* baby you are NEVER gonna believe how i got this fish

[only-cat-memes]

[visual-poetry]

»swofehuper« by richard tipping (+)

[via]

[myterus-is-uterus-deactivated20]

men fabricated the idea that they are the default sex to compensate for their biological inferiority and general superfluousness

this is not just the “natural order” this is the language of a patriarchal culture

[rhysiare]

Omg no, you are wrong on so many levels and as a linguist this makes me ache something terrible. In my linguistics class in undergrad, we actually made fun of people who think like you along these lines and for good reason, because you are wholly ignorant and are choosing to spin narratives about things and fields which you know completely nothing about yet pretend you do.

She: This word evolved naturally from Old English from seo/heo which were just words to refer to feminine-female people evolving from Proto-Germanic words meaning ‘that/there’. He as a word evolved from the same ideas but Proto-Germanic words for ‘this/here’. Your idea of “patriarchal language” further falls apart when you compare this part of English to other Germanic languages, of which English is related, the words in German for he and she are “er” and “sie”, completely unrelated. So it is by clear happenstance, not some patriarchal conspiracy that the words “he” and “she” in English have similar form. 

Woman: Oh god this one always gets my goat when people go for this one. Man did not used to mean “male”, man used to mean “humanity/human being”, the old words in Old English for male adult person and female adult person were “werman” and “wifman” respectively, we can see this relation in words like werewolf and wife as being the remnants of the base “wer-” and the base “wif-”. Woman evolved phonologically from the word “wifman” by natural processes where the ‘f’ sound dropped and the ‘i’ became lax. Man dropped its “wer” stem for reasons mostly unknown but I can guarantee have nothing to do with “patriarchy” because phonological change has no basis in that.

Female: Male and Female actually come etymologically from two completely different words. Male comes from Old French “masle” which meant masculine, while Female came from Old French as well “femella” which meant young woman. This is another case, just like he and she, where the words coincidentally ended up looking similar without having any direct correlation in historical linguistic processes to make them as such.

Human: This word etymologically derives from Proto-Indo-European “ghomon” which means earthly being as opposed to heavenly being which would refer to gods. You have some small glimmer of hope here in that the word does eventually branch off into the word for “man” in some languages but this is still too small of a precedent to base any conspiratorial thinking like you are doing off of.

Person: This one offends me the most, simply because I love the fuck out of Etruscan language and your continued ignorance just irks me at this point. Person derives from “persona” from Latin which meant the same meaning, which ultimately derived from “phersu” Etruscan for ‘mask’ as Etruscans would often have theatre performers use masks to give identity to the performers. So never once did “person” have any meaning to do with “son”. So yes, this IS the “natural order” or language.

Please never proselytise your faulty ideology and misandrist thinking within speaking about word origins and morphology again, as unless you actually do fact checking, I will school the everloving hell out of you, stay in your lane.

[obsessedwithlanguages]

thank god for the explanation above

[scleroticstatue]

and the insult pussy is from the word pusillanimous, meaning coward, not the slang term for female genitalia, which comes from the Old German/Norse word for vulva, puse, which is also not the source of calling cats pussy, which comes from the Germanic root word for cat pūs, which is also not where we get the term sourpuss from because that comes from the Irish word for lip or mouth, pus.

[iwantmoreoctopusses]

The history of words is often more interesting than whatever one can deduce by just looking at the modern words.

[catasters]

[sighinastorm]

God’s perfect killing machine.

Idiot.

[ok-craig-ofthe-loud-tales-go]

God’s perfect idiot

[guineapiggies]

Via cid_dwyer

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[ratajota]

a simple figure commissioned by a local band

[gayhoediaz]

do you guys wanna see my favorite video on the internet yes you do

[teaboot]

HES SO HAPPY HE JUST LOVES FANS SO MUCH

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

Putting teaboot's tags here too because this joy for life needs to be shared I think

[unashamedly-enthusiastic]

If I had made this documentary, and i saw the Dyson blade-less fans being launched, there is no force on earth that could have stopped me doing a follow up with this kid

[mangoeater1000-deactivated20201]

please support this interracial french gay couple and their 20 kids

[captain-acab]

“le couple homosexuel interracial français milieu a vingt enfants” en fait c’est une erreur statistique. georgs d'enfants, qui habite dans une cave et adopte dix mille enfants chaque jour, est une donnée aberrante et il faudrait pas l’avoir compté

[soulren]

“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do

[tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot]

[the-marxist-mash]

It even crashes like a car in a ps2 game

[fagenthusiast]

[by-grace-of-god]

Le Figaro have a newly published photograph from inside Notre Dame shortly before the roof collapsed, as molten lead fell into the nave. (+)

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

This is what I love about photojournalism. It is just a history of moments where human beings have gone “I know I should really be hauling ass out of here but I have to get a picture of this”

[sanjaangie]

Voiles et bleus

[sabertoothwalrus]

[sabertoothwalrus]

[fishingisuniversal]

Adora Belle Dearheart: *lighting up a cigarette* I am going to kill Reacher Gilt with my bare hands and I dont care if I get caught because the world will know I did it a favor.

Moist Von Lipwig, not even drunk: Can yuo put that out of me

[azu-mog]

I tried a little animation of blooming flowers in old anime style, with blur and shitty resolution, hope it works as intended !

[garaks-padded-bra]

Today round ass puppy revealed to me, exhausted, at the end of my rope, that her training wasn't working not because she didn't understand, she did, she did, but instead because treats, chicken, turkey and pork apparently weren't enough motivation. She began obeying every word with startling accuracy as soon as she was offered something else. Doing backflips and stunts with pyrotechnics as prompted for the promise of a pea. A pea. She's a dog. A pea. A pea. A pea. I have to carry peas around now. On my person. Personal peas. 🫛 peas

[garaks-padded-bra]

Footage from pea withdrawal related timper tamprum

[garaks-padded-bra]

For a small fee

(a pea for me)

I’ll be the best

that I can be!

I dont think its

hyperbole

a pea for me’s

a pea for thee!