#blahg

[emilyronnie]

yeah man I love the game grumps

[punkcherries]

i think the dog could be cooler.

[to-be-frank-i-dont-care]

Me, sitting peacefully:

My brain: doot da doot doot da doot doot doot (doot doot doot) daa doot doot da doot doot da dooooot doot DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DADADADA DA DA DA DADADA DADADA doo doo doot doo doot doot da doot doot doot

[hqxreader]

why is coming up with titles so damn hard

[rawbinn]

You know that feeling when you don't want to play video games anymore but you're too done with life to do anything else

[funkytoesart]

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[pizza4messiah]

Ahhgfssrfcchh I'm so frustrated I just spent 2 hours trying every FA and FS combination I could think of to improve my WB team and NONE OF IT WORKED. I didn't even survive the full 12 minutes one time. I'VE SURVIVED ALL 12 MINUTES SINCE THE FIRST PIZZA EVENT

[cherrymilkshake]

Adventures in ESL

interesting linguistics moment happened yesterday

one of my students is from Ethiopia and thus reads and speaks Amharic as her first language. I teach her in a pronunciation class, in which I break down English vowels and consonants to help students understand better where they’re making a mistake and (hopefully) improve their accent

so here’s the thing about Amharic. it uses a syllabary, not an alphabet. 

A syllabary you may be familiar with is the kana system of Japanese. In a syllabary, each symbol represents a syllable, usually a consonant and vowel, rather than a discrete sound. 

So, I had trouble explaining to her that the sound /t/ in English is the same sound regardless of its subsequent vowel. In her mind, /ta/ and /ti/ are completely different sounds

I’m fascinated. (I feel bad. The other members of the class are Spanish-speaking, so they had no trouble at all and were baffled as to what she wasn’t understanding)