#edithcuth

[thr0wawai]

edithcuth replied to your post “i shuold dye my hair again, either black (again. going to my roots...”

Should totally go blond. It's hard and harsh on your hair and difficult to maintain but. But. It's 100% more awesome.

i know right! + i've never tried the pale/platinum blond look so it'd be smthng completely new .... uwu

[thr0wawai]

edithcuth replied to your photoset “but I was a young James Dean with a way with ladies all the real...”

New haircut? Only asking cos there's other photos where you have long-ish hair. Looks very good :)

yep yep, i've had it for like two months know ! and thank you ^^

[syntactician]

How do you reply to replies these days? I still have missing e but I can't work it out. Anyway, @edithcuth, yes you can. 

here. 

[strawberreli]

So I got online and I had TEN messages. like woah

I was like what did I do wrong? more Laci Green shit?

and then I was like, well, maybe people are asking me about the pitbull puppies. That'd be cool.

And then I clicked and realised it was just a few awesome followers answering a question I posed in my tags of a gifset before I crashed for the night.

So, the gifset I reblogged is Roger and Hammerstein's Cinderella (1997) which has a great cast (including Whoopi Goldberg), was produced by Whitney Houston (who also plays the fairy godmother)

So thank you to

edithcuth, heartquakers, vaginati, cyndiexlou, sortoflost, theboredboi, alisonofagun, sanityscraps, and walk-like-an-egyptian. For anyone interested, you can watch it online here.

[syntactician]

Lemonade again

Okie doke so here's the summary of the lemonade question. It's not anything groundbreaking, just basically echoes Wikipedia. I was just curious about something. 

So I was at someone's house, and this person is a non-native speaker of English but is married to an American and has lived in California for ages. She provided 'lemonade' at this party, and I asked if she made it and she said no, it was the stuff you buy and mix with water. 

That is not lemonade; that's lemon squash. 

But of course she might have the American term, as that's where she has been living for the last several years, and I know from TV that American lemonade is different. However, I thought it was generally home-made, with actual lemon juice. Having been recently shocked and horrified to discover that cider in the US is not alcoholic, I thought I'd better get to the bottom of this and find out what I'll be offered if I ever go to America. 

Obviously I started with Wikipedia, which told me about the home made stuff and also about some shop bought mix-your-own kinds, both liquid and powder! (And also in 'other countries', slightly arbitrarily defined, there are all sorts of exotic additions.)

My responses here were mostly from USians, most of whom said it was a summer drink (here in the UK it's not associated with summer especially) made with lemons, sugar and water. Most of them then added that there is an inferior version made with powder. So it seems like Americans (I got a Canadian response that was similar to the US ones) drink it mostly in summer, and maybe not as much as we do here? idk about that. 

I also got some cool answers from Peru, where it's made with limes, not lemons, and Romania, where it's served hot or cold (and can be sparkling), but is still made with real lemon juice.  

But my main point was that this means that 'lemonade' covers a different semantic range in the two countries. In the UK, we would also consider the prototypical American lemonade (the real kind) to be lemonade, although we never make it (I'm so jealous about that). We might call lemonade like that (which we can easily buy) still or cloudy lemonade - and often (not always) it's made with real lemon juice, 4-18%. The terms 'still', 'cloudy' etc are to distinguish it from normal lemonade, which is (and my UK responder agreed with me on this) Schweppes or Sprite style drinks.

Lemonade here is generally fizzy (so 'still' contrasts with that), and the clear kind always is (eeeeew still sprite would be horrible). I always had this idea that the '-ade' part meant 'fizzy', like it was the same as -ate meaning 'has oxygen in it' in chemistry? Probably wrong about that though. 

And the kind you buy and mix with water (always liquid here, we don't have the powder kind, as far as I know) is not ever called lemonade. Some call it 'juice' - which is a whole nother thing. Many others (in the south, so it's the 'standard', I suppose) call it 'squash' (lemon squash, orange squash etc). 

So now I want to know, do Americans call the type of drink like Sprite lemonade? I think Schweppes is actually called 'lemonade' - is it in America too?

[strawberreli]

edithcuth replied to your post: I think the fact that you’re acting out on an inanimate object instead of yourself is a huge step. =) esp if you;re suffocating in such a shitty situation. I hope you’ll be okay UwU

All the time growing up I was told that my anger was not justified. EVERY SINGLE TIME I got angry they implied I had no reason to, that was ‘too young’ to know what anger is. That’s bullshit. If you’re pissed, you’re pissed, and there’s…

edithcuth replied to your post: I think the fact that you’re acting out on an inanimate object instead of yourself is a huge step. =) esp if you;re suffocating in such a shitty situation. I hope you’ll be okay UwU

…no reason why you should feel like you’re not entitled to your feelings, whatever they are. We’re not in the same boat, I’ve had an overall easy sheltered life, so this might not carry much weight, but I hope it helps. Hang in there.

it's definitely welcome.

thank you

[wuglife]

edithcuth replied to your photo: FOR THE RECORD: This is what the Praat icon is...

I never gave it much thought, it just always seemed to me that it was like an ear with a funny hat. Wow. Mouths. Yeah…

What's especially funny to me about it is that I originally thought it was a mouth with some sort of funny tongue. Perception is weird, yo!

[lesserjoke]

edithcuth asked you:

I've been on Other-wordly's blog to see what this thing about her being a prescriptivist in sheep's clothing is, but so far I can't find anything. In all fairness all I've been doing is clicking on the Random button for about 10 minutes, but I figured even so something should come up. Maybe I can't recognize one when I see one, could I maybe get an example?

I don't follow this user, so I'm not sure what exactly prompted the anonymous messages I was getting about them. But here are some quotes from what's currently on the first two pages of their blog:

"Do I think that not all nonsense combinations of sounds become words once someone, somewhere, decides they mean something? Yes. "

Saying that a word becomes a word when someone uses it is "just as narrow, just as extreme, and just as impractical as the prescriptivist view"

We can make up and define a word among friends, "But it doesn’t really mean anything"

The 'made-up' word "sonder" can't be learned just by someone using it, because "“sonder“‘s definition is a good 80 words long. It’d be hard to get all of that just from context cues."

"You can’t always just assign your own meanings to combinations of sounds and expect other people to understand. The process you’re talking about takes time. "

In response to a question about someone trying to remember "sonder": "I don’t blame you for not remembering it, because it doesn’t actually exist. This was made up by someone on tumblr—the ‘word’ and the ‘definition’ are both fictitious."

"As far as I’m concerned, it’s not a word. (Yet?)"

"So “thanatothrope” isn’t actually a word, since -thrope doesn’t mean anything. "

In short, it's a whole lot of refusing to call things real words or admit they have meaning, just because they haven't entered the wider standard language. And despite this blogger's protests to the contrary, that's prescriptivism.