#happilyetherafter

[bunjywunjy]

Any cursed shrinkwrapping images? Which one is your fave?

I don’t really have a specific favorite, but anything with a noodle neck or where you can see ribs makes me wince. 

what REALLY gets my back up though is when aquatic reptiles are portrayed as weird chunky bionicle nightmares instead of the properly streamlined oceangoing predators that they were! (looking at YOU, Amazing Dinoworld. I EXPECTED BETTER.)

HATE. HHAAAAAAATE.

STILL VERY BAD.

Better!

(art by Jonathan Kuo)

[whitmerule]

happilyetherafter

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havfiske: tilthat: TIL that the words “made”...

I want to know about “go” and “went”!

oh yes those bastards

TWO DIFFERENT VERBS in old english

I mean

OLD English, as in, Anglo-Saxon, as in, pre-Norman. so, when our infinitives weren’t ‘to do’ but a single word ending with -an or -en like modern German.

so

we had two verbs for “to go[/proceed/walk/move]”

“gan” and “wenden”

now, mostly in English as it evolved we’d either have split hairs over subtle variants of meaning and preserved both - eg, when we imported the French word for ‘swan’ we assigned it to the meaning ‘baby swan’ (cygnet) and kept the Germanic for the species or adult - or we’d just stop using one and glomp the meanings together under one word if the distinction wasn’t important at the time

well

no

not this time

NOT THIS VERB

‘gan’ became MOSTLY the verb for ‘to go’

but ‘wenden’ did not vanish

we kept it in one tiny tiny archaic form which only appears now in the phrase ‘to wend one’s way’. which also has a sort of vagueness and adventure and indirectness to it by association with ‘wander’ and ‘wind’ - you can’t imagine ‘wending your way’ in a straight line!

BUT ALSO

we used it for the

PAST FORM OF THE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT VERB

I go, you go, he/she goes, we go, you (plural) go, they go - good, normal, regular ‘why do you not conjugate your verbs better you ridiculous language’ English

I have gone, I am going, the things are gone - again, slightly irregular due to being a commonly used verb but well within the bounds of regular irregularity

but

I WENT

what

wtf english what happened there

oh, i just swapped out the past participle of one verb with the regular past form of another verb

a verb that doesn’t exist anymore

you don’t mind do you? don’t think it’ll confuse anyone? okay good by i am wenting off over here now. have fun.

[rudjedet]

I hope this isn't dumb, but have you heard of Robert Sepehr on Youtube? He's a young "independent anthropologist" spinning tales about "Aryan History" and sometimes touches on Egypt and, ugh, and his comments section is so awful. I'm sorry your area of expertise is so full of nutters :/ idk

Don’t worry about “dumb” questions. I hadn’t heard of this fellow and I’m… definitely not going to seek out his videos/comment section now. But honestly fringe assholes like him aren’t in my area of expertise, nor is Egyptology as a field “full” of them, they just like to crash proverbial parties uninvited and claim they know shit when they don’t, and since they’re very good at shouting it may seem like there’s more of them than there actually are. Egyptology only takes them seriously in that we see them as an infected boil that needs to be lanced. None of what they spew in terms of content comes even close to proper historical practice, so don’t let them trick you into thinking they’ve in any way got the backing of an area of expertise.

[ask-abcsofadhd]

Any other AD'ers plagued by vivid dreams? I see, smell, touch, read.. a lot of times I wake up exhausted because it feels like I've been doing things all night. I thought maybe it's because of the ADHD and my brain just chugging along. If so, anybody have any ideas on getting an actual good night's rest?

I get vivid dreams but it never really disrupts my rest.

Guys?

[rudjedet]

Wait, did they kill Ese?! I love her! Say it ain't so! :

errrr well considering I knew fuck all about Ese prior to Lottie answering that ask, I asked her and: 

But for next time I would advise asking the writer of the post directly, you’re more likely to get a full answer that way!

[rudjedet]

I wonder if that other person didn't confuse Cleo with Elizabeth I, bc there was a rumor she fucked a horse, or maybe it's just a royal princess thing, like "oh yeah princess shirley, I heard she fucked a horse"?

They just came back to say they’d researched it a few days ago but that they were relieved it wasn’t correct so there’s that.

[rudjedet]

happilyetherafter replied to your post: I’m so fucking done with all these mixed signals...

Man I feel that wrt the bleeding. I had a low placenta and that would happen to me :/

Ohh god, throughout the pregnancy? I can only imagine how stressful that must have been :/