#language is fake

[ladycatashtrophe]

Some kid just walked past me in the library singing "Ameno" quietly to himself and I've now been down an internet rabbit hole searching Dog Latin, the Roman Rite, and public perception of formal language & how linguistics influence class systems. Happy Tuesday.

[honeybeegames]

doesn't stocky mean short too, though...

this ruined my day

[nowoundsforever]

guess its just me, my em dashes—these cool, longer dashes that can replace a comma or parenthesis in a sentence to create emphasis on a phrase—and various, unnecessary oxford commas against the world; wrongly used semicolons are also invited

[thoughts-of-the-unheard]

im constantly torn between thinking that all words are made up and language is fake and nothing has a perfect definition and using definitions of words to win arguments 

[c4tto626]

me, a heathen: *uses “autumn” and “fall” in the same sentence*

[melonkollie]

@tinwomanrunaway i have one (1) line for u

“The worst part is, when I was oh...2 or 3, my own parents mistook me for a gourd and had me shipped off with the fall harvest.” Deacon draws himself up to make room on the mattress. “Woke up in the back of a produce cart with a half-price sale sticker stuck to my forehead.”

anyone else who wants to share with the class please absolutely do consider yrselves tagged, i’m mostly just happy i have time to write again. & @ me so we can do a sweet hi-five! bob fuckin’ bless

[pollenprince]

non-native rpers be like

me: ...

me: ...

me: ...i forgot how to english

[innerllamagalaxy]

The Plural Form Of

Alpaca is alpaca.