#language is wild

[alchemyofmaya]

Words are spells. I stopped using the word ‘release’ when doing clearing work, because I am not trying to ‘RE-LEASE’ that same experience or emotion, in another form. No. I want it all cleared, returned to Source to be transmuted and transformed, into higher vibrations.

We are no longer experiencing the same lessons anymore. We are liberated and free.

[havenotwillnotreadthebooks]

Being a silm fic writer is so odd sometimes. I could complain for days about the absurdly long names of Hittite emperors but watch me spell Nolofinwë, Fëanaró, and Findaráto correctly with no issues. Hypocrisy in its funniest form.

[terriblespy]

so embarrassing to forget a word in your first language during a conversation in said language…

[kouzaires]

for my bilingual ppl out there, have you ever had a casual expression in your home language that you use so often but isn’t directly translatable into english, but then you finally realized it is more or less equivalent to a meme???

anyway the filipino expression “sana all” literally translates to “if only all”, but technically just equates to that “god i wish that were me” meme and it’s messing me up

[lollians]

I love how in 2019 we’ve bypassed the euphemistic “thirsty” and cycled all the way back ‘round to “horny.”

[dollopheadedmerlin]

I love words that used to be heavily gendered, but now are pretty much only used in a gender neutral way

Like dude, man, sis, guys

I especially like MAN because the word man was ORIGINALLY gender neutral, which is why words like "fireman" and "postman" are not actually referring to male employees exclusively, but rather any huMAN employee.

Man used to be short for humanity and if you called someone a man, you were just calling them a person. I think it's neat that, in the right context, it's kinda used like that again.

I also like contextual gender neutral terms. I'm nonbinary, so I'd rather not be referred to with words that are still heavily gendered, (like boy, woman, girl). But in the right context, those words can be used in a gender neutral way.

For example, I dislike being called girl, but I do know one person that I allow to call me that. Because she calls EVERYONE girl. It's sort of her thing and because she uses it for everyone, regardless of gender, it sort of becomes gender neutral.

She did ask me if I was okay with it when she found out that I'm nonbinary, but because the way that she specifically used the word felt gender neutral to me, I said that I didn't mind.

[the-barefoot-hatter]

time to learn you some fruit facts... specially, why the forbidden fruit is a BANANA

ok,so...  the Bible specifically, the Vulgate Bible, which united the older Hebrew and Greek texts into a cohesive Latin text. this one, Saint Jerome's baby, is *the* Latin that the Gutenburg Bible was transcribed from, so you know it's heckin popular read for the world

anyways, when Jerome translated from Hebrew to Latin, he went from peri (generic word for fruit) to malum when it came to describing the forbidden fruit. while you *can* translate malum to apple- which incidentally is why the Renaissance artists painted so many dang apples, which helped cement the apple imagery into pop culture- all thanks to Jerome’s incredibly easy cheesy 'bad apple' pun  (malus=bad, Malus pumila=apple)

- malum can refer to any fleshy seed-bearing fruit. so it's totes not a apple, guyz, it’s a saint trolling us from the afterlife, apples didn't even grow in the middle east at that time but the first cultivated fruits- bananas and figs* did! and they are plenty fleshy!

and guess what? the scientific name for bananas- they get two, a really old greek pun and one from yo boi Linnaeus- are Musa sapentium (basically that's Wise Wisdom Banana, or Muse of the Wise) and Musa paradisim (Banana of Paradise). Musa is also derived from the arabic word mauz, which is- get this- used to describe the fruit of heaven and also means banana.

in the Koran, the forbidden fruit tree is called the talh, which is the 'tree of paradise' or (you guessed it) 'banana tree'. the talh is also described as weird looking, with "fruit piled above each other in extended shade, whose season is not limited" what does that sound like again? oh yeah

A BANANA TREE, which has multigenerational growing so you never EVER run out of nannery-goodness YUM it’s BANANAS how word play across several languages always circle back to this fleshy fruit anyways thanks for coming to my very long TED talk where i explain how it is technically possible that adam and eve got kicked out for deepthroating bananas in the garden of eden — *sidenote about figs- bananas have been considered interchangable with figs throughout history (blame Alexander the Great and his shitty tastebuds) so even when you translate directly from Hebrew, the 'fig of eve' could still mean a banana! also, if fig=banana, wearing fig-leaves also makes waaaay more sense. banana leaves fibers are used for making cloth.

(also adam would probably prefer a bigger crotch leaf, just saying)

[sadspacedad]

Riz Ahmed refuses to say tic tac toe