#linguistic shit

[ifoundaflamingsword]

All of us on the internet calling lizard and crocodiles “weird scaley dogs” are performing overextension of a category, just like young children do first learning that dogs are some four legged animal

[ifoundaflamingsword]

Sooooo those posts like “song in the next room as you’re having an existential attack” are probably run through a low pass filter..... which is how babies in the womb hear noise... so really more like “Africa by Toto while you’re in your mothers womb”

[theradicalace]

my favorite japanese phrase is “ざねんですか” (pronounced zanen deska) it means “unfortunately…” and it can be used as an excuse without any further explanation i love it

[ammoniaroom-blog]

Goals for the summer:

1.  Learn 'bout some runes.

2.  Master the Greek alphabet.  (And not just the characters that look like Cyrillic ones.)

3.  Learn to juggle.

4.  Lose the badonkadonk.

5.  Finish reading:  A Good Man is Hard to Find, Poetic Edda, Prose Edda, and The Norse Myths.  At the very least.

6.  Learn the linguistic symbol...things.

7.  Learn Icelandic pronunciation.

8.  Learn Old Norse?

9.  Apply to Whole Foods.