#mandarin

[nyurakim]

mandarin 🍊

[blankfaerie]

【 SILENT HILL 2 】 + Monsters [1/∞]

[yeehawpim]

when your grammar accidentally transfers

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Not a dream

Had to run a lot of errands after work and then my grandma called me to ask me to get her some groceries so I had to take a taxi home because I was carrying such heavy bags

I was so hungry that I peeled a mandarin that I just bought at a fruit stand next to the taxi and bus stops and started eating it mid drive

The driver commented that the mandarins smelled like those from his home town

Tell me why me and mr. Milivoj are eating mandarins together now while he drives me home

I am peeling them for him too because why not, I bought a whole bunch

He loves them

These are the best mandarins I ever bought

I’m gonna feed 20 to my grandma and take a bag for my colleagues tomorrow because everyone is sickly recently

Not me because I got these bad boys *points to my mandarins*

[ultimateanna]

THE ART OF SILENT HILL 2 - James Sunderland Concept Art

[linghxr]

If you’ve ever wondered how to express “let them eat cake” in Chinese, I just came across 何不食肉糜 hébùshíròumí.

[melodiden]

[lingthusiasm]

Small dog, long word! A Lingthusiasm tinyzine

Why does "ie" turn "dog" into itty bitty "doggie"? In this Lingthusiasm zine, Leah Velleman gets enthusiastic about diminutives. Yes, this one is extra tiny, it's a diminutive zine about diminutives! A zinelet? Or zineling?

Print and fold your own copies

8½ x 11 paper

A4 paper 

How to cut and fold a minizine (for this extra special tinyzine, cut the paper into quarters first along the dotted lines, then fold and cut four tinyzines like a usual minizine)

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Things we wish English had: diminutives

(She's right, we fudged a little! The -ie in "doggie" only works on some words in English. It would be cool to have a version that worked on every noun, like some languages have. Alternatively: be the change you want to see in the English language?) 

Abso-bloody-lutely, on the only infix in English

Lingthusiasm Episode 100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics 

YouTube channel of Upper St'át'imc nation, one of the groups who speak St'át'imcets, including lots of words and phrases in the language.

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