Forever and a Day

O river of dreams, flow you slow or fast, all streams reach the sea at last. Expect this to be random ranting about people, college, and life in general. :)

[tj0323]

I really want to ask Daniel Henney if he knows that the entire fandom is in denial over Tadashi...

[tj0323]

"Let it snow. Without making it rain."

[everydayconman]

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You are now aware that the introduction song of Kingdom Hearts, “Dearly Beloved,” represents a heartbeat.

[diamondwerewolf]

[tj0323]

Someone in my microbiology class asked our professor why he was so passionate about telling parents to vaccinate their kids and themselves. Keep in mind this is the end of the semester and he's been explaining the importance of vaccines since August.

He pulled up this video (WARNING: it's a young infant girl with whooping cough and was very distressing to watch) and we all begged him to stop after just thirty seconds.

Multiply that coughing by ten weeks and you have an idea of how much pain this disease can cause. This is a baby.

The increase of people who are refusing to vaccinate their children are causing awful diseases like whooping cough to become more common. I don't care if you think they cause autism (they don't) or whatever else they're claiming these days. No one deserves to go through something like this. Not the parent, not the baby.

Please make your decisions wisely.

[tj0323]

You're never too old for Shel Silverstein

[tj0323]

The voice-actor for Tadashi is the same guy who played Agent Zero from X-Men Origins: Wolverine

his name is Daniel Henney just btw

[knister]

tj0323 replied to your post:I get to experience my first parent-teacher night…

those are always fun… if they’re dumb just be like “I hope to see a lot of improvement” or something and if they’re talkative “your child is very enthusiastic and energetic during class”

yessss that sounds great and professional. i love it. 

(better than saying “your child needs to calm their shit down”)

[tj0323]

that's what I get for writing 50 end-of-semester reports to parents lol

what's hilarious though, is that the parents get what you're trying to say too (especially if the kid is hyper/talkative/WON'T SHUT UP)

[richardrider]

i really fuckin hate when people change the caption of my steve pic like why would you delete my comment

[tj0323]

I thought you were talking about steve rogers for a split second... and then it hit me...

[tj0323]

Yesterday was the last day of class...

My students were talking about getting into college and about how they wanted to go into Ivy Leagues...

One little boy said "But getting into college is easy! You just need the three S's! School, Social, and Sports! So I'm starting my swimming lessons in a month so I can go to MIT!"

Bless your little hearts...

My students are nine years old.

[tj0323]

What if you could see leaves but not the actual tree?

Like there'd just be balls of leaves floating around but you'd still run into tree trunks

[bombing]

for someone who’s 70% water you don’t look very refreshing

[sweet-like--cinnam0n]

BURNNNN

[bombing]

water cannot be burned

[poisonnoak]

EVAPORATEEE

[tj0323]

actually, the essence of a burn is the water evaporating from your cells and dehydrating them, what you feel is the pain

if you blindfold someone and tell them you're going to burn them and put an ice cube on their skin, they'll think they're being burned

so basically telling someone to evaporate is basically telling them to burn

[tj0323]

So it's been recently brought to my attention that some people don't know that the lantern scene from Tangled actually happens irl every year during the Lantern Festival in Taiwan (or Republic of China).

These are called sky lanterns or 天燈 (which translates literally to sky lights) and usually, there are prayers or wishes written on these before they're set loose.

It's not just Taiwan either! Other countries do this as well and they come in different sizes too (although the ones I've traditionally seen are pretty big)!

[bakugouskneepads]

DANNY

[tj0323]

r u ok

[rosworms-is-shadowbanned]

It's not just Pi Day. It's Pi Month.

Month 3 in year 2014.

3.14

fuck you, i’m having pie every day for the rest of the month.

[tj0323]

Grading Papers and My Favorite Answer Thus Far:

"How many 1/8 inch pieces could you cut from a strip of cloth 1/2 inch long?"

YES

[flawlessremixftnickiminaj-deact]

*white person voice* so like are you…what like… cultur—like…what ethnic—like…what type of like—what are…where are you from?

[tj0323]

no where are you really from... oh you were born here--no but like your ancestors and stuff...

[gifmethat]

So you know what I don’t get? Why people repeat words. (x)

[hyperboreanhapocanthosaurus]

Grammar time: it’s called “contrastive reduplication,” and it’s a form of intensification that is relatively common. Finnish does a very similar thing, and others use near-reduplication (rhyme-based) to intensify, like Hungarian (pici ‘tiny’, ici-pici ‘very tiny’).

Even the typologically-distant group of Bantu languages utilize reduplication in a strikingly similar fashion with nouns: Kinande oku-gulu ‘leg’, oku-gulu-gulu ‘a REAL leg’ (Downing 2001, includes more with verbal reduplication as well).

I suppose the difficult aspect of English reduplication is not through this particular type, but the fact that it utilizes many other types of reduplication: baby talk (choo-choo, no-no), rhyming (teeny-weeny, super-duper), and the ever-famous “shm” reduplication: fancy-schmancy (a way of denying the claim that something is fancy).

screams my professor was trying to find an example of reduplication so the next class he came back and said “I FOUND REDUPLICATION IN ENGLISH” and then he said “Milk milk” and everyone was just “what?” and he said “you know when you go to a coffee shop and they ask if you want soy milk and you say ‘no i want milk milk’” and everyone just had this collective sigh of understanding.

[allthingslinguistic]

Another name for this particular construction is contrastive focus reduplication, and there’s a famous linguistics paper about it which is commonly known as the Salad Salad Paper. You know, because if you want to make it clear that you’re not talking about pasta salad or potato salad, you might call it “salad salad”. The repetition indicates that you’re intending the most prototypical meaning of the word, like green salad or cow’s milk, even though other things can be considered types of salad or milk. 

[crewdlydrawn-deactivated2022072]

Can I make love to this post?… Is that a thing that’s possible?

[feralkwe-deactivated20210912]

i just had a linguistgasm.