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[cobaltdays-deactivated20210208]

if you firmly believe cowboy cats would say meowdy hit that mf reblog

[princesstigerbelle]

[gorps]

[firestorm-can]

IT’S HIGH MEWN.

[mima-sama]

This meown ain’t big enough for the both of us, pardnya

[taisango7]

What in Purrrnation!?

[fyp-psychology]

Eight Ways to Remember Anything by Alex Lickerman M.D.

Reference: Research-based strategies to boost your memory and keep it strong via psychology today

[pervocracy]

[argumate]

wow it’s cool that all these celebrities came together to spread this important message about checking sources

[powerofthestruggle]

Man eating rice, China, 1901-1904

[comradepiyaz-deactivated2016020]

this is an extremely important picture

[fear-and-trembling-pdf-deactiva]

Ive never seen someone from 1904 having fun omg

[scootsenshi]

He has a nice face

[fearwax-deactivated20200108]

No but the history behind this picture is really interesting

The reason that everyone always looked miserable in old photos wasn’t that they took too long to take. Once photography became widespread it took only seconds to take a picture.

It was because getting your photo taken was treated the same as getting your portrait painted. A very serious occasion meant so thst your descendants would know that ypu existed and what you looked like.

But one time some British dudes went to china to go on an anthropological expedition, and they met some rural Chinese farmers and decided to take their pictures. Now, these people weren’t exposed to the weird culture of the time around getting your photo taken, so this guy just flashed a big grin during the photo because he was told to strike a pose and that’s the pose he wanted to strike.

[thisisarebeljyn]

I think painted portraits and old photos give us the idea that in general people were just really unhappy because those are the visuals we have. This is so refreshing.

[avatar-dacia]

Hey, look; “Man Laughing Alone With Rice” is back on my dash.

[jumpingjacktrash]

always reblog Happy Rice Guy. once upon a time, he really enjoyed his lunch, and that’s beautiful.

[ankh-niggas-anonymous]

i feel like this is important for black travelers who are driving long distances:

but what are some sundown towns do y’all know of? like if someone were to do a cross-country trip, what are some towns they should absolutely not go through?

[furbytheminx]

Small towns in south ga and noth fla

[furbytheminx]

Ga: Jonesboro, tifton, Albany, valdosta, Macon

Fla: Gainesville, Perry, Madison, Marianna, Quincy, Jefferson county, hell I wouldn’t stop in Tallahassee either

[blackgirlshit]

Texas: Vidor, Orange, Deep Santa Fe

[vici-eux]

Texas: Jasper & Lumberton

[sneakershoptalk]

I’m from Albany and recently the police beat up a young brother for no reason. They were attempting to say he had drugs but he of course had nothing.

[baldheadedlilboy]

If you go to Stone Mountain and find yourself on the trails close to night leave because they still have active Klan rallys up there

[ashrae720]

I was driving through north Florida during the day and I felt uncomfortable

The Negro Motorist Green Book was guide for black folk traveling in the 60s. It’s gives a breakdown of sundown towns. 50 years later, I’m sure it’s still relevant.

[sh-kira]

I feel like the Deep South is just a gamble.

[cajunnspicee-blog]

Ohio…just in general

[alwaysbewoke]

[laylamajandra]

Central Florida, especially the little towns. If you must stop to pump gas, pay away the pump and get outta there asap

[jlbi245]

Once you get out of St. Louis county start being careful.

St. Genevieve, MO is definitely a no go for me if I’m traveling south.

[chubbygirlindreamland]

If traveling in Louisiana stay away from small town with low speeding zones. If you are to go into those please drive the speed limit and don’t stop for gas. You will get a ticket for tint of your car. If your military I pay you drive the speed limit and don’t have a military tag. Get gas in the daylight.

[joncat71]

I’m glad you’re looking out for your bros, at the same time it’s a pathetic look at the country in the 21st century.

[lowkeylioness]

Saving this and reblogging for myself and my tumblr fam stay safe love you guys (also check the notes for comments on more cities to avoid)

[muse-of-mbaku]

Ohio: Hartville, Sebring, Salem are all in NE Ohio. Had the worst experience of my life in Hartville.

[sad-but-rad-universe]

Mississippi. Just. All of it. Especially if you’re LGBT and a POC.

[unclepolyglot]

The Secret to Perfect Pronunication in Any Language

You heard me. Perfect. Pronunciation.

Drumroll….

Boom.

[Retrieved from wikipedia]

I present the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). ( IPA website)

Basically this here is the cheat code for all pronunciation of every language

E v e r y.  L a n g u a g e.

How?? Well, each symbol corresponds to one sound.

The table shows you where the sound is located and what your tongue has to do to pronounce that sound.

Example:

æ is said at the back of your throat while your throat is around halfway closed (indicated by its location relative to the words “open” and “front). This sound is found in “back“ (in the Standard/General American dialect).

ŋ is said by touching the base of your tongue to where the roof of your mouth gets soft (the velum) and exhaling through your noise while making noise (indicated by “velar” and “nasal”). This sound is found “song”.

As you can see, “ng” in “song” is made up of two letters that have different sounds while separate, but together they make a different sound. And English has some letters that correspond to several sounds all on their own! This is the case on many other languages, and trips up a lot of foreign language learners.

IPA ELIMINATES THIS DIFFICULTY BECAUSE EACH SYMBOL = 1 SOUND

lol sorry for all caps but im excited and this is important so

But how will this actually help you? Because dictionaries are amazing.

See that? That’s the entry for “language” in Merriam-Webster.

It shows two ways of pronouncing the word: ‘laŋ-gwij\, and \’laŋ-wij\, and indicates which syllable is stressed by putting a ‘ in front of the stressed syllable.

Pretty cool, right?

Here are some examples of IPA in action in different languages:

French: deux -> /dø/

Korean: 내가 -> /nɛ-ɡa/ or /ne-ga/

Afrikaans: seun -> /sɪøn/

Standard Arabic:  عَيْن‎ -> /ʕajn/

Ready to try this out for your own?

If you just want to only know how to pronounce your target language’s sounds:

Have a dictionary that uses IPA

When you want to look up a sound, go to the interactive IPA chart here

Learn how to say the sounds in your TL by understanding the column/row titles that they are in on the IPA chart (consonants here and vowels here)

Optional (or if you don’t have a dictionary):

Get the IPA charts for your target language (usually on its wikipedia page at “_target language_ Phonology”. If it’s not there then look up “_target language_ IPA transcription”) 

Example of an IPA chart (Afrikaans):

[Retrieved from Wikipedia]

It’s a lot less intimidating when it’s the sounds for only one language, right?

REMEMBER: you don’t need to be able to pronounce every sound in IPA to make use of this chart, just know

how

to make them and what these symbols sound like (more or less) and your life of learning pronunciation will be so much easier

So there you have it:

The Secret to Perfect Pronunication in Any Language

Go, be free my language-learning friends, go pronounce things like natives!

and get rid of that nasty romanization for all my fellow korean learners

(oh and if anyone has any questions about this, send em my way! i know there are a couple linguistics blogs that follow me so if any of yall wanna add smth, plz do!)

yall better reblog the heck outta this bc my hard work CANNOT go wasted ok?? i’ve been researching/writing/revising this for idk how long and my head hurts really bad asjdfsdg help

[learninglinguist]

Using the IPA to learn languages helped me learn the Korean alphabet easily on my own and it streamlined the way I learned the Arabic alphabet, impressing my teacher. To the langblr blogs following me, I recommend searching for IPA resources to help you learn.

Here’s a podcast episode about the IPA

[tylerspangler]

Art Copyright © Tyler Spangler

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[willowfey]

John Mulaney starts his routine with how much he loves saying “my wife” and making a joke about cows and marriage that ends with “why buy the cow? because you love her, you really do, she takes care of you.” and then continues on to talk about how his dog is his best friend in the world and he gives her a million kisses every day, and I’d just like to say to every person who claims you can only be funny if you’re an offensive shithead, You Are Wrong And A Fool

[neopets-slut]

Why lush is so expensive

Please remember that Lush is a fair trade company. This means that all they pay ALL of their workers a livable amount, and don’t take advantage of workers and harvesters in third world countries like many brands do. They test none of their products on animals as well.

Please keep these things in mind! Just know there is a reason that they cannot sell their bath bombs for 99 cents each. Doing so would mean that hard workers are being under paid.

[whatsanapocalae]

other reasons it’s expensive: 

constant checks on their resources - They will drop any company that they are partnered with if they learn that they are gathering ingredients in an inhumane way, harming the environment, or puts their people at risk

charity work - if you’ve ever heard of Charity Pot, it’s called such because 100% of the cost (not proceeds) go to charity. It’s not what’s left over after they’ve paid the workers or bought the ingredients, it’s every single cent. 

kitchens instead of factories - They dont have a big warehouse of stock. They don’t have processing plants. What they have are buildings with industrial kitchen equipment, where all products are made by hand. 

fighting animal testing - a lot of companies say that they dont do animal testing, but they don’t do anything to prevent animal testing and may use ingredients sourced from animal testing. Lush leads protests, creates bills, and spreads information, as well as only work with those who don’t use animal testing, in order to fight the system

helping their sources- If they find out that something is wrong with one of their companies, they’ll do what they can to fix it. That means, if something is broken, they will fix it, even though it’s just someone that they’re partnered with. 

delicate products - everything they sell has an expiration date, because it’s all made out of fresh ingredients and they use as little preservatives and unnatural things as they can. That and bathbombs break, all the time. They can’t sell it if it has any damage larger than a dime.

[vampire-crimson]

this is… actually really nice information to know? im too broke to be able to afford their products, so the only access to any info about them i have is either word of mouth or if i were to actually look up information about them. 

i always assumed it was some status symbol thing like apple but im always happy to learn that things arent like that!

[heavyleisure]

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[hobo-shades-blog]

[psychotic-art]

Simon Kerola

[lord-kitschener]

“Straight ships all suck”

think again

[punkiztan-deactivated20181006]

sometimes a bitch jus want a love letter u know

[shadio]

every time i open this app i read some dumb ass shit

[celtic-pyro-deactivated20230725]

And every time we kiss I swear I can fly

[hirxeth]

Hi you’ve never answered one of my ask before but that’s okay, but I wanted to ask where is a good site to watch old films?

Oh! Sorry, must have gotten lost. Netflix has some old films? Also youtube, here let me link you to some letterbox youtube lists (some of the films are old) 

https://letterboxd.com/ringbone_1/list/films-free-on-youtube/  

https://letterboxd.com/juliantowers/list/films-on-youtube-in-hdquality-with-links/