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chongoblog

ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

chongoblog

HAPPY BIG TWENTY NEIL

#yippee

transgirl-from196

it feels so weird to take care of a mortal form (she thinks, literally just washing her face in the sink)

transgirl-from196

now for the real question. Is this merely a symptom of the Human Condition (tm)?

Or a symptom of the condition (autism / adhd / gender dysphoria etc)

Symptom of…

Human condition

The condition

a bag full of angry bees

Voting ended onApr 15

#derealisation #depersonalisation #neurodivergence #mental illness #existential #random thoughts #me posting

it feels so weird to take care of a mortal form (she thinks, literally just washing her face in the sink)

#derealisation #existential #me posting #random thoughts

thesefallenembers

the problem with reading and writing leading to a strong vocabulary is that you tend to know the vibe of words instead of their meanings.

if I used this word in a sentence, would it make sense? absolutely. if you asked me what it meant, could I tell you? absolutely not.

fixyourwritinghabits

OKAY HOLD UP I KNOW THIS IS A SHITPOST BUT I HAVE A DEGREE IN THIS

Okay, so when we talk about the meaning of words, we are talking about denotation, the dictionary definition of the word, and connotation, the context in which native speakers associate with the word. Connotation is why just looking up synonyms of words doesn't always work.

When teaching this to ESL learners, my favorite example is the word "accumulate." Accumulate means to gather or collect in the dictionary definition of the words. The error in the example is for someone to say "I accumulate things" instead of "I collect things." This sounds wrong, because despite the denotation of the word, the most common connotation of accumulate is that a process done over time and without intent. Water accumulates. Dust accumulates. Money accumulates. But a person cannot say they accumulate things, because that is not a natural usage of the word.

However! As a writer who likes to learn new words, you can now use this knowledge to your advantage. Consider the following sentences:

Bob collected unread books until they piled high around his bed.

Versus

Books accumulated around Bob's bed, turning it into a fortress of unread words.

Both sentences are telling us the same thing - but the latter gives us a bit more insight on Bob, in that he's not intentionally obtaining so many books and not reading them, and that's a far more interesting thing to learn. The more you learn these words in context, the more you can use them to enrich your own writing. Embrace the thesaurus - but pay attention to those example sentences and how those words are actually used!

#wait this is really cool actually #just put into words what I’ve known for a long time but never fully articulated #writing advice #linguistics

corpsecoded-deactivated20250106

in the club getting psychosexual

sovietunion

can-i-make-image-descriptions

[Image ID: Tweet from eve (@/ swineMom) on 2022-07-23 reading: gently waving a guy over at the club just to say "i only wanted to see if you'd obey" /End ID]

#new sidequest just dropped #clurb #also do this but with friends :3

neverwonderneverremember

sleep is stolen time. don't let them take it from you anymore. tonight. we are staying up. til one billion o clock.

#meeeeee #:3 #hmm I WONDER WHY #could it possibly be related to my last reblog? no. surely not #correlation =/= causation #real #adhd

bean-town-banshees

Mind if a white girl drinks a little (probably too much) caffeine tonight?

#meeeeee #:3 #me last night core #tbf it was less that it was tooo much caffeine and more that I had it too late in da evening #never apologise for this bbg #boston #white girl wasted

leolaroot

"dont smoke around your pets" okay well i dont even smoke im asthmatic. my dog smokes bc she needs to fucking chill sometimes and Yeah i light them for her Obviously bc she cant use a lighter. i dont get anyrhing out of this arrangment and i resent the implication. in fact shes giving ME secondhand smoke. so my question is why are you so hateful and jugemental and acting like an asshole to me making presumptions and shit about my life.