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she/her | libra | spain | my studyblr is: @all-the-stars-hills-milky-way | "this haunted house you’re creating is forged from your shame"

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[achillesquarter]

opening tumblr in public is so risky. like i was out and the first thing that came up is fanart of the femboy banana bread video 😭

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Jen O'Malley

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The Iceberg - Frederic Edwin Church

1891

[tanadrin]

would be fun if language acquisition echoed language evolution a la recapitulation theory. kids going through an indo european phase.

[jadagul]

https://xkcd.com/2567/

[tanadrin]

fuuuuuck there really is an xkcd for everything

[bigscaryd]

Quick put an animal book in front of him and ask him what this guy is

[nordenflycht]

there's an xkcd for that also

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

[esoanem]

Gah! My nemesis of an xkcd!

Here's the response I wrote last time it came up:

Unfortunately the forms given in that last xkcd are incorrect. Gretchen McCulloch is a linguist, but not a historical one.

The Proto-Indo-European form is *h₂r̥tḱós. This was formerly reconstructed as *r̥ḱþós (and occasionally given in the form she quotes, including in the American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, which is likely what she consulted here, although that book is a pretty crap source, drawing its data from Pokorny's dictionary which was published 41 years earlier, and which was outdated almost immediately due to not considering the new data from the decipherment of Hittite, which dramatically improved our reconstructions) to the point that pretty much nobody active in Indo-European linguistics would defend the earlier reconstruction.

The correct Proto-Indo-European form would likely give Proto-Germanic *urhsaz (although the outcome of word-medial *-tḱ- is not entirely certain), which would give Old English *orx which would give Modern English *orx (pronounced identically to the plural of "orc").

The form she gives would give Proto-Germanic *urhtaz, giving Old English *orht, giving Modern English *rought (compare wrought < Old English ge-worht < Proto-Germanic *wurhtaz).

There is no way to get anything like "arth" in English from any reconstruction of this word by regular sound changes.

[esoanem]

(via @irithind)

All the Slavic languages share essentially the same word for bear, it's just evolved in slightly different directions in each language.

The idea that it means "leading to honey" or "knowing honey" is a folk-etymology, it's actually an old compound meaning "hone-eater".

Russian medved' and Polish niedźwiedź both come from Proto-Slavic *medvědĭ (*ě was pronounced kinda like the a in bad but held longer, and *ĭ was like the i in kit), which from a modern perspective looks like it can be decomposed into *med- "honey" and *vědĭ- "knower", but the issue is that in Proto-Slavic the word for honey was actually *medŭ- (the *ŭ being pronounced a bit like the u in put), so honey-knower would be **medŭvědĭ-. That extra *ŭ would eventually drop out in the modern Slavic languages but would still have been visible in Old Church Slavonic and Old East Slavic, where we don't see it.

That means that, noting that *ŭ regularly becomes *v between a consonant and following vowel, we have to segment it as *medv- "honey" and *ědĭ- "eater".

But because that *ŭ at the end of *medŭ has been lost in the modern languages, the actual etymology is no longer obvious, and people instead assume the incorrect "honey-knower" etymology is correct.

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[yuhi-san]

Thats the context for this meme???

[titenoute]

I feel like I've been robbed the whole time. This is magical.

[kstarlitchaotics]

I'm dying

[mismedleym]

pet portraits from may! also comms are open again!

[charaznablescanontoyota]

tried to go through the self-check so i wouldn't have to look a cashier in the eye while buying 25 individual lemonades (some not pictured) only to be foiled by one of them saying 'oh the line is so long, i can take you over here'

[charaznablescanontoyota]

'marn why were you buying 25 lemonades' great question. on july 5th i am going to livestream myself and my roommates taste testing as many kinds of lemonade as we can find. we have 59 so far.

[anneriawings]

OKAY CAN SOMEBODY EXPLAIN TO ME HOW THE FUCK YOU SHIP A PACKAGE OF COOKIES TO A FRIEND WHO LIVES IN NEW JERSEY, ONLY TO HAVE IT NOT GET THERE ON TIME BECAUSE IT SOMEHOW ENDED UP IN GUAM?

I JUST

GUAM?

[phantomrose96]

IM CRYING REAL TEARS MAH DUDES THE COOKIES ARE IN GUAM

KATIE TRIED TO SEND US COOKIES OUTTA THE GOODNESS OF HER HEART AND JUST

“OHHHH THESE COOKIES WERE SUPPOSED TO GO TO NEW JERSEY, PHIL? I THOUGHT YOU SAID

[anneriawings]

12/27, 8:37PM CT

ITS STILL IN FUCKING GUAM

[anneriawings]

12/28, 12:18PM CT

THE COOKIES ARE IN HONOLULU GUYS THEY ***FINALLY LEFT GUAM***

[anneriawings]

12/28, 10:22PM CT

THE COOKIES ARE FINALLY ON THEIR WAY TO NEW JERSEY

GO COOKIES GO

@phantomrose96 @cupcakecreeper​ @homebeccer GET READY

[anneriawings]

lol i was looking through my history to find the tracking number page and

[anneriawings]

12/30, 12:39AM CT

@phantomrose96 @homebeccer @cupcakecreeper

holy fuCK HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS GUYS

THE COOKIES ARE ALMOST THERE

[phantomrose96]

The saga of Katie’s Guam cookies is my Anime of the Season

[anneriawings]

THEY’VE ARRIIIIIIIIIIVVEEDDDDD THEY’RE ON THE FRONT DOORSTEP

[anneriawings]

COOKIES ACQUIRED

[homebeccer]

THE THRILLING CONCLUSION

also as a bonus visual here’s a rough approximation of these cookies’ journey

[anneriawings]

how the FUCK did this blow up and get so many notes

[anneriawings]

SO FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES, @homebeccer @phantomrose96 @cupcakecreeper AND I WANTED TO KNOW HOW MUCH IT WOULD ACTUALLY COST THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO INTENTIONALLY SEND THESE COOKIES FROM TEXAS TO GUAM TO NEW JERSEY AND???????????????

AND 

IT’S

IT’S

IT’S NOT AN OPTION IT’S NOT AN OPTION I CAN’T I-

I COULDN’T EVEN HAVE SENT THESE COOKIES TO GUAM EVEN IF I’D HAVE TRIED 

[phantomrose96]

Cant believe we uncovered the Guam Cookie glitch folks

Its not even an in-game feature

[crowreys-wormstache]

Oh my god it’s back

[anneriawings]

H O W

[anavar-immela]

I’ve had this sort of thing happen.

At least it explained why the package took so long to get here.

[phantomrose96]

I appreciate that they have an Entire Stamp for “Missent to Nepal”

No one said “hey let’s stop missending things to Nepal” they just said “let’s make a stamp for this” and called it a day.

I’m gonna get Missent to Guam tattooed on my arm in commemoration. 

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@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[offonaherosjourney]

Get Moist von Lipwig in charge of the US postal service ASAP

[korasonata]

Ok I know this is super old now but I work at a post office and I was curious about the price so I did some digging and I still don’t have a definite answer because THE REASON it says “no shipping services available” is because all shipping services were actually suspended to Guam at the time. As in no packages, parcels, letters, or mail of any kind could be sent to Guam. So not only is it mind boggling that it got sent so far in the wrong direction of its intended destination, but because nothing should have been able to get in to Guam period.

You QUITE LITERALLY could not have sent these cookies to Guam if you tried.

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[butterclaw]

medieval library in the Sakya Monastery

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[katherynefromphilly]

As someone who was alive when Bob Ross (and William Alexander before him — that’s where the approach is from) was on PBS, I can 100% testify that you can paint along with him.

You may need to learn how to set up your paints and such… but this is what people did, live, while the show aired. That’s what the show was for. I had family members create lovely works of art they enjoyed, which I still have on my walls, because William Alexander and Bob Ross both said:

SCREW METICULOUS CLASSICAL ART PRACTICES — JUST GRAB A PALETTE KNIFE AND BIG OLD BRUSH AND PAINT!

They freed a whole generation of people who were taught to paint detail and realism and exact representation of reality — people who largely gave up this kind of thing because it got tedious.

I watched the joy of family members as they rediscovered art as a messy fun spontaneous half hour activity.

Give it a try.

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@wholesomepostarchive

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6/25/2026

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i knew this picture reminded me of something

[diphowell]

i love seeing dan react to things phil never would've said on camera before. going "oh god he just said that" and also having a great time.

[loreleywrites]

you solve the mystery of what to have for dinner one night and you think "hell yeah case closed forever" WRONG there is a dinner mystery the next night too

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stop deactivating

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i thought we all agreed we were here forever

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