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A limerick:

Doesn’t look like a limerick to you? Try this:

A dozen, a gross, and a score Plus three times the square root of four Divided by seven Plus five times eleven Is nine squared and not a bit more.

THE HECK HECK HECK HECCCCCKKKKKKKK

celebrity-pharmacist

POETRY WAS NOT MEANT TO BE USED LIKE THIS

idi-o-mate

@fortheloveoflanguistics

valfias

The precision by which this poetry was executed cannot be denied.

#mathematical poetry #poetry

This game has surprisingly good music.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP-5RMWPfoM)

#final fatnasy type-0 #type-0 #type-0 ost #final fantasy type-0 ost #final fantasy type 0 #type 0 #type 0 ost #final fantasy type 0 ost #such emotion much feels

hotvampireadjacent

I was born in the wrong age

I want to stab people with my sword and die at 15 reblog if ur a 1400s kid :(

burntcopper

things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.

windycityteacher-deactivated202

WOAH WHAT?

luninosity

I think I first came across this idea in a Tolkien essay on language and philology. :-)

secretlytodream

It’s actually one of the first things that foreigners learn when they study ESL, and people always go WTF (I know I did lol) and yeah, at some point you do go, like, “it doesn’t sound right hmm”, but you’ll go crazy if you actually try to learn this thing as a rule or something.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W4IUB-Kuiw)

#lightning returns #caius #caius ballad #lightning returns final fantasy xiii #lightning returns ost #lightning returns music #lightning returns soundtrack #the doomed soul

h0lyhandgrenade

…Has anyone else noticed that Soldier 76 says ‘Thanks’ to health packs?

Silly old man.

ryanestradadotcom-deactivated20

theserif

Oh hey it’s back on my dash perfect! I was just thinking of this the other day!

historiaantiqua

OHOHOHO wow the Korean alphabet is awesome. The people who designed it were geniuses and were obviously incredibly schooled in the morphology and phonology of their language. HNNGGG

ask-feather-dae

wow

eriwsreve-deactivated20140504

여러분 모두 한국어 쓰세요 한국어 좋음

lee-go-eun

한국어, 한글은 보면 맨날쓰는거지만 볼수록,쓸수록 예뻐요..참으로 곱구나’3’♥

vane-bnt

ㅇ어머 (감동

gottacallthissomething-deactiva

짱 이쁜 한국어 쓰세요 여러분

henamyung

굳

doldoldol

신기하게 가르치는군요 보고 신기했다

what-the-kenfuckey

FUN FACT!

IT WASN’T JUST ANY OLD DUDE WHO DECIDED, “HEY I WANT TO CREATE A KOREAN ALPHABET.”

IT WAS KING SEJONG, WHO ORDERED HIS ROYAL SCHOLARS TO CREATE THIS ALPHABET SO READING AND WRITING COULD BE ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, EVEN THE PEASANTS. IT WAS PURPOSELY DESIGNED TO BE EASY TO LEARN.

SO SHOUT OUT TO KING SEJONG, WHO REALIZED BEFORE MANY OTHERS THE IMPORTANCE OF UNIVERSAL LITERACY.

YOU GO KING SEJONG, FOUR FOR YOU KING SEJONG

krzskhgjzhgjhdljzhgusyhyqafasfa

こんな感じ。

valfias

That eyeball is the stuff of nightmares.

Otherwise a very lovely and useful image. Many thanks.

joisbishmyoga

Imagine telepathic aliens. Imagine aliens who have no concept of language, who maybe didn’t figure out writing or math until they were figuring out electronics, who still struggle with the entire idea of symbolic thinking, and then they find us. And they’re going “I can see the technology and cities, and it all looks made for and by these bipeds, but where is the sapience and WHAT IS ALL THIS EFFING HOOTY MOUTH NOISE?!” until someone wonders if the hooty mouth noise has meaning in it.

Imagine aliens going “OMG they’re communicating by noise” and “OMG they’re using code naturally” and “OMG they’re using open-ended productive recursive code how is that POSSIBLE” and “OMG writing” and “OMG they have THOUSANDS of codes”, and it’s all paraoxysms of academic delight and then someone discovers metaphor, and someone discovers encryption, and someone discovers slang and l33t and txting and emoji, and this entire telepathic species has its minds completely blown and the one who went “what if the hooty noise has meaning” wins the alien Nobel.