Fifteen Letter As

Posting hard or hardly posting amirite I'm pro nouns 🦌

[verysharpfish]

what's a lovely slimer like you doing in the benthic zone

[buffygifs]

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 7.18 | "Dirty Girls"

[snake-eggs]

[mycatismyfriend]

ANGEL | 4.15 "Orpheus"

[kabaks]

Why do we always get angry men with repressed gay desires. What about angry women with repressed gay desires huh. We need more faith lehanes in this world 😌

[dailyats]

Crawl on me Sink into me Die for me Living dead girl

[starryeyesxx]

[andremichaux]

BUFFY and FAITH — the romance of sharp weapons

[nojillnolife]

[normalbroadcast]

somehow haven't really been posting about it here specifically but The Harbingers has had an absolute vice grip on my mind the past days & i dont think that will be changing anytime soon. this whole world and all the characters within are so so fascinating to me in only 3 episodes there is an incredible amount of stuff to chew on and spin around in my mind i am quickly becoming absolutely insufferable about it <3

[indigosfindings]

how do you pronounce the honourific "Ms." in english

"miss"

"miz"

other

unsure/see results

Voting ended onMay 21

[mortalityplays]

really good "shocking number of people are confidently objectively demonstrably completely wrong" poll

[3liza]

i am losing my fucking mind

[avocado-moon]

#we dont use honorifics in my first language so whenever i have to select options (usually for flights) im always so confused#like what is actually the difference between miss and ms#i like miss bc it sounds more historical and im a historian so

"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

"Ms." - prounounced MIZ, btw - is a third option popularized by gloria steinem in the 70s - mainly through her feminist magazine Ms. - which is meant to be a neutral term, usable for any and all women regardless of marital status (hence the soul destroying irony of the tags above). it gained wider general acceptance when geraldine ferraro, the first woman to be nominated as VP on a national major party ticket, started using it widely to avoid confusion, since she was married but used her maiden name professionally. eventually over the years it came into common use though i do think the brits are a little more critical of it than americans (as far as i'm aware lol)

[avocado-moon]

"obscure facts only a tumblr user would know" and it's one of the most influential institutions of second wave american feminism. PLEASE open the schools

[onbearfeet]

Hi. I'm an unmarried woman in her forties. I use Ms. and pronounce it "miz", though I don't correct people who accidentally use a soft S. I use Ms. because it's no one's business but my own whether I'm married, to a man or anyone else, and that's what Ms. means. It means fuck off, my marital status is irrelevant, just as it is for every man who uses Mr.

I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"

That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.

I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.

Also, I've taught English and worked as an editor for twenty years. I am quite literally the grammar police. This use of Ms. is a standard construction. If you didn't learn it in school, someone failed you.

[squeeful]

“Obscure facts” Boo boo I was taught it in elementary school. One with a state standardized curriculum.

Ms. is marriage-neutral and it’s pronounced Miz. It is deliberately different from Miss.

[summergoodwife]

On principle I do just assume people's schools sucked in this regard and didn't teach them it (even if it's "standard" that's not a guarantee) but that only goes to show how much we're missing when it comes to feminist education.

In the current global climate that's so defined by reactionary antifeminism, maybe it's time we start getting loud about Ms. again? So that everyone knows what it was made for, and nobody can ignore why.

[your-local-fools-treasury]

ah yes, cuz english is the only language on the entire planet and everyone knows everything about

who care how someone says Ms.

"oh but it's pronounced like miz"

shut the hell up, it doesn't mean crap

"oh but it's common knowledge that it was part of a feminist movement"

in USAmerica maybe, not in any other country in the world

English isn't the default language, heck, it's not even the first language of most people on the world!

it's the most spoken SECOND language, and trust me, they don't have time or care to teach the difference between Ms. and miss and Mrs.

because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter crap

what do matter is EVERY OTHER PART OF GRAMMAR

and if you dare to be like

"oh but how about history class"

I can assure you, there are more important things in history you need to learn about than one teeny tiny thing from the usa

[janmisali]

were you aware of Ms. ("Mizz") as a deliberate alternative honorific to both Miss and Mrs. that doesn't specify marital status? and are you a native English speaker?

yes I knew that, English is my first language

no I did not know, English is my first language

yes I knew that, English is not my first language

no I did not know, English is not my first language

[show results]

Voting ended onMay 28

^ poll to see if being aware of this is in any way correlated with being a native english speaker

[your-local-fools-treasury]

I don't wanna say I told you so

but I fricken told you so

over ⅔rds of the non native english did not know

and a bit less than ⅔rds of native english speakers knew

[janmisali]

now I will say. yes, people were unnecessarily rude about this and I'm sorry for that. and yes, this is something the majority of non-native english speakers appear to be unfamiliar with, and non-native english speakers are less likely to be familiar with this than native english speakers. you were correct in that sense

however, the majority of people who are unfamiliar with this are native english speakers. it is not fair to conclude that the most likely reason someone might not be aware of this is that english is not their first language. based on this data, there has to be something else going on, and I think you were in the wrong to be so dismissive of the frustration other people expressed that this isn't as commonly known as it should be

[janmisali]

pick whatever option the person you follow who reblogged this post appears to NOT want you to pick. if you're seeing the original post and not a reblog, pick at random. if it's unclear which option the person whose reblog you're seeing wants you to pick, pester them until they give you a straight answer then do whatever they don't say. reblog at your own risk.

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[dickstolebyanalien]

the whole "sky writing" thing is so dumb. just wait for a cloud that looks like that

[hbmmaster]

calling things "cutes" is so uh. what's a good word for when something is cute but slightly more cute

[hbmmaster]

the word cutes is autological

[nintendometro]

Title Screen ‘Virtual Bart’ Super Nintendo

[loregoddess]

I know the Metroid manga isn't wildly popular for like, a variety of reasons, but I do think the funniest bit to come out of it was Samus owning a ridiculously large bed just for herself:

like go girl, use that bounty hunter money for a personal king-sized bed that you get to use like, once every few months if you're lucky.

[jetix]

2018-03-29