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The dandelions have taken over the star thistle. 💕 #dandelions #wildflowers #theyareonlyweedsifyoudontwantthem #infp https://www.instagram.com/p/BzOLW2fBTkD/?igshid=fyy88orx1vqm
She’s just so precious. 💕 My little Italian baby. #italianbaby #bambina #mamma #infp https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx_ilAgBEfl/?igshid=npst77752o5s
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If it’s a soul for a soul, and the soul stone was given back then shouldn’t one of the sacrificed people come back?
Warmup?? Guys, I need ideas for a good warmup for my workouts. I started strength training (barely, the bar in so low, it’s bad, but at least I’m doing it, right??). #warmup #warmupexercise #strengthtraining #sofaroutofmycomfortzone #ineedhelp #weighttraining #infp #intp https://www.instagram.com/p/BxQFAfoA29Y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1duqhshbc2dtq
New book. This is going to be interesting. #ancientegyptian #hieroglyphs #hieroglyphics #ilovelanguages #eventhedeadones #billmanley #infp #intp #linguistics https://www.instagram.com/p/BxJSrLKA6e_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ljk1euv7khca
I didn’t share this before, but it’s a drawing my #husband did in a card for me last fall. I love his #art 🥰 and I love his #heart #artisthusband #artofinstagram #instaart #love #ilovehim #amo @codystarlodd https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv0baJ9gBfg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ks03r2j580zx
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I can’t watch The Umbrella Academy and see Diego and not think that he’s just grown up Diego from Dora The Explorer.
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History of British and Irish languages: an interesting gif by Starkey Comics
The original post contains still versions of all the maps with nice concise explanations.
Guys, this is why abuse is allowed to proliferate in the church, or anywhere really. Being nice does not equal being a godly upstanding citizen. Quiet does not equal peace. #infp #tiredofthiscrap https://www.instagram.com/p/BuZYUQsg3qQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17hk7w43j2yll
Quiet does not equal peace. Sometimes quiet is hidden chaos. Don’t be afraid to bring things out in the open. https://www.instagram.com/p/BuZTI9jgJGM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=wpbzmoz5rpp1
The World’s Writing Systems is a website presenting one symbol from each of the 292 currently-known writing systems in the world, which you can sort in various ways, such as by name, time period, region, or Unicode support (whether you can view it on a computer without needing to use clunky workarounds). From the project description:
Unicode 11.0 (June 2018) covers exactly 146 writing systems. That’s an important milestone for worldwide communication and typography. But what about the missing scripts? How many of them are still out there? What do they look like?
This web site presents one glyph for each of the world’s writing systems. It is the first step of the Missing Scripts Project, a long-term initiative that aims to identify writing systems which are not yet encoded in the Unicode standard. As of today, there are still 146 scripts not yet encoded in Unicode.
They also have a cool-looking poster to bring attention to how many writing systems exist and which of them aren’t encoded yet.
This silkscreen poster presents one glyph for each of the 292 known writing systems of the world, together with their names, regions, and timeframes. A four colour code indicates living / historical scripts and Unicode encoded / not yet encoded scripts.
Here’s a talk with more information about the Missing Scripts Project and a note on which scripts the researchers are still looking into. For those scripts which are already encoded in Unicode, you can play around with them at the earlier project, DecodeUnicode.org.
a very slurry guide to why french is Like That, Actually
SO
yall remember that post that went like…… “why is french… Like That”?
well, time for An Education from ur local french literature student
SO, BASICALLY, WHAT HAPPENED
first of all, well, it’s like the 9th century and the king is like…… hey what if….. and bear with me on this one but….. what if…….. we wrote………. the things about our country………… in the language……. actual people living in this country….. speak?
and people were like “holy shit youre the king so okay” and then the king was like “i want YOU to write this laws and THINGS in FRENCH!” and the monks were like “aw okay” so they started doing that
EXCEPT
that they had a big fucking problem. what was that problem, you may ask? well, the problem was thaT THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS DIDNT HAVE AN ALPHABET TO WRITE THIS FUCKING EXCUSE OF A LANGUAGE
lemme explain. all they knew was latin and the latin alphabet. bc like knowing latin was the whole thing when u were a monk. also latin was like… the Serious Language. but french doesnt sound like latin like at all. french sounded like some bitch ass demon had bitten their tongue and was trying to order a latte in the middle of an exorcism incantation. and i say “sounded” on purpose bc their pronunciation was wild, man. like ultra wild. like even WORSE than what we have to deal with now. and it had NOTHING to do with motherfucking latin.
so what did the monks do? well, they were like “aw this is a mcfucking embarrassment of a situation, ay” and had a choice. basically, they could invent a whole new mode of transcription for french weird ass sounds… OR they could do their best to try and adapt the latin alphabet to its demonic sprouting.
which is, pretty sadly if you ask me, what they went for.
so they started planning strategies that were complex at shit bc like how tf are you gonna write “cheval” with a fucking LATIN ALPHABET??? so basically they all went with whatever felt best to write in the moment and there were no rules and it was a weird fucking mess of a situation lemme tell you, ive seen the manuscripts, those men went APE SHITT
and like…. some of them never used the same spelling twice. also there were like no accent and punctuation and things that allow you to write like a fucking normal human being so jot that down
so, that was a big fucking mess and they started adding letters e v e r y w h e r e like……….. ok some of them were actually smart like they did their best to add letters that no one pronounced but it made it look like some latin thing. like basically they put up a pink hairband on a fucking DEMON CHILD and went “aaaawww look how CUTE it is, looks like its mommy so much!!!!” and prayed to god it would end up well (spoiler: no. no it didnt. bitch)
so you got things like “veult” for “veut” bc the “l” made it look a bit like the latin “vult” or something. but then as i said some of them went APE SHITT and were like, WOOHOO FREE LETTERS and started adding weird letters to words that had literally no etymological link to that letter. so they were writing “peut” like “peult” just because….. idk they felt like to??
so its Like That in the middle ages and then people started thinking about french as a language and they went like….. MAAAAW THERES A WEIRD FUCKING STRAY WRITING OUTSIDE!!! MAAAAAAAW!!!! IS THAT EVEN A FUCKING LANGUAGE???? BLINK MOTHERFUCKER!! AAAAAAAAAAAA and everyone was losing their shit alright
so like english students started going to college in france and they were like “bitch you live like this??” and the french were like :/// whelp
and like they did their best to like help non-native writing french but it had no rules so it didnt work out well and like….. in the 1500’s some guys were like “okay guys this makes no sense from now on well use a RATIONALIZED WRITING i built MYSELF” and their idea was basically to write french as they spoke it which i know SOUNDS like a good idea but actually AINT
bc first of all there are a shitton of words that have the same pronunciation in french and you need those weird spellings to actually know what the word is there for like….. they wrote like “me” for “mai” and “mais” and “mes” and “met” and basically that was wild
and some of those guys who knew a lot about grammar went like “ooookayyyyy so were removing those letters we dont pronounce buuuuuuuuuut its not alwayyyyyys like thiiiiiiiiis” and like…. right-wing people like the 1550 equivalent of republicans or some shit went like, foaming at the mouth like rabid fucking dogs when they saw “pe” instead of “peult” “oooooohhhhhh but you DIDNT and its not EVEN REALLY RATIONAL” and like they had a ton or arguments and it actually became a kinda linguistic war and all
plus they didnt pronounce the same things everywhere in france so in paris they wrote “otr” for “autre” and in lyon they wrote “aotr” and they were like……… “we got a problem here” bc the whole thing was to get a language that was the same everywhere in the country basically
so u got those reformist guys on the one side and the reactionaries on the other side and honestly, reactionaries’ arguments are so fucking funny they were like…
“okay so some of the letters are useful bc it helps understanding that the word comes from latin” this ones rational alright
“also some mute letters are used to link the words from an identical background together and create semantic links like “sang” (blood) does have a mute “g” bc it links it to “sanguin” (sanguine) and other words like this” alright cool
but THEN you got some weird fucking ideas like
“but actually writing IS the standard bc written things Are More Noble, Actually” which is like……. weird flex but ok
“yes, it makes it harder to learn, but so it repels women and non-educated people who would soil The Language if they could write it” like DUDE are you FUCKING SERIOUS
and finally – their main idea –
“bUt iT loOkS FaNcY” aka #aesthetics and thats basically it
also. the printing press workers were like……… guys are you SURE you want to get us to COMPLETELY CHANGE AND UNLEARN OUR WHOLE JOB LIKE C’MON so it kinda weighed in favor of the reactionaries
also the reactionaries won in the long term
tl;dr so french is Like That because 1. its a demonic language that monks desperately tried to tie back to latin and 2. old white men with bizarre aesthetic tastes hated women and The Poor
thanks for coming to my ted talk my language makes no sense and neither does its history
“X is a made up word.”
Please, tell me more about the all natural words that grew on the word bushes and were harvested by the word farmers in bushels and sent to the word market.
I almost put this Ergo baby carrier up for sale a couple times, I’m glad I kept it because little miss isn’t feeling well and needs lots of hugs and cuddles. 💕 #infp #ergobaby https://www.instagram.com/p/BtCFbrlACWP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hw4xn16akmn7
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Puzzle Art
Vancouver-based artist Tim Klein makes puzzle montages from different puzzles using the same die cut pattern.