Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our te

[angstyindie-blog]

[ballwizard]

why do coffee makers growl at you. What's the point of all that

[tragedyposting]

They’re called baristas and they’re working very hard, they deserve to let off steam however they’d like.

[retrogamingblog2]

[chillywillow1]

this is in my top 10 favorite tweets of all time along with this one

[antifainternational]

“There are only two genders!  It’s a biological fact!”

[hownottolearnalanguage]

[absolxguardian]

I’m kind of glad to hear that everyone does this. Because it means it isn’t colonizer bullshit, it’s what everyone does. It’s just people discovering new things. Everyone goes:

“Oh hey these people have their own style of [language A’s word for thing. Say, what do you call it?”

“Oh it’s [language B’s word for thing].”

“Got it, it’s [language B’s word for thing] variety [language A’s word for thing]”

[mrcloudyfun]

The human race just naturally moon moons itself

[headspace-hotel]

Bread Bread

[championoftheravenqueen]

[brunhiddensmusings]

“the-tea-from-where-tea-is-called-by-this-name” “the-bread-from-where-bread-is-called-by-this-name” how is that not a useful term?

[elalmadelmar]

This is seriously not colonizer bullshit, it’s just one of the common ways that loan words work.

[lemonsharks]

linguistics side of tumblr please talk about how this is a type of reduplication

[zwoelffarben]

Andso, a finger on the monkey’s paw curled.

This isn’t a type of reduplication. Reduplication is a very specific linguistic phenomenon which refers to the duplication of phonemes, morphemes, words, or whole ass clauses, as a way to changing meaning, add or remove emphasis, or a whole bunch of other things. But it’s specifically about the repeatition of sound: ‘bread’ is reduplicated to ‘bread bread’ or ‘brebread’ or ‘breadad’ or what have you depending on your reduplication scheme; and not ‘naan bread.’

Naan Bread and such are an example of an entirely different linguistic phenomenon centering reduncency, except it isn’t the sound that’s redundent but the meaning assigned to the sound. It’s the broadest terms, naan bread is a tautology(linguistics); narrowing in on specifics, it’s Semantic Pleonasm, in which two words which convey similar information are paired together to give the best combination of information; Think “tuna fish” for a monolingual example of variety-category semantic Pleonasm. Then getting to specifics, we have Bilingual Tautological/‘Pleonastic’ Expressions, in which the combination of words are sourced from two differet languages. This is where we find ‘Naan Bread’ and everything else this post is talking about.

Lastly, related to this post but having nothing to do with bread are an incomplete lists of places whose name are Bilingual Pleonastic Expressions, and RAS Syndrome which is another type of Pleonasm that people tend to tie their boxers into knots over.

[sleepy-bebby]

Num Num Cat TikTok Chain

[fernlom]

ohhhh that finish

[lacrimalis]

you guys have NO idea how frustrated i am knowing those finisher lyrics are ORIGINAL FOR THIS TIKTOK and i CANT listen to this 20s speakeasy lounge sounding ass motherfucker just spit lyrical subjugation for whole albums at a time

[katsen13]

I… never watched the whole thing before and I’m disappointed at myself for that.

[werewolfseth]

Did you know that they had a man holding rob so they wouldn’t fall over cause neither did I

[thebluetint]

this is my favorite comment on this post

[clown-strife-deactivated2021041]

Robert Pattinson POV:

[funnytwittertweets]

[everythingfox]

Big handsome boi

(via)

[badassdemonsword]

[notvoid]

byron. come here to memy son. i have been defeated. we have been defeated. my sweet child. swallow this pill with daddeh. it’ll be over soon. i love you. i love this nation. god bless these great united states. good buh buh

[space-hobbits]

Far Over The Misty Mountains Cold is literally just Dwarvish Take Me Home, Country Roads

[textbooklesbian]

this is the type of work they’re gonna make high school art students study in ten years

[plumslices]

I see the worst opinion I’ve ever seen and then I go to their profile and it says 16 and I just go about my day

[nukeleer]

[orteil42]

i love when i “make a mental note” of something. it’s gone within 20 seconds

[thebootydiaries]

[serpentmythos]

This tag has me dying

[cascadiarch]

[demilypyro]

i studied software which means i’ll never pay for spotify and i’ll destroy an alexa on sight

[tigergirltail]

[wilwheaton]

I just despise Elon Musk. I hope history remembers him as the giant, privileged, toxic, entitled douchebag he is and not this myth he has worked so hard to create about himself. He is a disgusting, despicable, garbage human.

[suprememayobros2]

He reminds me of the kid who’s dad owned mines in apartheid Africa so eventually become the richest person in the world of the back of slave labour and paying workers so little they have to rely on state welfare to not starve.

OH WAIT!