Camelliuh...

Camellia. Illustrator and fanartist. This is my personal blog. Art-only blog on the way!

[penumbraphantasm]

ordering a pup cup for my chikorita in lumiose

[penumbraphantasm]

happy birthday to my thing

[comfymoth]

i know how to make art……….. i LIKE making art………. making art is fun……………. i feel fulfilled when i make art……………………..

[catasters]

[thickness-protection-program]

Diva down

[jemcvrstairs]

my hobbies? adding movies to my watchlist and books to my to-read list

[vicious-mongrel]

Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve participated in any contest, but it’s one of my favorite games, so I should. Plus, I adore Corvo’s new outfit.

[bothpalms]

Baba's domain 🐈 Collab with @ceeejus 🌟

[ceeejus]

🐈‍⬛

[nyasm]

[waepenwifestre]

mike’s hard past couple of months

[leilacourtillon]

A day trip to Kawagoe (1hour from Tokyo) with my friend Alissa !

[berlynn-wohl]

a marriage of humankind's two greatest design achievements: the illuminated manuscript and the cool S

[natgeofound]

A solitary fisherman’s home keeps watch on quiet Placentia Bay in Newfoundland, Canada, 1974.Photograph by Sam Abell, National Geographic Creative

[sunlight-shunlight]

this is the bioware writing team i fear

love it when mutuals i don’t really talk to reblog one of my posts it’s like hell yeah. glad you liked that. please don’t leave me.

[youtendtoforget-deactivated2025]

I’m ready to be transformed by the ibuprofen . I’m ready to be born again in its purifying light.

[punchdrunkdolly]

i exist and i love you

[everydaylouie]

pop star

[apocryphics]

lydia davis

[snakesonacartesianplane]

In the same vein:

"The simultaneous borrowing of French and Latin words led to a highly distinctive feature of modern English vocabulary: sets of three items, all expressing the same fundamental notion but differing slightly in meaning or style, e.g., kingly, royal, regal; rise, mount, ascend; ask, question, interrogate; fast, firm, secure; holy, sacred, consecrated. The Old English word (the first in each triplet) is the most colloquial, the French (the second) is more literary, and the Latin word (the last) more learned." (Howard Jackson and Etienne Zé Amvela, "Words, Meaning and Vocabulary: An Introduction to Modern English Lexicology." Continuum, 2000)

via ThoughtCo

Though I like how John McWhorter phrases it better:

But language tends not to do what we want it to. The die was cast: English had thousands of new words competing with native English words for the same things. One result was triplets allowing us to express ideas with varying degrees of formality. Help is English, aid is French, assist is Latin. Or, kingly is English, royal is French, regal is Latin – note how one imagines posture improving with each level: kingly sounds almost mocking, regal is straight-backed like a throne, royal is somewhere in the middle, a worthy but fallible monarch.

from "English is not normal"