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[soft-raining]

all i want is for j k rowling to never say anything ever again

[yousmellprettybad]

amen 😌

[coto524]

as a welsh person i want you all to accept that W is a vowel because honestly it makes pronouncing acronyms so much easier. wlw becomes ‘ooloo’, wjec becomes ‘oojeck’, love yourselves and stop giving us shit when we tell you welsh has 7 vowels. english actually has 15 vowel sounds but because y’all only use 5 letters you have to rely on a spelling system devised by satan

[saethwr-blog]

and please, enough with the “keyboard smashing” jokes. not original, not funny.

[coto524]

“ #okay but can any of y'all even pronounce your own town names tho? #bye”

yeah, we can actually because the spelling is phonetic. meanwhile english folks have placenames like bicester or keighley or beaulieu, which you have to learn the pronunciation for individually because the rules are so inconsistent. i mean people can’t even agree how to pronounce marylebone but sure welsh place names are the weird ones

[coto524]

“#But are you aware your language literally looks like a potato rolled across a keyboard”

fun fact: for decades children were beaten for speaking welsh in school, even in areas where english was barely spoken, because the government decided in 1847 that the language made people lazy and immoral

fun fact: welsh orthography is actually easy to read if you take your head out of your arse for one minute and learn our alphabet - just like french, or spanish, or korean, because surprise! languages use different spelling systems that are not based on english. novel, i know - and in the 18th century, travelling schools were able to teach people to read and write welsh in a matter of months, so that wales enjoyed a literate majority, a rare thing in europe at the time

fun fact: the english have been taking the piss out of welsh for years, just like they’ve been doing for irish, and scots gaelic, and cornish, and british sign language, and a hundred and one other languages, because evidently the fact that the whole world isn’t anglophone and monocultured and Still Part Of The Empire is a problem, and something that needs to be corrected

[jellybelly30]

Never forget that the British literally beat the Irish language out of the population, much like the bastards beat the Welsh language out of their population. That’s the reason why there are only a few exclusively Irish speaking areas in the country, otherwise known as the Gaelteacht.

[wearing-of-the-green]

Hell yeah, Celtic solidarity

[pauliedraws]

I animated a bit from the Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban audio book, narrated by Stephen fry. Just for fun, don’t know if I’ll do any more of these.

[vegannerdgirl]

[a-dark-ghost-beat]

I knew I’d seen these boys before

[yousmellprettybad]

YES!!

[autie-girl-power]

writers with dyslexia are kicking butt pass it on

[yousmellprettybad]

Righters with desexlea are kicking but pass it on 

[jordan-hennessey]

Gansey: the stars are beautiful tonight

Gansey: you know who else is beautiful?

Blue: who?

Gansey: the Pig

[doomsyra-the-destroyer]

Gansey: *lost his voice*

Adam: what do we want to eat?

Gansey: *faintly* thin mint Oreos

Blue: it’s hard to hear him but I’m pretty sure he said that we want yogurt

[solavei]

gansey: explain to me how you got into an accident

adam: we were driving home and i saw a deer and said “ronan, deer”

gansey: okay, and?

adam: tell them your response

ronan: .....”yeah, babe?”

[yousmellprettybad]

Blue, visiting Aglionby: I can't find the girls' bathrooms anywhere.

Ronan: It's an all-boys school, maggot. There are no girls' bathrooms.

Blue: So should I just use the boys' bathrooms?

Ronan: No, you should not, you fucking pervert.

[solavei]

just thinking about Them

[trickyfae]

looking for content on a series you haven’t finished and accidentally getting spoiled:

[aymmidumps]

also why would you even tell him about the internal organs?

[yousmellprettybad]

[queen-susans-revenge]

In traditional Irish folktales, the elves only understand/respect Gaelic: the English language revolts them, so don’t expect to be winning any of those famous riddle contests or song tournaments in English. I’ve idly considered making one of those memes where it’s like [THE IRISH] *brofist* [THE JEWS] and the point of agreement is “our language is magic,” but the joke would take too much explaining to be funny. A lot of Irish Gaelic is structured around speech and the power of language. There isn’t, for example, a word for “yes” or “no.” In order to answer a direct yes/no question, you have to use a form of the verb that was used to ask the question. So basically, if the question is–say–”did you murder your wife” then there is no way to simply say “Yes, Your Honor” or “No, Your Honor.” Your minimum required effort involves using the verb that was invoked in the question: “I murdered,” or “I didn’t murder.” Of course you can just as easily, in just as few syllables and maybe fewer, change the verb. “I was framed,” maybe. Which is to say that the most basic speech acts in Irish involve constructing a narrative, assenting to others’ narratives or challenging them, and most crucially elaborating on the narratives that have already been established. 

(I chose murder just to be a colorful example, but actually I need to go back to my language reference books and check because I bet this interacts interestingly with the tendency in Irish for the narrator never to be the subject of her own story. You’re always the object, in Irish: you can’t drop a plate, for instance, the plate drops itself at you. You’re not thirsty but a powerful thirst is on you. You didn’t murder that woman but she very well might have gotten murdered in your general vicinity.) You see this lots of other places in the language too. For instance there’s also no word for “hello” or “goodbye.” If you want to greet somebody your required minimum is to cough up a formulaic blessing: Dia duit, God be with you. Here’s the thing. The second person can’t just be like “yup, uh huh. dia duit.” No. The stakes have been raised. The second person’s required minimum answer is now Dia’s muire duit, God and Mary be with you. If a third person joins they have to invoke St. Patrick on top of the two already mentioned. I’m not kidding. At four people you do hit a limit where you’re allowed to just say “God be with all here,” but in the very traditional country pubs it’s an insult to cross the threshold without saying at least that to cover everyone inside. Actually worse than an insult; basically a curse. That’s the burden you bear when you start speaking a magic language.

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

That puts a lot of conversations I’ve had with rural Irish people into a far better context. Because even when speaking English they will speak in this structure, knowing that context makes so much more sense now.

[lianabrooks]

… how do atheists respond? Just out of curiosity? 

[yousmellprettybad]

one woman i knew who is a classroom assistant in an irish primary school just says “maidin mhaith” witch is good morning or she’d say “tráthnóna maith” (good afternoon), but she would also just says ‘how are you?’ in irish as a greeting and not expect an answer 

[cartoonpolitics]

(cartoon by David Horsey)

[ferrific]

“José y Maria” by Everett Patterson

[yousmellprettybad]

dyed my hair blue yesterday. also i went down to clean the kitchen but everyone’s down there and i can’t stand cleaning when people are there