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"this too shall pass" well can it fucking get on with it

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Girl you need to get out of bed faster than this

#I should have left for uni thirteen minutes ago #but I'm still sitting in bed #I'm getting up now

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occasional posts from users

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Kitten advice bc everyone else is giving some: it is absolutely imperative that you kiss them on their little baby face. It's so important. Just incredibly necessary. Kisses on their little baby head.

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So I've been learning French for a while and 'faire' is actually an incredible word. Like what a fucking breakthrough in economy of language.

Faire is a verb that is usually translated into English as "to do/to make," but it covers way more actions than that, which is very confusing for new speakers. because (I have realized) that's not really what faire means.

Faire is actually a word that just gestures vaguely in the direction of the object of the sentence and goes "you know." "Je fais du velo." "Je fais du courses." "Je fais mes valises." I'm biking. I go grocery shopping. I'm packing my bags. You're just sort of pointing at a bike and going "you know, the obvious thing you'd do with it."

English: "You mean RIDE it??"

French: "Sure whatever."

Like idk I just really enjoy the concept of a catch-all verb that you can just slap onto almost anything because who fucking gives a shit, you get the idea. There's a bike. what do you think I'm going to do with it.

#french #language #linguistics

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me every day without fail: I'll do [chore] when I get home

me when I get home:

#can't tell if that person is lying on the back or front #but either way mood

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[video by soupygarbagejuice. original caption: stuie]

#tumblr #cat #video #calligraphy #god

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A school bully who keeps up with intercommunity issues so that he always uses the most non-problematic terminology to insult you with

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came home drunk last night and got way too excited to see my cat

#cat

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people who don't wear glasses are so weird like you just wake up and your eyes are pussy fresh??

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If you or your partner got pregnant (and planned to keep it), when would you tell your family?

As soon as I knew

After the first ultrasound

After the first trimester

About halfway through (20 weeks)

Once the pregnancy is visibly obvious

Some milestone other than these

I would wait until the birth

I would never tell them

This scenario is unimaginable to me

#i don't want kids but if i got pregnant i think i would want to keep it #and i would tell my immediate family as soon as i know #bc i would actually also want them to know about a miscarriage #poll

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Homographs in a text are different lexemes, but would you say they are different types as well?

Have a nice day! ☀️

(unrelated fun fact: autocorrect wanted me to write exams, lenses or legumes instead of lexemes)

i'm not sure what you mean by "types" here?

#my ask #linguistics #language

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Under PENALTY of INSTANT DEATH do NOT make blackout poetry of my posts. It is improper behavior and makes me wanna explode. You will receive 80 concussions. Don't make me spell it out again

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Oh well in the lecture we talked about lexemes, types and tokens as different interpretations of words as there is no clear definition of what a word really is. So in a text, you can count lexemes (any word that has meaning as well as its grammatical variations, so be, am, are, were, been would all be counted as one lexeme), types (if there are multiple occurences of the same word, it is counted as one type), or tokens (singular occurences of words; so if you've got 5x 'and' in a text, it is counted as one type, but 5 tokens).

So my question is, if you for example have two words both written 'lead', but one time it means the metal and one time it means to guide, they are two lexemes and two tokens, but are they two types as well? (This might be a kind of philosophical question with no clear answer. I am just asking for opinions)

Homographs in a text are different lexemes, but would you say they are different types as well?

Have a nice day! ☀️

(unrelated fun fact: autocorrect wanted me to write exams, lenses or legumes instead of lexemes)

i'm not sure what you mean by "types" here?

#linguistics #language

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[Tried a Bavarian version? It is usually seen as a dialect of German and it's not standardized, so there is a lot of variation, and this text might have influences from different regions, as I didn't really grow up speaking the dialect. Anyway, here we go:]

I hob's woascheinli grod east g'sogt, oba I wui's no amoi sogn:

- Entschuidig di ned, wanns'd koa Englisch ned konnst

- S'stimmt, doss Englisch de Sproch is, de im Intanet om meistn g'redt wead, oba koana zwingt di, se perfekt z'kenna

- dei eigene Sproch is schee

- Leid, vo dene de easte Sproch ned Englisch is, gem si grouße Miah, auf dera Seitn do jedn Dog Englisch zum schreim

- untastütz Leid, vo dene de easte Sproch ned Englisch is, und moch di ned lustig drüwa, wann's koa Englisch kennan

- untastütz olle Sprochn

- vabreit mea Sprochnvuifoit auf Tumblr

Vagäit's God :)

probably i just said it but i want to say it again:

- don’t apologise if you don’t know english.

- yes, english is the most common language on the internet but you are not forced to know it perfectly.

- your own language is beautiful.

- non-english people make a huge effort to write in English everyday on this website.

- support non-english people and don’t make them feel bad if they do not know English. 

- actually support all the languages.

- spread more language diversity on Tumblr.

thank you. 

#goodness that was kind of hard #where are my fellow Bavarians? what do you say to my attempt? :) #language #linguistics #bavarian #language diversity #diversity #humans

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I don't know if Western also includes Europe in this case? Anyway I went to school in Germany, so here is my contribution:

1. It's pretty rare parents take their children to school by car, and we are not allowed to drive until 18. So we mostly took public transport (here we don't have special school buses, but the bus schedules do take school hours into account) or walked/biked to school if it was near enough.

2. No uniforms. Although I think in the UK they have uniforms? But I don't know.

3. We had to pay in the cafeteria, during the small 20min break we were not allowed to leave the school area, but in the big break (45min), we were allowed to do whatever so some people went to the nearby supermarket to get food or brought their own. The older students (grade 11 and 12) got some more "rights" though. (In Finland however, school lunch is completely free and state funded. I don't know about other countries)

4 and 5. No? I guess? We also don't really have school sports teams or cheerleaders, those sound very usamerican to us. We did have some additional subjects/clubs like theatre, dance, languages, caring for our school's aquarium (not a common thing, but we had fishes), but without grades, just for fun.

Hope this was helpful :) I love learning about other cultures!

jock anon here! I have more questions about western schools because I always wondered how much is true :

Do you really drive to school?

Do you not have uniforms?

Do you really pay in the cafeteria? are you allowed to eat outside?

Do you have mascots?

are school sports THAT big of a deal?

(Sorry if these sound stupid but I really wanted to know )

To answer, I grew up on farmland in rural Canada

If you have your own car and a driver's license, you can drive to school. It's definitely too far to walk, but some people might bike. The city bus only goes through every four hours, but the school bus isn't too bad. If these don't work your guardians might drop you off before they go to work.

No, we did not have uniforms, that's rich city bitch shit. I personally enjoyed the fishnets and stompin boots combo but no, no uniform. Loosely-enforced dress code, too.

Yes, the cafeteria costs money. There are snack programs for If you don't have money but it's usually apples and granola bars, sometimes mac n cheese for a dollar or something. We can eat anywhere we want, just not the library, gym, or art rooms, and nobody's allowed up the trees.

We had a mascot but we didn't really use it. There was a costume but I think I only saw it twice.

I could not have given less of a shit about team sports, and I was *on* a sports team. We didn't really watch the teams play, either. From what I've seen in America it is NOTHING like they do. No parades or parties or sirens in the street, just trying to make it to nationals, maybe get a scholarship. (Didn't work for me, I was an art kid.)

It doesn't sound stupid but maybe ask an American for Wilder stories, holy fuck the sport team I saw had a fire truck wailing around town when they won once holy fuck damn near shit meself

#school #cultures #world #diversity #humans