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“Remember when…”

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baby snoopy this, baby clifford that, baby gromit blah blah blah. what about baby kermit???????

#my #favorite #guy

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wanting to talk to people is so fucking embarrassing. literally hi it's me again I wanted to have a conversation with you because I think you're fun to talk to. oh god you can just fucking kill me if you want sorry

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#joker folie a deux #harley quinn #lady gaga #she's winning that trophy that she should have won in 2018 #well my vote would have gone to yalitza aparicio #but gaga would have been a fine winner

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Happy Easter to the deep, intimate emotion in the Gospel of John's telling of Magdalene finding the resurrected Jesus.

#blorbos #jesus christ #mary magdalene #easter #gospel of john #the way he says “mary” is so omg #and her tears

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#i used to have a connection with one of these cats #they are so silly

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day to one irresistible hunk…

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fonts hanging out by elle cordova

#omg #reading and writing screenplays makes me preconditioned for courier #it's my favorite font for writing fiction whether screenplay or prose

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i watch baseball for the side quests

#go rockies

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Kneel.

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Romeo and Juliet AU

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All told, there are more endangered languages in and around New York City than have ever existed anywhere else, says Perlin, who has spent 11 years trying to document them. And because most of the world’s languages are on a path to disappear within the next century, there will likely never be this many in any single place again. [...]Since their project began, Perlin and Kaufman have located speakers of more than 700 languages. Of those languages, at least 150 are listed as under significant threat in at least one of three major databases for the field. Perlin and Kaufman consider that figure to be conservative, and Perlin estimates that more than half of the languages they documented may be endangered. [...] A language’s endangerment is not simply a function of its size but also a measure of its relationship to the societies around it. Sheer numbers “have always mattered less than intergenerational transmission,” Perlin writes in “Language City.” Until recently, in many regions of the world, dozens of languages lived side by side, each with no more than a few thousand speakers. Gurr-goni, an Aboriginal Australian language, had long been stable with 70. A language survives, Perlin writes, by sharing life with those who speak it: “Only in the face of intense political, economic, religious or social pressures do people stop passing on their mother tongues to children.” [...]Perlin studies languages for what they communicate both explicitly and indirectly. A language’s lexicon is not “just one word after another,” he writes in “Language City,” but a representation of the enduring preoccupations of a culture. Its rules of grammar are held together by invisible selections of what will be conveyed and what will be overlooked. It “requires speakers to mark out certain parts of reality and not others, however unconsciously.” [...]Still, Perlin and Kaufman are keenly aware that the corpus they are building — word by word and sometimes syllable by syllable — might someday turn out to be a kind of fossil record. Outside of the office, Gurung mostly speaks Seke in voice notes to elders overseas or to tell her mother a secret she doesn’t want her sister to hear. On her first trip to Nepal with E.L.A., she ended every interview with the same question: “Do you think our language will survive?”

click through for maps of where these languages are spoken in nyc and short audio recordings of native speakers

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god can you imagine glados equipped with tiktok therapyspeak. she’d be unbearable

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hey you're doing a great job, just remember: a semicolon can be used to combine two sentences where you might otherwise use a period; this allows you to create longer and longer run-on sentences

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When i say enemies to lovers i do not mean "rude to each other to lovers" I need atleast 2.5 murder attempts

#i am an etl literalist #proportional to the stakes there must be real animosity #not just disagreement not just opposing sides #but personal bile