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the only reason why ten year old girls are destroying stupidly overpriced products at sephora to make “skincare smoothies” is because they aren’t being given access to a yard with a variety of mud, sticks, rocks, puddles, and old ceramic planters to make potions in. the children yearn for the apothecary

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Me: I want to know languages

Person: then study

Me: no study. Only know.

#studying linguistics in a nutshell

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bring the boops back, I didn't get to boop as much as I wanted

#boop #i realized very late it was actually a thing #boop boop #the boopening #tumblr boop

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people who don’t have boops on, I respect your peace but also picture me standing outside your blog scratching the door like a cat wanting to be let in

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one my professors has started a podcast with another professor looking specifically at literature from Old and Middle English which have failed to inspire much if any academic inquiry. it's called Canterbury Fails, and there are some doozys

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

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At the gate for my flight home from visiting friends and there's a woman here with a service Shiba Inu. No pics because he has a Do Not Disturb vest and taking pics of strangers is illegal but I need to stress how ON DUTY this animal is. Ears up. Eyes doing Lazer scans of everything. Examining everyone who passes within 10ft like a security guard. Ass planted on her feet. I have never seen a dog with such intense chivalric guardian energy before. He has tiny eyebrows and they are FURROWED with concentration.

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There's people for whom "we're leaving in the morning" means "we ride at dawn motherfuckers, you can finish waking up and getting dressed in the car, we'll grab breakfast somewhere along the way", and there's people for whom it means "we'll get going somewhere before noon".

And then they get married.

#my parents in a nutshell

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Yes! Except both these examples are rhotic. The first example, the Scots accent, has actually an r sound closer to the Germanic origins of English. In the second example, the speaker is still producing the r sound, what's getting reduced are the vowels

#linguistics #i love these #both excellent examples of phonological shift within a language

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Merry Christmas 🎄! Sometimes the bats’ aerial feats did not work out. When they fall, the Ground Hospital is there to receive. They will be up flying again in no time. https://www.instagram.com/p/Brpo4LthvNb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vd2qswagw9qw

#so cute #not my art

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it's always the kobolds

had a relatively normal, organic introduction and bonding between our characters last night

sure it was over killing some kobolds who were interrupting the peace of the inn we were at but yknow

viarrat got mad and lightning breathed them out the door and out of existence

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by James Gurney

#dinotopia!!! #dinosaurs #james gurney

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put what place in tamriel feels like home in the tags

#tes #the jerrall mountains #and morrowind #man I miss playing those games

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happy birthday @dreemgoat!!

#inktober #for the rest check out my instagram

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where would i be, as a person and in society, without rice

#it's too accurate #my mother has bribed and rewarded me with rice

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#too cute #not my art

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With you May the 4th be.

#it's star wars day #risarodil

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AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST WALK TOGETHER. Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night. The End.

#gnu terry pratchett