#my petty opinion is smh languages keep moving from a voicing contrast to a tone contrast for their consonants 🙄

[mothmvn]

the best thing is either having or witnessing extremely specific petty opinions in someone’s field of work. like i could spend an hour listening to someone talk about why they absolutely fucking hate a specific brand of tile they have to work with, or why some vegetable is obviously the chad of all vegetable crops

#my petty opinion is smh languages keep moving from a voicing contrast to a tone contrast for their consonants 🙄 #my friend's is smfh what is this [other (S)EA language] doing with chinese characters thats not what god intended ! ! ! 🙄 #i dont know enough about my non-ling friends' fields to have engaged in Subject-Specific Pettiness with them but i would love to #personal