Fangirling and Linguistics

saw the guy who is repairing our apartment elevator cross himself while reading something on his ipad which we can only hope relates to his feelings about the pope's death and not his feelings about the state of our elevator

Average 2020s movie being "too political": girl power! quick background kiss between two gay extras! one single black guy!

Average "non-political" 70s movie: the government is hiding a global conspiracy that is warming the planet and will kill us all and also the cops are evil

Average 2020s movie being "too political": girl power! quick background kiss between two gay extras! one single black guy!

Average "non-political" 70s movie: the government is hiding a global conspiracy that is warming the planet and will kill us all and also the cops are evil

i think its my sacred obligation to tell yall about animals so just letting you know that apparently (according to inaturalist) theres 321 species of squirrels in the world. Yes three hundred twenty one

Well here is the indochinese spotted giant flying squirrel

And here is the zanj sun squirrel

and heres the calabrian black squirrel

and heres the bornean mountain squirrel

And this is taiwanese red and white giant flying squirrel

And here is washington ground squirrel

This is just an arbitrary sampling of squirrels from inaturalist, feel free to explore the world of squirrel diversity on your own

As for mice and rats (Muroids) there are over a thousand.

Mice you could never fathom...rats you could never imagine

Squirrel Diversity or "Squiversity"

i approach human relationships in a normal manner

Dear video essay creators. A video analysis is when you analyze a piece of media. No no look at me. A summary, no matter how thorough, is not an analysis. An analysis requires you to draw conclusions about the media such as authorial intent, real-world parallels, discussion about themes/worldbuilding/character motivation, and so much more. You have to stop summarizing something and saying that’s analysis. The Gaylors are doing more critical analysis than you. Is that who you want to lose to? The gaylors?

welp. it was bound to happen at some point. looks like the whale was feeding and nabbed the guy by accident, and immediately spit him out:

This is the single most Wholesome thing that the internet has ever done or that humanity has ever created

If your having a bad day, watch this animation <3

Yeah i needed this today

The thing neurotypicals tend not to understand about the ADHD brain is that it really only has two gears

I turn to the chalkboard and carefully write out

WORKIN' HARD

HARDLY WORKIN'

Much like a cars transmission getting stuck between gears the adhd brain can also access a secret mode called HORKLY WARDIN' that feels bad

I can hear this image

Same. I can feel the vibration, and hear myself cussing when something in the paper pile shifts.

looking for shirt braces online and I saw this and thought tumblr would appreciate it

collecting posts of this type

literally my favourite genre of post

Even more!!!

another one

how my wife and I communicate when we miss each other

ah fuck this is currently breaching containment

in an interesting case of linguistic convergent evolution, the english words scale, scale, and scale are all false cognates of each other

scale as in „to climb“ comes from the latin scala, for ladder.

scale as in the measuring device comes from the old norse skal, for a drinking vessel sometimes used as a weighing device

scale as in the dermal plating on the skin of some fish and reptiles comes from the old french escale, for shell or husk.

Three languages enter, one language leaves.

official linguistics post

i need a brave knight to slay the scary dragon on my princess tower :(