TOApril Day 1 🦋 and of course LITPOLLO can’t be left out
fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.
[ID: youtube comment from Hal Sawyer:
My favorite relic English still used everywhere is the word "the" used in phrases like: "the more I look at this, the stranger it seems, or "the bigger they come, the harder they fall". This "the" is not the article of any noun, it is a different word, a conjunction descended from the old English "þā", pronounced "tha" which means either "when" or "then". Back in early Middle English the structure "if - then" had not taken over and if you wanted to express an if - then relationship you said "þā whatever, þā whatever", meaning "when such-and- such, then such-and-such". "þā" sounds almost the same as "the" and the spelling of the two converged, but the meaning remained totally different. "the more, the merrier" literally means "when more, then merrier" or "if more, then merrier'; same as centuries ago.
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this is so cool
now with added wiktionary link
update, correction to this:
[image description: tweets from user Matt (official) that read, "this is not quite accurate. this 'the' comes from þȳ, the old instrumental case of the definite article. so it's like 'whereby x, therefore y' or 'by how much x, that's how much y.'
þā ... þā does indeed mean 'when ... then' in Old English, but this temporal correlative is not where we get 'the more the merrier' construction. i'm afraid someone took an OE class and mixed a few things up.
so it doesn't originally mean 'if more, then merrier' as suggested in the comment. it has always meant 'by how much more, that's how much merrier' i.e. double or triple the quantity leads to double or triple the merriment." end id.]
thanks to @wovesaxe for this addition
Toa doodle :P
Just a god and a demigod facing horrors together while realizing their fathers suck even worse than they initially thought
TOApril Day 2 - Heavy Are The Resting Laurels
Victory...?
So, I follow this “bad commercial interior design” Facebook page and-
It's the wizard law version of a limited liability clause.
@theorphicforest Dionysus type shit. He explains to his kids, in vivid detail, how to evade your taxes and then adds "or so i've heard, I wouldnt know myself" at the end jsut in case shit hits the fan
every time I see that post circulating I think abt how different the rrverse!Apollo fan experience is
Late night doodle of lavinia and don :P
I shall offer you a sunflower 🙌🌻
This is a birthday gift art for the amazing @julsunart , an artist I admire a lot >_< I love their Hyapollo art so much
Hm.. I wonder what music is Hyacinthus singing to Apollo
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