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no way they just killed off enkidu... gilgamesh x enkidu heads is it worth continuing through the other tablets 😭
Reblogged honeylemony
hate how this 1) manages to make fun of Belgium without bothering to mention us 2) every single person in the notes knows this 3) it's true
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04.04.25
spring?!?!?
we’re soooooooooo back
🎧 : man on the moon - brockhampton
#ooohhh ive been thinking abt getting a better violin for a while and now i see thid#must be fate !#my current violin is an extremely cheap mass produced thing. i got it knowing very well it'd be of bad quality#but i wanted to test whether violin playing rlly is for me and i didnt have the possibility to rent :(#but. now i've found. YES i rlly like it :))) so i think i should invest in one thats better or at the very least capable of staying in tune#while i play !!
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i got a semiotic parasite and now the space between my name and what my name signifies is all inflamed and itchy
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STOP SHOWING ME VIDEOS LIKE THIS OR I'LL GO ON ANOTHER RANT ABOUT WHY LANGUAGE DIFFICULTY CLASSIFICATIONS ARE ANGLOCENTRIC AND FRANKLY OFTEN RACIST BULLSHIT
Okay I'm going to rant a little. no one asked. but I'm going to.
This may be petty but using flags for languages is already problematic at best but mixing words and flags is just confusing. why is Arabic written? Is it because it's officially spoken in multiple countries? So are Mandarin and Korean. Be consistent.
What is your source? What are you basing this on? Why is Mandarin on 1 but other Sinitic languages aren't in the Top 10? What makes Hungarian more difficult than Finnish by two places despite being in the same language family? What exactly makes Polish more difficult than other Slavic languages?
Out of thousands of languages spoken on all continents (except Antarctica I guess) why are the Top 10 European, Asian and then one Native American language? Why is it conveniently languages that an English speaker vaguely interested in language learning would have heard about? Couldn't one of the Top 10 hardest to learn languages be Igala or Coast Tsimshian or Motu (examples randomly chosen)?
Have you ever noticed how these lists are always anglocentric as hell? Most specify "for English speakers" and are at least open about it but I've also seen people just say "hardest to learn" and it's like what if you already speak one of these languages lol
Have you also ever noticed that a lot of the languages popping up on these lists (which vary from source to source) are languages frequently spoken by immigrant populations in anglophone countries? And native English speakers expect them to learn perfect English... Wouldn't you think that if Arabic or Chinese or whatever they put on the list next time is one of the hardest languages for English speakers to learn that it goes both ways? But they're expected to learn it either for immigration reasons or anyway because it's the lingua franca. But if an English speaker (or anyone speaking another widely spoken European language) learns it they're some amazing genius who bravely mastered the world's most difficult language (which is also where my distaste for that one YouTuber comes in, you know the one).
This also absolutely ignores personal preferences in language learning. The languages on the "easiest" to learn lists are commonly Germanic and some Romance languages because of similarities in grammar and vocabulary to English but those similarities can absolutely trip you up. Good luck memorizing all the words and structures that are different and falling for false friends. Maybe you hate conjugation and would rather learn a language that doesn't deal with that. Maybe you have a secret talent for a different writing system. Maybe you really vibe with cases and they're no problem for you. Maybe you have a lot of passion and motivation for a language very different from English and zero interest in one of the "easy" ones and learning one of those would be an absolute chore for you.
TLDR stop with the "hardest" and "easiest" to learn stuff, appreciate anyone who ever learned a second language, learn whatever you vibe with
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“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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“gennemsnitlig person spiser 3 edderkopper per år” fakta faktisk bare statistisk fejl. gennemsnitlig person spiser 0 edderkopper per år. Edderkopper Georg, som bor i en hule og spiser over 10,000 hver dag, er en afviger ogg skulle ikke have været talt
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who up hating pop psychology
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Every time someone tells me they hate Shakespeare (which is frequently, bc people who hate Shakespeare r usually very proud of it and they need to tell me immediately when they learn that I'm a Shakespeare actor) I enact a sort of self contained stoic ritual where I remind myself that I do not need to be defending the most read and lauded and hegemonic English writer of all time even though I KNOW that they've only half-read Romeo and Juliet when they were 14 in a lame English class and formed a grudge and never changed their opinion. I have that knowledge and I allow it to wash over me and leave me undisturbed
It's a little known fact that if the perfect stranger sitting next to me and watching me read king lear doesn't inform me that they think Shakespeare is stupid and terrible RIGHT NOW then they will erupt and atomize us all to a fine mist and so I have to respect their solemn duty
Reblogged wizardarchetypes
Nothing Doing no. 44
Dear Human, I am writing to you as a human being like you. I am part of a family that is going through difficult times amidst this genocide. My brother suffers from bipolar disorder, and we only need €80 to buy his essential medication. The situation has become even more difficult than before, with the crossings being closed for over a month. We ask you to stand by us, whether by donating, sharing our story, or talking about us. 🙏💔
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is this too niche ?
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Reblogged honeylemony
I believe that attitudes towards art will always come to impact other academic areas
“the curtains are just blue” okay and this study proving known carcinogens are “good for you, actually” paid for and published by scientists funded by a major producer of those materials is probably totally objective too
literary analysis is a good and fun and helpful exercise for what I like to call Real Life Analysis, in which you will form hypotheses and gather supporting evidence to confirm or deny those theories
Except in Real Life Analysis if you gamble on “curtain colour means nothing” and lose you also forfeit your property contract yourself into indentured servitude sign away your rights develop a curable, preventable disease and die from it
I teach undergrad literature classes, and I try to impress this exact thing upon my students with varying levels of success. A lot of them (and people generally) struggle moving from the story level (what is happening) to the discourse level (how it's being communicated), so it's difficult to make them think about the effect of specific word choices and such.
However, this year I read them the opening page of The Great Gatsby, which consists of the narrator talking about what an empath a good listener he is and how he never judges people, and asked them how they would feel if a random guy at a party introduced himself like that, and they went oooooh yeah he's trying to make himself look good. He sounds like he wants to recruit me into a pyramid scheme. And that really felt like a breakthrough! Maybe now they'll think about how language can be used to frame or obfuscate "facts" and exploit your emotional response! Because understanding how even individual words can be used to manipulate a reaction is a really, really important skill to have.