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English: A dog Swedish: What English: The dog English: Two dogs Swedish: Swedish: Swedish: En hund, hunden Swedish: Två hundar, hundarna German: English: No, go away Swedish: No one invited you German: Der Hund English: I said go away German: Ein Hund, zwei Hunde Swedish: Stop it German: Den Hund, einen Hund, dem Hund, einem Hund, des Hundes, eines Hundes, den Hunden, der Hunden Turkish: English: Wait Swedish: I don’t like where this is going German: No, don’t even think about that Turkish: Köpek, köpeği, köpeğe, köpekte, köpekten, köpeğim, köpeğin, köpeğimiz, köpeğiniz, köpeğimin, köpeğinin, köpeğimizin, köpeğimizin, köpeklerinin, köpeğime, köpeğine, köpeğimize, köpeğinize, köpeğimi, köpeğinizi, köpeğini, köpeğimizi, köpeğinizi, köpeğimde, köpeğinde, köpeğimizde, köpeğinizde, köpeğimden, köpeğinden, köpeğimizden, köpeğinizden, köpekle, köpeğimle, köpeğinle, köpeğiyle, köpeklerimle, köpeklerinle, köpekleriyle, köpeğiminki, köpeğininki, köpeğinki, köpekle, köpeksiz English: Swedish: German: Turkish: Plural forms. Köpekler, köpekleri, köpeklerimi, köpeklerini, köpeklerimizi, köpeklerinizi, köpeklere, köpeklerime, köpeklerine, köpeklerimize, köpeklerinize, köpeklerde, köpeklerimde, köpeklerinde, köpeklerimizde, köpeklerinizde, köpeklerden, köpeklerimden, köpeklerinden, köpeklerimizden, köpeklerinizden, köpeklerim, köpeklerinin, köpeklerin, köpeklerimizin, köpeklerinizin, köpekleriminki, köpeklerininki, köpeklerimizinki, köpeklerinizinki, köpeklerinki, köpeğiminkiler, köpeğininkiler, köpeğinkiler, köpeklerimizinkiler, köpeklerinizinkiler, köpeklerinkiler, köpeklersiz, köpeklerimle, köpeklerinle, köpekleriyle, köpeklerimizle, köpeklerinizle, köpeklerle Finnish: Sup English: NO Swedish: NO German: NO Turkish: NO Finnish: English: German: Swedish: Turkish: Finnish: Koira, koiran, koiraa, koiran again, koirassa, koirasta, koiraan, koiralla, koiralta, koiralle, koirana, koiraksi, koiratta, koirineen, koirin German: Swedish: Finnish: English: Turkish: Finnish: Aaaand… koirasi, koirani, koiransa, koiramme, koiranne, koiraani, koiraasi, koiraansa, koiraamme, koiraanne, koirassani, koirassasi, koirassansa, koirassamme, koirassanne, koirastani, koirastasi, koirastansa, koirastamme, koirastanne, koirallani, koirallasi, koirallansa, koirallamme, koirallanne, koiranani, koiranasi, koiranansa, koiranamme, koirananne, koirakseni, koiraksesi, koiraksensa, koiraksemme, koiraksenne, koirattani, koirattasi, koirattansa, koirattamme, koirattanne, koirineni, koirinesi, koirinensa, koirinemme, koirinenne English: Swedish: German: Turkish: Finnish: Wait! then theres koirakaan, koirankaan, koiraakaan, koirassakaan, koirastakaan, koiraankaan, koirallakaan, koiraltakaan, koirallekaan, koiranakaan, koiraksikaan, koirattakaan, koirineenkaan, koirinkaan, koirako, koiranko, koiraako, koirassako, koirastako, koiraanko, koirallako, koiraltako, koiralleko, koiranako, koiraksiko, koirattako, koirineenko, koirinko, koirasikaan, koiranikaan, koiransakaan, koirammekaan, koirannekaan, koiraanikaan, koiraasikaan, koiraansakaan, koiraammekaan, koiraannekaan, koirassanikaan, koirassasikaan, koirassansakaan, koirassammekaan, koirassannekaan, koirastanikaan, koirastasikaan, koirastansakaan, koirastammekaan, koirastannekaan, koirallanikaan, koirallasikaan, koirallansakaan, koirallammekaan, koirallannekaan, koirananikaan, koiranasikaan, koiranansakaan, koiranammekaan, koiranannekaan, koiraksenikaan, koiraksesikaan, koiraksensakaan, koiraksemmekaan, koiraksennekaan, koirattanikaan, koirattasikaan, koirattansakaan, koirattammekaan, koirattannekaan, koirinenikaan, koirinesikaan, koirinensakaan, koirinemmekaan, koirinennekaan, koirasiko, koiraniko, koiransako, koirammeko, koiranneko, koiraaniko, koiraasiko, koiraansako, koiraammeko, koiraanneko, koirassaniko, koirassasiko, koirassansako, koirassammeko, koirassanneko, koirastaniko, koirastasiko, koirastansako, koirastammeko, koirastanneko, koirallaniko, koirallasiko, koirallansako, koirallammeko, koirallanneko, koirananiko, koiranasiko, koiranansako, koiranammeko, koirananneko, koirakseniko, koiraksesiko, koiraksensako, koiraksemmeko, koiraksenneko, koirattaniko, koirattasiko, koirattansako, koirattammeko, koirattanneko, koirineniko, koirinesiko, koirinensako, koirinemmeko, koirinenneko, koirasikaanko, koiranikaanko, koiransakaanko, koirammekaanko, koirannekaanko, koiraanikaanko, koiraasikaanko, koiraansakaanko, koiraammekaanko, koiraannekaanko, koirassanikaanko, koirassasikaanko, koirassansakaanko, koirassammekaanko, koirassannekaanko, koirastanikaanko, koirastasikaanko, koirastansakaanko, koirastammekaanko, koirastannekaanko, koirallanikaanko, koirallasikaanko, koirallansakaanko, koirallammekaanko, koirallannekaanko, koirananikaanko, koiranasikaanko, koiranansakaanko, koiranammekaanko, koiranannekaanko, koiraksenikaanko, koiraksesikaanko, koiraksensakaanko, koiraksemmekaanko, koiraksennekaanko, koirattanikaanko, koirattasikaanko, koirattansakaanko, koirattammekaanko, koirattannekaanko, koirinenikaanko, koirinesikaanko, koirinensakaanko, koirinemmekaanko, koirinennekaanko, koirasikokaan, koiranikokaan, koiransakokaan, koirammekokaan, koirannekokaan, koiraanikokaan, koiraasikokaan, koiraansakokaan, koiraammekokaan, koiraannekokaan, koirassanikokaan, koirassasikokaan, koirassansakokaan, koirassammekokaan, koirassannekokaan, koirastanikokaan, koirastasikokaan, koirastansakokaan, koirastammekokaan, koirastannekokaan, koirallanikokaan, koirallasikokaan, koirallansakokaan, koirallammekokaan, koirallannekokaan, koirananikokaan, koiranasikokaan, koiranansakokaan, koiranammekokaan, koiranannekokaan, koiraksenikokaan, koiraksesikokaan, koiraksensakokaan, koiraksemmekokaan, koiraksennekokaan, koirattanikokaan, koirattasikokaan, koirattansakokaan, koirattammekokaan, koirattannekokaan, koirinenikokaan, koirinesikokaan, koirinensakokaan, koirinemmekokaan, koirinennekokaan Swedish: German: Turkish: English: Okay, now you’re just making things up! Finnish: Finnish: And now the plural forms…
where is the Hungarian…?
Hungarian: kutya, kutyább, kutyát, kutyának, kutyával, kutyáért, kutyában, kutyán, kutyánál, kutyába, kutyára, kutyához, kutyából, kutyáról, kutyától, kutyáig, kutyaként, kutyául, kutyaképpen, kutyástul, kutyásan, kutyailag, kutyaé, kutyáébb, kutyáét, kutyáénak, kutyáéval, kutyáéért, kutyáéban, kutyáén, kutyáénál, kutyáéba, kutyáéra, kutyáéhoz, kutyáéból, kutyáéról, kutyáétól, kutyáéig, kutyáéként, kutyáéképpen, kutyáéstul, kutyáésan, kutyáésilag, kutyás, kutyásabb, kutyásnak, kutyással, kutyásért, kutyásé, kutyásban, kutyáson, kutyásnál, kutyásba, kutyásra, kutyáshoz, kutyásból, kutyásról, kutyástól, kutyásig, kutyásként, kutyásul, kutyásképpen, kutyásilag, kutyásé, kutyásébb, kutyásénak, kutyáséval, kutyáséban, kutyásén, kutyásénál, kutyáséba, kutyáséra, kutyáséhez, kutyáséból, kutyáséról, kutyásétől, kutyáséig, kutyáséként, kutyáséképpen, kutyáséilag, kutyátlan, kutyátlanabb, kutyátlannak, kutyátlannal, kutyátlanért, kutyátlanban, kutyátlanon, kutyátlannál, kutyátlanba, kutyátlanra, kutyátlanhoz, kutyátlanból, kutyátlanról, kutyátlantól, kutyátlanig, kutyátlanként, kutyátlanul, kutyátlanképpen, kutyátlanilag, kutyátlané, kutyátlanébb, kutyátlanénak, kutyátlanéval, kutyátlanéért, kutyátlanéban, kutyátlanén, kutyátlanénál, kutyátlanéba, kutyátlanéra, kutyátlanéhoz, kutyátlanéból, kutyátlanéról, kutyátlanétól, kutyátlanéig, kutyátlanéként, kutyátlanéképpen, kutyátlanésilag, kutyásság, kutyásságibb, kutyásságnak, kutyássággal, kutyásságért, kutyásságban, kutyásságon, kutyásságnál, kutyásságba, kutyásságra, kutyássághoz, kutyásságból, kutyásságról, kutyásságtól, kutyásságig, kutyásságként, kutyásságul, kutyásságképpen, kutyásságilag, kutyássága, kutyásságább, kutyásságának, kutyásságával, kutyásságáért, kutyásságában, kutyásságán, kutyásságánál, kutyásságába, kutyásságára, kutyásságához, kutyásságából, kutyásságáról, kutyásságától, kutyásságáig, kutyásságaként, kutyásságául, kutyásságaképpen, kutyásságáilag, kutyásságéá, kutyásságáébb, kutyásságáénak, kutyásságáéval, kutyásságáéért, kutyásságáéban, kutyásságáén, kutyásságáénál, kutyásságáéba, kutyásságáéra, kutyásságáéhoz, kutyásságáéból, kutyásságáéról, kutyásságáétól, kutyásságáéig, kutyásságaéként, kutyásságaéképpen, kutyásságáéilag, kutyásságé, kutyásságébb, kutyásságénak, kutyásságéval, kutyásságéért, kutyásságéban, kutyásságén, kutyásságénál, kutyásságéba, kutyásságéra, kutyásságéhoz, kutyásságéból, kutyásságéról, kutyásságétól, kutyásságéig, kutyásságéként, kutyásságéképpen, kutyásságéilag, kutyátlanság, kutyátlanságibb, kutyátlanságnak, kutyátlansággal, kutyátlanságért, kutyátlanságban, kutyátlanságon, kutyátlanságnál, kutyátlanságba, kutyátlanságra, kutyátlansághoz, kutyátlanságból, kutyátlanságról, kutyátlanságtól, kutyátlanságig, kutyátlanságként, kutyátlanságul, kutyátlanságképpen, kutyátlanságilag, kutyátlansága, kutyátlanságább, kutyátlanságának, kutyátlanságával, kutyátlanságáért, kutyátlanságában, kutyátlanságán, kutyátlanságánál, kutyátlanságába, kutyátlanságára, kutyátlanságához, kutyátlanságából, kutyátlanságáról, kutyátlanságától, kutyátlanságáig, kutyátlanságaként, kutyátlanságául, kutyátlanságaképpen, kutyátlanságáilag, kutyátlanságáé, kutyátlanságáébb, kutyátlanságáénak, kutyátlanságáéval, kutyátlanságáéban, kutyátlanságáén, kutyátlanságáénál, kutyátlanságáéba, kutyátlanságáéra, kutyátlanságáéhoz, kutyátlanságáéból, kutyátlanságáéról, kutyátlanságáétól, kutyátlanságáéig, kutyátlanságaéként, kutyátlanságaéképpen, kutyátlanságáéilag, kutyátlanságé, kutyátlanságébb, kutyátlanságénak, kutyátlanságéval, kutyátlanságéért, kutyátlanságéban, kutyátlanságén, kutyátlanságénál, kutyátlanságéba, kutyátlanságéra, kutyátlanságéhoz, kutyátlanságéból, kutyátlanságéról, kutyátlanságétól, kutyátlanságéig, kutyátlanságéként, kutyátlanságéilag, elkutyátlanodott, elkutyátlanodottabb, elkutyátlanodottnak, elkutyátlanodottal, elkutyátlanodottért, elkutyátlanodottban, elkutyátlanodotton, elkutyátlanodottnál, elkutyátlanodottba, elkutyátlanodottra, elkutyátlanodotthoz, elkutyátlanodottból, elkutyátlanodottról, elkutyátlanodotttól, elkutyátlanodottig, elkutyátlanodottként, elkutyátlanodottul, elkutyátlanodottképpen, elkutyátlanodottilag, elkutyátlanodotté, elkutyátlanodottébb, elkutyátlanodotténak, elkutyátlanodottéval, elkutyátlanodottéért, elkutyátlanodottéban, elkutyátlanodottén, elkutyátlanodotténál, elkutyátlanodottéba, elkutyátlanodottéra, elkutyátlanodottéhoz, elkutyátlanodottéból, elkutyátlanodottéról, elkutyátlanodottétól, elkutyátlanodottéig, elkutyátlanodottéul, elkutyátlanodottéképpen, elkutyátlanodottéilag, elkutyátlanodottság, elkutyátlanodottságabb, elkutyátlanodottságnak, elkutyátlanodottsággal, elkutyátlanodottságért, elkutyátlanodottságban, elkutyátlanodottságon, elkutyátlanodottságnál, elkutyátlanodottságba, elkutyátlanodottságra, elkutyátlanodottsághoz, elkutyátlanodottságból, elkutyátlanodottságról, elkutyátlanodottságtól, elkutyátlanodottságig, elkutyátlanodottságként, elkutyátlanodottságul, elkutyátlanodottságképpen, elkutyátlanodottságilag, elkutyátlanodottsága, elkutyátlanodottságább, elkutyátlanodottságának, elkutyátlanodottságával, elkutyátlanodottságáért, elkutyátlanodottságában, elkutyátlanodottságán, elkutyátlanodottságánál, elkutyátlanodottságába, elkutyátlanodottságára, elkutyátlanodottságához, elkutyátlanodottságából, elkutyátlanodottságáról, elkutyátlanodottságától, elkutyátlanodottságáig, elkutyátlanodottságaként, elkutyátlanodottságaul, elkutyátlanodottságaképpen, elkutyátlanodottságáilag, elkutyátlanodottságáé, elkutyátlanodottságáébb, elkutyátlanodottságáénak, elkutyátlanodottságáéval, elkutyátlanodottságáéért, elkutyátlanodottságáéban, elkutyátlanodottságáén, elkutyátlanodottságáénál, elkutyátlanodottságáéba, elkutyátlanodottságáéra, elkutyátlanodottságáéhoz, elkutyátlanodottságáéból, elkutyátlanodottságáéról, elkutyátlanodottságáétól, elkutyátlanodottságáéig, elkutyátlanodottságaéként, elkutyátlanodottságáéilag, megkutyásodott, megkutyásodottabb, megkutyásodottnak, megkutyásodottal, megkutyásodottért, megkutyásodottban, megkutyásodotton, megkutyásodottnál, megkutyásodottba, megkutyásodottra, megkutyásodotthoz, megkutyásodottból, megkutyásodottról, megkutyásodotttól, megkutyásodottig, megkutyásodottként, megkutyásodottul, megkutyásodottképpen, megkutyásodottilag, megkutyásodotté, megkutyásodottébb, megkutyásodotténak, megkutyásodottéval, megkutyásodottéért, megkutyásodottéban, megkutyásodottén, megkutyásodotténál, megkutyásodottéba, megkutyásodottéra, megkutyásodottéhoz, megkutyásodottéból, megkutyásodottéról, megkutyásodottétól, megkutyásodottéig, megkutyásodottéként, megkutyásodottéképpen, megkutyásodottéilag, megkutyásodottság, megkutyásodottságabb, megkutyásodottságnak, megkutyásodottsággal, megkutyásodottságért, megkutyásodottságban, megkutyásodottságon, megkutyásodottságnál, megkutyásodottságba, megkutyásodottságra, megkutyásodottsághoz, megkutyásodottságból, megkutyásodottságról, megkutyásodottságtól, megkutyásodottságig, megkutyásodottságként, megkutyásodottságul, megkutyásodottságképpen, megkutyásodottságilag, megkutyásodottsága, megkutyásodottságább, megkutyásodottságának, megkutyásodottságával, megkutyásodottságáért, megkutyásodottságában, megkutyásodottságán, megkutyásodottságánál, megkutyásodottságába, megkutyásodottságára, megkutyásodottságához, megkutyásodottságából, megkutyásodottságáról, megkutyásodottságától, megkutyásodottságáig, megkutyásodottságaként, megkutyásodottságául, megkutyásodottságáképpen, megkutyásodottságáilag, megkutyásodottságáé, megkutyásodottságáébb, megkutyásodottságáénak, megkutyásodottságáéval, megkutyásodottságáéért, megkutyásodottságáéban, megkutyásodottságáén, megkutyásodottságáénál, megkutyásodottságáéba, megkutyásodottságáéra, megkutyásodottságáéhoz, megkutyásodottságáéból, megkutyásodottságáéról, megkutyásodottságáétól, megkutyásodottságáéig, megkutyásodottságaéként, megkutyásodottságáéilag.
Swedish: German: Turkish: English: WTF, you have relatives? Finnish: That’s my brother!
Hungarian: And now the plural forms.
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why
“It’s also said that dwarfs have two hundred words for rock. They don’t. They have no words for rock, in the same way that fish have no words for water. They do have words for igneous rock, sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock, rock underfoot, rock dropping on your helmet from above, and rock which looked interesting and which they could have sworn they left here yesterday. But what they don’t have is a word meaning “rock.” Show a dwarf a rock and he sees, for example, an inferior piece of crystalline sulphite of barytes.”
— Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett (via cat-sophia)
other people aren’t here to be your hobby or fetish
“Fetishization“ is a creepy fascination with a category of people who are marginalised for traits you don’t have, like treating real people like really interesting animals, abstract concepts, or objects for your sexual use.
You can fetishize people for their orientation, race, ethnicity, disability, mental illness, religion, for being trans – basically any oppressed group has to deal with people using their vulnerability and the myths used to enforce their oppression for fetishization. Often the fetishization is sexual, sometimes not. (Academics and health professionals, when working with populations they’re not a part of, can and do dehumanize their subjects/patients in fetishizing ways.)
Fetishization involves:
“othering” a person for having traits you don’t - thinking of yourself as “normal” and them as something other than “normal” (exotification falls under this - “they’re hot because they’re different/exotic!”)
reducing the complex experiences of marginalised individuals into homogenized stereotypes and tidy little stories to be enjoyed by people unaffected by that form of oppression
treating oppressed people or groups of people as symbols, abstract ideas, aesthetic accessories, sexual objects, and/or props for your self-aggrandising “saviour” role or “spiritual journey”, etc., instead of as complex human beings with autonomy
creepy fascination that reduces real people to a “hobby” or “interest” for a person in an oppressor group
It’s an insidious form of objectification that’s extremely disrespectful and harmful. Not all types of interest are positive. If you’re intensely interested in a specific group of people that is a) marginalized/oppressed and b) not a group you are actually a part of, you should take a critical and honest look at whether you’re really seeing these people as your equals - equally complex, individual, autonomous, and human, with unique goals, priorities, and opinions of their own.
It’s unacceptable to treat people as though they exist for your consumption.
an entomologist rates ant emojis
Beautiful big almond eye, realistic and full of expression as she gazes gently at you. Elbowed antennae and delicately segmented legs and body. Gorgeous pearlescent sheen like she is glowing. This ant moisturizes. This ant is round and huggable. This ant is a star. 11/10.
Beautifully detailed, lifelike pose but with an unexpected neck and odd antennae, perhaps scared straight. Her eyes suggest she has seen things. Her expression confirms she has seen too much. She is haunted and I want to know more. 7/10.
Floppy antenna, pointy muppet face, oddly posed legs. What is she? She has no waist. May be she is some kind of bee in disguise? I find her unsettling. 3/10.
This ant has an unexplained, double-jointed thorax, and no evidence of a waist. Her four-footed pose suggests that she a centaur rather than an ant. Centaur ants would be cool. I’m not sure what was intended here. 2/10.
Good first impression, kind of bland in the details. This ant has no particular waist to speak of, floppy rather than elbowed antennae, and an inexpressive face. Her color scheme is soft and hazy. I like the sharp angles of her stylishly sophisticated legs. This ant may not know quite were she is going, but she knows how she is getting there. 6/10.
Were you even trying. 0/10
Gasp! This ant is elegant. This ant has a beautiful tapered thorax, a segmented abdomen, alert, elbowed antennae, and a light-footed pose. This ant’s face suggests curiosity and a desire to explore the world. This ant inspires me. I want to be like her. 10/10
3-legged, waistless centaur-ant with strange, limp antennae and a beak. I don’t know what this is? It kind of reminds me of a Hork-Bajir. 1/10, not an ant.
This ant… makes me sad. All of her legs are broken. The MS Paint art style and gradient abuse convey distress. She has a duck beak. Despite this, her expression suggests perseverance and determined cheerfulness. I want this ant to have a better life. I am rooting for her. 3/10
This ant is a bold and challenging mixture of photorealism and caricature. She is broad and low-built and seems very sturdy. She looks like she would help you move. This ant is a dependable friend. 9/10
A picture of an ant from a children’s book. She is wearing little boots. This ant is wrong in every way, and yet I can’t stay mad at her. 7/10
An interesting, top-down view of an ant; her legs are positioned with slightly jarring symmetry. Nevertheless, her overall impression is that of a graceful, stylized design, like a pictograph. She is suitable for adorning fine garments and jewelry or perhaps gracing the walls of a tiny ant church. I like this minimalist ant. 8/10.
This is a termite. -10/10
why are these all marked as “she”? don’t female ants have wings??? why bother adding the pronoun???
Alates (male and female reproductives) have wings. The queens shed their wings after they mate. The males die. The daughter workers do not have wings. If you see an ant without wings, it’s a she.
And honestly—why bother panicking about things being called “she”? It’s not like I need a reason to gender a bug. I do it all the time. It’s fun. It’s humanizing. They don’t care.
I’m calling this spider she right now. 🕷️ her name is delanie. she’s a lesbian.

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“1. push yourself to get up before the rest of the world - start with 7am, then 6am, then 5:30am. go to the nearest hill with a big coat and a scarf and watch the sun rise. 2. push yourself to fall asleep earlier - start with 11pm, then 10pm, then 9pm. wake up in the morning feeling re-energized and comfortable. 3. get into the habit of cooking yourself a beautiful breakfast. fry tomatoes and mushrooms in real butter and garlic, fry an egg, slice up a fresh avocado and squirt way too much lemon on it. sit and eat it and do nothing else. 4. stretch. start by reaching for the sky as hard as you can, then trying to touch your toes. roll your head. stretch your fingers. stretch everything. 5. buy a 1L water bottle. start with pushing yourself to drink the whole thing in a day, then try drinking it twice. 6. buy a beautiful diary and a beautiful black pen. write down everything you do, including dinner dates, appointments, assignments, coffees, what you need to do that day. no detail is too small. 7. strip your bed of your sheets and empty your underwear draw into the washing machine. put a massive scoop of scented fabric softener in there and wash. make your bed in full. 8. organise your room. fold all your clothes (and bag what you don’t want), clean your mirror, your laptop, vacuum the floor. light a beautiful candle. 9. have a luxurious shower with your favourite music playing. wash your hair, scrub your body, brush your teeth. lather your whole body in moisturiser, get familiar with the part between your toes, your inner thighs, the back of your neck. 10. push yourself to go for a walk. take your headphones, go to the beach and walk. smile at strangers walking the other way and be surprised how many smile back. bring your dog and observe the dog’s behaviour. realise you can learn from your dog. 11. message old friends with personal jokes. reminisce. suggest a catch up soon, even if you don’t follow through. push yourself to follow through. 13. think long and hard about what interests you. crime? sex? boarding school? long-forgotten romance etiquette? find a book about it and read it. there is a book about literally everything. 14. become the person you would ideally fall in love with. let cars merge into your lane when driving. pay double for parking tickets and leave a second one in the machine. stick your tongue out at babies. compliment people on their cute clothes. challenge yourself to not ridicule anyone for a whole day. then two. then a week. walk with a straight posture. look people in the eye. ask people about their story. talk to acquaintances so they become friends. 15. lie in the sunshine. daydream about the life you would lead if failure wasn’t a thing. open your eyes. take small steps to make it happen for you.”
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A self care list. I’ve been working on this. I promise it’s worth it.
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In an old joke from the defunct German Democratic Republic, a German worker gets a job in Siberia; aware of how all mail will be read by the censors, he tells his friends: ‘Let’s establish a code: if a letter you get from me is written in ordinary blue ink, it’s true; if it’s written in red ink, it’s false.’ After a month, his friends get the first letter, written in blue ink: ‘Everything is wonderful here: the shops are full, food is abundant, apartments are large and properly heated, cinemas show films from the West, there are many beautiful girls ready for an affair- the only thing you can’t get is red ink.’ The structure here is more refined than it might appear: although the worker is unable to signal that what he is saying is a lie in the prearranged way, he none the less succeeds in getting his message across- how? By inscribing the very reference to the code into the encoded message, as one of its elements. Of course, this is the standard problem of self-reference: since the letter is written in blue, is its entire content therefore not true? The answer is that the very fact that the lack of red ink is mentioned signals that it should have been written in red ink. The nice point is that this mention of the lack of red ink produces the effect of truth independently of its own literal truth: even if red ink really was available, the lie that it is unavailable is the only way to get the true message across in this specific condition of censorship. Is this not the matrix of an efficient critique of ideology –not only in 'totalitarian’ conditions of censorship but, perhaps even more, in the more refined conditions of liberal censorship? One starts by agreeing that one has all the freedoms one wants- then one merely adds that the only thing missing is the 'red ink’: we 'feel free’ because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom. What this lack of red ink means is that, today, all the main terms we use to designate the present conflict - 'war on terrorism’, 'democracy and freedom’, 'human rights’, and so on- are false terms, mystifying our perception of the situation instead of allowing us to think it. In this precise sense, our 'freedoms’ themselves serve to mask and sustain our deeper unfreedom. A hundred years ago, in his emphasis on the acceptance of some fixed dogma as the condition of (demanding) actual freedom, Gilbert Keith Chesterton perspicuously detected the antidemocratic potential of the very principle of freedom of thought: “We may say broadly that free thought is the best of all safeguards against freedom. Managed in a modern style, the emancipation of the slave’s mind is the best way of preventing the emancipation of the slave. Teach him to worry about whether he wants to be free, and he will not free himself.” Is this not emphatically true of our 'postmodern’ time, with its freedom to deconstruct, doubt, distantiate oneself? We should not forget that Chesterton makes exactly the same claim as Kant in his 'What is Enlightenment?’: 'Think as much as you like, and as freely as you like, just obey!’ The only difference is that Chesterton is more specific, and spells out the implicit paradox beneath the Kantian reasoning: not only does freedom of thought not undermine actual social servitude, it positively sustains it. The old motto 'Don’t think, obey!’ to which Kant reacts is counterproductive: it effectively breeds rebellion; the only way to secure social servitude is through freedom of thought. Chesterton is also logical enough to assert the obverse of Kant’s motto: the struggle for freedom needs a reference to some unquestionable dogma. In a classic line from a Hollywood screwball comedy, the girl asks her boyfriend: 'Do you want to marry me?’ 'No!’ 'Stop dodging the issue! Give me a straight answer!’ In a way, the underlying logic is correct: the only acceptable straight answer for the girl is 'Yes!’, so anything else, including a straight 'No!’, counts as evasion. This underlying logic, of course, is again that of the forced choice: you’re free to decide, on condition that you make the right choice. Would not a priest rely on the same paradox in a dispute with a sceptical layman? 'Do you believe in God?’ 'No.’ 'Stop dodging the issue! Give me a straight answer!’ Again, in the opinion of the priest, the only straight answer is to assert one’s belief in God: far from standing for a clear symmetrical stance, the atheist’s denial of belief is an attempt to dodge the issue of the divine encounter. And is it not the same today with the choice 'democracy or fundamentalism’? Is it not that, within the terms of this choice, it is simply not possible to choose 'fundamentalism’? What is problematic in the way the ruling ideology imposes this choice on us is not 'fundamentalism’ but, rather, democracy itself: as if the only alternative to 'fundamentalism’ is the political system of liberal parliamentary democracy.
Slavoj Zizek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real. (via linguisten)

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The Fluffiest Place on Earth: Miyagi Zao Fox Village (Shiroishi, Japan) ~ キツネ村
Nunca quisiste hacerle daño a las personas;
te tuvieron que romper en mil partes
para que tus pedazos empiecen a cortar a los demás.
Y no fue tu culpa,
fue del mundo.
To say, “This is my uncle,” in Chinese, you have no choice but to encode more information about said uncle. The language requires that you denote the side the uncle is on, whether he’s related by marriage or birth and, if it’s your father’s brother, whether he’s older or younger.
“All of this information is obligatory. Chinese doesn’t let me ignore it,” says Chen. “In fact, if I want to speak correctly, Chinese forces me to constantly think about it.”
This got Chen wondering: Is there a connection between language and how we think and behave? In particular, Chen wanted to know: does our language affect our economic decisions?
Chen designed a study — which he describes in detail in this blog post — to look at how language might affect individual’s ability to save for the future. According to his results, it does — big time.
While “futured languages,” like English, distinguish between the past, present and future, “futureless languages,” like Chinese, use the same phrasing to describe the events of yesterday, today and tomorrow. Using vast inventories of data and meticulous analysis, Chen found that huge economic differences accompany this linguistic discrepancy. Futureless language speakers are 30 percent more likely to report having saved in any given year than futured language speakers. (This amounts to 25 percent more savings by retirement, if income is held constant.) Chen’s explanation: When we speak about the future as more distinct from the present, it feels more distant — and we’re less motivated to save money now in favor of monetary comfort years down the line.
But that’s only the beginning. There’s a wide field of research on the link between language and both psychology and behavior. Here, a few fascinating examples:
Navigation and Pormpuraawans In Pormpuraaw, an Australian Aboriginal community, you wouldn’t refer to an object as on your “left” or “right,” but rather as “northeast” or “southwest,” writes Stanford psychology professor Lera Boroditsky (and an expert in linguistic-cultural connections) in the Wall Street Journal. About a third of the world’s languages discuss space in these kinds of absolute terms rather than the relative ones we use in English, according to Boroditsky. “As a result of this constant linguistic training,” she writes, “speakers of such languages are remarkably good at staying oriented and keeping track of where they are, even in unfamiliar landscapes.” On a research trip to Australia, Boroditsky and her colleague found that Pormpuraawans, who speak Kuuk Thaayorre, not only knew instinctively in which direction they were facing, but also always arranged pictures in a temporal progression from east to west.
Blame and English Speakers In the same article, Boroditsky notes that in English, we’ll often say that someone broke a vase even if it was an accident, but Spanish and Japanese speakers tend to say that the vase broke itself. Boroditsky describes a study by her student Caitlin Fausey in which English speakers were much more likely to remember who accidentally popped balloons, broke eggs, or spilled drinks in a video than Spanish or Japanese speakers. (Guilt alert!) Not only that, but there’s a correlation between a focus on agents in English and our criminal-justice bent toward punishing transgressors rather than restituting victims, Boroditsky argues.
Color among Zuñi and Russian Speakers Our ability to distinguish between colors follows the terms in which we describe them, as Chen notes in the academic paper in which he presents his research (forthcoming in the American Economic Review; PDF here). A 1954 study found that Zuñi speakers, who don’t differentiate between orange and yellow, have trouble telling them apart. Russian speakers, on the other hand, have separate words for light blue (goluboy) and dark blue (siniy). According to a 2007 study, they’re better than English speakers at picking out blues close to the goluboy/siniy threshold.
Gender in Finnish and Hebrew In Hebrew, gender markers are all over the place, whereas Finnish doesn’t mark gender at all, Boroditsky writes in Scientific American (PDF). A study done in the 1980s found that, yup, thought follows suit: kids who spoke Hebrew knew their own genders a year earlier than those who grew up speaking Finnish. (Speakers of English, in which gender referents fall in the middle, were in between on that timeline, too.)
This doesn’t surprise me. I’d also propose that since Chinese has no plural nouns, only context, that a greater sense of belonging to a group or community is present among native Chinese speakers, while English speakers feel more individualistic.
So I feel like everyone should immediately go read Ted Chiang’s amazing SF short story “The Story of Your Life,” which is about learning an alien language that has an emphasis on knowing how the sentence about to spoken will end — which leads to an overall advanced understanding of time itself.
It’s a fantastic story. It’ll massively fuck with your mind. Read it.
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Illustrated Cities of Europe Nick Matej
This is a poster I was recently commissioned to do for Great Little Place. GLP is an app that has been created with the sole aim of presenting you with the hidden and less known bars and restaurants around you, or an area you are planning to visit. I was given a list of fifteen European cities for which I had to create illustrations depicting famous landmarks and unique architectural styles.
Images and text via Nick Matej GIF by archatlas

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Old English, why do you have this word? Why?
More dragons back then.