S T A Y G O L D

Keep thinking about when my therapist explained to me that believing you are cursed is another form of believing you are special and I was like okay I see it

He’s trying his best ok 🥺

GET YOUR BODY OUT OF SURVIVAL MODE SO YOU CAN CREATE FROM YOUR HEART

Also shout-out to the Swedes for just borrowing the French "adieu" into their vocabulary and just spelling it "adjö"

German has borrowed the italian "Ciau", spelling it "Tschau" and only using it as a goodby instead of also a greeting.

I had completely forgotten about this, this is fantastic.

If you enjoyed "ciao" becoming "tschau", you'll definitely want to hear where "tschüss" (German, also meaning "goodbye") comes from!

I mean the french very much aren't getting away with it. Everyone else is taking their language and running off with it cackling with glee. We're all getting away with fucking up french words on purpose

#English loves french so much it steals the same fucking word a few centuries apart so it gets two words that have the same meaning#But different spellings -#Like guarantee/warranty#(aside: There was a w/g shift so you can see if the word showed up with the normans or got nicked later#Which is why for e.g. the english call it wales and the french call it pays de galls)#Catch/chase#Gender/genre

official linguistics post

The other day my French stepdad said "toute à l'heure" for goodbye/see you later, and the way it sounded like "toodle-oo!" hit me like a brick

[ID. Text reading " Dog days are over, and here comes September. Not autumn yet,; simply September, which can be as sweltering as mid-july and as chill as late October, and usually manages to be both. " End ID.]