scone butch

“what’s up with you and vampires, man?” we don’t have the time to discuss this

@endreal

I know this is going to make me sound extremely "old man yells at could", but I feel like the concept of "Civic Duty" needs to be brought up in our conversations on the left more often. Like, you do have a responsibility and a duty of care for the world around you. You have a duty to make it a better place, not one you should "get in trouble" for failing, but one you should at the very least strive to uphold.

it will be a full decade this october and will still never forgive them for calling a yaoi "yuri on ice"

looking at your page i get the impression that my use of language is not actually the thing that offended you enough to reply to this post

okay, i'm sure this has been addressed in the notes already, but i just... i have to check myself... this person does know that yuri as in lesbian romance stories is also a Japanese word. ...right?

the "language is a social construct, therefore linguistic misinformation is impossible. any claim about language is true if enough people say it is" misconception is of course annoying when applied to stuff like grammar because it's wrong in a nuanced way that's important to explain correctly to avoid spreading even worse ideas about language. but with etymology it's like. no that's not even the part of language that's a social construct, you're making a claim about history. this is something that you really shouldn't think you can just make up

language changes over time but a popular tumblr post claiming that a figure of speech from the bible is actually the short version of its own comeback isn't language changing

btw one of the main tells for false etymology posts online is that they often are presented as something the poster "realized", as opposed to "learned". as though historical facts about how language has evolved are things that you can figure out on your own by thinking about words hard enough

the fantasy lesbian adventurer is immune to the seductive evil sorceress's feminine wiles because she's butch4butch

this is exactly why any evil sorceress worth her salt keeps a towering knightgirl in gleaming black armor "on retainer"

well it's one of two reasons anyway

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