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my main thing is that it's mega FUCKING frustrating when black people vent about our experiences with antiblackness in left leaning spaces only to get ignored because non black people genuinely think they're being a nuisance but yall only become annoying if you derail our points or speak over us.
and it's more frustrating when a white person basically repeats our points and have people feel more comfortable interacting with them because they are scared of the angry negro. black people only matter as a hypothetical and when it comes time to really listen to us we are talked over and ignored.
i genuinely try to stay compose and not tweak out over it but it's so discouraging that people only want to interact with us black people and our issues from a 10 ft pole while claiming to be our allies. it's performativity like that that gets us put in danger + drowns our voices out, it's why I keep asking y'all to boost black voices. not just mine, but the black people around you. especially your friends or family.
Big peeve: people increasingly using the apostrophe for plurals. Most recent was a fic from an author I like had like “just two gay’s”. Gay’s what? Is the thing that belongs to the gay in the room with us? No, cause it’s actually plural!
I had to learn this shit! I remember being in english class and explicitly being told that the apostrophe is for possessive. And if you’ve got a name like Marcus, then it’s «Marcus’» not «Marcus’s». I’ve made peace with people getting this one wrong, it’s unintuitive, I get it. But the plural peeves me to no end. Do kids not learn this in school? Do you only learn it if you’re in english classes for non-native speakers?
And it’s become so ubiquitous that I just know it’s gonna be accepted as correct in a couple decades/centuries - until the dictionary catches up. Correct language is the language that people use. And I mean, sure, I can understand what they’re trying to say, so it’s not that big of a deal. But I just know it’s gonna become another one of those things that makes english not make any sense, “Why is this a rule in english? Because fuck you that’s why” and you’re gonna need a linguist on tiktok to explain why some plurals have apostrophes and some don’t. It’s not even unintuitive, can they please proofread their fics that they post, if not their comments and dms??
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Marcus' vs. Marcus's is a stylistic choice. Just keep it consistent within a single work.
This other thing is called a greengrocer's apostrophe and it is a plague.
That said, the jokey name was apparently coined in the 1950s yet this misuse still shows no sign of mainstream acceptance. You can relax.
“some style guides”
why can't you have the one why English speakers make English so complicated
you know like the Royal academy of Spanish language
there's one single “style guide” and it is the law of language
whatever doesn't follow it is wrong and that's it
good for autism: clear rules
the royal in the title might give it away
it's a good thing that there isn't some body of coughracistcough elitist assholes making decrees about which words are illegal
I thought we all agreed it was stupid when France did that
To be fair, when I've looked at the RAE dictionary, it has a lot of "This term is used only in Bolivia" and a lot less "How dare you borrow internet words from English!!!!"
(But I suppose I might as well ask: if you have one single authority, when should I use el voseo: never or always? You can only pick one!)
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Anyway, for my many non-native English speaker friends out there, I wasn't joking about the peasant thing.
Yes, lots of highfalutin European stuff was in Latin until recently, but some European languages were at least a language of power some time before the last five minutes. English kings spent a good few centuries speaking French and not giving a toss about English. Even after the courts and such went back to being in English during the middle ages, we retained a giant inferiority complex towards Latin and French and a lot of standards for English didn't get codified until the last few centuries. The US in particular decided to make up lots of new spellings to prove how not English it was. Now that the US is very, very powerful but obviously not the origin of English, it's impossible to go back to a state where a single authority would be possible.
The result is that our authorities are several, and they're often more descriptive than prescriptive, like the OED or Merriam-Webster, or they're style guides that are telling you how you should write to match their standard but aren't necessarily ruling out other standards existing, like the Chicago Manual of Style.
We're a bunch of fractious peasants. The OED is as good an authority as you're going to get.
For the record, linguists have a very poor view of the Royal Academy and the Académie Française and similar institutions. Like, little to no respect. It's not exclusively a thing with English—not that OTNF was claiming it was exclusive to English, just that I think it's worth saying.
The general consensus among linguists these days is that descriptivism > prescriptivism for the purposes of understanding and researching language, although prescriptivism isn't always a bad thing in practice; marginalised groups asking people to use their preferred terminology rather than exonyms or slurs, for instance, is one of the forms of prescriptivism we can get behind. (Rejecting the prescriptivist custom of sternly correcting that to "behind which we can get" is also something we can get behind.) When it comes to lexicographers (i.e. the linguists who write and maintain dictionaries) documenting something once it's common enough, they will generally still include a note if it's proscribed, i.e. rejected as incorrect by prescriptivist individuals or prescriptive style guides.
Yeah. I was just laughing at the idea that Spanish has one single standard.
Spanish is a lot more regular than English, especially in the spelling, and that can make it easier for second language learners, but you can't tell me that a language with multiple versions of the second person has one standard. Does the informal second person plural get its own thing or not? Which version of the informal second person singular is correct?
Who gets to win? Mexico City? Madrid? Probably not Rioplatense.
I'm sorry, but having to deal with 'curb' vs. 'kerb' or different punctuation styles is not more complicated than dealing with a whole ass conjugation that simply doesn't exist in some dialects.
I like clear rules too, but this is not how language works. Neurodivergence or no, it is a mistake to think about language this way or to seek this out. Plenty of neurodivergent language nerds have learned this lesson.
scientists in the 1990s, putting a Get More Purple gene attached to a harmless plant virus into an already purple petunia: please get more purple
the petunia, sensing an apparent honest to god Get More Purple Disease, using the previously undiscovered RNAi antiviral ability to shut down all other purple genes along with it just in case: you put VIRUS in petunia? you infect her with the More Purple?? oh! oh! her children shall bloom white! jail for mother, jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!
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researching the history of education in japan and learning that, pre–Meiji Restoration, peasants/commoners formed their own schools to become educated because it was the best way of fighting tax fraud.
That is, when an official told you, a rice farmer, that you owed more taxes than you really did, it was very useful if you were good enough at math to know he was lying (and could prove it) and if you were good enough at writing to write a letter to your government defending your case.
all of which is to say it's crazy that mega-corporations are now pushing education to be "what if you paid us whatever we tell you to for the rest of your life and never do math or write anything ever again"
Colombia passed a landmark law June 4 aimed at improving traceability of its cattle supply chain to ensure beef isn’t sourced from deforeste
This June, Colombia passed a law to enhance its ability to trace cattle that have been grazing on illegally deforested land. Officials will be able to implement stricter registration and monitoring in deforestation hot spots and within the next two years all parts of the cattle and meat-packing industries will be required to implement due diligence measures.
"Conservation groups said if the law works as intended, the country could make unprecedented progress in the fight against illegal deforestation."
idk i just feel like "it is more acceptable and in fact encouraged to mock anything enjoyed primarily by women" and "being enjoyed primarily by women does not make thing feminist and righteous" are thoughts that can and should coexist
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hating racists is good ! but if youre only hating the oppressor and not uplifting the oppressed all you are doing is using a performative method to direct your anger at. being angry is good, but its not enough. you have to love too. uplift the ones that should be uplifted. celebrate black art and culture and people. celebrate blackness for the beauty it is
Gardening can get pretty technical at times, and you’ll find a number of words and terms peppered around this site which you may be unfamiliar with.
To help, I’ve included this glossary of terms as a way to acquaint yourself with the wonderful world of regenerative gardening.
All definitions come directly from Merriam-Webster, Oxford English Dictionary, or Wikipedia unless otherwise noted. All credit goes to these websites.
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US based but it’s similar reasons in other countries. and of course many companies have international locations. idk if that’s why it’s happening with sour patch kids but this is a thing
My nephew is very allergic to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, and sesame. Last year my sister discovered all hot dogs and hamburger buns now contain sesame. Not "may contain", but listed in the ingredients. This year basically every brand of sliced bread also now contains sesame, making it very difficult to find bread items he can eat.
They're just adding it to their products, so they can just list it as an ingredient and not bother with worrying about cross contamination. And they aren't even bothering with telling anyone. Capitalism is going to kill us all.
"Which brings us back to Kellogg’s. Back in 2016, the company found a way around the added burden and expense of complying with the FSMA: they simply began adding trace amounts of peanut flour to their cracker products. Doing so allowed them to list peanuts as an ingredient of the product, freeing them from having to prevent cross-contact.
At the time, Kellogg’s notified Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE) about the impending change and left it to them to warn the allergic community. In this case, Pearson’s didn’t even bother as near as we can tell."
I wonder if that’s part of the reason behind my seeing an upswing in products adding corn starch or corn flour to things that didn’t have those before? <- rhetorical question, because I’m certain that’s what’s going on.
About the Disability Pride Flag
(its design & meaning)
Because:
A) I see it around the Internet where the proportions are off, and I think people are copy/pasting from different thumbnail images that come up in search results, and not clicking through to get the original. It's not a big deal, but it causes a hiccup in my brain whenever I see it.
and
B) There's been some discussion in the Disability Community here on Tumblr on what the precise symbolism should be, and it's changed a bit and gotten complicated. So I want to simplify and broaden it, so it can be explained to curious Normate folk -- without going into a 15 minute explanation of social constructs.
So I'm making a fresh post right now to put all that stuff together.
I'm gonna leave the detailed description of the flag design's proportions just in the alt text (so that people with screen readers know what they are, without having to listen to it twice)
The width of each colored stripe is proportional to the overall width of the flag, but I decided to leave the general proportions of the flag flexible (so it's easier for people to make one based on what materials they can find -- just in case there's a need for a protest sign for a pop-up rally).
The Meaning (Short Version -- what to tell someone who asks while you're waiting for the elevator)
6 colors represent how the Disability Community is Global
The 5 colors in the middle represent how diverse that community is
The black is inspired by pirate flags: rage at injustice, fighting back
The stripes are diagonal to represent cutting through barriers.
The in-depth reasons behind the meaning (Long Version -- If you actually want a 15+ minute discussion of social constructs and history)
The flag has all 6 'standard' colors recognized in international flags, to represent how the Disability Community is bound together by their varied, but shared, experiences, rather than geographical or political affiliation (borrowing that symbolism from Olympic Flag, which represents the global community of athletes -- also bound together by their shared experiences and aspirations).
The five colors cutting across the center of the flag represent the diversity of the Disabled Community, both in terms of physical conditions and in terms of the social-political-economic ways by which disability is understood in society. (No longer trying to assign a specific meaning to any of the individual colors)
The stripes begin centered in the top corner because that's where the "canton" of a flag is, and in flag code, that's the place of highest honor; this is where the stars are in the U.S flag, and also the stars in the flag for the People's Republic of China, and the Union Jack in Australia's flag. It cuts all the way to the end that flies in the wind to show our striving for freedom.
The field is black because Pirates!, yes. But it's also in recognition of the Black Triangle Badge (link goes to Wikipedia), which the Nazis used to mark out a wide range of people in their concentration camps, including the Disabled, that they considered "asocial." And it's in solidarity with the UK-based Black Triangle Campaign (link goes to deathbywelfare.org, from 2010), protesting cuts to disability benefits, and reclassifying disabled people "fit for work."
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also this is a psa from mod 2: unless you live on farmland and have given them a job please. keep your cat indoors.
I saw a beautiful handsome cat today who was outdoors begging for food and attention while I was on a delivery, full on laying down comfortably in the middle of the road. A very pleasent conversationalist, he accompanied me to the delivery door and let me pet him all over before he went to lazing under a nearby tree cause i refused to let him lay in the middle of the road again. Then not even 10 minutes later i head on the freeway and see a different, very much dead cat flattened on the pavement.
I do not care what your opinion is. i had to hold back every fiber of my being not to turn back and take that elegant creature home. I will take your outdoor cat home to keep it safe because you cannot be responsible enough to care for your cat. Thanks
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