#happilyetherafter

I don’t really have a specific favorite, but anything with a noodle neck or where you can see ribs makes me wince. 

what REALLY gets my back up though is when aquatic reptiles are portrayed as weird chunky bionicle nightmares instead of the properly streamlined oceangoing predators that they were! (looking at YOU, Amazing Dinoworld. I EXPECTED BETTER.)

HATE. HHAAAAAAATE.

STILL VERY BAD.

Better!

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havfiske: tilthat: TIL that the words “made”...

I want to know about “go” and “went”!

oh yes those bastards

TWO DIFFERENT VERBS in old english

I mean

OLD English, as in, Anglo-Saxon, as in, pre-Norman. so, when our infinitives weren’t ‘to do’ but a single word ending with -an or -en like modern German.

so

we had two verbs for “to go[/proceed/walk/move]”

“gan” and “wenden”

now, mostly in English as it evolved we’d either have split hairs over subtle variants of meaning and preserved both - eg, when we imported the French word for ‘swan’ we assigned it to the meaning ‘baby swan’ (cygnet) and kept the Germanic for the species or adult - or we’d just stop using one and glomp the meanings together under one word if the distinction wasn’t important at the time

well

no

not this time

NOT THIS VERB

‘gan’ became MOSTLY the verb for ‘to go’

but ‘wenden’ did not vanish

we kept it in one tiny tiny archaic form which only appears now in the phrase ‘to wend one’s way’. which also has a sort of vagueness and adventure and indirectness to it by association with ‘wander’ and ‘wind’ - you can’t imagine ‘wending your way’ in a straight line!

BUT ALSO

we used it for the

PAST FORM OF THE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT VERB

I go, you go, he/she goes, we go, you (plural) go, they go - good, normal, regular ‘why do you not conjugate your verbs better you ridiculous language’ English

I have gone, I am going, the things are gone - again, slightly irregular due to being a commonly used verb but well within the bounds of regular irregularity

but

I WENT

what

wtf english what happened there

oh, i just swapped out the past participle of one verb with the regular past form of another verb

a verb that doesn’t exist anymore

I get vivid dreams but it never really disrupts my rest.

errrr well considering I knew fuck all about Ese prior to Lottie answering that ask, I asked her and: 

Man I feel that wrt the bleeding. I had a low placenta and that would happen to me :/