Unofficial Linguistics Posts

There's cultural relativism and then there's naive anglocentric cultural dipshitism where you go "well, they have a word for a thing you put on your foot to protect it from the environment, but that word doesn't NECESSARILY translate to shoe because they make them differently from how we make shoes, so really they don't have a concept of a shoe the way we understand shoes, and also they have a more spiritual understanding of covering your feet when going outside, so really it's completely different" and then you ask someone from the culture in question, and they're like "yeah that word just means shoe."

Cultural dipshitism is a good way to put it

as you know one of the problems of english is that you can't capitalize "I" for emphasis because it's already capitalized

Imagine if we did the “public libraries are punk” thing for other subcultures. Imagine if people made shirts that said “Soup kitchens are grunge” or “Mixed Use Urbanism is Juggalo”.

lexicalization strikes again

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I’m having a stroke

Huh, must've been the wind

Official unlinguistics post??

this is my Germanic heritage.

#‘el pastel promedio tiene tres leches’ es en realidad un error estadístico. El pastel promedio tiene 0 leches. Leches Georg#quien vive en una cueva y absorbe 10.000 leches al día#es un valor atípico qeu no debería haberse contado (via @deathbycoldopen)

I don't speak Spanish but I understand every word

I appreciate 'adn' being preserved in the form of 'qeu', that's absolutely beautiful.

This might be my favorite thing I’ve reblogged

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It’s fun to use contractions inappropriately, but it’s hard to explain why that’s

thats a common interest we've

Yeah, but people get annoyed by it, like when you throw soda cans in the trash can’t the recycle bin

That last one’s personal

the quick brown fox lowkey mogs the lazy dog

The quick brown fox just low-key vibe mogged the lazy chopped dog

The quickpilled brown fox vibemogs lazy chud dogcel by jumpmaxxing

ya empezaron con "memes that transcend languages" cuando son palabras obvias

anglofonos cuando reconocen cognados:

favorite type of word: names of genres that tell you nothing without context. literary fiction. popular music. interactive fiction. lets invent a new genre called experiencable media

Visual novel and graphic novel are two entirely different things.

I've got two things inside me. 1. transgenderisms and 2. loving life

Transgenderisms is plural, so 2 types of things would be more accurate

Can you swap their heads ?

look if you were to push me id probably agree that the pursuit of truth is, like any other pursuit of perfection, a process without a true terminus. fine. but you and i are going to have to agree that words describe things that exist if we're going to get anywhere. stop deflecting.

pluto isn't a planet