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oops this was meant for my sideblog where I roleplay one of those rom com manga premises where im like have to tutor my crush. This is from the bit towards the end just before the cliche apocalypse arc

“Sleep like a baby,” is such a stupid fucking phrase, considering that it's a known stereotype that babies fucking SUCK at sleeping.

Fun fact: This phrase actually began ironically! The phrase "sleep like a baby" exists because babies hate sleeping more than anything else in the world, and people used it in this way as a sarcastic jab at people who could sleep well. In fact, early usage may have even been attempting to convey that the speaker "wished babies could sleep like you/them". Over time though, the phrase lost its irony, and became more literal, but retained the backwards meaning.

"comparing apples and oranges" has always been funny to me as an expression because people's go to exampe of two things so radically different that they defy any useful comparison are apples. and oranges. like you would struggle to find a more comparable pair of objects than that. theyre literally sold right next to each other in most stores.

the persistence of "he or she" makes me slightly insane. youre willing to adapt and learn nearly every other linguistic change in modern times but yet you stlll refuse the singular they, which has been around longer than you've been alive. annoying.

I'm a nerd about properly securing cargo--load nets, ratchet straps, tarps, bungee cords, everything designed to transport stuff from A to B. Idk how to describe that category of interest.

so funny that humans imagined a creature that is like a human but bigger and called it a “giant”. that’s such an uncreative name. that’s just an adjective. “it’s a giant!” “a giant what?!” “a giant… um. yeah. giant.”

god i fucking love language so much

It's sometimes remarked that English is weird for being a Germanic language that only allows a specific list of compound words, but really you can create any compound you want as long as you use a hyphen, with a specific list of compounds where you're allowed to leave the hyphen out, and that's actually way weirder.

sometimes language families fuck me up a bit. like hi we used to sit around the same fire and we saw the same birds flying south and our children climbed in the same trees but then we parted ways and now we might not understand each other at all but maybe we can still recognize each others words for the moon.

The thai for “5″ is pronounced roughly “Ha”, and so where english internets would generally put “lol” or something, they put “555555555″.

a really little animated black cat with giant eyes and no other discernible features

That’s just how black cats be

My boyfriend's parents are reassuringly fine with us coming over to play with little toy soldiers with his brother. With lego structures for makeshift obstacles to block line of sight and give shelter from gunfire and zombies. They're just completely chill with seeing us - two grown-ass men and my boyfriend's little brother, who is 16 - standing around the kitchen table, with a little war arrangement covering the whole table, dead serious while trying to figure out simple addition math and no longer being sure what 12+2 makes.