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Clouds are histrionic
You know when you learn a new 'high' word and you use it to describe literally everything? Yeah that's what happened here =)
#clouds#histrionic#I learnt a new word#nature#sky#aeroplane#aesthetic#airport#travel#flight#two flights#rain#rainy season vibes#photographers on tumblr#photography#original photography#original photographers#photoblog#photolog#plog
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can you miss someone you never knew? someone you never met? someone who doesn't know you?
#skz#stray kids#AAAAAA#moodboard?#yes i guess#moodboard#i learnt a new word#'saudade'#longing or missing something beloved that is absent#STREAM THUNDEROUS ITS SO CLOSE TO 300M
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1x19 - Tomorrow Is Yesterday
#i learnt a new word Computations - the action of mathematical calculation#jim kirk#spock#leonard mccoy#tomorrow is yesterday#trekedit#originalposts*
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People who appreciate my vocabulary don't know that I learn all my fancy douchebag vocabulary from Tom Riddle and Hannibal Lecter and honestly, it's the most amusing inside joke I have with myself
#desiblr#suffer ye suhana nahi#desi tumblr#hannibal lecter#tom riddle#i learnt three new words today while reading tomarry#bahahahahahahah i cant wait to use them on people
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King-Ohger's 2nd Photobook
« A Bond Connected by Moffun. & Racles!? »
Release date: Nov 30, 2023
Price: ￥2,750 (tax incl.)
Publisher's summary:
From the front cover, Himeno, Rita, Morfonia; Read it backwards for Kaguragi, Suzume, Racles.
The theme of Himeno, Rita and Morfonia's photoshoot is "First Step". Wanting to become closer, Himeno came to Rita's side. With Rita's retainer, Morfonia, the three began to build up a friendship. They played the card game "old maid", enjoyed Himeno's piano recital, and took a walk in nature under the sunny sky.
The theme of Kaguragi, Suzume and Racles's photoshoot is "Ambivalence". Has it reached the trigger point between Kaguragi and Racles surrounding Suzume?! What will Suzume do? Between the complicated three, a heart-pounding, heart-racing, sometimes heartwarming (?) photoshoot, don't miss it!
Since the full-body gallery is well-received in the last photobook, on top of that for these six characters, an emotion gallery is added this time. Happiness, anger, sadness and joy. Whether with body language or just their gaze, the nuance in the emotions of these characters is a must-see.
Besides the photoshoots are two special trio interviews.
In the interview with Murakami Erica, Hirakawa Yuzuki and Hasegawa Kasumi, learn the secret behind Rita and Morfonia's kabedon scene, a comparison between when they first met and now, as well as their creative side leading to the title of this volume.
Examine the psyche of their indecipherable characters with Kaku So, Kamura Mami and Yano Masato. Kaguragi's state of mind, Suzume's love for Racles, and Racles's opinion of Suzume. From the private episodes of "the adult cast" of Team 30s, you can get a taste of their harmony throughout, in contrast to the show.
Pre-order bonus:
7-net 1 ✦ 7-net 2 ✦ Animate
Rakuten 1 ✦ Rakuten 2 ✦ Honto
#kingohger#kingohger merch#photobook#i learnt so many new word from this 😅😆#old maid. shinkou wo fukameru. ambivalence. inscrutable. harahara. hokkori suru. kou gokitai. miburi teburi. wakiaiai. ajiwau.#ko news
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my dramatic ass pacing circles in the kitchen like im never writing anything ever again bc nothing feels great anymore it just feels good and apparently i will not apply myself even to my most longterm and beloved passion if i can't feel prodigious at it. fym ur gonna stop trying altogether ur also gonna get ur period in the next few days but im sure there's no correlation
#trying to write and rereading it like the pacing is off the characterisation is stale the dialogue is blocky#and i can't get the concept down the way i want so im perpetually stuck in that 'on the tip of your tongue' feeling#and i cant read things to pass the time not even fics bc im too busy psychoanalysing every single sentence#trying to find some hidden thing that makes this writing better than mine how can this writer get it when i just cant what's wrong with me#and it's all so GODDAMN FRUSTRATING. but aside that im being really calm about it <3#i can't remember the last time i wrote something and felt genuinely proud of it. i always get very intense long periods of writer's block#and i know i'll come out the other end bc i'll find a new obsession and write 20k words of my best work in one night#and feel like i snorted three lines off a toilet seat in berghain. but also What If This Time Im Just Broken#hi im a girl in my twenties who never learnt from my own behaviour!
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Why are languages similar to each other?
Let's talk about the way languages are connected to each other!
First, the obvious one...
Language families!
Languages with a common origin form a language family. Language evolves and changes over time, so populations speaking the same language in different places will over hundreds of years form different languages since they evolve in different ways. Now imagine one of those daughter languages splitting again and again... Soon there's a whole family of related but mutually unintelligible languages!
So, are all language families big? And how many are there?
We have two giants with over a thousand languages each: Atlantic-Congo languages and Austronesian languages. Some families have a couple hundred languages, like the famous prototypical examle Indo-European languages. Most families have lots fewer though, only a sixth of all 237 language families contain more than ten languages.
Some languages don't have any relatives and they're called isolates. At present, 184 languages count as isolates, among them Basque and Sandawe.
Some languages are unclassified, as there's too little data to draw conclusions. Family membership is based on comparing cognates, words that have the same origin and whose sound changes can be reconstructed back to the origin (like English 'two', Swedish 'två' and German 'zwei'). It's also common for close relatives to have similar grammar or other features. An example is that Austronesian languages often have fewer consonants.
Language contact!
Two languages meet. What happens? Loans, probably.
Languages borrow things from each other all the time. Words, sounds, grammatical structures and features (like prefixes or suffixes), changing the meaning of something, literally translating words and making up words in the style of another language are all things that happen. Fun loan word facts might be its own post as there's a lot to say about them, for now I only need to establish the fact that language contact probably leads to borrowing stuff and that you can borrow more than words.
Did you know that English didn't have the sound v until it borrowed too many French words with v? Before that, v wasn't recognised as its own sound, just a variant of f that happened sometimes. That's why knives are a thing. Knifes.
There are more levels of similarity due to contact! In areas where languages from different families or different branches from the same family meet and mingle for a long time, they might evolve to become more similar and share some features that might be uncommon globally or uncommon among closer relatives in other areas. These unrelated (or not very closely related) languages share some features, like certain scounds and grammar things. This is called a Sprachbund with a German word. It's possible to say 'linguistic area' or something like that, but it's not as well established and in my opinion sounds worse.
Certain features of a language can also be common in some areas, but not in others. One example is tone; it's very common in sub-saharan Africa and southeastern Asia, but only exists sporadically in other parts of the world. Why? Related languages tend to share features, but language contact definitely plays a role, as unrelated languages have tone. It's language contact!
The point is: Languages that have lots of contact might be similar because of that. Languages are usually influenced both by family origin and by the languages they come into contact with, which makes things interesting.
Onto the last thing I wanted to discuss:
Contact languages!
These arise when speakers of vastly different languages meet and have to communicate, but there isn't a lingua franca. There are two major reasons why this happens: either for commerce or because of slavery or other colonialistic practices.
Anyways, they're pretty interesting! The first kind of contact language that forms is called a pidgin. Its vocabulary is limited and the grammar is simple. There are no native speakers and you can only use it in a few domains (like being able to talk about commerce but not politics).
Now, imagine a community of people speaking this pidgin, made by improvising until something sticks. There are words and a little bit of grammar. Over time it will get a bit more complex, but still no native speakers. Then some of them form families and have children, who grow up speaking the pidgin.
And this is where the magic happens: children have an amazing ability to invent language by making generalisations and improvise until they can speak about anything. There are examples of children deprived of language coming up with entire languages if left alone (like the Deaf school in Nicaragua which tried to teach lip reading and not sign language, but the children came up with a sign language on their own that they started teaching instead). Children will fill in the gaps in the pidgin and give it a more complex structure.
After some time of this the pidgin turns into a creole. The line between them is blurry and unclear, but a creole is a fully realised language that you can speak about anything in, just like all other languages. It also has native speakers.
There's a common way pidgins and creoles are structured: usually one language is used as the base for words, but they're changed and reanalysed to mean something else. This language has often been the colonial power's language: there are a number of English and French based creoles for example.
The grammar on the other hand is usually taken from the other language(s). In the slavery cases, slaves were often taken from many different ethnic groups that might speak similar but mutually unintelligeble languages, or just very different languages, which means that those creoles draw on features from many languages. Of course, words can be based on any of the involved languages, but it's common that one makes up an overwhelming majority. The creoles are still unintelligible for speakers of the language it's based on.
This was all for now! Languages interact with each other in interesting ways and similarities can have many reasons.
#linguistics fun fact time!#best non english word tournament#linguistics#I really had no idea how to end this post but here you go#hope you liked it and learnt something new!#please tell me if you appreciated this#I need it as motivation to continue making these long posts
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November 11, 2011 - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Source: Mark Thompson/Getty Images
#I just learnt this new word 'twink' and apparently I am one#rocky already knows#sebastian vettel#red bull racing#red bull seb#Guillaume Rocquelin#2011#f1#formula 1#sv5
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black cat #11 (2019) - full metal black cat part 1 by c.f. villa
[ID: 4 panels featuring black cat with alternating backgrounds in the color of purple and white.
1st panel: felicia from the waist up, she is wearing sunglasses and has her arms crossed in front of her. she is wearing a yellow jacket with white across the chest and black on the edges and a white undershirt underneath. she is facing right and her hair is up in a ponytail. 2nd panel: felicia is facing straight ahead, she is grabbing her sunglasses with her right hand, and holding it with her mouth. her left arm is crossed. 3rd panel: she is facing to the right, her fingers are held together underneath her chin. 4th panel: felicia is shown from the back, she has one arm crossed behind her back. she is wearing sunglasses. /end ID]
#blackcatedit#marveledit#felicia hardy#comicedit#feliciahardyedit#cindyfelicia#my stuff#*#**#marvel*#comics*#hbd!!!! <3333#sadly no maps this year but there was almost a document!#i learnt a new word writing this id lmao
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I AM DOWN FOR UR DATE IDEA
OKAY GOING UP RIGHT NOW WATCH YOUR BACK PROBABILITY GANDU
#👍🏼new word i learnt today while people were guessing what i said to my dad did i use it right#maimo <3
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I don't fucking know shit in this world, I am not all knowing like the shifting mound but
I feel like I'm looking into a mirror when I see her/it
I don't know how to explain it, it just do
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There's a person at my sixth form college who literally comes in everyday in 10th Doctor cosplay (the suit, the coat, the hair, everything) and it's the coolest thing we've ever seen but me and my whovian friends are too awkward to go up to them and tell them that.
#I hope they know how cool they are for doing that#I hope they know that in private everyone's talking about them but in the best way possible#Other news: my auntie learnt the word Whovian and wouldn't stop using it while we were watching the Christmas special#Doctor who#David Tennant#Tenth doctor#Doctor who cosplay#Text post
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Watched search for spock earlier. It truly is in the Kirk genes to fight in the weirdest way possible. Sadly jr lacked the plot armour that senior has and got kebabbed by a klingon. It was not a dignified last fight for him. I blame Jim.
#trek shit#i'm joking to be clear but also it's true#i... do not resonate with this plot line no matter how much i try#honestly i have extremely harsh opinions of s3 of stp and That Plot for how it wasn't only bad but badly written but#honestly i think they did that riff better on That than on this#also i just learnt that kebabbed is an accepted word in the dictionary. learn something new every day.
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#zettai bl#a man who defies the world of bl#learnt a new japanese word ✌️#if i knew japanese i would totally translate this for y'all but alas...#the scene is coloured red and blue for sonoi and tarou btw ty for listening#whoever did the lighting for this scene... i am going to murder u#.mine#thank u tominaga 😁👍🏻
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‼‼DISCOURSE ALERT‼‼ but i saw someone post saying "i want to start using more simpler words to be more inclusive to people who have english as their second language & people who didnt have the sane access to education that i had" and one of the examples they listed was proliferation -> making, and im wondering if thats a condescending way about it or not? lets discuss
#✂️#i come from a background of having access to good education so mamy i dont get it#when people use words i dont understand or havent heard of i google it and learn a new word#like someone i saw used the word lascivious qnd i learnt that word! i understand the sentiment behind it but like#i feel like its inherently a bit condescending. but maybe thats because of the structures of smartness and#the concept of talking 'up' and 'down' and how we view intellect#but its also just like............. learning rhings is good for everyone involved?#IDK! id like opinions on this bc this one has thrown me for a loop .#class discussion time
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