opalcatkin
opalcatkin
a word nerd
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opalcatkin · 10 months ago
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I was trying to check when the great English vowel shift happened and got the strangest ad I've seen lol
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I'm now obsessed with the idea of buying a phonological change. Like, popping down to the store and completely changing the way you speak.
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opalcatkin · 11 months ago
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free use? *smirks snartly* so naive. you know nothing in this damned society is really free...
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opalcatkin · 11 months ago
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do you know what we don't talk about often enough? there is no physically comfortable posture in which to read a book
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opalcatkin · 11 months ago
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when you see a calendar do you flip to your birth month to make sure your associated image slaps or are you some sort of freak
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opalcatkin · 1 year ago
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fun fact: the Russian word for "giggling" can be literally translated to "hehe-ing" and that's so funny I'm still hehe-ing about it
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opalcatkin · 1 year ago
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“bear with me” you say. we both turn into bears and escape into the woods
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opalcatkin · 1 year ago
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how do i tell mosquitos that I do not consent
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opalcatkin · 1 year ago
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Every single person studying a language when they recognize the most basic word of the language in a text or a video
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opalcatkin · 1 year ago
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every day i say things that sound pretentious even to my own ears but i don't how to say them any other way so i just have to hope there's some nugget of truth in there that'll shine through my insufferable delivery
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opalcatkin · 1 year ago
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Tumblr is just a community developing a new dialect in record time
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opalcatkin · 1 year ago
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i love languages so much i think they are so beautiful and linguistic diversity needs to be maintained because there are so many languages in the worlds and thats so aweosme *visibly choking back tears over the fact that i will never be able to speak every language ever*
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opalcatkin · 1 year ago
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Shh he is studing.
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opalcatkin · 1 year ago
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Reblog to let your followers know that they’re safe from jumpscares/screamers/etc from you on April 1st but they are NOT safe from getting boop’d like an idiot amen
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opalcatkin · 1 year ago
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opalcatkin · 1 year ago
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opalcatkin · 1 year ago
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today's french expression of the day: avoir le cul bordé de nouilles (to have one's ass lined with noodles) - meaning: to be very lucky
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opalcatkin · 1 year ago
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permanent eyebags kinda girl <- me
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