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i say idgaf and then im still dreaming about my childhood best friend
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“When I was beginning to discover languages, I had a romanticized view of words like “speak” and “fluency”. But then I realized that you can be nominally fluent in a language and still struggle to understand parts of it. English is my first language, but what I really spoke was a hybrid of teenage slang and Manhattan-ese. When I listen to my father, a lawyer, talk to other lawyers, his words sound as foreign to me as Finnish. I certainly couldn’t read Shakespeare without a dictionary, and I’d be equally helpless in a room with Jamaicans or Cajuns. Yet all of us “speak English.” My linguistics teacher, a native of Poland, speaks better English than I do and seems right at home peppering his speech with terms like “epenthetic schwa” and “voiceless alveolar stops”. Yet the other day, it came up that he’d never heard the word “tethered”. Does that mean he doesn’t “speak” English? If the standard of speaking a language is to know every word — to feel equally at home debating nuclear fission and classical music — then hardly anyone is fluent in their own native tongues.”
— Tim Doner (x)
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Need minimum 12 hours a day of do my own thang time
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you know that quote "when you have a hammer everything looks like a nail" bc that's how i feel whenever i have a lysol wipe in my hand
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bad movies are sooo fun because i try to rate them and it's like welll i had a lot of fun even though it was pretty bad so 3.5 stars and then i watch a highbrow movie and it's like well it was good but not that much fun so 3.5 stars also :)
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humans are meant to lay in bed awhile after they wake up and think and rest. we are not supposed to get up right away
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Googling symptoms of the flu
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*survives the horrors by being such a silly goofy guy that my presence fundamentally changes the genre*
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cold and damp out. lemon/chicken soup on the stove
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Be annoying and boring forever until the end of time
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