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WEEEEEEE

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habit of laying on stomach while sleeping + abdominal surgery = ow

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watching the colts/texans game with my boyfriend

he has screamed in my ear three times

and almost elbowed me in the face twice

he also is watching my type this and has moved to the beanbag on the floor

sorry matt

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The House That Heaven Built by Japandroids

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I am drunk and playing LoL

YEAH SUNDAY NIGHTS

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Do you guys remember how painful ear infections were as a kid?

Like, the fucking horror you went through when fluid wasn't draining right?

DO YOU?

DO YOU??!?!

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666

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Weekend before Dead Week

Friday

Nice Italian dinner with the boyfriend

Pick up some ~*~fun~*~ stuff and ingest it

Play video games and watch documentaries

Saturday

Lift at the Co-Rec

Cook some food for the week

HOMEWORK

Meet up with friends and go to a house party to see a band

Sunday

HOMEWORK

HOMEWORK

HOMEWORK

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Winter Mixtape

http://8tracks.com/tunespotting/tune-spotting-winter-2012

Winter is slowly beginning and Tune Spotting has compiled a mix for your winter filled with songs to get you into a wintery mood.

Track List:

The Mother We Share by CHVRCHES

Let Me Take You Out by Class Actress

Heavy Metal Drummer by Wilco

I Do Not Care For The Winter Sun by Beach House

Kerosene by Crystal Castles

Liquorice by Azealia Banks

Bad Insect by Ultraísta

Breakers by Local Natives 

Diamonds (Kanye Remix) by Rihanna 

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This song is SO FUCKIN GOOD.

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Just texted me boyfriend "eyo wuz gud" and he asked if I was drunk.

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What I feel like today

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Hi hello this is what I study.

emryssa:

bombulum:

What does English sound like to foreign ears?

We’ve all heard examples of fake Chinese or German from speakers who lack familiarity with either language. While typically cringe-worthy, these examples do raise interesting questions regarding our own language. What does English sound like to non-English speakers? After more than 40 years, Adriano Celentano’s “Prisencolinensinainciusol” remains one of the most illuminating examples. 

The entire song is nonsense verse, neither English nor Italian, but the sounds are meant to resemble English. Linguist Mark Liberman wrote an interesting post about this sort of thing over at Language Log discussing yaourter, the French word for an attempt to speak or sing in a foreign language that one doesn’t know all that well. This often involves trying to sing a foreign song with nonsense or random words filling in the blanks. Liberman shares this wonderful quote from a random Internet user:

Just for the story, in France, when we don’t speak English and we want to imitate the sound, we call it “yaourter”(to yoghourt), the imitation sounds like a very nasal language, kind of like a baby crying. It mostly imitates the “cowboy” accent.

This is fascinating *A*

I love when they mimic Americans speaking English in anime and it’s all “Shit!” and “OH MY GOD” and “pera pera pera” or something like that XD

I HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED