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littlemizzlinguistics · 9 months

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Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"

#linguistics #gen z slang #english #as people in the reblog pointed out!#most gen z slang comes from (or was appropriated from) aave #honestly I was just excited to talk about how people in my field actually get excited about non standard uses of English #instead of ridiculing speakers #and I tagged incorrectly and didn’t point out the very real issues of language and power and appropriation inherent in modern slang #in that much of it was appropriated #and even that which experiences language change in the wider culture still originated in aave #aave is just as linguistically valid as any other English dialect because it is a proper language #and the grammar is incredible!!!#habitual be is fantastic and an excellent example of how a richer case system or a certain case can render an adverb unnecessary #and the phonology is just beautiful #anyway I’m very sorry #I fucked up

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 10 months

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the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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kingsbridgehomes1 · 1 year

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Home Designs Melbourne

#Innovative Home Designs #Tailored to Your Vision #Quality and Craftsmanship #Experience Excellence

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gent-illmatic · 22 days

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Nostalgia✨

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mothcpu · 6 months

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rehash of my SAYER AI construct designs from a couple years back

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#SAYER #SAYER podcast #robot #sayer ai #speaker ai #future ai #ocean ai #listen to this podcast. come for the AIs' voices and the fucked up experiments and stay for the excellent plot #(recommend listening to episode 6 (A Dreamless Sleep) to try it out since it's standalone)#OCEAN wasn't in the original lineup. its design is just SAYER's internal skeleton (like. its shackles have been removed or whatever)

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tsvalenciao · 2 months

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Tell me what your gonna do when I suck and lick that cock while your riding me🍆💦🙏

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rocker-socks · 1 month

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There's a lot of those "billy loses his powers/access to Shazam and in the interim gets adopted" prompts but I do think it'd be really funny if the person who adopts him in one of those is Slade Wilson.

Both because I think Slade is petty enough to see an adoption bait kid named Batson and do this out of spite and because Billy, used to dealing with God's and men of myth who have 0 issue with murder, now has to talk down Another Fucking Guy

#dc #dvu #shazam #billy batson #slade wilson #deathstroke #on one hand billy is getting really excellent knowledge and experience on dealing with the things he usually left to batman #on the other hand this slade guy has problems that would make his old social workers salivate

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mizgnomer · 8 months

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David Tennant and Cush Jumbo

Photographed at the Donmar rehearsal rooms by Alex Lake for the Observer in November 2023

with some photos thanks to the David Tennant Asylum

#david tennant #cush jumbo #macbeth #lovely photoshoot #they look great against the yellow #cuties!#macbeth royalty #shakespeare #stuff i posted #oh what I would give to see this live #this is the first dt theatre experience I've had to miss #in many many years #but the timing didn't work for me #this photoshoot was for an excellent article (linked above)

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trisshawkeye · 9 months

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I think the dichotomy between Mechs fans who primarily knew them as a live cabaret act with added kayfabe and those who primarily know them through their albums and recordings is so funny

There are some wonderful artists out there having loads of fun giving Jonny d'Ville creature ears and a tail and generally being creative with appearances and characteristics

And then there's me, a fandom old grinch, sat shaking my head in the corner going, "Jonny d'Ville doesn't have a tail, I'd know, I've met him"

#to be clear this is a very light-hearted musing on different experiences and perspectives in fandom #no one is doing it wrong i am just bouncing hilariously off a bunch of stuff because we're coming at it from very different places #please continue to draw excellent creature!mechs art so i can continue to be baffled by it #jonny d'ville #the mechanisms

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urfavcrime · 27 days

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dsmp is still SO insane to me. still not completely convinced it wasn't a social experiment. it is something that can never be replicated again due to the really specific circumstances that attributed to it's creation and popularity

#the combination of everyone being inside due to the pandemic #the community giving everyone a space to connect #in a time where loneliness and mental health was reaching an all time high especially among youth #like idk. even after everything and a handful of ccs being revealed to be horrible shitbags #the dsmp will ALWAYS hold a special place in my heart.#a story told in a medium no one has really explored before #the unique fantasy setting......the three life system allowing for more high stakes moments since there a character #could die multiple times to raise stakes #the emphasis placed on familial and platonic dynamics and how THEY can be just as complex and entertaining to watch/read abt like /r ships #the fandom revolutionizing gen fics and making a familial relationship reach the TOP OF AO3 STATS ONE YEAR???? insanity.#also just the ppl.#the amount of talented musicians and artists and writers and editors and all the ppl who lovingly transcripted and compiled lore streams #LIKE UGH.#im so emo about it #unfiltered queer representation bcuz #the story wasnt washed down by a corporation as it was given directly from the storytellers to the audience #the multiple povs allowing ppl to experience the same story in completely different ways #excellent depictions of the effects of mental illness/ptsd and 'imperfect' abuse survivors #ctommy my beloved #LIKE SIGH. WE ARE NEVER GETTING THAT AGAIN IN A FANDOM SPACE I FEAR #ok lol. ignore my rantings #dsmp #dream smp #starry text

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arsnof · 4 months

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ArsCo Presents the Inaugural Arsnof's Great American Yard Sard Comics and Sundry Sale 2024!

Hello there! I'm Arsnof. You may remember me from content such as "Canadian Illustrator", "Dungeon Mentat", or even "Transformers Meme". I'm here today to host a celebration of buying things, thinking they're so super cool, and then putting them away and never looking at them again. Comics, books, toys, anime, manga, CCGs, rare webcomic goodies, tiny figurines of yokai, a Little Golden Book adaptation of Gremlins that ends before midnight, Chuck Norris's Karate Kommandos, can you read Japanese because I can't, official Soul Coughing stickers, a hoard of well read Wizards and Toyfares, Funko Pops, feet pics (you can get off, but only if you can correctly diagnose what's wrong first), Transformers...

I could go on forever, but I got it, you want it, we can make a deal (no tongue).

Why is this happening? I'm shit broke and getting shitter. Going down like a Trump Casino. Guy paying his bills on time? I haven't heard that name in forever.

I've been taking care of my ailing father (tried to die on us three times so far this year) and the rest of my family (I don't owe you an explanation, cop) and then someone just up and decided to make my automobile a notomobile.

They didn't have insurance, but that's okay because we have full cov-*hand to ear*-what? We don't? Only comprehensive? Since when? FUCKING shit... Okay, but we still have uninsured motorist, so-four thousand? Four thousand. Dollars. $4,000. To replace an entire ass truck.

We are in desperate need of a car. I've got a lifetime of memories. You, on average, have some change sitting around. Can I have some? I'll trade you stuff.

I'm starting with my comics because they're easiest to catalogue. See something you like? HMU, as the kids say (please God don't let that be a sex thing) and I'll see what I can do. I'm giving the comic shop at which I used to work a vague preference, but I can be swayed.

Next up will be the trades and manga, DVDs of varied origin, toys, and so on.

Criminitly.

If life can stop kicking us in the gender neutral pain zone for five fucking minutes, @paulyollyoxxenfree and I will get back to handicrafts. They're getting back into the amiguroove and I'm going to hit the pad - finish and print Kitty, start Dr. Doctor. Stickers and stuff. I'm not shaving for a while to put me in mall Santa shape by Thanksgiving.

But what if you've got too much money and you're sick of it, but you hate being given things? I take donations. If you put a special request in the memo, I won't even give you the thanks. I'll just spit. I take requests.

Papal

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Fuck, I don't know, antelope? My email - [email protected]

I might make one of those kofi things.

Oh and, heheh, one more thing...

Launching in the fourth quarter 2024, ArsCo is proud to announce Alone With Arsnof, the happening new app that gives you the power to have some one-on-one time *gunshot* wit- *sudden fade to red-tinted black, gunshot echo. Sirens fade in. HE'S DOWN! OVER THERE! THE ROOF? A high-pitched whine. Bright light. The late afternoon sky comes into focus. Fireballs? The sun is so bright. Automatic gunfire. No, jets. Falling. Screams. Recognizable screams. Unrecognizable screams? Inhuman? The sun blinks*

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laguzmage · 4 months

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Given that Arturia doesn't seem to have a patron firearm (or at least is never depicted with one), and her plots and schemes before and through this event rely on her being able to outplan people/relied on her musical talent, I like to assume the Combat Experience None->Combat Skill Excellent in her file is because they gave her like, a practice sword or something and she was like "Hm, in a sense swordplay is an art" and immediately defeated whoever was evaluating her

#Its the only way I can rationalize combat skill excellent combat experience none #Arknights #Arturia Giallo

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beatriceportinari · 3 months

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The manticore, origami, one square sheet of paper

#mine #origami #manticore #RED #what a lovely sendoff to this red wax pastel.... completely different feeling depending on your screen I'm afraid.#for me it's sharingan levels of hurt on mobile and almost disappointingly orange on desktop.#do switch around your devices for the complete manticore experience.#this is adapted from a winged lion model by Mauricio Flórez Pinzón #I'll make a post with a link and some photo resources #basically the only changes needed was a modification of the tail and a bit of unfriendlyness added to the mane #his was more inspired by st marc's lion i imagine #too much of a cherub vibe for my purpose #otherwise absolutely excellent model #very easy collapsing #GREAT weight distribution: despite my moving the tail to the center and the head being pretty voluminous is still stands on its 4 legs #i had no problem of the model opening up and flattening itself or anything #and there are plenty of sculpting possibility #all the while the shape is pretty understandable already from the collapsed model

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astrologicaldreamin · 3 months

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Out of all the persona charts, I think it is quite a shame that Neptune and Saturn are rarely touched upon - especially Saturn.

#someone with more experience please #they're a grand mystery for me #persona charts are an excellent tool #astrologicaldreamin #astrology #zodiac #zodiac signs #astrology observations #astro notes #astro placements #astrology notes #astro observations #persona chart #saturn #neptune #neptune persona #saturn persona

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withmytailtotheworld · 2 months

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#yo kai watch #ykw #yo-kai watch #yokai watch #‧₊˚☆彡 #each area in order;#Uptown Springdale #Blossom Heights #Downtown Springdale #Shopper’s Row #Breezy Hills #Harrisville #Excellent Tower #San Fantastico #Sparkopolis #Ninja Forest #i need to experience living here

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menlove · 7 months

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u could make a post that literally just says "croissant 🥐" on here, but if it managed to get over 1k there would be nuclear levels of discourse in the notes where someone is calling you an idiot, 4 people are arguing over politics, and a french person has written a 5 paragraph rant about how annoying americans are on the internet

#anyway people are now being Obnoxious on that trek lost I'm like excellent ur getting blocked for mildly annoying me #who cares. I think the new costumes are bad. sue me. punch me in the dick. I don't care brother #LIKE WJDGSHSH #and this is just general too tho like this is my experience having...... many. many high note posts unfortunately #*post

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