#Languages are fun!!

[moonchild-in-blue]

Watching you blog in Portuguese as somebody who understands Spanish is so funny to me. I comprehend a good amount of what you’re saying, and then something distinctly Portuguese comes through and I just have to to “ah, well, shit” -whataboutyouisamascot

(let me break my pt only rule today) @whataboutyouisamascot

Yeah, that's the thing about romance languages. We all sort of pretty much understand each other without too much difficulty. Especially Spanish and Portuguese, they are so so incredibly similar (since Portuguese did in fact originate from spanish), that you hardly need to change anything aside from certain terminations, etc.

I do see how wild it must be for someone who knows Spanish but isn't too familiar with Portuguese/isn't Spanish native to read random pt comments and stuff hahaha.

[aphel1on]

AuDHD is so funny sometimes like what do you mean my hyperfixations/special interests will last for years on end or possibly forever but they will cycle out every month or two with absolutely no transitional period or warning. like i will think about the same topic every day obsessively for 46 days in a row and on the 47th day with no visible cause adhd brain goes "ok! bored of that now" and autism brain goes "dw i got something queued up for ya" and i blast into full blown obsession on some other topic whose mental file folders haven't opened in 9 months. brain's out here treating hyperfixations like a crop rotation. once the dopamine runs out it cycles in another one but once something's in the rotation it never ever leaves. last summer we brought in one from when i was 11. it's so funny to me but frustrating too bc like. i cannot stress enough my inability to predict or control this. or how completely abrupt and random it can be

EDIT: seems this is more common among ND people than i thought, and probably not limited to AuDHD specifically :] i was just describing my own experiences and didn't expect this post to blow up, so don't take me for an authority, but i'm glad it resonated with so many of y'all!

[featherfangart]

Two Sides Of the Same Coin

[curiositysavesthecat]

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[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: The difference of the nine tones in cantonese ....Can you actually tell 

[schemelin]

non-verbal "I Hate It In Here" Lone Wanderer just wants her dad back.

[guiltyidealist]

On your MOST FOLLOWED blog on Tumblr,

[justusingthistwice]

Damian, trying out some new slang that Jon taught him: Tt. You aren't as sigma as you think you are.

Jason, that just happened to be passing by: I already know you suffered brain damage as a baby. You don't have to remind me every time you open your mouth.

[cosmique-oddity]

Happy Valentines, let’s make that capitalist day into something Centered around every kind of Love ❤️

Besides Primus said you are loved 🫵

First time I drew Rung and it’s very comforting

@keferon your AU, sir, shockwave’s flower is both for you and Blurr !

You guys are free to send these to your friends as long as somewhere im mentionned :DD

[pancakemolybdenum]

she out on my wild till i go supernova

[dracofeb]

Calque & Loanword

Found this. Kind of want to share.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Vibes based grading system.

(for @epistemologys, who wanted some post-canon, teacher WWX)

[kojitheopossum]

do not separate them <3

[boltlightning]

do allow me, will you? ➢ THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)

[siryyeet]

They'll never understand the epic highs (Firlefanz) and ''lows'' (Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung) of the german language

[inkskinned]

i love when words fit right. seize was always supposed to be that word, and so was jester. tuesday isn't quite right but thursday should be thursday, that's a good word for it. daisy has the perfect shape to it, almost like you're laughing when you say it; and tulip is correct most of the time. while keynote is fun to say, it's super wrong - i think they have to change the label for that one. but fox is spot-on.

most words are just, like, good enough, even if what they are describing is lovely. the night sky is a fine term for it but it isn't perfect the way november is the correct term for that month.

it's not just in english because in spanish the phrase eso si que es is correct, it should be that. sometimes other languages are also better than the english words, like how blue is sloped too far downwards but azul is perfect and hangs in the air like glitter. while butterfly is sweet, i think probably papillion is more correct, although for some butterflies féileacán is much better. year is fine but bliain is better. sometimes multiple languages got it right though, like how jueves and Πέμπτη are also the right names for thursday. maybe we as a species are just really good at naming thursdays.

and if we were really bored and had a moment and a picnic to split we could all sit down for a moment and sort out all the words that exist and find all the perfect words in every language. i would show you that while i like the word tree (it makes you smile to say it), i think arbor is correct. you could teach me from your language what words fit the right way, and that would be very exciting (exciting is not correct, it's just fine).

i think probably this is what was happening at the tower of babel, before the languages all got shifted across the world and smudged by the hand of god. by the way, hand isn't quite right, but i do like that the word god is only 3 letters, and that it is shaped like it is reflecting into itself, and that it kind of makes your mouth move into an echoing chapel when you cluck it. but the word god could also fit really well with a coathanger, and i can't explain that. i think donut has (weirdly) the same shape as a toothbrush, but we really got bagel right and i am really grateful for that.

grateful is close, but not like thunder. hopefully one day i am going to figure out how to shape the way i love my friends into a little ceramic (ceramic is very good, almost perfect) pot and when they hold it they can feel the weight of my care for them. they can put a plant in there. maybe a daisy.