unstoppable force (my father posting the entire declaration of independence on facebook every july 4th) (he really does this i am not making it up for a joke) vs. immovable object (me posting exclusively about the birthday of swedish singer, actor, and musician tommy körberg on facebook every july 4th to try to get a rise out of my conservative family)
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not only are there no bad languages there are also no bad or annoying dialects
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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?"
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you never realize how much tumblr alters even your most basic conversational vernacular and I don't mean "that's my blorbo" level discourse I mean I made the comment "oh that is an entire human man" around someone who is very offline and they went "😂😂😂 What? An entire human? LOL!"
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DEADPOOL: "It's only nine people, but my entire world is right here in this picture. And I have no idea how to save it alone, but you! You know how to save 'em!"
LAURA: "¡Mira!, aquí!, aquí!, quiero que me lleves! ¡Mira!, a ver!, aquí!, aquí!, aquí están mis amigos! ¡Vámonos! Jonah. Gideon. Rebecca. Delilah. Rictor. Jonah. Gideon. Rebecca. Delilah. Rictor. Jonah"... [Look! Here! Here! I want you to take me! Look, let's see! Here, here, here are my friends! Let's go!]
Deadpool and Wolverine (2024) / Logan (2017)
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♫ The Dialectic - Crawl To The Throne ♫
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Reblog to escape containment, just curious here!!
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my favorite part of the magnus protocol was when mr bonzo bonzoed all over the place
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Map of American English accents
by u/oncxre
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and good news to the purists ??? they discovered a cure ????? for the SYMPTOMS?? OF? BEING? ALIVE??!?!?!? it’s a painless procedure ??? with a low rate of failure??? but VERY FEW PATIENTS SURVIVE???!!??1!1!??
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jaster mereel, with his concord dawn dialect of mando'a: y'all'd've
other mandalorians, in tears: please i dont know what you're saying
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