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woah mama maybe i'm the faggot america

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Germans were really onto something when they invented the word Feierabend

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My mom kept complaining that all of a sudden the Beatles are back and they're fucking everywhere and they're so obnoxious and were practically having an orgy in her garden under a cucumber leaf and that's when I realized she meant spotted cucumber beetles and not Paul McCartney

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funny how if you learned a second language later in life, it will never have the same power over you. because you were never exposed to it as a child, there is a certain emotional distance that persists despite years of speaking it. you can never call me a dumb idiot in English with it having the same effect as an insult in my native language, because I just never heard the English phrase directed at me during my formative years

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The joy this brought me…. Unspeakable

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really wild to me that a lot of the time english speakers will take a word like "mouth," which ends in a voiceless phoneme, and then add the letter "s," also voiceless, and then decide "Oh hey, that th is voiced now" when we could literally just not do that

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completely sober in the club googling WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?

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take my mermaid quiz boy

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to compare apples and oranges (comparing something fundamentally different, not a valid comparison) in different languages:

German: Äpfel mit Birnen vergleichen = to compare apples and pears 3/10 you can totally compare those, both are sweet fruit, taste great in pies, and even come from the same family! (same in French and Dutch, I believe)

English: apples and oranges 4/10 a different family at least. and you have to make orange marmalade first before you bake with it

Russian: сравнивать тёплое с мягким = to compare warm and soft 7/10 those are indeed completely different properties

Danish: Hvad er højest, Rundetårn eller et tordenskrald? = Which is highest, the Round Tower or a thunderclap? 9/10 the word højt could mean either tall or loud! so it can describe both a tower and a thunderclap, yet they can't be compared in a meaningful way. cool polysemy usage. a bit wordy, though

Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin: porediti babe i žabe = to compare grannies and toads 10/10 oh it rhymes! awesome, no notes

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Sphinx by Will Murai

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sketching at the museum

prints available from June 9-16

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it never sat right with me that, while they are intended for liquids, you can also use the verbs pour and spill with powders or loose solids (pour sugar, spill flour). why? I hate it, there must be a separate verb for that. like, 'I spilled something' could call for 30 seconds of vacuuming OR 3 days of expensive dry-cleaning, those should NOT be the same verb

well, today I found out in German you can verschütten liquids and granular solids (Salz verschütten, Bier verschütten). my disappointment is immeasurable, my day is ruined etc. etc.

at least you can't gießen them. when making Pfannkuchen, you would Mehl hingeben, (not gießen!) into a bowl. Gott sei dank

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Vivipary - when seeds sprout while still being attached to its mother fruit

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why do romance heroes always have to be debonair, suave, nonchalant, and all the french adjectives what if I prefer a slick, smooth, cool, cucumber of a man. what then