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dracofidus:

princeofdoomrps:

ghostcries:

also guys i think it’s time to start spelling ‘small’ right again,, it’s been long enough

see the thing is, at this point, smol isn’t even a “mispelling” of small anymore; it has its own connotations. while small is a regular adjective, smol acts more like a diminutive marker, which English has been lacking

in essence, a smol dog will always be a small dog, but not all small dogs are smol.

THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYING

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Anonymous asked: When I first read the word "meme" I thought about the french word "même" and I was like... how does this make sense and why do they use french?

just-french-me-up:

I’m not a meme historian but from what I know APPARENTLY the word “meme” comes from “même” itself, though I don’t see the connexion

Okay I do not at all speak French, but I…have a guess?  The basic definition of ‘meme’ is an idea repeated through a community in identical or strongly repetitive format (it had this definition before the rise of the Internet, too).  The French word même used as an adjective can mean ‘same’ or ‘selfsame,’ so my guess is that that’s the connection, a model on the concept of identical-ness or imitation.

EDIT: I did some research and it turns out that the word meme actually comes from a shortened form of the Greek word mimema, meaning a thing imitated, and presumably même comes from the same word, so…there we go, etymology for the interwebs.

lokiaintevenbovvered:

venusaurphobia:

The correct pronunciation of “colonel” is, without exaggeration, the stupidest thing on this planet

ENGLISH IS NOT MY NATIVE LANGUAGE SO AFTER SEEING THIS POST A MILLION TIMES I FINALLY GOOGLED THE PRONUNCIATION AND NOW I AM SO ANGRY

English IS my native language and when I was twelve I googled the pronunciation of the word ‘colonel’ and I literally screamed with rage.  My parents thought I was dying.

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perorat:

wyomingsmustache:

shinyhappygoth:

pervocracy:

pirozhok-s-kapustoj:

ten-and-donna:

my-fair-ladybug:

my-fair-ladybug:

Something that’s almost never covered in fantasy mediums is common names.

Like we all know fantasy names are unusual, but any name to a foreign culture is considered unusual English names to Indian people are very unusual for example. But naturally, given that it’s an entire culture, there will be some common names, it’d be refreshing to at one point here this exchange.

“So I was talking to Vicnae and-”

“Wait which Vicnae? You can’t just say Vicnae. There are ten Vicnae’s in my village alone.”

This has 100 notes yesterday and 300 this morning what the fuck happened.

People understand the truly important things.

DSA (a German fantasy P&P RPG) actually has the name Alrik, which is hugely popular in the universe. Everyone is Alrik.

This is also a great excuse to use “X the Y” or “X of Y” type names without being pretentious. Calling someone “Thognor The Stout” goes from pomposity to practicality if he lives down the road from Thognor The Small.

Not-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock Jock.

~~*~surnames~*~~

my family is from a town in Ireland where everyone has the last name Ryan.  literally like everyone.  so they differentiated families by calling them by their professions, right?

anyway we’re the Horse Thief Ryans

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switch-off-the-stars:

squidsqueen:

dw:

when did we replace the word “said” with “was like”

When it occured to us that “said” implies a direct quote, while “was like” clarifies that you mean to communicate the person’s tone and general point without quoting them word for word.

THANK YOU

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mama-bird:

coffeeandklonopin:

coffeeandklonopin:

carpe diem - seize the day

carpe noctem - seize the night

carpe natem - seize the ass

Seriously, if you guys don’t stop reblogging this I am going to carpe someone’s neck and break it.

carpe collum - seize the neck

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sonicskullsalt:

i always see posts making fun of quatre-vingt-dix-neuf meaning 99 and the French numeric system in general

but have you ever seen the French for What is that?

it’s qu’est-ce que c’est? and it literally translates to

what is this that this is?

What is this that this language is doing.

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