Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

oneshortdamnfuse:

just-shower-thoughts:

Is it the s or c silent in scenario?

The word “scenario” is related to the Latin word “scena” which means “scene,” but in Latin the “c” made the [k] sound. Over time, the [k] sound was dropped but Latin based words retained their “sc” spelling. So, technically the “c” is silent and the “s” is not. It is still included even though we don’t say it. This happens a lot in English where the pronunciation of older words have changed, but the spelling has remained relatively the same. Now, you don’t have to worry about it anymore. Have a nice day.

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mediocre-latinist:

The names for the different depth layers of the sea are funny as hell because you’ve got

“Epipelagic” that’s like “top of the sea,” nbd

“Mesopelagic” middle of the sea, also good

“Bathypelagic” deep part of the sea, all logical like that

but then you have

“Abyssopelagic” which means “holy shit, this is actually deeper than I thought,” and then

“Hadopelagic” which means “WE DON’T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS DOWN THERE BUT WE’RE PRETTY SURE IT’S ACTUAL LITERAL HELL”

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operativesurprise:

rubes-dragon:

whimmy-bam:

diva-gonzo:

dumbass-oikawa:

conservative-libertarian:

221books:

fuckyourwritinghabits:

cornflakepizza:

winchesterbr0s:

hesmybrother-hesadopted:

czarnoksieznik:

beesmygod:

“chuffed doesnt mean what you think it means”

it means exactly what i think it means its just some stupid word that literally has two definitions that mean the opposite thing

what the hell

This makes me really chuffed

This post is quite egregious

Well I’m nonplussed by this whole post.

goddamnit.

all of you go to hell

And you wonder why i am boggled at times

These are called contronyms! A word that is its own opposite.

Why the fuck do these exist

One theory is that the sarcastic use of the word became exceedingly prevalent and because another dictionary definition. 

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Flower shop AU

koscheiis:

shenko:

demisexualmerrill:

Person A owns a flower shop and person B comes storming in one day, slaps 20 bucks on the counter and says “How do I passive-aggressively say fuck you in flower?”

Omfg

MY TIME HAS COME

so you’d need a bouquet of geraniums (stupidity), foxglove (insincerity), meadowsweet (uselessness), yellow carnations (you have disappointed me), and orange lilies (hatred). it would be quite striking! and full of loathing.

I adore this person.

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just-shower-thoughts:

Contractions function almost identically to the full two-word phrase, but are only appropriate in some places in a sentence. It’s one of the weird quirks of this language we’ve.

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sleeping-ranna:

Man history majors are so great because they know all this stuff but they have The One Subject and once you find out what a given history buff’s Subject is you will never be bored again because they will tell you all about it with the enthusiasm of a child on Christmas morning

This is also more widely applicable.

For example: my roommate is a linguistics major.  Her One True Subject is conlangs, and she can (and has) talked for multiple hours without slowing down.  She’s gonna make a language and we’re going to run around yelling at each other in it, it’ll be fun.

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dancing-thru-clouds:

cups-of-tea-and-history:

violetimpudence:

prokopetz:

I love the phrase “what the entire fuck” because it implies that there exists some scenario that warrants only a “what the partial fuck”.

Well, since there are clearly scenarios which warrant giving zero fucks, it seems plausible to infer that there exists a 0 … 1 scale of fuckitude, containing a potentially infinite number of fractional fuckery scenarios.

Fractional Fuckery Scenarios is going to be my first short story collection.

Whereas ‘what the actual fuck’ implies that there are metaphorical or theoretical fucks in play.

Dude, you missed fictional fucks, which is both excellent alliteration and hilarious.

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