Not To Freudpost, But It Seems Very Obvious To Me That The Vitriolic Nature Of Election Discourse Stems

I spend hours scrolling through blogs to establish a link between transandrophobia theory and terfism...and...he just...tweeted it out

i love having ocd 💖 its so fun to have to run all my beliefs and opinions by a panel of hallucinatory approximations of my closest friend's ethical judgements because i am incapable of feeling morally secure unless 'good people' agree with me 💖 i love how i then constantly have to vet those friends beliefs because yknow, what if they actually turn out to be bad people which obviously means i can't have a relationship with them anymore 💖 but why the fuck am i trying to judge them in the first place, thats a pretty shitty thing to do to your friends, not very good person behavior tbh 💖 i will keep on doing this cycle forever because it's so fun and i love it 💖

#now I'm gonna be pedantic and say that the kids in narnia don't have powers #unless you think being british is a superpower #which c.s. lewis low-key did believe so actually your kind of right

"magical girl" is not just a girl with magical powers, it's a specific genre. magical girl characters need to be from a work within that genre or they can be from a work that doesn't fall into the magical girl genre if the particular character plays on the tropes of the magical girl. think about the definition of "superhero" instead. captain america is a superhero bc he comes from the superhero genre. the crimson chin from the fairly oddparents is a superhero bc his design and behavior draw on the superhero genre. but you would never call the kids from narnia superheroes just bc they save the world using their powers

If King Charles dies on or before March 25th, 2024, he will technically be the shortest-reigning king in English history.

Anyway, like to charge, reblog to cast.

i really try to distinguish between being annoyed by semantic shifts in a pointless prescriptive way and being annoyed by semantic shifts because they make language less useful but whatever is happening to the word gentrification it's the latter

They made a show called “The T word” which essentially was the same as “The L word” but all the lesbians were translators. When my teacher suggested we watch it in our translation class, I was like sir, this is a terrible idea.

The thing that really gets me is that a very large proportion (the majority?) of currently living, endangered indigenous American languages, at least in the US and Canada America, became endangered as a result of twentieth century policy and twentieth century developments. Residential schools, forced adoptions, and economic sabotage within the last century. And of course this is the case: languages that were already endangered 100 years ago are just dead now. But the point is that these historical wrongs are not wrongs of some distant past. The people fighting for the survival of their language here are not merely daydreaming about an imagined prelapsarian past. The are fighting for something that (depending on age) they or their parents personally experienced being robbed of. Tanadrin pointed out that the more time goes on, the harder historical wrongs are to right. This is the sort of historical wrong which is often in memory close enough that meaningful mitigation is possible.

#the amount of people who genuinely don't understand that signed languages are in fact languages and not a coded form of spoken language is staggering

sign language & linguistics resource!

linguist Adam Schembri has been updating his amazing resource, What All Linguists Should Know (about sign languages). It's a really fantastic repository of info, including some really great basics that are great for students and non-linguists as well. Please share widely! I'll also copy a few links from his page, just as highlights:

What is sign language? (Schembri, 2013) https://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-sign-language-21453 

How many sign languages are there? (Glottolog) https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/sign1238 (short answer: at least 220)

How are sign languages acquired? (Lillo-Martin & Henner, 2021) https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-linguistics-043020-092357

I recommend that anyone interested in or studying linguistics at any level (from hobbyist to professional!) ask themselves (and colleagues, instructors, students, etc), frequently: wait - is that true about languages in general, or just spoken languages? Have we done any research about how this works in other modalities? Keep asking the question!

third world country is getting the lexical deletion ray

why does every pro-prc post made by communist about how fundamentally different it's formation from yankland hellhole gets reblogged by people adding shit like this in the tag? IF YOUR CHAUVINISTIC ASS BELIEVES IMPERIALIST PROPAGANDA ABOUT CHINA THEN SIMPLY DON'T REBLOG CHINA GOOD POSTS?? is it that difficult?

'The chain of a kiss'