afternoonaetheling

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I love idioms so much; a culture collectively decides that a metaphor is so good that they’ll keep using it, and everyone has to learn it.

The cross-section between linguistics and literature is interesting here, because what really is the difference between an idiom and a cliche?

Are they the same thing? Is it a difference in vibe? Or is it a difference in purpose?

Like, “With a heavy heart,” is a metaphor, but it’s also an idiom, but it’s also a bit tired and overused as piece of evocative language and thus is a cliche.

dort wo sich Fuchs und Hase Gute Nacht sagen

literally: where the fox and the hare bid each other good night

in the middle of nowhere

Origin: The place is so remote that only foxes and hares are still around and have not even heard of that they are supposed to be predator and prey.

[afternoonaetheling]

Not a lot of curly hair options, but this one’s close enough.

pleasantly surprised by my quiz results; I always wanted to be Xenk Yendar

@moss-monger @bigguysupreme @bolt76

Let's all be in a TV show!!!

> Do this quiz

> do this picrew (Based on urself + quiz answers)

> tag ppl

> profit.

Tags (/nf ofc):

@mxlilly @circus-of-horror @yourleastfavoriteguyinthechair @microsoupmouse @the-firefly-jar-system @punkrockinchair @theplushiesystem @coded-pup @florasolarsystem + ANYONE else who wants to join

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I will in fact be confiscating Dennis, although idk how well he would get along with my other plushes.

@moss-monger @bolt76 @bigguysupreme

thank you all for the tags 🥹 @polaroidcats @faggylittleleatherboy @kaaaaaaarf @lynxindisguise @kaleidoscopexsighs @greengrug you are all on my rob list <333

OPEN TAG <33 pls do this this is so cute

but also! np tagging: @cosmmicdancer @shipsnsails @pretentiouswreckingball @sugarsnappeases @belleandsaintsebastian

@fatemy-friend @allbuthuman @dickggansey @all-yourn @velanavis @stillforests

@fruityindividual @angelfruittree @godsofwoes @werewolfenthusiast @magneto-manifesto @faefibs

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@bolt76 @bigguysupreme @moss-monger

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Clicked on a video that I read as "how to destroy pronunciation in 52 seconds" because like, I love a good linguistics joke. I love destroying conventional pronunciation patterns

Procrastination. The word was procrastination.

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My version of this was making the connection between cigarettes and novelettes. As a novelette is a small novel, a cigarette is a small cigar; -ette forms a diminutive.

[afternoonaetheling]

A guy is so mean and weird that speaking to him can turn you into a race scientist (read: pseudoscientist) of fictitious races.

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My understanding of English is that it’s such a fun and weird language because it’s been repeatedly smashed into other languages such as French and Norse due to the Norman Conquest and the Danelaw, and it’s at a point where most of its vocab is from loanwords and it barely has grammatical gender (for the better).

Anyways, the point is that I need a civilization of native Ithkuil speakers to invade England. It would be very cool and fun; I promise.

@bolt76 agrees with me.

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oh shit my bad, this is how we share news here

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They should invent a version of webinars that I like and can consistently pay attention to.

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It’s a known fact that cats love to sit in cardboard boxes. I’ve never even owned a cat, and I’ve heard this. Anyways, there’s a moving box lying around in my room, I’ve now been very comfortably sitting in it for half an hour, and I’m starting to think that humans are a feline subspecies.

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“‘I won’t shout at you,’ Nynaeve shouted.”

Sometimes you’ve got to mix it up.

I know everyone says it’s best to just stick to “said” as a dialogue tag bc it disappears and that’s true and I mostly do but I want to take a moment for my all-time favorite dialogue tag, “lied.” Absolutely nothing hits like “‘I’m here to help,’ he lied.” NOTHING.

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This is from the Wikipedia page for the modern city of Sparta, which occupies the same location as the historical city, and I cannot stop thinking about it.

Imagine being an ancient, continuously inhabited city with a studied and storied past—the site of wars and textbooks—and having two of your sister cities (your partners in international tourism) be a suburb of Melbourne and fucking Stamford Connecticut.