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I was trying to check when the great English vowel shift happened and got the strangest ad I've seen lol

I'm now obsessed with the idea of buying a phonological change. Like, popping down to the store and completely changing the way you speak.

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free use? *smirks snartly* so naive. you know nothing in this damned society is really free...

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do you know what we don't talk about often enough? there is no physically comfortable posture in which to read a book

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when you see a calendar do you flip to your birth month to make sure your associated image slaps or are you some sort of freak

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fun fact: the Russian word for "giggling" can be literally translated to "hehe-ing" and that's so funny I'm still hehe-ing about it

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Hahaha we should :>

“bear with me” you say. we both turn into bears and escape into the woods

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“bear with me” you say. we both turn into bears and escape into the woods

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how do i tell mosquitos that I do not consent

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Another game I played recently is unpacking! I love it ahhh I could talk about it for a very long time

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I think I have lost count of the number of times a conversation about what I’m studying next year with somebody I sort of know has turned into me explaining the difference between linguistics and modern foreign languages lol

Anyway I might get to become a lil word scientist soon! Hopefully!

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I’ve been playing Spiritfarer a lot the past two weeks, to the point where it’s been taking up a large proportion of my thoughts recently lmao (possible hyperfixation??)

Anyway, whoever decided to name an island in the middle of nowhere with just one abandoned cottage on it ‘Loneberg’ has a great sense of humour

And also some of the spirits have been irritating me with their fancy food palates (is that a term lol? Or is it just palate on its own?). It takes so long to cook all this fancy food omg

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Every single person studying a language when they recognize the most basic word of the language in a text or a video

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every day i say things that sound pretentious even to my own ears but i don't how to say them any other way so i just have to hope there's some nugget of truth in there that'll shine through my insufferable delivery

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Tumblr is just a community developing a new dialect in record time

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i love languages so much i think they are so beautiful and linguistic diversity needs to be maintained because there are so many languages in the worlds and thats so aweosme *visibly choking back tears over the fact that i will never be able to speak every language ever*

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Shh he is studing.

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Reblog to let your followers know that they’re safe from jumpscares/screamers/etc from you on April 1st but they are NOT safe from getting boop’d like an idiot amen