#English help

[hiro-doodlez]

LIST OF ENGLISH ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS (the random letters that people use sometimes)!! FEEL FREE TO USE AS A REF (reference) SHEET!! In alphabetical too!!

Tone indicators at the bottom!

GENERAL:

AFK- away from keyboard

AKA- also known as

ASAP- as soon as possible

ASL- American Sign Language

B4- before

BC- because

BF- boyfriend

BFF- best friends forever

BTW- By the way

BTS- Behind the scenes/back to school / that one band

BRB- be right back

CW: content warning

Cya- see ya

DM- direct message

DW- dont worry

EZPZ- easy peasy

FB- Facebook

FW: flash warning

FAQ- frequently asked questions

FYI- for your information

GF- girl friend

GG- good game

GJ- Good job

GL- good luck

Gnite- good night

GTFO- get the fuck out

GTG- got to go

Gud- good

H8- hate

HBD- happy birthday

Hella- really

HMU- Hit me up

HW- Homework

IDK- I don't know

IDC- I don't care

IG- I guess / instagram

IK- I know

IKR- I know right

K- okay

Lmao- laughing my ass off

Kewl- cool

Kk- okay

Lol- laugh out loud

ILY- I love you

ILYSM- I love you so much

IMO- in my opinion

IRL- in real life

IYKYK- if you know you know

JFC- Jesus fucking chrkst

Jk- just kidding

L8R- later

LMAO- laughing my ass off

LMK-let me know

LOL- laughing out loud

Mkay- mm okay

NE- Any

NE1- anyone

NGL- not gonna lie

NM- Nothing much

NP: no problem

NSFW- not safe for work

NVM- nevermind

NW- no worries

Obv- obviously

OFC- of course

OMW- on my way

OP- original post(er)

OTP- one true pairing

Ova- over

Pic- picture

Pls-please

Plz-please

POV: point of view

Ppl- people

Prolly- probably

QOTD- quote of the day

R- are

RB- reblog

Ref- reference

Rly- really

RN- right now

RP- role play

RPG-role playing game

RT- retweet

Sec- second

SH- self harm

SMH- shaking my head

SMP- survival multiplayer server (Minecraft) / social media platform (?)

S.O- significant other

Sui- suicide

Sus- suspicious

STFU- shut the fuck up

T- testosterone

TBA- to be announced

TBF- to be fair

TBH- to be honest

TF- the fuck

Thnks- thanks

Thx- thanks

TLDR- too long didn't read (usually a summary)

TMRW- tomorrow

TOS- terms of service

TTYL-talk to you later

TW: trigger warning

Vid- video

WTF- what the fuck

WYD- what are you doing?

YOLO- You only live once

YT- YouTube

YW- you're welcome

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If the one youre looking for isnt here, either i forgot or its a fandom! Id suggest looking it up if youre confused!

Extra note: if you see 8 in one of the acronyms, then it usually is used as an “ate” sound. So h8= ate, gr8= great ect.

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TONE INDICATORS:

/aff- affectionate

/c- copypasta

/cb- clickbait (?)

/f- fake

/gen- genuine

/genq- genuine question

/half joking

/ij- inside joke

/j- joking

/lyr- lyrics

/lh- light hearted

/lu- little upset

/neg- negative

/nf- not forced

/nm- not mad

/npa- not passive aggresive

/nsrs- not serious

/p- platonic

/pa- passive aggresive

/pos- positive

/q- quote

/r- romantic

/ref

/s- sarcastic

/srs- serious

/t- teasing

/th- threat

I HOPE THIS HELPS!! and if i forgot to add one feel free to send an ask ^^

[pupkou]

Hi! I’ve seen a lot of posts on tiktok recently about people being annoyed with other people’s grammar and shaming them for it, which I think is rude— even if the person is monolingual and their first language is English. Everyone struggles with different things, so here’s a compassionate and respectful guide to common grammar and word mistakes.

Let me know if you'd like me to explain any others!

Contains: YOUR/YOU'RE, ARE/OUR, THERE/THEIR/THEY'RE, THAN/THEN, TO/TOO/TWO, A/AN, BALL/BAWL, PHASE/FAZE, DEFINITELY/DEFIANTLY, SHOULD OF/SHOULD HAVE, WERE/WHERE, LOOSE/LOSE, ALLOWED/ALOUD, BARLEY/BARELY

YOUR vs. YOU’RE

Tip: The word ‘your’ shows belonging.

Example: Your mom went to the grocery store to get some grapes.

Tip: The word ‘you’re’ is a contraction, meaning it’s two words put together, and it means ‘you are.’ Only use ‘you’re’ if it would make sense to say ‘you are’ instead of ‘you’re’ in the sentence.

Example: You’re really nice!

ARE vs. OUR

Tip: ‘Are’ tells you what a noun is or what it’s like.

Example: This is my family! We are Puerto Rican.

Tip: ‘Our’ tells you about something that belongs to many people.

Example: In our home, we eat a lot of arroz con gandules.

THERE vs. THEIR vs. THEY’RE

Tip: 'There' tells you where something is located.

Example: The chip aisle is over there.

Tip: 'Their' tells you who something belongs to, and can be used to refer to something that belongs to a group of people or to one person who uses they/them pronouns.

Example: That is their house.

Tip: 'They're' is a contraction, meaning it's two words put together, and it means 'they are.' Only use ‘they're’ if it would make sense to say ‘they are’ instead of ‘they're’ in the sentence. Again, it can be used to refer to a group of people or to one person who uses they/them pronouns.

Example: They're not coming to the party today, something came up at work.

THAN vs. THEN

Tip: 'Than' is used to compare and contrast things.

Example: This pair of pants is more expensive than that one.

Tip: 'Then' is used to show time passing or to demonstrate a cause and effect.

Example: First I went to the store, and then I walked home with my groceries. OR If she does that again, then I'm not going to talk to her anymore.

TO vs. TOO vs. TWO

Tip: 'To' can be used in many ways, usually for the purpose of explaining where something or someone is going, but it can also be used with verbs like 'have' and 'want.'

Example: I am going to the store. OR I am giving a present to her for her birthday. OR I have to work today. OR I want to bake a cake.

Tip: 'Too' is used to mean 'also' or to express intensity.

Example: Alex: "I want a strawberry, please." Beth: "Me, too!" OR Small people matter, too. OR We wanted to go to the movies after school, but we were too hungry.

Tip: 'Two' is the second positive whole number.

Example: I have two cousins that are girls.

A vs. AN

Tip: The difference between these two depends on whether the word following it begins in a vowel-- A, E, I, O, or U. You say 'an' when the word DOES start in a vowel, and 'a' when it doesn't. Y doesn't fit in this one, because it doesn't sound right to, for example, say "I saw an yak yesterday."

Example: I saw a brown down chasing its tail the other day!

I picked an orange and an apple off of a tree while I was holding an ice cream hold and an umbrella! My hands were so full and I dropped it all when I saw an egret flying too close to me.

BALL vs. BAWL

Tip: 'Ball' is used to refer to things like basketballs, baseballs, and soccer balls.

Example: I kicked the ball across the field.

Tip: 'Bawl' means to cry very intensely.

Example: I bawled all day after finding out they discontinued my favorite taquitos. OR I'm bawling so hard because I'm so sad. OR I want to bawl. Today has been so hard.

PHASE vs. FAZE

Tip: 'Phase' refers to a step in a process where things change.

Example: I had a really big art phase in middle school, but I'm not as into it now.

Tip: 'Faze' means to bother.'

Example: He got in my face, but it didn't faze me. OR I remain totally unfazed by his antics.

DEFINITELY vs. DEFIANTLY

Tip: 'Definitely' refers to something that is certain.

Example: I am definitely not going to go to that restaurant again after I found a live bug in my pasta!

Tip: 'Defiantly' means to do something in a way that shows you are defiant or acting with defiance.

Example: Although my wife told our daughter not to do it, she smiled in our faces as she defiantly did exactly that!

SHOULD OF vs. SHOULD HAVE

Tip: 'Should of' is incorrect and should not be used. 'Should have' is correct. It can be shortened to the contraction 'should've.'

Example: I should have gone to the museum on Thursday, they were giving out free posters!

WERE vs. WHERE

Tip: 'Were' is used to describe how a noun (person, place, thing, or idea) was in the past.

Example: We wanted to go to the movies after school, but we were too hungry.

Tip: 'Where' is used to describe a noun's (person, place, thing, or idea) location.

Example: Alex: "Where is your backpack?" Beth: "I'm not sure where it is."

LOOSE vs. LOSE

Tip: 'Loose' is the opposite of tight.

Example: This shirt is too loose on me, it doesn't fit right. OR That screw is loose, you might want to tighten it.

Tip: 'Lose' is when you no longer have something you once were in possession of or when you do not win something.

Example: I don't want to lose my backpack again because they're very expensive. OR I always lose my soccer games.

ALLOWED vs. ALOUD

Tip: 'Allowed' is used to explain what someone is permitted to do.

Example: I'm no longer allowed to drive in the state of New York because I got a speeding ticket and never paid it.

Tip: 'Aloud' is used to describe sound that is hearable.

Example: He read aloud, "A told B and B told C, "I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree!"

BARLEY vs. BARELY

Tip: 'Barley' is an edible grass plant that is used for cereal grain.

Example: This cereal has wheat, barley, and corn in it.

Tip: 'Barely' is used to described to something that almost didn't do another whatever it was seeking to do.

Example: He passed his classes, but just barely.

[achillvs]

help help!

can i have a native english speaker’s help real quick pleasee <3 reply, reblog or dm is fine! (i got a good reply but if anyone else wants to pitch in feel welcome!)

Who was the love of Michelangelo? - Depictions of queer reinterpretation in (a) graphic novel and art history 

should i keep the “a” or not? the thesis is more about art history, it only includes the graphic novel bit bc it’s the art project part of my master’s and i have to include it in it, it is just one graphic novel that is the subject of part of the thesis so idk if it should be more as the medium of graphic novels or that one singular novel? how does it read?

(it’s in polish i just have to submit an english title and abstract too)

[magicrainbowkitties]

English majors, settle an argument between me and my roommate.

You have 24 hours. Reblog for larger sample size.

Edit: For clarification the full phrase being argued over is "it can be (past tense of take it or leave it)."

[eggfruit]

hhhhhmmmmmmmmmm…………

¿”Como te llamas for a dolphin en español”?

Google ^ Para me???? 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[junopluto]

Hi! I’ll try to keep this simple and add a likely awful translation. I’m a native English speaker who wants to learn German. I speak some German partially, but I’m not as good as I would like to be. I have a very good grasp on English grammar and structure, and I love to teach. If there is a German person out there who wants to speak English, I would love to exchange help to each other!

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Hallo! Ich werde versuchen, es einfach zu halten und eine wahrscheinlich schreckliche Übersetzung hinzuzufügen. Ich bin englischer Muttersprachler und möchte Deutsch lernen. Ich spreche teilweise etwas Deutsch, aber ich bin nicht so gut, wie ich sein möchte. Ich habe ein sehr gutes Verständnis der englischen Grammatik und Struktur und liebe es zu unterrichten. Wenn es da draußen eine deutsche Person gibt, die Englisch sprechen möchte, würde ich mich gerne untereinander austauschen!

(Ich weiß, dass dies schlecht übersetzt ist. Google Translate scheitert. Es tut mir so leid.)

[schumaquinho]

anyone that knows english better than me could tell me what's the name of the structure this train is running on?

i need to write in a text that someone is under it, but idk how to name it. pls help me 🥺🥺

[3liza]

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/theyre-not-human-how-19th-century-inuit-coped-with-a-real-life-invasion-of-the-walking-dead

Indigenous groups across the Americas had all encountered Europeans differently. But where other coastal groups such as the Haida or the Mi’kmaq had met white men who were well-fed and well-dressed, the Inuit frequently encountered their future colonizers as small parties on the edge of death.

“I’m sure it terrified people,” said Eber, 91, speaking to the National Post by phone from her Toronto home.

And it’s why, as many as six generations after the events of the Franklin Expedition, Eber was meeting Inuit still raised on stories of the two giant ships that came to the Arctic and discharged columns of death onto the ice.

Inuit nomads had come across streams of men that “didn’t seem to be right.” Maddened by scurvy, botulism or desperation, they were raving in a language the Inuit couldn’t understand. In one case, hunters came across two Franklin Expedition survivors who had been sleeping for days in the hollowed-out corpses of seals.

“They were unrecognizable they were so dirty,” Lena Kingmiatook, a resident of Taloyoak, told Eber.

Mark Tootiak, a stepson of Nicholas Qayutinuaq, related a story to Eber of a group of Inuit who had an early encounter with a small and “hairy” group of Franklin Expedition men evacuating south.

“Later … these Inuit heard that people had seen more white people, a lot more white people, dying,” he said. “They were seen carrying human meat.”

Even Eber’s translator, the late Tommy Anguttitauruq, recounted a goose hunting trip in which he had stumbled upon a Franklin Expedition skeleton still carrying a clay pipe.

By 1850, coves and beaches around King William Island were littered with the disturbing remnants of their advance: Scraps of clothing and camps still littered with their dead occupants. Decades later, researchers would confirm the Inuit accounts of cannibalism when they found bleached human bones with their flesh hacked clean.

“I’ve never in all my life seen any kind of spirit — I’ve heard the sounds they make, but I’ve never seen them with my own eyes,” said the old man who had gone out to investigate the Franklin survivors who had straggled into his camp that day on King William Island.

The figures’ skin was cold but it was not “cold as a fish,” concluded the man. Therefore, he reasoned, they were probably alive.

“They were beings but not Inuit,” he said, according to the account by shaman Nicholas Qayutinuaq.

The figures were too weak to be dangerous, so Inuit women tried to comfort the strangers by inviting them into their igloo.

But close contact only increased their alienness: The men were timid, untalkative and — despite their obvious starvation — they refused to eat.

The men spit out pieces of cooked seal offered to them. They rejected offers of soup. They grabbed jealous hold of their belongings when the Inuit offered to trade.

When the Inuit men returned to the camp from their hunt, they constructed an igloo for the strangers, built them a fire and even outfitted the shelter with three whole seals.

Then, after the white men had gone to sleep, the Inuit quickly packed up their belongings and fled by moonlight.

Whether the pale-skinned visitors were qallunaat or “Indians” — the group determined that staying too long around these “strange people” with iron knives could get them all killed.

“That night they got all their belongings together and took off towards the southwest,” Qayutinuaq told Dorothy Eber.

But the true horror of the encounter wouldn’t be revealed until several months later.

The Inuit had left in such a hurry that they had abandoned several belongings. When a small party went back to the camp to retrieve them, they found an igloo filled with corpses.

The seals were untouched. Instead, the men had eaten each other.

[ohihopeicanchangethislater]

does anyone have a good resource for checking if a quote is real?

I've been assigned a quote by Teddy Roosevelt for my English Comp course, but I can't find a good source for it. Like I can't find any way to find out when Roosevelt said it, or even if he actually said it.

The quote is, "If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."

Any suggestions?

[essaywritinghelp]

[o-wild-west-wind]

ofmd is like not comedy as in sitcom but comedy as in shakespearean where it’s psychological trauma and conflicts of violence but with dick jokes and the promise of marriage in the end

[stealingyourbones]

There’s a new drug in Gotham making the rounds, one synthesized by Two-Face’s people; if you take it you will have a 50/50 chance that you’ll experience the greatest high of your life or that you’ll die.

Batman is desperately trying to find the main lab and cut off the production from the source and hasn’t been able to find a lead in weeks.

That’s when Gordon gives him a file that was given to him by a “white haired ghost kid”. It’s a detailed report written similarly to a scientific journal with detailed sources that are mainly first hand accounts from deceased victims of the Two-Face drug.

At the very end of the paper there’s an address to a Gotham University dorm room with a sticky note next to it that says “if you need help with death or the undead. Yours truly; Danny Fenton.”

[thewriteadviceforwriters]

Alternatives for "She Smiled"

If you can't seem to find an alternative for this common phrase "she smiled". here's a list of different sentence variations.

She beamed brightly.

Her lips curled into a smile.

She flashed a radiant grin.

A smile lit up her face.

She offered a sheepish grin.

Her smile twinkled mischievously.

She gave a soft, serene smile.

A wry smile played on her lips.

She smirked subtly.

Her smile spread slowly across her face.

She smiled wistfully.

A gentle smile graced her features.

She smiled with her eyes.

Her smile was tinged with sadness.

She bestowed a gracious smile.

Her smile glimmered in the dim light.

She smiled coyly.

A giddy smile bubbled up.

She smiled, lips parting lightly.

Her smile was infectious.

She gave a knowing smile.

A tentative smile flickered across her face.

She smiled, eyes sparkling with delight.

Her smile warmed the room.

She smiled ruefully.

A conspiratorial smile crossed her face.

She smiled, a trace of irony evident.

Her smile was wide and welcoming.

She flashed a quick, evasive smile.

She smiled as if recalling a sweet memory.

[blackoutbruh]

atla crossover eeeee

i was rewatching atla and decided to make a crossover because i couldnt get rid of this idea (to be honest im not very happy with jake and striders and maybe jane designs but i didnt have enough imagination)

rosseeee

and unfinished bloodbender jane (like crockertier duh) (im lazy)

i thought that these are like pieces from the lands of different nations (the fire nation the earth kingdom etc) and jade carries them with her and it kind of reminds her of her friends and all that uhhh yeaahhh

and also jake is a metal bender but i couldnt figure out how to show it lol

i would draw art like with rose for all kids but i dont have the time and energy and in general ive been working on this crossover for a long time blehhh maybe someday

[pygmi-says-hi]

Commonly misused phrases!

idioms or sayings that people say more often than they write, so when they write it it's usually wrong.

Once in a while, not 'once and a while.'

Per se, not 'per say.'

For all intents and purposes, not 'for all intensive purposes'

Irregardless is not a word, actually, it's either 'regardless' or 'in regards'. ir- as a prefix means 'without' but so does the suffix 'less'. So if you write 'irregardless' you are writing 'without a lack of regard' which means 'in regards to.' double negative, yeah?

By and large, not 'by in large'.

I could care less vs I couldn't care less. First one means 'yeah I don't mind it, it's whatever.' second one (correct) means "I fucking hate that thing my opinions are in the basement of hell."

"leaves much to be desired" correctly is "lacking in appearance/utility", not "beautiful." What it means is, "that thing is so bad, it does not satisfy my aesthetic/utilitarian needs for it and I desire something better." not, "I desire that thing so much because it's gorgeous."

"Leaving little to the imagination" means you can see/understand all of it. it does not mean 'modest', idk which one of you fucks started that but no. wrong. A sweater leaves a lot to the imagination because you can't see any of the person. Lingerie leaves 'little to the imagination' because you can see everything, you don't have to imagine it. in terms of understanding, 'little to the imagination' would be a very thorough explanation rather than a vague outline.

if you have any others you want me to include, lmk!

xox byeeee

[zan0tix]

dj dump one million