#Is this even English???
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– Noor Unnahar, Instagram account "noor_unnahar"
[TEXT ID: / [Lemons] / My father's mother loved lemons. Years after her passing, / we run out of everything, but never / lemons. / Nothing else shelters grief / better than memory. / It's my father way of saying, / even in your absence, you will be / cared by me. / END ID]
#reminds me of my mom who now watch english movies even though english is not her first language and struggles to understands too but she do#all this because of my brother who loved to watch different movies while growing up but now move to another countryy#so she remembers him while watching that#now we all should cry together#light academia#dark academia#excerpts#fragments#poetry#words#literature#noor unnahar#spilled poem#short peoms#grief poem#grief#on grief#spilled thoughts#peots on tumblr#spilled ink
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Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"
#linguistics#gen z slang#english#as people in the reblog pointed out!#most gen z slang comes from (or was appropriated from) aave#honestly I was just excited to talk about how people in my field actually get excited about non standard uses of English#instead of ridiculing speakers#and I tagged incorrectly and didn’t point out the very real issues of language and power and appropriation inherent in modern slang#in that much of it was appropriated#and even that which experiences language change in the wider culture still originated in aave#aave is just as linguistically valid as any other English dialect because it is a proper language#and the grammar is incredible!!!#habitual be is fantastic and an excellent example of how a richer case system or a certain case can render an adverb unnecessary#and the phonology is just beautiful#anyway I’m very sorry#I fucked up
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incredible translation of sheeesh thank you google
#german stuff#like listen idk how i would translate sheesh but my first thought would not have been meine güte#or even my second or third thought#actually sheesh is probably best left untranslated#also don't ask me why youtube is offering to translate to german in the first place even tho i've set the app to english#rhys's pieces
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what happens when you change your web standards to be only english-speaker inclusive
#twitter#elon musk#twitter x#whatever shit name it has now lmao#english#as a note#twitter aint the only page doing this#there are games even that aint letting words that have -nig- inside of them be written as part of an algorithm that checks them out#-nga- and -ngr- also#and spanish and indonesian use those words a lot inside of words and/or can mean sth different in their languages (in indonesian case)#etc etc#wait i forgot if it was thai or indo#oh fuck#oh well
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Yet another good reminder that even other Anglosphere authors have to basically arm-wrestle US book editors to be allowed to retain any vestige of their own dialect and culture in their writing and this is why lots of people have Opinions about American...everything.
#new zealand#new zealand english#the moggy thing kills me#that one isn't even like a NZ-ism specifically
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12 years later, welcome back, a show about a nerdy boy and an active girl running into mysteries and occult
#dandadan#gravity falls#okarun#momo akase#mable pines#dipper pines#pine twins#artists on tumblr#painted background#I`ve heard they even have old grandma yuri#but I have not caught up to this part yet#I want to recommend dandadan but if I do I will be on my knees saying it is not so bad#english not my first language
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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.”
#guys look at the tags I’m too lazy to add it to the main post#my thoughts as to why Danny hated English is because he’s helped write so many scientific papers for his parents the writing style#is ingrained into his day to day writing. this time tho he was trying to be professional for The Batman#he doesn’t want to step on Batman’s territory but since he now lives in Gotham might as well give the main powerhouse a#‘high just letting you know I’m in your city now’ gift#he doesn’t even try to hide his identity because he knows that Batman will find it eventually.#might as well help and fulfill his obsession as a consultant to the Bats#Batman now asks Danny to help with communing with the dead to help solve cases#dpxdc#danny phantom#dp x dc#bones prompts#bones writes in the tags
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tonight we die as a family, mohammed el-kurd
[english on the left as published in the poetry review & translated into urdu on the right by @/smuntahaali on instagram]
#ya allah.#did it take me 45 min to read this in urdu? yes. did it still make me even sadder than it did in english? also yes.#palestine#w#on love#m
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#I’m not even leaving an option for none#reblog if you didn’t read any I guess??? shame on your English teachers though#I say that as if I actually read any of these cover to cover lmao#I think the only ones I actually read cover to cover were lord of the flies#of mice and men#wide sargasso sea#night#the canterbury tales#I wish I could make more answers the options should be limitless
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Sans do you ever feel that something might be missing?
Maybe he felt like that at some point, maybe for a long time. In the present, I think he's made some kind of peace with it.
Also, I really like the ask blog format, but I don't really mean this to be an ask blog.
So when writing questions, try to refer them to me instead of the characters. That way, they don't have to break the fourth wall lmao. I really wanted to answer this one tho
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#forgettable-au#YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT TAKES ME THE MOST WHEN MAKING THSES THING#I CANNOT WRITE#Everythings so clear to me and then I have to write it and I get stuck#illustrating it all feels so much easier even when it takes more time#maybe it's just because english isn't my first lenguage#but I'm always checking my orthography and punctuations are correct alsjsdk#papyrus!gaster#papyrus#undertale au#sans#papyrus is gaster#alphys#undyne#toriel#undertale comic#undertale#I JUST REALIZED I FORGOT TO DRAW FLOWEY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO#my boy...#answered ask
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i made a little interactive story about a spaceship and its passenger, you can read it here: passenger9027 ^_^
#it’s really short ! like read under a couple of minutes short#and i feel so scared sharing it with ppl (even though i want to) because ahhhhhg. im not much of a writer even moreso in english#but yeah do it scared i guess#oc#robot#<- its about a sentient spaceship ok.#interactive fiction#my art#passenger9027#antares story
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tf2 karaoke! 🎤🎶
(here's a list of the referenced+a couple extra songs)
#tf2#team fortress 2#if you are upset spy didnt sing...i do think if he tried it would be quite nice#maybe ne me quitte pas by jacques brel?#i think it would be like haunting and it would make everyone tear up even tho they dont know what he's saying#demo is sobbing.#soldier is also sobbing because he's not speaking english and he's so confused
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she would've told them unlike her canon! version who decided not to be an ally smh
#one piece#trans!sanji#sanji#kiku#yamato#ワンピース#I'm practicing my japanese shhhhhh#(日本語のペラペラ人:俺は文法とか書く方とか間違ったら教えてください😅ありがとうございます)#translation:#Yamato: I'll be able to get as strong as Oden?#Sanji: Probably... 🤔#[meanwhile Kiku is remembering the time in the hot spring]#(Sanji: Nami-chan!!!)#(Nami: Shut up!! The women's bath is supposed to be a peaceful place!)#Kiku: I am also ⚧️ ... o.o#(y'all english speakers had me all to yourselves for a decade it's about time I start to also sometimes make stuff in my next language lol#notably for media *from* that language#same as it made sense to make fan content in english for [american superhero franchise we don't talk abt anymore] back in the day#(happy seasonal reminder that Ren Is Not A Native English Speaker and This Is My 5th Language hi 😅))#while looking up reference for this I learnt that the straps to tie back the kimono sleeves are called tasuki#also I decided yamato get big muscles cause he got them kaido genes in im (I also gave him his dad's young-man-facial hair)#the more I do transition projections for one piece characters while tryna adhere to the style the more I learn that sometimes stylisation#uses bones less as literal determinants for where things go and just kinda exaggerates shapes based on vibes alone instead#meaning trans characters' bones wouldn't literally stay looking the same in that stylisation in the way they do irl#they'd get exaggerated differently based on what the surrounding stuff is doing#I still think oda's transition demonstration when we first met iva was unreasonable even with that in mind tho
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From which point on can you name someone "mutual" though? Is it like a knight title you have to earn? Is there a ceremomy? Do you have to bathe in the blood of mysogynists? Do you get a badge that says "mutual of____"? How do you make friends in general???
#seriously#please send help#I need it#I am not good at socializing#I feel like the embodimemt of Cas at the moment#yeah#did I ever have some in the first place???#Is this even English???#my people skills are rusty
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a birthday gift for @borzoilover69 !!! happy borth dude, your dirkjakes bring me so much joy <3
#homestuck#dirk strider#jake english#dirkjake#homestuck fanart#considered drawing them beating the everloving beejesus outta each other but landed on angst/comfort anyway#story of my fucking life#anyways!!! hope you like it man even with the lack of spice#luv ya!! <3
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Peak District
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