#Latin problems

[midnight-specialist]

you know you’re getting old when you realize that you used to sing Mayor que yo and now they sing it to you instead 😭

[zu-art]

+ (Warnings: Uhhh... Blood? Disturbing imagery? And angst)

[hanhwrites]

After having studied Latin for five years and ancient Greek for two years I can now confidently say I can't remember what English is 50% of the time

[quesadilla-day]

"draw your two biggest comfort characters as the steven meme" what on earth does this say about me 🤯

^the original^

^closeup^

[esamastation]

Can someone please help me come up up with Lucian and Insomnian names, I need buncha random OCs for Oh, where do we begin, specifically people to populate the high society.

[awetistic-things]

being really sensitive to spicy food while also being hispanic sucks ‘cause i could pass on the salsa once and hear “damn you really white washed” from WHITE PEOPLE for the rest of the day

[karolgasblog]

Powerful💖😍✨

[knights-unwelcommentary]

A pet peeve of mine is how the internet at large and a lot of countries took to using the term baby boomer for a generation wordlwide like it wasn't in a niche demographic of countries that in summary fought in ww2, got an economic boost and started making tons of babies

[tullycicero]

the funniest part of being in dark academia spaces etc online is that you do really begin to see how like fake all of it is when people are posting and reblogging pictures of your own university (and romanticising your own degree) and they've all just been... desaturated to high heaven like no the shortcut to your lectures doesn't look like that - nothing weirder than seeing people look up to what is essentially half of your life as an aesthetic pinnacle and meanwhile there you are doing studying the classics in an old british university and that is not the vibe

idk it just makes me laugh, seeing photos that can literally include the outside of my own student bedroom being romanticised when i can see very clearly that the sepia filter is blasted to 100 and there aren't tourists everywhere

[littlesistersti]

To Fans of Nyo!Belarus...

To any of you who named him “Arlovskaya”, do you know how surnames work in Russian-speaking countries? Also, did you read the kitawiki? It never said “Arlovskaya”, it said “Arlofsky” or “Arlovski”. Although, Arlovski is a real person, and I’m pretty sure Natasha’s surname isn’t Arlofskaya with an f. 

Can any Russians and Belarusians confirm if Natalya/Natallia is still relevant? Is it an outdated name or still going? I feel most of the characters have old people name.

Update: Wikipedia said the Belarusian spelling is feminine “Арлоўская” (Arlouskaya, Arloŭskaja, Arlowskaya) or masculine “Арлоўскі” (Arloŭski, Arlowski) but I know every Belarusians will write however they think is correct, because we all think differently according to the language we understand. You know that internet meme what language do bilinguals/polyglots think in? The better question is what language rules do they think in? Example, came across a name on a social media handle “Bitl” and I thought “wait, I thought your name is Zhuk?” Turns out, Zhuk means beatle. (Edit: I mispelt beetle)

PS. Why did people name Romania “Vlad” after Vlad Tepes then proceeded to name him “Vladimir” when that’s a Russian name and Vlad Tepes the Impaler’s full name is right there, “Vladislav”. How did we fail that one?????

PPS. I forgot when I wrote this. This sat in my drafts forever. 

[whats-in-a-sentence]

In the postwar era, Anglo-American eugenic attention extended to the global population explosion – particularly in what was then called the underdeveloped world. No doubt for some reform eugenicists the rapidly multiplying populations of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America represented some sort of immense "social problem group". Yet it required no race prejudice to find a good deal that was dysgenic in the proliferation of people in environments that offered inadequate food, housing, education, and medical care.²⁴

24. Julian S. Huxley, "Eugenics in Evolutionary Perspective" [Galton lecture, 1962], in Julian S. Huxley, Essays of a Humanist (Harper & Row, 1964), pp. 266-67. Osborn argued that whether the social qualities of children from lower-income homes were in origin genetic, environmental, or some combination of the two, their "relative inadequacy" tended to be handed on to the next generation. Frederick Osborn, "Qualitative Aspects of Population Control: Eugenics and Euthenics", Law and Contemporary Problems, Summer 1960, p. 416, copy in American Eugenics Society Papers, box 15.

"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles

[aeide-thea]

guy who’s only ever lived in the current era: [phenomenon] sure seems unique to the current era!

[muxas-world]

Why gringos want yo explain to latinos born and raise in latinomerica what it means and feel to be latino sierren el culorroto que se cargan

[welcometogrouchland]

Based off that one scene in eclipse lake I've decided that willow's favourite human music would be the world's worst fucking ear-bleeding hyper pop.

Hunter sits down to listen to it with her and has to rip the headphones off 4 seconds in because he thinks he's gonna throw up and willows like "omg are you okay?? I'm sorry we can stop listening to it if you need to :((" all concerned and hunter's like "no no it's fine! I just...don't know why you listen to this. Or how" and willows like "it makes my brain itchy :)" and hunter says "THAT'S A GOOD THING??"

[blueflyingturtleontheway]

Do I have any native Spanish speakers (preferably from Latin America, but Spain is cool too) among my followers who would like to explain the use of the formal you to me? :(

[izzyspussy]

headcanon that izzy prefers to talk about intimate subjects with jim or frenchie in spanish and french respectively even though he doesn't speak them that well because there's a slight distance compared to speaking in his first language, so even though finding the right words is harder it's easier to say them out loud