#National English

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

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[hana-loves-bumblebees]

English: barn owl - uninspired and unimaginative, 3/10

Czech: sova pálená, literally singed, burnt owl (because of the markings on its head) - creative, unique, 8/10

Slovak: plamienka driemavá - the sleepy little flamey (not kidding) - somebody looked at the owl and went “aww eepy flame babey :))))” and I think that’s amazing, also it sounds super cute, 11/10

[7clubs]

hello winner nation. i am enchanted by their silly little laugh

[fashionsfromhistory]

Cabinet

1880

National Gallery of Victoria

[lionofchaeronea]

Barn Owls with Their Brood, William Tomkins, ca. 1775

[etherealyearning]

Anglesey Abbey - National Trust

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 50: Early Modernish and Earlier 4

These Questions are the result of suggestions a the previous iteration.This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

[vox-anglosphere]

The stone cottages of Appletreewick, a charming village in Yorkshire

[dailymanners]

Don't make fun of any accents, ever, for any reason.

The person on the receiving end will most likely fall in at least one of three categories:

Second language

Regional accent

Speech impediment

1. Second language

This person is probably speaking in this language to you because either you don't speak their mother tongue or you speak it worse than they speak the language you are speaking. They are making an effort for you. An accent doesn't make you dumb.

Making fun of someone for attempting to communicate in another language is the height of assholery.

2. Regional accent

Half the time you make fun of regional accents, you make fun of historically disenfranchised accents.

Southern accents? Congrats you're making fun of the way rural, usually poor, people speak. Their speech was highly influenced by black people.

Don't even get me started on making fun of AAE.

Again, an accent doesn't make you any less intelligent.

3. Speech impediment

They know they have a speech impediment. They are probably trying very hard not to sound like that. It is literally not their fault. They have had to deal with people making fun of it their whole life.

A speech impediment doesn't make you less intelligent either.

[rherlotshadow]

Mottisfont, in Hampshire.

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[lovelyballetandmore]

English National Ballet School

[potatocrisp]

Messing around w changing up zarras usual outfit

[pbnjloverman]

Guys me and my friends are officially crazy .

okay so my friend send me this

She says that she thinks that the thing that is in the screen is two people kissing.

At first I thought she was crazy but then she send me this video

And I was like "Omg yes you are right "

And Then I ask her who she things it's the two people kissing and she told me "idk but it looks kinda like Joyce and hopper" and I told her "I dont think it's Joyce and hopper, joyce's hair its not that short" and then my other friend said "maybe its byler because That looks like will" and I was like "OMG yes" but then I was like "wait, How do we know that's 2 people kissing?" And my friend said "because it looks like is a kiss its so obvious" And I was like "Hmmn idk maybe we are just making things up ".

Guys idk but I think that me and my friends are crazy Because that shit doesnt look like a kiss.

SEND HELP

Guys im just delusional

[fonteyn]

Stina Quagebeur as “MYRTHA, Queen of the Willis" in AKRAM KHAN’S GISELLE