#reflex language

[shallowseeker]

Dean "had him by the thigh," is, like the reference to Philistines in the same episode, an ancient/Biblical one.

Cas's reaction, like "It's funnier in Enochian," is his reacting comically to what would be Biblical euphemism for: "Dean had him by the dick."

Much like a Seraphim "covers their feet" in the presence of God is a euphemism for covering their penises, ancient language also cloaked penis is euphemism like "hand, thigh, limb, flesh, etc."

13x16 via spnscripts

I don't know, but it's just funny to think of Cas's mind jumping there first out of reflex and then his brain having to backpedal, like whoops.

[german-enthusiast]

wanna learn a word that some Germans really love?

✨entschleunigen (verb)✨

it's the opposite of beschleunigen (v) - accelerate and it technically does mean decelerate BUT for that we prefer "abbremsen"

no, entschleunigen is used way more in the sense of "slow down your vibes", to take a break, to pause from the constant hectic and stress of both work and personal matters

a similar term is: einen Gang runterschalten/zurückschalten (to go down a gear) - we do love our automobile motives, huh?

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

interviewer: *mentions miles*

alex:

(bonus) jamie:

[cutiequisitor]

great question crimson one, thanks for helping me learn dutch i guess

[sesamenom]

browsing stormlight art on tumblr and ran into a post about how different dalinars life would have been with a somewhat healthier childhood and i think someone tagged it 'kaladin adopts young dalinar au' or something

anyways i propose a Make Everybody Worse au. teenage dalinar and gavilar get dropped directly into formenos and unofficially adopted by feanor a few years before the flight of the noldor. they both participate in the First Kinslaying/Oath/Losgar and then feanor dies. maedhros adopts them and then thangorodrim happens. maglor adopts them for a few years until mae gets rescued. they participate in the first few decades of the wars of beleriand, after which they get dropped back into the middle of alethkar.

on the noldorin side of things, m&m assume the random children they sort-of adopted (300some years before Secondborn were awakened) got killed somewhere in the battle. the kidnap fam situation now has the additional context of m&m having known even more pairs of children who died because of the Oath - one pair killed in the Second Kinslaying, one pair who presumably died in battle because they swore the Oath

on the alethi side of things, dalinar & gavilar are now Oathbound kinslayers who just lost five-to-ten parental figures and all their friends, and spent most of their lives being actively encouraged in war and military strategy. they also skipped the entirety of the navani-related conflict and are probably somewhat closer because of that. violence ensues.

[silvermoon-scrolls]

You know what the most frustrating thing about writing is when you are fluent in another language?

The absolute devastation of knowing there is a perfect way to word this if I could just use that other language for this one sentence.

[nonstopfandomposts]

My Spanish teacher: do you know reflexive verbs?

Me: yes

Him: *gives the gayest sigh* dude what am I supposed to teach you this year?

[ribbittrobbit]

if i was a mentopolis character i would be constance clueless and my entire role would be the person in the friendgroup going “wait what” “huh” and my personal favorite *nodding but very clearly has no idea what is going on*

[bookwyrminspiration]

could even one of these words be in the dictionary. or the second dictionary. or the internet as a whole. i am begging

[midnight-train-of-thought]

Not me answering my Chinese prof’s question in French, after translating it my head in English

[stromuprisahat]

Someone needs to learn you a thing about learning things

Well- fuck you!

If you had any idea how diligent were ALL our teachers about making sure we get this right (There's basically the same word for "teach" and "learn" in Czech, just like "lend" and "borrow" and likely other examples.), you'd start crying tears of blood anytime you'd see it wrong too.

[isdalinarhot]

when people are like omg this is cursed i hate this xD on like. my really tame sadalinar posts. my g rated e for everyone completely nonsexual sadalinar posts. my "the only thing that makes it a sadalinar post is that i glibly refer to them as divorced" sadalinar posts. its like girl this is not even close to the worst thing ive posted

[duchessofostergotlands]

Trying to work out when to use the word “att” before a verb in Swedish is what’s going to kill me 

[cynosurus]

Svenskaträning för den hugade (Swedish practice for the willing)

I've been thinking of för, and therefore, here's some verbs with för to muse over. What's the difference between (+ which of these isn't a verb?):

företag företa sig förta sig ta för sig ta sig för

bonus: ta sig till ta till sig tillta tilltag

[calandrinon]

How come you speak romanian as an australian? Do you have family, a partner, friends or workmates that are romanians or is it just a personal interest?

Them

I don't know anyone in person who even speaks Romanian. I knew a couple of words already because of Dragostea din tei, and I knew it was the language with the intriguing hyphens, but I never considered learning it until these guys came along and before I knew it my playlists were full of Romanian songs and I was starting to pick up actual grammar and I figured I ought to do the thing properly. Now I have a 376 day streak on duolingo and an entire pastoral ballad in my brain and I regret nothing.

I love it so much. It makes me want to write poetry that doesn't start with foaie verde lol

[shingekinomyfeelings]

Hey fellow humans, if you find me to be super annoying and uncomfortable to be around, you know what you should do? Go away. Seriously, go away. Fact is, if you really think that poorly of me, then I don't wanna be around you, either. Don't you fucking dare get offended by that.