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wtfduolingo · 7 months ago

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(ID: Duolingo phrase that translates to "Yes, we have a new hippo.")

#what language is this?#duolingo

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nonenglishsongs · 8 months ago

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Les Amazones d'Afrique, Mamani Keïta, Fafa Ruffino - Flaws (Bambara?)

#afro synthfunk #les amazones d'afrique #what language is this?#mamani keïta #fafa ruffino #flaws #bambara #bamana #bam #ߓߡߊߣߊ߲#mande #nigercongo #africa #mali #2024 #2020s #world #electronic #Spotify

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baker-chan-senpai · 10 days ago

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dumb doodles

merry christmas, people

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biggest-gaudiest-patronuses · 1 year ago

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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

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies”#serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited...#i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest.#it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!'#'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members...#..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)'#anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language?#maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value”#and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs)#happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills)#and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on...#...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works?#beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

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taimanzano · 2 months ago

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One of one. One, alone, one.

#my stuff #transformers #maccadam #orion pax #d 16 #d 16 x orion pax #megop #transformers one #megatron #optimus prime #megaop #I spent like an hour today reading poetry and getting mad at dumb stuff SO that's why this exists. Sorry for the lame poetry #I did what I could with the meager words i have #also english is NOT my language and i much MUCH prefer poetry in spanish #anyway I don't draw the tf1 versions of these two cuz it's so hard man #so many details #this took a couple of hours cuz i still refuse to take more than 2 hrs per page... and I'm forbidding myself from using anything but black #ok good night #si está pitero está pitero ya alv

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pangur-and-grim · 1 month ago

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#AHHH I dunno if this is shit or not #or whether my language is clear enough that people actually know what I'm talking about #but 'evolved worm' has stuck in my head. I like that bit.#little fuckign thing. little ham. monster animal. worm.#anyway yeah this is my attempt to do a sonnet with proper meter #it's from the beginning of the chapbook. I tried to tell things chronologically #so I needed one from before I brought him home #Belphegor

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quidam-vir · 3 months ago

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I just found out that Latin has an adverb/interjection which means "it's over"

#latin #now we just need 'were so back'#I wonder what their 'joever' would be #latin language #latin langblr #it's over #classics

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mischievous-thunder · 4 months ago

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Logan not only held onto the photograph after the fight until he fell asleep but also kept it with himself until what he thought was going to be his last conversation with Wade.

Just prior to going into the chamber to destroy the Time Ripper, Logan gave the photo back to Wade because the man didn't think that he'd make it. He wasn't someone who expressed their emotions too eloquently but in that moment his expressions and voice conveyed what his heart truly felt. Seeing Wade teared up and realising that that moment could be their very last together, Logan let the voice of his heart take over.

That was their declaration of love.

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finelythreadedsky · 6 days ago

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there are 32 complete surviving tragedies by three different authors (counting cases of disputed genre and authorship), and you can see a list here

#in translation/in any language if that's not implied #inspired by that shakespeare post #for transparency's sake: i have not read phoenissae or euripides' suppliants or rhesus #i'll hit them at some point in the next year or so i guess. they're not particularly pressing for my work #what i really need to do is increase the number i've seen performed on stage (currently 7)#mine

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vimbry · 5 months ago

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(*1995 and largely icon, personally.

the choice is meant to be what you say now.

couldn't decide on where to comfortably separate the age demographics in the end, so made the focus more on the split of which generations were born into mainstream internet use.

no "other" option, because that would skew the poll out of people choosing terms in other languages/swapping between all of above/indecision

did originally have a wider variety of options such as badge, userpic, e.g. but simplified it down to terms used the most currently by users on this website).

#kinda curious about something #saying of these options as in. what's most common in english-speaking because there's likely been different shifts in other languages #I thought about putting badge here but I think that largely fell out of use years ago

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bizarrelittlemew · 9 months ago

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i can't wait to be 30+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 40+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 50+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 60+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 70+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 80+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to be 90+ and still in fandom and i can't wait to look back on my life and know that i loved things deeply and passionately and was inspired to create and was part of communities with incredible people from all over the world brought together by the stories that touched us

#and still be mad at shithead executives for unfairly cancelling my pirate show #also imagine what my ao3 word count will be like. gonna be writing my little fics in the nursing home #sometimes when i get frustrated over my writing i have to remember that i've only been doing it for a little over a year #and not in my native language #there is still so much time and so much to learn and try and discover and explore and i am EXCITED #there is something so ancient and beautiful about humans being brought together by stories #storytelling is what humans have always done and will always do and what will always connect us #to our past to the future to each other #sorry for the 1 am ramblings #fandom #🐭📓

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nonenglishsongs · 1 year ago

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Folksy Friday | Laboratorium Pieśni - Sztoy pa moru (Belarusian)

#choral kinda creepy folk ballad #p sure this is belarusian tho the artist is polish #laboratorium pieśni #sztoy pa moru #belarusian #беларуская #bel #slavic #indoeuropean #europe #2017 #2010s #traditional folksy friday #what language is this?#Spotify

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softinvasions · 1 year ago

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