Lingthusiasm 2022 Survey Results
In late 2022, we ran our first Lingthusiasm audience survey! We tried out some linguistic experiments, and now we have the results. To learn more, and stay in the loop for potential future surveys (we have ethics approval for 3 years!), join us on Patreon.
I love the humor that comes when two languages are about 80-90% mutually intelligible and to native speakers of one hearing the other just sounds like an incredibly silly version of their own
I love the humor born of an innocuous word or phrase in one language sounding like something extremely vulgar in another
I just wish so many people - especially English speakers - weren't colossal dicks about it
Quantum Physicists please answer a question for me.
If the objects used in the example given in the article were human bodies instead of plates, would the length of the waves that make up the quantum foam account for body heat and/or the loss thereof?
My line of thought is that the longer the wavelength, the more heat can travel along that wavelength, thus leading to a more significant loss of body heat. Still, also other factors could disrupt a wavelength causing the same effect.
TL;DR: is freezing an outside inward process or and inside outward process
TIA
having a bunch of language poll ideas rn okay here's a really specific one
a sentence like "everyone uses tumblr" can be negated as either "not everyone uses tumblr" or "everyone does not use tumblr".
“It hurts every day, the absence of someone who was once there.”
— Marie Lu, Champion
My blood is literally fluttering with panic. Racing to satisfaction or surrender. One hundred Twenty-nine, One hundred Thirty-Eight; it climbs, it climbs, it climbs
My new watch delicately chiming a desperate notification; accompanied by the haptic S.O.S. alerting me to the mistakes of my captive heart. My brain says everything is fine, my heart tells my body the truth of the matter.
“There is nothing for you here…”
I look at the people around me and wonder how are they so courageous, how is it that they have so much stamina to keep going out there and meeting people and making friends and falling in love as if they are changing clothes with the changing seasons? I am always in great awe, and wonder how brave and nonchalant people my age are when it comes to the matters of the heart.
Do they not get their hearts broken? Or is it they experience heartbreak differently than me? Does their heartbreak not feel like every bone breaking in their body at the same time? Or looking at those pictures and remembering those conversations.. do memories not feel like swallowing shards of glass?
That is what love, friendship and people have made me feel. A deep heartache, a grief that tastes like blood in my mouth.
Am I, somehow, not doing this right?
Maybe the trick is to not put too much of your heart into it?
But how do I love with half a heart? Is it even love if it’s only a half?
late night wonders
-Nidhi Bhasin
“Life is not like water. Things in life dont necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”
— Haruki Murakami
It’s really, really time to forget about you. It truly is. To this day, you’re the worst thing that’s ever happened to my mind. And I wish I had never met you. I didn’t know how destructive you would be to my emotions. It all always comes back to one thing. Blindsided. I am always blindsided when it comes to you. And the reality is horrible. Because I realize I will never live in love with you. We will never be together. I wish I knew this then, so I wouldn’t have to hurt like this now. I’m still trying to see the good that can come out of learning from this, but I don’t feel any better. If anything, the pain has just learned to numb itself. And it’s just a cycle of convincing myself everyday that I’m fine without you.
c / waves
can’t believe i never posted anything about jackie before, had to fix that