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A Love Affair with Languages

@littlelinguaphile / littlelinguaphile.tumblr.com

Started as a langblr, now is just a mess。Stressed translation grad student (JPN➔ENG)。Linguistics/Japanese/TESOL。I love bad horror movies and stupid ghost hunting shows。Pittsburgh Penguins Trash。
「Mainly Japanese、sometimes Korean and Russian」
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oh yeah, with the new size limit for .gifs this thing can finally be posted

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what the fuck

I just….?

TREASURE THIS POST. IT ONLY APPEARS ON YOUR DASH ONCE IN A BLUE MOON I SWEAR

forget posting cringe to scare off Twitter folks, we just gotta make this appear to be the constant vibe here and we’ll be good skdjskksks

I love seeing people write their o's as ø for aesthetic reasons cause in my head I always pronounce it accordingly and it always ends up sounding goofy as hell

You either die or you die (but this time in norwegian/danish)

Might commit to the bit and get "Dø or die" tattooed today because I cannot stop thinking about it does anyone have good placement ideas

This is my dumbest and quickest tattoo yet

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:DD najó

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European: Americans will be like I’m going to watch a whore movie and eat a hamburger slathered in lard

Americans: it’s true I do do this.

American: British people will be like alright I’m off to eat some wheezy bangers (beans and bread out of a can)

Brit: I’ve seen this reblogged by several people I normally trust so: How mocking British cuisine and dialect has a long classist history and how it became frighteningly normalized on an American (uniquely cruel, uniquely ignorant) internet: a thread. 1/?

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dr seuss yaoi

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I was gonna say “I bet this exists” because I had genuinely forgotten one of the most gargantuan eras in the history of this website

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Posts that scare new tumblr users

Why would this scare new users? How bad could it possibly be??

Oh NO

Hey, everyone was just doing what comes naturally

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"don't post that, what if an employer sees?" personally i think employers need to stay the fuck off their employees' social media lmao

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stop normalizing employers invading employees' privacy ❤️❤️❤️

@ every parent in the world: yes your kid is special because every child is special but they are not specialer than every other child so please be normal about them

Some parents have done what I can only describe as fandomize their child where they’ve taken the child and altered it in their mind to make a cooler version that fits their specific interests, and now sometimes I have to remind them of the canon material.

For those of you who don’t know, I’m a youth theater director and teacher. Every audition season is a personal ordeal.

Giving people whiplash with this one.

I hate correcting customers who call me ma'am and miss and honey over the phone, because only about 30 percent of the time do they apologize and start calling me sir, while 70 percent of the time they double down assuming I was trans and continue misgendering me on purpose to show how little respect they have for me as a human being. "Thank you, MISS."

I'm a cis man, for the record.

Whenever I correct someone and they keep it up, I simply refuse service. "Oh, I'm sorry, we're completeley booked up the day you wanted. Yeah, no, we're booked up on your backup dates too. Looks like our next opening isn't until, hmm, mid-November. Oh, but it doesn't have enough beds for your party. We could probably fit you in around New Years, but you'd have to change rooms every day. You might wanna try [more expensive motel] a few blocks north of us, they might have vacancies. Have a good day."

I've been able to dodge what few complaints we've gotten so far because they all tell my boss that they just spoke to a very nasty woman, and she has no idea who they're talking about. "You must have dialed the wrong number, because I'm the only woman here, and I didn't talk to you." That PISSES THEM OFF, and she doesn't understand why they respond with "well we've been staying there for years, but we're never coming back." They think she's protecting me, an afab trans man, and are disgusted by it, but from her perspective they're just crazy people who are complaining about made up bullshit; it doesn't even cross her mind that they're talking about me. Why would it?

My boss is like 70 or 75, and was a Republican until 2016. It's never come up in conversation, but something tells me she wouldn't exactly be a trans ally. I'm in a weird position here, and it's hilarious.