The Museum of Everyday Writing

A perfect example of everyday writing!

Hello! My name is Vicky and I am an intern with the Museum of Everyday Writing this semester! I will be running the Tumblr account, and as my introduction post I wanted to include a piece of everyday writing that is near and dear to my heart. The definition of "everyday writing" can be different for everyone, but I consider it to be anything ranging from street sign graffiti to thrift store book annotations. Basically, writing outside the academic context and showing glimpses of simple human existence and interaction. This letter from Kurt Vonnegut, for example, strips him of his esteemed author title and reveals him at his most human as he provides his wisdom to students in the least academic way possible.

me: why are you destroying earth!!!

aliens: because theres people who think that english is the only language they need to speak

me: thats fair i understand

For some reason I find this all the more amusing because it’s written in English

moi: pourquoi vous détruisez le monde!!! l'extraterrestre: parce que il y a des gens qui pensent que l'anglais est le seule langue pour parler moi: ah ça c'est bien

ich: warum zerstört ihr die erde!!!

aliens: weil es leute gibt die glauben dass englisch die einzige sprache ist die sie sprechen müssen

ich: das ist fair ich verstehe

ég: af hverju eyðileggið þið jörðina!!! aliens: af því að það er fólk sem finnst að enska sé sú eina tungumál sem þau þurfa að tala ég: oh, það er vit í þessu. ég skil.

ik: waarom vernietig je de aarde!!!

aliens: omdat er mensen zijn die denken dat engels de enige taal is die ze hoeven te spreken

ik: oh zo, ik snap het

minä: miks te tuhootte maapalloo?

alienit: koska tääl on ihmisiä joitten mielestä englanti on ainoo kieli jota niitten täytyy puhua

minä: toi on reilua, ymmärrän

私: どうして地球を滅ぼしているんですか？

宇宙人: 英語しか喋る必要がないと思う人がいるからです

私: なるほど、わかりました

me: Wosück maakt ji de Welt twei!!!

aliens: wieldat dat Lüüd gifft, de dinkt dat Engelsch de allenige Spraak weer, de een snacken mütt

me: jo, daar seggst wat. Nu versta ik’t

aniga: dhulka maxaad u burburinaya !!!

shisheeyaha: dadka intiisa badani u malaynayaan in Ingiriisidu tahay afka oo kaliya ay u baahan yihiin inay la hadlaan

aniga: waxaan fahamsanahay. waa wax cadaalad

我：你们为什么在毁灭地球?！！

外星人：因为有人以为他们只会英语就可以了

我：懂了，说得有道理

ako: bakit niyo sinisira ang mundo!!!

taga-ibang planeta: kasi merong mga taong akala nila Ingles lang ang kailangan nilang matutunang lenggwahe

ako: ah, sige naiintindihan ko

Aku : kenapa kau hancurkan bumi!!! Alien : karena masih banyak orang berpikir hanya bahasa inggris satu-satunya bahasa yang terpenting Aku : oh, oke lah..

tôi: tại sao các người hủy diệt trái đất!!! người ngoài hành tinh: bởi vì có người nghĩ rằng tiếng Anh là thứ tiếng duy nhất mà họ cần biết tôi: ồ thế thì tôi hiểu

Eu: Por que vocês estão destruindo a Terra?! Aliens: Porque há pessoas que pensam que o inglês é a única língua que eles precisam falar. Eu: Isso é justo, eu entendo.

jag: varför förintar ni jorden!!!

utomjordingar: för det finns folk som tror att engelska är det ända språket de behöver kunna

jag: rimligt, jag förstår

Já: Proč ničíte Zemi?

Mimozemšťani: Protože tu jsou lidé, kteří si myslí, že angličtina je jediný jazyk, který potřebují znát

Já: To je fér, to chápu.

ja: dlaczego niszczycie Ziemię?

kosmici: ponieważ są ludzie, którzy myślą, że angielski to jedyny język, którego potrzebuję

ja: rozumiem, w porządku

io: perchè state distruggendo la terra!!!

alieni: perchè ci sono delle persone che credono che l’inglese sia l’unica lingua di cui hanno bisogno

io: capisco, mi sembra giusto

Yo: porqué estás destruyendo la tierra!?!?

Extraterrestre: porque hay personas quienes creen que inglés es la única lengua que se tiene que hablar.

Yo: te entiendo, es justo.

Я: Почему вы уничтожаете Землю?!?! Инопланетяне: Потому что есть люди, которые считают, что им нужно говорить только по-английски. Я: А, ну понятно, тогда ладно!

A modern Rosetta stone.

Onipa: ad3n ti na woo se3 ewuasi

3wiamu nii: efri s3 nk⊃fu⊃ bi w⊃ ho a ⊃mo fri s3 br⊃fo ne kasa p3 a ehyia ⊃mo

Onipa: a, ma te ase

Yessssssss I love the sign language addition! @polygamouscaterpillar

This is like the side-by-side plates of the Lord’s Prayer in the historical linguistics textbook except so much better

This is the most educational shitpost I’ve ever seen

#moew #everyday writing #meme

oranges (and clementines and tangerines) as vessels of love   

i have excellent annotations

This Post is Everyday Writing!

Category: Message

Date of Origin: September 27, 2021

the massive power of trains yet confinement to a single path makes them comparable to angels

This Post is Everyday Writing!

Category: Blog Post

Date of Origin: September 25, 2018

fake drunkposting on tumblr circa 2013. people need to start doing that again

15 year olds were on here at 1am on a school night like igm sooo duuurnk,,,, ohgh..// ivbe never eben this sdrurnk befor ign my life... performance art

This Post is Everyday Writing!

Category: Blog Post; Imaginative Writing

Date of Origin: December 16, 2021

you can literally feel your brain become fully developed at age 25 btw. i was dumb as shit before then. i still am but in different ways

#there’s a little beep like on a microwave to announce your brain is done and ready to be a subtly different kind of stupid forever

This Post is Everyday Writing!

Category: Blog Post

Date of Origin: December 13, 2021

im translating russian memes for practice and i... theyre so fucking funny

me: *flips pillow over to the cold side and goes back to sleep*

nurse who's been watching me in a coma for the past 5 years:

This Post is Everyday Writing!

Category: Blog Post; Meme

Date of Origin: October 11, 2019

Happy anniversary to the game that change my life (for the worst)

This Post is Everyday Writing!

Category: Blog Post; Message

Date of Origin: December 16, 2021

This is not Loss.jpg artistically, but it is mood wise.

This is the best thing you could ever say to me thank you

I’m going to DIE at this English class analysis of my comic thank you so much I love you

i had to bring it full circle

it’s a goddamned matryoshka doll of memefuckery in here some days

This Post is Everyday Writing!

Category: Blog Post; List; Imaginative Writing; Meme

Date of Origin: October 26, 2018

I love the idea of dead gods. Not in the sense of “hey i killed something supernaturally strong” but in the sense of “i killed it and it’s still a god.” It is still worshipped. prayers are still answered. miracles are performed in its name, even as it lies pierced by a thousand swords and burning with chemical fire. even as it drifts through vacuum, decapitated and bleeding molten rock. in cosmic spite of being shot through each eye and hurled into a plasma reactor, it still radiates the power of the divine in a way that primitive death cannot smother. the nature of godhood is not so simple as to be tied to the mortality, or immortality, of any living being.

This Post is Everyday Writing!

Category: Blog Post; Imaginative Writing

Date of Origin: December 13, 2021

This Post is Everyday Writing!

Category: Social Media Post; Message; Performance

Date of Origin: November 25, 2021

let’s be real here guys 🤣 the reactor is about to go critical

This Post is Everyday Writing!

Category: Blog Post

Date of Origin: December 14, 2021

they restructured wikipedia and the way it works now is that everyone on earth has an article to tend to for the rest of their life like a beloved ornamental tree or perhaps a tamagotchi and if you're not responsible about it the page will shrivel up and die for real. this is what the donations went towards BTW

This Post is Everyday Writing!

Category: Blog Post; Imaginative Writing

Date of Origin: December 14, 2021

the makeup industry is kinda evil but lipstick did go off with leaving little kiss marks on everything you smooch… i won’t lie

This Post is Everyday Writing!

Category: Blog Post

Date of Origin: December 2, 2021

okay im back, thanks for waiting, i just had to commit an act of senseless violence to satisfy a primal urge in me that i do not understand and cannot resist, what were you saying before?

This Post is Everyday Writing!

Category: Blog Post

Date of Origin: October 4, 2021