Took a wrong turn somewhere

i took a nap and woke up in all these goddam spinanch

Hey, could you do me a favor?

Could you just RB this?

The little RB statistics chart is so pleasant and stimmy to look at and I want to see what it looks like when it gets really REALLY huge because it makes me think of some deep sea lifeform

here lemme help

*ahem*

reblog this post to kiss the person you reblogged it from

hope that works :)

THANK YOU THIS IS MAKING MY BRAIN SO HAPPY AAAAAAAAA

THIS IS SO SATISFYING ITS LIKE A GROUP OF PLANKTON OR A RAILWAY CHART...

glad to be of assistance :) can you name the plankton after me

i have 10.5k followers i'll help

@thatlittleegyptologist @rudjedet make it REAL big ladies

painfully true

i do im celebrating my dogs birthday

shes turning 2

SHES TURNING 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Despite clearly being based on the English word, I really do prefer the Irish for "shark":

Siorc.

Pronounced "shork".

Just sounds cute, like the shark equivalent of "pupper".

To all the parents that go "Oh I'll just abort the kid if it's disabled"

What happens if they become disabled later in life?

What if you get your spine shattered with a baseball bat in a back alley at 2 am next Wednesday?

What will you do then?

(I was born a perfect apgar 10 and look at me now.)

Happy 10th Anniversary Release Date to "Take Me To Church" by Hozier.

Still laughing at Brian May offhandedly writing the greatest understatement in the history of academia in his astrophysics doctoral dissertation:

Ah, yes - “various pressures.” Like being one of the greatest guitarists ever and playing/writing/singing for the most legendary rock band of all time.

Those various pressures.

I'm sorry, he pUBLISHED IN NATURE???

Indeed he did! In 1972 - long before Queen took off as a popular rock band - May co-published an article about his team’s astronomical observations in the most prestigious science journal in the world:

Currently sat in a summer school type thing we're hosting in work and some English architect is telling us about sustainable design in Wales, except she hasn't bothered learning a single Welsh name and if I have to listen to one more "I don't know how to say 'Welsh name' so I'm going to use 'shitty English name/nothing while laughing at it' I'm going to throw this slanty drawing desk at her head

Spot the unforced errors:

"Wales has three national parks. There's the one I can't pronounce so I'm going to say Brecon Beacons, there's Pembrokeshire Coast, and there's Snowdonia."

Said with that lil laugh English people do when they say this stuff, because they think they're being funny and charming in a 'what am I like' way rather than disrespectful and arrogant as fuck

"This one is by a reservoir in Gwent I can say, tee hee! Landy something, but-"

Me: Llandegfedd

Her: uh... yes, so difficult! Tee hee!

FUCK OFF

"This one is called... Um... I don't know how to say it tee hee!"

Me: Ysgir.

Her: I'm so bad at Welsh haha

YOU ARE DELIVERING A THREE QUARTER HOUR LECTURE TO WELSH STUDENTS IN WALES ABOUT WELSH INFRASTRUCTURE

YOU HAVE MULTIPLE WELSH SPEAKING COLLEAGUES CRAWLING OUT OF THE WOODWORK WHO COULD HAVE TOLD YOU

LEARNING TO PRONOUNCE THE PLACES SHOULD HAVE BEEN PRIORITY ONE YOU ARROGANT BITCH

Like listen. LISTEN. I know this is entirely normal. I know this is so exceptionally common that about 80% of English people do it, I know they think it's funny, I know they don't even see there's a problem, I know I'm basically kicking off at rain in a wet country. I don't know why this extremely normal and commonplace occurrence is nettling me this much today.

But last year, I gave a lecture on grassland management. As part of it, I told the students about the ngitili silvipastoral systems in Tanzania. I am in no way saying I'm perfect!!! I am not a template to be copied!!! But ahead of that lecture, I scoured YouTube until I found a video of an indigenous person in Tanzania talking about the system!!! And I listened to how they pronounced it, and I memorised it, and then I even wrote out the phonetic pronunciation on the slide so my students could learn too, because not bothering to learn that while then presenting myself as an authority on the subject would have been grossly appropriative and colonialist and also plain fucking rude.

And none of those students were Tanzanian for me to insult to their faces

While I can agree that it can be infuriating to have something near and dear to you be mispronounced (especially if they have that obnoxious kind of attitude about it), the issue that I’m taking from this is that it heavily ignores the fact that that is not how language works.

There is no set pronunciation. Accents exist. To steal a joke from Community, there are different ways people say bagel (Britta says it bah-gul, instead of bay-gul.) I say coyote (kie-oat) different from most people (kie-oat-tea). Words are said differently in different locations. Just looking at English in England, there are near 40 different accents. Or Japanese in Japan, which also has over 40 different accents. And there certainly isn’t only one Welsh accent. So which one of you is pronouncing the language correctly?

This type of argument also ignores the fact that some people have never encountered certain sounds before or just can’t say it for another reason. Is an Arabic speaker wrong for not being able to pronounce “P” sounds because they aren’t used to hearing them? Or a Japanese speaker for not being able to pronounce “L” sounds? Or what about English speakers who can’t roll their “R’s”? Are they just wrong because they never developed the ability to say certain sounds in their youth?

Some people also have speech impediments. This can wildly change how things are pronounced. I had to go to speech therapy* for years because I couldn’t pronounce “R’s” and “L’s” (which is kinda sad when both of them are in my name). Were kids like me just wrong because we couldn’t physically pronounce certain words?

While yes, you should be able to speak the language you are working with to at least some degree (I don’t think anyone is asking for fluency unless you are going to be living in the area), getting actively mad at someone for not being able to pronounce something is pointless in the grand scheme of things. Yes, the teacher handled this horribly, and there is nothing cute about being an asshole. But, and this is coming from a guy who will spend 10 minutes trying to make sure I pronounce someone’s name the way they want it said, pronunciations are made up. And the idea of “correct pronunciations” usually comes from the dominant group trying to oppress the minority group by treating them as inferior for how they express themselves in the spoken word, eg. People being treated as stupid for having a Texan accent. So, yeah.

*I have a rant about Speech Therapy, but this isn’t the time for that.

You entirely missed the point and completely derailed this conversation. This wasn't about people who CANT say certain things because of their own accents or language or who has the "RIGHT" pronunciation. This was about a woman being culturally insensitive by not even TRYING to say it. It wasn't that she literally couldn't. She didn't even try. It wasn't that she used the wrong dialect of pronunciation. It was that she did not even try. She did not TRY to say the word. There was absolutely no effort in saying these names or words. God you're obnoxious.

There's also the fact that that person missed the point because this is a member of a colonizing nation talking to members of the colonized nation about not even bothering to treat their language or their country like it's worth respecting.

And that is... actually deeply shitty no matter where it's happening. :) kthx.

one day i'll make a video essay about how the disney live action remakes undermine both animation and musical theater as art forms and storytelling mediums

there is nothing that the live action remakes do that the stage adaptations of the musicals that already exist don't do better, and it's an alternate medium to film so you're not replacing or undermining animation as a medium for storytelling in movies.

you cannot tell me the bottom one is better you simply cannot.

I can’t get over this little girl…..pretending to be long dead while someone digs up her body out of the ground. The jewelry laid out beside her…the hair clips….this is everything

I LOVE this she’s not even pretending to be an archaeologist she’s pretending she’s the long-dead mummified remains of a Celtic princess who’s been excavated by an archaeologist I’m living for it

o/ <- person waving

o7 <- person saluting

ol <- person raising hand

o1 <- person scratching head

\o> <- person stretching

\o/ <- woohoo!

<o> <- EXTREME STRESS, LIKE "OH FUCK OH SHIT" STRESS

I interpret <o> as this

<o> ∆ <- Levitating Pizza

Grant O’Brien of College Humor/Dropout, known for the series Total Forgiveness (in which he and Ally Beardsley did challenges to earn money to pay their student loans), on student loan forgiveness

“Things that do not directly benefit me have a net positive on society, which I am a part of” is something more people need to learn.

OP: "So it turns out the plucking of the hairpin and the hairstyle falling apart the way it does in novels really is real."

Sorry, I don’t care that Netflix shows are delayed, I’m catching up on anime from 1989.