Hear me out: I’m going to get back in shape so that I can tattoo my thigh! It’s probably going to be a sunflower or a gerbera 🌻🌼
new fun tag game just type in ‘i hate’ and see all of the negativity in your life unravel before your very eyes
fun fact: the reason that the plural of goose is geese but the plural of moose is not meese is because goose derives from an ancient germanic word undergoing strong declension, in the pattern of foot/feet and tooth/teeth, wherein oo is mutated to ee. however ‘moose’ is a native american word added to the english lexicon only ~400 years ago, and lacks the etymological reason to be pluralized in that way.
Oh baby. Keep talking dirty to me.
Fun fact: Italian hasn’t changed much since Dante. Modern Italians could read ancient texts from 1200 without much difficulty. By comparison, the Beowulf, which was written in Old English about 1000 years ago, is now entirely incomprehensible to modern English readers.
well maybe not Dante….sometimes not even the experts know what he’s saying…..Boccaccio and others yes.
The difficulty in understanding Dante is interpreting his work religiously, but the text itself is not unintelligible for a modern Italian speaker. We can all read it and understand what we’re reading and what it means. Take the first 3 opening verses:
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ché la diritta via era smarrita.
None of these words has disappeared from contemporary Italian and our sentence structures are pretty much the same, especially considering the nature of the text and its needs (restricted metric, rhymes, prosody, alliteration).
Anyways my original point was not about whether the Divine Comedy is easily readable/interpretable or not. It was about Italian having changed very little over the course of almost 1000 years.
Fun fact: you’d think you could easily type capital à, è, é, ì, ò, ù on an Italian keyboard. Wrong. There’s no way you can do that, unless you have a Macbook. Italians are just forced to type A’, E’, I’, O’, U’ instead. But you know what we CAN type? Ç and ç. That’s right, a letter we don’t even have in our alphabet.
actually Ç is very useful because we have that letter in the albanian alphabet. so don’t assume keyboards are only for certain languages.
well the italian keyboard was in fact designed for the italian language, my guy
I have an Italian keyboard on my Chromebook, which I’m using right now, and I can type à è é ì ò ù as well as ç just fine.
I was talking about typing those… but CAPITAL
All I can think of is that post talking about how the reading comprehension on this site is piss poor, and someone responds with “how dare you say we piss on the poor”
.
The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.
To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.
On the 17th, dead silence.
People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.
But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.
What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’
A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.
If you want to join in, here’s what to do:
Do:
Don’t:
Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.
Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.
emoji spell for 2019 ! attract happiness, love, success & peace
♥️💃🏻✨🍒💌🌙💌🍒✨💃🏻♥️
like to charge, reblog to cast
“Oh yes, but lostness is loving someone too, knowing you would take the raft out further if it meant a few more minutes.”
— Jeff Latosik, from “On the General Being of Lostness,” Poetry: New Canadian Poets Issue (December 2017)
