(((I Will Outlive)))

maybe it’s better to learn a language slowly. maybe we’re too obsessed with things happening as quickly as possible. maybe it’s more beautiful to dedicate years of your life to a language and have it grow with you as you journey through life rather than “become fluent in one week!”. idk just a thought.

How cool!

my biggest pet peeve wiht the english language is that you don’t have sin/sina

in swedish if u have two people who use the same pronoun u can always tell whos doing what bc its like ‘han tog sin väska’ (he took his[own] bag) and ‘han tog hans väska’ would be that he took the other persons bag

but in english its like if u have 2 ppl w/ the same pronoun:

“she took her bag” whose bag????WHose BAG was it her OWN bag or the other her’s bag??????????????

“he ate his donuts” were the donuts his own???? did he fucking eat someone elses donuts??? YIU DONT KNOW bc english is a bullshit language 

its funny that people are calling this the gay fanfiction dilemma bc thats literally why i made this post. i was writing a gay fanfic. 

@official-linguistics-post

official linguistics post

For some reason I keep seeing people asking whether Ukraine considers switching from cyrillic alphabet to latin alphabet, and 1) russia didn't invent and doesn't own cyrillic alphabet; 2) I would lose my mind if on a regular basis I had to write "shch" instead of "щ". That's 4 letters to write one letter, sir!!!!!

#there's a name for this!#it's called a ''familect'' and it evolves in every relationship type!#often dropping out of familect elicits the ''are you mad at me?'' response#because it makes your brain think ''something is wrong but I can't put my finger on it''#it's usually the lack of familect use (tags via @deesarrachi)

ok, no joke, i have been googling the wrong things for years apparently, all "an idiolect but like for. a group or a family" looking for what this fucking word is, so thank you

Weird Jewish moments for me include being in school science classes and mixing up the Greek letter lambda (λ) with the Hebrew letter Gimmel (ג)

I remember taking tests going "okay this is frequency this is velocity and the l is for wavelength" then I'd wonder what the fuck g was for

Here’s how to say the names of some of the countries in different languages! Or at least how to write them. And some super cute art to go with it!

This is soooo cute! ✨️🥰✨️

In Japanese, they don’t say “moon,” they say “tsuki,” which literally translates to “moon,” and I think that’s how language works.

Hey its been at least 9 years anything changed?

nope! all quiet on the linguistic front. i am a girl now though

Learn about Mexican Sign Language (LSM) from Deaf Mexicans, with this interview from DPAN.tv.

Black American Sign Language (BASL)

Black American Sign Language is a non-verbal form of communication that reflects the spoken characteristics of Black American English (also known as African American Vernacular English (AAVE)). Much like the cultural and linguistic contrast between AAVE and Standard English, Black ASL dates back to the era of segregation. 

Although the first American school for the deaf was created in 1817, Black students were not permitted entry until 1952. This division created a gap that separated the two nonverbal languages, resulting in cultural divergence and a lack of educational coordination. The result- a difference between Sign Languages, thus explaining the birth of Black American Sign Language. (x)

"You're not disabled, you are a PERSON with a disability" Actually I shouldn't have to explicitly clarify that considering all disabled people are human by definition. It isn't something we should have to spell out every time we discuss disability and if you think it is, then you're the one with the real issue

— C. Perry (via aslfan)

I was just thinking about how I don’t speak very good Japanese, but I speak more Japanese than most people in the world. And this will probably be true of almost any skill you practice even a little bit. There are many skills out there and we each know only a small subset of them, so if you go out and decide to pick up a new skill you can end up better than 50%, 80%, maybe even 99% of the population pretty quickly. Another example is math. Like, when I’m around other math people, I feel like I basically know nothing. All of math is baffling to me. But realistically I know more math than basically every single person I meet in a non-academic context. So like.

If you are feeling bad about yourself this is a good thing to keep in mind. You’re probably better than most people at something. If you aren’t, you can become better than most people relatively quickly and easily just by giving something a go for a bit.

you know what? accents are actually lovely. like you can learn all the languages in the world and you still have a part of your own with you. that’s cute

ETA: "Bawl" would probably have been a better selection for option 3, sorry (or possibly not? Maybe that's also very similar to "doll" in accents other than mine)

ETA 2: For everyone asking how awl/bawl can possibly have different vowels than doll, for me the O in doll is close to the front of the mouth, with no rounding of the lips; the AW in awl/bawl is formed towards the back, with a slight rounding of the lips (so yes, we do say the W, though just barely).

you don’t talk too much. you aren’t too loud. you aren’t too needy. you aren’t too sensitive. you aren’t too this, or that. you aren’t too much anything. you will never be too much: you are you, and you are allowed to take up space. you are allowed to exist however you choose.

Maybe a native signer has an answer for this that I never found, but when I was an ASL student, I couldn’t figure out how to translate the word “too.” (I think I even asked a Deaf teacher at some point?) And it really struck me that what we mean when we say “too much” is like… “a lot, and that’s bad.”

We are flippant, in English, about making the leap from “this is a lot” to the extreme of “this is so much it’s unbearable, unacceptable.”

What makes us decide that it’s bad, anyway? Maybe it’s just a lot. Maybe that’s bad in some contexts and good in others. Maybe we should look at these traits in a more neutral light.

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