aragh tumblr suddenly refinds a version of an old linguistics post of ours with a broken link to corrections, and we're trying to direct people to the corrected op but reblogs are happening too fast, and the notifications pane in the phone app just keeps jumping us right to the top of the list over and over, sigh
[ID: youtube comment from Hal Sawyer:
My favorite relic English still used everywhere is the word "the" used in phrases like: "the more I look at this, the stranger it seems, or "the bigger they come, the harder they fall". This "the" is not the article of any noun, it is a different word, a conjunction descended from the old English "þā", pronounced "tha" which means either "when" or "then". Back in early Middle English the structure "if - then" had not taken over and if you wanted to express an if - then relationship you said "þā whatever, þā whatever", meaning "when such-and- such, then such-and-such". "þā" sounds almost the same as "the" and the spelling of the two converged, but the meaning remained totally different. "the more, the merrier" literally means "when more, then merrier" or "if more, then merrier'; same as centuries ago.
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this is so cool
now with added wiktionary link
update: please reblog this reblog which has a correction to this, it's from þȳ not þā and is a different grammatical form, more like "this much x means this much y"
hi please see the updated op for corrections
[ID: youtube comment from Hal Sawyer:
My favorite relic English still used everywhere is the word "the" used in phrases like: "the more I look at this, the stranger it seems, or "the bigger they come, the harder they fall". This "the" is not the article of any noun, it is a different word, a conjunction descended from the old English "þā", pronounced "tha" which means either "when" or "then". Back in early Middle English the structure "if - then" had not taken over and if you wanted to express an if - then relationship you said "þā whatever, þā whatever", meaning "when such-and- such, then such-and-such". "þā" sounds almost the same as "the" and the spelling of the two converged, but the meaning remained totally different. "the more, the merrier" literally means "when more, then merrier" or "if more, then merrier'; same as centuries ago.
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this is so cool
now with added wiktionary link
update: please reblog this reblog which has a correction to this, it's from þȳ not þā and is a different grammatical form, more like "this much x means this much y"
Linked reblog seems to be gone, unfortunately.
hi, please see the updated op for corrections
[ID: youtube comment from Hal Sawyer:
My favorite relic English still used everywhere is the word "the" used in phrases like: "the more I look at this, the stranger it seems, or "the bigger they come, the harder they fall". This "the" is not the article of any noun, it is a different word, a conjunction descended from the old English "þā", pronounced "tha" which means either "when" or "then". Back in early Middle English the structure "if - then" had not taken over and if you wanted to express an if - then relationship you said "þā whatever, þā whatever", meaning "when such-and- such, then such-and-such". "þā" sounds almost the same as "the" and the spelling of the two converged, but the meaning remained totally different. "the more, the merrier" literally means "when more, then merrier" or "if more, then merrier'; same as centuries ago.
end ID]
this is so cool
now with added wiktionary link
update: please reblog this reblog which has a correction to this, it's from þȳ not þā and is a different grammatical form, more like "this much x means this much y"
hi, see the updated op for the corrections :)
[ID: youtube comment from Hal Sawyer:
My favorite relic English still used everywhere is the word "the" used in phrases like: "the more I look at this, the stranger it seems, or "the bigger they come, the harder they fall". This "the" is not the article of any noun, it is a different word, a conjunction descended from the old English "þā", pronounced "tha" which means either "when" or "then". Back in early Middle English the structure "if - then" had not taken over and if you wanted to express an if - then relationship you said "þā whatever, þā whatever", meaning "when such-and- such, then such-and-such". "þā" sounds almost the same as "the" and the spelling of the two converged, but the meaning remained totally different. "the more, the merrier" literally means "when more, then merrier" or "if more, then merrier'; same as centuries ago.
end ID]
this is so cool
now with added wiktionary link
update: please reblog this reblog which has a correction to this, it's from þȳ not þā and is a different grammatical form, more like "this much x means this much y"
hi, we updated the op with the corrections :)
Every time a small child starts crying or having a tantrum in my vicinity and I catch the parents glancing at me I’ve started saying “me when…”.
Friend kept trying to tell his crying kindergartener to calm down and relax and the kid growled “I AM relaxed” while visibly tensing every muscle in his body and I was like “oh that’s me at work every day” and we had a chuckle.
Parents look to other adults like “shit are they mad? Do they think my kid is acting like a demon?” And this response is my attempt to say “no. I think your kid is just acting like a human being.”
I WISH I could fling myself on the ground and cry because I experienced a minor inconvenience.
meanwhile of course to the small child with the small life experience and the very small agency over their own life, none of it is "a minor inconvenience" - it's all big new stuff they don't yet know how to handle and which they mostly have no control over, and people need to cut them more slack for the impact of all this
we don't think op is being dismissive of the kids (we hope) but it felt important add this
It must feel good as fuck to baptize a baby
Not cuz of god or whatever but you get to full-on dunk a newborn and nobody can even be mad at you about it
Achilles' mum would like to speak to you
show the ranchers all the study results, and if they still object then find new ranchers
I genuinely think there was no greater insight into the modern Christian mindset than when the Pope said he very much hoped Hell was empty and he was absolutely hounded by both Catholics and Protestants outraged at the idea of a man who wanted a place of infinite suffering to have nobody in it.
we've told this story before, but a US buddhist friend of ours once attended an interfaith conference somewhere in the midwest of the US, and his zen teacher was on the q&a panel that day, and some local white woman stood up in the audience and smugly said to him "well ah believe in the lord jesus christ and ah'm goin' to heaven when ah die! where are you goin'?"
and the zen guy (who was japanese) said "I hope to go to hell when I die - why would I not want to go there? it's where all the suffering people are!"
and we personally do not believe in creator gods, nor in hell (at least not as a separate place that isn't on this current earth) but we often think about this exchange and ponder what compassion asks of us
the purpose of friends is to have people who unconditionally hate your shitty exes & relatives. like maybe YOU have a complex relationship with your father but i sure don't. i'm outside his house with a gun. he's not the unforgivable asshole who raised me he's just an unforgivable asshole
Me, just trying to read my book in bed:
@mothman-etd walking into the room: hey, so do you know who the Onceler is?
Me:
And then he left.
To be fair you lost the ability to talk so I figured I'd give you some time to collect your thoughts.
You looked so serious. I thought you were going to tell me someone died.
And then you hit me with a fucking loony toons mallet.
It's been 12 minutes and I’m still cry-laughing so hard Holly Mop is concerned. She thinks I’m in pain.
I am being shown Onceler gifs. The fuck was wrong with you all.
You brought this on yourself. Suffer.
Live footage from Joy's House right now...
One year to the day and @mothman-etd turned to me in bed and said, “hey, what was the name of that dr. Seus character tumblr was obsessed with? The Rizzler?”
“…are you asking me about the Onceler again?”
“Yes! god, thank you, now I can stop calling him the Rizzler.”
The Rizzler.
I’m fucking screaming
I knew it was wrong, that's why it was stuck there. Now that I know what is right I can forget about him again for another year.
Please, I just want peace.
still really confused about how to pronounce his name - we keep seeing the spanish once (thirteen) and then having to consciously remember he's the (one)
ELSIE HOLIDAY - SUN AND MOON BASKET
Amazing piece! Just to add – Elsie Holiday is a contemporary Navajo / Diné artist; she has a bio page at the Twin Rocks Trading Post website. Just, exquisite work!
Gold and enamel brooch René Lalique, Paris, 1898-99
ooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
The spritz blessing with the Feliway is amazing.
I'm curious.
Donkey:
yes! we were watching the video thinking omg power duet
DEPLOY THE JACKET
Over 10 years ago I drew this mother naga with her kid and a bowl of gulab jamun, and I was blown away to see people still reblogging it and saying kind things here. I decided to draw a sequel, the PTA (People That are Anacondas) meeting is over, and she finally gets to have some gulab jamun. c: I really hope this cheers you up some.
My first reaction: she finally gets to have some!!
My second reaction: oh gosh they're holding tails in the second picture okay I need to reblog this.
our third reaction: dammit now we want some gulab jamun
