#linguistics humor

The English

Ours
Everything is ours
Flavours, colours, honours
Our hegemony knows no bounds
The sun never sets on us
Even when we’re burning French virgins

http://theactualworld.wordpress.com/2013/10/09/a-history-of-the-british-isles/

Larry Decker’s character development, a summery:

Raskolnikov anytime he speaks to anyone after the first part:

‘We shall go and suffer together,’ Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky

‘The people who have nothing to lock up are the happy ones, aren’t they?’ From Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky

‘Even when they love it’s as if they hated’, Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky.

Just found out goodbye is an abbreviation of god be with ye, decided my go to farewell is now ciao

(Potentially) unpopular opinion: the goldfinch is better than the secret history

I want to live in a pastoral poem, preferably not ‘the passionate shepherd to his love’ but I’d much rather a bed of thorns than whatever hellscape I’m living now

Larry Decker in the midst of trying to steal his child’s money:

Readers of the secret history:

I have no purpose on this Earth other to be small, angry and consume literature at a rate someone mentally stable could never achieve

Okay everyone talks about Hozier and Taylor Swift being lyrical geniuses that the romantic poets would kin, I get it, I do. BUT CAN WE PLEASE APPRECIATE THE TERRIBLY, CRINGY SONGS TOO! Sometimes in the midst of a undoubtably preteen marketed song is a gem that leaves me an existential mess for months.

The quote in question for me is from Ruth B’s ‘Lost Boy’ : my only friend was the man in the moon, and even sometimes he would go away too. THE POWER, THE EMOTION, THE LONELINESS. Brb gonna cry with the stars for a while

my biggest pet peeve with books is when they suddenly switch languages without writing in the translation. Like damn author u really out here assuming I’m multilingual :,)

nerviovago:

balioc:

The opposite of “bonfire” is, presumably, “malice.”

My lactose-intolerant ass justifying all that butter I bought in Romania

ALT

POV: You’re a French/Portuguese speaker and didn’t hear what I said

If you attempt to gatekeep anyone learning Italian you are legally obligated to tweet the phrase “cancello culture” at least once, I don’t make the rules

NFT (Nasal Fricative Trill)

Respecting rapid language evolution by updating the phrase “taking the L” to “lateral flow approximant”