adhdisgay:

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deja-entendus:

this is so sad alexa play the rains of castamere

(via game-of-style)

incorrect-tortall-quotes:

Thayet: Something has to be done, and I have a plan. We use mankind’s greatest weapon.

Buri: A grenade.

Thayet: The written word.

Buri: Ugh, I’m out.

inactiveblogger:

me learning a language: wow! this is so easy!

verb conjugation:

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superlinguo:

I always used to get into trouble with my mum for reducing ‘I don’t know’ into nothing more than a three note grunt. But, it turns out that this massive reduction of speech to something that is still meaningful says a lot about the role of prosody.

The transcription of this very very reduced form of ‘I don’t know’ is [ẽ̞ẽẽ̝]. Sarah Hawkins and Rachel Smith used this form to argue that we need a model of understanding speech that takes into account the individual sounds, and the intonation, as well as the way these are processed.

Personally, I just think it’s nifty that someone transcribed one of my bad habits and made it look rather impressive.

From the Hawkins & Smith paper arguing for polysystemic speech understanding:

“Most native speakers of English have an impressively wide variety of ways of conveying the meaning of I do not know. The most common forms probably range between I don’t know and dunno, both of which can be pronounced in a number of different ways. However, there are many other variants, the most extreme forms of which can only be used in particular circumstances. For example, it is hard to say the fully expanded form I do not know without conveying some degree of exasperation. An even more extreme form has pauses between the words (I…do…not…know) and (in most cases) is so rude that it can only be used when the listener does not seem willing to accept that the speaker really does not know. At the other extreme, it is possible— again, only in the right circumstances—to convey one’s meaning perfectly adequately by means of a rather stylized intonation and rhythm, with very weak segmental articulation, ranging between something like [ã̠ᵊ̃nːəʊ] and [ẽ̞ẽẽ̝] (intonation not marked). This type of utterance could allow successful communication between relaxed family members, for example when A asks B where the newspaper is, and B does not know, but does not feel that she needs to stop reading her book in order to help find it. Notice that the intonation pattern alone is not enough: at least the vowels must be there ([m]s will not do), and the vowels must start more open (and probably more fronted) than they finish, just as in the more clearly-spoken utterance, so that, at least in this situational context, [ẽ̝ẽẽ̞] is nonsense whereas [ẽ̞ẽẽ̝] is not.” (Hawkins & Smith 2001, p. 35)

Hawkins, S., and Smith, R. (2001) Polysp: A polysystemic, phonetically-rich approach to speech understanding. Italian Journal of Linguistics—Rivista di Linguistica 13, 99-188. [PDF]

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sapphicdalliances:

skaterboynoah:

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needlekind:

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fourofthem:

au where the trojan war is a party menelaus throws to win back his girlfriend who left him for some douchebag and he ropes all his friends into helping him and wacky shenanigans happen and a running gag is that odysseus doesn’t even want to be there he’s got shit to do and at the end he gets stuck in traffic on the way home

#IM LAUGHIN #in the middle of it achilles throws a fit #”MAN IVE BEEN DJING FOR 3 HOURS YOU TOLD ME ID ONLY HAVE TO DO IT FOR LIKE AN HOUR” #”achilles cmon do menelaus a solid your djing is totally putting helen in the mood” #”FUCK YOU TOO AG” #he mopes upstairs to make out with his boyfriend #in the middle of a really quick’n’dirty handie someone bursts in the room all #”THIS IS AN EMERGENCY WE’RE OUT OF VODKA” #achilles is like FUCK OFF ASSHOLES I CANT PLAY BEER PONG BUT AS SOON AS YOU NEED SOMEONE TO GO ON A BOOZE RUN ITS ME. OF COURSE #patroclus is like ”well you are the fastest driver” ”I DONT CARE IM NOT GOING” #patroclus ”FINE then i’ll take your car dont be a baby” #5 minutes after patroclus is out the door achilles is like ”shit i fucked up” and catches a taxi to the liquor store #to meet up with patroclus #they drink the vodka and have sex in achilles’ car and forget all about the party

on the way home odysseus gets into a very minor fender bender that’s more like a fender bumper with some shit driver who is almost DEFINITELY high. and it’s all this guy’s fault but he won’t stop screaming about how he’s gonna fucking sue and odysseus just wants to go the fuck home and the guy goes “I’M FILING THE POLICE REPORT WHO ARE YOU” and odysseus is just so done that he says “nobody” and drives the fuck off and this completely tripping guy ends up screaming to the police at the side of the road at like three in the morning “NOBODY CRASHED INTO MY CAR!!!!!”

majestic-beard:

#I’M FUCKING SCREAMING #THIS WOULD BE SO GOOD THO #ODYSSEUS’ GF PENELOPE IS STUCK AT ANOTHER PARTY #GETTING HIT ON BY DOUCHES FROM ANOTHER FRAT #BUT ODYSSEUS HAS TO LIKE FIND A NEW CAR AND TRIES TO BORROW ONE FROM THIS CHICK WHO GIVES HIM SOME FUCKIN LACED POT OR SOMETHING BC HE FEELS LIKE HE’S BEEN THERE FOREVER #AND MEANWHILE PENELOPE HAS BEEN FORCED TO SAY THAT SHE’LL GO HOME WITH WHOEVER CAN BEAT HER AT BEERPONG #ONLY SHE’S FUCKIN LEGENDARY #SUCKS TO SUCK THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN BEAT HER IS ODYSSEUS #BUT HE HAS TO BE ON THE DL BC THIS FRAT HATES HIS GUTS #AND HE BEATS HER #AND SHE KNOWS IT’S HIM

This was wild from start to finish.

#the chilliad

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wtfzeus:

thebuttkingpost:

Greek mythology: aren’t the god great they only sexually harassed my wife and turned one of my children into a stag beetle this week

Norse mythology: dînghïr œne nüt got his name when he killed a lizard the size of every mountain in the world without Odin’s permission so Odin thought it would be funny to punish him by making him fart so hard one of his nuts flew off

Do you ever wonder… why the hell we all like this stuff so much? Like, given that it’s usually so just… completely fucking bonkers? 

incorrect-tortall-quotes:

Alanna: They make a great couple, don’t they?

Buri: They certainly are standing next to each other.

davidalleynes:

davidalleynes:

power move: exclusively referring to sports played by women as “sports” and all the men’s sports exclusively as “men’s sports”

referring to athletes who are women as “athletes” and athletes who are men as “male athletes”

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tinarannosaurus:

heimdall in ragnarok has the aesthetic of aragorn sitting in the corner of the prancing pony and the vibe of aragorn pushing open the double doors of helm’s deep and all around it is a very good look

incorrect-tortall-quotes:

Alanna: Since you won’t be able to contact me easily, I’ve left a complimentary bowl of advice. *picks random slip* For instance, “Jon, stop doing that.” Just applies to everything.

Jon: That’s wassup, that’s wassup, e’r’day, e’r’day.

Gary: Jon, stop doing that.

Jon: That’s wassup.