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I’M SO ANGRY
SOME 16TH CENTURY ASSHOLE WROTE “GOD B W YE” IN A LETTER AS AN ABBREVIATION FOR “GOD BE WITH YE”
AND IT APPEARED AS “GODBWYE”
WHICH WAS THEN READ AS “GOODBYE”
AND THAT’S WHY WE SAY “GOODBYE”
BECAUSE OF 16TH CENTURY CHAT SPEAK
I really doubt an entire civilization says something because you accidentally read something from the 16th century wrong.
BAD NEWS YOU GUYS
THAT’S PRETTY MUCH EXACTLY WHAT FUCKING HAPPENED
Languages ranked from easiest to hardest for English speakers - Infographic found here.
THATS FUNNY
WHY AM I LEARNING THE LAST FOURsigh
YOU NIQQAS WANNA LEARN ELVISH?! HERE YA GO!
this makes me think about the post about the two girls who didn’t want to get caught sendes notes in class so they learned elvish
wait you mean you don’t use the word ‘fortnight’ in america???
Wait what? Then what do they use?
they don’t have a word
what do you mean they don’t have a word what kind of uncivilised people are they??
the fuck is a fortnight
It’s a word for ‘two weeks’
It’s short for “fourteen nights” you see.
America, I can’t even deal with you right now.
I can’t say that we have that word. I can only say that I’ve heard that word.
I found this when I was going through an old Allure magazine today.
PAVONINE
[adjective]
1. of or resembling a peacock.
2. resembling a peacock’s tail in colour, design, or iridescence.
Etymology: from Latin pāvōnīnus, from pāvō peacock.
[Feanne]
flower language has always been an intense source of disappointment for me
like, they all mean really generic things like “love” or “forever” or “i’m sorry”
i thought you could combine flowers
like you could just send someone a bouquet and from the combination of hibiscus and posies and tulips they’d understand “the rebel leader is dead, rendezvous at the docks at 8, bring the dog, you will need lighter fluid and a large tomato”
spanish lesson for today
estoy comiendo la papa = i am eating the potato
estoy comiendo el papa = i am eating the pope
In French only context can differentiate between “I’m eating an avocado” and “I’m eating a lawyer.” Both are “Je mange un avocat.”
I NEVER KNEW THIS
I NEVER KNEW THAT WAS WHAT AMERICANS MEANT WHEN THEY SAID “QUITE”
WHY DIDN’T ANYBODY TELL ME
SUDDENLY THAT ONE SONG THAT GOES “HELLO I MISS YOU QUITE TERRIBLY” MAKES LIKE A MILLION TIMES MORE SENSE
are you serious british people
i feel like this means i’ve been overestimating your enthusiasm about things for my entire life
this changes everything
I wrote a play that’s set in Victorian England and I had to a whole editing pass to fix the “quite”s.
