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i wanna know what everyone’s majors are mutuals i want to know i love you and i’m interested

#we don't really do majors in the south african system #but I guess it was political science (international relations) with ''a minor in'' history #and french/francophone literature

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#oh lol #tumblr has trained me to ignore usernames so it took a moment to get this one #anyway #I only know about 7 of the 16 of my great-great-grandparents #one of my father's aunts still lives out in the village where my great grandparents were from #and she I suspect will be able to shed light on an 8th g-g-grandparent #as well as other family history and looking through her photo album etc

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No, that's Pasternak

Pepperjack is the less expensive kind of book binding with the soft covers

pepperjack is amazing. the best cheese. whoever invented pepperjack is a genius for making cheese spicy.

- Rose

Isn't Pepperjack the bogan from that magical horse cartoon

#wordplay

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Wheat fields are more mystical than fields of other crops. You are 7,000 times more likely to meet an old god or see a portent of doom in a wheat field than in a field of like… soybeans.

#honestly #thinking about it now #I've never seen wheat fields or corn fields... #I think I have seen soybean fields though #but when I think of expansive agriculture #it's vineyards #that's the default. vineyards #and olives. and industrial sized apple orchards and strawberry fields when the season is right #and of course golden brown fields which look like wheat but it's actually just dry sheep pastures with the occasional hay bale #but yeah vineyards covering whole mountain sides and into the horizon #of course I have seen other crops grow. but on a much smaller scale

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Kind of hilarious to me how poorly the title "Mob Psycho 100" localized to English-speaking areas. To someone whose first language is English, it scans as:

Mob (Yakuza, Mafia)

Psycho (violent person with "crazy" behaviors)

Thus: a particularly violent member of organized crime.

But in Japanese it scans as:

Mob (background characters in crowd scenes in manga or anime)

Psycho (short for psychic)

Thus: a psychic who looks/acts like someone you'd never pick out of a crowd scene in a comic.

#language #japanese #translation #I've never watched this but this is hilarious

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3,270-year-old Hove amber cup, found in 1856 in Hove, England. It's made of a single piece of amber

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lmao wat

#چه ؟؟؟؟؟؟؟؟

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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

#multilinguism #cognates

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What do conductors even do like actually

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

#etymology

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#ah ! #this looks delicious ! #food

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#urgh #I mean the answer is keyboard obviously. I don't feel safe doing things on a phone. idk if that makes sense #but I hate typing on keyboards now #because my work laptop and home computer #the keyboards are slightly different sizes. just a few mm it's almost imperceptible #except that I keep hitting capslock instead of a and semicolon instead of l #I have to deliberately type slower _on both_ because neither is the default for me anymore I use both too regularly #also the draggy typing and autocorrect on mobile doesn't work for me #because I code switch so often all my autocorrect dictionaries are unreliable

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#7+8 = (7-2)+(8+2) = 5+10 = 15 #20+40 = 60 #60+15 = 75

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Turkish dramas have become incredibly popular in South Africa recently. they even get high quality dubbing into Afrikaans

everywhere I go, aaah ahhhhh ateşe düştüm ahh bak, evlerden uzak ahhh 🎶 is playing

#not even Disney movies get dubbed into local languages #so just imagine how popular these must be #I don't have a tv but my hairdresser always has Turkish dramas playing when I go there

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I've always been curious about my ancestors. not in a "race purity" kind of way, to be clear, I'll never do one of those dna tests because I don't care about abstract percentages (also I don't know how those companies store that data. which makes me nervous)

I'm just curious to know my ancestors' names, where they were from, what jobs they did, what languages they spoke, etc... perhaps it's also partly due to being African, and calling upon your ancestors is a thing (like how cultural catholics might call upon saints even if they're not personally religious)

but genealogy in South Africa is... tricky. like, I've seen a few episodes of the bbc show Who do you think you are, and they always start with the census records to find people. and then you can take it from there.

however South Africa doesn't store census data like that. we do do censuses, but then StatsSA will extract all the data for like how many people there are, and what the ethno-linguistic breakdown is, and what the unemployment rate is etc — but all the names and identifying personal data is apparently destroyed. for privacy reasons apparently.

so working through the censuses isn't an option. if you know which ancestor you're looking for, you might be able to request a baptismal or marriage certificate... but that kinda assumes they're Christian and it doesn't help if you don't know their names or where they were from

you could, I suppose work back through birth certificates. but — only abridged birth records are digitised and even so they're not publicly available.

what you need is the Unabridged Birth Certificate (UBC), which will list the child's parents and where they were born, which will in turn allow you to track down their UBC and chain together the data that way. however, UBCs are not digitised. and even if you, a living 21st century person, need your own UBC for immigration purposes or to marry a foreigner, you have to apply and pay for a government employee to go find the physical paper copy in the archives, transcribe it and have it certified at the High Court. which can take anywhere from 8 to 24 weeks. so. not exactly efficient

and when all is said and done, those records only go back to the 1800s, which Britain annexed the Cape Colony, because the Dutch didn't really keep rigorous records, especially not of "the natives" or slaves. if you're a white person and very very lucky, there may be records from the 1680s

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When this lot appeared on screen in The Boy and the Heron, I said to my friend “Ghiblies gonna Ghible” and indeed the Ghiblies were Ghibling their Ghibliest right until the end of the film

#I love them so much #studio ghibli #the boy and the heron #art

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WWII era isekai movies be like

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe: my spiritual guide is an allegory for Jesus - kind, loving, and showing me how the be better

Pan’s Labyrinth: my spiritual guide may be intimidating, but is ultimately trying to protect me from the much greater evils of the real world

The Boy and The Heron: I Am Going To Beat My Spiritual Guide To Death With Hammers

#the boy and the heron #literature