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A very important addition to the image id is that the plushies are ditto snorlax and ditto charmander.

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English added by me :)

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Reblogging would be a great help, but don’t feel pressured to

#hoooly shit #theyre at 33.3 33.3 33.4

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it's strooping absolute wafel

#it sure fucking is!!! #it Sure Fucking Is!!!! #dutchblr #nederblr

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Lmao how is this real, "the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir"

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#linguistics #langblr

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I am 100% serious when I say I look at the fish doorbell the same way that people look at the moon.

what do you mean 861 people are also looking at this murky water live stream right now waiting in silence with a common incredibly wholesome goal??

Idk it just makes me feel less alone :)

#visdeurbel.nl #in case you were wondering #fish doorbell

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so I'm in the office when I hear it. the EIC, in the corner, my manager's manager, lights up the batsignal and voices a cry for aid:

"is anyone here who speaks Welsh?"

immediately, all heads turn to Charles' desk. Charles is Welsh. Charles takes several days to recover from the shock every time someone on a National Trust podcast mispronounces Llanidloes. surely Charles will answer the call.

Charles, the bloody nerve of him, is on Annual Leave to spend the Easter holidays with his son.

at this point I realise that several heads, including my manager's, are turning to me.

I do not speak Welsh.

I was brought up by a Welsh speaker, my grandmother, but given that we live in London and noone else in the family speaks Welsh, I only really picked up the most basic of family pleasantries. I can say cheers and goodnight, I can offer and order hot beverages, and I can answer the six questions people immediately ask when they find out you speak even a little bit of Welsh (the answer to all of these is as far as I can tell, yes but nobody says that. yes but it's baby talk. yes but it was a marketing scam. you know the ones)

I also have a master's degree in, amongst other things, medieval Welsh. as attention turns to me, I weigh up the possibility that the EIC needs someone to urgently translate Culhwch ac Olwen into modern English.

it seems unlikely. however, my CV says I have basic Welsh, and I need this job, so I head to the EICs desk with the thudding tread of someone bound for the gallows

further context-- 90% of my job is combing through business documents for aside phrases indicating business changes. this takes a lot of cross-referencing and close reading. I find this hard in my native language. I find it extremely hard in languages I'm fluent in. the idea of doing it in Welsh, a language where my conversation options are limited to "good morrow sir! the English advance on our left flank!" or "Mr fishy likes to swim", fills me with fathomless dread. in my head, I am writing my application to the next job.

the EIC turns a page around on the desk. "how do you pronounce this?"

I look at the word, relief beginning to sink in. Welsh is phonetic. even if I don't know this word, I can read it.

I do a double take. "Dai?"

"are you sure?" the EIC asks. "should I call Charles on his holidays just to check?"

"it's Dai," I repeat.

"it's not different if it's Welsh?"

I have absolutely no idea what she thinks the Welsh are doing to innocent vowel sounds that the English are not already doing. "it's Dai. like Dai Llewellyn."

"it's the same every time?"

"... yes"

"oh good." the EIC puts away her sheet and lets me go back to my desk.

as I sit down, the news editor at the next desk looks up. "so," he asks. "is it true that the Welsh for jellyfish is

#lmaoooo #welsh #cymraeg

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A thing I love to do is telling prepper dudes that one of my disaster readiness skills is making stuffed animals. They never get it. Like, my dude, when things get very bad and we're all sharing overcrowded shelters, you're gonna want the power to comfort children. Trust me.

#for future reference

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#dopamine #fav #the favest

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match percenteges, helping is allowed

50%

50%

#bruh #perfect rn

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put on horns that come off way too easily, so when someone grabs and yanks on them theyll be surprised and you can retaliate in the confusion >:)

Here’s why you don’t want horns on your helmet. Horns are extremely grabbable.

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#fucking love languages aaa #langblr #linguistics

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Lost in the Pages

Between Two Tomes

#holy shiiiittt #art

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you ever think about how toasters love bread but hate toast

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

#tumblr culture #fav #the favest #absolute fav #for future reference