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The Queen in The Crown, “Favourites”:

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Ready for the biggest clowning of the century

Comedic Tragedy, starring Charles Leclerc:

"What a disaster. It's ok I mean it's good training for qualy... but it's going to be a disaster."

#charles leclerc #italian gp 2020

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At least we'll have some fun

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#formula 1 #Italy gps #Monza #Mugello #Imola

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#Me #Everyday

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Isn't it weird that on social media if you ask a question and you add "please" ("per favore" in Italian, I think it's more effective) at the end, you sound impolite (in the pragmatic sense of impoliteness)? It's dumbfounding

#linguistics #pragmatics #impoliteness #politeness #Am I weird to notice this

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Taylor Alison Swift, “this is me trying” (2020)

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Music in Film: Shrek (2001) dir. Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson

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Am I logging on Tumblr after months and reblogging an ass long post about linguistics at 2.30 a.m? Yes. Yes I am

#What am I doing #I want to sleep

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The grammaticalization of nouns in minimizers and then in negative particles is a typological phenomenon, therefore it occurs in most of the languages. I can think of another interesting example in Italian: the word "mica" in contemporary Italian is now a negative pronoun (mostly used in conversation), it can occur with the negative particle "non" or even without it, i.e. "mica mi interessa" which can be translated with "I'm not interested at all".

The word "mica" comes from the Latin "mica, ae", and it means "crumb of bread"; it appears in a negative construction in Petronio's "Satyricon":

"Quinque dies aquam in os suum non coniecit, non micam panis" = for five days he didn't drink nor eat, not even a crumb of bread.

"micam" here is used with a word from the semantic field we would expect: panis, bread. But in language use, speakers started to use it in other contexts, always in negative constructions (pretty similar to "pas" in French) and so the initial strengthening of the negative sense that "mica" carried started to fade, and it's now slowly replacing (or trying to) the common negative construction.

This is also called the "cycle of negation" (or Jespersen's cycle), which predicts that negative particles, losing their "reinforcing strength" of negative meanings, will always be replaced with new words that carry that peculiar force (the same thing is happening in spoken French, where "ne" is being more and more omitted in negative constructions)

How amazing is this?

#Linguistics #Grammaticalization #Italian #Dyachrony #French #I love this

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How much I miss this, boy

Lewis trying to get Seb into trouble and Romain returning the favour

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Babe❤️

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DRIVE TO SURVIVE S2E10 -> CHECKERED FLAG

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Spoiler alert: it wasn't funny

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✨🌼 BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD! Once you are given this award you’re supposed to paste it in the asks of 8 people who deserve it. Just know someone thinks you’re beautiful inside and out. 🌼✨

Aw♥️♥️♥️ thank you so much love

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✨🌼 BEAUTIFUL PERSON AWARD! Once you are given this award you’re supposed to paste it in the asks of 8 people who deserve it. Just know someone thinks you’re beautiful inside and out. 🌼✨

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Mine is pure Kimi energy: "look me in the eye... I don't give a shit" 😎

I think “Hey, fuck you, buddy. I spent the night learning to riverdance,” is going to be my go-to excuse for everything, now. –AW