#language is weird

[velveteencryptid]

Why is it that space vessels are ships and not planes? It's always spaceSHIP, starSHIP, rocketSHIP. Never plane.

There's an easy, obvious argument that they move more like planes, navigating in 3 dimensions, not 2. Using engines not sails.

Still, they're always ships. Always sailing, never flying.

Is it just the romance? The twin magic of adventure mirroring sailing the seas and... sailing the stars? Ships passing in the night, figuratively and literally?

My brain is obsessing over this little language anomaly lately

#ships #starship #spaceship #rocketship #tall ship #sailing ship #sailing #sailing the seas #sailing the stars #language #evolution of language #language is weird #lingual anomaly

[terrainofheartfelt]

more on the generational gap of emoji usage, a colleague sent a message about a problem I needed to fix, and I replied when I resolved it, and bro reacted with:

🙃

Like I am sure this person just meant “whee happy face!” but my instinct is to interpret this as an act of violence.

#like how fucking dare you #but it’s completely innocuous #language is weird

[anna-neko]

someone called "carabiner" a "modern butch chatelaine" ... and damn!! where is the frellin lie?

#words are hard #language is weird #chatelaine #trufact

[oedcompletionist]

it’s crazy that “i am going to go to the place that i am going to have gone to” is a valid sentence and has 7 verbs, 4 of which are inflections of “to go”

it, be, crazy, that, i, go, to, the, place, have, a, valid, sentence, and, verb, of, which, inflection

18/218,632

#language is weird #OEDCompletionist

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

english do be wildin tho?

take shit = put up with rubbish. Ex: You need to stop taking shit from those bullies

give shit = criticise someone, usually unfairly. Ex: Stop giving me shit for not working over holidays.

take a shit = poop. Ex: I need to go take a shit

give a shit = care. Ex: Why would you think she gives a shit about you?

however, to not take shit or to not give shit can ALSO be a substitute for 'to not give or take anything.' Ex: I didn't give him shit what gift is he talking about?

#english #english language #vocabulary #gen z shit #gen z slang #english is weird #language is weird #phrases with shit #why do we bother with this language #love it tho #how do non-native speakers do it #mad respect yall

[four2andnew]

You know what's fun about the English language??? If I said:

You go that way, I'll go the other direction

It means if you head north, I'll go exactly the opposite direction i.e. south

BUT!

If I said:

You go that way, I'll go another direction

It means if you head north, I can go literally any direction that isn't north.

And all I changed in the statement is the to an

#language is weird #these might be delirious thoughts #someone take my phone away #i need sleep

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

#just curious #audhd things #neurodiversity #adhd autistic #audhd #autistic community #adhd community #audhd brain #audhd creature #neurodivergence #language #written language #language poll #language is fun #language is weird #language is beautiful #words are weird #adhd diagnosis #autism diagnosis #neurodivergent community #autistic adhd #comorbidities #comorbid conditions #random polls #tumblr polls #silly poll #tumblr poll #stupid polls #autistic poll #adhd poll

[katriniac]

Hello. I'm Pure Noble.

Introduce yourself! 😊

#even though I'm mostly French and Danish my first and middle names have Greek and Germain origins #language is weird #language is fun

[gothassloser]

I’m a biophysicist and sometimes while reading a paper, i see sentencies that are so far away from everyday-speech that they sound shakespearian to me, i.e.

"the force balance at the protrusion edge, the noisy clutch of retrograde flow, and a response function of friction" (Amiri et al. 2023)

And in my head i was hearing it like Macbeth V,5 monolog

"Life, but a walking shadow, the noisy clutch of retrograde flow that struts and frets upon the stage and then is heard no more"

#biophysics #shakespear et al. #english #language is weird #but also funny #i think it’s just me #macbeth #could have been hamlet

[hobohobgoblim]

Just found out that the Dutch word for an elephant's trunk is "SLURF" AND I AM DYING!

#slurf #slurf superiority #dutch #language is weird

[noballoonsinspace]

wait. Does terf=transphobe now like do people still use it as an acronym or has it completely transcended into a broader word

#terf #terfs #transphobes #language is weird #actually autistic

[gemandthescotts]

As I stare at the endless void of nonsensical rules, historical factors and linguist bullshit which is the English language, I am reminded that language is insanity at it's finest and most respectable. Like the very concept of chaos sitting with a little bowtie eating something fancy rich people bullshit. We seriously all came up with a bunch of sounds with specific mouth movements so that we can all communicate, then came up with a bunch of symbols to represent fractions of what these words are combining these to make sentences, and then a bunch of smartasses decided to make these shitty rules to really make sense of this insanity. Yet mathematicians saw this thing that spans generations of changes, all these beautiful letters, and decided violate them by inserting them into this fucking nightmare called algebra. You wanna know the worst part? People have the fucking nerve to show this to their children!

#lingblr #algebra #language tumblr #linguistics #history #language is weird #math is evil

[anna-neko]

Hey game.... game listen.... you're tryin for a cool flex and all, but its dO svidanya. with an "o" not an "ah" (до свидания) I know you're goin for this whole russian flex and all, but if we all hadda learn our damn spelling, and yeah the diff vowel matters

Funny enough, since it's literally "until meeting...." (because what even is language) its an accidental foreshadow??!?!

#bioshock #video games #language is weird #game screenshots #imma go play some vidya

[s1xseasonsandamov1e]

I’m fluent in danish and I speak some German, but I’m currently watching a show in Swedish with English subtitles.

#young royals #language is weird

[bi-panic-1408]

What do you call people from Tumblr. Like people from America are Americans and people from England are British etc. What are Tumblr people called.

#i need help #i hate making tags #language is weird #please reblog with actual tags because im bad at it. #tumblarians???

[zorbs]

speaking of queue what even is this word

queeueue

queeew

quwueu

utter nonsense it looks no different from these random sequences of letters

#language is weird