Atlas Latinoamericano de Palabras: cómo le dicen a las 🍿 en América Latina
Tag: language
you can make nearly any object into a good insult if you put ‘you absolute’ in front of it
example: you absolute coat hanger
as well u can just add ‘ed’ to any object and it’s sounds like you were really drunk
example: i was absolutely coat hangered last night
Meanwhile, “utter” works for the first (e.g., “you utter floorboard”) but somehow “utterly” doesn’t seem to work as well for the second (“I was utterly floorboarded”).
Utterly doesn’t work for drunk because it’s the affix for turning random objects into terms for *shocked*, obviously.
… huh. I thought that might just be the similarity to “floored”, and yet “I was utterly coat hangered” does seem to convey something similar.
I have to tell you, I am utterly sandwiched at this discovery.
Completely makes the phrase mean “super tired”.
“God, it’s been a long week, I am completely coat-hangered.”
Something is
Something is wrong with our language
Is it a glitch or a feature?
Feature
I hate how people use changing the english language as an argument regarding the LGBT+ community. Languages are not set in stone, they never have been. Languages are constantly changing, as are definitions. You wouldn’t have the term “gay” for homosexuality otherwise.
Do you use Thou and Thine in your present day vernacular??
How about modern day slang that changes constantly?
I know I hadn’t heard the term “shook” used how it is now even two years ago.
Language is evolving.
Language does not support your hateful bullshit.
I’m watching Steven universe in Spanish and “snake people, or sneople” in the Spanish version is “hombres serpientes, o serpiombres” and I feel like that is 1000% funnier I’m just saying ???
I want to listen to more Spanish bands, anyone have any suggestions?? I really like chill acoustic songs a lot lately so some like that might be cool??
just a lil list of motivational phrases that’ll hopefully inspire you in some way ✨ (source)
- “ipsa scientia potestas est” – knowledge itself is power
- “dimidium facti qui coepit habet” – he who has begun has the work half done (Horace)
- “ad altiora tendo” – i strive towards higher things
- “vita mutatur, non tollitur” – life is changed, not taken away
- “vincit qui se vincit” – he/she conquers who conquers himself/herself
- “sic parvis magna” – greatness from small beginnings
- “vincit qui patitur” – he conquers who endures
- “tuum est” – it’s up to you
- “tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis” – the times are changing, and we change in them
- “astra inclinant, sed non obligant” – the stars incline us, they do not bind us
- “dum spiro, spero” – while i breathe, i hope
WordBrewery is great for improving your vocabulary. It gives you a random sentence at either beginner, intermediate, advanced or master level, and you can make lists of words or sentences that you’d like to learn.
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