persephonesidekick: raelenas: Okay so from what I can tell, this is Tumblr’s situation right now. About Messaging: Messaging is out, but only to a handful of people. Those people then must message another person in order for the other person to get messaging. Like some kind of flu or some shit, and no one is… Continue reading
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Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher (via vaerity)
wrenrising: I knew two things when I heard Crimson Peak was a Gothic Romance: 1) I was going to love it.2) It was not going to do well. This has really only been confirmed as I’ve heard reviews from people. The fact of the matter is, the majority of the general movie going public audience… Continue reading
you know what I AM also going to go through the bare bones (edit:uh. that part was lost at some point. hence the read more) of my internal continuous rant re: civil war I’m so sorry to everyone who follows me who’s not interested and everyone who’s interested but finds my thoughts stupid but the… Continue reading
I know this video’s a bit of an oldie, but it’s still a goodie, even if you’ve never watched Princess Tutu.
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The bizarre syntax of ‘sexiest man alive’
Arika Okrent has a great article about what’s going on with the syntax of “sexiest man alive”.
The Sexiest Man Blond? The Sexiest Man Canadian? …
Why is “alive” the only adjective that fits in this construction? Actually, there is a small set of other adjectives that also work here, and the thing they have in common is etymological history. Alive originated in the Old English phrase on life. It was a prepositional phrase, one that got reanalyzed along the way into a single word, an adjective.
The other phrases that underwent this change are on flote, an slæpe, and on waecnan. In their current forms, they work beautifully in the “Sexiest Man” construction. Really, some magazine should judge a winner for these categories too:
“Sexiest Man Afloat!”
“Sexiest Man Asleep!”
“Sexiest Man Awake!”Adrift, formed on analogy with afloat also works, as do a few other words where the initial a- can be traced back to the meaning “on”: afire, aflame, ablaze.
Do you like hot guys? Well, you’re gonna love the Sexiest Man Ablaze!
Another interesting property of a- adjectives that reminds us of their origins as prepositional phrases is that they can only be used in predicative, not attributive position. So you can say “the man is alive/afloat/asleep/awake/aflame” but not “*the alive/afloat/asleep/aflame man” (of course, you can express the same meaning with a gerundive adjective, as in “the living/floating/sleeping/flaming man”).
lierdumoa: icarus-suraki: suzie-guru: edgar-allen-pho: Fight Club has the opposite moral most stereotypical, self-identifying Fight Club Fans take from it and that annoys me. “We’re a generation of men raised by women” no! the whole point is that Brad Pitt is lying to Edward Norton, and he needs to deal with his own problems instead of projecting… Continue reading
persephonesidekick: trans-goddex: obstinatecondolement: dear-monosexuals: cease-and-de-cis: atomicbubblegum: cease-and-de-cis: So I reblog a lot of things that group all bi people under “bisexual” even though biromantics and other forms of attraction exist. It’s weird that I do this because I’m not even bisexual really, I’m bi for other reasons… But like.. fighting people’s tendency to erase ace… Continue reading
roachpatrol: holy shit, you guys, i just had the most exciting breakthrough on what the fuck is happening with the playful manipulation, deconstruction, and recombination of language you see on tumblr and twitter. like i’ve been chewing on this for years: is it post-modernism? is it post-structuralism? is it absurdism? is it surrealism? it’s cubism. … Continue reading
hinallie: thisisnotharmless: Speaking of linguistics, there’s one particular linguistic tick that I think clearly separates Baby Boomers from Millennials: how we reply when someone says “thank you.” You almost never hear a Millennial say “you’re welcome.” At least not when someone thanks them. It just isn’t done. Not because Millenials are ingrates lacking all manners,… Continue reading
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