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ugh I hate when I reblog something and don’t pay attention and the username is something super gross.
#okay but really i never look at the urls of little funny text posts#if i reblog something with a gross url in it you can tell me#i’m not condoning it i literally just did not notice it (tags via toxicsovereign)
First Inquisition romance will be…
I'm from the Netherlands, and I'm a bit confused about something. I've been seeing a lot of posts on my dash, talking about how caring about good grammar is a sign someone is racist or classist? How does that work?
AnonymousThe other mods might be able to better describe this, but here’s the TLDR analysis
It’s connected to Linguistic Perscriptivism which is a very formalistic way of looking at language, which views dialects (usually nonwhite dialects or dialects used by the working class) as not being a real part of the language. This way of structuring language (and denying that other dialects can have internally consistent grammatical laws) is racist and ableist.
Mod R
It’s good to know that we weren’t the only ones driven crazy by people who “axe” questions.
Okay, see, we talked about this linguisitic phenomenon in my grammar class. I don’t remember what it’s called, but it happens with other words, too - my professor used an example of “uncomfortable.” When you say it out loud, most likely, it sounds more like “un-comf-ter-ble,” thus mixing up the position of the r and the t, like how the k and the s are mixed in this speech pattern. However, not many people are out here acting high and mighty because someone said “uncomfterble” like they are with “ax,” and that has absolutely everything to do with academic biases - because “ax” is associated mostly with Black people (and occasionally lower-class whites), it’s viewed as “improper” speech, whereas most people, even middle & upper class white people who are thought to speak the most ~proper~ version of English, say “uncomfterble.”
And a quick Google search yields that even Chaucer used “axe” to mean “ask” within his writing. (Source) (Source)
tl;dr actually caring about whether someone says “ask” ~”correctly”~~ is rooted in racist & classist biases of language so, consider, not.
(the process is called metathesis)
during the autumn rutting season, red deer stag find themselves with elaborate bracken crowns from having rubbed their heads against the ground, which they do to strengthen their neck muscles so as to help them in battle with those competing for the affections of the does. photos by (click pic) mark smith, toby melville, luke millward and greg morgan in london’s richmond park. (see also: more autumn rut in richmond park)
I SPENT GEMS TO GET A DUMB SKELETON
At first I simply marvelled at the fact that this ‘mini’ was taller than my character, but then I FOUND OUT THAT IF THE ENVIRONMENT BECOMES DARK ENOUGH
why is it that villains and not protagonists are always the ones breaking gender roles hmmmm
it’s called queercoding and it’s intentional and basically brainwashes kids into having negative associations with those traits
