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And by "again" I mean that in 2024 my most listened to song was Criminal love by Enhypen because I was listening to it on loop for hours and hours while studying for the college entrance exams

Proof:

[Rough trans:

My favorite song - 2024

*song + artist*

Date of your first listen: 29th of January

You've listened to this song for 636 minutes]

Guys,,, it's happening again,,, It's exam season and my brain has decided to pick one (1) song to cling to for dear life and I can't do anything about it,,, send help

Guys,,, it's happening again,,, It's exam season and my brain has decided to pick one (1) song to cling to for dear life and I can't do anything about it,,, send help

had a dream that someone suggested the best gender neutral form of address would be Mþ (pronounced Myth) and i immediately said "mith me with that gay shit HEYOOO" and woke up at 4:30am hanging sideways off of my bed

photosynthesizing with mama

on my way! to live yet another day in my fucking life.

Your sixth most recent emoji is how your guardian angel feels about you

Preach I guess

the joy of realizing someone is a similar type of freak as you

What is a ‘wug’?

If you’ve been to linguist tumblr (lingblr), you might have stumbled upon this picture of a funny little bird or read the word ‘wug’ somewhere. But what exactly is a ‘wug’ and where does this come from?

The ‘wug’ is an imaginary creature designed for the so-called ‘wug test’ by Jean Berko Gleason. Here’s an illustration from her test:

“Gleason devised the Wug Test as part of her earliest research (1958), which used nonsense words to gauge children’s acquisition of morphological rules‍—‌for example, the “default” rule that most English plurals are formed by adding an /s/, /z/ or /ɨz/ sound depending on the final consonant, e.g., hat–hats, eye–eyes, witch–witches. A child is shown simple pictures of a fanciful creature or activity, with a nonsense name, and prompted to complete a statement about it:

This is a WUG. Now there is another one. There are two of them. There are two ________.

Each “target” word was a made-up (but plausible-sounding) pseudoword, so that the child cannot have heard it before. A child who knows that the plural of witch is witches may have heard and memorized that pair, but a child responding that the plural of wug (which the child presumably has never heard) is wugs (/wʌgz/, using the /z/ allomorph since “wug” ends in a voiced consonant) has apparently inferred (perhaps unconsciously) the basic rule for forming plurals.

The Wug Test also includes questions involving verb conjugations, possessives, and other common derivational morphemes such as the agentive -er (e.g. “A man who ‘zibs’ is a ________?”), and requested explanations of common compound words e.g. “Why is a birthday called a birthday?“ Other items included:

This is a dog with QUIRKS on him. He is all covered in QUIRKS. What kind of a dog is he? He is a ________ dog.

This is a man who knows how to SPOW. He is SPOWING. He did the same thing yesterday. What did he do yesterday? Yesterday he ________.

(The expected answers were QUIRKY and SPOWED.)

Gleason’s major finding was that even very young children are able to connect suitable endings‍—‌to produce plurals, past tenses, possessives, and other forms‍—‌to nonsense words they have never heard before, implying that they have internalized systematic aspects of the linguistic system which no one has necessarily tried to teach them. However, she also identified an earlier stage at which children can produce such forms for real words, but not yet for nonsense words‍—‌implying that children start by memorizing singular–plural pairs they hear spoken by others, then eventually extract rules and patterns from these examples which they apply to novel words.

The Wug Test was the first experimental proof that young children have extracted generalizable rules from the language around them, rather than simply memorizing words that they have heard, and it was almost immediately adapted for children speaking languages other than English, to bilingual children, and to children (and adults) with various impairments or from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Its conclusions are viewed as essential to the understanding of when and how children reach major language milestones, and its variations and progeny remain in use worldwide for studies on language acquisition. It is “almost universal” for textbooks in psycholinguistics and language acquisition to include assignments calling for the student to carry out a practical variation of the Wug Test paradigm. The ubiquity of discussion of the wug test has led to the wug being used as a mascot of sorts for linguists and linguistics students.”

Here are some more illustrations from the original wug test:

Sources: 

Wikipedia, All Things Linguistic

i am nooooot locked the fuck in. im locked the fuck out. call the locksmith

whoever invented beds was a fucking genius im just all cozied up in here like u don't even know how cozy i am

what’s it called when you’re so disconnected from reality that cold water doesn’t feel like anything and you can barely taste food anymore

Having to clean the shower is so fucking annoying. It’s clean in there. That’s where I go to get clean. It’s clean dude trust me. Stop fucking growing bacteria and stuff man this is the clean locale. You’re embarrassing me in front of the sink

“what’s your aesthetic” it’s super niche actually it’s called clothes i like. hope this helps

250502 Hueningkai Weverse post

"If tampons should be free, then so should my diabetes meds."

Yes? Yes they should be? Your life-saving medication that you need in order to live for a condition you were born with should be given to you at no cost?

“nothing tastes as good as skinny feels”

damn you must suck at cooking. check out some youtube tutorials man. i believe in you.

me and my homies support real artists who put their passion into their pieces instead of a machine who rips off the hard work of talented peeps

One thing I've been struggling with is accepting the fact that I am not my 16 y/o self anymore

It sounds silly, I know it does, but somehow I still find myself missing, yearning for the things I found interesting at 16, the things that brought me joy, that kept me going and find that they no longer serve that role

The music and the fandom surrounding it don't excite me anymore, the game I adored has been untouched for months with no future plans, the clothes I couldn't wait to get off the clothesline sit collecting dust at the bottom of a drawer

I listen to different music, found new games and thrifted new clothes but every time I open my playlist, every time look up my walls to see posters, every time I pull out that drawer, I'm reminded of different times and somehow get this bitter taste in my mouth

I want to be mad at the artist or the fandom, I want to be mad at the game developer or the brand that made the clothes, but I simply cannot

Yes, those things changed but that's not the problem, or rather, it's not that they changed, it's that I've changed

I've grown out of things and in times like this, in times of uncertainty, I just wish I could shrink back down

But I can't, so we must move on

I know this specifically refers to fanfiction BUT it applies to the internet as a whole! It's YOUR feed! YOUR timeline! YOUR recommendations! There is a "not interested" button for a reason, use it!!! But also, if you know a certain type of content pisses you off just don't click on it! There's enough misery in the world, don't waste your precious freetime on things you do not like :)

"i'm tired of seeing-" use your filters.

"but there was an icky ship-!" use your filters.

"i don't like that tag-" use your filters.

don't like what you're seeing? use. your. filters.

week 12 - sun dreams!

my telemachus design references, finally 🙌

bonus

I've just written the introduction and the "Why are we even having this conversation?" part of my argumentative essay, (note: I have yet to even start my argument), and I have already used up half my wordcount???? Oh lord have mercy

One of my friends recommended Hades (the game) to me, and as I'm waiting for it to download on my Switch, I can't help but laugh, as it is right next to Animal Crossing New Horizons, which is next to Undertale, which is next to Hello Kitty and Friends Happiness Parade and oh god, it's just so poetic

theres this trend between my mutuals and mutual-in-laws like "x's 100 favorite films/artists -- how many have you watched/listened?" and everytime i come across one of these i'm reminded of how much of an i-dont-like-change-or-new-stuff bitch i am. i rly circle through the same 10 things that i love.

dear god i am an npc. i will never be special. sir middest of boringestshire.

reblog this to remind the person you reblogged it from that theyre loved

I think a lot of what pro-AI people are really wanting is stuff that already exists but they don't know it's out there like

can't format a work email? templates

don't know how to write a resume? templates

writing a thank you card or a condolences card or a wedding invitation? templates templates templates

not sure how to format your citations in MLA or whatever format? citationmachine.net

summary of something you're reading for school/work? cliffsnotes.com

recipe based on ingredients in your fridge? whatsintherefrigerator.com

there's a million more like, guys, we don't need AI, we never needed generative AI