Me When I’ve Just Started A New Language And All I Know Is The Present Tense: I Never Look Back Darling,

I feel like I should change my icon to Ling (Yao) just for posts like these.

Imagine your icon stealing your birthday cake from the table and slinking off to hide somewhere and eat it for themselves.

A Wordplay Poem

I take it you already know

Of tough and bough and cough and dough?

Others may stumble, but not you,

On hiccough, thorough, lough, and through?

Well done! And now you wish perhaps,

To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word

That looks like beard and sounds like bird.

And dead - it's said like bed, not bead -

For goodness sake, don't call it 'deed'.

Watch out for meat and great and threat

(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt):

A moth is not a moth in mother,

Nor both in bother, broth in brother.

And here is not a match for there

Nor dear and fear for bear and pear.

And then there's dose and rose and lose -

Just look them up - and goose and choose,

And cork and work and card and ward,

And font and front, and word and sword,

And do and go, and thwart and cart -

Come! Come! I've hardly made a start!

                                 ~from the Manchester Guardian, 1954

  Proof that English is as fickle as they say it is.

And for anyone unfamiliar with old-fashioned British phonetics, hiccough is pronounced like hiccup and lough is "lak." Thank you Merriam Webster.

fuck attractive people

四

4 = four lines...in a box shape with two more lines inside to make a pretty window with curtains.

Technically written with only 5 strokes, but who's counting?

i speak french in public to my grandparents and to my boyfriend. people are surprised that im bilingual and say its cool and ask me to teach them some time

but when one of my classmates speaks arabic in public to her family, she gets strange and disgusted looks. no one asks to be taught arabic. no one says its cool that shes bilingual

its racism plain and simple

goyisch historians: jews did not put up any fight in WWII :) they just complacently marched off to camps 

90% of yiddish folk music from WWII: i can and will kill hitler with my own two fists

petition to call the food side of tumblr yumblr 

I found a pun that works in both English and Spanish

Where do cats go when they die? Purrgatory.

¿De dónde van los gatos cuando mueren? Purgatorio.