The Life of a Bibliophile

Me *rereading a book*: I hope this time no characters die and everyone ends up happy! Book:

oh. my. fucking.

Perhaps the people that claim “immigrants are taking their jobs” should go work on those farms.

So now they can suddenly afford to pay above minimum wage

it’s almost like they were paying people less than their labor was worth :Y

Exactly

Oh wow I am so incredibly shocked. Are you telling me that our entire agricultural infrastructure was predicated on the exploitation of foreign-born workers who were forced to live in inhumane living conditions and paid next to nothing? And that now that this presidency has created an extremely hostile environment that those immigrants are going elsewhere? Causing a shortage of cheap exploitable labor? Who could have seen this coming??????

A dog would never say “yolo” or “you only lick once” because they can lick many, many times and are acutely aware of this.

“you only lick once!” -what a dog would say :)

Wrong. Dogs can lick many, many times and are acutely aware of this.

Um make your own post?

the speech impediment of the 21st century (by Marc Johns)

I’ll fuck you up buddy this is not a speech impediment it’s linguistic evolution!! the existence of the phrase “Aisha was like” allows the speaker to convey whatever Aisha said without making the listener assume they’re quoting Aisha directly while still maintaining the FEELING of what Aisha said.

ie, Aisha said she didn’t want to go out with me VERSUS Aisha was like, “I’d rather kiss a Wookie”.

the addition of “XYZ was like” lets the speaker be more expressive and efficient and it is a totally valid method of communicating information!!

With the way language has evolved, this is one of the few ways I can even think of to express in casual conversation what someone said. 

“So I said to Aisha,” is certainly used, but if you remove the “so,” which implies casual tone (“and” can be used in the same way), you get

“I said to Aisha,” which is really formal in most English dialects/variations. I don’t know about all, but in New England dialects, you sound like you’re reading aloud from a novel.

“I told Aisha,” is really only used when you continue to describe, not tell, what you told her. Ex: “I told Aisha that James was too punk for her” works while, “I told Aisha, ‘James is too punk for you’” crosses the line back into formalness of the “I said.”

Things like “I asked” or “I answered [with]” are similar levels of casual and efficient to the “So, I said [or say, as many conversations about the past take place in present tense anyway, as if the speaker is giving a play-by-play in the moment]” but are specific to only certain situations. 

“I was like, ‘Marc Johns, what is your obsession with restoring archaic speech patterns and interfering with the natural progression of English from complex to efficient?’” envelopes all of these easily and is accessible and crisp, and allows for more variations on inflection than the others.

Of course, James is probably like, “I already fucking said that.” But eh, I tried adding on.

#linguistics #a.k.a. how I learned to stop worrying and love the evolution of the English language without being a discriminatory elitist jerk (via crystalandrock)

Powerful New Video Tackles Racial Bias To Remind Kids Their ‘Black Is Beautiful’

A new video released Monday titled “The Talk” compellingly tackles the impact of racial bias through the lens of black parents in America.

This video accurately displays what it is like to be black in America. It shows the conversations all black parents have with their kids to keep them safe and to encourage them to fight the racist society. And it’s heartbreaking that parents need to remind their kids that their “Black is beautiful”.Society needs to change and time has come to talk about this.

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I had always hoped I’d never have to do this.But because my 18th birthday arrives in less than two months, the U.S. government is closing my case.

My name is Jesse Singh. I was born in Salem, Oregon to Dawna LaLonde and Preet Singh in 1997, and lived there until late 2000. I haven’t seen my father since I was three and have been trying to find him since I was about 10 years old. My search has been futile thus far and I am becoming more and more hopeless, so I have finally decided to come to the internet for help with the hopes that maybe social media will be the key to finding him

My fathers birthname is G.Preetvinderpal Singh, but he used to go by Preet or Jack. He was 23 years old when I was born, putting him at around 40 years old now. He is Sihk, from Malaysia, and is of Malaysian descent. I know he speaks English fluently and I believe that he also speaks Punjabi fluently, though I am not positive. The last known address I’ve found for him puts him in Quebec somewhere. My grandparents are Retired Major Kirpal Singh and Mohinder Singh, my great-grandparents are Sewa Singh and Thermo Kaur. I know there’s a very slim chance of me finding him but I have to try everything. I can’t put into words how desperate I am to find him. If you know him or of him or even of someone else who might know him, please feel free to send me a message here on tumblr or an email at jesse.singh153@gmail.com . I have more pictures available for anyone who needs more to be sure. Even if you don’t know him, please please please reblog this, so that maybe someone who does can see this and help. 

I’m not interested in money or anything like that. Honestly, i’m just a kid desperate to find their dad. Thank you to anyone who reads and reblogs this, it is very much appreciated!

lmao whaddup y'all im well into being nineteen now and still not even a little closer to finding my dad

all this still applies however, tho id probs be a lot less flowery with my language if i was making this post today

if you could reblog this, that’d be really cool and again, id really appreciate it

I’m 20 now. just…just if anyone has any idea or can share this? please. i want to see my dad but moreso I….i want to meet the younger siblings I know I have.

blue klux klan takes care of their own.

has anyone else noticed there’s a very specific way women interrupt each other in conversation that’s quite distinct from the way men interrupt women in conversation? like, women seem to interject a lot more– not as a silencing tactic, but to show their enthusiasm or agreement, cause they perceive a conversation as kind of collaborative, organic exercise. but i feel like men get really annoyed if you excitedly interject when they’re saying something (most specifically in a debate/discussion context) because they perceive conversation as something combative or competitive and see an interjection as a threat or a challenge. i’ve also noticed men dismiss women’s way of talking as being sort of incomprehensible and nonsensical because of this habit we have of seeming to butt in or finish each others sentences excitably. 

This was actually very interestingly used in Mad Max and was a stylistic choice in the way the wives spoke to each other, or at other people as a collective.

They finished each others sentences, interjected constantly, echoed important points in reverence/understanding/agreement and relied on each other to complete the communication of a thought or a concept to someone outside their circle.  

So like, instead of one of them explaining something, they would all add fragments to form a complete thought. ____

The Vuvalini: What’s there to find at the Citadel?

Max: Green.

Toast: And water. There’s a ridiculous amount of clear water. And a lot of crops.

The Dag: It’s got everything you need, as long as you’re not afraid of heights.

Keeper of the Seeds: Where does the water come from?

Toast: [regarding Immortan Joe] He pumps it up from deep within the earth. He calls it “Aqua Cola” and claims it all for himself.

The Dag: And because he owns it, he owns all of us. _____ Capable: We are not things! Cheedo: No! The Dag: Cheedo, we are not things! Capable: We are not things. Cheedo: I don’t want to hear that again! Capable: They were her words. Cheedo: And now she’s dead! The Dag: Wring your hands and tear your hair, but you’re not going back. You’re not going back to him. ___ Interestingly, the Vuvalini do this as well. 

Everyone else in the movie (including furiosa!) speaks in short definitive statements or exclamations that cannot be piled upon or interrupted. So this was definitely done on purpose. 

its very cool.

 I wonder if this is just a thing in english/western culture or if other groups of women speak to each other like this?

also theirs a bunch of people in the notes fighting about “I HATE GETTING INTERRUPTED”

This isn’t so much a classic “interruption”.  like when someone talks over you to change the subject or say something unrelated or better than what you’re saying and stealing the attention from you,etc.

Its more like the person doing the interruption is expecting you not to really stop talking, or expects you to finish your thought, and is only interrupting to agree/ interject a footnote that is contributory, but not distracting.

So it would look like. Woman 1 and 2 telling a story to woman 3:

Woman 1 “We sat down and he brought out this really good green tea- Woman 2: –but it was the powder kind of green tea not the bag kind– Woman1: –yeah and he brought out these really cool whisks and let us do it ourselves– Woman 2: and Woman 1 frothed hers so much she had nothing left! Woman 3: omg did you like it? was it good? Woman 1 and 2 in unison: Yes!  Woman 1: We should go again together sometime. Woman 2- yeah I think you’d really like it too!

 See how Woman 1 is the alpha speaker (the person telling the story) and Woman 2 is the…. hype man? for lack of a better word. Every sentence that Woman 1 says is the story, and woman 2 is adding smaller clarification related details. And when she adds a dynamic detail  “had nothing left!” it is an excited interjection that continues the story, without taking ownership of the topic.  Woman 3 will walk away from this conversation feeling that Woman 1 was the expert on this situation, but that Woman 2 had a particularly exciting time.

there was a study on this precisely that I read about, though I’ll need my pc to retrieve it. It was about how women tendentially see conversation as collaborative while men tendentially treat it as competitive, thus women usually interrupt to agree/interject to encourage, while men more often interrupt to talk over and/or demonstrate superior knowledge on a topic.

The study was probably Deborah Tannen, she found that women use more of what she called overlapping speech, such as “yup”, “right”, etc. and men are more likely to change the subject. In either the same study or a similar study she found that in the case where someone such as a friend talks about a problem or negative experience or feeling, women are more likely to respond with emotional support and understanding, whereas men are more likely to try to offer practical advice, and this can lead to misunderstandings.

what the actual fuck

Men don’t know women can pee

ive been sitting on the toilet for 20 minutes trying to piss but the pee keeps getting lost in my confusing Woman Body

That was physically painful to read

im weak

actions speak

Never forget how they treated us

Hurricane Katrina if anyone was wondering

NEW ORLEANS PLEASE NEVER FORGET THEY LEFT THE PEOPLE OF MY CITY TO DIE!

why….. why do they have guns in response to a natural disaster?

Merica

They killed my mama’s friend on the danziger bridge

Always reblog

And ppl still suffering PTSD 10 years later

I’m at work trying so hard not to cry

I remember my English teacher talked to us about this one day in class and she was sobbing so hard she had to leave

:(

I hated this.

the plea agreements drew prison terms from three to 12 years (x)

But all lives matter right?

Heartbreaking

Right, all lives matter my ass.

I still have ptsd from this ,and I was 8 when this happened. It still feels like yesterday that this happened. My heart breaks everytime I see my city im pieces.

I remember riding down the highway from the storm in traffic with water covering half the tires a terrified 7 year old 😓

BLACK LIVES MATTER

My stepdad was there. Cops were the worst looters of all, because they basically had free reign to kill anyone who got in their way. They took the first buses out and left people to die. They literally had to rebuild the entire Superdome because NOPD and the city gov shoved so many people in there it became a public health issue. People were writing their names, SSNs and next of kin on their arms and dying in the streets, and the government did nothing. In the lower ninth ward, you can still see houses with the body counts spray painted on the doors.

I had no idea it was this bad. I lived in Philadelphia at the time and I had no fucking idea. So angry.

When I was 17 my appendix ruptured because I thought I was just having period cramps and didn’t go to the hospital so don’t tell me PMS symptoms are no big deal

this actually happened to me during my math final and i didn’t think anything of it and when i was later admitted to the hospital my math prof was asking me ‘you didn’t have to take the final! why didn’t you tell me it hurt?!?!’ and i told him i’ve had cramps worse.

he gave me 100

This is actually an extremely common occurrence simply because in sex ed they don’t teach you how to tell the difference between menstrual cramps and other more serious pains. The way to tell the difference between cramps and appendicitis is that while menstrual cramps are generalized toward the middle of the stomach below the belly button, pain from a swollen or burst appendix will start in the middle of the stomach and relocate to only the lower right side, even lower than menstrual cramps, and is a very localized pain. It also comes on extremely suddenly and will worsen over time or when you make a sudden movement, like a cough or a sneeze.

Basically, if you’re feeling any sort of pain, even if it’s menstrual cramps, don’t hesitate to tell the school nurse or a parent, or if you’re out of school and home even make a doctor’s appointment. Chances are if your cramps are that bad there’s something they can do to improve that as well.

I am boosting the shit out of that reply, because I am twenty-fucking-five years old and did not know how to tell the two pains apart

Adding another diagnostic tool! This is something we use in the ER called the rebound test. Basically, appendicitis and cramps react differently to certain things. If you’re still not sure if you have cramps or appendicitis, take two fingers and press them into your abdomen where the pain is (try repeating this on the lower right quadrant of the abdomen just to be sure.)

When you press in firmly, it will probably hurt. Here’s the test: LET GO. Does it get better or get worse? Appendicitis will immediately hurt worse when you let go. Cramps will not. Go to the ER if the rebound test makes it worse!

THE REBOUND TEST IS REALLY IMPORTANT.

My husband got sent home from the ER with a rupturing appendix. When he came back and was rushed into surgery, the surgeon was super angry – “Why didn’t anyone do the rebound test?!”

All great info, but there is another lesson to be learned here: if you’re in major pain, it’s probably important - so don’t let anyone tell you it’s not. There is a documented pattern of women who go to the ER with complaints of pain being dismissed as overreacting…when in reality women have an incredibly high tolerance for pain, to the point that some don’t even realize exactly how serious their condition is. These stories only serve to illustrate this point.

Reblog to literally save a life.

Every time I see this..

Ophelia