Castles in Germany.

Winter Olympics vocab in French!!

Les jeux olympiques d'hiver – Winter Olympic games

Le ski de fond – cross-country skiing

Le ski acrobatique – freestyle skiing

Le ski alpin – alpine skiing

Le combiné nordique – nordic combined

Le Biathlon - Biathlon

Le bobsleigh - Bobsleigh

Le curling - Curling

Le patinage artistique - Figure skating

Le patinage de vitesse - Speed skating

Le hockey sur glace - Ice hockey

La luge - Luge

Le Skeleton - Skeleton

Le saut à ski - Ski jumping

Le snowboard - Snowboard

Радужного кота вам в ленту.

Today its snowing blue in Saint Petersburg

When people go off about how English is the worst language, I just wanna point out a few things:

- Our future tense requires only one word (looking at you, Spanish)

- Words don’t change meanings depending on tone (Cantonese)

- We don’t live in some bizarre Beauty And The Beast world where we give inanimate objects genders (romance languages, German)

- Likewise, we don’t have have two different words for “they” because we don’t care whether “they” were male or female (Spanish, French)

- There’s no formal “you” because we don’t play mind games about whether or not we respect you (Spanish, German)

- We don’t alter the whole fucking language based on how much we respect you (Japanese)

- The letters and sounds might not be consistent, but at least we have letters, not just pictures (Mandarin)

- We don’t have a fucking stupid tense specifically for talking to two people because some idiot decided that a two-person tense was necessary (Arabic)

So yeah, I think we’re doing okay as a language

Oh and some of our plurals are irregular, but at least it’s not like every goddamn plural is an entirely new word so you have to learn every word twice

At least it’s not like that, right? Right, Arabic? WHAT A DUMB IDEA THAT WOULD BE, HUH, ARABIC?

But we do kinda have the tone thing. Like record and record, resume and resume, etc

For a few words, but you can mispronounce a lot and still get away with it. I’m referring to this:

I love this post

Stabler always did ask the right questions lol

Quelques affiches des manifestations du 1er mai.

My kink is not opening messages and pretending theyre not there

i was talking to my cousin yesterday and he was talking about an accidental mistake he was dealing with, and proceeded to describe it as, “i picked a whole fuckin’ bouquet of whoopsie-daisies” and tbh i’m still thinking about it

the phrase “curiosity killed the cat” is actually not the full phrase it actually is “curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back” so don’t let anyone tell you not to be a curious little baby okay go and be interested in the world uwu

See also:

Blood is thicker than water The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.

Meaning that relationships formed by choice are stronger than those formed by birth.

Let’s not forget that “Jack of all trades, master of none” ends with “But better than a master of one.”

It means that being equally good/average at everything is much better than being perfect at one thing and sucking at everything else. So don’t worry if you’re not perfect at something you do! Being okay is better!

These made me feel better

Also, “great minds think alike” ends with “but fools rarely differ”

It goes to show that conformity isn’t always a good thing. And that just because more than one person has the same idea, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good idea.

what the fuck why haven’t i heard the full version to any of these 

“Birds of a feather flock together” ends with “until the cat comes.”

It’s actually a warning about fair-weather friends, not an assessment of how complementary people are.

I’ve always felt like these were cut down on purpose.

I really like these phrases and plan on spreading this knowledge.

The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

I want to make designs out of these.

Funny how all the half-finished ones encourage uniformity and upholding the status-quo, while the complete proverbs encourage like…living exciting, eclectic lives driven by choice and personal passion.

NICE

Si seulement j'avais autant de détermination que Fillon pour faire mes devoirs.

Map of some English words that come from native North American languages.

Prague | anne.bryce

Versailles | Eliza Bradatian

Quai d’Orsay | jasminetartine

russia: *illegally annexes crimea*

russia: *knowingly picks an artist who has violated ukrainian national law regarding travel to crimea*

ukraine: you can’t compete in eurovision this year with that artist

russia: