🗣herrrrrre fishy fishy fishy https://www.instagram.com/p/Bve7fcrlBcj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=11h3tc3b4t3g3
In my jammies, setting the tv to record Sunday’s #AMajesticChristmas — part of @hallmarkchannel‘s first batch of holiday movies with black leads. 🎄 (And I tried to get some black Santas in there but we ran outta time 😂) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqx9rqwhV-d/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16fmjzjnct2tm
On 17 Nov, I’ll be sharing another Very Personal Story. I do this about twice a year for organizations I believe in. This is your invite to be a part of the event 💚 https://www.instagram.com/p/Boz6uzghnoL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=16rt053h71qrj
On 17 Nov, I’ll be sharing another Very Personal Story. I do this about twice a year for organizations I believe in. This is your invite to be a part of the event 💚 https://www.instagram.com/p/Boz6uzghnoL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1oumd2lkxgigq
sharing this post from @kerrywashington because @hillaryclinton is right — our democracy works best when more people are involved. Please get involved. Like, on a human, voting level. ・・・ Midterm elections are coming...Don't just vote this year, volunteer! This is #TheLastWeekend to help save our democracy. Sign up now! http://bit.ly/commitwithkerry https://www.instagram.com/p/BofMZo8B4A1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=35z2kdu0xhhr
I don’t have a vintage basket to take one of those perfectly IG #harvest photos but I do have these old strainers, a bowl and my kitchen sink 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅
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contemplating barking at dwights
The lovely thing about having a tv family is that, if you want, you can become #chosenfamily. My tv daughter knows my flower child ways and made this portrait of me at our last slumber party. So watch the show tonight because she’s even more adorable in it than this post-it note masterpiece. 🌻🧚🏾♀️#hereandnow #hereandnowhbo
“There a single sentence from my conversation with Jerrika Hinton [...] that has been bouncing around my head for weeks. I hear it when I walk into my office building, when I’m brushing my teeth, or when I’m inspecting the pre-made salad section of Trader Joe’s: ‘Respectability does not save you.’” 📸 @alistillstein | 📝 @refinery29 | 👱🏻♂️ @williamson_joe
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You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?
dokteur
These are called vocables, a form of non-lexical utterance - that is, wordlike sounds that aren’t strictly words, have flexible meaning depending on context, and reflect the speakers emotional reaction to the context rather than stating something specific. They also include uh-oh! (that’s not good!), uh-huh and mm-hmm (yes), uhn-uhn (no), huh? (what?), huh… (oh, I see…), hmmn… (I wonder… / maybe…), awww! (that’s cute!), aww… (darn it…), um? (excuse me; that doesn’t seem right?), ugh and guh (expressions of alarm, disgust, or sympathy toward somebody else’s displeasure or distress), etc.
Every natural human language has at least a few vocables in it, and filler words like “um” and “erm” are also part of this overall class of utterances. Technically “vocable” itself refers to a wider category of utterances, but these types of sounds are the ones most frequently being referred to, when the word is used.
Reblog if u just hummed all of these out loud as you read them
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Anything can be hidden behind a smile.
living in a new reality 🥂 (at Here and Now)
clouds make great magicians
professional.