Isn’t music supposed to be the universal language? The emotion isn’t limited to just the words themselves, but the way it’s sung, or performed, like just transposing a piece into minor or major can have a massive effect on its tone. I also think that these people need to be more appreciative of non-English languages.
every day I have to see the bullshit monolingual English speakers have the audacity to say
wow, that red sun out there's really cool, i wonder if it's an omen of whats to come. or if its the bushfires in the grampians again, can they stop getting set on fire for like, five fucking seconds?
I am taking the bus in paris i hope im not gonna get attacked by the creatures!
wait actually i think i've got a fun one. for anyone who saved their spotify wrapped playlist from last year: put it and your current one into this website to find out how many songs they have in common
name a couple in the tags if you want! did any of them place notably higher/lower, or did any stay in the same spot?
everyone’s talking about how unhinged fans are nowadays about their blorbos. well let me tell you that when the polish writer henryk sienkiewicz first published his novel ‘with fire and sword’ in parts between 1883 and 1884, and killed off the beloved character longinus podbipięta, people nationwide were so upset they’d go to church and ask for requiem masses to be held in his memory. match THAT freak
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Australian vocabulary is interesting, because everything sounds goofy in a way that makes you feel like they don't take anything at all particularly seriously. Someone logs on tumblr in australia and makes a post like "damn my cousin got bing-a-bong babadook'd" and then there's seven posts arguing with OP about whether that's a normal expression or not, and while OP learns that nobody else anywhere else says that, everyone else learns that that's the australian term for when you're driving a lawn mower drunk as hell and accidentally run over a child.
Humanity will never cease to provide me with an endless supply of wonder and disgust at the things humans are capable of
You know how the word "feline" refers to cats, and "canine" refers to dogs? There are a whole bunch more animal adjectives, and here are some of them:
equine -> horses
bovine -> cows
murine -> mice/rats
porcupine -> porcupines
wolverine -> wolves
marine -> marmosets
saline -> salmonella
cosine -> cosmonauts
citrine -> citrus
combine -> combs
famine -> your fam
bromine -> your bros
palpatine -> your pals
alpine -> alps
christine -> christ
asinine -> asses
machine -> the speed of sound
landmine -> explosions
migraine -> migrants
trampoline -> tramps
dopamine -> dopes
medicine -> the Medici family
praline -> prey
masculine -> mascara
feminine -> femurs
latrine -> latissimus dorsi
fettuccine -> fetuses
poutine -> sadness
turbine -> turbans
engine -> england
supine -> soup
valentine -> valence electrons
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