When most people tell you they think words are so fascinating, they have in mind items like “canoodle” and “serendipity.” When linguists say it, they have in mind, like, “the.”
I remember telling someone i was studying dialect and proceeded to explain how excited i was about variation in the last vowel sound in words like “horses” and “buses” and i could see them fading away in disappointment and pity
My 26 yr old sister still says things out loud like ‘ermagerd’ and ’___ ALL the things!’ Like…is that what’s gonna happen to me?am I going to be 30 still saying stupid shit like O shit waddup! Are all the youngins gonna be embarrassed by my use of outdated memes….how long until I myself am not Hip With It….how long until I am no longer a trendy memer…
It took me two read throughs of this before i realised that the “26 year old sister” was meant to be the old person in this post.
I keep having a train of thought that seems incomplete but I keep losing it and having a general sense of being unfulfilled. Let me get to the end of my mental journey!!
my favorite thing about england is that the word pulp doesnt exist
“Pulp” are a venerated britpop era band from Sheffield, or something you make papier mache out of, not something drinkable. Thank you for your attention America
I’m not doing that fuck / marry / drink thing because my answer is literally always stand in a corner drinking alone while Peter and Carl shag each other. Hypothetically.
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