God bilingual people are so cool. I’d love to be bilingual someday.
“Aren’t you alrea–” Shut the fuck up I’ve never spoken any language in my life
The thing people don’t understand is that mathematically speaking, being slightly bilingual actually makes you LESS bilingual than people who are monolingual. I’ve created a helpful chart to assist:
This is known as the I’d Rather Die Than Attempt to Converse With A Native Speaker paradox, and it has befuddled scholars for centuries
monolingual: an idiot in one language
bilingual: and a fucking moron in a second
What Palestinian resistance will always show you is that when people in the west talk about supporting resistance and freedom fighters they mean in Star Wars shows and not in real life because in real life violence occurs and that’s a big no no. Don’t tell them about what the occupiers were doing though because apparently that’s okay.
We must be respectful of all languages
spoiler: the weird trick was “offering more pay and benefits”
fr this was an excellent article though. it has the “no shit” energy of a study that says not bullying your children makes them happier, but tears apart the “nobody wants to work anymore” rhetoric and points out how it was the mbta *ceding to union demands* that caused the spike in applicants. read it here
Idiots raising pay and benefits when they could just install a ping-pong table in each bus
Hebden Bridge, Calderdale, West Yorkshire (England)
Toddler Learning to Talk Pros & Cons
pro: hearing new sentences in the smallest sweetest voice you could ever imagine is just such a serotonin hit.
con: every time I leave the immediate vicinity she screams “MOMMY YOU WEE WEEIN?” at the top of her lungs. I have no idea why she thinks I’m constantly pissing.
Yeah guys, great job
CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it’s part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions
if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators
THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORS’ UNION RECOGNIZED
this petition is from IATSE (union), btw! it actually has credibility, unlike most change.org/etc petitions! please sign it!!