I'm Rachel.
INTJ.
Linguistics
Wanderlust
Turquoise anything
Extreme sweet tooth
Nietzche & Kierkegaard
Bukowski & Neruda
Cynical and thrilled

My thoughts go here to more or less form a map for years to come. Stick around, or don't.

 

People who allow the correct use of “your” and “you’re” to sway their opinion on someone.

You can leave. 

I literally would punch you all in the face if I could. 

It’s one thing to prefer the “correct” usage, but damnit stop correcting it every single time and blowing it out of proportion and demeaning people because god forbid they were doing something like multi tasking and used the wrong one. You have no right to point that out to make yourself feel superior for catching it. It’s not that big of a deal. 

Some people just try to be correct with it and that’s whatever, I don’t care, but when you get an attitude and insult someone’s intelligence because at the moment- that wasn’t the most important thing, or they slipped, you look like a jerk.

Stop it, and shut up. There’s almost always context and you know damn well if they mean you are or your. Okay? It’s not the end of the world.

Double negatives make you sound like you’re uneducated.

Girl in my class who’s here once a month and was just shown up with my Spanish example

I have a question about universal grammar.

kneejerkreaction:

If it’s innate, like learning how to walk, wouldn’t this imply that even in isolation, you would develop your own language? Is there an asterisk I’m missing?

I asked this everyday in philosophy two years ago. I don’t think so-unless pictures count as a language. Because if words are symbols for ideas and objects, you wouldn’t need a symbolic sound to share it with someone, you’d only need pictures to form ideas in your mind, right? Random guess.

I’m in linguistics right now actually. Talking about grammar and syntax. 

(Source: anonsy-anonso)

Discussing the way other languages have grammatical gender. “El Sol, La Luna”

And I’m like “It’s like the Pocahontas song ‘every rock and tree and creature have a life have a spirit have a name….’”

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