The Dark Tree

thedanemen:

there –> KICKSTARTME <— here

physticuffs:

dlrk-gently:

suspendnodisbelief:

dokteur:

bonbonlanguage:

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?

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

Fuck yeah I did

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i-have-no-gender-only-rage:

Good News of 2017

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horrorandhalloween:

If Christmas isn’t your thing, why not celebrate Cthulumas instead?

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elvepapercut:

Lighthouse

actualcas:

“Shit did I leave the stargate on?”

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(Source: tincanforest, via mattfractionblog)

abobobo:

Shuji Imai illustrations that accompanied the Final Fantasy articles in volumes 12, 14, and 16 of Nintendo Power. Imai (who is often confused with Katsuya Terada) was also the original illustrator of the Howard & Nester comics.

(Source: Retromags)

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casejackal:

None Pizza with Left Beef is 10 years old today.

happy birthday to a decade-old meme.

Happy birthday!

(Source: fadeintocase, via meladoodle)

thingsorganizedneatly:

fuzzynecromancer:

There is no unskilled labor, only undervalued skills.

Take pride in your work. Very satisfying. 

(Source: entierradefrikis)

backwoodsranger:

zachsgay:

sjwpanderer:

thesociologicalcinema:

What do Americans say?

Source: Based on a survey of 350,000 Americans (x)

cool but why is the last one so ominous

The prompt for the last one is “How many syllables are in caramel?” Ur welcome

i like it better without the explanation

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materialsworld:

It’s all wiggly and gross.

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kcgreenn:

simptrons

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pankurios-templeovarts:

Works by Michael Pederson.

nghm15:

okay so i reworked and reworked again the yard sard alignment chart so that the errors committed in the sign-making more likely involved transposing parts of words as opposed to unfamiliarity with the english language because that prescriptivist shit aint cool.

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