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what's your favourite between emus, ostriches and cassowaries?
Cassowaries. They’re so metal. Those dudes can just crack your head open like it’s nothing.
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Me: *scrolling twitter in bed*
My gf: “I like to think Mario and Luigi are both colour blind and think they have matching outfits”
Me: *fucking losing it*
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dead metaphors are really interesting honestly and specifically i’m interested in when they become malapropisms
like, the concept being, people are familiar with the phrase and what people use it to mean metaphorically, but it’s not common knowledge anymore what the metaphor was in literal reference to. people still say “toe the line” but don’t necessarily conjure up the image of people standing at the starting line of a race, forbidden from crossing over it. people still say “the cat is out of the bag” without necessarily knowing it’s a sailors’ expression referring to a whip being brought out for punishment. some metaphors are so dead we don’t even know where they come from; like, there are ideas about what “by hook or by crook” references, but no one is entirely sure. nobody knows what the whole nine yards are.
and then you throw in a malaprop or a mondegreen or two, where because people don’t know what the actual words of the expression refer to, they’re liable to replace them with similar sounding words (see “lack toast and tolerant”). so we can literally go from a phrase referencing a common, everyday part of life to a set of unfixed, contextless sounds with a completely different meaning. that’s fascinating. what an interesting piece of the way language and culture are living, changing, coevolving things.
maybe part of the reason we can’t figure out where some phrases come from is that over time the words themselves have changed! one of the theories about “the whole nine yards” is that it’s a variant of “the whole ball of wax,” which some people further theorize was originally “the whole bailiwick,” meaning just “the whole area”! the addition of “nine yards” might be related to “dressed to the nines,” which might reference the fucking Greek muses! language is so weird and cool! (and I only know any idioms in two languages!)
the point is. I just came across the words “nip it in the butt” in a piece of published, professional fiction, and now I can’t stop giggling.
someone put ‘within a hare’s breath’ in an AO3 tag and it stopped me cold. because you’re leaving the general sense of the idiom and its physical phonemes almost intact, and yet replacing the actual words and metaphor with something completely unrelated.
a hare’s breath is small in a completely different way than a hair’s breadth and works very differently as a unit of distance.
and yet the general idea of ‘small, close, tiny gap, no barrier, a near thing, almost’ remains intact, and if you didn’t know what had happened there you would never figure it out.
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We are currently conducting a survey regarding a new tourism slogan for our beautiful city and decided to let our dedicated and loyal Tumblr followers what they think about it.
Sangk Gallen: Come here, it’s like Good.?
Sankalen’: Why Not Do It?
Stktgalen: Gall me up babey!
McGalle n: Me loves this one
can y'all stop tagging this and other posts from that account with “germany” in the reblogs?? before you oh so confidently tag random non US stuff w countries u should maybe actually look shit up… st gallen is in switzerland (which by the way isn’t the same place as sweden)
Not tagging the person out of respect but like,,,, please look at a map of Europe this is horribly painful to read
congrats lil buddy that’s the worst anyone’s ever done it
switzerland… a northern country… like wales…
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A reposted tiktok from user the.mcfarlands. The text overlaid on the start of the video reads, “Dads when they hear someone mention that it’s hot outside 👹”, and dramatic music plays quietly in the background of the video. There are closed captions.
A white man in a tshirt, shorts, and a baseball cap enters a room, wipes his forehead, and says “phew!”. The camera cuts to his mother at the fridge, who turns around and says “No!”
Son: “It is—”
Mom, moving towards him: “Don't—”Son: “—hot outside!” His mom’s hand enters the frame and covers his mouth.
Mom: “—say it.”
The camera cuts to a close up of the father’s eye opening, then shows Nike sneaker clad feet pushing down the foot rest of a recliner chair. He gets up and walks away from the camera, with audio emphasis and camera shakes added to his footfalls. A glass of water is shown shaking with each impact. The mom and son hold each other, looking scared. The camera cuts between the glass, the mom and son cowering dramatically, and the father walking towards them as the music swells and then stops when he reaches them.
Dad (in a slightly distorted, booming voice): “It’s not the heat that gets you!”
(Mom and son wail and cling to each other)
Dad (same voice): “It’s the humidity!”
The music comes back in loudly as he laughs and turns away to leave, with the mom and son still cowering in the corner.
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