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May 22

meduusalammikko asked: I'm in love with your reply to the GIF pronunciation debate.

Juuuust a bit on the nerdy side. And I had to doublecheck with wikipedia.

But it was worth it. XD

Father of GIFs: 'It's Pronounced JIF' -

hannibalkanibalas:

mockingdjay:

thedoctorlikessouffle:

Steve Wilhite, the father of Graphics Interchange Format (GIFs), has ended the heated debate on how to pronounce “GIF” at this year’s Webby Awards.

Well then. We’re all fucked.

get fucked

funny how you have to spell it wrong to pronounce it right

Jif is a peanut butter.

You can have my voiced velar stop when you pry it out from between my cold dead tongue and soft palate.

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May 21

Foreign Words We Could Use in English -

cleverramble:

nevver:

  1. Kummerspeck (German)
    Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.
  2. Shemomedjamo (Georgian)
    You know when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it?
  3. Tartle (Scots)
    The nearly onomatopoeic word for that panicky hesitation just before you have to introduce someone whose name you can’t quite remember.
  4. Mamihlapinatapai (Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego)
    This word captures that special look shared between two people, when both are wishing that the other would do something that they both want, but neither want to do.
  5. Backpfeifengesicht (German)
    A face badly in need of a fist.
  6. Iktsuarpok (Inuit)
    You know that feeling of anticipation when you’re waiting for someone to show up at your house and you keep going outside to see if they’re there yet?
  7. Pelinti (Buli, Ghana)
    Your friend bites into a piece of piping hot pizza, then opens his mouth and sort of tilts his head around while making an “aaaarrrahh” noise. The Ghanaians have a word for that. More specifically, it means “to move hot food around in your mouth.”
  8. Greng-jai (Thai)
    That feeling you get when you don’t want someone to do something for you because it would be a pain for them.
  9. Mencolek (Indonesian)
    You know that old trick where you tap someone lightly on the opposite shoulder from behind to fool them? The Indonesians have a word for it.
  10. Faamiti (Samoan)
    To make a squeaking sound by sucking air past the lips in order to gain the attention of a dog or child.
  11. Gigil (Filipino)
    The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is irresistibly cute.
  12. Yuputka (Ulwa)
    A word made for walking in the woods at night, it’s the phantom sensation of something crawling on your skin.
  13. Zhaghzhagh (Persian)
    The chattering of teeth from the cold or from rage.
  14. Vybafnout (Czech)
    A word tailor-made for annoying older brothers—it means to jump out and say boo.
  15. Fremdschämen (German)
    ; Myötähäpeä (Finnish)
    The kindler, gentler cousins of Schadenfreude, both these words mean something akin to “vicarious embarrassment.”
  16. Lagom (Swedish)
    Maybe Goldilocks was Swedish? This slippery little word is hard to define, but means something like, “Not too much, and not too little, but juuuuust right.”
  17. Pålegg (Norweigian)
    Sandwich Artists unite! The Norwegians have a non-specific descriptor for anything – ham, cheese, jam, Nutella, mustard, herring, pickles, Doritos, you name it – you might consider putting into a sandwich.
  18. Layogenic (Tagalog)
    Remember in Clueless when Cher describes someone as “a full-on Monet…from far away, it’s OK, but up close it’s a big old mess”? That’s exactly what this word means.
  19. Bakku-shan (Japanese)
    Or there this Japanese slang term, which describes the experience of seeing a woman who appears pretty from behind but not from the front.
  20. Seigneur-terraces (French)
    Coffee shop dwellers who sit at tables a long time but spend little money.
  21. Ya’arburnee (Arabic)
    This word is the hopeful declaration that you will die before someone you love deeply, because you cannot stand to live without them. Literally, may you bury me.
  22. Pana Po’o (Hawaiian)
    “Hmm, now where did I leave those keys?” he said, pana po’oing. It means to scratch your head in order to help you remember something you’ve forgotten.
  23. Slampadato (Italian)
    Addicted to the UV glow of tanning salons? This word describes you.
  24. Zeg (Georgian)
    It means “the day after tomorrow.” OK, we do have “overmorrow” in English, but when was the last time someone used that?
  25. Cafune (Brazilian Portuguese)
    Leave it to the Brazilians to come up with a word for “tenderly running your fingers through your lover’s hair.”
  26. Koi No Yokan (Japanese)
    The sense upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall in love.
  27. Kaelling (Danish)
    You know that woman who stands on her doorstep (or in line at the supermarket, or at the park, or in a restaurant)
    cursing at her children? The Danes know her, too.
  28. Boketto (Japanese)
    It’s nice to know that the Japanese think enough of the act of gazing vacantly into the distance without thinking to give it a name.
  29. L’esprit de l’escalier (French)
    Literally, stairwell wit—a too-late retort thought of only after departure.
  30. Cotisuelto (Caribbean Spanish)
    A word that would aptly describe the prevailing fashion trend among American men under 40, it means one who wears the shirt tail outside of his trousers.
  31. Packesel (German)
    The packesel is the person who’s stuck carrying everyone else’s bags on a trip. Literally, a burro.
  32. Hygge (Danish)
    Denmark’s mantra, hygge is the pleasant, genial, and intimate feeling associated with sitting around a fire in the winter with close friends.
  33. Cavoli Riscaldati (Italian)
    The result of attempting to revive an unworkable relationship. Translates to “reheated cabbage.”
  34. Bilita Mpash (Bantu)
    An amazing dream. Not just a “good” dream; the opposite of a nightmare.
  35. Litost (Czech)
    Milan Kundera described the emotion as “a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery.”
  36. Luftmensch (Yiddish)
    There are several Yiddish words to describe social misfits. This one is for an impractical dreamer with no business sense.


My favorite foreign word is Komorebi in Japanese which means the light that filters through tree leaves/branches :3

Alternately, it’s a new list of Cumber-names.

Backpfeifengesicht Kummerspeck!

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onthesideoftheotters: captainamericaishot: hannibalkanibalas: death-by-avengers: DO MY EYES DECEIVE ME EXCITED PANTING SCREAMING NOISES BUT I COULD HAVE SWORN IT WAS ANOTHER DUDE BUT LOOK AT HOW HE’S GRABBING HIS JACKET I Yeah, that’s a photoshop. They pasted Tony’s head over Sitwell’s. It’s a good photoshop, but still manipped.

onthesideoftheotters:

captainamericaishot:

hannibalkanibalas:

death-by-avengers:

DO MY EYES DECEIVE ME

EXCITED PANTING SCREAMING NOISES

BUT I COULD HAVE SWORN IT WAS ANOTHER DUDE

BUT LOOK AT HOW HE’S GRABBING HIS JACKET I

Yeah, that’s a photoshop. They pasted Tony’s head over Sitwell’s.

It’s a good photoshop, but still manipped.

(Source: lexa483, via because-donuts)

theworldsonlyconsultingpirate:

roll up roll up place your bets here. how long until joss whedon’s marvel agents of shield gets cancelled? 1 season???? 2 SEASON????

Well, let’s see the average.

Buffy: 7 seasons.
Angel: 5 seaons
Dollhouse: 2 seasons (granted, they were short)
Firefly: 1 season. (Arguably a half, mutter mutter stupid Fox.)

Take the average and you get 3.75 seasons per Whedon show.

Round it up to four because really, three quarters of a season is in essence a season…

And then I’m just inclined to give it an extra season due to MCU cachet, so five.

That’ll be my logic-bet.

My heart of hearts wants, like, at least ten, though. ;)

May 20

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May 19

cosmicallycreative:

PLEASE REBLOG IF YOU’RE AN AVENGERS/S.H.I.E.L.D. FAN

I WOULD LIKE TO GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE FANDOM QUICKLY

(Source: dudrops)

everyday-normal-sith: SHIT JUST GOT REAL This is just wrong. He needs to have a double-barreled hockey stick.

everyday-normal-sith:

SHIT JUST GOT REAL

This is just wrong.

He needs to have a double-barreled hockey stick.

(Source: dirtdart, via official-which)

saphire-dance: kat82beamup: saphire-dance: glittertech: sweetmotherofyaoi: oh god. We’re that bad, huh? Neopets. Did you do the thing, Neopets? Tell me the truth, Neopets. Do people pronounce women that way? If so where? Because I’ve never heard it pronounced that way. …really? Because I pronounce women that way. Like, the wo sound is like the wi sound of wish. Fish rhymes with wish, Women starts the same way as wood, I do not understand pronunciation guides well enough to describe this better. Wow. Maybe it’s dialectical, because with what I’m used to, woman starts like wood, but once it’s pluralized, women definitely starts like wish does.

saphire-dance:

kat82beamup:

saphire-dance:

glittertech:

sweetmotherofyaoi:

oh god.

We’re that bad, huh?

Neopets.

Did you do the thing, Neopets?

Tell me the truth, Neopets.

Do people pronounce women that way? If so where? Because I’ve never heard it pronounced that way.

…really? Because I pronounce women that way. Like, the wo sound is like the wi sound of wish.

Fish rhymes with wish, Women starts the same way as wood, I do not understand pronunciation guides well enough to describe this better.

Wow. Maybe it’s dialectical, because with what I’m used to, woman starts like wood, but once it’s pluralized, women definitely starts like wish does.

(Source: juicybugz)

I would say grey, but I might reconsider this about, oh, a month before the Agents of SHIELD premiere.

I would say grey, but I might reconsider this about, oh, a month before the Agents of SHIELD premiere.

(Source: rematiration, via marvinaparanoidandroid)

saphire-dance: glittertech: sweetmotherofyaoi: oh god. We’re that bad, huh? Neopets. Did you do the thing, Neopets? Tell me the truth, Neopets. Do people pronounce women that way? If so where? Because I’ve never heard it pronounced that way. … It’s pronounced other ways? O.o

saphire-dance:

glittertech:

sweetmotherofyaoi:

oh god.

We’re that bad, huh?

Neopets.

Did you do the thing, Neopets?

Tell me the truth, Neopets.

Do people pronounce women that way? If so where? Because I’ve never heard it pronounced that way.

… It’s pronounced other ways? O.o

(Source: juicybugz)

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selenay936: tora42: selenay936: askagentsitwell: Is it bad that I’m already a little in love with this woman? I am so it can’t be :-D Everyone should be in love with this woman. Does anyone else think it’s hilarious that her SHIELD ID badge lists her as an “administrator” and she kicks the most amount of ass in the trailer? She’s the administrator of ass kicking and awesome. Now I want fic of her and Natasha being badasses together. I would love fic of her and Natasha being badasses together. Someone needs to get on that ;-) Yup, I also find it hilarious that she’s listed as an administrator. Apparently ‘administrator’ in SHIELD means something totally different to what it means in other companies. It means “administrating ass kickings and awesome” :-D Melinda May: Beatdown Administrator.

selenay936:

tora42:

selenay936:

askagentsitwell:

Is it bad that I’m already a little in love with this woman?

I am so it can’t be :-D

Everyone should be in love with this woman. Does anyone else think it’s hilarious that her SHIELD ID badge lists her as an “administrator” and she kicks the most amount of ass in the trailer? She’s the administrator of ass kicking and awesome. Now I want fic of her and Natasha being badasses together.

I would love fic of her and Natasha being badasses together. Someone needs to get on that ;-)

Yup, I also find it hilarious that she’s listed as an administrator. Apparently ‘administrator’ in SHIELD means something totally different to what it means in other companies. It means “administrating ass kickings and awesome” :-D

Melinda May: Beatdown Administrator.

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