even with my childish levels of portuguese/spanish/french, instagram has felt like a window into how conversations about big sociopolitical issues I care about are happening in the rest of the world?
YEAH
linguistic stuff is why I don’t think I can ever give up instagram, despite it being an endless hellscape of jumpscares. I just found a guy who explains the etymology of slang used in reggaeton? YES.
when studying Japanese I desperately craved an etymological dictionary which explained the progressive development of different kanji. knowing where words came from and their relationships to other words makes them so much easier to remember for me.
sigh, I think I have to buy a portuguese dictionary published in brazil or portugal, which will probably mean annoying shipping.
or online subscriptions!!!!
1. just because it’s from latin doesn’t mean it’s obvious which latin
2. portuguese was a language of global empire!!! it hoovered up tons and tons of words!!!!
why does the chonky oxford portuguese dictionary not include etymologies !!
this question would be so much easier if it were one month. i could sleep for one month.
he would be Ever So Elegant
the gods of doggos have bless a winn!!!!
team brindle abides!!!!!!!!
My ER visit is going to cost me $500 and I need to put down at least $100 toward it. If you can help, I would be so grateful.
Venmo: QuiaraH
Paypal.me/Quiara
Anything helps. I’m so sorry.
fair! I am approaching this as someone who is very much struggling with burnout.
to be clear: I am fully planning to attempt learning this anyway, but I bet I’d have a better time of it if I could pay for some lessons and maybe travel to a skate shop.
I have less than zero interest in filming myself doing ANYTHING. all i want is to go zoom in a controlled fashion.
WAIT I HAVE IT
i’d spend my year learning to roller skate!!!!
oh god it’s either violin or trumpet for me, something I’ve always been excitable about but which I know I’d be awful at, and so have never ever bothered with
honestly one thing I find very appealing and which I think I would enjoy even if I was obligated to only reference it obliquely for the rest of my life would be to spend a year carefully exploring every weird little museum, historical monument, and public park in the state of Massachusetts.
I have this vast research project I started in 2021 about assessing the passive thermal environments of traditional architecture in northern Africa and southwest Asia which I would love to get back to, but again, the *point* of that project is the writing and conversation it engenders.
Maybe I’d get a dog and spend a bunch of time training the dog to do prosocial things, like heel nicely?
I love cheese and cheesemaking and it is zero fun without a community.
I also feel like doing a fuck-ton of art practice such that I could emerge with much heightened skills the next year probably violates the spirit of the question and would also result in my nascent carpal tunnel erupting violently.
I am reposting this because I honestly don’t know and want to remind myself to think about it more.
the Holy Feline Croissant
WAFFLE
feeeeeeesh
HAPP BIRF
there is something inherently very funny about a tiny human doing tiny human things.
