the mighty jane

22. linguist in training, also coincidentally language nerd (but not by profession). ❒ single ❒ taken ✔ my cat. BLOG CONTAINS: really gratuitous amounts of late Victorian and Edwardian fashion, technology, and everyday stuff (tagged for your savioring pleasure!) | a crap ton of homestuck right now (also always tagged) | snakes | tea | disney | steampunk | language, linguistics, and words | rain, thunderstorms, oceans | Japanese language, culture, and food | superheroes (mostly 1960s marvel and cinematic marvel but also adam west batman) | mythology | cats | harry potter | bees

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  1. jirasol: it’s called AAVE, you FUCKTRUCK I hate how people here think that “proper general English” is the only way to speak English and all the others are considered “idiocy” like if language has anything to do with intelligence. I’m not even from the U.S. and I know this better than most of you. Below is a list of all English dialects in North America: American English - Standard American English is the general form Cultural African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) Chicano English New York Latino English Pennsylvania Dutch English Yeshivish Yinglish Regional New England English Boston accent Boston Brahmin accent Hudson Valley English Lake Dialect or Lake Talk Vermont English Inland Northern American English (includes western and central upstate New York) Northeast Pennsylvania English Mid-Atlantic dialects Baltimore dialect Philadelphia dialect Pittsburgh English New York dialect New Jersey English dialects Inland Northern American English (Lower peninsula of Michigan, northern Ohio and Indiana, Chicago, part of eastern Wisconsin and upstate New York) North–Central American English (primarily Minnesota, but also most of Wisconsin, the Upper peninsula of Michigan, and parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa) Yooper dialect (Upper Peninsula of Michigan and some neighboring areas) Midland American English North Midlands English (thin swath from Nebraska to Ohio) St. Louis South Midland (thin swath from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania) Southern English Appalachian English Tidewater accent Virginia Piedmont Virginia TidewaterCoastal Southeastern (Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia area) Cajun English Harkers Island English (North Carolina) Ozark English Southern Highland English Gullah or Geechee Texan Yat dialect (New Orleans) Ocracoke Western English California English Boontling Pacific Northwest English Hawaiian Pidgin

    jirasol:

    it’s called AAVE, you FUCKTRUCK

    I hate how people here think that “proper general English” is the only way to speak English and all the others are considered “idiocy” like if language has anything to do with intelligence. I’m not even from the U.S. and I know this better than most of you.

    Below is a list of all English dialects in North America:

    American English - Standard American English is the general form

     
     

  2. the-fandoms-are-cool:

    daisyfairy:

    twowandsandadrink:

    daisyfairy:

    you learnt the word “miscellaneous” from the sims and don’t even lie

    No, I learned how to spell it from the same place I learned how to spell learned;

    English class.

    GET OFF YOUR HIGH FUCKING EMBOLDENED AND ITALICIZED HORSE LEARNT IS FUCKING BRITISH ENGLISH

    the best arguments start with “GET OFF YOUR HIGH FUCKING EMBOLDENED AND ITALICIZED HORSE”

    god bless the brits

     
     
  3. tehriz: atomic-comic: weareallhangmen: How to actually pronounce GIF I know you’re gonna do whatever the fuck you want with words, but  SUCK IT I WAS RIGHT I’VE BEEN TELLING YOU ALL THIS FOR YEARS NO FUCK YOU YOU CAN’T TAKE MY HARD G GIFS FROM ME

    tehriz:

    atomic-comic:

    weareallhangmen:

    How to actually pronounce GIF

    I know you’re gonna do whatever the fuck you want with words, but 

    SUCK IT

    I WAS RIGHT

    I’VE BEEN TELLING YOU ALL THIS FOR YEARS

    NO FUCK YOU YOU CAN’T TAKE MY HARD G GIFS FROM ME

     
     

  4. tumblr user totalspiffage: brophertink: Maternal Unit:kagesora: drtanner-sfw: crowleyaziraphale:...

    brophertink:

    Maternal Unit:

    kagesora:

    drtanner-sfw:

    crowleyaziraphale:

    edgebug:

    turnabout-taisa:

    my-singing-soul:

    why is it that all the most popular posts on tumblr

    are written like this

    with no capitals

    and no punctuation

    i just really…

    OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OTHER PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THIS TOO

    i have been seriously considering doing a study on the concept of website- and internet social circle-specific typing styles as valid forms of dialect

    all of you come here and let me love you

     
     
  5. lingllama: [An image of a pushpin piercing a ballpoint pen. Text: “PIN-PEN MERGER: UR DOIN IT RITE”]

    lingllama:

    [An image of a pushpin piercing a ballpoint pen. Text: “PIN-PEN MERGER: UR DOIN IT RITE”]

     
     
  6. oh my god i laughed

    oh my god i laughed

    (Source: breannarenee)