The thing that really gets me is that a very large proportion (the majority?) of currently living, endangered indigenous American languages, at least in the US and Canada America, became endangered as a result of twentieth century policy and twentieth century developments. Residential schools, forced adoptions, and economic sabotage within the last century. And of course this is the case: languages that were already endangered 100 years ago are just dead now. But the point is that these historical wrongs are not wrongs of some distant past. The people fighting for the survival of their language here are not merely daydreaming about an imagined prelapsarian past. The are fighting for something that (depending on age) they or their parents personally experienced being robbed of. Tanadrin pointed out that the more time goes on, the harder historical wrongs are to right. This is the sort of historical wrong which is often in memory close enough that meaningful mitigation is possible.
91% of adulterers stop before they find the one mistress who will bring back their zest for life. KEEP CHEATING!!!!!!!!
i really try to distinguish between being annoyed by semantic shifts in a pointless prescriptive way and being annoyed by semantic shifts because they make language less useful but whatever is happening to the word gentrification it's the latter
im never arguing with a butch. whatever you say pretty boy
rubyklaasje has it all. political espionage. messy situationship. what you do for a lover. acting like it meant nothing. lying to cops. nerd woman. caves. weaponizing the end of the world against cops. betrayal. dyeing your hair after a shit breakup. truckers. what cant they do
it’s crazy the route and semantic drift that 808 has undergone to what it means today
in fact there IS a good grade in therapy that is (always) normal to want and (sometimes) possible to achieve in part through being labelled "insightful" and "self-aware" and it is to avoid being stripped of your autonomy and forcibly medicated + incarcerated. but of course the people treating this as laughably irrational - who think of therapy, in essence, as two people voluntarily talking in a room - are often the ones for whom this risk is the lowest
this international women's day, ask yourself: are you willing to love women at any cost?