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I just need everyone to know that in a draft I just turned in, I referred to Ea-Nasir as the “Ur-Example of shady businessmen,” and I have never been prouder of a pun in my entire life.
magz:
File under: even more blatant proof cis people can joke about trans people without it being at their expense
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@/GianmarcoSoresi, that say,
“Ran into someone from my high school who told me they had recently transitioned and I was over the moon bc I had forgotten their name”
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TOP 5 LANGUAGES TO LEARN FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
- Proto-Tungusic
- Khitan
- Seward Peninsula Iñupiaq
- Mycenaean Greek
- Classical Nahuatl
Honorable mentions:
- Colorado River Numic
- Paleo-Sardinian
- Tashelhit
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More languages to learn:
- Old Church Slavonic
- Linear A
- Dacian
- Hunnish
- Knaanic
Really helpful in the Eastern Europe!!!
“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma
and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND
I didn’t know about zeugmas until just now! That is so awesome, everybody:
zeug·ma ˈzo͞oɡmə/noun
- a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).
ISN’T THAT AWESOME??
#in english class in high school my teacher had us write our own zeugmas in class#and one guy came up with ‘he fell from her favor… and the window’#i am forever looking for opportunities to use that one
She dropped her dress and inhibitions at the door.
What’s this? My favorite rhetorical device showing up on my dashboard?
IT HAS A NAMEEEE!! OH MY GOD!!!
I LOVE THIIIIIS!!!
One I’ve loved was “on their weekend trip they caught three fish and a cold”
I love these they’re like a pun and a metaphor wrapped up into one neat phrase
Oh my god… the cat can’t move because they have a human on