May 2012
“To imagine a language is to imagine a whole form of social life.”
– Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory (via thingsiveunderlined)
“Sometimes I am out of touch; but go on.”
– Virginia Woolf, Diary Entry, 16 February 1930. (via violentwavesofemotion)
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“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”
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“For what is more delightful than leisure devoted to literature? That literature...”
– Cicero (via wwnorton)
North American English Dialect Survey →
chrisfox:
Here’s an awesome survey that some students are hosting to do a linguistic study on North American (United States and Canada) dialects. If you are American or Canadian, and you have a computer with a microphone, you should participate in this study, because it’s really nice, and they’ve already garnered a huge set of different people. The more people they have, the more comprehensive...
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HE IS SO FUCKING CUTE HE’S MY SECOND FAVOURITE OLD PERSON NEXT TO ROBERT DOWNEY JR WHO IS HE
He’s such a child! I love it!!
Sorry, what? He’s 45. Since when is 45 old?
Oh. Right. Tumblr.
I LOVE HIM SO~!!! XD You goofy!
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“Sometimes it scares me how I immerse myself in fiction, I feel like one day I’ll...”
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