I got a productivity prize for being awesome at work. Wooo
The Kickstarter for the first Vattu book has launched!
21 days! I would appreciate your help in getting the word out!
I already preordered, so I beat you to it. But you can still be second best……
I was #3! Can’t wait to read this in print. :D
Reblob to remind myself
Follow this blog, Josh.
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Coolant is dripping out of my car yaaaay
I just got out of Epic and yall need to go see it. It is not complicated but it’s great and Beyonce is literally the queen and anyway, it’s fun as hell and the main character is a young girl who kicks ass and you should give it your money.
a few nights ago we were lying in bed and i had JUST fallen asleep and all of a sudden Josh whispers: “Grace”
and i wake up and i’m like FUCK WHAT’S WRONG DID I KNEE HIM IN THE CROTCH AM I DROOLING
so obviously i respond with an eloquent “kdwnckndcl”
“go to sleep”
and this is the story of why i murdered Josh
"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you."
— Buddhist Saying (via thepaperslip)
(Source: thelenaubr, via venea)
i made two ridiculous posts which are now gone because i figured out that the reason i was having such a hard time communicating is because i am having about a million different little petit mal things going on and so i shouldn’t try to talk about racism until my temporal lobe stops being a dickface
meanwhile, this post took a lot of effort to write so now i am going to go to bed and hopefully be fine later good night
"Janice Jackson, another team member who is also working on a Ph.D. in communication disorders, conducted an experiment using pictures of Sesame Street characters to test children’s comprehension of the “habitual be” construction. She showed the kids a picture in which Cookie Monster is sick in bed with no cookies while Elmo stands nearby eating cookies. When she asked, “Who be eating cookies?” white kids tended to point to Elmo while black kids chose Cookie Monster. “But,” Jackson relates, “when I asked, ‘Who is eating cookies?’ the black kids understood that it was Elmo and that it was not the same. That was an important piece of information.” Because those children had grown up with a language whose verb forms differentiate habitual action from currently occuring action (Gaelic also features such a distinction, in addition to a number of West African languages), they were able even at the age of five or six to distinguish between the two."
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But black Children are spose to be stupid… (via howtobeterrell)
aaaaaaaaaah cool
ETA: AAVE is a 100% valid dialect, everyone, just in case you didn’t know. There is no such thing as “talking right.”
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THE HABITUAL BE IN AAVE IS REALLY COOL and i really love this study it’s great
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