Marguerite Bennett's Blog, page 222
October 11, 2016
the-disney-elite:
Glen Keane’s character studies and model...
Glen Keane’s character studies and model sheets for Beast from Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991).
homovikings:
simmers angrily why are people so much more critical of female characters than male...
simmers angrily why are people so much more critical of female characters than male characters
October 10, 2016
"[There is a] general principle of internet language these days that the more overwhelmed with..."
[There is a] general principle of internet language these days that the more overwhelmed with emotions you are, the less sensical your sentence structure gets, which I’ve described elsewhere as “stylized verbal incoherence mirroring emotional incoherence” and which leads us to expressions like “feels,” “I can’t even/I’ve lost the ability to can,” and “because reasons.”
Contrast this with first-generation internet language, demonstrated by LOLcat or 1337speak, and in general characterized by abbreviations containing numbers and single letters, often in caps (C U L8R), smilies containing noses, and words containing deliberate misspellings.
We’ve now moved on: broadly speaking, second-generation internet language plays with grammar instead of spelling. If you’re a doomsayer, the innovative syntax is one more thing to throw up your hands about, but compared to a decade or two ago, the spelling has gotten shockingly conventional.
In this sense, doge really is the next generation of LOLcat, in terms of a pet-based snapshot of a certain era in internet language. We’ve kept the idea that animals speak like an exaggerated version of an internet-savvy human, but as our definitions of what it means to be a human on the internet have changed, so too have the voices that we give our animals. Wow.
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A Linguist Explains the Grammar of Doge. Wow.
This is my favourite part, if I do say so myself. See also the summary doge macro.
(via allthingslinguistic)
bitcorn:
just saw a guy wearing a nirvana t-shirt lmfao i bet cant even name three noble truths of...
just saw a guy wearing a nirvana t-shirt lmfao i bet cant even name three noble truths of buddhism
assbutt-in-the-garrison:
hatewizard:
“THEY WERE JUST TEENAGERS” idk man I was a crazy, stupid,...
“THEY WERE JUST TEENAGERS” idk man I was a crazy, stupid, reckless, and unstable teenager but not once did I ever get the urge to kidnap, drug, and rape someone
AFUCKINGMEN
bambali:
174 GRAND, BROOKLYN NEW YORK
The green roof has...
174 GRAND, BROOKLYN NEW YORK
The green roof has approximately eight inches of soil and absorbs rainwater runoff. (via Peek Inside 8 Of The World’s Greenest Homes )
cyberqueer:
You still wake up sometimes, don’t you? You wake up...
You still wake up sometimes, don’t you? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.
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