Live and Love under Patooties' peculiar light
Supposedly because Spanish is based on Latin but then so are French, Italian, Romanian ad Portuguese, so why all these fuckers
aren’t also latinos is stupid and dumb. Also idiotic to a degree.
By all accounts it doesn’t make sense - .-
Ok you guys, we all know that Tumblr runs primarily in English
BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT A SIGNIFICANT PART OF TUMBLR USERS ARE NOT NATIVE SPEAKERS
Here’s the deal: my first language is Italian. I know plenty of people on this website whose first language is Italian. Nevertheless, when we’re interacting with each other on Tumblr, we speak English.
I am not objecting to this system, it’s actually good practice for some people, to be able to speak a second language extensively.
BUT I HAVE A PROPOSITION FOR YOU.
Why not have a “Speak Your Own Language Day” where all of us exclusively speak in our native language?
(No but apart from the small rebellion from the US-centric and generally Anglophone-centric environment we got here, think about trying to speak to people from other countries via excessive use of Google Translate it’ll be a blast)
Ok, since this post has finally reached 100 notes I think it’s a good time to give a date, and since no one else has advanced suggestions I’m gonna do it
I’m proposing Wednesday 7th May, so the post has a chance to do a couple more laps and more people get a chance to participate (French Friday sounded hilarious, but I don’t wanna wait until next friday and this friday seems a bit too soon).
How it’ll work:
- If you’re native language is something other than English, speak that!
- If you have multiple languages you can pick from the choice is yous friend, speak all, speak one, whatever’s best for you
- You’ll blog in your language all day: text posts, replies, tags (except triggers and organizational tags), the whole nine yards. Regardless of what language people choose to speak to you, you answer in your own.
- Midnight to midnight according to your own time zone
- English native speakers, if you wanna participate maybe you could practice a second language you’re learning
- If anyone makes fun of anyone else for their language (and I’m including English native speakers that might choose to speak a second language on the day) I’m gonna come for you (◕‿◕✿)
- The tag is gonna be #Speak Your Language Day if you wanna tag your posts with that!
This is actually such a good idea ^_^
Awesome :P I speak portuguese, spanish and english :D reblog this guys
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I had to. (If any of you speak spanish and know the correct way to say what that says please correct me)
Marco Diaz © Daron Nefcy
Art © Rawri-Tea
MARCO UBALDO DIAZ COMO TE ATREVES A COLGARLE A TU ABUELA?! MANCHAS EL APELLIDO DIAZ CON TUS GROSERIAS (I don’t know what the last swearings is trying to convey… a leperous donkey wtf?)
In Spanish, when you want to encourage someone not don’t give up, you tell that person: “Lechuga” which is the short pronunciation of “never give up” in Spanish.
This is truly meaningful and gorgeous.
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yall dont know the irony behind naming the group of the smartest kids in the US “MENSA”
Mensa Fact: The word mensa means “table” in Latin; similarly, mens means “mind” and mensis means “month.” The name “Mensa” is reminiscent of “mind, table, month,” which suggests a monthly meeting of great minds around a table.
um thats cool like no joke, but this wasnt that deep. mensa means idiot in spanish
It only means idiot because it means great mind, so it’s used sarcastically, Einstein.
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