July 2010
Does Language Influence Culture? →
capucha:
lifeisacupcake:
dalasverdugo:
dihard:
Pretty interesting article in the WSJ today. Basically says that language profoundly influences how we see the world. Some examples:
Russian speakers who have more words for light and dark blues are better able to visually discriminate shades of blue.
An aboriginal community in Australia doesn’t use terms like “left” and “right”, and instead...
“I wrote this down the other night. The opposite of love is not hate. It’s not....”
– John Mayer, Madison Square Garden, February 26, 2010. (via fuckyeahjohnmayer)
sexmusic:
i want you // kings of leon
...
Stargirl
wearebasiclight:
forestgraves:
frogsandcrowns:
ragsandtatters:
pinpricks:
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.
Jerry Spinelli
honestly...
French words with no English translation
wearebasiclight:
comeanddance:
twenty-seven:
sineadmarguerite:roflcakess:iamjustjess:
Dépaysement: The sensation of being in another country.
La douleur exquise: The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have. Even a Sex in the City episode was named after it!
Chômer: To be unemployed, but because it’s a verb, it makes the state active.
Profiter: To make the most of or...
“It is always sad when two people have been thinking the same thing at the same...”
– M. J. Hyland, How the Light Gets In (via wearebasiclight)
wearebasiclight:
Help I’m Alive // Metric
vermont
i’m going to vermonty tomorrow. my family in rhode island, who i am currently staying with has a home in stowe. i happen to love vermont and everything about it. this is why:
numba one- there are rolling mountanish hills covered in huge green trees. everywhere.
numba two- in between these mountainish hills, there are sparkling crystal rivers.
numba three- their house is everthing a house...
An ostrich’s eye is the same size as its brain.
ohyeahfacts:
(via)
MINE TOO.
Oh, please, tell me Elizabeth, how exactly does...
(via notfallingapart)
well you see….
(p.s. my real name is elizabeth) (couldn’t resist)
Joss Stone- Fell In Love With a Boy
this...
i must be fine
because my hearts still beating.
Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini,...
ohyeahfacts:
because dey crazy.
