I Crave For Your Attention Still Im Trying To Make You See My Faults

reading in head: i'm practically a master of linguistics my pronunciations are perfect beyond compare

reading aloud: *chokes on spit*

Source.

you made my day for reasons i dont understand

App Recommendation: Hemingway Editor

Hello guys!

I have another App Recommendation: The Hemingway Editor. 

This is a web app that helps you with the structure of your text. I used it for my paper on police brutality but you can also use it for fictional texts etc.

The features of the app can help you structure your text by highlighting:

sentences that are very / hard to read

phrases which have simpler alternatives

adverbs

passive voice

Using short and simple sentences helped me with structuring and creating a clearer course of my arguments. 

I hope this helps you guys.

Happy Writing!

“Let’s face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn’t a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.”

— (via be-killed)

gotta save myself before i fall from this tower of hopes

The main reason I love University Challenge is that it gives the lie to the media stereotype about young people – that they all know nothing, and couldn’t care less. It’s complete rubbish. Every year we see more and more teams of young people who know amazing things, and you’re just left wondering in pleasurable disbelief, “How on earth did they get that?”

Jeremy Paxman (via thecryingofblog49)

and dare i decide that your laugh is forevermore a companion to my ears

I grew up as a “gifted” kid and exceeded in every subject. Now, when I’m stuck on something, I have no idea how to study because I never learned when I was younger. I never developed study habits either and this screwed me up so much in high school and college.