who fucking litters. why do i ever see litter. who thinks that’s okay. who. who NEEDS to throw their fast food bag out the fucking window instead of waiting until they get somewhere with a trashcan. what kinda clown behavior. get fucked.
{ID – tweet from @/wylfcen reads, “A door blows open in your mind when you learn about the suffix -le, it explains so much. People used to add it to verbs to mean ‘more than once’ or continuously- so originally, to ramble is to ‘roam’ on, to jostle is to joust repeatedly, and to sparkle is to emit lots of sparks.”
The poster has included an image of a Wiktionary page, saying
-le 1. A frequentative suffix of verbs, indicating repetition or continuousness: crack ? crackle daze ? dazzle draw (“to drag”) ? drawl game ? gamble grope ? grapple hand ? handle nest ? nestle nose ? nuzzle prate (“to talk”) ? prattle scribe (“to write”) ? scribble sniff ? sniffle wrest (“to twist”) ? wrestle
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This made me curious about garble, which does not in fact mean to garb repeatedly. And it actually makes a really interesting journey!
It starts with classical Latin as cribrum (a sieve) and cribbelare (to sieve).
In the Arab world, cribbelare became ???????? ie garbala (to sift) which made its way across the Mediterranean into Medieval Latin, Catalan, and Italian, and from there to English. So originally in English “to garble” was to sift out impurities, especially in spices or other market goods, and you could buy certain things garbled or ungarbled (with garbled indicating higher quality).
It gained its most common current meaning (to confuse, mix up, or get something backwards) from the trash that was thrown away at the end of the garbling process, which became known as the garblings. So a word that meant to sift and purify came to indicate muddling and confusion.
“Ah,” you may find yourself thinking “If garblings were the trash at the end of the sifting process, that’s probably where the word garbage comes from!” But you would be wrong because garbage comes from Old French garber (to tidy up) which in turn comes from a completely separate Germanic root, garwijan (to prepare) rather than anything from Latin whether via Arabic or not. Garwijan, incidentally, is the source of both gear, in the sense of equipment, and garb in the sense of clothing. So only a garbled etymology would mix together garble and garbage.
If a girl feels uncomfortable hanging out with you alone, and you get so offended by that, it makes you angry, she probably made the right choice.
I know I’ve reblogged this recently but still so spot the fuck on.
In general if a dude gets angry by you declining an invitation you made the right choice to say no
If they get angry when you say “no” to hanging out with them, what else are they going to get angry about you saying “no” to?
^^ Slight side note:
When I was online dating I used to do what so many of us do; set up a safety check with a friend. I used to be really slick about it; take a restroom break or quietly/subtle check and answer a text. Then I realized what a good marker it was to check if I wanted to actually be on this date at all. So at whatever time check in was supposed to be, I would pull out my phone and say “sorry, I just have to let my friend know I’m good”. If someone was vaguely offended, I might stay depending on the convo we had after. If someone was SUPER offended, I said “this is exactly why. Thanks for meeting me, I’ve got to go.” This happened three times I can remember and the first time my voice was shaking so bad as I said it because, you know. You never know what their response is going to be and he was so aggressively angry I was ending the date “over that”.
The person I ended up with? “Ah, yay-I’m-not-murdered check. Good plan.” Then when my phone was buzzing later (because we ended up on a five hour date on a Monday night) he goes “you should probably let them know you’re still alive. Do you have to go?”
*No woman I was ever on a date with was mad about this. Not one.
This is just like testing the breaks before driving an unfamiliar car guys, and you do NOT drive a car with no breaks. If they can’t handle “no,” it’s not safe for you to say, “yes,” and you need to gtfo of there so you don’t get run over.
Also, OP I love your url, it is perfect for this post.
fallout faction that has a quasi-religious obsession with fighting communism and purging communism because that’s what the prewar propaganda says. communism is evil and anti-freedom and the destruction of civilisation and anti-human and tyrannical and evil. but you take like a closer look at their power structure and society and its deeply obvious that they’re literally massive communists
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