It's a great photo. Fucking terrifying to think that there could have been a 300kt boom at the end of each of those pretty lines
dactylotheca
joined 1 year ago
Why are drill sergeants so angry anyhow?
That's one of the most American things I have heard in a while
Shit, true! I'll just edit that away and we can pretend it never happened. WHO CONTROLS THE PAST CONTROLS THE FUTURE
Can a bitch have some context, please
Just goes to show that cat memes have always been a thing.
Needs more compression artifacts though:
It's awesome that the Library of Congress page had TIFF files of the kitty
As a native speaker of a relatively small language (under 6 million speakers) in a very niche language family, I understand eg. Iceland's desire to "preserve" the language – languages are by definition communication tools, but they're also inextricably tied to the culture(s) that produced them (and vice versa), so while I absolutely do agree that fighting change is relatively pointless, I think it's understandable that speakers of minority languages try to protect them.
So yeah, even though I definitely am a descriptivist and know that linguistic evolution is just a fact of life, I just can't help being a bit sad about it at the same time when it comes to Finnish. Not that I'd want to somehow "freeze" it since that'd be silly and impossible, but at the same time I'd love to see eg. promotion of some of the features that are currently dying out (whatever the hell that'd mean in practice). The primacy of English in this age of global mass media has minority languages in a real bind.