Falling Through the Dream

ununquadius

Learning a language that doesn’t use the same writing system as your native one is so fun because they change the font and you’re doomed

samayla

I had a penpal from Greece in high school. She had the neatest handwriting ever. She taught me a bunch of basic stuff, and it got to the point that we’d write our letters almost exclusively in Greek (a big deal, as this was before Google Translate was even a thing).

Cut to junior year of college. I took Classical Greek as part of my degree, and I was feeling like I had a leg up over my classmates, whose Greek handwriting looked like kindergarten chicken scratch, while mine was smooth and quick. I turned in my first assignment feeling pretty damn proud of myself.

About three assignments later, my professor pulled me aside with the goofiest look on his face…

“I appreciate the effort, but…”

You remember that phase I think all little girls go through in middle school/junior high? Where we have swirly tails on our G’s or our Y’s get all swoopy, or we dot all our I’s with little hearts?

Yeah…

Turns out, all the perfect little flourishes I’d been putting on my letters were not, in fact, part of the letters at all. My penpal had just still been in that phase when she taught me the alphabet!

bending-sickle

some examples of printed vs. handwritten, and handwritten variability

chinese:

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korean:

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russian:

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greek:

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languageoficeandfire

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2 years ago • 81,094 notes

spyroforlife

gonna post a controversial take alright are y’all ready??

actually typing out emoticons like XD and :D and :V never should have gone out of fashion and you can pry them out of my cold dead hands okay I know emojis are fun but THEY DON’T CAPTURE THE EMOTION IN THE SAME WAY

so like

…yeah that was basically it, thanks for reading

reynaruina

also websites that  automatically replace your typed out <3 and :D with emojis upon sending them are a Danger To Everything That’s Good In The World

cumaeansibyl

bring back nose smilies :-)

porcupine-girl

There is no emoji that captures what I mean by :P (I do NOT mean “hur hur goofy-ass face!”) and the one for :^/ is not great. And lest we forget, 🤷🏻‍♀️ is absolutely inadequate compared to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

tempest-caller

Faces no emoji has ever managed to capture, imo:

:P

^_^

:3

^u^

:/

O.o

0.0

>:/

<(^u^)>

batneko

I am too old to stop using XD

therev28

i have never yet found an emoji that fully captures the shifty energy of: 

>_>

<_<

spyderqueen

Oh man, I’ve missed O.o

Especially alternating to really capture how boggled you are.

O.o

o.O

O.o

charlottemadison42

Whatever the name of this team is, I am on it

eeveedatparty

this is   awesome

defective-replicant

._. is pretty good too and 😐 just ISN’T THE SAME

incubisexual

XD, ^-^, :3, <3, and =P until death

zetsubonna

¬_¬ is the most eloquent keystroke combo

booksandcatslover

U_U is my fav, and also O_O

thehornedwitch

the SHEER MISCHIEF of OvO

2 years ago • 163,835 notes