jadejemdoesstuff

weirdrussians

It’s a pine fall day today in Russia.

officialtomselleck

Things just happen in Russia in a unique way that I’m not sure can ever be explained. Like how a fucking meteor landed in the middle of the Russian wilderness and resulted in the equivalent of a nuclear bomb going off but no one really even noticed.

zaku-too

russia requiring drivers to have dashcams for insurance purposes is literally the best law ever enacted bc we get to see shit like this

mclennonyaoi

i’m beginning to think some of you guys don’t actually like old man yaoi as much as you say you do.

the-gayest-dovah

prisonhannibal

what the fuck do you mean “overstimulated” I acted like that because I absorbed all the noises and stress and textures from the grocery store because I’m an empath

mclennonyaoi

learned the other day that people wrote fanfiction of those two. real. russian guys involved with the containment of chernobyl after the HBO miniseries came out in 2019. the dedication to old man yaoi is insane.

mclennonyaoi

congrats to the happy couple.

mclennonyaoi

have you read this before now ?

charlesoberonn

Isn't this how it's supposed to work? Initial supply sparks demand, so more supply is made to meet that demad.

insomniac-dot-ink

rosietwiggs

i was present a few months ago when my best friend found out that outlier isn’t pronounced “oot-lee-yay” and i haven’t been the same since

rosietwiggs

“average person thinks outlier pronounced oot-lee-yay” factoid actualy (sic) just statistical error. No person thinks outlier pronounced oot-lee-yay. French Canadian Georg, who has mispronounced word for 39 years, is an ootleeyay adn should not have been counted

yeomanrand

This phenomenon (not this *specific* instance, but in general) is *extremely* common in people who read a lot as kids and know a great many words but haven’t actually heard them said aloud.

“oot-lee-yay” makes perfect sense to me since your friend is French Canadian (not Georg). -ier is a common suffix and I’m sure they’re familiar with oubliette and other such words.

But very few people are willing to admit that they’ve been caught up by this, too, because it’s embarrassing and makes them feel foolish or unintelligent (they’re neither).

(I’m only not confessing to mine because my memory is shit and I cannot for the life of me remember what it was. But my father for years thought hors d’oeuvers was pronounced “Horse d’overs”. )

rubynye

*raises hand* I also thought that was the pronunciation, and that “ord-erves” was an entirely different concept. I loved reading about Percy-phone and when the God of the Underworld abducted her. And so on and so forth. A previous housemate was greatly entertained by my continuing mispronunciations.

derryderrydown

So many people I know originally read ‘misled’ as ‘myzled’. I still like ‘myzled’ as a word, although it has connotations of confused/befuddled to me, which ‘misled’ doesn’t.