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happy is for birthdays

it came from a 'word reference forum' (no idea how i found myself there...) where they were arguing whether it was acceptable to reply with one if someone greeted you with the other... they also argued over whether you were allowed to use the word "too" if you used "merry" after they had used "happy" (or vice versa) because since merry and happy are different, the "too" doesn't apply

i hadn't thought about it being in relation to a second language and i don't remember them talking about it like that... but it could have been

it just reminded me of the conversations my old flatmate would have... like, semantics taken to level 10+

yeah, WordReference is a (mostly really helpful) forum/collaborative dictionary (I'll have like 8 tabs of it up when reading something in Spanish). (I found —the OP has a little note in their post that says their first language is Korean.) it's especially good bc it has a lot of content related to collocations, which is something most standard dictionaries don't touch on. the merry/happy thing is a collocation—there's no syntactic or semantic rule that could predict which would go with which holiday, it's just something that English speakers intuit due to use and exposure. (most prepositions are collocational in most languages too—e.g. why do we (er, American English speakers at least—I can't speak to Scottish intuitions) say "ride on a bus" and "ride on a motorcycle" but "ride in a car"?)

*more boring linguistic speculation ahead*

Plucking your eyebrows is really satisfying

Is it weird to trim underarm hair?

Does anyone else only get acne in the exact same locations on the face every time?

Asian glow sucks. Single bottle of cider makes me feel (uncomfortably) warm and slightly light-headed.

omg i'm so sorry everyone i didn't mean to make light of people learning a new language :((((

i'm not like that!!!!

*learns a lesson*

The worst part about jet lag is the existential dread.

"bundled into police van" lmao

will mcdonald's ever serve breakfast all day?! i have a bogo any breakfast sandwich i could be having 2 mcgriddles rn but it's 11:55 : (

Lol

http://deadline.com/2014/12/sony-scraps ... 201328639/

Sony scrapped the movie about killing Kim Jung Un

I feel like they should have anticipated something like this happening. Poor decisions all around. It seemed in poor taste anyways, people definitely wouldn't be okay with a comedy about Hitler or Pol Pot, but for some reason it's okay to make a comedy about Kim Jung Un. It's not like there isn't mass starvation, forced labor camps and various other gross human rights violations that are and have been occurring in NK.

i can get 1134 pizza rolls for free

should i

Bad News, I'm using the $ that I have on a gift card for paper towels and cookies.

Rain is seriously so fucking great.

Airport scanner beeped me but I've no idea if it was random or due to my metal insides

TAX RETURN TIME WOOOO

I just noticed Perd Hapley from Parks and Rec is the news caster in Fast Five

Some jorts from traveling:

- The toilet seat in my parents' house is much lower than the one where I live, so whenever I sit down, there's a terrifying moment where I fear that I've fallen into the toilet somehow.

- For all you math/physics/CS nerds, (about quantum computational complexity, but mostly about whatever else he wants to talk about) is really good. I read about half of it on the flight (skipping some of the proofs), and my brain felt tired afterward.

- I flipped through some old (ca. 2008) J. Crew catalogs today. Lots of ruffled tops, belts, huge necklaces, etc. everywhere.

wut

more:

http://www.amazon.com/Jax-8018-Sequence ... 004S53KSM/

http://www.amazon.com/Apples-Junior-Plu ... 0011PZ2DI/

Is vomiting on your CPs a deadly sin or ultimate wabi-sabi?

i was standing in the shower just thinking about how much time i spend in the shower just standing there and thinking about things

jorts about jorts

what kind of tunes you think obama's got on these days?????

juicy j

10char

what about preffered breakfast? I'm sure he's into probiotics- kefir, yogurt, kombucha, etc. right? he's gotta be???

sorry im high