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s-lutkitty: Queue~

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:35:32 -0400

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knowledgeequalsblackpower: oldenough2burmom: isthisableism: Wa...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:32:47 -0400

oldenough2burmom:

isthisableism:

Washington Post: Grand jury rejects criminal charges in death of Robert Saylor, man with Down syndrome

Robert Saylor, a 26-year-old man with Down syndrome, sat in a movie theatre after having watched a movie, acting as if he was going to sit through the movie again without buying another ticket.

That prompted three police officers to kill him.

Friday, a grand jury determined that no crime was committed, even though his death was ruled a homicide.

He was suffocated as three officers struggled to handcuff him and drag him out of the theater. A movie ticket probably costs $11.

The court system is corrupt.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 21:32:05 -0400

lizjamesbitch: I tell people this all the time. The scary...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:31:08 -0400

lizjamesbitch:

I tell people this all the time. The scary part?

There are lots who don’t believe me.

tastefullyoffensive: Congratulations, graduates.[jimbenton]

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:29:48 -0400

tastefullyoffensive:

Congratulations, graduates.

[jimbenton]

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Mon, 20 May 2013 21:08:51 -0400

allthingslinguistic: Morphological Typology (illustrations from...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:58:58 -0400

allthingslinguistic:

Morphological Typology (illustrations from SpecGram)

Descriptions adapted from The Lingua File:

Analytic languages: also known as isolating languages because they’re composed of isolated, or free, morphemes. Free morphemes can be words on their own, such as cat or happy. Languages that are purely analytic in structure don’t use any prefixes or suffixes, ever. However, it’s rare to find a language that is purely analytic or synthetic since most languages have characteristics of both. Morphological typology is like a spectrum in which languages fit in somewhere from analytic to polysynthetic (a subtype of synthetic languages we’ll get to in a moment).

Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese are good examples of analytic languages. […] English, on the other hand, is one of the most analytic Indo-European languages, but is still usually classified as a synthetic language. […]

Types of synthetic language (i.e. languages that have prefixes/suffixes):

Agglutinating Languages:With these languages, morphemes within words are usually clearly recognizable in a way that makes it easy to tell where the morpheme boundaries are. Their affixes usually only have a single meaning. Turkish,Korean, Hungarian, Japanese, and Finnish are all in this group.

Fusional Languages: Similar to agglutinating languages, except that the morpheme boundaries are much more difficult to discern. Affixes are often fused with the stems, and can have multiple meanings. A prime example of a fusional language is Spanish, especially when it comes to verbs. In the wordhablo ”I speak”, the -o morpheme tells us that we’re dealing with a subject that is singular, first person, and in the present tense. It’s difficult to find a morpheme that means “speak”, however, since habl- is not a morpheme. Fusional languages can be tricky!

Polysynthetic Languages: These languages are undoubtedly some of the most difficult to learn. They often have verbs that can express the entirety of a typical sentence in English, which they do by incorporating nouns into verbs forms. For example, the Sora language of India has one word that means “I will catch a tiger”. Many Native American languages are polysynthetic.

impsexual: Because telling fat people that they are in fact...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:58:01 -0400

impsexual:

Because telling fat people that they are in fact humans that deserve dignity and respect automatically means you’re ~*GLORIFYING OBESITY*~

By the way, don’t dribble on to me saying you worry about a fat person’s ‘health’. That’s just a bullshit excuse to voice your unwanted opinion on a fat person’s body considering you wouldn’t give a single flying fuckadoodle about someone’s health if they were skinny. Besides another person’s health is none of your damned business anyway. Run along now and preach to a choir that actually cares.

I’m going to be honest, so long as you’re not hurting anyone, you can eat soy sauce and milk duds all day long for all I care.

EDIT: Let me say that I don’t think skinny people don’t get shit either. I’ve seen a lot of people saying that they get a lot of comments on their size because they’re seen as being unhealthy, too. Sorry about my poor choice of words. It sucks when people tell you that you’re not allowed to feel a certain way because you look a certain way (ie: your thin privilege means your feelings never get hurt you don’t know what it’s like!!!)

turtandmamalivingfree: Little adventurers.

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:56:58 -0400

turtandmamalivingfree:

Little adventurers.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 20:56:46 -0400

Photo Slideshow: Poverty in Today’s America

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:54:31 -0400

Photo Slideshow: Poverty in Today’s America:

povertyinafirstworldnation:

America’s poor are, unfortunately, often out of sight and out of mind. In the tradition of groundbreaking photojournalists like Jacob Riis, Dorothea Lange

Seriously, go click through these. Read the captions. Sometimes, photographing poverty and homelessness feels like exploitation. This is not one of those times.

mothernaturenetwork: New psychiatric manual stirs...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:54:19 -0400

mothernaturenetwork:

New psychiatric manual stirs controversy

The DSM-5 is expanding the boundaries of psychiatry to encompass many whom some describes as the ‘worried well.’

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Mon, 20 May 2013 20:52:46 -0400

tanama: turtandmamalivingfree: Turt fashion. Too much...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:35:49 -0400

tanama:

turtandmamalivingfree:

Turt fashion.

Too much cuteness !

tanama: turtandmamalivingfree: Turt fashion. Too much...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:35:43 -0400

tanama:

turtandmamalivingfree:

Turt fashion.

Too much cuteness !

orangelemonart: yeezytaughtme: love yourself like kanye loves himself believe in yourself like...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:35:38 -0400

orangelemonart:

yeezytaughtme:

love yourself like kanye loves himself

believe in yourself like kanye believes in himself

know you’re the shit like kanye knows he’s the shit

This is actually really great because Kanye West has fought depression and suicide this sort of confidence worked for him and wow Kanye West. Anyone who is depressed, believe you are the Kanye Best.

zuky: thegoddamazon: hamdoullahcava: Muhammad Ali on the...

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:16:00 -0400

zuky:

thegoddamazon:

hamdoullahcava:

Muhammad Ali on the Vietnam War Draft

The fact that this is STILL relevant should be very telling.

Immortal words…

“If I’m gonna die, I’ll die right here fighting you … You my enemy, not the Viet Cong or Chinese or Japanese … You my opposer when I want freedom, you my opposer when I want justice, you my opposer when I want equality … You want me to go somewhere and fight, but you won’t even stand up for me here at home.”

Cumulative notes for the Zōon Politikon: fuckyeahcracker: native-detroiter: satanic2chainz: wearebecauseiam: I...

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:15:30 -0400

Cumulative notes for the Zōon Politikon: fuckyeahcracker: native-detroiter: satanic2chainz: wearebecauseiam: I...:

fuckyeahcracker:

native-detroiter:

satanic2chainz:

wearebecauseiam:

I just wanna say that if someone made a whitepeoplemeet.com and had tv commercials for it, we’d be called racist lol.

its called okcupid, march.com, etc. there are white people on black people…