normal nonfluency
January 2012
Linguistics tidbit of the day.
Ya’aburnee (Arabic) – Both morbid and beautiful at once, this incantatory word means “You bury me,” a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them.
rofl ew arab adults don’t say this to each other. this is used by parents to say to their kids. and used by me to say to our cat.
i wonder who came up with italics like
lets give these words more of an impact
so lets make them kind of sideways
“After a long day, you just want to go home and shove the closest edible thing into your mouth and watch whatever is on Netflix instant. And on weekends, you try to psych yourself up to go out at night but then you realize you are just so damn tired and Netflix instant sounds awesome. And there’s all that driving and like, having to wear pants.”
—“TOP TEN SIGNS YOU’RE AN ADULT” by Almie Rose (via fuckyeahfunnychicks)
