European accents (and in general white people accents) are commonly perceived as attractive and endearing, while accents from basically any other part of the world are considered to be signs of laziness and disrespect and get routinely made fun of.
My whole family is Korean. My sister and I have grown up in the US so we can pretty much speak English. However, our parents speak very broken English. It makes me mad though because my mother has taken ESL classes at our local university and my father graduated from the University of Washington with a PhD in mechanical engineering, yet I constantly see them being made fun of by their coworkers or other people in general because “they’re too lazy to try to understand English.” My mom has spent countless nights crying whilst taking her classes because of the stress wishing she could speak half as fluently as I can. If you don’t know what it’s like trying to learn English as a second language, then you have no room to talk.
NEVER MAKE FUN OF SOMEONE WHO SPEAKS BROKEN ENGLISH. IT MEANS THEY SPEAK ONE MORE LANGUAGE THAN YOU DO.
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fun fact: the reason that the plural of goose is geese but the plural of moose is not meese is because goose derives from an ancient germanic word undergoing strong declension, in the pattern of foot/feet and tooth/teeth, wherein oo is mutated to ee. however ‘moose’ is a native american word added to the english lexicon only ~400 years ago, and lacks the etymological reason to be pluralized in that way.
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I found this in one of my old notebooks.
Guys I used to be so bad…
I used to be bad too
being friendly with a boy you aren’t romantically/physically attracted to and him developing feelings for you isn’t your fault, nor does it mean you were “leading him on”. you are under no obligation to date him.
Even if he gets really mad about it. Remember that it’s his problem that he caught feelings. Not your problem.
Also, if someone is only being nice so you would get in a relationship with them, they are not a nice person.
You are not obligated to be with them for being nice.
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i wonder if actors ever get their scripts and are like
well this is fucking stupid
is this a reaction or an example
yes
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Remember those pens from the 90s that let you draw in like 10 different colours? This pen can draw in up to 16 million!
Using a small scanner, Scribble will translate colours from real life to paper or to an app that allows you to organize and share your colours. Um, we’ll take two, please. Doodles: forever changed.More + Kickstarter info here: http://bit.ly/1hLTE3u
OH MY GOD ITS THAT PEN THAT EVERYONE SHIPPED WITH THE RAINBOW BOOK AND THEN THE POST TURNED INTO DHMIS THINGS WITH THE DEMENTED NOTEBOOK AND FOXY CLOCK THAT WE SHIPPED AND IT WAS RAD PLEASE HELP FUND THIS
