fiona আঁতেল
1.4K posts

fiona আঁতেল
@tramsgender
anaïs, bengali trans lesbian, 29, ling stuff at @tramslinguistic
Katılım Nisan 2013
965 Takip Edilen310 Takipçiler

omg in college i was very drunk and i mixed myself some ice + seltzer + rooh afza + gin and every other brown person was like "wtf are you doing" and every non-brown person was like "this is gross" and i... thought i was a fuckin genius
Jamal Jafri@JAJafri
The famous Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869), well known for his drinking habit, developed a taste for gin after coming across it on the journey from Benares to Calcutta in early 1828. "He preferred it mixed with rose water and chilled in a clay pot buried in the earth..." 1/6
English

@JLingPystynen fascinating! that makes sense and explains why i couldn't find it as a separate entry in suomen etymologinen sanakirja - thanks!
English

@tramsgender A similar construction btw is "paraskin + NP", a more passive-aggressive insult meaning ca. "wow you think you're good at being an NP?"
English

@JLingPystynen do you by chance know the etymology of the word "senkin"? (as in "senkin hölmö", "senkin idiootti", etc.) always seemed to be a curious word
English

@amazonmilkfrog i forgot about testosterone for a moment and was like, what language marks topicalization with /t/???
English

@cobbaltt @sifarchand but ig if we wanted to crib from bengali instead we could do "dukano ṭa ko" etc. etc.
English

@cobbaltt @sifarchand la larkoj ar la larkinoj la dukano ko gaĉĉhas
Lietuvių

@amazonmilkfrog i do find it funny that by road they toll you for leaving but not for entering
English


i'm trying to find fugazzeta in chicago and El Che has, uh, this? what do you mean strawberry.
cc @tramsgender

English

i love how this image looks perfectly plausible until you actually look at all the very distinctive buildings and how they are not remotely where they should be
Pretty Cities@PrettyCitiesX
Chicago, Illinois 🇺🇸
English

@amazonmilkfrog nah they were just really excited abt a female horse
English

why does england have a town called "weston-on-sea" (a perfectly normal english town name) but randomly translated into latin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston-su…
English

@amazonmilkfrog @barnfell @euios_of_nysa has anything become of this building btw? i moved out in 2017 but i remember rumours circulating that they were gonna do sth with it
English

@barnfell @euios_of_nysa the fuck were you doing in hyde park
English









