when you see your little kitty walking toward you at a leisurely pace and say "hi baby!" bc you're excited to see her and she starts trotting a little bit faster 'cause she's excited to see you too. that's what life is all about i think
all around the world there are cats sleeping so happily with their owners
all around the world cats are being pet so gently. did you know?
my little kitty cat has started taking an inhaler
my guinea pig needed ointment a while back
*emerges from the other room covered in blood* you should see the word document
does it look like this
not to be sappy on main BUT one thing that i really loved when studying linguistics was that the more important a word is, the earlier the concept of this thing was given a word. for example, the word water is similar in many similar languages (aqua, agua, água). so, the more important a word is, the more languages it’ll be similar across and the older this word will be, theoretically and generally speaking (many other things also affect this)
AND SO in my years studying linguistics, there was one word that was nearly identical across so many regionally different languages (though there are outliers of course), from europe to most of asia to subsaharan africa to indigenous languages. across nearly all languages this is the first word people learn how to say and maybe the first word humans in general officially named and defined:
- mamãe - portuguese
- 妈妈 (māmā) - chinese
- ਮੰਮੀ (mamī) - punjabi
- mamah - mayan (yucatec)
- мама - bulgarian, russian, ukrainian
- ماں (mäm) - urdu
- মা (mā) - bengali
- mẹ (may) - vietnamese
- ママ (mama) - japanese
- అమ్మ (am'ma) - telugu
- mama - quechua
- મમ્મી (mam'mī) - gujarati
- അമ്മ (am'ma) - malayalam
- amá - navajo
- 엄마 (omma) - korean
- māmā - native hawaiian
- onam - uzbek
- aana - yupik
- mema - tagish
- μαμά (mamá) - greek
- mama - swahili
- أمي (umi) - arabic
- mayi - chichewa
- माँ (ma) - hindi
- mam - dutch
- ម៉ាក់ (ma) - khmer
- แม่ (mæ̀) - thai
- அம்மா (am'mā) - tamil
- අම්මා (ammā) - sinhala
- amai - zulu
- ama - basque
- आमा (āmā) - nepali
- အမေ (amay) - myanmar (burmese)
- אמא (ima) - hebrew
- mamá - spanish
- mom/mum- english
this isn’t actually the first word because we teach babies this word (most likely), but because the “mama” or “ama” sounds are the easiest things for babies to say, and it’s nearly always the only thing they can say at first, and adults across all languages defined their language around that.
babies all over the world for thousands and thousands of years all started out blabbering sounds like “mama” and mothers everywhere were all like Oh Shit That’s Me! I’m Mama!
i love the just show up skeleton post but every time i go to reblog it i see the comment referring to it as more positive than the just walk out skeleton post and i can't. i can't do it. just walk out skeleton post has been a source of tremendous liberation in my life. both skeleton posts are necessary. we live in a two skeleton world. many skeletons, even. can you tell i'm avoiding doing work
There are two skeletons inside you
Fuck. I'm an idiot. Of course there aren't. One of them just walked out.