this… can’t be true right?
1984 McDonald's Pumpkin Pie packaging
(via: worthpoint)
Different strokes for different folks of course but I absolutely cannot fathom hitting the “Skip Intro” button when watching shows. You sit there and watch the opening in its entirety and you like it
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
- eme - 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)
- 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!
so across human cultures, a lot of languages have “mama” (or similar) as the work for mothers, and “papa” or “baba” for fathers.
Turns out these are some of the easiest consonants and vowels for babies to say. Stick your thumb in your mouth and try to say “baba” and you will be more likely to end up saying “mama.” Take your thumb out and you can say “baba” or “papa.” /m/, /b/, and /p/ are all bilabial sounds and very easy to pronounce.
When babies nurse, they say “mamamama,” and when they aren’t nursing, they usually say “bababa” or “papapa” so of course our ancestors were like “oh, that’s me!” when they were the ones holding the babies at the time that they babbled - if the nursing parent was holding them while nursing and they were babbling it came out “mama” and if the non-nursing parent was holding them, “papa” or maybe “ba.”
(and interestingly, many cultures have “nana” as a word for grandmother. ALSO a nasal, though not bilabial and also easy to say if nursing! Grandmothers may have nursed additional generations in our ancestors, after all)
Our very own Tumblr CEO, @david is Metal Gear Solid’s Big Boss this Halloween. Yup, our Big Boss is better than your Big Boss!
go to hell david
Metal Gear is ruined
i threw up in my mouth
Fuck off Karp!! You fuckin
idk what y’all nerds are talking about but i’d let him piss in my asshole
date of origin: 30th of october, 2015.
Out of curiosity rb and put in the tags how many fics come up when you type your last name into ao3. Apparently even though my last name is uncommon there's like 500