He’s also a grandfather!

Linguistics majors unite! Did you ever do anything with it, if you don’t mind me asking? All I can seem to do is teach linguistics at the very few places that offer linguistics courses. I have no money, but hey, at least I know a lot of cool stuff!

Fun fact: my phonology textbook calls this phenomenon “creaky voice”. Such technical terminology!

Thank you so much for posting this. It is my favorite video in the universe and my husband and I quote it all the time and no one ever knows what we’re talking about.

So regular guacamole with corn chips. I love when restaurants add in “vegan” and “gluten free” to charge extra for normal food.

Yeah. Even though it all seems fabricated, that’s still a horrible message to send out to any viewers that may have been assaulted and are blaming themselves. Ugh. If he’s telling the truth, I hope he can get the help he needs.

THANK YOU. I fucking hate when people say that shit! “Happiness is a choice.” Why are there so many depressed people, then? “Just be happy”, you say? Gee, why didn’t I think of that? When people say that, I’m reminded of Charlie from It’s Always Sunny, just replace “jobs” with “happiness”:

FWIW, Ed Sheeran is one of her best friends.

Les Stroud (Survivorman) doesn’t bring any crew with him, so he is actually alone and needs to you know, survive, and I don’t think he even eats live animals. Fuck Bear Grylls.

Exactly! Also, some sociolinguistics studies have shown that there really isn’t much of a difference between the way the men and women speak. Well, there is, but it has less to do with gender and more to do with power. Those in positions of power speak a certain way that is different way (more assertive and direct)…

Hey, here’s a crazy idea: how about we stop fucking policing women’s language? Where are all the articles about all the words men use more than women (ETA: not directed at Tracy!)? Oh, there aren’t any because anything the majority of men say is automatically accepted as the standard.

I haven’t spoken to him since the last time he tried to “win me back”, so I don’t even know if he bounced! I hope he did though! haha

I’m really sorry to hear that’s happening to you. But the kind of people that do something like this (in committed relationships; casual hookups get a pass on this IMO) aren’t people you want to be in relationships with anyway. I know it sucks though, and I wish you all the best. I hope things work out for you.

Pretty much same here. I’m glad it ended. It was mindfuck going through it all, but we were horrible for each other, and I was too naive to realize it. The ghosting is what finally pushed me over the edge!

My (ex-, obviously)boyfriend of almost 6 years did this to me as a breakup method. After a few months I assumed the relationship was over, and he came crawling back as soon as I had a new guy. He was so delusional that he seriously thought I would take him back after all that. LOL NOPE.

I think both of you keeping your names and then your kids having the blended name is a good idea. Your kids will essentially be a blend of you+spouse, so why not have their names reflect it? :)

Kept my name, our future kids will be mylastname-hislastname. I’ve heard of other couples giving the mother’s last name to one kid and the father’s to the other if there’s more than one kid. Can you blend your names to create a new name, if you're don't hyphenate well?

I mean I get that getting married isn’t just about the wedding day it’s about the marriage but like. I thought it was sweet when people told me I’d make a beautiful bride, I don’t see what’s wrong with saying that. And I totally did make a beautiful bride. So there.

Not even a mention of the Harry Potter theme?!