[tinsnip]

English} Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

[froborr]

No, listen.

For this B-list series of mediocre JRPGs, they created a full conlang, Hymmnos, designed to be a distant descendant of English with a fascinating grammar of its own. (Like seriously, look at this shit.)

Then they created a programming language based on Hymmnos, and characters cast spells by singing code.

Significant chunks of the games’ soundtracks are thus epic, bizarre songs in Japanese, Hymmnos, and Hymmnos computer code. Usually all in the same song. And they’re amazing.

Like, I haven’t even bothered with the games since the first one, but HOLY SHIT THE SOUNDTRACKS.

[froborr]

(PS my favorite detail of Hymmnos is that the words for “language,” “emotion,” “song,” “speech,” “prayer,” “desire,” etc. are all visibly derived from the English word “hymn.”)

[anotherjadedwriter]

history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

[anotherjadedwriter]

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

[mojave-wasteland-official]

Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time. 

Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine. 

Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s. 

When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming. 

[the-porter-rockwell]

[greatnesscollective]

[catsallthewaydown]

Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe never met in person, actually, but they were aware of each other and Lincoln reportedly loved “The Raven.” Lincoln and Karl Marx also knew each other, at least distantly. They exchanged a few letters.

Anyway, looking at pages for individual years on Wikipedia is a really fun way to pass the time if you’re a history nerd, even if they tend to be a little western-centric. Here are a couple examples:

In 79 CE, the works of Confucius were canonized in China, the Roman Emperor Vespasian died, and Pompeii was destroyed in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

In 450, Attila the Hun was gathering an army to wreak havoc on eastern and southern Europe, the Angles, Jutes and Saxons were invading England, and Nalanda University was founded in India. Right around this time, Hawaii Loa, a Polynesian king, sailed from Tahiti to discover the Hawaiian islands, more than 2300 miles away.

In 1796, Napoleon Bonaparte took command of the Army of Italy and began his march through Europe, Edward Jenner tested the first vaccine for smallpox, Catherine the Great of Russia died, Jane Austen began writing “Pride and Prejudice,” and Robert Burns published his version of “Auld Lang Syne.”

[anotherjadedwriter]

history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

[anotherjadedwriter]

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

[mojave-wasteland-official]

Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time. 

Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine. 

Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s. 

When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming. 

[the-porter-rockwell]

[kingofreaks]

Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born in the same year.

First steam engine was the aeolipile described by Heron of Alexandria in 1st-century Roman Egypt.

Buddhism is 500 years older than Christianity, and Hinduism is 1500 years older than Buddhism.

The Basques were mounting full whaling expeditions from Newfoundland, the called Terranova or Grandbaya, in 1530.

And Thomas Edison was a dick just a reminder.

English} Class::EXSPHERE_NOSURGE;

Originally a Song Magic that was developed by Chimon as part of the means they intended to use for the implementation of their Save Bezel Project, it ended being Zill’s final invention and method to carry out her ultimate goals: forcing humanity to fuse in order to usher in a new era by creating the Overseer, a creature that had the power to Oversee the Seven Dimensions, making it even more powerful than EXA_PICO itself. However, it does this by ripping out the souls of everyone who listens to this Song, eliminates the walls separating the souls from each other by erasing their Qualia, and fuses them all into a single being. Additionally, listening to this Song produces severe discomfort, splitting headaches and loss of consciousness due to its soul-removing effects, and while some people are able to resist it better than others, ultimately those that listen to it for a few minutes will die. (x)

[anotherjadedwriter]

history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

[anotherjadedwriter]

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

[mojave-wasteland-official]

Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time. 

Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine. 

Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s. 

When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming. 

[the-porter-rockwell]

[charlesoberonn]

Harvard University didn’t teach calculus in its first few years after being established because calculus wasn’t invented yet.

[apocalyptic-mailman]

The Catholic Church, as an organization, has been concurrent with both Nero and the moon landings. The office of the papacy has been held in a direct line by 262 men between St. Peter and Apollo 11.

[buzzfeed]

21 People Who Forgot A Word And Just Made Some Shit Up

[mrkevinmchale]

im crying

[notalwaysluminous]

a friend of mine forgot the word “lamp” once and said “light faucet”

[teddylacroix]

I’m shaking from laughter. Yes, this is the right way to start a Friday morning.

[ravingliberal]

Listen guys, I have a BA in English and an MA in Professional Writing and I have:

Forgotten the word “gums” and called them “teeth cuticles”
Forgotten the term “liquor store” and called it a “rum-o-rama”
Forgotten the word “mohawk” and called it a “head mustache”

The list goes on and on. Wording is HARD. 

[osointricate]

You know that putty you put in holes before you paint a wall? I forgot the word “putty,” called it “hole-be-gone” instead, and now my whole family refers to it as hole-be-gone.

[the-true-space-fandom]

it’s hard to make the brain do the english, ok!?

[tosety]

I wish I had this skill.
When I lose a word, my brain derails. I use the term ‘derail’ because it is the mental equivalent of a train derailment (just easier to clean up)

[serinsnart]

At the staff meeting, my boss referred to the clipboard as “that snappy board”

[magistrate-of-mediocrity]

My 4-year-old nephew didn’t know the word “knuckle” so he told us his finger knee hurt.

[brinnanza]

I forgot the word “speech” once so I said “you wrote me an essay with your mouth”

[dandelionofthanatos]

Dad once temporarily had the term “auto body filler” leave his brain; the Canadian Tire worker had her whole day made when he cheerfully said, “I’m here to procure some…car-spackle!”

[ladyyatexel]

I told someone who called my office for directions that we were just up the street from the “place where they do the sports”. There was a really long awkward pause before they asked, “… the stadium?”

[anotherjadedwriter]

history fucked me up

oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built

[anotherjadedwriter]

I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar

[mojave-wasteland-official]

Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time. 

Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine. 

Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s. 

When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming. 

[the-porter-rockwell]

[minervafloofderg]

Vikings and Inuits discovered Greenland at around the same time.

[bromar]

*goes to england*

me: excuse me, what time is it?

brit: time wots that m8?

*big ben chimes*

everyone starts to count the bongs on their fingers*

brit: OI IT’S 7 BONG

[mecha-marcy]

Alternatively Scotland.

*deafening explosion*

Oh it’s 1 o'clock.

[punkrorschach]

The what now

[the-scottish-costume-guy]

The 1 o clock gun. 

At one in the afternoon they fire the one o clock gun at edinburgh castle. I think they miss out sundays and xmas.

I always forget about it cause you cant hear it from within my building, but if I happen to be out when it goes off it always without fail makes me jump. 

[punkrorschach]

Hey quick question, Scotland

What the fuck

[ayeforscotland]

Banter, mate.

[scotfra]

i like the deafening explosion of being reminded that its 1 o'clock

[archaeo-geek]

Wow that would throw me off because in Halifax, Canada, we’ve got the noon gun. It’s great for knowing when to take your lunch break.

(Also somebody has a twitter for it and it’s hilarious.)

noxfoxarts asked:

Are you responsible for the word "prUt" I see in fanfics? And do you know that "prut" means "fart" in Swedish? My Swedish lovemate has explicitly banned me from mentioning this word due to the ...mental pictures it triggers.

cardassianlanguage answered:

Oh my god.

@tinsnip?

It looks like you REALLY did a thing. /dying laughing

[tinsnip]

I AM A HERO AMONG MORTALS