That post about Edward from twilight is going to singlehandedly change the definition of “effervescent.” In like 3 decades there’ll be a note on the etymology of the secondary definition and it’ll have to cite that snail post as the origin of the linguistic shift
What’s it supposed to mean now?
Effervescent’s primary definition is a chemistry term referring to air escaping from liquid in foam, bubbles, or fizziness and the etymology connects back to the Latin verb fervere (to boil). There is already a secondary definition, which I’m guessing is what the OP of that post was using, meaning like “a bubbly personality” or vivacious, enthusiastic, etc. The idea of the post is that his character would look at something small, slow, quiet, (boring) like a snail and just interpret it as this lively wonderful being– which tracks with the common understanding of Bella as a character lacking much personality or liveliness and Edward finding her to be the same way. But, with the post being meme’d, the connotation is shifting from a sort of descriptor of bubbly personality to the idea of finding something incredible or awe inspiring (with a layer of irony added in that it’s something not usually regarded as incredible or awe inspiring). The usage and thus the definition is gradually shifting in a similar direction to “fantastic” or “awesome” where the original usage has taken a back seat to a much more common usage of hyperbole.
I collected a bunch of “haha I don’t have 2020 vision” “oh God not like that” posts
I wouldn’t mind a sequel to this post 🤣
I have kept coming back to this post to see the reblogs, so I can give you the ones other people collected all in one place:
This one I actually found myself!
And I don’t think that this counts, but it still has the beautiful “Ah, fuck” vibes the rest of the post does:
And let’s not forget the cursed “Supernatural GIF Perfectly Describes 2020″ one:
@ferrousferrule: You said you were looking for more and going through the reblogs, right? In which case this isn’t going to be of much use to you, but still. Just in case it is. :)
YEA. i had a relationship with someone and she dropped the “te amo” super quicky and i was like…………”thats ok, thank you, but im gonna be honest w you….i’m not saying te amo until i really feel it” thats how serious it is.
te amo IS very serious, very deep, very intimate. when you want to tell someone that you love them without it being massive, the term you want is te quiero
cant believe no one had contributed this
Same for German imho?!??? Ich liebe dich is THE confession. You don’t drop it in a joking way.
It might just be me, but I wouldn’t randomly pepper Я люблю тебя into conversation either. It feels… too much.
Maybe it is the English one that is weird
I tell my close friends “I love you” all the time. I think It’s different if I were to say “I’m in love with you”.
In these non-English languages, do parents not tell their children “I love you?” Or is it only romantic?
Oh, I’m monolingual but I know a bit about this one! :D
So, in a lot of languages, there are multiple verbs that mean, “to love,” which are each situational, while, in English, we derive the meaning through context
Like, “Te quiero,” refers to love for friends and family, aka platonic love, while , “Te amo,” or, “Ai shiteru,” in Japanese, is so achingly tender and romantic that you might as well write the other person a receipt for your heart, because it’s theirs now
At some point, English did have multiple verbs for, “to love,” but eventually English speakers decided, “to hell with it, I only want 1 broad term for these big mushy feelings,” because we hate having multiple words for things almost as much as we hate punctuation
TL;DR: cultures that are non-English speaking do tell their kids they love them, they just have multiple words that mean, “To love,” and English is the odd man out because it got tired of that and went
Edit: covering my ass now bc people seem to be reblogging this a lot, but I 1.) admittedly know only a little bit about a small handful of other languages and 2.) know English also has a ton of highly specific words we’ve made ourselves or stolen from other languages but, on top of being emotionally stunted bastards, we also take a firing squad to quite a few words whenever we get too confused by the perceived “excess,” even if they’re still useful (example: people using, “empathy,” instead of, “compassion,” and how we’re having to push back so that folks don’t kill that very useful word.)
One of my least favorite mental illness things is “hungry but dont feel like eating” and its companions “hungry but all the food in the house is Illegal,” “hungry but can’t make anything,” and “hungry, want to eat, but why bother”
Also the adhd friend “hungry but unaware of hunger because current activity is too captivating”
“Hungry but I’ll get to it later”
“Definite not hungry, nope, but upon forcing oneself to eat something, discovering that the food vanished in 30 seconds and the pervasive feelings of ickiness all vanished, what the fuck"
Hungry but only for one specific food. I do not know what that food is but i do know i don’t have it in the house
i love the feeling when someone asks me about one of my hyperfixations and it summons all my thoughts at once like my brain is a discord server that just got hit with an @everyone
Farmland plains meet the Nebraska Sand Hills just north of Lexington, Nebraska. This unique region, which covers roughly 20,000 square miles (51,000 square km), contains mixed-grass prairies and grass-stabilized sand dunes. Average elevation here gradually increases from 1,800 feet (550 m) in the east to nearly 3,600 feet (1,100 m) in the west, as the sand hills approach the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
