allthingslinguistic:

gottafeelinginmybones:

foreignerongermansoil:

Excerpt from Kató Lomb’s “Polyglot: How I Learn Languages”

!!!!!!!!!!

We should learn languages because languages is the only thing worth knowing even poorly. 

If someone knows how to play the violin only a little, he will find that the painful minutes he causes are not in proportion to the possible joy he gains from his playing. The amateur chemist spares himself ridicule only as long as he doesn’t aspire for professional laurels. The man somewhat skilled in medicine will not go far, and if he tries to trade on his knowledge without certification, he will be locked up as a quack doctor. 

Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken Italian which train we are supposed to board at the Venice railway station is far from useless. Indeed, it is better to do that than to remain uncertain and silent and end up back in Budapest rather than in Milan. 

dark-haired-hamlet:

clickholeofficial:

Do you have what it takes? Are you the kind of hero who can singlehandedly sin enough to turn Boston into the new Sodom, just like the Prophecies And Recipes section of the United States Constitution predicted would happen one day?

It’s time to get started! Go to Boston and start fucking and killing everything until the Lord destroys the city.

#i have no words. this is absolute genius. #the sheer amount of EFFORT this sort of world building must have taken #the attention to detail; the absurdism that somehow still makes sense #it’s like—it’s like if a @dril post were expanded and turned into a giant choose-your-own adventure. #that’s what this is and i have mad respect to clickhole for pulling it off [danishprince]