withaheartevenmoreyourown:

Socially Awkward Bachelors, a novel by Jane Austen

I like it when people realize that Mr. Darcy is a Socially Awkward Penguin.

melancholydane:

#my life begins and ends with the bottom left gif

riikkus:

a little party never killed nobody | a costume drama that does exactly what you think it will except the entire soundtrack is orchestral versions of pop songs [listen]

sussexcottage:

Pride and Prejudice AU where Darcy and Lizzie are both girls, Lizzie is an lgbtqiap activist while Darcy’s family is extremely conservative and homophobic. Funnily enough, it’s still called Pride and Prejudice.

achkillme:

Parks and Prejudice

greenbuddhas:

kcinpa:

Pride and Prejudice 2005 + Onion Headlines, part 1/3

Other Austen + Onion Headlines

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Dear people learning German

allthingslinguistic:

ladydrace:

howlnatural:

britishpineapple:

bananoots:

kainoliero:

tuonenjoutsenen:

miss-cath:

animentality:

freezingdesert:

please be aware that the correct way to replace ä, ö, ü, ß is turning them into ae, oe, ue, and ss, not just taking the dots away or typing “B”.

Otherwise you can get things like,

“Das Wetter ist sehr schwül heute.”
= “The weather is very hot and humid today.”

“Das Wetter ist sehr schwul heute.”
= “The weather is very gay today.”

well I now know how to call the weather gay

So, it’s like in Polish.

“Zrobić łaskę” means “Do mercy to someone”

but

“Zrobić laskę” means “Make a blowjob”.

I cannot think of a case where removing the dots of ä and ö in Finnish would result in something naughty (if you can, please contribute) but the same thing applies, ä and ö are completely different from a and o, and one does not simply remove the dots.

Finnish:

Näin appelsiineja = I saw oranges.

Nain appelsiineja = I fucked oranges.

its even worse in turkish doe cus like

Sık dişini?? Hang in there/Endure

Sik dişini?? Literally just fuck your tooth

that’s it

amazing

Even in Spanish:

Feliz año nuevo = happy new year

Feliz ano nuevo = happy new butthole

Irish:

Tá mo chroí briste = My heart is broken.

Tá mo chroí bríste = My heart is trousers.

Danish:

Bølle = thug

Bolle = fucking

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language that uses diacritics must have a minimal pair with and without diacritics that means something rude.

deducecanoe:

kcinpa:

Pride and Prejudice 2005 + Onion Headlines, part 3/3

Lol

feathersmoons:

star-anise:

peroxidepirate:

sussexcottage:

Pride and Prejudice AU where Darcy and Lizzie are both girls, Lizzie is an lgbtqiap activist while Darcy’s family is extremely conservative and homophobic. Funnily enough, it’s still called Pride and Prejudice.

Someone needs to make this a YouTube series.

JANE AND BINGLEY ARE GIRLS TOO. (Caroline Bingley is a boy.) So Lizzie is super super pissed that Darcy talked her best friend into going back in the closet and breaking Jane’s heart.

I almost like it better if Bingley’s still a boy because the thing that I’ve always liked (as a story thing, not as an “I approve of this belief” thing) is that Darcy had no particular problem with JANE (other than not being sure Jane loved Bingley), his problem with Jane was her FAMILY.

Which: he has a point. Jane and Lizzie’s family are pretty badly behaved and kind of rude and imagine having Mrs Bennet for a mother in law for your entire life?

Darcy’s objections to Jane as a match were all behaviour-based via her family; it’s Lady Catherine’s to Lizzie that were based in What She Was.

(And the Bennets actually translate just fine all by themselves: Mr Bennet is an acidic old tenured prof or something, Mrs Bennet is SUPER INAPPROPRIATE HIPPY WOMAN who sees no problem with Kitty and Lydia wandering around half-dressed/etc because it’s all NATURAL dear oh poo don’t be so stuffy, while Mary’s an irritating born-again who lectures everyone about sin.)