also is anyone else amazed that a song with the line “don’t want to meet your momma, just want to make you cumma” was played on radio disney twelve times a day for like three years straight??? can you believe it won a kids’ choice award?? God Bless OutKast
He literally says in the song “Y’all don’t want to want to hear me, you just want to dance”. The whole song is about Andre’s doubts towards romance in the face of an unhappy relationship and Andre 3000 recognizes that no one will pay attention to the lyrics simply because it has a fun sound and a catchy chorus.
This is why Hey Ya is unironically the best song of the 00s.
You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?
These are called vocables, a form of non-lexical utterance - that is, wordlike sounds that aren’t strictly words, have flexible meaning depending on context, and reflect the speakers emotional reaction to the context rather than stating something specific. They also include uh-oh! (that’s not good!), uh-huh and mm-hmm (yes), uhn-uhn (no), huh? (what?), huh… (oh, I see…), hmmn… (I wonder… / maybe…), awww! (that’s cute!), aww… (darn it…), um? (excuse me; that doesn’t seem right?), ugh and guh (expressions of alarm, disgust, or sympathy toward somebody else’s displeasure or distress), etc.
Every natural human language has at least a few vocables in it, and filler words like “um” and “erm” are also part of this overall class of utterances. Technically “vocable” itself refers to a wider category of utterances, but these types of sounds are the ones most frequently being referred to, when the word is used.
Reblog if u just hummed all of these out loud as you read them
This is what I like about photographs. They’re proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.
By Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf (via wordsnquotes)
the holocaust did not appear out of thin air, and it was not because jews were doing better economically than christians. it could not have happened without centuries of oppression and christian antisemitism. if someone tries to tell you christianity had nothing to do with the holocaust, they’re lying or haven’t done their research.
48 years ago a girl said “oh fuck me” to her best friend while walking in the street, a guy who randomly passed by answered by “let me at least buy you dinner first”. I present to you my grandparents, in love since then and celebrating their 47 years of marriage today.