the worst part about studying languages is knowing that you will never be nearly as good at it as a literal baby
The only reason babies are better at language learning is because it’s their full time job and they don’t get embarrassed
If you, a teenaged or adult human, wasn’t embarrassed and could study language full time you would learn way faster than a baby.
In my defense, babies receive more positive reinforcement than I do as well. Babies will say ha ba bah dah ba hah and all the adults around them will be like 🤯 really? Wow 😱 that is so interesting 😁 great job! 🤗 and then what happened? 🤔
also people who are like “I’ve been studying for a year and I only have an eight-year-old’s grasp of the language”:
[image description: a printed out flyer with the picture of a sleeping grey tabby cat on it. It has text on it that reads:
Muffin disclaimer
So you’ve ordered a muffin! We hope you’re up for a challenge.
Our wobbly tabby cat Bea REALLY likes muffins so there are a few things to be aware of if you have a muffin in the cat area.
- She WILL climb you to try and get your muffin - She is not very good at climbing so she will claw her way up your body - It WILL hurt - She WILL NOT give up - She may try to eat the muffin right out of your mouth - She is not allowed to eat muffins
You may pick her up / move her away if needed and if you’re really struggling, come and talk to us and we will help. No matter how much she wants to, it is still very important that you don’t let her eat any muffin as it will make her sick.
Good luck and we hope you enjoy your muffin experience!
She may look sweet and innocent but we promise you she’s not
/end image description]
Bea the muffin thief has come upon my timeline again and I am obliged to reblog.
A few years ago I drew some concept art for a chill science fiction setting where some lizard botanists were studying a planet & ran into some retired space pirate wolves who were already living there, & they all decide to shrug and coexist. Then I got super distracted & didn’t draw them for a while. Here are Hawthorne & Zoom visiting a construction site for a particle accelerator being built in space around a planet. Maybe they had to make an emergency landing & wound up there, or maybe they took a trip there to check it out intentionally. One of the staff scientists is showing them around part of the construction site and telling them about how the accelerator will help them advance the field.
Any ultra high tech science fiction universe is honestly likely to have a few truly enormous particle accelerators that are built in space, somewhere or other, whether that’s important to the story or not.
Particle accelerators can go to higher energies as they get bigger & bigger, which is key because some discoveries can only be made at high energies. So it will always be useful, even crucial, to increase the size of the ring. I haven’t seen any giant particle accelerators in space mentioned in a scifi story yet, & it’s such a missed opportunity that I had to at least make a sketch. I can’t think of any good free resources off the top of my head unfortunately, but this audiobook was a really good introduction to the science [xxx].
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