seriously have been thinking about this all night long. call me autistic but the fact that 90% of workplaces the point is not to get your work done and then be done doing it but to instead perform an elaborate social dance in which you find something to do even when you’re done doing everything you need to do in order to show your fellow workers that you, too, are Working . because you are at Work . disgusting why cant we all agree that if there is no work immediately to be done. we just dont do anything
is it possible that Danny Hebert and Marquis had like. briefly met. obviously they’re not best friends or anything but. 1. Danny has been the Union Rep for the dockworkers since around the time taylor was born, which was when Marquis was still in Brockton. 2. Danny’s wife was part of Lustrums whole thing, which means he at least incidentally has a reason to think of supervillains as people rather than as always evil. 3. In a seaside shipping town like Brocton Bay the dock workers union is probably like. fairly high up in terms of people you want to be on good terms with while doing organized crime and 4. they’re both feminists so I think it’s not out of the question they’ve like. had a business discussion or something. I guess what I’m trying to say is that when Marquis saw that Skitter was unmasked his reaction might have been “Hebert? Like the union guy?”
funniest option is that Danny saw Marquis kill some strikebreaking police
changed my mind actually funniest option is that he and anette were friends. she taught a gender studies class at community college that he took as a civilian and then she invited him to book club. he came over to the heberts house once a month to drink wine and talk about pride and prejudice. taylor gets unmasked and he turns to amy and goes “she was a cute baby. you’d have been too young to remember it but you actually had a couple of playdates.”
youtubers love to say “i hope i’m pronouncing that correctly” while recording themselves in a video that they upload to the internet, which they have access to
Hint: its because the video is not as well researched as its presentation implies
Hint: it’s because sometimes it’s hard to pronounce words especially if you don’t use them very often
Don’t leave this in the tags!! They’re good points! An attempt is better than nothing!
It’s one thing to listen to a correct pronunciation. It’s another to actually have your mouth form the words, especially when you’re using a sound you don’t normally use in your native language.
Maybe they’re not saying “I didn’t look up the actual pronunciation and I’m just winging it.” Maybe it’s “I looked it up and it uses a sound that I don’t use in my day to day speech and I don’t think I did it quite right but I tried.”
And sometimes, there aren’t sufficient resources to teach you the correct pronunciation! Sometimes you’ll get bot-made videos that contradict each other.
This this this this. As someone who struggles to pronounce a couple of words I use fairly often my FIRST LANGUAGE, thanks to those particular sounds just being difficult shapes for me to string together coherently, I am constantly afraid of fucking up words in other languages or even just with roots in other languages.
It’s one thing to not even try, but the “I hope I’m doing this correctly” isn’t always “I’m hoping I can just wing this word with whatever I think it’s supposed to sound like,” a lot of times it “okay so I’ve looked it up and tried it a few times so I’m really hoping its coming out right, but I’m not used enough to the language to really be sure .”
Languages are fucking DIFFICULT for a lot of people. Not just the repeating/speaking part, but also the ability to HEAR and RECOGNIZE the patterns and sounds.
“They’re on the internet why not look it up” because the Internet is huge and full of misinformation. Odds are they did look it up and they found information but nothing airtight. Even people speaking the same language can pronounce the same word dozens of different ways (hello, accents!) so they’d have no way of knowing for sure.
he/they, 30. Icon by askthederpvengers. I queue everything. TheBSDude, or "Thebes," is a cat-lover, audiophile, and grammar-enthusiast from the American NW. They're a multi-shipper that dips into multiple fandoms, but has particular love for Worm and rpg podcasts. Tags: friends at the table; worm, ward, parahumans; Thebes reblogs Korra; rwby. Spoiler Tags: worm spoilers, ward spoilers, rwby9
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