My Mom Just Sent Me This Video Without Any Context??

My NT friend: doesn’t this silence bother u

Me, autistic: are u telling me u can’t hear this incredibly loud fridge

In linguistics, a filler is a sound or word that is spoken in conversation by one participant to signal to others that he/she has paused to think but is not yet finished speaking.  These are not to be confused with placeholder names, such as thingamajig, which refer to objects or people whose names are temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, or unknown.

In Afrikaans, ah, em, and eh are common fillers.

In Arabic, يعني yaʿni (“I mean”) and وﷲ wallāh(i) (“by God”) are common fillers.[2][3][4]

In American Sign Language, UM can be signed with open-8 held at chin, palm in, eyebrows down (similar to FAVORITE); or bilateral symmetric bent-V, palm out, repeated axial rotation of wrist (similar to QUOTE).

In Bengali, mane (“it means”) is a common filler.

In Catalan, eh /ə/, doncs (“so”), llavors (“therefore”), and o sigui (“it means”) are common fillers.

In Czech, tak or takže (“so”), prostě (“simply”), jako (“like”) are used as fillers. Čili (“or”) and že (“that”, a conjunction) might also be others. A person who says jako and prostě as fillers might sound a bit simple-minded to others.[5]

In Danish, øh is one of the most common fillers.

In Dutch, eh, ehm, and dus are some of the more common fillers.

In Esperanto, do (“therefore”) is the most common filler.

In Filipino, ah, eh, ay, and ano are the most common fillers.

In Finnish, niinku (“like”), tota, and öö are the most common fillers.

In French, euh /ø/ is most common; other words used as fillers include quoi (“what”), bah, ben (“well”), tu vois (“you see”), and eh bien (roughly “well”, as in “Well, I’m not sure”). Outside of France, other expressions are tu sais (“you know”), t’sais’veux dire? (“you know what I mean?”), or allez une fois (“go one time”). Additional filler words include genre (“kind”), comme (“like”), and style (“style”; “kind”)

In German, a more extensive series of filler words, called modal particles, exists, which actually do give the sentence some meaning. More traditional filler words are äh /ɛː/, hm, so /zoː/, tja, and eigentlich (“actually”)

In Hebrew, eh is the most common filler. Em is also quite common.

In Hindi, matlab (“it means”) and “Mah” are fillers.

In Hungarian, common filler words include hát (well…) and asszongya (a variant of azt mondja, which means “it says here…”).

In Icelandic, a common filler is hérna (“here”). Þúst, a contraction of þú veist (“you know”), is popular among younger speakers.

In Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia), anu is one of the most common fillers.

In Italian, common fillers include “tipo” (“like”), “ecco” (“there”) and “cioè” (“actually”)

In Irish Gaelic, abair /ˈabˠəɾʲ/ (“say”), bhoil /wɛlʲ/ (“well”), and era /ˈɛɾˠə/ are common fillers, along with emm as in Hiberno-English.

In Japanese, common fillers include eetto, ano, sono, and ee.

In Kannada,Matte for also,Enappa andre for the matter is are the common fillers.

In Korean, eung, eo, ge, and eum are commonly used as fillers.

In Lithuanian, nu, am and žinai (“you know”) are common fillers.

IN Maltese and Maltese English, mela (“then”), or just la, is a common filler.

In Mandarin Chinese, speakers often say 这个 zhège/zhèige (“this”) or 那个 nàge/nèige (“that”). Another common filler is 就 jìu (“just/precisely”).

In Norwegian, common fillers are øh, altså, på en måte (“in a way”), ikke sant (literally “not true?”, “no kidding”, or “exactly”), vel (“well”), and liksom (“like”). In Bergen, sant (“true”) is often used instead of ikke sant. In the Trøndelag region, skjø’ (“see?” or “understand?”) is also a common filler.

In Persian, bebin (“you see”), چیز “chiz” (“thing”), and مثلا masalan (“for instance”) are commonly-used filler words. As well as in Arabic and Urdu, يعني yaʿni (“I mean”) is also used in Persian. Also, eh is a common filler in Persian.

In Portuguese, tipo (“like”) is the most common filler.

In Romanian, deci /detʃʲ/ (“therefore”) is common, especially in school, and ă /ə/ is also very common (can be lengthened according to the pause in speech, rendered in writing as ăăă), whereas păi /pəj/ is widely used by almost anyone.

In Russian, fillers are called слова-паразиты (“vermin words”); the most common are Э-э (“eh”), это (“this”), того (“that”), ну (“well”), значит (“it means”), так (“so”), как его (“what’s it [called]”), типа (“like”), and как бы (“[just] like”).

In Serbian, znači (“means”) and ovaj (“this”) are common fillers.

In Slovak, oné (“that”), tento (“this”), proste (“simply”), or akože are used as fillers. The Hungarian izé (or izí in its Slovak pronunciation) can also be heard, especially in parts of the country with a large Hungarian population. Ta is a filler typical of Eastern Slovak and one of the most parodied features.

In Slovene, pač (“but”, although it has lost that meaning in colloquial, and it is used as a means of explanation), a ne? (“right?”), and no (“well”) are some of the fillers common in central Slovenia, including Ljubljana.

In Spanish, fillers are called muletillas. Some of the most common in American Spanish are e /e/, este (“this”), and o sea (roughly means “I mean”).[6], in Spain the previous fillers are also used, but ¿Vale? (“right?”) and ¿no? are very common too.

In Swedish, fillers are called utfyllningsord; some of the most common are öhm, ja (“yes”), ba (comes from “bara”, which means “just”), asså or alltså (“therefore”, “thus”), va (comes from “vad”, which means “what”), and liksom and typ (both similar to the English “like”).

In Ukrainian, ой /ɔj/ is a common filler.

In Urdu, yani (“meaning…”), falan falan (“this and that”; “blah blah”), umm, and aaa are also common fillers.

In Telugu, ikkada entante (“Whats here is…”) and tarwatha (“then…”) are common and there are numerous like this.

In Tamil, paatheenga-na (“if you see…”) and apparam (“then…”) are common.

In Turkish, yani (“meaning…”), şey (“thing”), “işte” (“that is”), and falan (“as such”, “so on”) are common fillers.

In Welsh, de or ynde is used as a filler (loosely the equivalent of “You know?” or “Isn’t it?”). Ym… and Y… are used similarly to the English “um…”.

Reblog If You Can Take Off Your Bra Without Taking Your Shirt Off.

on monday’s staff announcement

[disclaimer: i no longer work at tumblr. the views expressed here are mine and don’t represent oath or tumblr.]

i love tumblr. i love seeing the endless creativity from this community and the sense of belonging that i and others like me find here every single day. i’ve been a tumblr user since high school, and i feel like i grew up on this website based on how much it helped me learn and develop my understanding of the world, society, and myself. it’s part of the reason i moved across the country to new york to work there in 2016.

as someone who loves this place so much and contributed to its development over the last 2 years, monday’s announcement by leadership to remove adult content from the site was deeply disappointing to me. it’s also part of why i left the company in september.

first, i want to establish that explicit content involving children, as well as the people who share and consume it, have absolutely no place on tumblr, anywhere else on the internet, or anywhere else in general. apple’s policies on the app store and other content are absolutely puritanical in many other senses, but i believe in this specific context their actions were fully justifiable. 

as a platform that prides itself on freedom of expression (this is one of tumblr’s core mission statement values), the move to censor such a large swath of legal and consensual adult content from it is a direct contradiction. the ability to share, explore and connect across the full spectrum of human expression is a core part of what made tumblr into the unique and nuanced website that it is today. it’s also something that david karp fought strongly to preserve.

this change will, without a doubt, also remove a critical platform from countless sex workers who already increasingly struggle to find a safe and secure way to make a living, connect with others, and simply be seen as human beings online. in the wake of SESTA/FOSTA and the subsequent closure of sites like backpage, tumblr has become a place that many sex workers rely on, and removing their presence on tumblr will likely have a highly negative impact on their livelihoods and wellbeing.

removing adult content from tumblr will also remove a safe space that so many LGBT users (including myself) call home. our community is fundamentally based on interactions that span the SFW/NSFW spectrum as an extension of self-discovery and identity (also core tumblr mission statement values), and in many cases for resources that LGBT folks don’t receive IRL, such as LGBT-specific augmentations of sexual health education. tumblr was many of these things for me. growing up in a small town without access to many LGBT peers my age, tumblr was a place i could go to find my community when it sometimes felt like i didn’t have one in the real world. it was a support network when i needed it, and the place where i met some of my best friends that i still remain in touch with today. removing adult content will remove this sense of community and will remove what so many rely on as a safe space for self-discovery and exploration.

to be clear, i understand the reality that it’s difficult to monetize on a network that contains such a mixed range of content, and how cutthroat this can be in the social media space. i still fully believe, though, that there are better, more balanced solutions to this problem that respect the needs of the community while also providing a stable source of revenue to build and grow the platform with.

additional hiring investment in human moderators to aid existing policy enforcement, for example, would be a great start. while they’re very promising, i believe the software tools and algorithms the industry uses to enforce policies like these instead of humans just aren’t ready yet. i’ve seen it in the countless false positives that have already been flagged here under this change, and i’ve seen it in the waves of spambots that wash over this and other similar sites on a regular basis. to be clear, others in this space also grapple with the same issues just as much – tools like machine learning are still new and rapidly developing. however, their relatively higher usage of human moderators as counterbalance is apparent in the relative lack of these problems that end up reaching users. a renewed investment in human moderation, along with anti-spam experts and the other human beings needed to fix these issues, in addition to addressing the growing epidemic of harassment seen across this and other networks, would be a more sensible alternative to relying so heavily on software to enforce such a far-reaching policy.

i love tumblr, and i love my staff family that i had the privilege to work with and get to know over the last 2 years. the people i worked with at tumblr continue to be some of the most passionate and empathetic human beings i know. the things i’ve written here aren’t intended to be an attack on them; i’m writing this because i love tumblr so much, and because i truly care about what happens to it in the future. tumblr played a fundamental part in shaping who i am today, as an LGBT individual, and as a citizen of the internet and the world. it’s important to me that those today who are finding themselves in the same place i was so many years ago when i found this community are able to make a home here the same way that i made mine.

-hunter

p.s. – in the wake of this announcement, please consider donating to the EFF, who work to defend privacy and free expression across the internet, and also to SWOP, who work to defend the rights of, and end stigma and violence against, sex workers. both of these causes will help those who find themselves displaced by this change.

If you’re one of those people who thinks executive dysfunction only happens for things we don’t like (school, cleaning,) then please consider the fact that I’ve been meaning to plug my phone in for 20 minutes and I’m now at 2% and still putting it off to write this post ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

nobody ever talks about how saying non-binary genders don’t exist is racist as fuck

upsidedown beacon of sin that swims in space

I made a fursona generator its kinda cool Tell me what you got in the tags!

Well out of the blue I just remembered today the time I accidentally joined the cast of a production of The Princess Bride….in the middle of the production.