lilaclupin:

lilaclupin:

In today’s linguistics class we talked about metaphors, and we really want two of the ones we talked about to become conventionalised.

So first of all this one girl told us about a newer metaphor in Russian, “I have paws”, which is something you say when you don’t really want to do something, so you say you’re incapable of doing it since you have paws instead of hands. Like, “hey, finish that report” “aw but I have paws :(” and I think that’s adorable. It’s like “I’m just a girl” but for animals.

We also had the task to invent a novel metaphor and have the others guess what it means, and the teacher really liked my “she’s such a capybara” = “everyone loves her”. Capybara energy is like golden retriever energy except you’re chill about it. You’re just vibing and everyone digs that.

Anyway I think these deserve to become more common in English

Tumblr tags from Simuran reading, "it means 'I have LITTLE paws' specifically. like a cat. it also led to a newer one! мощны твои лапищи - 'how mighty your big paws are!' for when you've become good in something that used to be difficult for you."ALT

VERY important addition oh my gosh,,,

circusheart:

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