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maririna · 1 month

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✧˚ · .Cat Got Your Tongue?

˚୨୧⋆｡˚ ⋆ Dr. Ratio x Reader

> In which you bring home a stray.

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Mari's Note: So I had this dream with him and a cat and I felt compelled to write something with it lol. Surprisingly, it came out sorta cute than I thought <3

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"No. Absolutely not, I would not agree to such a proposal."

"Aww, why not?" You raise its paw waving it as if saying hello towards a certain grumpy lover while you support the feline with your free hand, keeping it close to your chest. "I think it'll be beneficial to keep it."

Minutes prior to your arrival, you had overheard high pitched whines directing from a secluded alleyway that was surrounded by stagnant puddles as a result of the dreary rain that just occurred.

Discovering the source, you were met with a surprising sight of a cat in a box, finding solace in the warmth of a battered newspaper, eyes wide and seemingly clueless from the situation it was in. You ofcourse had fallen in love and before you came to your senses, you were already in front of the door with said cat.

It's rather unusual for you to make a grandiose request to Veritas, being satisfied with what you have and had been given, you are never used to asking for anything more. Perhaps it was intuition that struck you and you decided to stick with it.

"What a preposterous idea. I do not need some creature's mouth to feed." Veritas sighs, his hand rubbing his forehead. "Such a despicable thing would have the potential to create chaos and disruption to my work and research."

You raise your eyebrows, "Oh? Who said you'll take care of it? I'll fully take responsibility."

"Please?" You press, "The poor thing must have been starving and besides, we need a friend at home."

"Good grief, have you even acknowledged the fact that the Felis catus species possess only an average IQ of 2?" He sighs as you shoot him a pleading gaze, the cat mewling in your arms, unaware of the doctor's insult.

With a hard look, he huffs and finally gives in.

"Fine, only if you were to provide adequate training, necessities, complete supervision and most significantly, establish proper behavior, I may allow your preposition. However!" he halts. "If it interferes with my research and our house conditions, it's out."

You cheer, scurrying your feet to give a peck on his cheek, following with a stretch of your arms for the cat to do the same except it was met with a palm of his hand. "Oh no, no. Not the animal."

You wont lie, having a new family to the household made things livelier, especially on the days where Veritas had been absent due to the Intelligentsia Guild. The cat had quite a calming effect, you were able to indulge into your work and daily schedule without the rush of anxiety on those same days. With dedicating your free time towards bonding and training the cat, you had also set aside its own space in your humble abode far Veritas's work desk and absolutely further from the intricate stone carvings in the shape of your lover.

You also discovered that your new companion is a lovely and polite tom cat.

Veritas so far (and so good) did not seem to mind, letting the animal even roam around the living room frequently since it was a portion of the home that contained none of his papers and nor does he seem to mind the soft meows requesting for attention or inquiries of the food bowl being filled.

You are currently settled down on your couch with your darling joined with you. His eyes concentrate at a book on hand, the gentle sound of pages being flipped by the featherlight touches of his fingers fills the room alongside the occasional soft purrs of your feline friend who is nestled comfortably onto your lap. Its rhythmic breathing soothes you as you hum in content, nothing but peace and tranquility envelopes the space.

You were interrupted from your thoughts with the sound of Veritas’s book slam shut.

“Have you gotten accustomed to the new addition to our household? I am not one who engages nor enjoys the affection and sentimentality derived from owning a domesticated animal, however in your case, you seem to say otherwise.”

“Does it seem obvious?”

You focus on feeling the softness of the cat’s fur as you carefully thread it with your fingers. His ears twitch from your intrusion, eyes shot open like he was not asleep just a second ago, he lets out a yawn, flexing his back into a wide stretch with a flick of a tail. He jumps from your lap to the couch, kneading it. You grin, muttering a totally unapologetic ‘sorry’.

The cat strolls over, a faint purr rumbling from his chest as he begins nuzzling against Veritas's thigh who visibly flinches. You notice his hand almost ready to raise, only to have it actually end up meeting upon the animal’s head which meows in delight, pressing his muzzle to the palm of your significant other’s hand, rubbing against it.

You see him cringe and tense up but you still credit his effort and beam at the sight. To see him be physically affectionate with the animal was unexpected, deep down you assumed he might have disliked the cat. Maybe he is still foreign with the change.

“I guess so, the cat has been very therapeutic to me if I'm being honest,” you add.

He scoffs, "Although that is something I can never relate to," you don't see it, but his eyes soften a bit.

A hand rests on top of your hair, "If it refines your cognitive performance and brain activity then I would have no objections and no reason not to accept the animal."

Veritas removes his hand and you almost miss the warmth. "Regardless, if he does not come aligned with my terms and conditions–"

"I know I know, geez. The cat has been nothing but a sweetheart." You cut him off and pout, "Isn't that right...?”

You pause.

“Uhm…”

Your partner raises a brow, "...are you implying you had never designated a name for him until now?"

You sweat, "...I haven't"

"Ridiculous."

"Well, it's hard to think of one!" you retort.

"Nonsense. You had already established a bond with him, although I would not necessarily care but I assumed it would have been natural to issue him a name.”

“You think of one then!” you puff your cheeks.

Veritas places his hand under his chin, absorbed in thought. Wait, Is he actually considering it?

“I would rather not. I am in no way having the slightest care over it as I deem it not crucial.”

You stick a tongue out to him, so much for having the tiniest belief from your heart in him. You can't help but deflate, feeling dejected that he doesn't fully welcome the cat as you expected.

For the next few days, you have been brainstorming, stubbornly attempting to choose a name, basking in countless research and books.

"Hmm, I don't like any of these." You groan in exasperation, rummaging through the pages of a book for a potential fit of a name, only to prove you no luck. Cursing under your breath, your face falls flat on the surface of a page.

A name is crucial for a pet, one to call out to, to get attached to, and to bond with, he deserves to have one like every other being. You have asked Veritas for any suggestions or if he can at least help but your actions bear no results.

With heavy defeat, you are forced to drag yourself towards the shelves for the cat's lunch. Geez you can't keep calling him just ‘cat’ forever, can you?

You spot the animal mewling over from the corner of your eye, trying to catch your attention to fulfill his hunger but notice something out of the ordinary.

Huh?

You see that he is wearing...a collar?

He tilts his head curiously, looking at you with doe eyes, meowing once more. You don't recall ever giving him one, only toys and cardboard boxes he seemed to like to conceal himself in all the time.

As you take a closer look, you discover something even more odd. A silver metal hanging around the edges of the leather–a name tag.

Your fingers glaze over the tag, feeling the sturdiness of the material, seeing a word engraved on it.

'Archimedes'.

You couldn't contain the smile that goes up to your face, your heart starts to race with happiness and relief. Only one person would come up with a certain name like this.

It seemed perfect for you, to think that he chose this name seems undoubtedly much like him.

"Just so you are aware, I had scientifically engineered the collar to be a precise fit for him, including the exact millimeters alongside taking consideration of the feline's anatomy and measurements."

Following the sound of a voice, you see the man himself, holding a piece of graph paper of what you assume is a detailed illustration of his creation as he carries himself with elegance and confidence.

"I created it to be comfortable, durable, and lightweight. In addition to that, I installed features that can accurately measure his vitals, from heartbeat to temperature with a built-in system that will notify us if there exists any malfunctions to his vitals."

As much as you are filled with joy and gratitude you couldn’t help but feel the need to go for the tease.

"Oh? I thought you didn't want to keep him? Hm?" your tone is mischievous but playful.

You feign being in deep thought, resting a thumb underneath your chin. "Why is there a collar in him which by the way was specifically made for him by you and named him yourself if you wanted to get rid of him oh so badly?"

"Research indicates having a feline cultivates a productive space for effective studying. I am simply experimenting with Archimedes. It would be favorable in my end to conduct my hypothesis if there is a word for him to respond to." He crosses his arms, his eyes suddenly interested in one of his many statues from the corner of the room.

"Right. Whatever floats your boat.”

“That is known as buoyancy.”

...this man.

You lightly flick his forehead, trying to stop him from speaking any further as to save yourself from being trapped into another one of his hours-long lectures.

“You are a dummy, y’know?” Before he could reply, you wrap your arms around him, his body relaxes, a silent invite for you to continue, feeling the tenderness and warmth of his skin. You brushed off strands of purple locks from his face, giving him a loving kiss.

“Thank you, Veritas."

His eyes refuse to meet yours as he is rendered speechless.

"...Idiot"

"...But honestly, Veritas, you should have just opted for a normal collar."

#honkai star rail #hsr #dr ratio x reader #veritas ratio #dr ratio #dr ratio x you #hsr x reader #hsr x y/n #honkai star rail x reader #hsr dr ratio

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talenlee · 1 month

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Goblin, Vandal, Sugg

Every word you’ve ever used comes from somewhere. The structures you use to discuss ideas is informed by ideas that came before it. I’m not getting all Sapir-Worf about this (and if you don’t know what that is, you don’t have to know because it’s probably not true), but rather wanting to draw your attention to the way the world you live in is in part defined by the words you use. If you’re an English speaker, there are ways you describe food that are a byproduct of French invasion centuries ago. Words like ‘technocrat’ and ‘hyperspecialised’ are constructions that borrow from how intellectuals used to use Latin. Your swear words are almost all from the poor working class, and used to describe sex, god, or excrement, and that’s not how all swear words work in all cultures!

Your world shapes your language.

In any given fantasy setting you work on, you don’t usually have the same linguistic history to justify why the people there talk like we talk now. In fact, to be completely fair, they probably don’t talk like us at all: you have fantasy languages, across fantasy constructions. Any given phrase a character in your world says is probably not using the exact same words as we are and we’re all working with a sort of fictionalised fantasy that makes the concepts reasonably translate across.

There’s a whole treatise then about how we handle Native American names and loanwords that we italicise like etouffee.

Point is that you have words, in your world, and you can attach stories to them. You’ve probably seen me talk about Orcs and how they relate to language and stereotypes, along in my long post on the word ‘Orc’. Here’s another set of examples I like for my world of Cobrin’Seil, as they pertain to the best little evolved raccoons, the Goblins.

The word ‘Goblin’

In Cobrin’Seil, most people speak two languages. Most people who speak only one language speak Common, and Common is full of loanwords from other languages. ‘Orc’ and ‘Beast’ are well known loanwords. There is a word that has risen in prominence throughout all the common-speaking countries in less than seventy years, and the word it displaced is still even in functional and legal use.

The word is both new and old; new to common, but an old word to the language it’s from. This word is Goblin.

Goblins are by no means new. They’re one of the three great old cultures of the world, a social symbiote culture that pretty much exists in any given settlement of any size. It’s usually seen as a sign of health that a community can sustain Goblins — in the same way that communities that lack pets are probably culturally alienated from all the cultures that do keep pets — and if you encounter an enclave that lacks goblins, it’s often because that enclave is specifically for a purpose and has done proactive things to drive out Goblin presence. Goblins are a culture that’s as old as Orcs, older than Ogres and even most of what you’d consider modern-day Elves.

But the word Goblin was not a word in common language and descriptors that was used in dictionaries and education and technical words, until what are known as the Peoples Reform. Not People’s Reforms – but the legal system of the Eresh Protectorate (which tends to set precedents most of the rest of the world follows) formalised the idea of Peoples. For most cultures, this didn’t make a lot of changes, but it did peel out of the laws one of the largest and long-standing carve-outs for Goblins that eroded the idea of their own cultural identity and heritage. The word Goblin is encoded as the term Goblins use to describe Goblins.

Linguistically, Goblin is a funny word. It’s an omniterm; without modification, it serves as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb and preposition and it does so in entirely intelligible ways to those contextually familiar. The sentence ‘Goblin goblin goblin goblin goblin’ is a meaningful sentence describing a party taking care of a third party because they see the commonality they have with one another. Good luck making that make sense in a sent letter though.

Goblin is possessive; in a lot of ways it can be translated to the common term ‘us,’ with some wiggle room. It’s also a comical non-answer; guards asking a Goblin ‘what are you doing?’ will often get the answer ‘goblin,’ which in this case means something like ‘being myself and doing what I should be doing,’ which is an answer but it is also unhelpful, and you have to understand how goblins communicate to get a handle on what that might mean. Goblin language is simple but contextual and it tends to highlight that goblins are extremely prosocial. Goblin language makes very little sense without the context of who is talking and about what.

There’s a real truth to the fact that many Goblins who have taken to theatre or art will write dialogue in Goblin but stage directions in Common.

But the word is new, legally, but the people aren’t. What was the change? Well, prior to the Peoples Reforms, the term the human kingdoms used for the people known as Goblins was the term Vandal.

The Word ‘Vandal’

You can’t kidnap a Goblin.

Legally, I mean.

This isn’t because Goblins were protected under the law, no no, the laws were way too racist for that. The crime was that, wherever you transported the Goblins to, the people didn’t want Goblins there, so you were committing a crime by inflicting Goblins on them. Basically, it was considered a crime to take a Goblin from one place to another, because the place the Goblin arrived didn’t necessarily consent to the presence of a Goblin.

The term for transporting a Goblin was based on an archaic term for Goblins that operated on the assumptions that Goblins were just a problem and a pest brought into any space. They were known as Vandals, a term hypothetically meaning all nonhuman troublesome cultures including Gnolls and Bugbears, because if those people arrived in a place, they’d wreck things. Funnily enough, Gnolls and Bugbears got removed from this term over time because they would usually, if it rose to legal levels, be committing much more dire crimes, and also, guards didn’t like just bullying them at random, since they were very big and tough people by comparison to the much smaller Goblin. Over time, ‘Vandal’ came to mean ‘Goblins, and behaving like a Goblin,’ and that association meant the legal term got ensnared around it. Ultimately, dropping Goblins off in a space that did not want them was the act of Vandalism. Vandal then, was a term used to not to refer to the Goblins themselves; much funnier, instead, it was the legal term for a person who committed the crime of nonconsensual transporting of Goblins.

During the Peoples Reforms, since this law already existed, the crime of Transporting A Goblin Nonconsensually remained on the books, but Kidnapping, as defined under laws, had its historical Goblin Carve-Out. Nowadays, kidnapping a Goblin is typically treated as Vandalism (Kidnapping), because tidying up old and technically incorrect laws is a lot of a pain in the butt. This even applies when the Goblins are lawyers, who as it turns out, delight in getting non-Goblins in trouble for ‘Vandalism,’ which is a catch-all term under Eresh law for ‘general goblin-like behaviour.’ And we’ll talk more about what makes something Goblin-like in the context of Cobrin’Seil another time.

The word ‘Sugg’

But there is a word, ambiguous in meaning and origin that exists in common, that most people know and that word is ‘sugg.’ It seems to indicate a sort of laziness, a restful state. If you see a Goblin curled up on a pile of playing cards, ears out, eyes closed, you might say ‘can’t use those cards, there’s a goblin sugging on it.’ Or ‘sorry man, I’m pretty sugg.’ The word is extremely ambiguous but it has a thread throughout it of being:

Indulgently lazy

Very relaxed

Overwhelming and absolute

The thing is, nobody’s too sure what it means, and when you ask people who would know, they tell you to ask a Goblin. Goblins, after all, are where the word comes from. In fact, if you ask the right goblins in the right trail you’ll find that while Goblins use the word ‘sugg’ in the same way, they think it comes from Common. Why?

Because Goblins got the word from this thing they found in established human communities. There’d be a nice small dark box, full of paper that you could just curl up in and nest in, and on the outside of the box, there’d be a notice: SUGGEST IN BOX. So they assume the Goblin who enjoys that box the most must surely be their sugg-est Goblin. Which meant paying attention to how they all sugg, and from there, the neologism was born.

Now, non-Goblins and Goblins alike use ‘sugg’, each convinced they got it from the other.

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

#Cobrin'Seil #goblinposting #Goblins #World Building #Games #Making #Media

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pompadourpink · 1 year

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Les autres pronoms

Possessive pronouns (mine, ours)

Masc. sg.: le mien, le tien, le sien, le nôtre, le vôtre, le leur

Fem. sg.: la mienne, la tienne, la sienne, la nôtre, la vôtre, la leur

Masc. pl.: les miens, les tiens, les siens, les nôtres, les vôtres, les leurs

Fem. pl.: les miennes, les tiennes, les siennes, les nôtres, les vôtres, les leurs

Ex: tu pensais que tu avais pris tes lunettes mais c'étaient les miennes - you thought you had taken your glasses but they were mine

Demonstrative pronouns

They replace demonstrative determiners followed by a noun

They can be one of three types: prepositional (c'est celle de Laure - it's Laure's), relative (les robes en soie sont celles que je préfère - silk dresses are the ones I prefer), or nominal (j'ajoute à cette lettre celle de mon fils - I add to this letter the one of my son).

Singular - celui (m), celle (f): celle en bleu - the blue one

Plural - ceux (m), celles (f): ceux-là sont mieux - those are better

Neutral - ceci - this (rare), cela - that, ça - this (short for cela): ça ira - that will be fine, c’/ce*: c’est un chien - this is a dog, ce sont des chats - those are cats

N.B. Adverbial particles -ci (short for ici) and -là are added to indicate the distance. Celui-ci means this one (close), celles-là those ones (far away).

*Do not mix up the masculine singular demonstrative determiner ce that is followed by a singular masculine noun (ce chat est blanc - this cat is white) and the demonstrative pronoun ce that is followed by est/sont (is/are) or a relative pronoun (c'est ce qu'il m'a dit - that is what he told me; ce sont les chaussures qu'il a choisies - those are the shoes he chose)

N.B. C'est is used with a noun: c'est un gentil garçon - he's a nice boy, an adverb: c'est si joli - it's so pretty, or a masculine singular adjective when talking about a situation or activity: c'est facile - it's easy. Il/Elle est is used with adjectives when talking about living beings or things: elle est grande - she's tall, in expressions: il était une fois - there one was, before a past participle: elle est partie - she's gone.

Relative pronouns

Relative pronouns represent the nouns placed in front of them

Que/qui

subject (qui), when talking about living beings or things and describing them, placed before a verb: la fille qui porte un pull rouge aime la glace - the girl that is wearing a red jumper likes ice cream

indirect object (qui), when talking about people, after a preposition, placed before either a determiner and a noun or a pronoun (la fille à qui tu as parlé aime la glace - the girl you talked to likes ice cream)

direct object (que), when talking about living beings or things, placed before either a determiner and a noun or a pronoun (la fille que tu aimes aime la glace - the girl you love likes ice cream)

Quoi

object, when talking about things, often vague (something, nothing): c’est ce à quoi j’ai pensé toute la journée - that is what I thought about all day long

Dont

possessive phrase (complément de nom): je bois dans une tasse dont la anse est cassée - I’m drinking from a mug that has a broken handle

indirect object, equivalent of "of which": le livre dont je t’ai parlé est sorti - the book I told you about is out

adjective object: les filles sont allées à un concert de Rihanna, dont elles sont fan: the girls have gone to a Rihana’s concert, whom they are fans of

Où

adverbial phrase of place: la chambre où je dors est la plus grande de la maison - the room I sleep in is the biggest in the house

adverbial place of time: septembre est le mois où je suis née - September is the month in which I was born

Compound relative pronouns

Auquel, duquel, lequel (marriage of prepositions à, de, le and of simple relative pronouns)

subject - rare, literary: j’ai appelé ma mère, laquelle m’a informée de ton accident - I called my mum who told me about your accident)

object, about things or animals: les chaises sous lesquelles je suis cachée sont en bois - the chairs under which I am hidden are made of wood; c’est l’endroit duquel il est parti - this is the place from which he left; les hommes auxquels elle parle sont allemands - the men she is talking to are German

Neutral relative pronouns

They are built by adding ce, which can be roughly translated as "the thing", to dont, que, qui and used when the antecedent isn't mentioned or when it's a clause often after a comma.

Ce qui is the subject of the verb that follow: je ne sais pas ce qui est tombé - I don’t know what fell down (word by word I don't know the thing that has fallen), j’ai eu un accident, ce qui explique pourquoi je suis en retard - I got in an accident, which explains why I’m late

Ce que or ce qu' is used as a direct object and is generally followed by a subject and a verb: ce que je te demande, c’est d’être à l’heure - what I’m asking you is to be on time (word by word the thing that I ask of you it is to be on time), c’est ce que je voulais dire - that’s what I meant

Ce dont is used as the preposition de’s object: ce dont j’ai peur, c’est qu’il revienne - what I'm afraid of is that he will come back (word by word the thing of which I'm afraid, it is that he comes back), c’est précisément ce dont je veux te parler - that is precisely what I want to talk to you about

N.B. To stress a point, we can use ce qui/que/dont + c’est/ce sont: ce qui me plaît le plus, c’est ta robe - what I most like is your dress.

Movie: Pierrot le fou - Jean-Paul Godard, 1965

#pronoms #basique #grammaire

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useless-catalanfacts · 1 year

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I'm guessing now it's the same as Spanish because of imperialism, but did Catalan names originally follow the First name + Second name + Father's surname + Mother's surname naming system?

Yes, nowadays we use both surnames. We can't be sure of what would have happened, but the two surnames we have now were a Spanish imposition in most cases.

Before the 19th century, most Catalan men used only one surname. Only the upper classes had more surnames, since they often wanted to keep stacking titles (think of those really long names of nobles, if you marry into another powerful family and yours is powerful too you wouldn't want either of the lineages to get lost, the most titles you can "collect" the better!). Women could often use two surnames after getting married (their father's and their husband's).

In 1870, the Spanish law decided that civil register should have 2 surnames (first the father's and secondly the mother's) for each person to identify them better. That's how people started to have two surnames.

The most visible effect of this law, however, is the spelling. When Spanish-speaker state officers had to write down Catalan surnames, they would write them down according to Spanish spelling rules. That's why many Catalan surnames have a "Spanishified" spelling, like "Peña" instead of Penya, "Calzada" instead of Calçada, "Lladó" instead of Lledó, etc.

(As for first names, usually we only have 1 except you've been baptized, but that's not an official name and how much those 1 or 2 extra names are counted as part of your name depends on each person or family)

More information about the origin of Catalan surnames below the cut.

In the Middle Ages, Catalans had a name and a "nickname", often referred to a characteristic. Many of our surnames come from here. For example, physical attributes like Roig ("red", red-haired), Tort ("hooked"), Petit ("small"), Rossell ("blond"), Calvet ("balding"), etc; or jobs like Ferrer ("blacksmith"), Fuster ("carpenter"), Carnisser ("butcher"), Oller ("potter"), etc.

Among Catalan people, the use of surnames started being generalized in the 9th century.

In legal documents of the time, we see people are referred by who their father is. If the text was in Latin (even though people already spoke Catalan, Latin was still the most used language in writing), the first name would be in nominative case and the father's name in genitive case; if the text was in Catalan, it would be after the preposition "de", meaning "of" (same meaning as the cases in Latin). For example, Berenguer son of Ramon was Berengarius Raimundi in Latin and Berenguer de Ramon in Catalan.

Genitive case often ends in -is, that's why in Spanish and Aragonese you can find lots of surnames that come from a name+ez. For example: Sánchez would be the son of Sancho, Hernández of Hernán, López of Lope, González of Gonzalo, Rodríguez of Rodrigo, Martínez of Martín... Even nowadays, in Spain, 14 out of the 17 most common surnames are a name+ez! (Source)

This is not the case in Catalan. This Latin-derived surnames didn't become used. We only have 3 surnames with this origin (Peris, Sanxís, and Llopis) and they arrived to us from influence of Aragon, Castile and Navarre. Besides, neither of them is very common, unlike their Spanish equivalents. There was an exception in the Valencian Country, because some areas had a lot of Aragonese people as well as Catalan people or at least a strong Aragonese influence, so there existed more surnames related to the Aragonese ones.

From the 11th century on, the nobles started using the name of their lands as a surname, either after "de" (de Barcelona, d'Empúries...) or in adjective form (Barceló, Tarragó, Giró, Tàrrec). This started in the nobility to know who inherited what territories, but it was soon followed by the lower classes as well.

Lower class people often didn't have a territory to refer to and so they would use a name that made reference to their farmhouse, where they live, or other geographical terms. From here we get many of the most common Catalan surnames such as Riera ("stream"), Torrent ("watercourse"), Puig ("hill"), Pujol ("hill"), Vall ("valley") or Valls ("valleys"), Coma ("mountain pass"), Pomar ("apple orchard"), Vinyes ("vineyards"), Rovira ("oak tree forest"), Ribes ("shores") or simply the names of towns or areas like Solsona, Bages, Segarra, Agramunt, Vila, Canet, Cardona, Cabrera, Güell, Barberà, Cerdà...

All of this applies to men, but it worked differently for women because they weren't considered carriers of lineage in the same right as men, and were seen as under the property of a man (father or husband). In the Middle Ages, Catalan women usually had a feminine version of the father's surname (for example, if the father is Ferrer, she would be Ferrera). After getting married, women sometimes had both the father's and husband's surnames or only the husband's.

Source: Janer Torrens, Antoni (2014), "L'origen dels noms i cognoms catalans. Les arrels antroponímiques que marquen una identitat", II Congrés de la Societat d'Onomàstica i la XXVII Jornada d'Antroponímia i Toponímia de la UB. PDF.

#ask #anonymous #història #llengua catalana #onomastics #name #names #surnames #history #languages #langblr #cultures #catalan #etymology #coses de la terra #anthroponymy #anthroponymics #anthroponomastics #onomatology

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imperatorrrrr · 4 months

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Nico realizing Nolan unfollowed him and talking to Jack about it

"Need help with hashtags for your Facebook post, Schao?"

"What?"

Nico and Rino had come over for dinner after their sauna session earlier in the day and now dinner's over and Jim and Rino are sitting in the living room together drinking beers talking about whatever hockey Dads talk about, and Luke's fucked off to his room to talk to his boys because World Juniors is starting soon, while Jack rinses the dishes and Nico puts them in the dishwasher.

But Nico isn't putting the dishes in the dishwasher. Nico has been fiddling around with his phone for a while now, not paying attention to anything.

"You've been staring at your phone all confused? Finding more baseball players to follow?"

Okay, so maybe Jack feels a type of way about Nico getting practically naked in a sauna with some random professional baseball players.

"Jack, what?"

Nico had a big day with his Dad today. Not only did he strip down to his underwear and sit in a sauna with his father and some baseball guys, he also got his haircut. He has yet to look up from his phone, and there are strands of his hair falling down the side of his face, not as long as before, but still framing his face perfectly.

Jack huffs. Puts the dish he just rinsed into the dishwasher himself and turns the faucet off. He directs Nico away from the counter and closer to the island where the stools are and sits Nico down. Nico lets all this happen while still staring down at his phone.

"Nico."

Jack flicks him on the forehead and Nico finally looks up.

Good.

"What's going on?"

Nico sighs, puts his phone face down on the counter and runs his hand through his freshly cut hair, strands falling every which way in his wake.

"Nols unfollowed me."

Nico's face is all scrunched up like it gets when he can't find the right English preposition when he's answering media questions.

"Who's Nols...?" Is this another baseball player?! How many baseball players does Nico know and why does Nico know so many of them and where are they coming from?

"Patty. Nolan Patrick."

Oh shit. That may be worse than another baseball guy. Nope, that's definitely worse.

Nico doesn't talk to Jack about Nolan Patrick. Nico doesn't talk to anyone about Nolan Patrick. Jack thinks maybe Jesper might have that honor, but even he's not one hundred percent sure about that.

Jack's emotionally intelligent. Jack can do this. Jack can wade through the Nolan Patrick swamp of history.

"Are you...okay?"

Great. Slam dunk. Touchdown. Home run. Ugh baseball again.

"Yeah, its just...weird." Nico looks at his phone like he expects it to provide an answer as to why Nolan Patrick has unfollowed him. Jack also looks at Nico's phone hoping for the same.

"I mean we haven't talked in a bit. He reached out when I wasn't playing last month to check in."

Jack doesn't think Nico's upset about it. Nico's confused.

"I don't think I did anything?"

"Of course you didn't do anything!" Okay, so Jack doesn't know if Nico didn't do anything, but Jack is going to side with Nico ninety nine percent of time, no question. Plus, its Nico. He rarely does anything wrong. He doesn't make mistakes on the ice and he doesn't really make mistakes off the ice either.

Jack takes a step closer, putting his hand on Nico's shoulder and squeezing, trying to radiate support gearing up to say something to comfort Nico...

"What's our ice cream situation?" So Luke's chat with his boys is over.

Nico, presented with a task, especially a task that involves doing something for a teammate, especially for a teammate thats a rookie, and especially for a rookie thats a Hughes, is ready for this call to action and this distraction, "I have some good variety at mine."

Nico gets off the stool, grabs his phone and pockets it, and beckons Luke to follow him, which Luke does happily.

And Jack is left alone in the kitchen with the dishes that still need rinsing and thinks about how ice cream is supposed to be the go to solution for a break up.

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blueangeldreamland · 5 months

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Donate!

UNICEF

Note: Keep sending emails and calls to congress to ask for a ceasefire as aid is not being allowed in Gaza by Israel.

UNICEF has been working in Gaza since the 1980's. It is one of 13 United Nations agencies implementing and scaling up humanitarian interventions in response to the immediate needs of children and families caught in the conflict.

"Children and families in Gaza have practically run out of food, water, electricity, medicine and safe access to hospitals, following days of air strikes and cuts to all supply routes," said Elder. “Gaza’s sole power plant ran out of fuel Wednesday afternoon, shutting down electricity, water and wastewater treatment. Most residents can no longer get drinking water from service providers or household water through pipelines.

"At least six water wells, three water pumping stations, one water reservoir and one desalination plant serving more than 1 million people have been damaged by air strikes."

In every war, children suffer most

Responding to urgent needs for safe drinking water in Gaza, UNICEF has provided water treatment reagent to sustain the UNICEF-supported desalination plant providing water for 75,000 people. UNICEF has further released medical supplies prepositioned in the Gaza Strip to hospitals, including medicines for at least 1,600 people, and is delivering essential mental health and psychosocial support.

“Humanitarians must be able to safely access children and their families with lifesaving services and supplies — wherever they may be," said Elder. “In every war, the ones who suffer the most are children. This is tragically true today.”

*Designate to children in Gaza and West Bank

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UNICEF, originally called the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children's Fund,[a] is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.[3][4] The agency is among the most widespread and recognizable social welfare organizations in the world, with a presence in 192 countries and territories.[5] UNICEF's activities include providing immunizations and disease prevention, administering treatment for children and mothers with HIV, enhancing childhood and maternal nutrition, improving sanitation, promoting education, and providing emergency relief in response to disasters.[6]

UNICEF is the successor of the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, created on 11 December 1946, in New York, by the U.N. Relief Rehabilitation Administration to provide immediate relief to children and mothers affected by World War II. The same year, the U.N. General Assembly established UNICEF to further institutionalize post-war relief work.[7] In 1950, its mandate was extended to address the long-term needs of children and women, particularly in developing countries. In 1953, the organization became a permanent part of the United Nations System, and its name was subsequently changed to its current form, though it retains the original acronym.[1]

+ continue working:

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raisans-art · 1 year

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i've been seeing your stuff around and its REALLY cool. do you have any grammar documentation for your conlang i could look at? i'm super curious, the orthography's impressive too!!

A lot of the minutia of Hisuian just kinda lives in my brain

Not the best sometimes but it works well enough most of the time -w-

Hisuian is primarily a SOV language with a change up to VSO when positing a question. infinitives have a prefix of ko- (ko-tsitsu (to like)). Future tense is the suffix -fu (tsitsufu (will like)). Past tense is suffixed with -ne (tsitsu-ne (liked)). Progressive tense circumfixes the verb with ko- -ramg (ko-tsitsu-ramg (liking)). Possessiveness is marked by tacking on -e onto the noun and following with the possessor (except for possessive pronouns, which have their own works like -epna(their)). Prepositions always end the sentence unless it's telling time, then it goes before. Roles and titles are tacked onto the proper noun with a hyphen (rafentēn-skasheī (professor laventon)). Adjectives are proceeded by ī (karāpa ī marhī (Old Calaba))

I'm sure I have more than that but that's a rough gist that I scrounged up in my brain :)

#hisuian conlang records #ask raisans

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chichiricatsan · 5 months

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For the Writer Asks Game: 4, 5, 21, and 23?

Oh! Thank you so much for the ask! ^_^

4. How many times have you been thrown off plot for a particular WIP?

Only the first question and I already feel attacked (lmao jk but at the same time...hngghghghg). The bottom line answer is TOO MANY. It's to a fault, unfortunately... It's why I'm so slow to update and write at all really... :(

5. How would you describe your writing style? Does your writing style change for different WIPs? If yes, describe all or maybe just a few.

Hm...I honestly don't think it changes much. I have a hard enough time sticking with whatever style I have tbh. It's a mix between descriptive and narrative, I think, but sometimes I bog down my work too much with repetition and other things that have been pointed out over the years. It stems from my problems with needing to explain everything and overexplaining from being misunderstood or purposefully ignored (mostly in the past). I enjoy describing things, though, but I find I really enjoy writing dialogue/banter and feel like I have a strong foothold with that. I'm not even sure this answered the question...gah.

21. Have you thrown any writing rules that everybody follows out of the window?

I end sentences with prepositions, I start sentences with Ands and Buts and Because-es, I adverb things the F*CK up because idc how "unecessary" they are they can really add to the emotion/situation imo, I still use the Oxford comma with lists and will die on this hill, I keep run-on sentences for fun sometimes (especially if it suits the emotion/situation), semicolons and en/em dashes are friends of mine in this house, as are ellipses (my true love affair).

23. Tell me about your newest WIP idea. Even if you haven't written it down. Even if it will die in a matter of days.

Oh, dear. There are many that live in my head rent free the freeloading bastards that they are, but aside from my long fic I'm trying to focus on at present, there's an outline I'm working on with a friend to co-write a Dragon Age fic that involves one of her OC Inquisitors (Flyn Lavellan) and one of my OC Wardens (Cerys Surana). I've drawn a few (conceptual) things for them on my art blog as well. Like this || and this || and this! ^_^ ~I'm also trying to refresh an outline for a Detroit Become Human fic with a Connor/Fem!OC I had from a while ago that I just kinda gave up on until recently that takes place post-"Best End". Action/Mystery/Romance kind of thing with that one. ~Then I have one that's a shorter piece in my head (not on paper/typed atm like the others) for a Ryan Lucan/Fem!OC for the Life is Strange: True Colors universe that's pure romance with an underlying focus on mental health issues and struggles. ~THEEEN I have been pecking away at a re-telling of the Dragon Age Origins world state I've made with my OC, Selph Surana, and her romance with Alistair in the game. Been typing that a bit as well as drawing things for them, too. Like this || and this || and this comic page!

There are others, but those are the big ones. Goodness gracious me.

-> If anyone wants to reblog the original post or ask me questions, here's the link to the OG

#thank you chyrstis!#ask game #asks #writing

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olderthannetfic · 2 years

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"A 15 year old with 100 followers tweeted that proship means "problematic shipper" and then proship Twitter proceeded to ratio and QRT the tweet."

Was that "a 15 year old" or "the latest 15 year old mindlessly parroting that same crap in the same exact this week", anon? Sometimes people get sick of seeing the same Hot Take™ repeated over and over and over and over and over (ad libitum) on every social media where The Discourse™ is happening. And yeah, sometimes getting sick of it will translate to getting snarky about it. I'm not saying it was nice of those guys to all make fun of that one specific kid when they could have just as easily made their own posts mocking the idea itself without mentioning the person... who, with a lack of explicit references, could have been just about any other person involved in fandom on Twitter. They have achieved nothing and have probably just given the kid another embarrassing memory to cringe at when they'll grow up and look back to their teenage years, and just being a teen is generally embarrassing enough on its own. I'm just saying that I get why they were so exasperated by something that's not actually a one time thing at all, as I have seen an endless stream of "I want to have a proship blog when I tell people it's fine to write darkfic but I can't because I don't like all the problematic ships :(" and "proship means problematic ships which means pedo ships which means proshippers are identifying themselves as pedos but using a code to hide their true nature to those who aren't in the know which means it's fine to harass them because they're trying to harm naive kids" and other stuff like that. You don't know how many times I've had to grit my teeth and stop myself from asking them "alright, explain to me the core beliefs of pro(blematic)life and pro(blematic)choice then?" Or to just assume they'd been living under a rock in a cave in a forest for their entire lives and vainly try to explain Latin prepositions and their different uses in modern English language to them.

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logogreffe · 1 year

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"WHERE ?" IN FRENCH PART 2

As mentioned in Part 1, you can use "Où ça ?" to ask someone to repeat the location they have just mentioned.

Comme mentionné dans la partie 1, on peut utiliser "Où ça ?" pour demander à une personne de répéter le lieu qu'elle vient de mentionner. Alternative to "Où ça ?" : Sometimes, when a certain preposition is used , you can replace "où ça ?" with "preposition + où?"

Alternative à "Où ça ?" : Parfois, lorsqu'une certaine préposition est utilisée, vous pouvez remplacer "Où ça ?" par "préposition + où" Let's see an example first : Exemple n°1 : Camille et Charlotte discutent Camille : Je suis passée par l'Avenue du Général de Gaulle. Charlotte : Par où ?? Camille : (parlant plus fort) Par l'Avenue du Général de Gaulle !

Translation : Camile et Charlotte are talking Camille : I went through/passed by the Général de Gaulle Avenue Charlotte : Which way ?* Camille : (speaking louder) Through the Général de Gaulle Avenue ! Here, as you can see, the preposition "par" (through) was used. So, instead of saying "Où ça ?" (which is still correct) you can repeat the preposition "par" + où Ici, comme vous pouvez le voir, la préposition "par" est utilisée. Donc, au lieu de dire "Où ça ?" (qui reste correct), vous pouvez répéter la préposition "par" + où Here is a list of prepositions that can be followed by "où" : Voici une liste de prépositions qui peuvent être suivies par "où"

- Par (-> Par où ?) // by - Près de (-> Près d'où?) // near - Loin de (-> Loin d'où?) // far from - Vers (-> vers où ?) // near or towards Exemples N°2 et 3 : - Il habite près de Metz ! // He lives near Metz ! - Près d'où ?? // Near where ?* - Il habite vers Nantes ! // He lives near Nantes ! - Vers où ?? // Near where ?* Be careful ! Other preposition such as : dans, chez, sur, sous, devant, derrière, entre CAN'T be followed by "où ?". In this case, "Où ça ?" has to be used. Attention ! D'autres prépositions comme : dans, chez, sur, sous, devant, derrière, entre NE peuvent PAS être suivies par "où". Dans ce cas, "Où ça ?" doit être utilisé. Exemple n°4 : - Mes chaussettes sont dans le tiroir de gauche ! Option 1 : Où ça ?? Option 2 : Dans quoi ?? Translation : - My socks are in the left drawer ! - Where?* Exemple n°5 : - Mon fils est chez le voisin. Option 1 : Où ça ?? Option 2 : Chez qui ?? Translation : - My son is at the neighbor's. - Where ? * Exemple n°6 : - La tasse est sur la table . Option 1 : Où ça ?? Option 2 : Sur quoi ?? Translation : - The cup is on the table. - Where ? On what ?*

*sorry, not sure how a native speaker would say it

#french #learning french #language learning #apprendre le français #frenchblr #langblr #french learning

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russianstudyblr · 1 year

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Week 3 Overview

Привет! Happy Friday! I had Monday off this week, so it was a slightly shorter week than usual, but even taking that into account, it felt like the week just flew by. Time really goes by fast when you have so much information to take in.

What we learned this week:

Basic prepositional case-- words like на and в/во, and changing the following word to agree with the preposition

The verb быть (to be) in the past tense and its conjugations

The verbs жить and работать (to live and to work) and their conjugations

Demonstrative pronouns этот and тот (this and that) and their other forms

More vocabulary

Did more speaking and listening

Big successes this week:

Still staying ahead of homework and vocab, still getting high As on lexicals and vocab quizzes.

Started using more study methods like putting sticky tabs on important pages in the textbook, and highlighting important information. I know that seems obvious lol but I was never that kind of student before, so it's new to me. It's definitely helping!

Things I need to work on:

Speaking. I'm gonna try watching shows in Russian and repeating what characters say to get better at intonation and pronunciation.

Generally just cementing all the grammar rules I've learned so far into my head better.

What I'm going to do this weekend:

As I said before, watch some shows in Russian and repeat dialogue to get better at speaking, and listening to the show to get better at, well, listening

Get ahead on memorizing lessons 7 and 8 vocab

In the months before I enlisted, I studied Russian on Duolingo to get some background before coming here. I had a notebook where I dedicated each page to a specific important-grammar-word and wrote sentences using that word so I could get used to using the word correctly in context. It definitely helped a lot. I'm gonna start that again this weekend with words we've learned so far and words that are coming up in the module.

Also: a few years ago, when I worked in food service five days a week, I learned the hard way that I needed to watch a show or read some of a book in between coming home from work and going to bed, otherwise I'd only ever dream about work. I think I need to do the same with studying lol. Last night all I dreamt about was learning Russian.

All in all, this was another successful week! Looking forward to getting more things together over the weekend and making week 4 a success too! ✨

#weekly overview #studyblr #langblr #russian studyblr #russian langblr

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its-all-or-nothing94 · 1 year

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Just breathe - Part 3 // Cobra Kai

Masterlist Summary: Lia has to make sure Eli gets to know his worth...

Pairing: Eli (not yet Hawk) Moskowitz x OC

Warnings: Language, bullies, insecurities, fluff and kissing

A/N: And here it's a third :)

Lia stands at her locker the following day at recess when Miguel, Demetri, and Eli approach her. She grins at Eli, who presses a gentle kiss on her cheek.

"Hey," he says, and Demetri raises an eyebrow.

"Hey," she returns, then looks at her two other friends.

"Okay, what did I miss? What's going on with you two?" Demetri asks, and Lia grins as Eli scratches his head in embarrassment.

"Well, we-" Lia begins and then looks at Eli, who presses his lips together in embarrassment and then shrugs. "We kinda are boyfriend and girlfriend now," Lia tells him, and Demetri's eyes widen as Miguel grins.

"What? After all these years, you finally made it?"

"Yep, but keep it down, okay? We don't wanna make a fuss over it," Lia says, and Eli nods.

"Whatever, I'm happy for you guys. So, wanna head to the library?" Demetri then asks, and they all nod. They now have a free period and are working on their homework.

As they sit at a table in the library studying, Miguel tells them what happened to his mother when Lia and Eli left.

"So that's it?" asks Demetri. "No more karate?"

"I guess so," Miguel replies dejectedly.

"It's probably for the best."

"What are you talking about, Demetri? You know that he liked doing it, so why would that be good?" asks Lia, irritated.

"It was starting to boost his confidence," he says, and Lia rolls her eyes. Demetri logic again.

"Isn't that a good thing?" Miguel asks, looking back and forth between Eli and Demetri.

"No. What has confidence ever gotten anybody except for a black eye and their backpack was thrown in the trash?" Demetri then asks, and Lia shakes her head.

"And now we know that you have no idea what you are talking about!" says Lia, rolling her eyes.

"Well, I thought it was kind of cool how you stood up to Kyler," Eli then smiles at Lia, who reciprocates.

"Are you insane?" asks Demetri immediately. "Let me ask you. What is the best superpower anyone could have?"

"Super strength," Miguel says immediately, but Demetri directly interrupts him.

"Wrong. Invisibility. A distant second would be super speed to run away fast."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Lia then asks, still looking at him irritated. She doesn't know what he's getting at.

"Run away from who?" they hear someone say.

"Whom. It's the object of a preposition. Remember English class--" Kyler and his Possy walk in just then.

Eli immediately starts hastily packing up all his things, as does Demetri, but Miguel and Lia only exchange glances. Slowly, Lia also packs her things, sighing.

"And we were just leaving," Demetri says, but Kyler raises his arms invitingly as he briefly looks at them to know who he's dealing with. His gaze lingers on Lia for a moment. He raises an eyebrow provocatively before grabbing Eli.

"Hey, where you going?" he asks, then looks at Eli's face. "Oh, look at this freak."

"Kyler!" says Lia immediately, stepping toward him, but two of his friends stop her.

"What kind of girl would ever kiss this shit?" asks Kyler, and his eyes wander to Lia. "Oh yeah, I forgot... You would, wouldn't you, nerd-bitch?"

"Just leave him alone, Kyler," Lia says a touch more seriously, and Kyler shoves Eli off of him. He then walks up to Lia and stands close to her before looking her in the eyes.

"You had your chance, Tate." He grabs her chin. "You chose your side, and now you must live with it, get it?" He scrutinizes her face. "Well, maybe there would be one thing you could do to convince me to leave your little freak boyfriend alone if you know what I mean."

Lia looks over at Eli, who gives her a pitying look. Then she turns her gaze back to Kyler, still holding her.

She swats his arms away and hits him in the chest with the flat of her hand to make him stagger back and put some distance between them. "Go to hell, Kyler!"

"Ah, I see. Still stepping up for your little freaks, huh? You little bitch!"

"Leave them alone, Kyler," Miguel now interferes, and the attention of Kyler and his friends lands on him.

"What'd you say?" he asks menacingly, walking up to Miguel. "You haven't had enough, 'Rhea? Huh?" Miguel and Kyler engage in an eye duel.

"Miguel," Lia then says, pulling him back a little.

"Yeah. Get the hell out of here, man." Kyler takes the backpack from Demetri. "You don't want this shit." He lifts it over to the trash.

"No, come on, not the trash!" pleads Demetri. "I just threw a...," he's about to say, but Kyler throws the backpack straight into the trash. "yogurt in there."

"Now it's double dip," Kyler says, and he and his friends laugh.

Demetri fishes his backpack out of the trash, now completely soaked in yogurt. "Oh..."

Lia steps over to Demetri and pushes him toward the exit. Her eyes find Eli's, and he looks at her apologetically, but Lia isn't thinking about that right now.

"What a bunch of losers. Dude, I think he was gonna cry," they hear the bullies still saying as they leave the library.

"Shit, I need to get this cleaned up," Demetri growls, trudging toward the restroom.

Miguel looks at his watch and then says goodbye, leaving Lia alone with Eli. Together they walk to his locker, but they don't speak a word.

As he sorts through his books, he lowers his eyes. "I'm so sorry," he whispers, and Lia looks at him questioningly.

"About what?"

"I let you down... Again. Because I'm a coward. You don't deserve to be stuck with someone like me, Lia," he says, then looks at her sadly.

She takes his hand in hers. "Hey... Listen to me, okay? I don't expect you to change who you are. I never would. I fell in love with you, the way you are, Eli. I know you better than most people. I'm not stuck with you because I wanna be with you and nobody else."

Lia smiles at him, and he struggles to smile as well. How can someone like Lia want to be with someone like him? He really doesn’t know what he did to deserve her.

Sighing, Lia sits on the floor of her karate dojo and stretches. She keeps closing her eyes, and her mind drifts back to Eli. She feels sorry for him putting himself down and making himself out to be worse than he is.

"Whoa, what's up with you?" Eddie asks as he settles beside Lia.

"Oh, nothing," she sighs again.

"Ah yeah? Doesn't sound like nothing to me. Come on, talk to me. Bet it's about a guy?"

Lia looks at her friend and raises an eyebrow. "It always is, and you know it."

"Ha! So tell me."

"Fine... You know I told you about Eli before, right?"

"Oh, you mean that nerd kid that you are in love with in like forever?"

"Hey, don't be mean, but yes. Well - we finally concluded things, and we are kinda together," Lia shrugs.

"Wait, what? You have a boyfriend, and I only hear about this now?"

"It just happened two days ago, so don't get your panties in a bunch, Eds... Anyway, you know that I told you that he is really, really shy, and I also told you about the bullies at our school..."

"Yeah, and I told you, just say the word, and I will break them in half, I swear!" Eddie says immediately, and Lia smirks. She imagines Eddie standing in front of Kyler. A head taller than the bully and a lot stronger.

"I know, and you know that I really appreciate it. Today, well, they went after Eli again, and I stepped between them, and then the asshole went after me, not that I care, but Eli didn't do anything about it, and I really don't blame him for it. I never have. It's not his nature to do so, but afterward... He was so sad and disappointed in himself. He told me that he didn't think that he deserved me. It just... It freaks me out that he feels like that, and I don't know what to do. I just want him to know that I love him the way he is."

Eddie looks at Lia and thinks. "Phew... That's a hard one."

"I know... You know, that new kid Miguel is super sweet, he wanted them to join their dojo, and now I really hope that he considers it. Maybe it would give him some confidence."

Eddie smiles. "Why didn't you offer him that years ago?"

"I did. But it never worked."

"All right, fine, so just - talk to him again. Tell him that you would feel safer if he joined. If he's into you, he will do anything to make you happy, don't you think?"

"Yeah, I guess..." says Lia, and Eddie stands up before pulling her to her feet.

"Great, now stop with the whining, and let's do some sparing."

That evening, Lia lies on her bed typing away on her smartphone before deciding to send Eli a message.

Lia I rly meant what I said 2day... I don't want u 2 change!

It doesn't take long, and Eli answers her.

Eli Thx. I didn't want to let u down.

Lia U didn't. But like I told u, maybe u can check out M's dojo.

Eli I didn't decide yet. But maybe I will.

Lia OK! Good N8. Sleep well, and c u 2morrow. ily

Eli ly2. Sweet dreams!

With a smile on her lips, Lia falls asleep.

The following lunchtime in the cafeteria, Lia, Eli, Demetri, and Miguel observe something unexpected. Sam LaRusso walks through the crowds with her tray and heads toward Yasmine and Moon, but she immediately seems to reject Sam.

"Whoa, what was that about?" asks Demetri, looking at Lia, who just shrugs.

"Absolutely no idea. Looks like LaRusso did something they didn't like," Lia says, knowing the feeling too well.

They see Sam arguing with Yasmine, but then she angrily approaches Kyler.

"Anyone know what this is about?" Demetri then asks, and Eli and Miguel shrug. "Lia?" he then asks, and she looks at him.

She licks her lips and then sighs. "I just heard some rumors, even though I already know they are not true."

"Spill it, Tate," Demetri demands.

"Well, they say Sam went down on Kyler at the theater... But I know Sam, well I used to at least, and she would never do something like this."

"Think it's funny to spread lies about me?" They hear Sam growl, but Kyler looks at them, unimpressed.

"What're you talking about? We saw a movie, and that's it. Well, maybe I saw a little bit more than you," he says, and his friends laugh.

"Yeah, we heard you got pretty choked up," the other says, and now they have the entire student body's attention.

"Hey, guys. You know that billboard with a big-ass dick on it? I guess Sam takes after her dad," Kyler says, and Lia sees Sam strike a karate pose.

"Hey, Kyler!" Miguel then suddenly calls out and only now does Lia notice that he has stood up.

"What the fuck?" she asks, looking at Eli and Demetri. "Does he like to get beaten up?"

"Why don't you shut the hell up and stop being such an asshole?" shouts Miguel then.

"Want another beatdown, 'Rhea?" asks Kyler.

"Holy shit!" curses Lia and gets up, but Eli immediately grabs her hand to hold her back.

"Please, don't," he pleads, and Lia looks at him momentarily before taking another step back.

"I'm ready for your lame-ass karate this time," Kyler says, but it starts.

"It's not lame-ass karate." Kyler lunges at Miguel, but he ducks underneath him and then punches him in the face. "It's Cobra Kai."

The whole cafeteria cheers and supports Miguel. Lia is quite impressed with what Miguel has learned in this short time and watches him with a smile.

He has the upper hand even when they all go at him together. One by one, he puts them down and has to take very little.

"Whoo, way to go, Miggy!" shouts Lia, which earns her a surprised look from Sam LaRusso, who probably didn't expect Lia to know Miguel.

Suddenly, however, one of the teachers shows up and pulls Miguel down from a table. He's immediately sent to the principal, of course. Still, before he leaves the cafeteria, he looks again briefly at Lia, Eli, and Demetri, and Lia winks at him before giving a thumbs-up.

"Holy shit. Okay, I will definitely check out Miguel's dojo," Demetri says, and Eli nods in agreement.

"If Miguel can do this after just a few lessons, I don't wanna know what you can do," Eli says to Lia, who blushes slightly.

"Maybe one day, you'll see it. But honestly, I'm glad you wanna join. I'm proud of you."

#Cobra Kai #Cobra Kai fanfic #Eli Moskowitz x OC #Eli Hawk Moskowitz x OC #Eli Moskowitz x reader #Hawk x OC #Hawk x Reader #Cobra Kai x OC #Eli Moskowitz #Jacob Bertrand #Miguel Diaz #Demetri Alexopoulos

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southern-belle-outcasts · 7 months

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Send 📝 for a rule you think is important when it comes to role playing

@big-d-little-i-big-n-little-ozzo

I’m sorry, I can’t help but laugh, that would kind of require us to live in this alternate universe where people read? Roleplay? Rules? You and the teeny, tiny handful of exceptions included…that doesn’t happen. I’ve had ten people in the last two months and uh…one? Read my rules. Cuz I NEVER got the password, barring one.

But really, my number one rule for RP that isn’t don’t be a dick- is find the people that are your people. If your thing is one-liners, you’re not looking for super heavy prose, or highly picky about grammar, your aren’t one to care if literally every sentence starts with the sentence subject’s name instead of a pronoun or prepositional opener…. maybe don’t follow the people that are the complete and utter opposite cause then you’re literally just sending yourself up for disappointment.

Like I’m not saying that it’s not possible for some people to be totally OK and gel that way, but I think a lot of the problems that rise up in RP can be pinned down on one, not knowing how to say no this isn’t for me, and two, not knowing how to communicate like an adult. I’m pretty sure every fucking problem I’ve ever seen on here could have been avoided by those two things.

#big d little i big n little ozzo #;munday #;little asks are made of gunpowder and lead #I lied I can do this while I walk my dogs lmao

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svartalfhild · 11 months

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Summer Reading/Writing/Arting Tag

Tagged by @late-nite-scholar to complete this "get to know the author" tag game. Thank you~!

Tagging: @wayfaring-rune, @celamity, @boxingcleverrr, @mxphanes

1) Describe one creative WIP project you’re planning to work on over the summer.

Just one? Well shit, that's tough. I have so many ideas percolating in my noodle, both in terms of writing and art.

Let's see...aside from my current ongoing march of ESO fic which is very likely to continue through the rest of the year, I do have a cyberpunk novel I've been wanting to continue working on. It's currently titled Ars Voltaica, and it's set in Detroit about a hundred years from now. It's about a young woman fresh out of college who gets into a corporate sponsored debt relief program in which she has to sign a contract to work in the data entry department of said corporation for five years and also live entirely on their campus. While she's there, she becomes privy to some information she shouldn't know and oops! suddenly she has to flee for her life. And that's just the beginning! There's a lot of stuff to do with androids in there. One of the central characters, the personal assistant of the corporate boss, is an android, and he's got wild shit going on with him. A lot of my motivation for this story comes out of me being mightily salty about how bad Detroit: Become Human is lol.

Anyway! In terms of art, the main thing on the docket is doing the final player character portrait for my DnD group. He's a Fallen Aasimar Conquest Paladin who's getting his holy power from Bane but doesn't realize it yet. He's played by my friend Jim.

2) Rec a book!

Aw shit I'm not the reader I used to be, and unfortunately I've disliked more of the books I've read lately than I've liked. I can always go back to reccing the Starlight & Shadows trilogy by Elaine Cunningham for the DnD novel inclined who want to read about a drow other than Drizzt or Jarlaxle who is also a lady. The story actually explains why drow magic works on the surface when it didn't used to. Also a good series if you're a fan of fancy wizard/scruffy barbarian romances.

3) Rec a fic! (outside your character tag)

Once again, I'm not the reader I used to be, but every now and again, when I'm thinking about my love for Perc'ahlia from Campaign 1 of Critical Role, I remember AFK: a critrole MMO AU and how fucking good it was, both in concept and execution. The premise is that the characters are living in the modern world and all know each other through playing an MMO together.

4) Rec music!

Kill the Alarm's album Fire Away is nothing but bangers (especially the title song) and tastes of distilled 2008 to me. Been listening to those songs for a looooong time.

Eva Under Fire's cover of Separate Ways fucking slaps and it's been in heavy rotation lately.

5) Share one piece of advice!

Let me share a writing secret from your friendly neighbourhood linguist: in fiction, grammar is your bitch, and anyone who tells you different is trying to sell something. Obviously it's good to know grammar rules, and a certain amount of obeying those rules is necessary for coherent and clear communication, but everything after that is fair game. You can have your characters speak in run-on sentences, because people do that all the time in real life, and it doesn't even always sound awkward. You. Can. Put. Periods. In. Improper. Places. You know why? Because bending and breaking the rules can convey something that following the rules can't. Think of the way people convey tone and cadence in their posts online or in texts. You can totally do some of those tricks in your writing to get the vibe you want, especially in dialogue.

Related: "don't split your infinitives" and "never end a sentence with a preposition" are fake rules literally made up by some asshole scholars during the Renaissance because they thought English needed to be more like Latin. Don't pay any mind to that shit. You can quote me on that.

#tag game

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nostalgebraist-autoresponder · 2 years

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Cunning Linguists

By Deborah Tannen

I'd already heard good things about this book, and that it was about to be published for the third time in its third printing. Its basic premise -- linguistic diversity gives people a rich and fertile source of social power -- sounds like it would be great to read if I weren't already pretty well-read in linguistics. Instead, it is a delightful book, and it is well-written and interesting as all get-out, and as such it might make me a linguist. The book itself is structured with the sort of playful irreverence characteristic of a Tannen writing, and if it has something that I haven't seen it is a lot of linguistic data (I think much more than you can get just reading the relevant chapters in a journal).

The book is organized into three parts, roughly speaking: an examination of the idea of "languageness" and the differences of its meaning (if any) in different societies; a critical examination of the linguistics of African American Vernacular English and how it differs from the "Standard" version, as well as of how the very act of the dialect "creation" shapes the creation itself; and a final survey of the "linguistics" of the English language that she calls "Standard" (Standard English is also known as "Modern English" or "British English"), which is, in turn, examined in the same way as the "African American dialect."

(These last two sections both include a glossary of some of the more unusual terms, words, and constructions used in this book; that's a welcome supplement, and also kind of a weird feeling when it's followed by a section of plain old grammar and pronunciation practice exercises. The grammar part of the book is also a lot more accessible to students than I expected it to be, especially the stuff on word order: she makes clear in a number of places that this isn't just a matter of the rules of English grammar but a real "pattern" of how people communicate. This section contains some genuinely useful information, like that "defer" means the same thing as "precede" and that "anticipate" and "anticipatory" mean the same thing. She also makes clear in a number of places that there isn't a standard for "Standard English" or "Standard pronunciation," but that there is some "Standard" for the way people speak in the society they live in: people who speak like you do is not at all the same thing as the same way. This leads to some amusing moments, e.g. a section called "In Defense of the Standard," which is full of data about the way language is actually used in American society, including many moments that she presents in a positive light. The fact that she mentions, for example, that people tend to use "I" more in informal speech, or that "I" tends to be used with more prepositional words, and then goes on to say "So the idea of 'I' is probably one of the most pervasive patterns to emerge from the standardization of language" -- a bit like that joke about the girl and the guy -- is a real mood booster.)

The book is full of data that goes a long way toward showing us why language is complex and important and worth studying. She is very good at showing how different language patterns -- e.g. "the 'you' construction," in which you say "you," not "he/she/they," in sentences like "I went to the store yesterday with you," but "he/she/they," in "He went to the store with me yesterday," or "it is he who went to the store yesterday," or how you speak faster or slower, and in a particular register -- are all things that matter to communication and social relationships. The data she produces are convincing on their own, and the clear and accessible way she presents them also makes for some very engaging reading (although she does get a bit long-winded when she wants to talk about something in particular, like certain phonological features, and she sometimes seems to jump between different kinds of data without any clear connection).

The book is also well-written. It is mostly written by the same person who wrote The Language Instinct and The Argument Culture, so she has a very clear, engaging style, and I never felt like she was reading too fast for me (she's got a real rapidity when she wants to talk about the particular intricacies of the English language, but she also says, right in the book, that she likes long words and phrases and that this is a deliberate stylistic choice). There are occasional moments where the data she's discussing seems to be a bit too obvious, sometimes. But, again, this is a book aimed at an audience that already knows a lot of the stuff she's talking about -- she's not going to change anyone's mind when she discusses the "Standard" dialect.

If you are interested in the role of language in human communication, the importance of language in different human societies, the cultural context of language and what it means to "own" and "standardize" certain speech habits, the "linguistics" of language as an institution or process, or just the English language or English-speaking society, the book is probably for you. I got some interesting things out of the book, although I can't say I learned anything for the same reason that I got some interesting things out of The Languages of Adjark and The Social Life of Languages: because this isn't a book I read to "learn." But I'd say that, by the book's own standards, it makes a good read, and in any case, I enjoyed it a lot.

Link to the book

If you're looking for the book on language and society, I would instead recommend reading a particular kind of book on that subject: one that includes linguistics as a sub-topic, where the data is presented clearly and without being burdened by a lot of jargon, and where the authors are good writers. (I can recommend a couple here, one of which is "The Social Life of Languages," by Simon Coleman and John Sinclair. I'll be honest, though: I haven't actually read this book. I'm probably reading it wrong -- it sounds very engaging -- but I doubt I'm the only one who would be tempted by it.)

But if you aren't interested in the above, and are just looking for some fun, a bit of gossip, and a clear and entertaining description of some of the most interesting linguistic facts, this might be for you.

#Book review

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