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thwip--thwip · 4 months

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#I WONT APOLOGIZE #its a compound word #like deadpool or hawkeye #OR #you separate the words #like iron man or black widow #DAREDEVIL or IRON FIST #no hyphen 🔪#spiderman

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gammija · 7 days

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musing about what a translation of the silt verses would sound like and immediately running headfirst into the problem of whether and how to translate 'Sister Carpenter'

#Faulkner too but i feel like his reads less immediately like an occupation #for him i think 'broeder Marlon' has the right vibes and still alludes to falconry without being too in your face about it #but carpenter... oof. a literal translation doesnt work A) because its basically the surname of a v well known politician #and B) it ends in man #dutch has too many compound words that prevent most trade names from the possibility of gaining the extra meaning of a proper name #or at least make that more difficult. or maybe its cause im not natively english but i did know what a carpenter was #however smthn like 'furniture-maker' would never work as your protagonists name. but thats how most of these names are in dutch #so far ive got Molenaar (:/) Coster (sounds better but the meaning is off) Kuiper (sounds like a football stadium) or Tichelaar #(good cadence and an actual trade but idk if the vibes match 'carpenter'#)#tsv #the silt verses #de zavelverzen #joos yaps #dutch #broeder Valkenaer kan ook wel eigenlijk #i already found yet more options for carpenter... but none of them rlly snap into place #Zuster Sagher? (zager)

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samodivas · 6 months

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this [redacted] organization I follow unironically referred to as age-based discrimination as "ейджизъм" and I've been thinking about how cringe-inducing that is for days.

what the fuck is eydzizam? why did you have to literally transcribe a foreign compound word that makes zero sense when you could have simply said "discrimination based on age" and provided an insightful explanation for the issue you're addressing? how do you expect anyone to take you seriously when you can't even utilize language to make your point?

"oh but its terminology" it isn't! it truly isn't. right up there with "ейбълизъм" for "ableism" it's lazy, anglocentric and pathetically unaware of its own bias.

"but people who care about these things understand English so they know what it means" then why are you preaching to the choir? why are teenagers and 20 - 30 something year olds who have the means to master a foreign language the only audience that matters? what about people who don't know "terminology" or who are too old and out of the loop, or simply don't speak the language you're borrowing from?

I don't think wanting to have this information accessible in your own language, in terms you can fully comprehend, is somehow backwards or limiting. If this is what the entire "progressive" scene is like in this country, is it at all surprising that so many people (whether they're conservative, moderate or completely politically inactive) genuinely believe that these ideas are "planted by foreign agents" from the West?

And the fact that I get called "nationalist" for wanting the bare minimum effort to be put into adapting these topics for a localized audience is insane. If you can't make discussions on "ageism" or "ableism" accessible to a local person who doesn't speak English, it's not their problem for being "willfully ignorant" as most people coming from a place of privilege are. it's your problem for dismissing a huge segment of the population before they can even learn what the fuck you're preaching.

#also its an anarchist organization but like. it's not particularly anarchist of u to lean so hard on linguistic imperialism tbh #also I am aware that words like 'sexism' are technically the same; but consider that the word 'sex' is very much used in bulgarian #simply in a different context. and even then; 'gender based discrimination' is still used just as often as the foreign compound word #anyway. i overall like the organization and I'm always down to hang and help out progressives in different circles #but then there's embarrassing shit like this that makes me think this is tumblr-level activism that's detatched from reality #p: mine

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kamil-a · 2 months

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(finishing relisten from this morning) when the elevators hear about this. hehehehe

#i have Thoughts on porter like.... being down to gossip with sayer but also working against it with future #and also sayer being the one to .#[thinks] sorry guys i dont think we dont have any noninnuendoable aversive-administer words left in common parlance.#the one to send it off for reprogramming i suppose. and to stay loud where it is muted. except argos!#i guess you could take a flipside and say FUTURE was tricking or threatening it into compliance and its actually team sayer but. shrug.#its fully open to interpretation i think? and i like to imagine futureporter bestiesisms #all this compounded by her plural existence in a way no other ais really have. and that only halcyonporters know future #and argosporters dont know sayer.#anyway i think she (collectively) is in the worlds weirdest 'friends with 2 ppl who hate each other' situation and that becomes 3 with ocea #sayerposting

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andronauts · 10 months

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tbh, german grammar is so weird.

as someone who’s been learning german for almost a year now, i have to say, german grammar is just so weird…

every language in the world expresses sentences with subjects, verbs and objects. not necessarily in the same order, but they will generally pick an order. english for example uses Subject-Verb-Object (or i’ll say SVO)

I eat food (I - subject, eat - verb, food - object). and this pretty much applies all the time.

other languages might use SOV, or VSO, or any other combination. but german is just. so weird because they don’t follow any one sentence structure at all. they split verbs into two, they rearrange where the verb goes, they put the verbs back together, sometimes it’s at the beginning of the sentence, sometimes it’s at the end. you can have the subject at the start of the sentence, but also you could have the object at the start of the sentence too! why not! for example:

ENG: I’m learning German (SVO), because I have a German boyfriend. (SVO)

nice, simple! subject verb object all around :).

now let’s look at the german translation for this same sentence!

GER: ich lerne Deutsch (SVO), weil ich einen deutschen Freund habe (SOV).

because of the connective WEIL we now have to put the VERB at the end of the sentence.

this is true for other connectives too (ie. wenn)

okay, so wenn (in eng, “when”/“if”) puts the verb at the end so lets see an example of that

ENG: when I eat chocolate (SVO), I am happy (SVO)

oh that’s lovely :) yay! SVO and SVO! its just so simple. now let’s look jn german

GER: wenn ich Schokolade esse (SOV), bin ich glücklich (VSO)

oh so now BIN (in eng, “am”) is at the start? oh… okay I guess!

if we swap the english sentences around, the sentence becomes “I am happy, when I eat chocolate”, which generally means the same thing as the original sentence.

however, if we swap the sentences around in German, it becomes a question. ,“bin ich glücklich, wenn ich Schokolade esse?” since the verb is at the beginning of the sentence, we are now posing a question. “am I happy, when I eat chocolate?” instead.

if we wanted to retain the same meaning, we go back to SVO to become “ich bin glücklich, wenn ich Schokolade esse.”

and now for the last example is that you can swap around Object and Subject in the sentence order and it will make sense and mean the same thing as well?

ENG: I am cooking sausage (SVO)

GER: ich koche Würstchen (SVO)

GER: Würstchen koche ich (OVS)

however if u did that in english it would just be “sausage is cooking me” or “sausage is cooking I” which doesn’t really make any sense at all and you sound crazy. but no, it’s completely valid and normal to just swap word order in German because. you just can?

and I haven’t even talked about split verbs or sentences with two+ verbs yet (I want to eat chocolate) where in english, both the verbs still remain in the SVO sentence structure. but in german it’s just a whole other set of rules to wrap your head around (ich will Schokolade essen) where ich is I - subject, will - “want” (verb), Schokolade is the object (chocolate), and essen is the second verb (to eat). like ? it’s just at the end of the sentence now? literally no other language does this I think

in general most languages will pick one order but german is just so damn weird bc they just switch it up whenever they want just becuz okay german and dont even get me started on split and reflexive verbs 🤦🏻

#language learning #german learning #I just wanted to ramble #german #I love learning german tho #learning grammar is fun I think but its remembering declensions that kills me #at least german vocabulary is easy asf to make up for the weird ass grammar LMFAO #(me starting a sentence and then forgetting to add the second verb) oh well #i dont even know if this post will make sense to anyone i just wrote it for myself bc it was fun #grammar!!!!#english is just so easy 💔#German grammar n declensions n gendered nouns and compound words like RINDFLEISCHETTIKERUNGSÜBERWACHUNGSAUFGABENÜBERTRAGENGESETZ #i orobably misspelt somewhere #my boyfriend made me memorize that stupid word -__-#real word btw for nongerman speakers

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figofswords · 1 year

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The Batman fandom has ruined the words replacement, coffee, cereal, green, pit and so many others lol. Every time I hear those words I just have a fight or flight response 😭

DONT even get me started. you should hear the sigh I make every time I see REPLACEMENT. like yes hate how are so many people so wrong

#whenever im writing Jason im always like. very carefully wording my away around having to use the word at all #bc it’s become such a fuckin Thing #like Guys that’s not How People Talk!!!!!!!!!#also ok last week I said I was gonna write out a short essay on some gripes I have about Jason characterization in the fandom #and like half of it has to do with ‘pit madness’ which. which. hrghfks #basically tldr about it. it’s some fucking bullshit that isn’t really like. canon supported #like ‘pit madness’ is a temporary thing immediately following immersion #and it’s THEORIZED that ra’s al ghul is bonkers evil bc of centuries of compounded use #but Jason went in ONE TIME and it wasn’t a full resurrection #and more importantly I THINK ITS A FUCKING COP OUT #oh here’s a deeply morally complex character who’s arc is defined by his tragedy and anger #what if uhhhh all of these complexities were caused by fuckin pit mind control or some shit and ACTUALLY he’s a good guy uwu #like WAY TO BE BORING I GUESS. GODDAMN #I don’t have evidence to support this but I suspect the whole concept came from morrison’s Jason arc #like as a way to explain why he’s completely off the rails there #but actually what you should do is ignore morrison’s arc bc morrison doesn’t know how to write Jason #ANYWAYS. Batman fandom is so annoying I’m gonna have to stop looking at it and just like #live in mt version of reality where I’m approaching comics from an increasingly scholarly angle #and read the good runs of the comics #and ignore whatever the fuck is going on with the Batman fans #asks #anonanonanonanah

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jumpin--bean · 7 months

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There are posts on my dash tagged "dw" for both Doctor Who and Discworld. And I think that's beautiful

Maybe one day I'll get someone using that tag for the sister from Arthur. The world is varied & wondrous!!

#i use dw for doctor who personally #simply bc i talk about it more #and also its weird to me personally to abbreviate a compound word using two letters. it isn't disc world yknow #but i love & respect all interpretations! language and fandom and tag systems are so cool!!

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crplpunkklavier · 1 year

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the fate of someone who learned most of his english through reading homestuck is that even years after the fact it will struggle to think of the term 'exclamation mark' because 'shoutpole' is right there and just seems to make much more sense

#probably because its a compound word and my little german mind loves compound words

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paynnincorporated · 2 years

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Up in Sun City Word, Moordryd and the Paynn family dragon, in Moordryd’s room post Zulay’s death.

#dragon booster #word paynn #moordryd paynn #nana #nanny dragon #moordryds room #have i mentioned how much fun it is to draw backgrouns #and make them look lived in #and work in some storytelling???#its unfortunately missing in DB #barring Moordryd's head in his compound lol #budget i guess

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lavenoon · 2 years

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hey, hey pssst. You mentioned in one of the ask answers that for "The Catbird is out of the Bag" you had a funny german title for it, and I am immensely curious about what the title was

So, this is all very very tentative since I didn't know this myself before either and I hope the idiom is actually well-known enough - but google led me to believe that in English the phrase "Every dog has its day" exists. Means that anyone will have a lucky break sometimes - which in context of the fic would've been their luck actually "running out" (which is just lucky for them, actually), the game is up their identities out in the open, even though before they had all coincidences align in the favor of secrecy.

In German, the equivalent idiom translates to "Even a blind hen will one day find a grain." Which would have been a very goofy bird joke, which I was kind of set on. Then, alas, it turns out the English idiom is different and gone was my working title fghdj

In the end a chicken might've been too goofy anyway (though, as someone who knows chickens personally, I would not wanna cross a chicken), so maybe this was fate!

#answer let luce #zelda7999 #it was just the first thing i could think of and it was v funny to me in the moment #in the end i think i do like catbird better #it's more obvious too i think #for that i just hope catbirds do exist #like its clever bc I found a bird that has cat in its name not bc i simply made a compound word fantasy animal #GFDHJSK

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fivefeetfangirl · 8 months

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The wild duck by Henrik Ibsen, 1884

#having a normal one tonight hsjdhsjdh #ngl ibsens use of compound words doesnt really translate that well into english. would love to read this in german tho #the wild duck #henrik ibsen #reading this in middle school was like going through a traumatic experience but you dont know it while its happenening and then a couple of #years later youre like WHAT THE FUCK THE LIFE LIEEEEE #anyways. ive been like this for years now. its not going well. need more people to talk about the wild duck with hsjdhsjdh

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lost-at-hacketts-quarry · 2 years

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Dylan Headcanon 9

Dylan absolutely let his Nerd Knowledge™ slip one time and showed his campers the cool "trick" that happens with Wint O Green Lifesavers when in the dark, and they absolutely loved it.

#the quarry #dylan lenivy #he was scared that he'd get teased and made fun of for slipping up but everyone thought it was really cool #the kids were flocking to and around him all night to see the magic trick (their words not his)#if you're unfamiliar with this and want to know: biting into the mint in the dark causes HARMLESS green/blue sparks to appear #idk the actual science behind it im unfortunately not dylan but hes probably really easy to find just play like marco polo or some shit tbh #its probably due to the impact and force causing some kind of compound in the mint to react but again im not dylan lenivy #or am i?#dylan lenivy ghost wrote this

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falinscloaca · 1 year

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hate hate hate hate HATE the fact that every fucking time i read abt intracommunity shit i feel like i need a “better” “more descriptive” “more precise” word than “lesbian” to describe my sexuality

#BECAUSE IT FUCKING *DOESN’T* GO WITHOUT SAYING WHAT IT MEANS #EITHER YOU ACCEPT PEOPLE WHO DON’T FIT my DEFINITION OF IT CAN USE IT (even getting their own modifiers to make it specificier) OR IT1/;//#FUCKS SAKE ITS EITHER ‘words only mean as much as we describe them’ OR ‘words have set definitions’#AND AT THIS POINT THE FUCKING LABELSMASHING RESULTS IN SOME LUCKY FUCKERS GETTING NICE COMPOUND WORDS TO DESCRIBE THE INTRICACIES OF THEIR I #IDENTITIES BUT IF YOU HAVE THE FUCKING CRIIIME OF NOT WANTING MEN AND THINKING LESBIAN IS ITSELF INCLUSIVE OF NONBINARY PEOPLE UER FUCKING S #STUCK WITH THIS HORSESHIT OLD DEAD WOMANS ISLAND HOUSE FOR XENOPHOBIC SHITHEADS

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unenomainen · 1 year

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Alright google docs square up

#there was a typo so google docs in its infinite wisdom suggested an /entirely different word/ instead 🙄#i fixed the typo and google docs was like. okay you changed the spelling but clearly you need to put a space there #instead of keeping it as a compound word #excuse me........... Do Not think you have a better idea of finnish spelling than me you little bitch 🤨🤨🤨

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izzyspussy · 2 years

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please know what a thing is before you try to declare whether it is present or not.

#jack facts #please remember that terms used to describe specific phenomena must necessarily be made up of words that first meant other things #please remember that a compound word is not always defined as the sum of its parts #please remember that if you can't find a word or phrase defined elsewhere you can ask another human person directly #please. please know what words mean before you use them. please. i am begging.#reading process

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arundolyn · 2 years

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another fun fact lambda has taught me: 11 in german is elf

#crow.txt #blazblueposting #the more you knoooow #thats very silly. i love it.#also boooooooo nu also counting in german with sword summoner hits #get your own gimmick thats Literally Lambda's #faker.#mind your Business.#stop the god damn presses 12 is ZWOLF.#german is so funny actually. i love it #i love when its completely outlandish or when its just english to the left #fuckin krankhaus. sure thats a hospital!#flugzeug. literally 'flying thing'. airplane. sure!#literally the language of all time. we could all learn from it.#we do need to be able to make compound words for any Thing that exists. it would be fun #LOOK UP THE FUCKING WORD FOR SPREADSHEET RIGHT NOW. RIGHT. NOW.#new vatista nickname just dropped.

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