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pronouncing the necron 'sz': personal rating list*
broke: /s/ only ('seras')
woke: /z/ only ('zeras')
provoke: /s/ and /z/ pronounced separately ('s-ze-ras')
bespoke: /ʂ/ or /ʃ/ ('scheras')
invoke: tensed fricative /s͈/ ('sseras')
misspoke: /s/ but evil ('ßeras')
(* Further notes in tags.)
#warhammer 40k#wh40k#necrons#illuminor szeras#necron#shitpost#german speakers i am so sorry you had to read that with your eyes 😂 i also speak german i do know eszetts can't start words#originally this was just for fun but it seems there are quite a lot of ways wh40k fans pronounce this#native english speaking fans usually seem to stick to 's'#whereas in languages that actually use this digraph it would be s/ʂ/ʃ#but in korean translations 'sz' defaults to 'z' so it's definitely 'zeras (제라스)' and 'zarekh (자렉)'#and sometimes the 's' and 'z' are both present and pronounced like in japanese ('s-za-rekh';スザーレク)#(i personally use ʃ because it seems the logical compromise)#in lore terms i think all or most of those pronunciations were used among the necrontyr and there is not one 'canon' version#variety is the spice of life it's fine they're all good. well maybe not the last one but still 😂#according to TDK the necrontyr didn't have a united language until szarekh came along so they must've had different dialects#i reckon that's why the silent king made his universal language. so people could pronounce his name how HE specifically wanted it#it's all becoming so clear now!!!! 😬
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favorite ship dynamic: shenanigans. if they arent gonna get up to mischief together whats the POINT?
#so you know im a sucker for friends to lovers. yeah#it's just like. what is love if not wanting to make someone you care about laugh#it can be mischief of a large variety (young justice international incidents)#or it can be mischief of a small variety (clois long-running gags about spellcheck)#but if theyre in love i think the best way to show it is simply making each other laugh. god bless#yknow that writing advice about how your couple shouldn't have to kiss for the reader to know they're in love?#imo making each other smile and laugh is the corollary to that. what is a better way to show love huh#and ofc it doesnt have to always be romantic i love to clown with my besties but i do think clowning is a love language#rimi talks
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I always feel bad abt not listening to more of those melancholic stare-at-the-ceiling type indie musicians bc truthfully I do tend to like their songwriting but tbh if I'm not trying to sleep then I need my music to make me feel like I'm abt to cage fight a grizzly bear to death and/or fuck nasty (not the bear)
#tcp#the universal language#i mean i do listen to a variety of music but mostly it's just punk and punk adjacent. i have to be in a particular Mood#for anything else#although lately I've been listening to my leo playlist which is a lot of megan rina and bad bunny. just to get thru the winter.
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Speakers of non-English languages of the UK and Ireland wanted!!
Since it’s World Mother Language Day today (February the 21st), I’m thinking of doing a series of posts on the native non-English languages of the United Kingdom and Ireland, with some information and short interviews.
For this, I am looking for both native speakers/signers and learners (with or without parentage/heritage of the language in question) of the following languages:
- Scottish Gaelic
- Irish
- Welsh
- Any sign language of the United Kingdom or Ireland (e.g. BSL)
- Any other minority language indigenous to the United Kingdom or Ireland. By this I mean primarily spoken only within the UK or Ireland as a minority, or spoken very little elsewhere. For example: Cornish, Manx, Shelta, or Anglo-Romani, not languages like Polish or Bengali that are minority within the UK but have a significant speaker base elsewhere. (I am aware that I am fishing for some of these *cough* Cornish *cough*...but you never know!)
- Any language or variety that you speak that you feel is linguistically / culturally distinct from Standard English that you would like to inform more people about. For example: Shetlandic, Scots, Ulster Scots.
I don’t have anything finalised yet, but if you would be wiling to speak to me about some text-based interviews for the sake of qualitative and informative tumblr posts, please send me a message!
(NB: if I have used any names of languages that are not preferred, tell me and I will change them. I don’t know a lot about the non-Celtic and non-Germanic languages here, which is part of my reason for wanting to make this series of posts in the first place.)
Please reblog so more people see this!
- meichenxi
#irish#welsh#scottish gaelic#gaelic#bsl#world mother language day#please reblog <3#every single time I tell anyone (brits included) about the variety of languages that exist natively in the UK and Ireland I die a little#<< that is a joke and I enjoy informing others but also. there's more than english please#cornish and breton and manx....look. if ANYONE on the internet is learning those languages as a second language learner#they are on Tumblr. this I know to be true#*manifesting*#cornish is on my list of celtic languages to learn in the future. but first gaelic. and then welsh since my family is moving there#and THEN perhaps cornish. *meme voice* I just think it's neat!#I also like the challenge of being at the forefront of a revival moment that is almost entirely made up of nerds (affectionate)
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I will probably write about this in more detail later. but while im on the subject of “pre-hiatus/early fob is better than post-hiatus fob” brain rot:
if you look at photos and gifs and videos of soul punk era patrick and think that was the happiest or healthiest that he has ever been. i want you to look in the mirror really closely and examine why. think about it really hard for me ok.
#im begging some of y’all to open ur eyes and read the things you type and say#maybe I’m just projecting bc. of my age and place in life and a variety of other reasons but#soul punk patrick never looked that happy to me#I saw a young man who had been torn to shreds & forced to put himself back together only to be torn to shreds again but now ON HIS OWN#& forced to smile for everyone while he did so#like. his body language during so many interviews and fan interactions. cmon y’all do you not see it#the thinly veiled bitterness and anger#bandom bullshit#kayce’s corner.txt
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Can you define what a word is rly quick thanks <3
(I'm only trolling you a little bit, I do wanna hear what you have to say tho)
no <3
#literally i don't have an answer#i think it's very contextual to the language variety at hand#and is not necessarily a useful concept depending on the type of analysis you're doing#like! what i'm currently writing up focuses on a root + its immediate affixes#is that construction a word? is a root alone a word if it's obligatorily marked in practice?#much to consider
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My spring 2024 cdrama/cmovie/cvariety updates
I can't believe it's already been over 6 months since my last watching updates post! I've been watching more movies, and I'll also mention a couple variety shows, so it's not just cdramas.
Shows/series:
Some of these were mentioned as “currently watching” in my previous post.
《不良执念清除师》 Oh No! Here Comes Trouble
A young man learns to use his supernatural calligraphy powers to help strange beings, with help from his frenemy and a young police officer. This show was like a breath of fresh air and very humorous. That being said, it was difficult to follow all the storylines. If you're going to watch it, I think you should binge it if possible.
Content warning: Death, gore
《此时此刻》 At the Moment
An anthology of quirky pandemic love stories, not all with happy endings. It's kind of like Love Actually in that the characters are connected across stories. Initially I didn't plan to watch because of the pandemic through line—I thought it would bum me out. But it didn't, actually. My favorite episode was Head of the Family.
Content warning: Unhealthy relationships, sex and nudity
《隐秘的角落》 The Bad Kids
Three kids accidentally film a murder and try to blackmail the killer, resulting in devastating consequences. I felt the first half of this show was more captivating than the second half—the second half went a bit overboard IMO. Apparently the original novel is way darker so…! But I still recommend it wholeheartedly.
Content warning: Death and violence (but not graphic)
《沉默的真相》 The Long Night
The murder of a disgraced prosecutor seems like an open-and-shut case, but his past reveals a much more complicated story. This show masterfully weaves together three different timelines. I was so confused after the first episode, but it all made sense in the end. I don't recommend binge watching it—I regretted doing so.
Content warning: Violence, death, sexual assault
《双镜》 Couple of Mirrors
A young woman's personal and professional lives are turned upside down, and she befriends a mysterious woman with a dark past. You have to suspend your disbelief to enjoy this show. There was a ridiculous number of car accidents! It's a GL drama, but if I hadn't know that, I don't think I would have noticed until the end.
Content warning: Death, violence
Variety/reality:
《披荆斩棘的哥哥》 Call Me by Fire
In the past I didn't include variety shows, but this time I thought why not? I finally finished all 3 seasons of this show, the male spinoff of 《乘风破浪的姐姐》 Sisters Who Make Waves. It's similar to an idol survival show, but instead of trainees, the contestants are established celebrities. The sets are always amazing, and I might have enjoyed this show more than 《乘风破浪》 honestly!
Movies:
《家庭简史》 Brief History of a Family
The description of this movie sounded dull, but I ended up enjoying it a lot! I've seen reviews compare it to Parasite and Saltburn. There is definitely some similarity–it's about a well-off family that takes in a mysterious, quiet boy–but the takeaway of this film is very different. It leaves a lot of room for ambiguity.
《流浪地球》 The Wandering Earth
After being on my watchlist for years, I finally got around to seeing this movie. I knew the basic premise: humanity bands together to move Earth away from the expanding sun. I wasn't expecting that it would focus on one family, which gave the movie a more personal feel. I enjoyed it despite not being a huge sci-fi person.
Content warning: Death
《美国女孩》 American Girl
A family moves back to Taiwan for their mother's cancer treatment after several years in the US, and the eldest daughter struggles to adapt. It's set during the SARS outbreak, but I don't remember that being very prominent. This movie was quite bleak and bummed me out. And I found the ending rather abrupt. It wasn't for me I think.
Content warning: Illness, disease outbreak
《你好，李焕英》 Hi, Mom
This movie was super popular when it came out. It's about a woman who gets transported back in time and meets her mother (who is young and childless at this point). At first I was confused about where the movie was going—it didn't seem to be building to much. But it had a heartwarming and touching ending.
Content warning: Death
《周处除三害》 The Pig, The Snake and The Pigeon
After seeing a lot of buzz about this movie online, I had to check it out. It follows a terminally ill hitman who learns he is the third most wanted criminal in Taiwan and decides to kill the two criminals ranking above him. Despite this, the main character is actually pretty likable. I enjoyed the movie despite the violence.
Content warning: Excessive violence, death, sexual assault
Currently watching:
《火星情报局》 Mars Intelligence Agency
This is a variety show. The cast consists of celebrities who take turns telling funny stories and making jokes. I started watching because my favorite singer 薛之谦 is a cast member. I was unsure about the concept at first, but honestly it's really entertaining!
《摩天大楼》 A Murderous Affair in Horizon Tower
I finally started this show, which has been on my watchlist for a while. I'm only 2 episodes in—so far it's mostly been about the past of the titular murder victim. I'm not yet sure what direction the show will go in, but I'm excited to find out.
Abandoning:
《你的孩子不是你的孩子》 On Children
I got through 3 out of 5 episodes before abandoning this show. Each episode is the length of a movie, so they drag on. But I totally understand why episode 2, Child of the Cat, was nominated for and won so many awards. The acting was really strong.
《汉化日记》 God Troubles Me
I wanted to try watching a 动画, but after a few episodes, I wasn't feeling this one. Each episode is quite short, so it's an easy watch. I think it just wasn't for me.
On my watchlist:
《漫长的季节》 The Long Season
《尘封十三载》 Thirteen Years of Dust
I'm trying to be better about content warnings. But please note, I only included them for things I finished watching, not things I'm currently watching or abandoning.
#my watchlist#cdrama#cdramas#chinese drama#chinese dramas#variety show#taiwanese drama#taiwanese movie#chinese movie#chinese#mandarin#mandarin chinese#chinese language#studyblr#langblr#chinese langblr#mandarin langblr#languageblr
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So I just saw [this post] focused on Tang Shen, and the comment about her name got me thinking.
And because I'm a giant language nerd and know where to look, I decided to look up the parts of her name.
Tang is a Chinese surname and can either be in reference to the Tang Dynasty, or it can specifically be the Cantonese romanization of Deng-- which refers "to the ancient state of Deng, which existed during the Shang and Zhou dynasties in what is now either Henan or Hubei province."
Shen is a Chinese masculine name (which makes it an interesting choice for her) that apparently means 'deep thinker', 'deep thought', or 'spirit'.
All of this is to say, if we take her name as the guiding point, Shen should be Chinese. Whether that means she was an immigrant to Japan, or if she's mixed Chinese and Japanese, or any other number of possibilities is up for interpretation.
But there you go TMNT fandom: Shen should be Chinese.
#Tang Shen#TMNT#meta#names#language#linguistics#I don't speak any variety of Chinese#so if someone knows better or more then the input would be appreciated#yes I'm a language nerd#TMNT 2003#TMNT 2012#ROTTMNT#I could tag more but I don't want to spam tags
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Okay. I have obtained more information. I'm unfortunately not too surprised to learn about a group of shitheads co-opting transmasc language to do their toxic masculine bullshit. They suck ass. Whether they leaned into the attitudes as some twisted signifier of maleness, are perpetuating misogyny and transmisogyny for short term benefits that are entirely not worth it, or were just...already shitheads, they suck ass, and they have no goddamn excuse to harass trans women and contribute to the bullshit they already have to endure. We're all on the same team here, you're not helping.
Now that I better understand! I get why trans women are suddenly more apprehensive of people using those words. please understand that their function is not to deny trans women their experiences and struggles, but to give our own experiences and struggles language. people who wield accusations of bigotry as petty cudgels are, pretty universally, shitheads, and I hope we can at least agree on that.
#spitblaze says things#that being said if this whole debacle has lead you to suddenly believe that transmascs and trans men dont face meaningful oppression#thats. it isnt true. im sorry but its not true. its not just 'misdirected misogyny' and its not just garden variety transphobia.#theres no reason we shouldnt be able to have language to discuss the sort of issues we face
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Brief note on small worldbuilding things for my aus:
So, like the JnD wiki, I've been calling their species "human" this whole time because...well, because of one deleted line where Praxis says "we're only human" in the second game.
But it never fit right with the long ears high on the skull and the body proportions more like a Lombax than a human. So in my particular aus, I was inspired by what humans are called in Dungeon Meshi and have decided to call them hu'men instead. With the backstory being that when Precursors and Ottsel Precursors interacted with the sentient species on the planet, the Ottsels called Jak’s species "the huge men". And then over time, "huge men" became the contraction "hu'men".
Admittedly some of this is so I only have to make minimal edits to my documents, but I apologize for nothing.
#jak and daxter#my aus#my writing#worldbuilding#jak and daxter headcanons#this is just for stuff i write. I've seen other people call them a variety of things and they all worked well in my opinion#i just wanted to play with fantasy language evolution and word etymology while not having to make big changes to docs
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feeling like henry winter because I also have a headache, don't answer the phone even when I am home, and have a desire to commit crimes
#dark academia#the secret history#henry winter#bunny corcoran#camila macaulay#tsh#literature#books#richard papen#francis abernathy#charles macaulay#i also know a variety of languages including a dead one just like him fr
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Thank you for the tag, @bellaxgiornata! I enjoyed this one!
(Link found here)
What this has hilariously illustrated to me is that I am absolutely a fanfic trope racoon who's willing to read just about anything if I'm hungry enough. Google I did the math and 84% of these are 'sure if I'm in the mood' or higher. And if I trust an author a TON, I may even follow them into the dark lands of Major Character Death and Dark Fic. So if you include those 'if I trust you' tropes, I'll read 93% of these in the right scenarios. 😂 Equally hilarious, I've managed to squeeze 14 of the 16 top tropes for me into TRT. LIVE YOUR DREAMS PEOPLE.
Honestly my NEVER EVER category is really small. Pregnancy + babies are a hard no due to tokophobia (ironically only solidified years ago by trying to WRITE a pregnancy fic I was assigned in a fic challenge), as well as bad memories of being around babies that were hard on my sensory issues. And 'unhappy ending' is out because I generally read as a form of escapism. I'll follow characters through all SORTS of tragic shit as long as there's a promise, or even just an implied 'maybe eventually in time there's a happy ending and they make it through', but if there's no light at the end of the tunnel, I tap out pretty quick.
Tagging those who might enjoy this: @heybluechild @wonderlandmind4 @shouldbestudying41 @stress--relief @burstanddecay @bunnelbie @cellophaine @feelmyskinonyourskin
#tag game#fanfic tropes#fic tropes#in which i discovered i'm a fic trope racoon who will eat just about any of these if i'm hungry enough#also yes i did arrange that first row with all the ones i've put in TRT coming first and in general order of preference#because i find that hilarious#WRITE WHAT YOU LOVE PEOPLE#did i look up a variety of 'No's in various languages for that last box? yes yes i did
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What on earth is a 'corset apologist'? Like, because you acknowledge corsets were perfectly functional supportive undergarments, you're an agent of the patriarchy??
Yep, that's it exactly.
As with all the other red flags in the post, it's not a guaranteed t*rf signal. I've known plenty of non-t*rfs who expressed similar views (including the person who claimed Abby Cox was "looking down her perfectly powdered nose" at Mary Wollstonecraft for daring to [checks notes] point out that Wollstonecraft was rather judgmental about her fellow women's interest in dress). But...it's definitely a "check blog for t*rf leanings" tip-off for me.
And yes, to clarify: some people (t*rfs or otherwise) think female dress history researchers/historical costumers/vintage fashion enthusiasts who don't believe that corsets were The Root of All Evil when commonly worn are just brainwashed patriarchal shills and we can't possibly know what we're talking about.
Because that's way easier than thinking critically about the history you've been taught, and not vaguely misogynistic at all! </s>
#ask#akorah#red flags#dress history#historical costuming#seriously how does anyone take the 'well she just likes her pretty princess dresses and wants to justify that!'#'surely she's never done REAL research into the subject!' tack and not realize#that they've circled around to undisguised sexism?#of the 'women researchers are just bits of pretty fluff who can't be trusted or taken seriously' variety?#these same people would probably swear up and down that what a woman wears isn't important#that only the content of her research matters#but somehow that all flies out the window if she's in an 1890s walking suit or a New Look-inspired dress#and saying (supported) things you don't want to hear#sure there are bad female dress history researchers. just like bad researchers in any field#but the language some people use to talk about decent researchers who simply aren't playing into their view of the past is...
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Why is AAAL like that
i'm assuming you mean AAL (african american language) and not AAAL (american association for applied linguistics)
if the first: that's the way it developed! there are a lot of social and linguistic factors that contribute(d) to its current form(s)! unfortunately i am not a scholar of AAL and therefore ill equipped to talk about them. here is a little overview with some suggested readings!
if the second: idk i'm not a member but will always listen to the gossip
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