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failureofmylife · 3 years

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the olden days, when there was dial-up and uucp, a very wise man, even if some persons suspected him of being more equine yet still wise, made this World Heritage post. It is not mine. One of my friends, who has a better archive than I, dug it out for me the other day. It is written by Richard Lewis, who retains all rights, and just re-posted by me. I hope you are sitting comfortably.

Finnish as a world language? by Richard Lewis

(From: Sesquipedalian Vol III numbers 8-11)

Is it now the time for Finnish to take its place as the international language? It is obviously difficult to answer this question with certainty. At the moment there seem to be several factors which would hinder such a development. First of all, Finnish is currently spoken by a mere 0.05% of the world's population; secondly one cannot learn the language in ten easy lessons; thirdly, a large number of Finns still do not understand it.

Although the advancement of Finnish has been a bit slow, there are Finns who point out the following advantages Finnish would have as a world language:

1. It is an essentially logical language. The rules are absolute and reliable in all situations, except exceptions.

2. It is a good sounding language; in other words, it is pleasing to the ear. This has to do with its wealth of vowels, which rules out ugly consonant clusters. It was recently suggested that some vowels should be exported to Czechoslovakia, where shortage of vowels is imminent, and that some Czech consonants should be imported to Finland. However, negotiations collapsed at an early stage. The Finns would not deal with a language that calls ice-cream 'zrmzlina,' while the Czechs in turn distrusted a language that calls it 'jäätelöä.'

3. It is a concise language. One Finnish word can mean several different things in English. Why lose time and energy saying 'the committee that takes care of negotiations concerning the truce' when you can use a simple little word like 'aseleponeuvottelutoimikunta?'

4. Learning Finnish builds confidence. If you can learn Finnish, then you can learn anything.

5. Finnish has longer and better swear words than any other language.

In light of these facts we can see that the introduction of Finnish as a world language would be a blessing to all mankind. The problem we now face is how to convince the remaining 99.95% of the global population to learn Finnish. We hope the world can receive the benefit of our own experience with the language. After a few months of intensive (and sometimes downright desperate) research we have developed a method of fording this linguistic barrier which has so far proved to be one of the world's most formidable ones.

Nouns and Their Cases

Remember, self-confidence is the key to success. Never hesitate. When you are about to use a noun, always reflect according to the following pattern:

· Which is the corresponding noun in Finnish?

· Singular or plural?

· What case? Nominative, accusative, genitive, essive, partitive, translative, inessive, elative, illative, adessive, ablative, allative, abessive, comitative or instructive?

· Is it possible to avoid using the noun?

After you have contemplated this during the proverbial fraction of a second, take a deep breath and pronounce the first half of the noun in a huge, booming voice. Then gradually weaken the voice so that by the time you pronounce the case ending, it is only in a hoarse whisper. This method of demonstrating your mastery of case usage is completely safe since, although you cannot prove that you were right, nobody, Finn or otherwise, can ever prove that you were wrong. Above all, look confident.

Numerals

Superficially, there are few similarities between the Finnish and English systems. For example:

yksi one

kaksi two

kolme three

neljä four

viisi five

kuusi six

seitsemän seven

kahdeksan eight

yhdeksän nine

kymmenen ten

A closer inspection, however, reveals the following facts that are useful to the beginner:

(a) 'kolme' and 'three' each have five letters;

(b) 'viisi' and 'five' are both formed around the letters 'v' and 'i';

Other cues for the acquisition of numerals:

1. Forget the English numerals altogether. This done, you will have to learn the Finnish ones in order to tell the time. If you should run into problems when using English at a later stage you can consult a Finnish-English dictionary, or, when you need numerals up to twenty, make use of fingers and toes.

2. Do not waste time learning numerals higher than 20,000,000. It is unlikely that you will ever have that much money, even in Finnmarks.

Months and Days:

Say 'the first day,' 'the third day,' 'the second month,' 'the next-to-last month,' etc. This will save you the two years it takes to learn these names and shifts the burden of labour over to the person you are talking to.

The Direct Object

Most Finnish grammars are particularly easy to understand on this point.

The basic idea is: In Finnish the direct object (commonly called the accusative object) may occur in the nominative, the genitive, or the partitive case. In order to make things easier to understand, nominative and genitive are called accusative. There is also a real accusative which is not called anything at all.

Utmost care must be applied when interpreting the grammatical terminology. If you encounter the word 'accusative,' it can mean nominative or genitive, but never the real accusative. The term 'nominative' can mean accusative or, possibly, nominative. 'Genitive' can mean accusative or simply genitive, while partitive is always called partitive, although it may be accusative.

Verbs

The best piece of advice is do not use verbs at all. Sometimes you may find it a little difficult to pursue a meaningful conversation without one, but with diligent practice you will become adept at this. We reduced the number of conversational errors by 20% after discovering the method of omitting verbs. Another 15% can be eliminated by omitting all adjectives, adverbs and pronouns, although at this point conversation tends to sink to an extremely superficial level, unless you are very good with your hands.

Pronunciation

Some difficult sounds:

ää : like 'e' in 'expatiatory,' but longer and more intense. Mouth as open as possible, ears backward and plastered to head.

äy : half palatal, half alveolar, half dental. Look disgusted.

yö: be very, very careful with this one.

uu: as in Arabic.

r: a forceful trill. Loose dentures will be an advantage here.

Conclusion

We hope that this article will be of great help to all those who wrestle with the question of whether to study Finnish. For those already studying the language, this method can provide helpful and easy applications for using conversational Finnish. As to the question of the prospect of Finnish as a global language, I think I do not misspeak myself by saying that the work of this article should settle the matter clearly and finally. - - -

End of original text. Let me add a footnote: https://imgur.com/QFm6SCE

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solarisgod · 11 months

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DID / OSDD is truly one of the conditions that people will really do anything to make them appear as fake or seem like we, as the DID / OSDD community, are nothing but harmful when us plurals are trying to live and survive in this unpredictable world like every single one of living beings. DID / OSDD are highly misunderstood and easily weaponized / villainized conditions. Last year, when I, the main host of the Chimera Cluster and original bearer of our body, discovered that we have OSDD1 and openly talked about it on here more often, we had lost a lot of mutuals, some who we genuinely perceived as close, and we even received a anon hate just few hours before my / our body's 21st birthday essentially that Amor, the first alter who I contacted with, was fake and so was our condition, and told us to seek therapy. We may have ongoing amnesia, having to forget literally everything while time goes on, but we still vividly remember every detail of the first open hate we had received toward our plurality. We even had our perpetrator, someone who we were most closest to from the rpc, weaponized DID for their original villain character while they had done no research on it, it felt like. We really don't care what other people think of us now regarding our plurality, but we know this sort of treatment would affect many other plurals deeply, and we never want any plural individuals to ever get to experience this kind of hate that would make their condition mean nothing at all.

We made Micah have DID because not only does that make us as a cluster so happy, but we want to have a project, either well known or not, to have a protagonist that can tell a story without having to be perceived by the audience as a threat solely because of their condition, when it's so uncommon for us plural folks to get realistically and powerfully portrayed plural characters in medias. Even though there are few alters from Micah's system who does generally pose malevolence ( e.g., Phobos and Maelstrom ), they are given the proper valid reasons as to why they are and the character developments to improve themselves over time, and we make sure at least few other alters who don't carry the " persecutor " role are as heavily flawed as those who does carry it, yet not in a more obvious ways ( e.g., Phoebus and Philos ) when every alters regardless of their roles are flawed and always need to improve on themselves. There are few other characters in Micah's project who have DID ( Warlock ) or OSDD1 ( Daniel Darling, a close friend to Micah ), and we do intend to develop a few more characters with either conditions because we as a plural community deserve to have plural characters who are so much more than the fears and doubts and uncertainty that we all are given from other people, and we want to spread awareness of DID / OSDD and reduce the stigma of them... The plural community deserves so much better than to be feared or shunned on, even be perceived as fake and cringy and stupid.

For over a year and a month, my starmates have helped me so much than anyone can ever believe. Amor have helped me with everything and would be the one to boost so much love and confidence in the cluster. We have a few therapist alters ( using the knowledge we had acquired from our regular and bachelor psychology classes ) who had helped us and even helped me get over my mild phobia of dogs. We have an academic alter who would try to help me work and not get me distracted with ADHD. There's an alter we have who's so much happier to be leading groups for college assignments and that had made me be at least more tolerable of the idea of being initiative and carry the leader role in the past few months. One can still call all of this fake, and, okay, fine, have it that way, but we and especially I myself will forever be most happy and grateful that we exist and for every single thing that we had done for each other. Our love and care for each other is as real as all of us are. One can still think all of this is fake, but what is truly the worth of telling us plurals that our conditions and experiences are fake when nothing is commonly shared with the singlets? Not even researched at all? When the nicer anon we had earlier today asked us why we use plural pronouns and we mentioned how some plurals uses singular pronouns? What we went through with today's hate later, that is one of the reasons why some plurals would use I pronouns to avoid being hated on.

Earlier tonight had really been something to deal with, especially when we had an anon last week telling us to get therapy. It's more annoying than hurtful to us, truly. People are so easy to hate on others because of their physical / mental / intellectual / etcetera conditions, and it is sad to know that some of those people will never learn and improve on their understandings. And we want to say this now that for those who experience this form of hate, of having to feel and alienated and lonely and hurt and silenced and so much more because of the condition[s] that you have, please do take this gentle reminder that you will always be more than what people think about and say to you about your wellbeing. it's okay to feel and think negative. It's okay to struggle with certain aspects or skills. it's okay to be hurt and be afraid. Only for as long as you try to find the healthy ways to support yourself and improve on the things you need to focus on. if you are struggling to find professional support or you don't feel like you're going anywhere with your progress, then we extremely endlessly hope that everything will work out for you in the end. It's normal to experience the bad moments in this sort of position and it's okay to be frustrated with them. Just know you can always rise up again, and despite it all, you will always have people who are there with / or for you. it may feel otherwise at times, but you are never alone, and you are lovable and loved, always.

#𓁹 ༑ ࿐ྂ ⩇⩇ : ⩇⩇ ⚠︎ [ 𝙴𝚇𝙸(𝚂)𝚃 : 𝙶𝙾𝙳 ] * ‹ OOC . ›#[ ✨ : going to bed now so here's this 'cause truly. all of this has to be said. ]#[ thank you all so much for the love and support infinitely. we'll always be most grateful for them and everyone here. ]#[ take care and as always please be kind to others and yourself especially. we love you all so much ]#[ much love from the Chimera Cluster 💖 ]

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