#English is wonderful

[professorcalculusstanaccount]

I remember discussing Tintin casting choices with a friend from Germany and remarked how it was odd he often has an English accent in adaptations rather than a Belgian one, and my friend just replied "that's because Tintin gives incredibly strong English boy energy (derogatory)"

Here in the UK there's a lot of weird classism tied into accents. Today accent diversity and representation in broadcasting is actively pursued but in Tintin's time there certainly was a preferred accent to have.

imagine this exchange happens between pages 28-29 in The Crab with the Golden Claws

#tintin #adventures of tintin #comic #captain haddock #archibald haddock #snowy #milou #fanart #the crab with the golden claws #i remember tintin crafting a trumpet to communicate with an elephant #and he remarks he must get the accent correct #very odd scenario but it shows he would be a stickler for that sort of thing #i also have to say accents do not indicate how smart someone is #a lot of pundits use an english accent to sound more credible #but i have to say there are a lot of fucking idiots here #me included #thank you 2011 film for validating my scottish haddock headcanon #any french speakers who have read to this point i wonder what your hcs are for his french speaking accent

[scaredii-cat]

My beautiful wife!! REAL!!!!

#hi hey hi i really liked the first episode #it was good! they manage to put a good amount in without it feeling crammed or rushed #the food looks delicious and the characters are wonderful as ever #only thing i didnt love was the english cast #everyone was either okay or didnt really fit? at least to me #ESPECIALLY falin and senshi. my god. #but thats a small thing the japanese cast sounds great and i might go back and listen to some of the other versions #anyway! i enjoyed it #oh and the end credits!!! theyre so so so good #made me hyped to see some of the characters later in the story #chitchat #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi anime #senshi #screenshots

[faygos]

good morning take my harley-english doodles ☀️

#jake english #jade harley #homestuck #whomstve #classic homestuck #in my brain they have epic steampunk-style globetrotting adventures together #and invent all sorts of wonderful gadgets #i'll get around to drawing it #i need a tag for these two...

[zan0tix]

Stupid poor quality dirkjake scribbles bc i have art block 💔

#dirkjake #dirk strider #jake english #jakedirk #my art #zan0tix #I want to make wonderful beautiful pieces and work on my one million projects but. alas. doomed to draw stupid idiot dirkjakes

[bloobydabloob]

Happy Valentine’s Day people, I hope you’re having a great time with your partner (if you have one). My requests are also open, if you want a doodle for Valentine’s Day then hit me up.

Plus plus thank you very much for 100 followers, I appreciate it a lot. I have absolutely zero idea for what movie they’re watching… I vote Chappie because I like it.

#homestuck #dirk strider #homestuck fanart #dirkjake #jake english #hs fanart #Happy Valentine’s Day! #tumblr has been wonderful so far #I appreciate all of your love. Very kind #love is in the aiiirrrr #Shoutout to my boyfriend #he has been missing for a year. Come back to us brother #blooby posting

[psychictimestone]

Thinking about Silver and the references to his love of (blue) skies 🔵☁️

#silver the hedgehog #sonic the hedgehog #Sonic Forces #Sonic colors DS #mario and sonic at the olympic games #Sonic 06 #the last ones translated from the Japanese side of forces if anyones wondering why its diff from the english line #This all started because I was curious about the JP side of forces lol #also the text with silver and blaze is from Otherworld Comedy aka the 2023 calendar stories #its a very cute detail #if you wanna read the 2023 calendar i'll leave a link in the replies to a really great fan website that has them all translated into english

[borzoilover69]

do you feel guilty.

#dirkjake #homestuck fanart #homestuck #hom3stuck #dirk strider #jake english #there is something about it. #a hopeful wish that a first kiss would be different #i wonder and wonder and wonder some more #borzoi art

[royalarchivist]

This video is only available to people who are members of Acau's ( 악어 ) Youtube, but one of his fans posted a short clip Acau shared of his and Quackity's conversation testing out the QSMP translator!

[ Original Tweet ]

#Acau #악어 #QSMP #Quackity #That's so cool! #I cannot speak any Korean whatsoever but I'm very curious and excited to watch him and learn #My language knowledge is English > Japanese > Spanish #which. is ironic since I'm Mexican #but some Korean words sound very similar to a few Japanese words and it always trips me up hearing them #I'm so excited to meet 악어 and his community!!! aaaaa!!! #everyone is so excited I love seeing everyone getting so excited to share information about the streamers they love #Anyways shoutout to Gaby for the heads up about this. They don't even use Tumblr but they're wonderful

[moviestarmartini]

the speed that jude has been learning spanish is INSANE

“ el mejor equipo del mundo, para mi *shrugs in cutie* “

#honestly his pronunciation is great and doesn’t have much of an accent #it’s similar to vini’s and he’s been living there longer + portuguese is closer to spanish than english is #i wonder if he has duolingo plus or sum #jude bellingham #real madrid #rma #supercopa de espana

[flikkerij]

i was talking with my friends about how dutch dirty talk is such an instant turn off for most of us, and i wonder if thats a dutch thing or a general non-native english speaker thing (or a just my friends thing)

tag with your language!

#i wonder if its just that dutch words somehow sound unsexy or if its like. the distance created by using another language #that sounds vague but remember that post abt how saying i love you in english is so much easier than your native language somehow? like that #polls #dutch stuff #nederlands #not necessarily ofc this is open to any non native english speaker

[zarla-s]

I was talking with my friend yamina about German endearments for these two and she suggested Großer (big boy (fond)) which was too cute, I had to do something with it.

[patreon]

#team fortress 2 #heavy #medic #heavymedic #red oktoberfest #z art #z comic #very beautiful very powerful #i love my gigantic husband #i was wondering if there was something that fit better than schatzi or liebling and this is perfect #she says medic in german has an interesting mix of professionalism and respect mixed with some rude language #he uses the formal you! and apparently sounds like how someone his age would sound like at this time period #i just love stuff like this don't mind me #(she thinks his fake german in english is hilarious)

[bietrofastimoff23]

another detail that caught my eye: in vulnerable moments, when Tai lung does not know how to handle a situation, he begins to shake. because he lacks an understanding of the nature of emotions, because although he and Shifu were close, feelings were not something that could be discussed.

and when he is faced with a frustrating situation, when he feels too vulnerable and insignificant, he chooses the only path he knows - fighting. that's why, after Oogway's refusal, he destroys the valley, that's why, after the long-awaited words that they are proud of him, he tries to kill Shifu, that's why when he realized that his whole life is meaningless, he attacks Po.

all his life he was taught how to conquer peaks, but no one told him how to cope with falls.

#kung fu panda #tai lung #kfp #[ He was the best at what he did and it wasn't enough anyway. #No wonder he hated the earthly world #If I were him #I would also refuse to leave the spirit realm where he found long-awaited peace. ] #my post #bad english

[kaban-bang]

fuck it, here's the whole scene bc I found it funny

#at first I was wondering what the fuck was japanese with a texas accent to me but I think it meant she heard him talk in english #bang brave bang bravern

[alexiethymia]

Yor Briar, Yor, and Yor-san

I was reading an excellent post about the nuance in the original japanese and now I thought I’d take a crack at what this means for Loid (although other people have already made an excellent analysis on this).

Loid has only called her Yor Briar in the beginning and when he was suspecting her of playing him. But Fiona’s insistence on her full name, Yor Briar, and her notice of Loid’s seemingly stubborn refusal to use it seems to me that Loid had always previously referred to assets by their full name. It could also be pragmatic in that he knows Fiona wants the ‘role’ of his wife hence her stubborn insistence of using Yor’s maiden name, so he uses Yor-san to counter Fiona’s way of delegitimizing Yor’s role. But I don’t think Loid can sense the real reason for Fiona’s insistence, so while in his view Fiona may be acting unprofessionally, generally speaking, I think Loid would be the one acting unprofessionally in constantly using ‘Yor-san’ to refer to his ‘wife’ to his WISE colleagues especially if he didn’t use to do that before (which yeah it’s hard to imagine him addressing his other marks that way).

Although the audience knows that Fiona is acting far from being professional, with Loid’s limited knowledge of her feelings, wouldn’t she actually have a point in referring to Yor as YOR BRIAR in a working setting? Because isn’t that all she was supposed to be? An asset or a tool? And yet Loid seems annoyed by that and insists on humanizing her by calling her, Yor-san.

Now someone might say, that’s nothing to make a big deal about. It would have been a big deal had he referred to her as ‘just’ Yor without the honorific. Because using someone’s name without honorifics is supposed to connote a deeper sort of intimacy. But that’s the thing. It would have been a forced intimacy for show. ‘Yor’ is his mode of address when he’s putting on a show of being a loving husband, complete with that <fake> Loid Forger voice. Yor is what he calls her around her colleagues or his colleagues (Nightfall undercover as Fiona at the hospital) to present how they’re a completely ordinary, close and loving family. In a way, it’s a subtle cue to Yor as well that they’re in ‘family’ mode now or ‘husband-and-wife’ mode. Yor denotes her as being a mask.

Which is actually why Yor-san is perfect. If Yor Briar is her as an asset, Yor is her as a mask, then Yor-san is her as a partner. He’s used women to get to his goal before. The only thing different now is Anya and the fact that on some level he is also working together with Yor. Had he actually succeeded in his first honeytrap attempt with Yor when he thought she had fallen in love with him, I imagine that he might have started treating Yor the same way he did his other assets before. But thank goodness it didn’t succeed, and in my view, he ended up falling into the trap instead.

Yor-san is perfect because it parallels the way Yor calls him. It’s perfect because it conveys the perfect level of intimacy. They’re not actually a lovey-dovey couple as ‘Yor’ would imply, but unfortunately for Nightfall, she’s also not just ‘YOR BRIAR’ another tool to him. It’s perfect because it conveys respect which Loid has a healthy amount of for Yor. If he can help it, he doesn’t like using her. And Nightfall is right to be worried that this comfortable mode of address of Loid’s is bleeding over to Twilight as if to blur the two. Loid is supposed to be an entirely different person or character so what does it mean that Twilight also calls his wife the same way Loid does? ‘Yor-san’ and ‘Loid-san’ are partners in a lot of ways. Yor-san is whom he can let down his guard down around, and someone this perfectionist spy can ask help from and rely on.

So what about Yuri Briar? He doesn’t know the true nature of Yor and Loid’s arrangement. Shouldn’t he be calling her Yor in front of him to keep up the ruse? Again, I think part of it is pragmatic. He doesn’t want to further aggravate the siscon. But especially in light of Chapter 86 and Volume 10’s inner cover, I think (at least unconsciously) it’s because Yuri is family. I notice that Twilight hasn’t even kept up the Loid persona as much in front of Yuri anymore (which tbf can’t blame him cause how do you even react to Yuri) but it’s not as if Yuri is someone to be underestimated. Some way or the other, even if he doesn’t fully realize it, I think Twilight is starting to treat Yuri like how Yor treats him or at the very least he can’t treat him like any other enemy or bystander because he’s someone important to Yor. Which again as CH 86 would show, Fiona has already noticed, and Twilight himself is angry at himself about. I don’t think Twilight has realized any sort of feelings for Yor yet, but I guess to Fiona, his mode of address for her is and has always been telling.

It’s actually interesting to think that perhaps it’s when he’s calling her ‘Yor-san’ that he’s most like himself - like Loid, Twilight and the boy before there was Twilight all at once - with her.

#twiyor #spy x family #sxf #twilight #yor briar #loid forger #yor forger #anya forger #yuri briar #nightfall #it’s all so interesting #and subtle #since the english translations hardly cover the nuance #and if you can’t read japanese you would notice it only when watching the anime #just like the whole anya ania thing #well played well played #if not for nightfall reacting the audience might not have been cued in that it was something worth reacting to #twilight really is turning more and more into loid forger as the days pass #and I’m sure he’s panicking about it #but does he realize the deeper implications I wonder

[chadlesbianjasontodd]

[translation] "Pear Blossom" by Yoshiya Nobuko

Although the fiction of "Japan's first lesbian author" Yoshiya Nobuko was (and remains) hugely popular, of her entire body of work only one short story has ever been published in English translation, and no (other) fan translations appear to exist --- despite the enormous influence of her work on the predominant aesthetics and themes of shoujo manga. The beautiful flowery style and melodrama so famously attached to shoujo manga are thanks in large part to Yoshiya, and I'm very happy to be able to share one of her stories with you now!

"Pear Blossom" is a sparse and vivid short story from Yoshiya's early collection Hanamonogatari ("Flower tales"), a book noted for its use of beautiful imagery and its emphasis on the importance of romantic relationships between girls.

Read it here!

(nota bene, "Pear Blossom" is in the style of romantic, 'narcissistic' girlhood tragedy for which Yoshiya is most famous; approach accordingly. I've also included a page of notes on Yoshiya and her early lesbian fiction.)

#yoshiya nobuko #yuri #lesbian #translation #shoujo manga #(not that this is manga. sorry. prose-with-some-poetry only.) #this is a rather short story but please imagine me emerging absolutely covered in blood from fighting with it #trying to wrangle the lushness of yoshiya's writing style AND the subtleties she squeezed into such a pared-down story. into english #there's something about the flavor of yoshiya nobuko's writing that is just perfect to me. something about the luxurious description #and the fragmented force of phrases linked by punctuation gaps......i don't know! it's just wonderful! #i feel like i don't really know how to post things so they'll actually catch eyes anymore #just take my word for it that you DESPERATELY want to read yoshiya nobuko

[oifaaa]

The funniest thing to me about the fact that black butler is coming back for another season after like 7 years is that since the last season aired it was revealed in the manga that the blonde chief character is actually American which means the people who dub the show have to decide whether or not they're gonna continue making the American voice actor do the shitty English accent or if he's just gonna drop it out of no where and not talk about it

#black butler #kuroshitsuji #i cant believe im talking about black butler in 2023 but here we are i guess #ive not interacted with black butler since secondary #i only know about the cheif thing bc of a friend #but yeah #i never watched the sub either #and i dont think id be able to tell anyway #but i wonder if he had a english accent in the original Japanese voice