#English letters are weird

[rebel-at-heart713]

#random thought #random questions #English letters are weird

[theatheistgirl]

#photograph #art #weird and wonderful #face #humour #full english #english breakfast #clown #wanker #potato letters

[kastillia]

#x #χ #caligula 2 #caligula effect 2 #...pronounced 'kii' #now is it really cheating if it's still the x of *an* alphabet but not the english alphabet (yes) #x is a weird letter though i think i should be afforded some leeway #but also my list my rules :^) #she's a little gremlin but she really grew on me by the end #two to go #my art

[badolmen]

I’m trying to find a way to parse this but like:

Make up culture is bad because of how capitalism has twisted appearance to be a basis of worth and social value. However, humans have been putting stuff on their skin since our ancestors started losing hair (maybe even before?) and ornamentation does have significant historic cultural value outside of modern late-capitalism induced self loathing.

Like. Make-up is not a thing in my immediate family. My mother and older sister? Nothing. My little sister is going to be so lucky to grow up in a space where she won’t have any expectation or support for make-up culture. I know make-up culture a shitty phenomenon; I know it steals time and money and self-worth from people at its worst and at its best feeds back into an appearance based cultural hierarchy.

But. But. There is such a rich and vibrant history to cosmetics outside of what is sold to reinforce that inevitably toxic culture. So many forms of art in face paint and more permanent and interesting body modification! There’s history and traceable evolving styles and intentions! And it fucking sucks that it’s been so corrupted to the point of no longer reflecting it’s original intent of being creative and unique and interesting!

Sometimes it just sounds like ‘don’t have tattoos don’t you know those annoying punks and degenerates have those?’ has just been repackaged as ‘don’t wear make-up don’t you know those annoying preps and conformists do that?’ Like I get what you’re trying to say but there is nuance to these conversations and willfully ignoring that nuance makes you sound ridiculous at best and outright hostile to any deviation from your standards at worst.

#ra speaks #personal #be normal if you reblog this or else I’ll sigh loudly and be disappointed in you #saw a dumb post. saw replies I didn’t 100% agree with. #why can’t people just not interact w posts that they don’t like #I know I know it takes soooo much self control especially for a tumblr user #but jfc stop acting like option A and option Z are a strict dichotomy #when there’s 26 letters in the English alphabet and we haven’t even touched numbers yet #you know??? like. #they’re not right. you’re also not right in an equal and opposite way. can we approach complex topics with more critical thinking please. #anyways i like when people have awesome extreme and colorful makeup it’s cool. I hate when people have bland ‘natural’ makeup that’s wack #what’s the point of having cool art stuff you can put on your skin if you’re just gonna. paint in skin colors?? #this isn’t abstract art of painting a white canvas white that’s weird and externally motivated standards that do not have artistic intention #which defeats the purpose of having cool art stuff you can put on your skin.

[codgod]

oh yeah i had a dream that charlie streamed qsmp today and either got flippa back or heard that it was possible he could get flippa back so that’s . something

#.txt #they’re in my heeeeead #i don’t remember the exact details of the dream #but i DID wake up earlier and was confused when i didn’t see the notif #but then also confused why i would see one because he’s not streaming this week #WAIT i remember one detail #there was a tweet from the english updates account that said ‘slimecicle is echhghehc!’ or some shit like that #just random letters #and i can always read in my dreams. so that was weird

[simcardiac-arrested]

as a russian who doesn't talk to russian people online what the shit is happening there hello

look man i myself have put in the effort to Not talk to online russians for like (checks hand) 7 or so years (of course i’ve met some really great ones but this isn’t about them and they probably know it) but i’m sure the community didn’t change much. actually from the glimpses i see it seems to have gotten worse. don’t even get me startedddddd man

#Like okay first we have the misogynist dudebros. not a category exclusive to online russians but #there are so many it’s fucking crazy. homophobic to hell and back and Will hate on you for no reason #alpha male type mfs who hate women but will still harass them because of course they will #the second category of course is weird unironic fujoshis who are also usually proshippers #and they are either 12 (forgivable) or 25 and the thing is you can NEVER tell. But it’s kind of fucked how #acceptable it is to just straight up fetishize gay men (hell probably not only them) in online russian communities #and listen to me. the secret third category is that there is no third category. Both of these categories are racist #deer was right i have never seen a community more racist or xenophobic than fucking online russians #you draw a character one shade darker than their usual skintone and suddenly you got annoying as fuck russians in your comments going #BRO BURNT IN THE SUNNN 🤣🤣🤣 ENGLISH FANDOM LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE !!! <- in recent times they have taken to blaming the english fandom for #‘wokefying’ their sacred online russian spaces. Of course we can only be woke enough to fetishize gay men. god forbid black people exist #now the actual third category is the online russian tеrf/radfеm community. it seems recent to me but also as i said i have not really #interacted with russian comminity as a whole for a long while. But yea anyways they’re crazy i dont think i have to explain this one #but they’re somehow more evil and miserable than the ones you’re used to #another recent one is the russian twitterians … i’ve only seen glimpses of them as well as i dont use twitter #but you will not believe the shit these mfs try to pull. They try to get you to stop swearing at all bc they find a way to make every #russian swear word offensive. AND they speak fucking … englussian. rusglish. Half of their sentences are just english words written in #russian letters. all the same buzzwords english speaking twitter users like to say! #if you’ve never seen a russian talk about feminization or gatekeeping or being woke or yadda yadda. Well i have #it’s bad. they’re just very very terminally online #and don’t worry the last two categories will also always be racist/xenophobic even if the last one tries to seem Progressive #don’t know if i missed anytning but those are just the Specific Types of annoying asf online russians that i have noticed and have been #observing from a safe distance like a scientist #my point is keep not talking to russian people #cramswering #edit: I FORGOT BUT DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON HOW ONLINE RUSSIANS TREAT TRANS PEOPLE #YOU CANNOT IMAGINE THE WAY THEY REACT TO TRANS HEADCANONS IT’S LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD TO THEM. OR TRANS CHARACTERS #OR GOD FORBID ACTUAL REAL LIFE TRANS PEOPLE. it’s actually quite incredible how bigoted online russians are

[iampresent]

Roger Chillingworth is so funny he literally comes to Boston after having gone through the goddamn tribulations for like 2 years only to find out that his wife who never liked him is in trouble for adultery and talks to her and is just like “Nah your good. I forced you into an unhappy marriage, you cheated on me and got punished, tit for tat.” *Points at Arthur Dimmesdale, wet paper bag man extraordinaire* “THIS GUY on the other hand”, and then proceeds to have weird fucked up sexual tension with him while phytologically tormenting him for 7 years.

like holy shit dude how are you the most socially progressive man in this book. 

#anyway it's clear why this book is taught in english class #its crazy its weird its weirdly crazy good #lots of food for thought et cetera #but I'll focus on the fucked up gay shit thank you very much #The Scarlet Letter

[wolfblood-of-anubis]

“not you too.” she is so done with rufus, she just wants to find a way out of the hole she’s dug herself in

#vera subtlety changed sides to victor after rufus got a fake mask and then not subtlety threatened her life #remember his whole ‘or you will enter the afterlife the old fashioned way’ #besides the god talk was waaaaayy too much for her #she’s more of a catwoman type; in it for the jewels and money not some weird ritual shit #so she figures to stick w victor who she’s safer with to get the mask and double cross rufus #that is until her cover is blown #i never watch hha but i do know that in that one vera dies w rufus via amneris #was she also half on victor’s side or was that letter she left him a just icoe if she had to go back to him some time in the future? #i say i never watched it but then i say i know about that #i found english subtitled links but there’s SO many episodes that i got curious over the finales to see how different they might be to hoa #so i just watchef those and wow. just wow. yup. vv different. #thats not a bad thing. i just wasn’t expecting to see dutch corbierre explode and the kids live to tell about it #i also like that nienke wasnt the chosen one vv different and cool and we can treat hoa like some english au of ‘hey what if she was?’ #this is too long for a vera clip #house of anubis #hoa #victor rodenmaar jr #vera devenish

[beelzeballing]

feeling normal and then BOOM. thinking about kafka's letter to his father.

[...] And after that, the only thing one could hear you say was "Do what you want, you're free as far as I'm concerned. You're an adult; I shan't give you advice", and all of this said with the terrible, hoarse tone of anger in your voice and your full judgement [...]

like girl wtf franz what did i EVER do to you????

#moogsin' #franz kafka #letter to his father #that thing changed me as a person #i will never be the same #like wow i cant believe franz kafka and i have the same dad #in case youre like 'this sounds weird and slightly different than i remember it being in the book' #its because i was too lazy to grab this quote from the english version #i just translated it from german myself

[apollos-boyfriend]

is he still trying Bad tried pronouncing it on fits stream earlier too and also gave up😭

he has been yes <3 it is very sweet to see him try so hard however i genuinely don’t think he’ll be able to get it unless one of the brazilians is physically there and coaching him through it because seeing it written does NOT help in the slightest

#muse talk #anon #it’s weird for me to say this #bc. to me it makes sense #but just seeing it written and attempted phonetically is probably the LEAST helpful option 😭 #just bc i don’t think there IS a word in english that pronounces -de in that way #wait. wait someone could just tell him to say the letter G. char you’re all terrible at this #<- probably also incorrect and only makes sense to Me

[morningstargirl666]

Hello, sorry to bother you. I’m an avid fanfic reader and i am bilingual. I’m wondering how fanfic writers feel about translations of their work (with permission obviously). Is it flattering? Is it something that you would want so more people can read your work? Or is it more neutral? Obviously you can’t speak for all writers, but i’m curious about your opinion and what you know of other’s opinions

I think, generally speaking, most writers including myself are okay with translations of their work as long as you ask permission first and give credit to the original author. They may also not want their work posted to another site, so as long as the translation is posted on the same site as the original work, you're good then too. To offer to translate something is normally seen as the highest compliment, as the idea someone loved their work so much they wanted to share it with more people - presumably in their native language - is a HUGE compliment. Of course, every writer has their own preferences, so may not like the idea for their own reasons - hence why you always need to ask permission and if they say no, respect that decision. But as long as you stick to those three unspoken rules (ask permission, give credit, don't post to another site), it's normally all good.

There's a lot of AI scraping and copying of original works to other sites happening right now, so writers can be nervous. I, myself, and several others I know, have locked down our fics on AO3 so only AO3 users can view them due to the AI shit. Just be polite and respectful to them and their fics, and you're golden. I'm sure there's plenty out there that would love to see fics translated, including myself! 👍

#asks #anon asks #thank you anon #just so you know I am flattered you thought of me to ask about this #fanfiction #also anyone who speaks another language is a superhuman in my book #I scraped a C in German but that's about it #my brain doesn't do well with language which sounds weird since I AM a writer lol but its true #i'm a visual and sensory person #i write the dialogue first because i HEAR it first #don't even attempt to write description before I've accumulated some serious brain power #to wrestle those letters into some semblance of words #and sentences #long story short learning languages is hard and I bow before your bilingual greatness #english is hard enough for me and it's my bloody native language #so yeah #you are a god #keep doing awesome things anon

[tiibbet]

multiple shreks should be referred to as “shrex”

we as a society need to include the letter “x” in more common words

i think this is a good jumping-off point

#x is such an underrated letter #i’d argue the most emo of letters #z is the gothic one #we don’t talk about w #or y for that matter #language #words are weird man #we just keep using the same letters over and over again we need to mix it up #english #english language #shitpost

[donuts4evry1]

Fo my friends who are children of Asian Immigrants born outside of that country:

I have a lot of Asian friends but they all only have one name as far as I know. However, children born in the third generation of my family have both an English name and Viet name (We're Canadian/US).

I'm just curious to see how widespread this practice is 🤔...

Bonus: Put your country of birth and what generation you're in in the tags :)!

I want to know for sure that this is not just something that happens in English speaking countries... Also I just wanna know if this is a generational thing or if my family just does something funny

#For the record me and my brother were technically born second generation (though I do feel like a third generation immigrant lol) #My cousins are third generation though and I know they both have Viet names along with English names #Well kinda. One of them has a Spanish name haha #My name technically works for both English and Viet but it sucks honestly my mom made it spelled all weird #I don't like it anymore lol I actually crossed out some letters in my name tag at work BC I don't want kids pronouncing it wrong #My brother does have a name that's hard to say in English tho #I feel so bad for him too BC most people can't repeat it if someone says it out loud #poll #mun rambles #Idk how to word it which is funny BC I'm Asian but it's ok I just hope I get some insight lol

[toyherb]

EXTREMELY weird choice to give Riju a psuedo-english accent when all the other gerudo characters have american accents

#plus it goes better with the sounds of the gerudo language imo #totk diary #flowerposts #its also like really close to am american accent but she pronounces the letter a as if shes english #in general it sounds like an american trying to sound british but its not convincing at all #and like. with zelda its passable. not that she sounds like a real english lady but that she sounds okay #but riju its like... huh #most people who dislike zeldas voice its because they imagined her voice differently but i dont have a point of reference nor have i playe #many other zelda games so #edit so actually i think she has a south asian accent maybe??? it felt more pronounced in botw i think but i forgot #but its still weird when all the other gerudo dont sound like thag

[bigassbowlingballhead]

Maths.

it’s small, and probably normal across the pond

but the S is so unnecessary, it’s just Math. 

#why all the usless letters #english is weird #maths #heartstopper

[semisomni]

Tumblr is obsessing over sherlock holmes again...nature is healing💕

#Ive read all the stories already but if i have time i'll go grab my complete collection off the shelves #Feels silly to subscribe to letters from watson with that staring me in the face lol #but yeah. tbh i think i didnt quite appreciate them enough back when i was writing a stupid paper on him #u know how it is. still dont know how we got like an 8.5 on that cause frankly it was garbage #I was too busy repeating dont be weird about johnlock dont be weird about johnlock do b- to myself #to do a good job at all LOL #meanwhile i guess my english teacher was just over the moon with someone whose english wasnt terrible or something. i dont even know