#and the grammar is incredible!!!

[littlemizzlinguistics]

Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"

#linguistics #gen z slang #english #as people in the reblog pointed out! #most gen z slang comes from (or was appropriated from) aave #honestly I was just excited to talk about how people in my field actually get excited about non standard uses of English #instead of ridiculing speakers #and I tagged incorrectly and didn’t point out the very real issues of language and power and appropriation inherent in modern slang #in that much of it was appropriated #and even that which experiences language change in the wider culture still originated in aave #aave is just as linguistically valid as any other English dialect because it is a proper language #and the grammar is incredible!!! #habitual be is fantastic and an excellent example of how a richer case system or a certain case can render an adverb unnecessary #and the phonology is just beautiful #anyway I’m very sorry #I fucked up

[its-your-mind]

HEY. HEY.

HEY @re-dracula WHAT GAVE YOU THE RIGHT TO HAVE JONATHAN ACTUALLY READING THAT PASSAGE OUT LOUD BEHIND SEWARD DESCRIBING THE SCENE, HUH? WITH THE TEARS IN HIS VOICE AND THE PAUSING AND THE SHORT LITTLE INHALES AND THE VOICE CRACKS? WAS IT TRULY NECESSARY??? I WAS ALREADY CRYING. I DIDN'T NEED THIS TOO. WHAT THE FUCK.

#dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #re dracula #to be clear this is meant in sarcastic jest this episode was a beautifully crafted piece of art and I'm blown away by the cast and #the producers and the editors... holy fucking shit I know today's was a short episode but I think it's taken its place as my favorite so fa #it beat out jonathan fuckin dropping out of the sky in front of drac with his fuckin knife out in order to protect his wife which was ALSO #very good and made me cheer out loud in my car but THIS #also why does jack get to narrate all the dope ass dramatic scenes #I wonder if Mina was like #no really y'all this dude has the best voice and grammar structure for storytelling #we gotta let him keep doing the phonograph thing and I'll just keep copying it down later #tbh she's so valid for that also y'all are so valid for casting jonny sims in this role bc he SHINES when he's describing emotional shit #he NAILS the middle ground between conveying the emotion of a scene and still being a separate narrator #it's almost like he did a whole podcast of that one time ANYWAY my point is y'all are incredible and I am so fuckin glad y'all decided to #start this project

[weepingfishturtledragon]

This is a rant about "The Boys" comics parody version of Billy Batson/Shazam!

TW: Ranting, swearing, "The Boys" comics, and mention of S/A

You guys know about "The Boys" comics and how they did a side story of a fake Billy Batson where they made him a r*pist. WHAT THE FUCK!!!! You're telling me they made a kid into one of the most disgusting kinds of people in the world when he could have an incredibly unique perspective of the universe in "The Boys"!

I know the comics are meant to show the evil side of superheroes but that can be done in infinitely better ways! Like showing how Vought would react to a potentially powerful child supe, showing how the people closest to supes change in response to the powers, showing how complex figuring out new powers are (especially as a child), showing how power can turn the most innocent people in society evil, showing how others might seek to control or manipulate the child, showing how the child may unintentionally cause harm to themselves or others due to a lack of understanding of the consequences, showing him idealizing superheroes and finding out the truth in his adult form, showing ect…

Literally anything else would have been better but the writers decided they wanted a cheap shocking side story! If they do add Billy into the tv show then they better change the story or not add him at all because I will not stand for this bullshit!

#billy batson #shazam #captain marvel #the boys #the boys comics #tw rant #tw mention of s/a #tw swearing #dc comcis #this makes me so incredibly angry #look how they massacred my boy!!! #if they're going to do a character like that then they should at least be an adult #don't think YOU should be a writer #in fact I asked you to NEVER write again #please ignore any spelling or grammar mistakes #I don't even watch the show or read the comics I just need to talk about this

[not-poignant]

Hello Pia how are you? Not really an ask but more sending thanks and love for all of your writing. I've been a reader for over a year now and am still in awe of your skill (and speed!). I've been getting back into writing and struggling with feeling inadequate or like my stuff reads childishly, as a result I can barely get out 5k aha, but I'm working viewing it as a lifelong dedication to improvement. (On a side note: your work got my teenaged self to snap out of purity wank, forever grateful!)

Hi anon,

It is so awesome that you're getting back into writing!

Honestly, it is a sign of a kind of growth to notice the things you don't like in your writing, because if you feel it reads childishly (and I bet it doesn't all read like that, or most of it doesn't), that means you have skillsets already to aim towards. You can see how you want to get better. This is a skill!!! It's a more painful skill, and it's not a good one to listen to all the time, but it's a good skill to have.

When it feels dispiriting you can balance it out by intentionally looking for and writing down your strengths as well, and writing more of those. It might be only a few lines, or it might be all of the dialogue, or it might be the descriptions, but there will be strengths too!

Also 5k is impressive! Everyone writes differently. It took Mark Z Danielewski 10 years to write House of Leaves, and I love that book a very great deal. Quantity =/= quality, and you also have to remember I've been doing this in a pretty focused way for 10 years! Trust me, if you did this in a focused way for 10 years, you'd be in a different place with your output (which isn't obligation to do this for that long, just that...things take time <3 )

I'm glad you were able to snap out of the purity wank mindset anon, it's a tough one to be in, because it makes you feel like you're not safe in your own mind, and after a while it shuts down curiosity because it feels like everything you're interested in has to be examined just in case it's a moral trap or says something 'terrible' about you if you show interest in it. And that's really hard! It makes sense to me why so many antis kind of really lock into what they think and believe, because they've gotten so used to treating themselves with paranoia, how can they not treat others that way?

And that's a miserable way to live. It's the opposite of benefit of the doubt.

So being able to separate from that is incredible! And that's a tribute to your own curiosity in the world, and interest in exploring different ways of doing things, and I think that's really cool. :D

#asks and answers #personal #why are people so nice #you're doing awesome anon #i used to be part of a writer's group called Write Club #(we even had Fight Club style badges) #(i'm still technically a part of it i just haven't been able to go to the meets in ages) #and our leader used to say: #'all words is good words' #and while it was kind of sarcastic/ironic given the phrasing #in the end it became very positive and uplifting because YEAH #even with the grammar mistakes and the typos #all words is good words anon #you're doing incredibly #remember to focus on your strengths if you're already good at focusing on your weaknesses! #strengths keep the building up while you shore up the pillars that need some work #administrator gwyn wants this in the queue

[y-rhywbeth2]

Between Isobel and Aylin, and Durge and Astarion; my camp features two relationships involving white haired elves who died, their oddly dramatic kind of violent demigod lovers, and a meddling father.

#Strange the coincidences that happen #“If I had a copper piece for every time that incredibly specific set of conditions happened...” #Shadowheart can sort of count as an alternative but she didn't die in her backstory so it's not the same #I also have no idea how to use colons and semicolons; the English lessons on clauses failed miserably so I just guess #and we all suffer my attempts at grammar #babbling #playthrough shenanigans #petty murder boyfriends #and the moon lesbians

[petitebonaparte]

Jealousy Episode

I decided to start translating at least some part of the 'Ivan Grozny' movie by S. Eisenstein so I'll share some of my favs all the way through!

This one is abt Fyodor being jealous <3

The sundress swirling. Soaring, as if it got detached from the ground. Walking through the mansion like a hurricane. Fawning near the Tsar's seat. It stopped abruptly. The beads to one side. The braids to another. Under the mask — black curls. Under the brows — a familiar eye. Under the sundress — a familiar stature.

The Tsar loves to dress up. He loves to dress up the others as well. The masks — to make a ruckus. So does Fed'ka entertain the Tsar, dressed up as a lastikha*.

Fed'ka overhears the words of the Tsar: 'For I am an orphan with nobody to love and pity me...' Resentment starts growing in Fyodor.

Jealousy is taking over Basmanov: He is concerned with Vladimir's nearness to the Tzar. His eyes are burning with anxiety.

Ivan looks at him barely noticably, with his eyes narrowed. He winked.

Basmanov has calmed down: He understood, that the Tsar is plotting a game. Fawning twice as much as before. Twice as loud as before are the cheers: 'Goida! Goida!'

#oprichnina #ivan grozny #ivan the terrible #eisenstein #basmanov #fyodor basmanov #I am sorry for the translation I tried to stay as close to the original text as I could because the style is incredible but that might've #resulted in grammar loss

[grammars-doodles]

Some doodly fanart for @plural-swag-competition from a member of Team Sprigs! Shoutouts to Teams Blitzwing, Cassie, and Gamma System! All these rounds kept me on the edge of my seat and I think the teams my favorite boys went up against deserve some love too!

Featuring Rey (as Gemini Spark) and Blitzwing causing problems on purpose (Gemini Spark can make little waves that make people angry at each other and I think Blitz would get a kick outta that) !

Cassie introducing Pat to her bees (with Rey as an archetype) !

And the green and purple guys hanging out! Flower crown for the winner! Though Pat might need help reaching his head.

#I've never drawn a transformer I hope the blitzwing fans will forgive me #grammar's doodles #plural-swag-competition #pat sprigs #rey sprigs #blitzwing #cassie o'pia #the incredible hulk

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

Sometimes I feel very sad that I didn’t just focus on one creative skill. I look at my art some days and go I wish I’d spent all my time making only that, because that way it would look better and I’d do more and it wouldn’t matter if I couldn’t write very well because my art would be amazing and I’d be able to make the stuff I really want to and maybe even get a job related to it and I wouldn’t feel like so much time was wasted. And often times it really does feel like you’re wasting time and everything is telling you to just pick something to focus on so it can mean something and you can never seem to pick one of anything.

And then other days I feel like an absolute GOD. Anyone else able to write your own fic and then draw art for it just because you can? Can you make an edit/amv after writing a silly little analysis post on the show/character that is so perfectly on beat and fits the lyrics and with transitions so slapping you get chills while watching? Can you write a short silly ditty on the guitar about how you’re feeling using the eight chords know and belt it out only a little bit off key then do a choppy little animation of your sona singing it?

I may not be the most skilled at all of the above, and it can be a little lonely to be a one man band who doesn’t play half as well as a lot of people out there, but when your power goes out or your wifi dies or you have a day off, everyone else is busy and you’re alone...

you play the best gosh dang music in existence

#knox rambles #feeling some kinda way lately o7 #these kinda vibes come back every once in a while #just gotta remind myself that ten year old me would go insane over the fact I can do what i can do #even if I'm not the best out there I am sure the best me out there #and that's pretty cool #i may only know one strum pattern on guitar and half a dozen chords at best #i may not be very good with punctuation and grammar while writing and I reuse words too much #I may do my art all leaning a little to the left too much and proportioned weirdly #I may export my amv's wrong so they're not on beat or forget good audio that would have made it REALLY great #I may write analysis's that are a little biased and look back on them and cringe a bit #I may only be able to animate the simpliest and shortest things and then go months even years at a time without animating #I may struggle to do animatics for what feels like no reason even if i want to so badly #but I can do all that stuff #I can write i can read and I can draw I can play guitar a bit i can sing I can make animatics animations amv's #and wow that's pretty incredible if you ask me #rambling rambling zero thoughts head empty YEET HGSDFLKJSDF #creative insecurities #they always sneak up on you a bit hglksjdfsdf #pretty safe to say I wouldn't be a creative if I didn't feel inadequate every person to ever create usually feels some kinda way ghsdflk;jsd #lays down #woo #hoping I can get back into the swing of being creative #things been pretty rough at home but I miss making stuff #ANYWAY HOPE Y'ALLS HAVING A FIRE DAY

[waitineedaname]

the difference between different subfields of linguistics and their takes on Chomsky is so funny sometimes because my phonology and syntax textbooks are like "we're building on this foundational theory that Chomsky came up with in the 70s!" while my sociolinguistics textbook is like "Noam Chomsky should be addicted to shutting the fuck up"

#linguistics blogging #it's SO funny #he's such a huge name in the field of linguistics #but the dude is DIVISIVE #it is incredibly tragic that i can't talk shit about universal grammar in my syntax class #because my professor literally studied under chomsky #it's just so funny how much sociolinguistics hate his ass #my textbook keeps making snippy comments about how if chomsky had his way we'd be studying language exclusively in isolation #which is like. fundamentally the opposite of what sociolinguistics is all about #this isnt even taking into account chomsky's controversial political theories lol

[ahalliance]

monolingual english speakers: my accent in [foreign] language is so bad :[

me, rolling up to speak spanish with the worst accent you’ve ever heard:

#i cannot roll my Rs . i struggle with ‘ll’ pronunciations . no matter how comfortable i am with grammar and syntax #it is incredibly obvious spanish is a foreign language for me . do u think that stops me from speaking it ? NO #HOW ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO GET BETTER IF I DON’T PRACTICE #like okay i already speak two languages fluently so monolinguals don’t Get it but you do not have to have a perfect accent to speak another #language . it is so incredibly important to get over that ‘but i sound bad’ hurdle or else you will never get better at your chosen languag #mi acento es muy muy horrible pero sigo hablar español porque como puedo ser mejor sin hablar 😭 #jay rambles

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

I love learning ASL it’s so good. Makes me happy to learn it. I’m so glad my university has classes for it with professors actually steeped in Deaf culture.

#blue chatter #am I good at ASL? hahahahahahaha. no. #ASL and English grammar are incredibly different and even when I remember my vocab I am easily clockable as hearing #but I do have some language capacity now. enough to communicate the basics. #and I just. genuinely really enjoy it. it’s fun to learn and engaging in a way most of my classes just aren’t. #and I can. yanno. communicate respectfully w Deaf ppl. and learn about their culture #which is incredibly important given that I want to go into a field where there is a higher incidence than typical of Deaf people #autistic? you’re more likely to be Deaf! #not to mention the fact that sign language can sometimes be a useful alternative to speech for nonspeaking/nonverbal people #depending on the person obvi; some nonspeaking/nonverbal autistics cannot use sign language and that’s okay #but surely at some point I will encounter either a Deaf client or a nonspeaking/nonverbal client who uses ASL #and when that time comes I should have some idea of how to communicate with them #I also rly like the Deaf church by my parents’ house #their community is really welcoming and their services are really interesting #I think it’s rly cool how they take intentions directly from the congregation #they’ll raise their hands and then sign what their intention is from their pew to the ambo #which is rly neat #it is funny bc every time I go the Deaf ppl I talk to will tell each other ‘go slow she’s hearing’ #which is ENTIRELY fair bc. I am hearing. and I do need them to go slower. #but it also makes me laugh bc truly everyone knows within a few minutes. #oh hey the new person? they’re hearing. yeah they’re learning ASL at college. sign slowly for her. #which again makes sense bc a big Deaf culture thing is keeping ppl informed. it’s not gossip it’s getting everyone on the same page. #Deaf ppl do NOT beat around the bush that is like the height of rudeness to them. u say what u mean goshdangit. do not waste their time. #which I appreciate the heck out of bc i don’t have to try and phrase things delicately or w/e #it was also funny bc my mom came w me while I was home for Christmas and they asked her if I was her kid #and she said yes. and the lady running the kid’s craft corner thing was like ‘great you’re doing a craft now’ #and I’m sitting there. visibly over 18 years old. amongst several seven year olds. trying desperately to figure out how to say hot glue gun #I made a v pretty pinecone tree it was a lot of fun ^-^

[spockandawe]

Translation.... is a fantastically complicated, demanding, and difficult task. And it feels like it's sometimes gotta be pretty unrewarding, because no matter what you choose, someone will be mad at you for doing it wrong. And I'm no purist, I skew hard towards preferring a translation to capture vibes (a subjective and squirrelly thing) over a literal one-to-one, I appreciate an artistic use of best judgment even if I ultimately disagree with the decision made. I've got so much respect for translators!

BUT.

That being said.

I feel like especially, especially in the context of something like a dramatic high fantasy novel, tone and register are so important! No modern terminally online transmigrators to muddy the waters! I'll make an exception for something hilarious, and I don't have a highbrow sense of humor, 'absolute unit' still makes me cackle. Something like "yea" (not 'yea, verily,' this is 'yeah,' said often, always without the h) may set my teeth on edge, but I can understand why someone might do that to me. "Tho" is more infuriating, but I can still.... logically understand how we got here.

But why on earth would you interrupt the build to a dramatic, tragic, intense scene by having our main character angrily call a crowd "newbs." I'm no longer in the moment, I'm staring into the middle distance and wondering why not just use the full n00b if it was going to go there. Sure, he's not talking elegantly, I get that. He was raised uneducated, not on 4chan. And the moment last night when I was reading and a character in ancient fantasy china proclaimed "Jeebus," I was filled with such incandescent rage that I immediately knew it was time to put the computer down and go to bed.

Jeebus.

#technically 'y'all newbs' #two dissonant flavors added to a critical scene #but i can welcome a nice y'all into my heart #dinnae is on thinner ice #again #loads of appreciation for the hard work this takes etc #but i have a lot more respect for when people struggle to map between two very different grammar structure than whatever this is #i talk a big game for someone fluent in one (1) language #but im good at that language!! #having control of your register is so important just look at locked tomb for the incredible wild swings you can take with a deft hand #or look at lightlark if you want to see what it's like to be totally unaware of register period #either i dont want to get hit by the blue shell of online slang OR the blue shell has to be a frequent and beloved FEATURE

[swaglexander-the-great]

I’m so mad that there are no language learning games that treat it like codebreaking.

My brain when lessons are like wrote learn these phrases with no explanation of why 😴 (side eyeing Duolingo)

My brain when a resource is like ooh~ is this a little pattern? A pattern we have to figure out? And there are rules which will help us break this mysterious code and understand things? And this is a game, so you will get a little reward? 👁👁👁👄👁👁👁

(if anyone knows any games like this PLEASE let me know TuT)

#the video game Tunic was incredible for this and it was a made up language!! #Duolingo doesn't have grammar explanations anymore or forums #I notice patterns but it's so frustrating when i have to go and try to find what's up by myself #like surely someone out there makes a game like that #Duolingo #languages

[nopeleavemealoone]

im reading a book of my own voalition for the first time in years

(Catching fire)

#really hope this helps me get back into reading cause that stuffs fun i just couldnt get myself to ever do it #I genuinely have not read a physical book nor an online non-manga or comic in years #I have beef with suzanne collins use of grammar and tense but that aside these books are incredible and i love them #Im also reading it for the first time and really wanna know why everyone hates gale 🥲 #Katniss everdeen #the hunger games #thg #catching fire

[gemsstudy]

thank god for the korean subreddit🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

#me googling every grammar and vocab question with ‘reddit’ at the end ahahauaikssks #and getting 5 threads with incredibly digestible and in depth answers #doing the lords work fr!

[insert-neologism]

om in an like english gc now and im SO STRESSED OUT like I text with every possible abbreviation and my grammar sucks and like my style of writing is different too what the fuck do I do now

#theyre like 'me and a few friends are going to go on a hike on saturday. would you like to come?' #n im like 'i mean sure but me n sb i know r going for drinks on friday so ngl Idk how tired im gonna be' #(with more typos) #tbh i think few of them r actually native english speakers. but their grammar is still like normal #meanwhile i learned it mainly on the internet and I think fast to i gotta write fast too #AHHHHHHH #mitos incredible life