#english is a weird language

[just-an-enby-lemon]

I though christening was the right english word for "crisma" and it's not. I was actually thinking about confirmation wich is a very very different ceremony and low key weird.

#catholicism #catholic #english #english is a weird language

[namshubofenki]

Random thought #whatever

So, what if my pronouns are my name. Like, never she/he/they, no, you always have to use my full name to talk about me in the third person. Since english is a fucking genderless language so there is no modification in verbs and adverbs and adjectives and anything else regarding to gender. If you make a work in english where you always refer to the main character by their full name you would never know (unless you have assumptions about gender of proper names) what gender is the protagonist.

Now, in any romance language, you are completely fucked. And i've never seen romance language people asking for pronouns AND adjective modificators. Like, i want my pronouns to be gender neutral but my adjectives to be feminine.

#random thoughts #pronouns #i will for sure get heat if someone bothers #english is a weird language #but spanish... wow #italian is fucked also #blame the romans

[durenjtmusings]

American Beta Reader Soapbox-Grinded

Grind-present tense: (to grind, I, you, we, they grind; he/she/it grinds). “He grinds his teeth as I grind my coffee.”

Grinding-present participle: I AM grinding; you, he/she/it, we, they ARE grinding. “Sweetheart,” he said, grinding his pencil in the sharpener, “are you grinding your crayons?

Ground-past tense: I, you, he/she/it, we, they ground. “He ground his hips while dancing, while I ground my cigarette out under my heel.”

Grounded-completely unrelated to the word grind. Past tense of ‘to ground’ (as in electricity, or people in a stressed emotional state)

Grinded-NOT A WORD. Please stop using it in slash fic sex descriptions. Really.

Bonus:

Grinder-someone who grinds…or a hoagie in New England

Grindr-an app for m/m hookups.

#fanfic reader problems #English conjugations #English is a weird language #american english #grind grinding ground #spurious captain america gif #personal pet peeves #grammer fits

[monstermoviedean]

if you took a language class in school (any level, any language) did your instructor assign you a name from that language? like, when i took french in high school i was assigned a "french name" that i had to use in that class. did anyone else experience this?

#my french teacher was batshit insane so usually i'd chalk it up to that but all the other teachers did it too #that's really fucking weird right? #also for context. i do have a degree in teaching english to speakers of other languages like i do understand language learning theory #but i don't see any rationale for this that makes sense

[philippslahm]

everyone’s like “see ukraine won because of pity” … as if that was a problem. like the songs a banger but even if other countries felt bad for them and voted so???? your point being? the countries being destroyed and ppl die because of the war CANT they have at least a little happiness?? what’s so bad about that??? there is literally no other country that deserved that win more

#eurovision song contest #eurovision #esc 2022 #eurovision song contest 2022 #ukraine #uh to clarify I mean hypothetically if ppl voted out of pity there would be no problem with it #saw ppl reblogging this coming for me #HELLO CANT YALL READ I PERSONALLY THINK THE SONG IS A BANGER AND THATS WHY THEY WON #i also think it shows europes solidarity for ukraine #so pls don’t insult me in the tags #it’s also just a song contest #there are more important matters #support ukraine #!!! #i personally don’t think it’s was a sympathy vote #I think it was solidarity and a fuck you to russia #but that’s just me #also my native language isn’t english so sorry if my wording is weird

[pxuvalentinx]

ahh something about aventurine with a gunplay kink. by now we’ve probably all seen 'the final victor' lightcone, and oh my god, it has awakened something inside of me. (i wrote this at 2am, have mercy. its also not proofread.)

just aventurine shoving a gun into your mouth while you’re kneeling in front of him. arms tied behind your back. he has one hand on your chin, making you look up at him while the other moves the gun inside of your mouth, making you lick and choke on it. the metallic taste being rather unpleasant, but you’d bear with it. he knew that. the gun was loaded, and you were aware of that, but that only added to the excitement you were feeling.

it was a 'silly idea' aventurine brought up a while ago, wondering if you might be into the more crazy stuff and god, who were you to deny such a hot idea? it actually took him a while to finally initiate this situation in the bedroom.

but now you were drooling all over the gun, putting on a show as you kept your eyes on him, not having any shame whatsoever. “Look at you princess, licking and choking on this gun like you’d die otherwise.” he chuckled. "Could pull the trigger at any moment, ya know that?" oh, the cocky grin that you loved so much. ever since you met him, your brain turned into absolute mush. he fucked you stupid on the daily, and the once so proud and feared girl turned into aventurine’s personal fucktoy. it went so far that instead of making you cry and shiver out of fear, his words only made the dripping mess between your legs worse. so far that only sucking on a gun for him got you so close to the edge. "Such a good girl, taking anything I give you~" a low purr escaped his lips, "But so pathetic.." a rather empathetic look formed on his face, not sincere in any way though. you both knew that he'd never actually hurt you, but the simple control he had over you by doing this, the control over your life. a couple of seconds later, your mouth was empty, the metallic taste still clinging to your mouth. he put the gun on the table next to you. the sound of a belt unbuckling could be heard and your eyes quickly made their way to his lower half. "Now let's see, if your slutty little brain still remembers how to suck the real thing."

#aventurine x reader #uhhhhh #hsr aventurine #aventurine honkai star rail #aventurine hsr #smut #hsr smut #short smut #idk what im doing #gun kink #english is not my first language #english is weird #x reader #ahhhhh

[vitamimesea]

(FNAF COMIC)

It’s Been Years (pg 1-4)

next (pg 5-6)

Finally putting this out after being abandoned for months. After the bite, Mike became distant to his friends and people in general and quit high school, but he meets Jeremy again by fate.

#past bites back au #fnaf #michael afton #jeremy fitzgerald #fnaf comic #fnaf au #sister location #jeremike #afton family #fan comic #fnaf security guard #fnaf fanart #vitamimesea art #sorry if the dialogue is weird #im still trying to figure out on making comics #plus english is not my first language

[finntheehumaneater]

@strangersteddierthings this is for you. (There will be more, but I have stuff to do for Environmental Science homework, and need to post something about it, so that I can’t decide to give up abandon this—so I guess this is part 1/???)

—

Honestly, Eddie wasn’t sure where he went wrong. One minute, he was sitting with Steve, watching some movie that Steve had been far too excited to show him, and then next minute he was walking home. Alone.

It had been his fault, really, and he knew it.

He had kissed Steve Harrington. He had kissed Steve Harrington. What the actual fuck had he done?

There was something in him that jumped at the chance to make a real move once Steve had said he also liked men, and something in him that wanted to curl up and die on the spot because that just made this whole situation worse. Because he liked guys, but he didn’t like Eddie, and that was all too apparent when Steve’s face went from nervous to startled, frozen in place as Eddie instantly regretted everything.

“Is this a joke to you?” Steve had whispered, his voice sounding broken, tears in his eyes as he stood up and looked over at Eddie, arms crossed over chest like he was trying to hide himself—slumped over like he wanted to disappear.

“Steve—“ 

“I—I’m being serious! I mean it, Eddie…do—do you know how hard this is to say? How much it hurts to admit?” Steve shook his head slightly, his eyebrows pinched together, and Eddie wanted to explain everything, but he couldn’t. He was stuck, frozen in place on the couch, wanting so badly to tell Steve what he meant—what he wanted.

But he was walking home alone. The air was cold, and it felt even colder since he had left in a hurry, excusing himself before Steve would’ve started crying, because it hurt to see him like that, so scared and devastated—like he thought Eddie was going to tell everyone. And he wasn’t. Of course he wasn’t! He would never do that—but Steve didn’t know that.

So he had left his coat, only in a t-shirt and jeans. 

He was going to have to go back and get it eventually. He knew that. But he didn’t want to face Steve—to have to admit why he did what he had, and how it wasn’t a joke to him—it was never a joke. It was just easier to ignore him than to face the truth and have to tell him.

The one thing nobody ever talked about enough was how painful feelings could be.

EDIT: there are more parts, and it is finished (maybe I don’t know if I’ll expand on this in the future)! part 2, part 3, part 4

#stranger things #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #stranger things fanfic #I can’t believe I’m actually doing this instead of my WIP. And my science. #Let’s go I guess??? #I don’t know writing is fun #Much more fun than questions about fish dying in ponds due to pollution #Sorry for the weird stopping point but I really need to do homework right now #And if I didn’t post what I had for this atm it would never get finished #So #sorry again :( #AND SORRY FOR ANY MISTAKES I CAN’T SPELL #ENGLISH *IS* MY FIRST LANGUAGE BUT MY BRAIN MOVES FATSER THAN MY HANDS SO I’VE ALWAYS SUCKED AT IT #SORRY :(

[2sw]

it's a very long post about THAT scene in 7x03... (30 gifs)

and...

season 4 was one of the darkest periods of sam's life and his relationship with dean. but at the end of s5, in swan song, sam showed how strong he could be. he took control of lucifer and sacrificed himself to stop the apocalypse. sam could do that cause he wanted redemption. he was able to do that cause he loves his brother. dean was there with him the whole time and just decided to keep doing this shit? especially when sam is struggling with the hallucination of the devil?? sam took on hell memories so he could be there for his brother. and later in season 7, he lets hallucifer in because he's so desperate to save dean... Sam's devotion to his brother is always so quiet and sacrificial. give your baby brother some credit, dean!!!! no wonder why sam was so suicidal in s8.. wait why did I say that. now I'm officially sad anyway, I couldn't believe what dean did in this episode when I watched it for the first time and still can't so I'm posting this.

#sorry if my grammar is weird. english is not my native language #sam winchester #dean winchester #spn 7x03 #s7 #gifs #for the record I don't hate dean #just hate most of what he did to sam (I'm not being sarcastic)

[dazaijustscrollsfic]

guys I promise you if a 20 year old streamer doesn't want to do gay RP with a npc he wouldn't. he's an adult mate he can make his own decisions

he wouldn't throw his characterization away, he can still be suffering and do gay RP at the same time

#qsmp #on the topic of thid #tag your neg????? #please???? #i wouldnt know this shit was happening if you tagged your neg. #fred neg? ok. just tag neg please. #hes not a kid #he can say no #and he can say yes #its his decision what he does not yours #apologies if this sounds weird English is not my first language

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

i feel bad when non-native English speakers apologise for making mistakes or getting confused like babe no you're doing great. this isn't on you. the fact that I've seen so many native English speakers mispronounce the word pronunciation and misspell the word spelling should tell you everything you need to know about this goddamn language.

#weirdly specific but ok #asmi #english #linguistics #pronunciation #english speaking #english spelling #english is weird #as someone whose first language is english #mad respect to everyone for whom it's not #you're doing great #the language is not #i love english #but... well #english language #language stuff #phonetics #language #english is a funny language

[trans-cuchulainn]

"i'm not bad at this language, i'm just bad at social interaction, promise": a neurodivergent language learner's catchphrase

#give me three minutes to sort my sentences into the right order and you'll get them in either english or irish #put me on the spot however and you're getting fuck all tbh #langblr #languages #i feel like i didn't make a very good impression these last couple of weeks #in that everyone would've thought i knew less than i do #and I'm also frustrated with myself for not being able to speak more #but i was fully on the verge of shutdown most days. i think I'm still too fatigued from the insane past month I've had #i went into this exhausted and mentally broken #also it doesn't really matter what other people thought of me #but it feels like it matters and that's weird and painful and annoying #because i think i was misinterpreted by everyone who met me this week #(gender. irish level. interest level. friendliness. humour.) #and i think they might've liked the real me better but i lacked the spoons to convey myself

[ganondoodle]

i know the internet is super english centered but i wish it was more common to mention the language whenever theres talk about a voice actor too, just say "the english voice actor of xyz"? that cant be too hard to do right??

i wish there was more appreciation for non-english voice actors!! in english spaces as well as in general! i know the names of many of the english cast for zelda even though i dont like any of them and have never set my game to it but know them simply bc they are the only ones getting any mention and they are always just called "the voice of" making it seem like that is THE one and only voice

im aware that its in part bc i am mostly in english speaking online spaces and the internet IS a very english centered thing but i dont think its wrong to wish for more recognition of other actors for languages other than english or to simply want them to mention to what language they are the actor of

like i dont mean that you gotta talk about every single different voice actor but i think just mentioning it like that more directly implies that there ARE others at all, especially since alot of games dont even do other voices at all and just make english the only voice over even if the game was developed by non-english people, i just find it sad :(

#ganondoodles talks #random #i find it sad and slightly annoying #perhaps influenced a little by me not being a fan of the english translation of zelda and neither of that voice over? #perhaps so #but also in general id like to hear more about other languages even in english news #since its all so english centered #i know its a weird thing to get hung up on but #man #the japanese sounded great to me but i dont speak it despite trying to learn so idk the actual quality #but the german in largely pretty good #better than english at least #like im sorry im sure there are roles for all of those voice actors that suit them #but not these #especially zelda

[demadogs]

ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE

(2023) Dir. Shawn Levy

#i dont think theres much of fandom for this book/show this is gonna get like 9 notes #as always these look fine on my computer and horrific on my phone so thats super fun #my gifs #all the light we cannot see #shawn levy #louis hofmann #aria mia loberti #tvedit #usergreta #dailyflicks #filmedit #atlwcs #really wish they didnt cut frederick #also its weird that this was all in english #i was expecting a mix of german and french and english but theres like no other languages just accents thats pretty stupid #also this is just the film bitch in me but when he exploded the door and she was deaf for a couple seconds and you didnt hear anything they #really should have also completely unfocused the shot too to replicate her being blind AND deaf in that moment #the fact that they only deafened the audio for the audience kinda makes you forget that shes blind they just focused on the deaf part #and blindness isnt just darkness she can probably see some light (npi) so just a really blurry shot with no audio wouldve been great #thats the only like film specific thing i wish they did tho #i really love the shot werner on the ground and in bed #i also dont hate that they made em kiss... #even tho when i read this in high school i was the only one in my socratic seminar who was glad they didnt lmao #its not like reylo like it works #ok im done #OH AND IM GLAD WERNER DIDNT DIE THAT WAS VERY NICE OF THEM

[regular-gnome]

Do the Archivists have their own distinctive personalities?

And what are their names?

Great work btw!!!!❤️👍❤️👍

Thanks:P

They are individuals but they act often like one entity with singular goal taking priority. They might speak simultaneously and act in same ways, especially while dealing with mortals, but they do have differences.

Relating to the the name they don't have not enough sense of own identity to keep a name in a meaningful way, but they keep a title for clarity and division of specialties. The ones I went with are The Curator/Chronicler, The Anatomist/Naturalist, The Architect/Sculptor, The Wayfarer/Explorer, and tagging along is The Collector also refered to by their siblings as The Child. Titles make it also easier to interact with other of own species if needed, and if something was to happen to any of them- someone can easy take their place.

The main goal is to preserve life in their galaxy system. All of them are Archivists and fulfill duties relating to this function, but also have individual tasks to streamline the process. Wayfarer keeps track of places new and old, stars and planets are constantly moving, new form other disappear, sometimes a rogue asteroid collides. Curator takes care of Archives, what is needed or has to be reintroduced before a collection deteriorates. Architect keeps track of habitability of a planet, what should be done to make it more livable, but more focusing on chemistry/ physics side of things and Anatomist works with the living. They keep track of changes in species, what poses danger to them or witch pose danger to others. Collector is still young so he mostly just joins for collecting but spends most time with Anatomist since they deal with animals, cool plants or such, aaand they would be most likely to know what a child needs.

I am not set on all the designs, so yeah, there might be slight diffrences later:p

#owl house #toh collector #toh archivists #also english is very much not my first language so I hope there are no weird connotiations with words i decided to use #ittt happens

[kneworder]

#this is bugging me apparently axe is british english but it looks weird without the e at the end is this a universal thing #polls #language