#i still say it's one syllable

[coquelicoq]

i've been dying for a poll option ever since i saw my followers' answers to that text post from february 2022 asking people whether they pronounce beloved as "be-lov-ed" or "be-loved". many people were emphatic about only using one option, and many others use both but were not always able to articulate when they use 2 syllables vs. 3. so out of the goodness of my heart and my insatiable lust for knowledge i have gone through the notes on that post and written down some likely contenders! you're welcome!!!!

BEFORE YOU ANSWER! think about how you would pronounce beloved in the following syntactic contexts:

noun, talking directly to the beloved: hey there beloved

noun, talking about rather than to the beloved: my beloved lives in a pineapple under the sea

adjective in a noun phrase: my beloved x lives in a pineapple under the sea

verb participle: x is beloved by y

okay poll time! there are no wrong answers!! and apologies in advance if i didn't capture your truth, i only had 10 options and life is a rich tapestry!!

#oh man i could have easily come up with another 5-8 options but they cap you at 10. which is probably a good thing #one person said they say 'my be-lov-ed x' but 'my much be-loved x'. the only difference being the 'much'. couldn't fit that one on here #someone else said they use 3 syllables in a possessive noun phrase (my be-lov-ed x) but 2 if it's not possessive (the be-loved x) #one person said it depends on whether it's past or present & i wasn't exactly sure what that meant. 'x is beloved' vs. 'x was beloved'? #i also think there's likely a distinction for some people between 'x was beloved' and 'x was beloved by y' but couldn't get into that #oh and then there's 'beloved by' vs. 'beloved of' #and since some of these are syntactic distinctions and some are semantic or otherwise i'm sure there's a whole matrix of combinations #like '3-syll noun if it's a person but 2 if it's a thing. 2-syll adjective/verb participle for both people and things' #that was beyond the scope of this poll lol #but mostly why i'm so curious is because people will very emphatically say something that might not mean what they think it means #like for instance i got the impression that at least some of the people saying 'be-lov-ed when i'm talking to them‚ be-loved when i'm #talking about them' actually mean they use be-lov-ed as a noun and be-loved otherwise #and some of the people saying 'always 2 syllables' probably have exceptions that they weren't thinking of at the moment #in particular 'dearly beloved' #and i'm very curious to know if 3-syllable people still use 3 syllables in the construction 'he was beloved by all' #so i think people's answers might change when given a list of more detailed options #fun with pronunciation #prosody #my posts #also i stressed for so long about what to call beloved in the 'x is beloved by y' construction #but settled on verb participle because i think it's fairly descriptive and accurate #so hopefully that's not too confusing? like it is a verb participle but for a verb that doesn't exist anymore (other than the participle)? #and even in 'my beloved x' beloved is a verb participle being used as an adjective if you're thinking more etymologically #but a lot of people were distinguishing 'be-loved as a verb' from other forms and i assume what they meant by that was 'x is beloved'

[john-smiths-jawline]

growing up nonwhite in america is just like *your white friends don’t do this* *your white friends have never heard of your favorite food* *your white friends think the way you celebrate this holiday is weird* *your white friends still don’t pronounce your last name right even though it’s been literal years* *your white friends

#psychic damage #look i love being japanese i wouldn’t change that #but it’s isolating sometimes #i remember so clearly being like six and going over to my white friend’s house #and her mom gave us snacks and we were sitting down at the table #and like i always do before eating with someone else i said itadakimasu #and she looked at me like i was having a stroke #and i was like “i was just saying itadakimasu” #because i thought it was a thing everyone did #and she was like “what’s an itadakimasu” #and i just felt very different #i think that was the first time i realized that none of my friends are like me #and that there’ll always be that difference #like it’s cool but still ya know #i wish i knew like one other japanese person that would be really cool #for those of you who don’t know what itadakimasu is— it’s something you say before a meal #it doesn’t really have a direct english translation #but roughly it’s like “hey thanks for making this it looks cool. i’m gonna eat it now :)” #not exactly but that’s the closest i can get because the food culture doesn’t transfer over very well #it’s pronounced “ee-tah-dah-kee-mah-s” by the way #the “u” at the end is silent because japanese is a syllable-based language and it’s using the character for “su” (like in sushi) #even though the sound is just a “s”

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: April 21

"Think About You All of the Time" by Toby Keith

#song of the day #I love this dumbass song so much #spent a good chunk of the day warbling it to myself while gardening #'I know you think I'm lonely / but you got it wrong clementine #hey I don't miss you too much / but still I think about you all of the time' #there's so many syllables in that 'clementine'. at least four in the i alone #this is I would say the less dignified corollary to George Strait's 'Round About Way' which I also love to warble to myself #very much of a 'I am definitely 100% absolutely yep sure over you' type #but where Round About Way is more wry this one has lines like 'she drives a convertible. she likes to laugh a lot. totally flirt-able' #very very very fun to sing to the impatiens

[wheresurboytonighthelookslikeenj]

sorry why is i'd rather be me meangirls like the worst mt song ever

#its so wordy but the melody doesnt fit the wordiness so it just sounds like that one poem from the limerick thread like #“yes i know it's because i try to squeeze as many syllables into the last line as i possibly can” #“and if you treat me bad i'll say you're bad” lives in my head rent free like girlypop w h a t #and the rest of the lyrics are mid #and the song seems to be supposed to be some inspirational number--a turning point for the girls who arent the plastics-- #but the melody and instrumentation is so meh and twee and... idk it seems shallow. it doesnt make me feel anything. #and the chanting ughhhhhhhhhhh #and people have said that this song doesnt fit janis but like idk if you think about it as a turning point like this is when she finally #breaks and finally decides that she doesnt care anymore then yeah it could work that way #but it still isnt a good song. #ugh #malloy mean girls chronicles

[quiveringdeer]

how do yall pronounce "Rei" or "ReiRei" as nicknames for Reiner 🤔

#reiner braun #aot #i do it one way but it technically isnt thw same #as the first syllable naturally #which is probs why i called him RAY-nier the whole time before i heard #them say it in the english dub #same for jean honestly #and in my head i still say jean like the 👖 #just cant break the habit #nat talks aot

[fountainpenguin]

The funniest joke to me is when a character says “Don’t say I never gave you anything” and they have given NOTHING

#Just so we're clear I drafted this in Jan 2020 and it is specifically about this one upcoming scene #where Anti-Sanderson allows people to call him a nickname one syllable shorter than his title. And then says this exact line #Someone help me I still have 1200 drafts #130 Prompts #FAIRIES! #ridwriting #Fashion tornado mob boss

[luckyfiona]

“ you can’t or you won’t? ”

                  ❝ ——  Oh. Hm. ❞

                                          ( Uh-oh. )

Lawless Lucky talked a big game around the bonfire last night. She wasn't too oblivious to pick up on the fact that her being scandalized and upset by the boys' violent sides was beginning to grate on them. So, when all of the boys were talking about the gruesome things they'd like to do to the people who made their lives hard in The Other Place, she forced herself to laugh along, and even took the opening to spin a tale about how she was planning to poison her old employer's food. And, oh, those rotten pirates? Well, she would do the same to them if she had a chance.

So busy seizing on the moment, she didn't consider that she would actually have to put her money where her mouth was.

It would shatter the illusion of Neverland as her luxurious, peaceful, happily-ever-after paradise if she had to see any real carnage with her own two eyes, much less deal any of it herself. But here was dear Peter, ever the altruist, granter of all her wishes, suggesting she come along to their next raid of the Jolly Roger. Lucky's pretty sure he knows this is out of her comfort zone, if he's paid any attention to her — and he does, of course he does. Why else would he go through the trouble of bringing all of these troubled souls to the island if he didn't empathize and care about all of them, right? She can't imagine any motive but love and sympathy. — It's funny, considering how anxiously, meticulously sensitive she tries to be to his boundaries. There was something maybe endearingly boyish about his disregard for hers.

She reasons that she should be grateful for his investment in keeping things fresh and interesting. This is what a sensible, healthy relationship looked like, right? Balancing energies was a major tenet of Celtic magic— it was the key to harmony and prosperity. A passive, supportive person worked best with a person who was a little more... challenging. It would be too stagnant or too chaotic any other way. She gives a fond half-smile to her love, her true love, convinced he's only looking out for her best interests. She would find a way to explain to him that this doesn't really interest her... another time.

               ❝ Well, I suppose I would... ❞ 

Lucky? Morally opposed to it? No sir, you've got the wrong lassie. You must be thinking of that prude from Chicago, Fiona Comisky, who used to dote and cry and sermonize Nate Larsen any time he got injured in a fight with some low-class brute he should've run away from. She had no qualms with clodhopping bullies who started barbaric fights. Didn't find it tasteless in the slightest.

She was opposed to tagging along for much more modest, supportive, team-playering reasons, to be certain. The same reasons why she declined Nate's offer to teach her how to use a bow and arrow: why would the Princess of Neverland get her dainty, dignified, not-at-all-labor-calloused hands dirty learning how to hunt when her boys got such a thrill out of slaying those innocent animals?

                ❝ But why bring a girl along to steal all of the attention?                        I'm not as strong or as sneaky as you. I may ruin the... Element of surprise. Or... distract everyone when they have to keep me out of harm's way. And there’s really— there's so much I could do back here. I thought I should make some sort of victory banquet for the boys to come back to. ......Besides... ❞

Lucky's fingers sidled over to his, tips brushing over his knuckles, as if timidly asking permission to show tenderness before making any sudden moves. Peter was a bit strange about physical touch. She could never tell if he was enjoying it, or if she maybe wasn't doing it right. When he didn't immediately swat her away, she gingerly placed her palms in his, intuitively careful not to scare him away like a baby deer too shy for human touch, or startle him like a scorpion ready to plunge a stinger into her at any moment. She has experience with his type. She has nothing if not patience and willpower to break through to them. She has hope that one day she'll be able to fully embrace him. If she's really as lucky as everybody says, maybe she'd be able to fully-fully "embrace" him.

                ❝ I love when you tell me all about your thrilling adventures. You get such this 𝓅𝓊𝒸𝓀𝒾𝓈𝒽 𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓃𝓀𝓁𝑒 in your eye... It's the same one you had when you first found me— the one that I saw and thought, 'Oh, there it is: my 𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫. At last, I can see it!' ❞ 

She boldly ventures to show a little more affection while she pleads, but not enough to push him too far, just enough to remind him that he can touch her back any time he's ready. (If he's rallying her to come out of her comfort zone, maybe this is a good time to encourage him to be a little more adventurous, too.) Her fingers, ever-so-lightly cupped over his hands, gently lace themselves into the spaces between his. She's not naïve enough to believe she's going to get out of raids forever. She just wants to experience feeling truly loved and close to him, just one time, before she has to see him at his absolute nastiest.

           ❝ Oh, Peter, won't you please let me see my 𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫 again when you fill me in later? ❞ 

( Won't you please let her be so lucky as to skip out on this? )

╳ — 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒 ! // ACCEPTING.

#(set when she was still peter's latest model Wendy-bot 2000) #i like the gifs from this movie cus she has a Visible irish accent in them and i love that for fiona :') #if u look real close and havent gotten any in a while you'll notice there's like three different subliminal message double entendres in her #jus know that every time u think a line in a post abt peter sounds like an innuendo it 100% is because lucky is thinking it too #｢ ʟᴜᴄᴋʏ ▓ 🐞 — the lost girl. ｣ #｢ ʟᴜᴄᴋʏ ▓ 🐞 — ❛ ft. peter pan. ｣ #｢ ɪɴʙᴏx ᴄᴀʟʟ ▓ 🕯️ — answered. ｣ #the nature of drabbly askmeme prompts is that you want to write a complete vignette based on the one line someone sends you so you end up #writin like 99 words of dialogue in response to the 5 syllables someone sends u and it makes it look like ur muse Does Not Shut The Fuck Up #so. ignore that. i wanna say fiona would've picked up on the fact that he doesn't like to listen to broads rambling for too long #this is also kinda my first ic post tho (baffling that it took me this long i am sorry) so! wanted to write a good intro scene #and rly set up what fiona's mentality was like in this time cus it's gonna make a lot of her present day chocies make more sense #also sorry that you all have to find out this late but i Am a broad who rambles for 5 paragraphs in the tags of everything i post Sorry!!

[crystal-jellies]

also today is like a day for crushes bc this morning i saw the guy i had a crush on freshman year at a mf denny’s and me being as slick as i am just stared at him for like 4 seconds

#its also his fault bc i was gonna smile after he did but he just waited for me so i looked away bc i couldn't take it #eye contact is insane #he stared too though so i'll just think he's weird so it cancel's out the fact that he'll think i'm weird ;) #also i was with a bunch of aunties so maybe if i did smile it'd cause problems #bc brown aunties are the most problematic :)) #YES HE WAS MY ONE AND ONLY DESI CRUSH #NEVER CRUSHED ON MY RACE OTHERWISE LOLL #we played together a bit as kids bc he was my friend's cousin but then we ended up going to the same highschool #we had no classes together but i still ended up crushing on him lol #idk how im such a loser #but the last interaction i had was i was walking across the school near the end of lunch and crossed paths with him and his friend #and while looking into my eyes he smacks his friend on the ass and then smiles and says assalamu alaykum ;)) as if hes the most halal bro #his poor friend was like bro :') #and i just said hi bc i can't say more than two syllables to people i barely know in passing bc my throught closes up #throat* #i didn't like him then btw this was my k era #ngl he still cute #kinda #i don't like him though i have no time im fr so busy

[aj-lenoire]

in the french dub, whenever vex and vax call each other ‘brother’ or ‘sister’, it’s translated as ‘mon cher frère’ [my dear brother] or ‘ma chère sœur’ [my dear sister] which i think is pretty sweet

#the legend of vox machina #vex’ahlia #vax’ildan #aj watches #aj watches vox machina #(en français!) #it’s probably to do with the fact that the french words are one syllable but the english words are two syllables #so the dub-writers have to make them speak for roughly the same amount of time as they do in english #but i still think it’s sweet #what’s slightly funny is that vax doesn’t say ‘stubby’ in the dub AT ALL—it’s replaced with ‘my dear sister’

[coquelicoq]

i'm rereading the count of monte-cristo but this time in french and out loud to improve my pronunciation, and i realize de villefort is a major antagonist but i need him to get promoted already because le procureur du roi is sooo hard to say, like that is too many r sounds bestie 😩

#4 r sounds in 5 syllables. let me rest #also r after u or eu and r before oi are literally the most difficult environments for r like come on. have mercy #i can get through procureur but that is straining the limits of my ability. i say procureur de and then my mouth is like NON! JE REFUSE! #*procureur du #i hate saying the word roi it's sooooo hard u guys #if someone told me one of the reasons for the french revolution was that they didn't want to have to pronounce that word anymore #i'd be like yeah checks out #like say what you will about how dumb it is to have an emperor instead of a king but at least empereur doesn't have an r before an oi #still has an r after an eu but nothing is as bad as r before oi #ESPECIALLY at the very very beginning of a word. like at least in croire trois froid etc. there's another sound there #for some reason that makes a big difference #the count of monte cristo #french #my posts #f #okay but here's my fear. technically de villefort is le substitut procureur du roi. so i'm a lil worried that he'll just be promoted to #actual procureur du roi. if that happens i am running into the woods never to be seen again

[athenaholmesartistsguild]

I love how Kiryu is SO BAD at changing his identity.

Like. This man has had to pretend that he’s not who he is at least TWO TIMES (three if he changes his hair in 8 to go undercover) and his first attempt was naming himself the equivalent to John Smith. Then he tries AGAIN and he changes his name to JORYU.

Kiryu is so beautifully autistic and I love it. He just saw a rule and he followed it.

#saying this as an autistic person btw. #I couldn’t really find the kanji for Kiryu’s name in Gaiden #so I can’t comment on how similar his fake and real name are in that regard. #but I think changing only one syllable in your name is still pretty hilarious. #at least in 8 he’s finally starting to alter his (very memorable) appearance somewhat. #yakuza #Kiryu kazuma #I honestly love Kiryu’s autistic coding because while humorous it never crosses into being malicious? #like yeah. Kiryu’s a fundamentally strange person and his neurodivergence probably contributes to that #but the people he helps are never cruel to him because of it. #like Kiryu can think a woman needs to eat an entire pizza before she can work #and everyone involved in the situation just rolls with it. #I feel like a lot of autistic coded characters just don’t get that kindness. #their differences are more a hindrance to the neurotypical characters and something that needs to be overcome. #but then you have Kiryu who is generally loved by the people who meet him #and when a misunderstanding happens it’s treated as a humorous situation but not something that Kiryu should be ashamed of. #and I dunno. I just want to live in a world where everyone’s treated like that y’know?

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

OAUGH THEY'RE KEEPING THEIR OWN NAMES 😭😭

HOW COULD THEY DO THIS TO US

#I mean I'm not actually that upset lol BUT STILL xD #9-1-1 lone star #911 lone star #oasis's 9-1-1 chatter #911 lone star s4 finale #I will say though I'm a reyes-strand truther #I think my main problem with strand-reyes is just the weird emphasis it puts #given that it's the second syllable #anywag loving randomly getting all these deleted scenes xD :D #I was just checking the fox channel to see if the cake one had been uploaded because even though it says it was uploaded by fox I #can only find it by link from an article not on their channel lol #but anyway I was checking and lost my mind seeing there was not only a new one (and not only that they deigned to give us more #than one lol) but what it was about xDD #anyway #stop tk looks so happy in that clip 😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️ #like he does in the other too and everyone looks happy but just aUGH he 😭😭😭🥰🥰🥰🥰 #I'm so happy for them :'))) #individually and together :'DD #nearly said individually and separately xDD #anyway :))) #themmm <333 #also I love the fact that they were debating it xDD #mood lol #us (the fandom) fr xDD #I wish we got these scenes in the episode lol #but I'm glad we're getting them at all #it just would've been nice if we got a bit more happiness and lightheartedness to balance it all out xD because being alive was great #but it was still not very lighthearted lol #still I love what we got 🥰🥰 #anyway I've been rambling for long enough xD I promise I'm finishing my liveblog (pretending I'm past me) soon I'm just super busy lol

[perenlop]

love going by emery but the thing that sucks abt it being so close to my deadname is that my family seems to think just calling me “em” is the most effort they have to put into it

#in speech i can kinda get it bc hard to break that habit but in writing when they insist on em bc its easier its like. cmon #i get it its one syllable vs three but. in writing? #plus it was my nickname when i still went by it so now they just treat it like thats my true name now #also feel extra annoyed bc when i first changed it my brother was literally correcting my parents messing up #by going ''just say em its easier its not as annoying'' #which he has tried to get better with now tbf but. damn no apology for that either #echoed voice

[dont-open-dead-inside-25]

kinda want to name myself clementine but also. girls name but consider. orange

#finn says shit #just like for first name purposes #i would still go by finn #but i need a first name that's more than one syllable #trans

[just-another-obsessed-fangirl]

i do love 'regret me', enough that it's possible that it'll be pretty high on my spotify wrapped come the end of the year, but i cant think about the lyric where they say 'PCH highway' too much or i get too bothered by it

#ive never heard anybody say 'PCH highway' the way people regularly say 'DC comics' #is that just me? am i not talking to enough people? #im trying to rationalize it by telling myself it might've been more common for people to say that in the 70s #but even then i feel like it was entirely possible to sing 'pacific coast highway' without throwing the line out of meter #it's only one extra syllable #daisy jones and the six #dj6 #my posts #songs still slaps though #'you couldnt handle your liquor and you cant seem to handle the truth'

[zombiebaratiddies]

One thing that really saddens me is when people belittle someone's intelligence due to continuously mispronouncing a word or saying it differently, or not understanding a reference to something because they've never heard of or encountered the material before despite it being well-known or "something everyone knows".

What's the phrase... "are you serious?" or "you're joking" or continuing the exclamation of appallment/surprise with "well you probably say [this] too or do [this] because of it" in a slightly teasing manner is something that... is very not appreciated. I wish people met someone not knowing "common knowledge" with "oh, what do you want to know about it? I can tell you what I know" instead of... ridicule or teasing belittlement of their intelligence.

#if you are met with it i do encourage you to speak up and say 'hey i don't really appreciate you treating me that way. #even if you were joking it still hurt my feelings. please don't do that in the future with me' #it's... i feel this is very much a neurodivergent experience to have #very much for me at least. i had all of the resources to watch all of the films 'everyone else watched' #but i was never interested enough in them to sit down and watch them or even put them on in the background #i kinda always get grilled for pronouncing iron as it's spelled and agate as ah-gah-tay since my brain processes words in parts mostly #especially new ones as jp is one of my early processed languages and it's very syllable-based #it's just. the little things that i wish i didn't get belittled over #i know i'm smart and intelligent and have the ability to learn and form opinions on complex topics #i'm just also very impressionable and don't know the things most americans are supposed to know i guess because i was busy watching anime #ahhh. #fine to reblog #the neurodivergent experience #somewhat of a vent #zombie murmurs