#just stupid linguist thoughts i guess

[louhilohi]

I'm currently writing a paper on signed communication systems in the South Pacific for one of my Uni classes, and there's this one source that's just hitting me different. It's about a man named Kagobai who was the only deaf person in the islanders' living memory, so in order to communicate he just straight up developed his very own sign language from scratch. His signs were only ever documented once, back in the early 1970's, at which point Kagobai was already in his 60s, so he's likely not around anymore, and his sign language probably died along with him.

And like, I'm so happy that there is any record at all of this wonderful man who invented a whole language out of necessity, but it's so bittersweet that the documentation isn't complete and can no longer be fleshed out. And it just made me think about how many individual sign languages and sign systems have probably existed throughout time and went extinct without anyone ever recording them, so now they're gone forever. And that made me sad.

#just stupid linguist thoughts i guess #it's just been so amazing to research this topic #to see the inventiveness and creativity of people #and I just needed to get this feeling out somehow cause it started gnawing at me #sign language #sign languages #deaf #deafness #pacific #oceania

[onebraincell-itmiebcraft]

Okay time for the liveblogging of real life in order (liveblogging life SMP call that lifeblogging) I have never done this b4 be easy on me

Grian

I've already watched his perspective at like 5 in the morning but heyyyyy nothing wrong with rewatching with added non sleep deprived commentary but also not really memories of what I originally thought watching this too :^))

I remember being so stunned they called it real life and the anatomically correct heart 🫀tickled my funny bone heeheehoo hahaha

Thought when grian said replay 3rd life I thought they'd reenact it 😭

We live in a society taxes man (I could ramble about it)

GRIAN IRL FACE!!!

has anyone fell over btw?

No lie that B can BIG

Reminds me of slimecicle jshitt and traves VR Minecraft where Travis got progressively shorter what a laugh

Does Scott ever see his scream

Is it take the Mick or take the nick love that idiom

RENDOG!

Scar looks like a child doing that thing

Awww hug

ABUSE

scar take the headset off dzuh 🫀🫀🫀

Grian literally me balance issues

Yugioh????

I called it, scar would say he's American 😎

I'm eating dinner while watching this at the same time what fun w

Giran called solidaritygaming jimmy no way + he died first fr this time + loud "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" Perfectly timed his mic peaking is iconic

Ha haa!

He ear him bread

Really putting the mine in craft for Minecraft

reminds me of secret life EP 4 and scar is sweaty

*scar noises*

How did scar drop his phone???

Check your wrist? More like check your a- (tom cardy référence)

I love the way VR makes you hit stuff goofy

Can you run in game if you irl

(watch him die)

Haha he died

Why Jim is he sabotaging him

Jim Jim Jim gym gym

Doesn't Jim die here oh LMFAO he does

Jimmy you are famous to me

(scout voice) Chicken

How did scar die???

I love how vr makes them expressive Jim pointing to village house is so funny

There's only one bed

Wtf is happening in top right corner in 9min 30 sec

Ayyyyy there's grian the maniac love the casual position of the arms

Last life you can join me moment

Egg

Grian gaslighting

Jimmy you wanna dance quote of the year

PvP is so silly

Skizz is fighting a losing battle Jim killed him icon

I love how grian and Jim's yells overlap there's probably something music theory there idk

Awww scar he's so funny

Go pick him up from daycare haha

Facing away from the camera we live in a society

OHHHHH impulse big smart man Jimmy's arm movements are so smooth it's solly

Jimmy immediately leaving for fish cocomelon brain I agree

Love the arm movements

Lol they actually like down

It's okay grian scuffed is worth celebrating

Has anyone layed on their side

Friend just texted me about my monologue what am I doing man I have an audition tomorrow

Anyway Minecraft vr

The lying down model inventory so goofy

Rewatching the bread scene no wonder tumblr loves it looks like Jim jam actually has a mouth 👄

Impulsesv guess the build sheep flashbacks

Best sleepover

Polyamorous tony (died)

Sleepover reminds me of crazy Christmas w/gem and pearl

Grown men learn how to close doors

Minecraft fatshaming grian smh my head

Man thought it was more than Joel there + o2 max(xing) scar love it (i use maxxing ironically) (it's such a stupid suffix to me linguistically funny) (I hate incels) (don't cancel me tumblr) (I love all genders)

Two steps: die, and die

Jimmy isn't on fire??

Casual "it burns so much!" Love it

Wait right Jim still has a wooden sword

Joel Joel Joel Joel you know that one part in waiting for Godot where they just go back and forth in saying aideu yeah

So silly

Jim saying get in British people man

"noffing" - joel is it a British thing

Love Joel screaming he's so malding

Just remembered how scary heights are in VR because I thought for a second "why don't they jump down? are they stupid?" (Meme Reference) (Didn't actually think that) ("Stupid" is kinda stupid but I digress)

Hole

Boob stroke

Does scar enjoy the swimming

Why *does* swimming cause motion sickness anyway

Why bucket scar (this is a bucket)

Brain eating amoeba

GOON SQUAD!!!

Love Grian's arm movements I really did thonk Jim was gonna win for the funnies

He says come here weirdly

The joy of killing

Is Jim punching

It's okay hiking simulation

Go Jim go what a gamer boy

I remember the triple dog door dugout is like... Gem's? Joel's? Uhhhh I fotgor

Concussion era

Fresh meat

I just love their dynamics

JIM STOP SOUNDING LIKE THAT it's like his eyes are 🥺 and his mouth is boowomp spongebob like he's got tears in eyes scrimblo sounding ass

Ohhh there's my favourite theatre kids

'orrible

Joel saying boys make me happy

Wait that can misinterpreted

Joel saying "boys" sounds pleasant to my ears

I remember watching this part and going GRIAN FIRST OUT HUH???

awww the funnies

Love the way gem says "we're the last Grians. Grians? Greens!" It's like... Spunky

Grian falling reminds me of my scuffed keyboard when it registers a button press as a hold and then I like never stop walking right *sigh*

The downward spiral by nine inch nials

Ascending is TRUE watcher lore

Oh the music is so cute

Bye scar! Bye Joel!

Okay never let me liveblog cook again i kinda listened to the vid instead of watching reading this does not make sense to anyone but me reference hell half formulated thoughts RIP BOZO HAHA

Maybe I'll like do it in 5 mins chunks for JJJJJJoel and the next ones onward I spent like an hour on this wayyyyy too long for incomplete sentences

End

#real life smp #real life #real life spoilers #rlsmp #grian #liveblogging #life series #life smp #trafficblr #what is wrong with me #rlsmp liveblogging

[nerves-nebula]

Ages and ages ago, I had a conversation with a loveless aro because I was curious and didn't quote get what loveless meant. They explained that, at least for them and some people they knew they identified as loveless because the concept of love will always be related to romance. And I sort of got it, especially for English speakers (I like analysing the world through the lens of language despite very much not being a linguist) but my first language deeply connects the concept of love to familial live first and foremost, something I told them and they said that they didn't consider language a factor to how someone perceives love but they thought that loveless could still apply in that context just to those dont connect with familial love aswell as romantic love. Im simplyfying it, but either way, it was an interesting discussion.

Anyway because of a certain character from In Stars and Time I have been thinking about my own experiences with being aro and that I remembered that conversation and realised that one of the reasons my aromatic ass is so obsessed with romance despite being aromatic is because my stupid brain views it as an escape from familial love. That I dread deep in my bones that the only people who will ever love me, want me, are my family.

So I'm inflicting this realisation upon you

Linguistics!

(Not a linguist)

(I do not mean this as a vent, I just find the idea of a aromatisism being differently experienced depending on background fascinating and wanted to share)

They explained that, at least for them and some people they knew they identified as loveless because the concept of love will always be related to romance.

but my first language deeply connects the concept of love to familial love first and foremost

they said that they didn't consider language a factor to how someone perceives love but they thought that loveless could still apply in that context just to those dont connect with familial love aswell as romantic love

maybe i'm not understanding this but i'm not sure how this isn't a good example of how language DOES factor into how someone perceives love... also no spoilers for stars & time !!! i'm planning on watching jello's streams of it over the summer

realised that one of the reasons my aromatic ass is so obsessed with romance despite being aromatic is because my stupid brain views it as an escape from familial love. That I dread deep in my bones that the only people who will ever love me, want me, are my family.

kind of same? like i never believed that only my family would/could love me but there's this sense that familial "love" or "bonds" are more long lasting than anything else. what I want is a bond that feels that unbreakable, that kind of "you will always be my sister even if we hate each other nothing will change that" sort of bond that ties people's lives together, that's what interests me about romantic relationships.

but i don't feel romantic or sexual attraction. i feel affection i guess? idk. but i still want that bond. i want that bond. i want someone who, when making plans, will say they have to see what I'm doing first. I my life enmeshed with someone elses, to be able to rely on them. but i don't know how to get it cuz i hate dating and romance and sex lmao.

#nnstuff #ask #aroace #aromantic #arospec #oops now im just ranting sfdsf

[sarah-denial-cq]

Power In Names

Take a second to think about degrading terms for women. You're here on my Tumblr, so you've probably heard some of them. I thought I would give my thoughts on some of them and what my favorites are. I'm writing this entire post with panties stuffed in my mouth so we'll see how long it goes.

First of all, my favorite, is bitch. When Rose pushed my face down against her clit in her car, pulled over the side of the road on Valentine's day with my ass up in the air and my dress stripped off, and said "suck it, bitch", my mind went so fuzzy. It hit me so good and hard. But why?

"Bitch" drips with gender violence. So many words are generic ("slut", "whore", "slave", etc), or focused on specific body parts ("cunt", etc) or activities ("cocksucker", etc). But "Bitch" cuts through those to my specific identity. And it is unmistakably, unavoidably hierarchical. A bitch is beneath, inferior, contemptible.

I'm so fucking wet and squirmy writing this, sorry.

But that's not all. The actual sound of the word has so much to do with it. "Bitch" starts with a voiced bilabial consonant, a "B" sound. Yes, my university degree including several semesters of linguistics classes, which I'm now using to explain why being called a pathetic fucking bitch is such a good way of being put in my place. I needed to take a break to edge after writing that.

A voiced bilabial consonant means the sound is formed at the very front of the mouth with two lips rubbing against each other and coming apart. Kind of like when you spit on someone. Or kind of like what you hear when someone spits on you, I guess. The word has the most violent "attack" sound at the beginning of it. Compare it to words like "slut" (unvoiced alveolar initial consonant) or "whore" (unvoiced glottal initial consonant) and there's just no comparison.

By the way, "voiced" vs "unvoiced" refers to how the vocal chords are vibrating. You can feel this by wrapping one hand firmly around your throat and using the other to slap your face while you compare the voiced "b" in Bitch with the unvoiced "p" in Pathetic. I can't, of course, because remember I still have my panties stuffed in my mouth right now.

OK, so with "Bitch" dealt with, I need to talk about the elephant in the room, which is the word "cumdump". Now first of all, I haven't had any consensual sexual experiences that have involved being used in that way. But that being said, while I know it's super common on tumblr, "cumdump" really does nothing at all for me. You know what does? You know what word you can use for me that's so, so much more (squirming again) of a hit to my fried out brain?

"Cumtarget".

Again, it's the violence in the word. It's not a passive receptacle. There's no hierarchy, no danger, nothing about "cumdump" makes me prey. I know there's an ethos to a woman as a passive receiver but do you really want Sarah lying in bed like a dead fish? I want to be targeted. Hunted. Claimed. Overpowered. Defeated.

I'm drooling down my front.

In no particular order, here are a few other favorites.

Pathetic (that initial bilabial consonant, yes please)

Rapebait (p, b, targeting, violent)

Stupid (diminishing, disrespectful, "p" sound, obviously purposefully disrespectful since clearly I'm objectively not)

Dyke (complex)

Bimbo (bbbbbbbbbbb and see "stupid")

Backup Fuck (b, p, very explicitly hierarchical.)

Cunt

Weak

And some less violent:

Babygirl (heart emoji heart emoji heart emoji) (not ddlg)

Eye candy

[redacted because it's rooted in ableist language that I'm not comfortable using]

sorry I'm really wet right now this is too hard

And quickly, a few that just aren't that interesting

Slut (so overused it may as well just be "hello")

Whore (I literally was one)

Slave (you're divorced, wear a suit that's too tight, and love black and white gifs)

I hope that was insightful and that reading it improved your day. I'm going to put these panties back on and lick up the wet spot on the chair now.

xo

#writtenwhileedging #denial

[yourlocalsmutwriter]

Don’t bite your tongue, it’s just a word game ‐ Rena x reader

It was time for the class mission and your team wasn’t doing too well. Redlic’s choreography was rejected in favour for Latrice’s and your own rookie group was a bit tense. But there were more obstacles in the way. Buckey entered the hideout, sighing.

‘’Rena barely has me in the video, you can’t see me. I tried to talk to her, everyone’s been kissing up to her. But even though I try I can’t seem to convince her.’’ With that she turns to you, batting her eyes.

‘’Can you try to help.’’. Since you had an interest in Japanese culture from a young age, you had picked up the language. You even had enrolled in a language school to learn it better. Unbeknownst to the people around you, it was called ‘’The lesbian school’’ and you kinda helped with that reputation. Bring together a bunch of teenage girls with the same interests, nerdy looks and too much love for GL manga and Sputnik Sweetheart by Murakami and well. To be fair, it reminded you a bit of this competition. And now it was time to use your Japanese skills to win over a woman again, with less of your sapphic energy, sadly.

You knocking on the door of the Tsubakill hideout was not unusual. You had been bonding with their team since the begging of the competition. Asking about the dance scene in Japan, teaching them more about Korea. You had also been the one to translate the lyrics for the song Rena was choreographing. At the words beckoning you inside you opened the door and were surprised . Rena was alone.Before you could ask, she started explaining herself :

‘’Everyone’s either practicing or resting. But why are you here. Let me guess, Buckey sent you.’’

‘’Yes, but if you could just give her a chance, she can preform well in a more central spot.’’

‘’I’m not doubting your teammate’s skills. But this is a competition, Manequeen should have just preformed better.’’

‘’So this is about strategy. I’ve been nothing but helpful to you. And I can continue to be. Voting the way you want. Teaching you new moves, extra practice. Of course you know I’m a cunning linguist. ‘’ The thing is you didn’t mean to say the last word like that. It was a direct innuendo, a freudian slip on your part. It had been a running joke at your school to make certain Japanese words as gay as possible. And this one stuck, apparently.

“Rena, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean that. It’s a stupid pun I just happened to memorise.”

Instead of saying anything about your fuckup, she just told you.

“I’ll think about it. And while I do, let’s play Shiritori. It always clears my head. ”

You thought that it seemed strange, but you weren’t about to argue with the woman you needed help from. You motioned for her to start.

とうみ she said

もん you continued

こ she replied

いる you fired back, hoping to trip her up. There were no stakes in the game, anyway so there was no point in being competitive. Still, you were curious about what she would say.

むんこ was her response. Your eyes almost popped out of their sockets. Rena just said pussy. She could’ve played friend, cup or even anger. But she chose that word. Before you could comment any further, she bursts out laughing.

“You should see your face, you’re so red. Did I surprise you?"

“Did you even want to play Shiritori?”

“No. I suck so much at that game. I’m amazed I lasted long enough to pull it off.” With that you both started laughing again.

“You know, I’m surprised that we are getting along so well. You know, with everything being so intense, I didn’t think you were the affectionate type.”

“Not affectionate, huh. How’s this for not being affectionate?” You lean into her and pressed your forehead against hers. You look at her lips for permission and she responds by kissing you. One kiss turns into two and then a full blown make out session on the couch. Apparently your attraction wasn’t as one sided as you thought. And also being cooped up with a lot of beautiful women for weeks had a similar effect on everyone. You wondered if Rena also took longer showers, so she could get off. But you quickly thought of something else, not wanting to go too far, despite how wet you already were.

But soon enough Rena was on top of you, kissing your neck and your hands were under her shirt. In the mess of limbs your knee lightly brushed against her pussy. She moaned and then covered her mouth.

“Should we test if you are a cunning linguist?” She said. You moved from under her and kneeled on the floor. You pulled her body close to yours, removing her panties. Thank god for skirts, am I right. You began kissing her inner thigh and moved slowly to where she wanted you. You lapped at her clit, moving your tongue up. Her hands pulled on your hair, making you both moan. You say. “Need to taste you, Rena.”. But before you do, she pulls you up and gives you a passionate kiss. You decide to tease her again, kissing her breasts, sucking on her nipples. As much as you wanted to take your time and please her, you remembered that her crew could be back any time now. So you set out to make her cum before her team comes.

You teasingly flick your tongue on her clit before slowly licking her, fucking her with your tongue. You slip a finger into her while you mouth is on her clit, and added a second finger when she asked for more. You curl two fingers inside her and move them up, while sucking on her clit and look up to watch her cum. She looks so pretty, her face red and her hand over her mouth.

And that’s how you go far in Street Woman Fighter 2.

#street woman fighter 2 #swf2 #smut fic #tsubakill

[4e7her]

hello! can i request prompt 1 with leona?

absolutely you can! thank you for the request <3

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characters: leona kingscholar, twst

contains: reader referred to in second person pov, gender neutral reader

for a random event - see link here for request rules and here for the masterlist

"Are you really so oblivious?"

It's with a scoff and a glower that Leona regards you, rolling his eyes when he sees no change in your doe-eyed expression.

"Seriously? Stupid herbivore..." He sighs, even as he softens slightly, roughly pushing your head down as he ruffles your hair. "You've got no business looking to anyone else when you have me."

"Huh?" You question, oblivious to what the lion was talking about. "What do you mean, looking to anyone else?"

"I mean, quit gettin' other guys to help you out. Just ask me."

If you didn't know any better, you'd think Leona to be blushing, and you smile a little. Of course he would be the kind to get jealous - you don't know how you didn't guess it.

It wasn't like you had done much - just asked Ruggie to help you out with an assignment dealing with linguistics as you knew it was his forte. You hadn't thought anything of it, but apparently Leona saw it as a statement of some kind.

"Awe, is the kitty getting jealous?"

"Tch." You don't expect him to huff and pull you in close, clinging onto you with a scowl. "And what about it? You're my herbivore. Ain't no reason for you to put your attention on anybody else."

You can feel him smirk against you when you don't say anything else, and you know that he thinks this means he won this little argument.

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[click here to go to masterlist]

#twst #twst wonderland #twisted wonderland #twst x reader #twst drabbles #twst savanaclaw #twst leona #leona kingscholar #twst leona x reader #leona kingscholar x reader #ruggie mentioned #gender neutral reader #gender neutral post #twst x gender neutral reader #aether's requests #aether's drabbles

[yuraslefttoe]

Follow up: Sorry, that came out weird. I'm not a native speaker, so I got confused by how certain lines were written, like:

"another plead for more" - "plead" is used as a noun

"now, i know, to do what i'm told" - that second comma threw me off and I thought the parts didn't connect well

"just can't help myself, go on and open up the skies some more" - same reason as above

"to watch you sit, stand idle next to me" - same reason as the last two

More than likely that I'm just stupid and read the lines wrong. Again, sorry for the weird ask.

okay let me see

still using plead in the infinitive verb form (its just a modification on the saying "plead for more") but also im no master of linguistics, this line just fit because the general theme of red hour is repetition

these commas probably aren't grammatically correct and the lyrics originally did have alot of errors because i pull them straight from the notebook in fl studio where i write them so its mostly just how i felt like writing in the moment. Usually i use commas to denote to myself that there will be a very brief pause in the melody (kinda like what it does in speech but the double comma is kinda weird i agree)

here the right grammar would probably be "but i just can't help myself, go on, and open up the sky some more" but that is just what makes sense in my mind (the punctuation is kinda just whatever my brain decides to do in the moment i guess)

i do this alot when i write lyrics with this specific stanza (you can see it in footnote with the line "so i'll sit, stay in my place") its just a stylistic choice with the double starting consonant thing

overall its basically just a stylistic choice from my brain when i plan out the flow of the lyrics

#asks #rambling

[frenchiepal]

hi, hope you're doing good! I decided to finally get down to college planning and it sucks... I have literally no idea what I want to do in life haha. I really like languages so I thought of studying linguistics or translation, but I'm kinda scared I won't be able to handle it and stuff so I guess I wanted to ask whether you think it's worth it? sorry if this is a stupid question my brain is super fried right now, anyways have a nice day :>

hi hello! dw it's not a stupid question at all <33

i personally love linguistics and i've never once regretted choosing to study it. it's an incredibly diverse field and even if one aspect gives you trouble, you can just focus on another one. now, every uni's curriculum looks different and i can't speak for everyone but i don't think you need to worry about not being able to handle it 💓 it's definitely doable if you really love the subject and even if you hate maths and physics (like me grr) it'll be much easier than it sounds.

i think the most important thing is that languages and especially the structure of languages interest you.

hope i could help!

#feel free to ask more questions :) #inbox #come to the dark side (linguistics)

[againstme]

today was kind of mainly just nothing. our “case management” group was really nothing but a patient bitching, there was too much talking for me to get anything done. the next group was just us vaguely talking about self care goals for the week? that staff member talks for sooooo long but at least it makes the group go by kind of fast? super overstimulating though.

then i had trauma therapy, which was rough. i did good, like i was able to dig through what we were talking about and i was able to recount and remember more things about the situation, things that i thought that i had forgotten.

and i also was told by her that it’s very common for me to feel like there’s no point in doing the therapy, and that it’s just something i can get over by myself, and that’s just the brain’s way of trying to run away from doing the hard work because that means that i wouldn’t have to bring things up and hurt doing uncomfortable work. and that it’ll find any excuse it can to stop the work. and also, that if i could’ve just worked on this by myself without therapy, i would’ve done it by now.

after that i had lunch, where i didn’t eat anything but chips, again. and then the patient that hates me was being mean to me and talking shit about me.

oh yeah, in the group in the morning, while a staff member had stepped out of the room, he said “can you stop breathing the same air as me, chase?” just completely unprompted. there’s more things he said and did but i’m too tired to try to go into it now. i think i took a screenshot of things i said though, i’ll post them in a reblog.

so that made me very sad and too uncomfortable to want to go to group. i think i kind of have exhausted all the sources i had in my body for crying because cried so much last week. and now i’m just kind of feeling numb, or i’ll feel tears welling up in my eyes, but they aren’t able to come out. which is annoying, honestly.

and also, staff just kind of told me that gabe (the guy who hates me) is just gonna be gabe, and basically that i should just keep my distance and not engage. i’m literally only going downstairs when i have to eat, take my meds, or do my chore, and he’s still finding ways to be so mean to me during those times. especially when staff aren’t around. i’ve started recording things when he starts on his bullshit.

the groups after lunch were also kind of nothing, i barely remember them. i didn’t go to the next group because i didn’t want to be around gabe after he was so upset with me, so i stayed in the other group room. and then the next group was the loud staff member again, where we went around Again about the self care thing and only got handed out a piece of paper talking about commitments like 6 minutes before the group was over. and then in the next group, also with him, we did this thing where we all wrote a word on the whiteboard to make a sentence that sounded stupid. at least it wasn’t about israel this time, that happened last time.

and then in the last group we just watched pirates of the caribbean.

so yeah. today was kind of just nothing. i guess it’s better than it being super intense? idk. got home, watched youtube for a second, ate dinner, laid back down, went on a wikipedia rabbit hole about linguistics (very fun tbh), did my chore of cleaning the bathroom, took my meds maybe 2 hours ago, and i’m waiting on them to kick in.

hopefully tomorrow is okay

[thorne1435]

Wait.. what kinda stuff could someone say about ur profile pic? It's just thorne...

I'm not gonna yell about this one because you're clearly just curious.

Yes. My profile picture is the letter Thorn. A name I use rather frequently, as a holdover from when I was deciding what I wanted my name to be when I realized that my birthname made me uncomfortable.

Now, this all goes back to my first real social media account, on Reddit. I was "u/thorne-in-your-side" with the same profile picture. It was particularly apt there because my presence on the platform was made up of interjecting into random arguments and vehemently fighting for my side of things. Y'know. Reddit shit.

Without fail, every 3rd or 4th post some dipshit would think they were clever and would reply to my comment with "Haha! Great profile picture bro! Bring back Þorn!"

I would proceed to type an angry response at them, every time, without fail.

Now, because my bio on Tumblr and my bio on Reddit were word-for-word copies of each other (at least for a bit, while I was still active on both platforms), I decided to put a little warning in that bio. "Say some shit about the profile picture, get yelled at." That way people had the chance to check and see that before they thought they'd ruin the linguistic inside-joke of the profile picture with their insistence on unrespectably stupid English spelling reforms.

Am I really mad at them? Nah, not really. I mean, I guess I find it, like, cringe. But cringing isn't a reason to be angry unless you're really insecure. I just pretend to be mad at them for the bit. It's not a particularly funny bit, though. I'm just dedicated.

#oh shit tumblr wants me to tag this #yeah idk man #Sophie Exposition

[rharyx]

So, Yhwach's name in Japanese is pronounced "ユーハバッハ/yuuhabahha." This is seemingly due to the "wach" part of it being pronounced the German way, and Japanese employing betacism (using Bs for Vs) on top of rendering the "ch" fricative at the end with a breathy "hha."

So in English, you'd get "yuuhavahhk" (the hhk at the end being how I'm trying to represent the guttural ch noise, which the IPA transcribes as /x/).

But I've recently seen some people posit that Yhwach's name, when spoken in English, is actually supposed to maintain the B-sound that is found in the Japanese pronunciation "yuuhabahha" because Kubo consistently always uses "ヴ/V" kana when there should be a V sound in a character's name. Such as...

Loly Aivirrne (アイヴァーン/aivaan)

Ggio-Vega (ヴェガ/vega)

Invaders Must Die (インヴェイダーズ/inveidaazu)

Even Haschwalth (ハッシュヴァルト/hasshuvaruto) and Wandenreich (ヴァンデンライヒ/vandenraihi) use V kana, while Yhwach doesn't.

...and since Yhwach doesn't have a ヴ/V kana, but does have the バ/B kana, it's an indication that it intentionally should be pronounced with the B regardless of what language you're speaking.

Which I thought was an interesting observation, though not an airtight one, as he still does use B kana to represent V noises in many resurreccion names.

Volcánica (ボルカニカ/borukanika)

Cierva (シエルバ/shieruba)

Veruga (ベルーガ/beruuga).

(Though, interestingly, in Spanish the letters B and V are pronounced nearly identically anyway, so Kubo probably didn't feel it necessary to make a distinction here since they're all Spanish terms?)

But it did leave me wondering why Yhwach does have a B kana in his name despite other names and terms immediately related to him using V.

And the only reasons I could come up with are:

It's to indicate that his name is much older than others, to the point that more modern conventions hadn't been brought about when he named himself. (I don't think this is that likely since YHWH's name itself is rendered with a ヴ/V kana, and that name predates even Yhwach's.)

Kubo just thought having a バ between the ハs looked more aesthetically pleasing.

The shapes of the kana ユ, ハ, and バ themselves give off a sort of Hebrew silhouette as well, while ヴ kinda doesn't, and since Yhwach's name is derived from YHWH (יהוה‎), that is probably intentional.

Now a quick search on Wikipedia tells me that the letter that represents the V sound in modern Hebrew (ב)* used to represent the B sound in ancient Hebrew -- and continued to do so for a time if geminated or following a consonant (which the "V" in Yh'v'ach technically does).

*=I also think it's funny how ב looks like ユ.

With that in mind, I suppose one could say that Kubo was possibly trying to do some fun linguistics thing where he applies German phonology to a Hebraic-inspired name, but utilizes ancient Hebrew pronunciation in recognition of Yhwach's age. So the end result is you get a German word -- "wach" -- that's pronounced "bach" due to how betacism used to be employed in Hebrew.

Which is fun in a super roundabout way.

All this is to say, I still think Yhwach's name should be pronounced "yuuhavahhk" outside of Japanese (besides the places where the language conflates Vs and Bs anyway, I guess), but this was a fun topic to delve into.

Though whether it should be a V or a B sound, I think we can all agree that the English dub keeping the "hha" at the end is objectively stupid, since it's obviously supposed to be the /x/ fricative. Even the Japanese actors sound like they understand they're supposed to be approximating a "ch" sound there.

#yhwach #bleach #tite kubo #juha bach

[77pupu33pipo]

so sorry feel free to skip, big rant ahead.. but good ending :)

i really hope i can get free university tuition for the next year.. there are two vacant positions atm and i think i have a great chance of getting one.. i enrolled last year with 50% discount based on exam results but this discount is only kept if you stay high enough in student ratings and it kept me awake at night throughout the year and feeling guilty, and the workload was completely draining, and i was physically unwell and um. 0 friends and so i had a complete mental breakdown at the end of the year + a failed class and no year-end thesis which meant i needed an individual plan for the next year which meant no discount AND additional pay for extra courses. Decided to drop out, but instead re-enrolled in the same program for the second time to preserve 50% exam discount which is still appliable. Asked for credit recovery for all of the courses i actually completed last year and bless the faculty office because they agreed and spent this year taking my sweet time recovering and attending uni 3 times a week for language classes and thesis. And funny thing is i did pretty well last year. But complete burn out and absolutely shattered mental health, i really couldnt do it anymore. and i don't think ive recovered from it completely, i now resent the thought of any kind of confrontation or trying hard at something or taking an additional interest in something because that just means more work and thought. none of it pays off. i now give up when met with the smallest inconvenience and pushing through with anything is too much. i played The Sims Fucking 3 University one time and got so anxious and mad because the memory was painful. And i dont even remember the stuff that happened during last year that well at all, its all a complete haze, like it never even happened, but somehow still had its consequences. but like pretty much everyone was going through the same stuff in the same circumstances, but i didnt see anyone else struggling that much so i ended up thinking i am a wimp just wasting our and others' time and money and didnt complain or express my worries to anyone. i didnt exactly have anyone to express them to but well....

on the bright side i think I have succeeded in developing a "fuck-all" mentality in the last year and i hope to utilize it next time i am met with the same workload. Plus my groupmates this year round are amazing. i struggle to form close friendships or acquaintences, but they are all very nice and sweet and supportive of one another, its really nothing ive ever seen of classmates or colleagues. And i also think i have made good progress in learning Finnish and have regained just a bit of my passion for linguistics, i wouldnt want to resent the field forever because if it comes to academics i dont think im suited for anything else. my mother has been nagging me about taking what is essentially a gap year, and saying i was making stuff up when i told her about my decision and that ive been really struggling for the past year, even though i was just wailing at the time. But its alright i guess, i don't take it to close to heart, although it does make me so mad sometimes.

im better off now, but im still so scared of plunging back into all that anxiety, restlessness, exhaustion, competition and feelings of stupidity and inferiority. I have mostly dealt with the last two, but i dont think i will be able to take the stress if it is the same as last year. If i stay on paid tuition, then i have to continue securing my discount. And that means extra work in every subject, because you can't get max and pre-max grade by just completing the course perfectly, you're required to do extra work for the last two marks. I realize and understand that this is a common system, but jesus fucking christ i want to be able to choose not to do so and still continue studying like normal, not be handicapped in learning stuff i actually have to learn in other subjects because of useless shit i need to waste my time on for that sweet sweet 9 or 10. and you're competing both with people like you on paid tuition AND with people on free tuition who have some issues i think as the difference between mark 8 and mark 10 is only seen in the student rating and not recorded in the diploma, and the student rating does not mean jack shit if you're on free tuition, literally no one cares for it outside of calculating discounts and transfering from paid to free tuition. I don't want to think badly of those on free tuition who choose to compete in the system, but i believe i have become too senstitive about this topic. I want to bonk them with a cardboard tube to make them change their minds and see the appeal of being free to fuck all when it comes to grades and just do what they actually enjoy in the academics field or on the side, but that doesnt happen.

and so i have a pretty good chance of getting on free tuition with my current grades. I worked my ass off last year with most of the courses, and i got a "great" on both language classes and thesis this year. As far as i know, im first in rating among those on paid tuition. im sending mind control waves to faculty so that they give me that free tuition. i promise i will get worse grades on purpose so that people who are still stuck in clinging to discount hell have a bit of an easier time. i'll read papers for fun and find joy in learning new things again. i will do minimum wage monotone work needed for dictionaries or corpora like all the cool kids. Fuck it, i will do some afterclass activities now that ill be able to afford to spend my free time on random shit. ill attend historical dance meetings regularly, its really fun. ill make some friends even. just PLEASE give me the free tuition. if i don't, i will sigh deeply and continue trying to grind, but ill be upset.

maybe i need to stop whining and just go on with it like everybody did, but pleaseeeeeee. I think i worked hard. I completed every assignment without taking a look at how much it weighed in the grade formula. I helped fellow students when they struggled with something. I had almost perfect attendance. THIS stupid thing will change my life, stupid thing being free tuition. i cant afford to not get a mind boggling cool education, my family will execute me. Please just let me get my stupid little linguistics degree (i mean it includes programming and maths so.) and go on with my life... ...

[squeakygeeky]

Love Bill Episode 3

I love Loc and Minh, especially Minh. I don’t even remember seeing them in the trailer, they just suddenly appeared to create an only one bed situation and get the main characters a bit hot and bothered. They apparently had a best friends-to-lovers thing going on, and maybe pretty recently if Thien didn’t know about it. And they’re already doing the divide-and-conquer couples thing. Good on Loc for promoting safe sex. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a case where friends were this straightforwardly pushing the couple together while shouting ‘now kiss.’ Minh referring to Nghia as ‘that stupid younger top’ like it was his title made me laugh. Neck kiss!

I don’t know why this show is suddenly obsessed with imaginary handjobs but there were two of those and on actual sex scene with Loc and Minh and O2 Production did not add the porno music even once, not even during the intentionally comedic scene. I never thought I’d see the day.

I was not expecting my girl Pink to be quoted in a BL but I can’t fault Nghia’s taste in pop stars. I forgot Thien was writing a ghost BL and I love him for that. Dalat continues to be the prettiest possible filming location. Anyway, that’s all my normal comments, on to linguistics!

This is the episode where The Thing happened aka a shift in how the main characters address each other. The Eng sub gives us:

Nghia: I address you as my senior, but can I be addressed as your junior? Thien: Well...do whatever you want. Just don’t do it in a rude way. Nghia: I might be a bit rude, but I’d never be discourteous to the elderly.

Who ever is doing these subs, 10/10. This translation conveys the spirit of this exchange really well, in a way that a machine translation never could.

Nghia says something along the lines of, “I call you ‘anh,’ but can I be referred to as ‘em’?” Thien says he can do whatever he likes as long as he doesn’t use ‘tao/mày’ (rude pronouns). And then Nghia is a sarcastic little shit in return. What you can’t get from the subs is that Thien starts to call him ‘câu’ when responding, but corrects himself to ‘em’ instead.

At 22, Thien is older than Nghia (not sure how old Nghia is but my guess is only 18). Nghia has been addressing Thien properly as ‘anh,’ older brother, and himself as ‘tôi,’ which is the most neutral version of ‘I.’ Thien addresses himself as ‘anh’ and calls Nghia ‘cậu’ which I think is technically a kind of uncle but can be used as a pronoun for someone around the same age or younger, generally it seems to me either because you’re close enough in age to want to avoid sounding like senior/junior, or because your relationship is a little distant. Nghia is asking to use ‘em,’ younger sibling. Anh/em would be typical senior/junior pronouns but also have a romantic implication.

Sort of significant here is that in another show I talked about a while ago, the toppy younger character started addressing the older character as ‘em,’ which was meant as a come on. I can’t see Thien responding well to that, and there is also 100% no way Nghia would know that was a thing, the boy can’t even recognize a condom package.

#love bill #lời hứa mùa hạ #vietnamese bl #don't learn vietnamese with squeakygeeky

[wh0lemilk0vich]

okokok this is my first ask to bare with me also im not very present in like kink spaces but HERE WE GO

so im thinking eddie and steve r dating, steve goes out of his way to make like a really fancy setup for their one month anniversary, super unnecessary but he’s such a romantic dork so it’s not really that unexpected. at this point in time i think eddie is only just starting to become pudgy since he’s letting himself be taken care of

steve’s got the candles, wine, and this lasagna that took him hoursssss, going through his mothers pretty much untouched cookbooks to make something special

usually eddie wouldn’t mind too much about leftovers, he’d just have them the next day, but seeing the amount of effort steve has put in he decides that he simply can’t have it tomorrow; the flavour won’t be the same, nor the texture, or atmosphere, or ANYTHIFN !!

so he’s gotta finish it all tonight

so they’re doing their thing, steve pulling out eddie’s chair and pouring him wine and being super romantic and it’s sweet. steve finishes and assumes eddie has too, before eddie stops him

“hey um. i’m still a bit, uh, hungry i guess, would you mind getting me some more?”

and steve is immediately like yes yes yes of course love anything for you!! he’s so attentive and when he sees eddie finishing up his second helping he simply asks, “more?”.

and so eddie works his way through the meal which, to be honest, could have lasted the both of them another couple of meals but whatever.

and now eddie is fully glutted, never been this full before but hey. this is actually great!! being full grounds him , physically and emotionally, plus his boyfriend there being amazing

steve comes over almost sheepishly and sits on eddie’s lap, careful of his belly, and undoes eddie’s jeans button. “it’s um, more comfortable like this, right?”. eddie releases the breath he was holding, usually small soft doughy stomach now stuffed to the brim releasing into his lap and steve’s, and smiles at him gently, “yeah sweetheart, thanks. dinner was amazing, didn’t wanna waste it”. steve’s a little confused bcus like, we could have had it tomorrow? but rolls with it because FUCK his boyfriend is so docile and pliant and cute like this, all sleepy and full

ok fuck that was very long but i’d like to hear your ideas and see where it would go!! maybe fine tune interactions yknow idk !!

🪱ps i’m the sick anon

My sick pal 🪱wormie! Welcome back, hope you're getting better

(also thank you so much again for your ask about linguistics, I wholeheartedly invite those kinds of asks too)

Also can I offer you nervous and or oblivious Steve unconsciously refilling Eddie's plate and Eddie, wanting their anniversary to be perfect, really plays along like a champ.

Eddie's been grinning like the cat that got the canary all week because apparently Harrington has something big planned for Friday.

"It's just- it's our anniversary."

"I know, baby. I haven't been able to get you out of my head. Just keep spinning me right round."

"I wanted to make sure it was special. I know this is stupid but I made a lasagna. From scratch. And well I was gonna do garlic bread, but I didn't want my breath to stink, but then I thought well what if you really wanted it. So I made that too, but there's only the one loaf. And there's red velvet for dessert, you said red velvet was you're favorite right?"

"Hey listen, relax, slugger. You know you're my favorite...even though red velvet comes in a very close second."

"Eddie!" He laughs.

"You should be flattered, I've known him longer than you. We were very intimate in my youth. Took him back to my room on my birthday."

"We're still talking about cake right?"

"What else could be possibly be talking about?"

He settles in at Steve's table and is about to fill his plate when Steve beats him to it and puts a slice approximately a 4th the size of the pan on Eddie's plate.

That first peace starts off easy, he's hungry (like he's always hungry), but Steve keeps giving him more bread and more sides and refills his lasagna when he's managed to finish the first. What's Eddie going to do? Say no? Fuck that. He eats diligently and good-naturedly, making sure he's complimenting everything and cleaning his plate. He'd always been told it was rude not to eat all of what you were given.

This triggers a feedback loop for Steve where he thinks 'glad Eddie's enjoying himself' then 'there's still some left I'll make him another plate' slowly 'fuck! It doesn't look like he's getting full, what if I don't have enough...' to finally "Jeez Edd, I'm sorry, I guess I should have cooked more. I don't want you to go hungry. But you know I'll gladly relinquish any of my claim to the cake. That can be all yours."

Meanwhile, as endless as Eddie's appetite might usually appear, he's just eaten nearly a whole pan of lasagna, a baguette of garlic bread, and probably 4 fist sized meatballs.

"Hey! No, seriously, Babyface, I had plenty...in fact I might need your help, digesting for a bit before I can stomach any of that cake."

They get situated on the couch with Steve in Eddie's lap, undoing his buttons rucking down his underwear and pushing up his shirt, so his belly isn't restricted, planting his warm palms on it and rubbing with easing pressure.

"That's more comfortable isn't it?"

"Much...fuck!" He sighs with a weak chuckle.

"Why didn't you stop me! I didn't mean to stuff you like a county fair pig."

"D'awww Stevie, I couldn't stop you, you were so happy...I don't mind anyway, feels good. Like a little grounding. Been getting pretty huge though."

"Jesus, no kidding, Munson...Been driving me crazy!"

"Yeah? You crushing on my fat ass?" He says with his impish smile

Steve leans in to kiss him

"Mhmmmm, your ass for sure, it's getting legendary, and your chest, and your thighs...fuck you could crush my head like a grape. And this belly. Fuck, I'm down bad Edd."

"Why don't you go get that cake then, big boy!"

#steddie #chubby eddie munson #chaser steve harrington

[harrison-abbott]

Personal Experience [From Italia].

So, I just got back from Milan, where I stayed for a full week. Had a fantastic time. And would encourage anybody to go and visit.

 There was one thing that happened whilst I was there, that I wanted to write about. It happened via my literary Tumblr blog – through the messaging system on there. Here’s what occurred:

 I had been out and about in the town and had really enjoyed it. And when I got back to my hostel I wrote some stuff on my blog; a fairly simple post about how I loved the vibrant zeal of Europe. And whenever I return to the Bloc, I always think that it was just so stupid that the UK left it. That Brexit was such a naïve disaster. I mentioned that I was Scottish in the post; and also said that I wasn’t overtly nationalistic as a Scotsman or Briton: only that I admired the rich energy of Europe and hoped the United Kingdom would reconnect with the Bloc in the future.

 A few hours later I saw I had some messages. From this other person, who had no profile photo, and was only called ‘Anonymous’. He’d sent me like fifteen messages. (I actually don’t know if the person was even male, but I’m guessing it was a man.)

 The 15 messages were snippets of this most hideous garble. He opened by saying, “Go back to the United Kingdom you Scottish bastard! And stay there! Don’t bring Milan into your political views.” And then he was calling me a “kilt-wearing, tartan, alcoholic Scot. Get some experience, you drunk arsehole!” Alongside saying that Europe belonged to the “Nazis in Germany; and that Europe was controlled by them”.

 I don’t remember the exact lines, but, man: it was just staggeringly offensive. [And also shit writing. Lols.]

 Anyway. I was really surprised and it was a bit upsetting. Because I’ve never in my 30 years experienced any racist abuse for being Scottish. ^ And as I mentioned above, I originally said in the post that I wasn’t a nationalist, per se. I still love Scotland, but, umm, when I’m writing stories, novels, poems, essays, personal writing, I’m not usually wearing a kilt.

 I called up my friend Henry after I’d gotten the hate mail. He was helpful about it and said he’d had similar experiences across his life. Henry is Scottish too. But he has an English accent (because his parents are English), and just because that’s how he talks. He said he got a lot of shit for being English in school, and … he’s from Scotland. That actually sounded way worse than my experience in this case.

 The incident didn’t ruin my holiday by any means. I was hurt for a few hours and I posted on Tumblr again about what’d happened, and received this array of supportive messages from folks that follow me. Which cheered me up a bit.

 I suppose I couldn’t understand why somebody would attack me for being Scottish. It sounded like this man, whoever he was, was basing his knowledge of Scots on the Simpsons character Groundskeeper Willie. This cartoon character is not offensive – because it’s a joke. It’s the Simpson’s writers making fun of the stereotype and is not meant to be taken seriously, and that’s what I thought about it when I grew up watching this beloved sitcom.

 I’ve worked with many people from other nations across my life. And I’m often interested in their language: I try to learn their words for English words, just out of a curiosity in linguistics. And I ask them questions about what it’s like in their country.

 Moreover, when I went to university, I had loads of friends who were non-UK, and they’re still my mates. From Germany, Singapore, Czechia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Ireland, Polska, America – all sorts of places. I just liked them and got on with them. And they helped me out if I had problems, and me them.

 (Just for the record: I am notoriously clumsy when it comes to trying to speak other languages. Or just plain bad, rather. For instance, there was a time when I was at a wedding in Poland. And was introduced to this woman. And I held out my hand to her and said, “Dziękuję!”, which means “Thank you.” She just blinked. It could’ve been worse: she could have laughed. And it was super embarrassing, but ultimately only funny.)

 Hmm. In a tiny way I can now understand why people get so offended over racism. Of course, my thing was only small in terms of the horrors that other folks suffer across the globe.

 Going back to the England thing again: my father is English, so I always found that anti-England stuff insulting as well. I love England too and many people who have influenced me were from there (William Shakespeare, John Lennon, Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, George Orwell, Pete Townshend, William Wordsworth, Graeme Greene … Paul Scholes. There are many). The whole point is that I adore the creative minds from England.

 There was this other occasion – just as final example – where one of my mates was coy about ‘coming out’ to me as being gay. And he finally told me, shyly, after a few months. Then asked me what I thought about it. I said, “I don’t care.” And he just laughed because it was a refreshing answer.

 The main conclusion is that bigotry should be eradicated through knowledge. Having a wealth of knowledge is the most crucial thing. I hope education spreads across the world.

 I suppose I could’ve written this essay and posted it to that bigot who attacked me anonymously online.

 But I figured a quotation was more relevant for the mood I was in at the time. So I just wrote back to him:

 “I am the Walrus. Yoo goo coo choo.”

 And he hasn’t responded with anything since.

#personal writing #writers on tumblr #tumblr writers

[itwas50yearsagotoday]

Last words...(pt 1)

1/17/24:  It was 50 years ago today, January 17th, 1974, I, Patrick L. of St. Louis, USA, was born.  I started this blog on June 1st, 2017, 50 years to the day Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released by the Beatles (now Wikipedia says it was May 26th… date changes have been a running theme in the last 6 ½ years).  The origins of this blog date back to the late Fall of 2016, a few months after I had created a whole bunch of what I call ‘mixes’ which are exactly what they sound like: mixes of songs.  I am severely left-brained (if you believe in that sort of thing) so I created 26 total mixes, A through Z (the letters have no real meaning, just an ordering mechanism), which each had 200 songs that were played in chronological order on each mix, with as much natural blending from one song to the next that I could (the 1980s were tough for that, as were anything past 2000, but that’s more due to a then-dearth of modern songs that I knew).  I made those mixes after hearing from two of my best friends (one still with me, another one now absent) saying that the mixes I’d made on DVD burns back in the mid-oughts had great tunes on them… those old DVD mixes I believe only had 100 songs each, and I think I went beyond letter Z… I hadn’t really planned those out (they were mp3s, mostly CD rips), but I very, very much planned out the mixes I made in 2015-16.  That was an absolutely exhausting process, so after I made them I put aside making any more… but I was still itching to say something about music, specifically about Anglo-American modern music (aka ROCK, or at least Pop/Rock), with some international flavor thrown in.  I had read for a long time (since 2006) a website by a Russian music critic and linguist named Georgiy Starostin, who has, I believe, at least two but maybe three total blogs in his history, but I really enjoyed the original from 1999-2007… I referenced this site many times throughout my own blog posts, but unfortunately after Russia invaded the Ukraine in early 2022 the website URL is considered to be too ‘dangerous’ to visit by my anti-virus software (I don’t know if the invasion itself has anything to do with it, or if it was just coincidence)… anyway, his writing very much influenced mine (he is a thousand-times better a writer than myself), and I learned a shit-load about bands and artists that I thought I knew but didn’t know.  I didn’t always agree with him, but I respected his opinions greatly.  Additionally, there was a podcast by the guys who created the original Channel 101 ‘Yacht Rock’ web-series that also had a huge impact on me around this time as well.  Finally, the election of total shit-bag orange-haired Jesus in November 2016 turned my interests completely away from U.S. Presidential politics, which had always been kind of another past-time or hobby of mine (maps and shit, I guess), focusing more intensely on music.  (see Pt 2 due to Tumblr's stupid text limit)