#language fuckery

[difeisheng]

gaining proficiency in a second or third language just makes you stupider in your first and the empirical evidence i have to present for this claim is that i have figured out it is not just a once or twice mistake and i am now on a sparsely frequent basis forgetting to conjugate verbs in english because in chinese you don't have to

#is this the real life #language fuckery #ashton originals

[effervescentdragon]

Omg I’m sorry if I sounded rude! 😭 what I meant is that I was a bit confused since Spanish is a Romance language too

Thank you for clarifying your intent anon, that is very appreciated. 😊

I think all of us who have been teased or looked at as less for not speaking a foreign language fluently, or even speaking a different dialect, are a bit trigger-happy when it comes to (supposed) monolingual speakers, especially English speakers, asking certain questions without a clear indication that it's an honest question. We assume bad faith because in most cases, we've encountered bad faith or straight out mocking and entitlement. That being said, I hope I clarified the point sufficiently? I love talking about this stuff, really, so if you have any other questions, hit me up!

Thank you for the ask, and especially for reading my fic! 🥰

#lovely anons #akira answers asks #language fuckery #in the reflection ref

[porttohuume]

The one who pisses without farting dies without fucking

- and other classic finnish sayings

#others include: #spring of cunts #spins like a lingonberry in the pussy #suomitumblr #suomitumppu #nää on legit vaan typerii suoria käännöksiä #kaverilla ja mulla on näitä listallinen #kustiin vittu housuun #sayings #dumb finnish shit #finnish #voin ehkä postaa ne listat jos porukka haluaa #languages #language fuckery #finnish language

[understanding-hold-on]

the funny things about "iykyk"

1. this looks like an actual english word to an unsuspecting person. english is literally a language where queue exists.

2. you do actually need to know to know what it means. incredible.

#english #language #language fuckery

[brokendreamsandpyramidschemes]

I nuked my entire fantasy universe because I corrected a white friend while reading the menu to an authentic pakistani restaurant, from "naan bread" to "naan roti" and the fucker replied with "yes, I'll have the naan roti bread" without hesitation.

#naan #roti #bread #debate #linguistics #linguistic shorthand #linguistic fuckery #language fuckery #desi #desiblr #tagtalk

[sualne]

having a normal one with poems again.

#my art #my comic #undescribed #if you want to create a language i 100% recommend you try translating a few poems in it and see what kind of fuckery you can come up with #to imply even more things ect. making up grammatical rules and all is so fun. con is you have to explain a lot of things for others #to understand your incoherent ramblings

[fidgetspringer-art]

Olath - Aberrant familiar

#art #illustration #artists on tumblr #digital art #digital drawing #dnd #dungeons and dragons #homebrew #my art #my ocs #Setting: Heim #Olath #I love this creature actually #This is Tethry's very fucked up familiar Olath (They/it) #They started their life as a familiar as a normal housecat #some lore fuckery later and they end up like this #I have a bunch of lore written for them but i'm not gonna dump it all here #They behave and function like any other familiar #they're just.... creepy #they don't speak or make facial expressions #they only use body language and the caster/familiar bond to communicate #they come up to about Tethry's hip at the shoulders so it's a big kitty #Tethry is also incredibly embarrased by them and hasn't ever summoned them where anyone else could see #Olath is very attached to him and will drape their whole body weight over him like an oversized lap dog any time they get the chance #I already know i'll be drawing this horrible creature more cause they're very fun to draw #also can you tell i played a worrying amount of the Endless Forest as a teenager?

[tabooiart]

pokey train is FINALLY done!!!! train pokey!!!! hes a lounge car, specifically a private lounge because yknow. i dont have a ton of notes about his design. his belt is vaguely supposed to look like a mic belt, hes wearing spats yadda yadda. I think he takes a lot of pride in his role and job :)

lil lineup of all the designs together under the cut!!

i do plan on doing a drawing of all of them together!!

#my art #fanart #starkid #team starkid #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #pokey #pokotho #starlight express #stex #stex au #the lords in starlight #i would like to note that for these designs i made a point to fuck around with the gender language of stex a bit #eg whether or not each of them have a codpiece or the chin rivets #both of which are features typically given to male characters #they can have a lil gender fuckery. as a treat #but. guh. these silly lil brothers mean so much to me #for the record in this au theyre just normal trains. i mean theyre still huge freaks but they dont have magic powers or anything #because thinking of them in the normal stex context is more fun to me

[rukafais]

Before Entreri could respond, Kimmuriel came up to stand right before him. "Join with me," the drow psionicist said, lifting his fingers for Entreri's forehead.

The ever-wary assassin brushed the reaching hand away.

Kimmuriel tried to explain, but Entreri knew only the basics of drow language, not the subtleties. The psionicist's words sounded more like the joining of lovers than anything Entreri understood. Frustrated, Kimmuriel turned to Jarlaxle and started talking so fast that it seemed to Entreri as if he was saying one long word.

Sometimes I just think about this scene and crack up again

#legend of drizzt #dumb language fuckery is my favourite #kimmuriel oblodra #artemis entreri #jarlaxle baenre

[difeisheng]

gotta love when some detail of a word you've used without thinking for years fully sinks in. for example, it really only just hit me that the term for santa claus in chinese (圣诞老人, shengdan laoren/singdan louyun) literally translates to "christmas old person"

#and you know what? they're not wrong! #language fuckery #ashton originals

[cuteniarose]

Personally I find it really funny that based on what the twins said in the Book 2 finale re: having to tell their mom about what happened to Unalaq, it's literally canon that Unalaq's wife a) exists, b) is alive, and c) is just chilling in the Northern Water Tribe

She took one look at all the spirit fuckery her husband was getting up to and went "Well that's none of my business" and honestly I respect that

#oh and when I say spirit fuckery I mean it in both the literal and metaphorical sense. blame kat's latest raava and vaatu fic #yeah I'm just gonna start posting random LoK opinions on here now. this blog's been dead long enough #not really an incorrect quotes girly anymore sorry #not even a girl anymore. but you know #most of my red lotus and oc posting will remain on my personal blog though bc no one wants to see that #anyway. yes. Unalaq's wife. when I say the avatar franchise has a mom problem this is exactly what I mean #80% of characters don't have a mom. the moms that are alive either have little to no screen time or mentions #or they're basically Schroedinger's mom in the sense that they exist but not really #the exceptions being like. pema and suyin. and maybe senna though she also has very little screentime #my point is. the twins are younger than korra. I know avatarverse has a precedent for putting kids on the throne. looking at you zuko #but really we should have gotten unalaq's wife as chief of the nwt #introduced her in book 3 during the lead up to p'li's prison break #but that's just my objectively correct opinion #northern water tribe chief raspberry when #(according to avatar wiki her name is malina so I've been calling her raspberry in my head ever since I found out #malina means raspberry in russian that's why. probably in a bunch of other slavic languages too idk I'm not an expert #and she shares a name with katara and sokka's weird white stepmom from the comics which no sane person considers canon. so that's fun) #the legend of korra #unalaq

[effervescentdragon]

the biggest fuckery is actually knowing grammar rules for oxford comma and for nebensätze and commas in another slavic language, and then using them all while writing your fourth, actually native language

#language fuckery #my writings in native language are the absolute fucking worst #my sister keeps telling me that mothertongue is my worst language #effervescentdragonrants

[porttohuume]

Hi yes hello you used to know me as ecstasyandsapphism on here but I chose that username years ago and I kinda outgrew it (still sapphic and ecstatic but y'know) so for my non-finnish followers: my new url is a finnish pun on the word gateway drug— "porttihuume"— which I mistyped once in a text as "porttohuume." Now, portto is an old-fashioned word for a prostitute. So, my new url basically means Slut Drug.

#suomitumblr #dumb finnish shit #finnish language #finnish puns #suomi paskaa #language fuckery

[metafucked]

Isogender Is not trans in denial!! Someone may be an identity that still aligns heavily with their agab! So they don't feel like part of the trans community! But they don't have to identify as cis because their identity isn't fully the same as their agab.

My sister is enby. They are afab and use they/she pronouns. As you can tell, they are still heavily fem-aligned. They feel that them being enby doesn't take away their identity as an afab but also doesn't make them a woman. They don't use this label but that's an example of why someone might.

There are lots of labels for systems who have strange experiences with being trans! This is a label some of our transfem alters are interested in. We are afab and masc-transitioning enby. So our body will not be cis to them ever either. But they were still formed in an afab body so using trans doesn't feel quite right to them. Boom! (used for reference: instagram account nocontext_inclus and lgbt-pride.fandom.com ).

I believe this flag was coined by @beyond-mogai-pride-flags and from top to bottom, the colours represent; masc, fem, mix of both, and the gradient represents a strong-to-weak attachment to gender, from top to bottom. (Source: lgbtqia.wiki and mogai.miraheze.org ).

#neutralist and exclusivist iwc #inclus safe #mogai friendly #pro bi lesbian #isogender #my experiences #sysblr #no discourse #friendly #anti endo #the ever fluctuating experiences of gender are not comparable to medical conditions #trans system #please be nice #i'm sensitive #gender fuckery #take no shit #language changes #where my linguists at #words words words #inclus system #system #did system #did osdd #moots pls #under 17 pls dni #you can look at my acct but moots must be 17-24 #meow #actually adhd #meowmeow #discord user spotted

[bijoumikhawal]

got reminded of the "saying Arabs conquered and colonized North Africa is Zionist because obviously no one saying that coulx possibly draw a distinction between North African Arabs and Palestinian Arabs, and even drawing a distinction between Arabs and Imazighen is colonizer shit" school of thought

#cipher talk #I have seem Zionists co-opt the language of MENA Indigenous groups but MF that doesn't mean we're WRONG #It means they're stealing our talking points to appeal to more left leaning people #How is it you can recognize that they've co-opted the language of social justice and that that doesn't mean social justice is bad #Until the people YOU dispossess are mentioned and suddenly you're doing step 8 of the 8 steps of white settler colonial denial #Just like the Israelis do! #And yeah like. Some people don't draw the distinction. That's a product of intergenerational trauma and how our communities #Get manipulated by the US and shit. I've also met Arabs not from North Africa that refuse to draw a distinction #And see a discussion of how Arabs have hurt Indigenous Africans as an attack on them when it doesn't make sense to do so #I've also met a lot of people who DO clearly draw a distinction because the material conditions of Palestinians are that of Indigenity #Are your material conditions as a postcolonial North African with an Arab name and a mosque and skin that isn't black that of Indigenity? #Do you not have people with your face in the government (regardless of how shifty it is)? Did someone take your land or your churches land? #Do you struggle with employment? Is your tongue not the most common one? Are your cultural clothes looked at with distaste? #Are your girls targeted for kidnapping and rape to force them to not be of your culture? Are your women called whores who WANT rape? #Are you harassed by cops? Does the government try to take your kids because they have bullshit adoption laws? #Do your kids get arrested at 12 or 13 and almost sent a thousand miles away from home before pressure stays the order? #Is your language called feudal? Do people tell you they hope it dies soon? Is your name a barrier in your life? #Did they drown your fucking village? #Because all of these are things Copts and Nubians can say yes to #Before I even start on the shit done in the Maghreb or the fuckery about how Egypt defines 'Amazigh territory' (which is very complicated)

[icannotgetoverbirds]

saw an exclusionist post so here's a reminder

specifically in reference to transmasc lesbians and trying to draw lines in the sand on who can and can't claim the lesbian label, about how being a lesbian is exclusive of loving men, with someone referring to the people they're attempting to exclude as "fandom gremlin transmascs and neo-mogai crazies."

I don't have the spoons for a proper response but i do feel like i need to make something clear.

on this blog we support fucky genders, fandom gremlin transmascs, and neo-mogai crazies. reblog if u love ur fellow fandom gremlin and neo-mogai crazy queers.

#tw ableist language #tw exclusionism #byrd chirps #oh and if you have a problem with this then feel free to sound off in the notes so i can block you #there's a fucking trans genocide happening right now i will NOT tolerate exclusionary politics around good-faith identities #also why the fuck do the labels matter? we're all a bunch of filthy queer degenerates to the people that want us dead anyways! #if you police good faith identities you're a fucking fed and functionally conservative #and yeah if we wanna work together on something basic and/or general i can play nice with you #but there's no way in hell that i'm just gonna allow y'all into our spaces just so you can try and push me out! #if you're a lesbian and you don't want to date enby/genderqueer/multigender folk that's fine! #nobody is saying in good faith that you have to date us! do you realize who you sound like right now? #gee i wonder who else argues for pushing nonconforming people out of their spaces because they think we're predatory - #- and expect them to date us? i fucking wonder! #if you can't handle gender fuckery then don't make it my fucking problem! i'm not out here making it yours! #and no me existing and sharing labels with you is not 'making it your problem' #look you have the general lesbian space. we have the subset of genderqueer/transmasc lesbian space. #you cannot claim to be supportive of enben (including nb lesbians) if that support doesn't extend to genderqueer/multigender folks! #anyways rant over im not here to fucking argue about my right to self determination #that is specifically what i came to tumblr to AVOID. #not gonna link op because i don't wanna put them on blast just. #op if ur reading this. skedaddle. to the person i was following that put it on my dash. skedaddle. #to the person who they reblogged it from. skedaddle. #out. now. i am sweeping you off my front porch with a broom. you are not welcome on this blog #oh and the person who i'm quoting from the notes? that goes double for you. out. #inclusivity #intersectionality