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half-oz-eddie · 6 months

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Pedal To The Metal

Billy, a professional stunt driver agrees to take a generously paying gig from a photographer, who takes an interest in him after a friendly conversation on a resort rooftop.

R is for Revving (kink for watching someone rev an engine, especially when they wear heels)

This is the 18th fic in my Harringrove Kinktober ABCs

A series of 26 unrelated ficlets about Billy and Steve, each one written for a kink that starts with every letter of the alphabet.

@harringrovekinktober

Billy was taking a vacation. Finally, a much needed reprieve. He just wrapped up filming dozens of takes of stunt driving for a movie with an A-List cast. He got the opportunity to meet many actors that he admired, and he enjoyed himself on set.

It was a lovely time, but he needed to slow down for a day or 2, after weeks of driving at 150 miles per hour and going back to his hotel with migraines.

He booked a room at a resort in Times Square called Margaritaville. He didn’t expect to find something so peaceful in the big city, but it was everything he needed.

He scheduled a massage for his sore muscles and enjoyed some drinks on the rooftop deck.

He observed others as he lied back, sipping a fruity drink in-between his cigarette drags. There was an older couple, a woman, likely in her 50s and an attractive young man, probably in his age group, taking photos of the city.

The photographer sat a few feet away from Billy, returning to his own drink.

“View’s nice from up here, right?” He started a casual conversation with Billy.

“Yeah. Pretty nice.”

“You from around here?” The photographer asked.

“No. I was here for work.”

“Oh, so you wouldn’t happen to know how to get to Roosevelt Island, would you?”

“Oh, yeah. You can take the tramway. It’s like a sky taxi. Pretty cool, actually.”

“Thanks. What uh…what kind of work were you in town for?”

“I’m a stunt driver. I was on a movie set.”

“A stunt driver?!" He widely smiled. "No kidding. My name’s Steve, by the way. Steve Harrington.”

“Nice to meet you, Steve Harrington. I’m Billy. Billy Hargrove.”

They shook hands, smirking at one another.

“Hey, can I take photos of you for my portfolio? It’s a huge project and it pays well.”

“How well’re we talking?” Billy lifted his sunglasses.

“I’ll pay you $1,000 per photo.”

“Per photo?!” He exclaimed in disbelief. “Jesus Christ. I guess I can stay in town for another day or 2.”

“Awesome. So…can we meet up here tomorrow morning around 10?”

“Sure thing.”

“Also…what size shoe do you wear?”

“A 9.”

“Perfect. I’ll bring you some footwear for the photos. That cool?”

“Yeah. No problem.”

“Cool, cool. See you tomorrow!”

Billy finished off his drink, laughing to himself. “A thousand per photo? Must be my lucky day.”

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#harringrove kinktober ABCs #harringrove #billy hargrove #steve harrington #harringrove fanfiction #harringrovekinktober2k23

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yoga-onion · 1 year

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Legends and myths about trees

Celtic beliefs in trees (6)

Ogham alphabet and tree calendar

The Ogham alphabet is the most ancient Irish writing script. There, every letter of the alphabet is associated with the name of a tree, and for this reason, ogam is sometimes known as the Celtic tree alphabet.

The ogham script was a secret means of communication for the druids and also a key to the spirit world.

There are roughly 400 surviving orthodox inscriptions on stone monuments throughout Ireland and western Britain, the bulk of which are in southern Munster. The largest number outside Ireland are in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Details of the Celtic tree calendar are as follows:

B for Beth (Birch) - December 24th - January 20th

L for Luis (Rowan) - January 21st - February 17th

N for Nion (Ash) - February 18th - March 17th

O for Onn (Golden Gorse) - March 21st Spring Equinox

F for Fearn (Alder) - March 18th - April 14th

S for Saille (Willow) - April 15th - May 12th

H for Huath (Hawthorn) - May 13th - June 9th

D for Duir (Royal Oak) - June 10th - July 17th

U for Ura (Heather) - June 21st Summer Solstice

T for Tinne (Holly) - July 18th - August 5th

C for Coll (Hazel) - August 5th - September 1st

Q for Quert (Apple) - September 2nd - September 29th

E for Eadha (Aspen) - September 21st Autumn Equinox

G for Gort (Ivy) - September 30th - October 27th

Ng for Ngetl (Broom) - October 28th - November 24th

Ss for Straif (Blackthorn) - Samhain/Hallowe'en

R for Ruis (Elder) - November 25th - December 21st

I for Idho (Yew) - December 21st Winter Solstice

A for Ailm (Pine) - December 23rd Birth of the Divine child

Ph for Phagos (Beech) - all year around

木にまつわる伝説・神話

ケルト人の樹木の信仰 (6)

オガム文字と木の暦

オガム文字は、最古のアイルランドの表記文字 (アルファベット)。そこでは全てのアルファベットが木の名前と結びついており、このため、オガム文字はケルトの樹木のアルファベットと呼ばれることもある。

オガム文字はドルイドにとって密かな伝達の手段であり、また霊の世界に導く鍵でもあった。

アイルランドとイギリス西部の石碑には、約400の正統派の碑文が現存しているが、その大部分はマンスター南部にある。アイルランド以外で最も数が多いのは、ウェールズのペンブルックシャーである。

ケルトの木の暦の詳細は以下の通り:

B は Beth (ｼﾗｶﾊﾞ) - 12月24日～1月20日 LはLuis (ﾅﾅｶﾏﾄﾞ) - 1月21日～2月17日 NはNion (ﾄﾘﾈｺ) - 2月18日～3月17日 OはOnn (ﾊﾘｴﾆｼﾀﾞ) - 3月21日・春分の日 FはFearn (ﾊﾝﾉｷ) - 3月18日～4月14日 SはSaille (ﾔﾅｷﾞ) - 4月15日～5月12日 HはHuath (ｻﾝｻﾞｼ) - 5月13日 - 6月9日 DはDuir (ﾛｲﾔﾙ･ｵｰｸ) - 6月10日～7月17日 UはUra (ﾋｰｽ) - 6月21日・夏至 TはTinne (ﾋｲﾗｷﾞ) - 7月18日～8月4日 CはColl (Hazel) -8月5日～9月1日 QはQuert (ﾘﾝｺﾞ) - 9月2日～9月29日 EはEadha (ﾎﾟﾌﾟﾗ) - 9月21日・秋分の日 GはGort (ｷﾂﾞﾀ) - 9月30日～10月27日 NはNgetl (ｴﾆｼﾀﾞ) - 10月28日～11月24日 SはStraif (ﾘﾝﾎﾞｸ) -サムハイン/ハロウイーン RはRuis (ﾆﾜﾄｺ) - 11月25日～12月21日 IはIdho (ｲﾁｲ) - 12月21日冬至 AはAilm (ﾏﾂ) - 12月23日神の子の誕生 Ph は Phagos (ﾌﾞﾅ) - 1年中

#celtic mythology #celts #trees #tree folklore #tree myth #forklore #ogham #ogham alphabet #tree calender #philosophy #nature #art

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echologname · 1 year

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EDIT: OG post

@projectanomaly hypothesized that after Uzi killed J, N got leadership rights and was able to disable V's weapons. It makes sense that disassembly drone squads would have a hierarchy and a system to pass on responsibility to other members when one perishes, so their mission wouldn't be hindered. It also makes sense that this hierarchy would be in sequential order to the alphabet:

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26

Here, I included the theorized 4th OG member of N's team being the mysterious worker we see in his dream, whom some fans are calling R because if their serial designations, J, N, and V were numerically represented as 10, 14 and 22: 10+4=14 but 22-14=8, so 14+4=18 and the 18th letter in the alphabet is R.

#murder drones #glitch productions #serial designation n #serial designation v #serial designation j

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azure-dahlia · 1 year

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For anyone solving the QSMP arg. The RED numbers in the videos are supposed to be converted to letters. First video's title :

18 5 4 - - >R E D

R-18th letter in alphabet, E 5th and D fourth.

I am however stuck at the last video with red numbers 5 and 16 :(

#QSMP #QSMP arg #At least that's my guess bc they aren't making much sense now unless I'm missing some videos

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evasthesis · 1 month

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read the rings of a tree, call that wood omens

we mark the bottom of a lake vexillologically, call that our flag means depth

smell a nice cologne, call that good eau (men's)

jack sparrow hoists a new design featuring the 18th letter of the english latin alphabet onto the mast of his ship, call that r flag means depp

#evasthesis #good omens #terrible puns

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beforus-for-real-justice · 4 months

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•° I thought bluebloods were the low ones and rustbloods were the high ones because B is lower in the alphabet than R?? °•

‹| We|| fIrst|y 'B' Is the second |etter of the a|phabet, makIng It hIgher than 'R' whIch Is the 18th letter. |› ‹| Second|y, what does a|phabet have to do wIth co|ours???? |›

#mod kanaya

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solardick · 19 days

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Idea for sigma. 18th letter of the greek alphabet.

The idea is this. ΣWM.

Moon, card 18 and 23. Wheel, card 10 and 13.

23rd letter of the English alphabet is W. The 18th letter is R. The 10th letter is J and the 13th letter is M. The two additional cards here are J and R. The chariot and temperance.

Σ is used as a mathematic symbol.

The A and E cards are mused to be interchangeable. As they are often found together. But the final card in this set would belong to З, i come to. There doesnt seem to be any other symbol to use. З is also a stand in for Z. And also draws other connections to the high priestess. Emphasizing a more gental, nurturative side of the spherical and circular connotations. Of the cards. As the wheel is as likely asking as it is pointing where. Where’s the personal disposition of active participation? Attention and discipline, care, and intelligence. May trump all.

Not what i originally imagined. An I-robot type deal manipulating the elements of reality.

The σ minuscule version brings it the O and Q and G and even C itself. Together with the active use of “will” or purpose. Painting a lovely picture. As well as tying it in with the devil card. S and Z. Though im rationalizing. Sex and the machine. The wheel card can now be painted as a sexy robot.

It just does’t fit the circular theme of the set. Other than perhaps the solar system and human automatons.

The σ symbol is used in the same class of calculation as is Σ, adding in the standard deviation from a sum notation. Though it’s used as a fraction. Becoming an irrational symbol, labeled as Q. A fancier Q in another font. But still a Q.

But im not very convinced by it. The card as a whole.

Othwr than that i think im being framed for tax fraud. As someone sent me the T-4 tax slips for walmart for 2023 for 10000$. I didnt work a day at walmart in 2023. And i never got my T-4s for the roofing job i did for a couple months.

And yo get get a screening fie gonareah. Be foiring to have given me a gay desease after they rapedmy spyche. Just to add innthe degenerate sense of homour.

Fuckni hate it here. Today their making the eclipse personal by exlipsing my fucken efforts. Sorry they’re taking your work. Station so uou have nothing to do. Yeah. Go smokw a ciggarette.

Eclipse starts just when i get off work. It’ll pass over has im walking home. Miss it. It looked like evening. Like an hour before evening. I stop paying attention to astrology when o realized they were just ising it to mess woth me.

Anyway this was a crappy post anyway. But, im afraid until i have a confident. Im stuck doing this. Everyone needs someone. I dont know what that feels like. The worlds been agaisnt me since the day i was born. Instead of being completly serrounded by people i don’t like who are actively fucken with me. Literally everything the outside would has sent my way, offord, given, likes my life lesser. Since i was born. I was born in hell. And everyonw wants to rule. Grew up fearing and alone. Am old still fearing and alone. Nothing has changed in over 30 years. Everyone always playing soemthign over me. Since forever. And everyperson brings in something that weakens me. Always been. Theres nothing to learn from being messed with. Its just for others pleasure. As its always been. I dont want to be alive anymore. Whats next? My secret druggings to fuck with me? Beat me down until i freak out more and conveice other peopel to help?fuck with my income taxes? Give me a desease? Frame me for murder?

Im quitting this jon soon and probably gonna hang myself. If this all life is goona do to me. Then ehats the point? Theres nothing else. I could listen to the bible and beleive you’ll syop when im forty. But. That’s a lie. There was never any apple itd been like this from the start. I dont even human anymore. Theres no connecting with anyone. Ill bever have a confidant. Just serrounded by assholes. Likes its always. Been. Not allowed not beign fucken damaged by someone. Hahhahahabwell at leadt im not an unstable wreck anymore. But i cant rely on that. Eve’s a fucken faget anyway. Genesis lietterally makes. No sense. It would be woman pulling at a rib and become man. Cause she wanted to get penetrated. So he lies. And hooks up with her. Done deall. Fuckne hate the bible.

Jesus is a bastard. No father. Left his mother alone in the crowd. He’s super effeminate and cant defend himself. The last person you want backing you in a war. And only go pray to him if someone wants a blowjob. 🤷🏻‍♂️if anythung he’s be a kamikaze warrior. With c-4 straped yo his chest.

Now i got to go to work and deal with some crows. They only say one thing. Caw!!! Try havign a comversation eith that.

Ive been wondring about gods absence lately. Portent of the day. A black cat catches a mouse. Gets distracted by me. Drops it. And catches it again and trotts off. Today at the moment. Conversation is about cats and litter. As for being personally eclipsed yesterday. I refused to be around him after that. I am now working woth a different colleague. The same partner of the guy who eclipsed me. Txted me later that day asking a dumb question. He could easily get by asking the persons themselves. I responded with. “Lilith”. The eclipse happened on my natal lilith.

And apparently they pivked this out of one of the vans im supposed to load today.

Not my hand.

They all laughed and made fun. And tossed it at the manager. Him being an atheist or a satanist or some such. Makes the impression that he doesn’t like the church very much. Theres alot of gay crap tossed around. Like always.

Well, talked to another foreign doctor couldnt ynderstand half of what he was saying. I dont think he understood half of what i was saying so. Its prabably no help at all. So i got cramping meds. See if that works.

I dont thinknits working.

IBS. Apparently. Being around too much gay shit. Gives me a desease.

Fucken kirby. What fucken cokskr. Your with my partner today. Im going home vack to bed. No alwep. And meds gives me weak vision abd weak muscle. And i have 40 000 pounds to load today. Starta yelling at me. Called him aficjen cokskr and left. Sorry i give you the health and security position and that i helped not start start smoking again. Nr. Fucker whos constantly on light duty. Fuck you. Naybe upu found tgat jessus fifure for a reason. You fucken asshole. Go brush your fuxken teeth.

Well at least i dont gave the feeling likw i just got raped this morning. Add a headache to that. Coffee!!!!

Moody lunar men are ten times then women. I hope his saturn return fucks him up the ass like it did me. But, you cant get much worse of a transit. Than i did. So theres no comparison. Sorry yoo have to work today and not walk around stairing at boxes and sitting in the office. If this is how he gets without half the world fucken with him everyday. The. He’s obviously a pussy. Sorry im mad and i have no sleep. Ots an effort to walk.

So those pills seem to be working. Took longer than it said it would. But, i got to sleep around 2;45 ish this morning. Didnt get out of bed till 6:30 ish. After my alarm went off at 5. And made it to work on time. But, nooe. Cant do it today. Its an easy load. Heavy but. 40 000 thousands pounds of 100 pound boxes. Nope. Not doing it. Been doing 50-to 60 thousand pound skid orders lately. Which aren’t bad. But kirby irratates me. Walking around like he owns the place. Never load a van. Always sitting in the office. Or doing light work. And counting boxes.

Others dont sleep around here either!!! Fuck you. You stay up all night gaming. Fuck off. Think he’s mad cause im patronizing and a good parental figure for Keagan. I dont throw shit at the kid, i dont hit. Like the others do. and if he’s wasting time or does soemthign stupid. I make my pressence known. Pick that up! Where have you been?! Oh well cant be sick or downed without atleast soemone giving me a hardtimr for it. These last few years are proof of that.

Hospital is useless. They dont care there. Even the doc at the clinic was, “they didn’t ask you about that? Or soemthing like that. It was hatd to understand what he was saying simce he’s a foreigner and english isnt his 2nd language. Wont work the kid though. Cause he’s alwasy talkign about sex. Amd dick and ass. And carelessness. And goes absent regularly for half hours. Leaving you to do a two man job alone. And kirby misses more work than i do.

Het look its the same goose. Wonder if i talk to it. If it will show me his family. Like last year. And simce ingave him the position for hwalth and safety he has even more time to walk around and do nothing. But i need to het back home. Shut up and take a nap. And neither doni have a family, friends and any children. No moral interpersonal support. Fuck you. And i dont even get to see another member of the opposite sex. Im serrounded by assholes like you.

Think i got my eight hours. Too bad its midnight.

I dont want ti be alive anymore. Dont t go nj im doing tm taxes this year. They can audit me. Apparently i wrorked for 10 000s last year at walmart. And again. I never receivced my T-4s for the roofing job. I dont know if immeven hoing to be alive at the end of theis year anyway.

I do t wven know why thes epeople are doing this to me anyway. The accountant is probably fucken with me too. His too nice to me. Im gonna start calling people pussy lickers cause it cant be taken as sexual derogatory. Guess im just stuck being serrounded by people who say cokskrs all the time. Back to my childhood. And my father and my brothers. And i guess ill never know what life is not being fucked eith. 39 years and counting and it just keeps getting worse by the year.

Its hard to describe what it is being murdered by the entire fucken planet. Whatever ill just pay 3000$ from the audit. And save the headache. Trying to contact someone in charge of taxes from a large company like walmart is a mightmare. And the people there at the building at worked at will jsut play stupid. It’ll be ten times worse then trying to get an appointmen tto see a doctor. And illnprobably have to miss several days of wrok just to yse the fucken telephone. This is my entire life. From the get go. Or ill do it. And if they send me to court ill just hang myself before the trial. I dont remember the last few years have been a haze. They did pay me for a couple months after they fored me right before christmas for fake charges of sexual harrasment. Pending the “investigation”. So maybe. The only thing o remember clearly. Is god speaking to me through portents and stuff. While they tried to lasso me with queer bs. And raped my psyche. I rememeber being drugged, sleep deprived. And set up eith multiple girl while they fucked around in the background.

Hope i dont have to take these IBS pills tbe rest of my life somi dont have the feeling being raped everyday. Spekaing of which, my ass hurts. Need to take another pill.

#tarot #tarotblr #qwerty #math #sigma

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sublimepizzastarfish · 9 months

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L and W, and deriving Q, R, and QR.

L: 12th letter of the alphabet

W: 23rd letter of the alphabet

(23 + 12)/2 = 17 + 1/2

Q: 17th letter of the alphabet

R: 18th letter of the alphabet

A take can be rated as L, Q, R, or W to indicate its strength toward being negative (L being absolute, Q being slight) or positive (W being absolute, R being slight). QR can also be used to designate a neutral take, though should be used sparingly.

#q #r #l #w #colloquialism #the tadpole in my brain is weird today

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svalbardcommproject · 10 months

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Language Used on Svalbard

You may wonder what the official language is for the North-most country in the world. It is, in fact, Norwegian. Although this language acts as a lingua franca for Svalbard since some residents also speak Russian, Ukrainian, and Taiwanese. Within the 18th and 19th centuries Russenorsk was used as a lingua franca, but it is now extinct. This language combines elements of Russian and Norwegian and was formerly used throughout the arctic. It is said to have originated from Russian traders and Norwegian fishermen as a means to communicate through both of their native languages. Although once the Pomer trade ended with the Russian revolution of 1917, this dialect came to an end [2].

Common Norwegian Words and Phrases Although Norwegian is said to be one of the easiest languages to learn by native English speakers, many people have difficulty with the pronunciation of the “R” within this language. Native Norwegian speakers make extensive use of the rolling “R” sound. Other than that, there are an incredible number of words that are similar to the English words that we already know. This is because they had already entered the English language through Old Norse. Some of these words include: Anger, bag, band, cake, call, cast, egg, get, gift, hug, husband, loose, mistake, race, seat, sister, thrive, Thursday, ugly, wing, and many more [1]. Here are some examples of pronunciations of words and phrases within the Norwegian Language.

As you may notice, some sayings sound similar to the English language and some of them don’t. For example, the phrase “Can you help me?” sounds very similar to the language pronunciation whereas “thank you” doesn’t sound similar at all. “Please” and “I don’t understand” are also interesting because of the lettering barrier from English to Norwegian. This is because the Norwegian alphabet has 3 extra characters within it (Æ Ø Å) [3]. Here is an example of Norwegian text from a general store website on the island of Svalbard.

As you can see, some words are similar and can be compared to English words. The words that seem the most similar to me are Parfymeri (perfume), personlig (personal), makeup (make-up), klassiske (classic), and her (here). This likeness may show us that even though languages are different, there are a lot of similarities between them which may help influence our thoughts on specific unique aspects within that culture and how it can be like our own cultures. The phrase, “Language influences our view of reality,” is exactly that.

Work Cited

“Is Norwegian Hard to Learn? 12 Common Mistakes & How to Avoid Them.” The Intrepid Guide, 22 Mar. 2022, www.theintrepidguide.com/is-norwegian-hard-to-learn/.

Kortlandt, Frederik. On Russenorsk - Kortlandt, 2000, www.kortlandt.nl/publications/art197e.pdf.

“Norwegian Language.” Norwegian Language : Common Words & Phrases : Norway Travel Guide, 2014, norway.nordicvisitor.com/travel-guide/information/norwegian-language/.

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selenesheart · 3 years

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eli’s 500 sleepover!

i’m forever grateful for the love and support i’ve received in the last month, i’m so glad that i’ve created bonds with such incredible people in here, i love you all so much.

welcome to my 500 sleepover!

this sleepover will close on: june 18th at 23:59

i will be using #eli’s 500 sleepover! for this

💟 cast your mutuals -> send “cym” as any topic, character, movie, etc.

💜 nicknames -> send me a harry potter character, and i’ll tell you what nicknames/pet names they’d call you

👾 astrology -> tell me your big three and i’ll tell you what song fits best

☂️ headcanons -> send me a character and a topic, and i’ll write a headcanon about it (smutty, fluffy, or angsty)

☮️ guess -> send me three headcanons and i’ll tell you which harry potter character it fits best.

🌂 first impression -> (moots only!) send this in, and i’ll tell you my first impression of you

☪️ scenarios -> send me your name, pronouns, and a harry potter character and i’ll write you a little scenario. (nsfw or sfw)

🪁alphabet -> send me a letter from my nsfw alphabet and a character

☯️ get to know me -> send me a number from this list and i’ll answer the question.

— ask box <3

sending kisses to all my mutuals <,3

@elevatorsdoor @akraziia @fjorelaant @ladyvesuvia @siriusownsmyheart @sfdlm @henqtic @eunoniaa @ronsonlywhore @railmeharrypotter @reguluscore @holden-caulfield @hellounicorn @angstology @harmqnia @shadesofvelma @gothboutique @chokemepansy @o-rion-sta-r @fredshufflepuff @mnachopsis @leochares @just-a-smol-spoon @mullthingsoverinthehotwater @ronsbadidea @illiicitarts @pansyslut @dracomalfoys-wh0re @dracossweetprincess @just-a-smol-spoon @bellatrixscurls @angeloniaa @iovelore @oeuryale @prettygirlkay + more <,3

#eli’s 500 sleepover!

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gwendolynlerman · 3 years

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Languages of the world

Turkmen (türkmençe/تۆرکمنچه)

Basic facts

Number of native speakers: 11 million

Official language: Turkmenistan

Recognized minority language: Afghanistan

Language of diaspora: Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Uzbekistan

Script: Latin, 30 letters/Arabic, 42 letters

Grammatical cases: 6

Linguistic typology: agglutinative, SOV

Language family: Turkic, Common Turkic, Oghuz, Eastern Oghuz

Number of dialects: 12

History

18th century - first literary pieces

1928-1940 - use of the Latin alphabet

1940-1991 - use of the Cyrillic alphabet

Writing system and pronunciation

These are the letters that make up the Latin script: a b ç d e ä f g h i j ž k l m n ň o ö p r s ş t u ü w y ý z.

These are the letters that make up the Arabic script: خ ح چ ج ث ت ب ا ض ص ش س ژ ز ر ذ د ل گ ك ق ف غ ع ظ ط أ آ اِ ى ه ە﮴ و ــــگ ن م ایٛ ای اۆ اۇ اؤ اوْ.

Turkmen is characterized by vowel harmony.

Grammar

Nouns have two numbers (singular and plural), and six cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, and locative).

There are no articles. Postpositions are used.

Verbs are conjugated for tense, mood, voice, person, and number. Evidentiality is also marked.

Dialects

There are twelve dialects: Teke, Nohurly, Ýomud, Änewli, Hasarly, Nerezim, Gökleň, Salyr, Saryk, Ärsary, and Çowdur.

Written Turkmen is based on the Teke dialect. Dialects differ in phonology, grammar, and lexicon.

#langblr #turkmen #lingblr

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kyndaris · 3 years

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The Spelling Game

When learning English, one would assume there would be a single correct way to spell words. Most times, you would be right. Unfortunately, because of a rift between the United States of America and the United Kingdom back in the 18th century, the fact that the spelling of specific words was variable during that time, as well as the cost of printing, many in the Western world were left with Webster’s attempt at reforming English for the American people and the actual proper way to spell them in British-English.

It also didn’t help that after rising to power, many of the words that were spelt the American way infiltrated the global conscience. In many countries, including Australia, American-English and British-English were interchangeable. Oft times, it was much easier to spell it the American way. One such example that springs immediately to mind is ‘jail’ rather than ‘gaol.’ But honestly, ‘gaol?’ Sorry British-English. It just looks needlessly complex.

When it comes to my short stories, I’ve been pretty particular. While most of my stories have been written in British-English, because I grew up in Australia, there have been a few select ones that I have purposely corrected to American-English. Why, you may ask? To sell the illusion that the character is actually from the United States. It also means not using phrases like, “Yeah, no,” or “G’day mate. Chucked a sickie yesterday cause the traffic was chockablock.”

After all, if the setting is in the United States of America, with a protagonist that grew up there, it feels a little weird that they would spell things like ‘colour’ with a ‘u.’ There have also been many a time that I had to remind myself that ‘aluminium’ is not a thing in the States. Nor is a garbage bin called a ‘garbage bin’, but rather a ‘trash can.’ Tomato sauce, at least in the Australian context, is meant to be ketchup. And don’t get me started on car parks versus parking lots.

I bring this up solely because one of my old childhood friends was reading one of my short stories and remarked on the spelling. It was a CHOICE! And NOT because I can’t spell. Thank you very much.

In fact, I find it very irritating when many websites, such as Tumblr, Wordpress and even FictionPress try to tell me that I’ve spelt something incorrectly. Just because the site algorithms are based on American-English does not invalidate my alternate words. Armour. Travelling. Enrolment. Oesophagus. Grey. Metre.

I see your red squiggly line but I refute it! REFUTE IT, I SAY!! It’s not wrong. Just the correct way of spelling words that we commonly use. Okay. Well, one might not use oesophagus much in normal conversation, but I thought it a good way to highlight one of the many differences between American English and what is considered the norm in most English-speaking countries.

Given that I grew up in Australia, I’ve been exposed to both ways of spelling English words. The books I read were sometimes written by American authors and sometimes by those in the United Kingdom, Australia or Canada. Most of the time, I barely stumbled when I came across a new word.

Still, I’m very appreciate that more novels that I’ve picked up, and even a few video games, are catering to proper British-English. In fact, Bravely Default 2 is one of the more recent games that has things spelt properly. ‘Honour’ instead of ‘honor!’ I have been almost giddy with excitement. to see ‘U’s when there had been no ‘U’s before. Imagine my surprise when Ubisoft also offered UK-English as well as American-English!

Of course, for someone that loves the written word, it’s pretty much a given that I can vacillate between the two (even if I prefer British-English). When English is your second language, however, it’s much harder to wrap one’s head around. So, for all you people out there learning English, you should know that British-English is much better and vastly superior to American-English. Sometimes there’s an additional ‘o’ in front of an ‘e.’ Occasionally you’ll have an ‘r’ before an ‘e.’ But most importantly, if things end with ‘-ize’ in American English, you should definitely change it back to ‘-ise.’ To do so is to make it proper.

To cut a long story short, this post simply came around because someone asked me why I tried to spell things the ‘American’ way. So, of course, I decided to rant about it on the internet. Truly, nothing is sacrosanct. There are no depths that I will not plumb for a topic to talk about in the interim between my video game impressions.

On a side note, I am currently playing Bravely Default 2 and while the gameplay is quite enjoyable, the narrative is a little bare bones and the world simply not as engaging as I would have hoped. Let it be known that I have many thoughts about this and will be delving into it when I finally finish the game. Hopefully it won’t be too long, but lest we forget, I tend to try and do most everything in a single playthrough. There is no telling when I will finish though www.howlongtobeat.com tells me otherwise.

Oh, and before I forget, ‘z’ is pronounced ‘zed.’ Don’t let the alphabet song confuse you. They just wanted an easy way to rhyme with ‘me.’ So they bastardised the pronunciation of the last letter. DON’T LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT!

ZED! ZED! ZED! ZED! ZED!

#personal blog #spelling #british english

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viralblasts · 3 years

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R is the 18th letter of the alphabet lmfao first seen on https://ift.tt/2Y30N8s

#cringe #eep #pics

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robertsonskywa1 · 3 years

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Is Sideswipe & Sunstreaker really look like Raridash?

Okay this is much different

Not to look like Mr. Sharpshooter & Daring Loyalty and the Mr. Egotist Boy & Lady Generosity. Some of the Transformers/MLP Had an “R” Stands for Rainbow & Rarity, and “S” Stands for Sideswipe & Sunstreaker.

BUT WHY Rainbow is Sideswipe & Rarity is Sunstreaker had a name letters?

R is the 18th letter in the English alphabet but it had a fit for a name of Rainbow Dash & Rarity, meanwhile the letter S is the 18th letter of the alphabet, is the two sidekicks: Sideswipe, the Sharpshooter & Sunstreaker, The Egotism Autobot

Thanks to Mr Sharpshooter & Daring Loyalty and Mr Egotist Boy & Lady Generosity is mushy than others

#Transformers #Equestria Girls #Sideswipe #Rainbow Dash #Sunstreaker #Rarity #Friendship in Disguise

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Robert Laughlin, Preserver of a Mayan Language, Dies at 85

His monumental dictionary, after years of field work, documented Tzotzil in southern Mexico. But that was just the start of his efforts to preserve the culture.

By Neil Genzlinger

Published June 24, 2020

Robert M. Laughlin, an anthropologist and linguist whose extensive work in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico documented and helped revitalize Mayan languages and culture, died on May 28 in Alexandria, Va. He was 85.

His son, Reese, said the cause was the new coronavirus.

Dr. Laughlin spent much of his professional life doing field work in Chiapas, beginning in the late 1950s. He learned the Tzotzil (also spelled Tsotsil) language as a graduate student with the Harvard Chiapas Project, a long-term ethnographic field study that had just been started by Professor Evon Vogt and was focusing on the town of Zinacantán. After years of painstaking work, in 1975 Dr. Laughlin published The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán, with 30,000 entries.

Indigenous languages in the region — there are many — had been under siege since the Spanish conquest, and Dr. Laughlin’s dictionary helped spur a revival of interest in them. The dictionary, published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, where Dr. Laughlin was curator of Mesoamerican ethnology, was not simply a compilation of which Tzotzil word equals which English word. It was a deep dive into word origins, how the language had mutated and more.

“The term ‘dictionary’ hardly does the work justice,” Judith Aissen, professor emerita of linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said in an email. “It is a rigorous work of linguistic scholarship, but through its entries, also the repository of a great deal of cultural knowledge.”

The dictionary, created with two local collaborators, Romin Teratol and Anselmo Peres, set an example for the field. “It has been the cornerstone of so many efforts in language and knowledge revitalization ever since,” Igor Krupnik, chair of the anthropology department at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, said by email.

But it was only the beginning for Dr. Laughlin. He wrote or collaborated on various collections of folk tales and dreams, an 18th-century Tzotzil dictionary (with John B. Haviland, an anthropology professor at the University of California, San Diego), and more. And in 1982, when some Indigenous friends asked him for help in creating a cultural association, he became one of the founders of Sna Jtz’ibajom — or, in English, the House of the Writer, a collective that promoted local writings and publications.

An offshoot of that, a few years later, was Monkey Business Theater, a troupe that performed folk tales and other works. He brought in the American puppeteer Amy Trompetter to help local participants use puppets in their storytelling.

“To her distress, the first skit they chose to perform was a folk tale that tells of a newlywed whose wife’s head mysteriously disappears at night to eat corpses,” he wrote in “Monkey Business Theater,” a 2008 book about the troupe. But the group caught on and was soon in high demand, performing throughout the region and beyond.

One of Dr. Laughlin’s most recent collaborations was “Mayan Tales From Chiapas, Mexico” (2014), in which he and two translators recorded 42 folk tales as told by the same woman, Francisca Hernández Hernández, the only Tzotzil speaker remaining in her village. The book presented the stories in English, Spanish and Tzotzil.

In the foreword, Gary H. Gossen, professor emeritus of anthropology and Latin American studies at the University at Albany, the State University of New York, wrote of Dr. Laughlin’s career: “He has earnestly and successfully returned to the native Maya communities of highland Chiapas a sense of ownership of their own literary legacy.”

Robert Moody Laughlin was born on May 29, 1934, in Princeton, N.J., to Ledlie and Roberta Howe Laughlin. His father was assistant dean of admissions at Princeton University, and his mother was a homemaker.

He grew up in Princeton, graduated from South Kent School in Connecticut in 1952 and earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature at Princeton in 1956. The next year he enrolled in a summer graduate program in anthropology at the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia in Mexico City, which included field work among the Mazatec, an Indigenous people in the state of Oaxaca.

His interest piqued, he enrolled at Harvard, where he received a master’s degree in anthropology in 1961 and a Ph.D. in it in 1963. In 1960 he married Miriam Elizabeth Wolfe, and after he joined the Smithsonian in 1965, they had alternated between living in Chiapas and Alexandria, Va., for decades.

Almost as challenging as compiling his monumental 1975 dictionary was physically producing it, given the complexity of the material, the multiplicity of symbols and unusual letter combinations, and the limitations of the relatively primitive computers used to produce it.

“When I went to pick it up,” Dr. Laughlin wrote in the introduction, describing the first attempt to print a proof copy, “I discovered that the Tzotzil-English section was very much as I had desired. But the English to Tzotzil section of The Great Tzotzil Dictionary had been reduced to the lowest common denominator; page after page of one letter per line arranged in a single column. This was followed by all the Latin names neatly decapitated and arranged alphabetically according to the second letter.”

“My dictionary,” he added, “became known around the museum as The Great Tzotzil Disaster.”

Modest efforts to resurrect Indigenous languages had been going on for several decades when the dictionary appeared, but the Tzotzil language and its cousins were primarily oral traditions; speakers of such languages were illiterate in them. The dictionary helped change that.

“A potential audience had slowly been building for material in Tzotzil, Tzeltal and about 30 other Mayan languages,” a 1992 article in Smithsonian magazine noted. “Laughlin’s dictionary contributed a standardized template for writing down the Mayan sounds.”

Dr. Laughlin died in a hospital in Alexandria. In addition to his son, he is survived by his wife; a daughter, Liana Laughlin; and three grandchildren.

When Dr. Laughlin’s dictionary was published, Senator William Proxmire, the prominent Wisconsin Democrat, gave it one of his Golden Fleece Awards, which he used to call attention to projects he considered frivolous. Colleagues said Dr. Laughlin had considered the award a badge of honor — “perhaps out of general contrariness,” Thor R. Anderson, his friend and sometimes collaborator, wrote in an appreciation, “but also because, at the height of that particular contretemps, fellow scholars rushed to his defense.”

In 1988, when Dr. Laughlin and Dr. Haviland published their colonial-era dictionary, “The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, With Grammatical Analysis and Historical Commentary,” careful readers may have noted the dedication on Page 7:

To William E. Proxmire

For the fun of it!

#robertlaughlin #smithsonian #folklore #mayanculture

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