#the basic basics of English lmao

[tchaikovskaya]

If u will allow me to say something elitist and dismissive and frankly a little mean…

#I don’t get people who don’t understand very very basic concepts of historical linguistics #like not even what PIE is or how anglo saxon became English after the norman conquest etc #just like. the fact that there are several families of languages that have nothing to do with each other #or that latin or greek isnt the language that every other language came from. how did u graduate HS w honors being so clueless #I understand that not everyone has the same interests as me but in terms of like. world history and basic cultural knowledge #that’s like the equivalent of me not knowing the difference between an atom and a molecule lmao. like HUH???

[bruciemilf]

Hey guys guess who has an infected tooth and is DYING of pain lmao

#actually not lmao at all #like #heres the thing i went to the dentist for the first time in my life just like. three weeks ago #and he basically told me he'll have to send me somewhere else bc the tooth was too complicated (i think its called a root canal in english) #and ive been taking meds for the pain (ibuprofen to be exact) and holy shit i am Scared #like my biggest fear in life is being addicted to hard substances and i KNOW its stupid but im just scared #ive been taking them for like a week bc the pain was/is truly so uncomfortable and just horrible #and i cant go to an appointment bc my mom just went herself and shes dealing with mouh pain too. its just. not a fun time #but if anyone dealt with this before and could give me some home relief tips id be grateful #i washed my teeth like 4 times a day just today holy hell it hurts #vent #not dc

[unexpectedbrickattack]

Oooooh do you think gnomes would have their own language/dialect??

Short answer: Yes. Technically.

Long answer: I have. Feelings. About how language is treated in fantasy. Like “this race has their Own language” despite living in vastly different areas of the same world. Like. Humans having their Own language. Elves having their Own language. Elves, orcs, etc etc. Its not Bad but its definitely like A Thing that pokes at my sides a little lol.

Humans have hundreds of spoken and visual languages! Id like to imagine that in a world with other races, they would have their own variety of spoken language 😊 So yes; Gus does speak in his own native tongue. And he has absolutely badmouthed someone who got on his nerves without them realizing it lol

#answered #chattin #gustavo #theyre like WHAT and hes like what? just talkin out loud :0 #anyway #not to point fingers at popular properties bc basically ALL major games and shows do this #let ur races get confused as hell when they travel the planet lol #gustavo travels to an entirely different continent w like an adventuring group or something #and theyre like hey! theres a town full of gnomes here; maybe u can chat them up #and hes like. i dont know what the fuck theyre saying im so sorry #while were on the subject I love love love that he has such a deep voice #its very strange (obviously from sound clips being distorted) #but like i can imagine he doesnt really come across easily to alot of people #like he talks slower than usual but its also just very deep and he can often slur words together #and for some reason i keep hearing him w a southern (ish) accent in english?? i dunno how to make it stop 😭😭😭 #like very deep very gentle and hospitable…..if theres an italian equivalent of that hmu lmao #this is like COMPLETELY different from Vigis bc he sounds southern and deep too #but like he speaks WAY faster and he sounds completely incoherent when hes angry/yelling #YOU KNOW WHAT #im going to just say Gus being an adventurer #he is just a polyglot #and very fluent in those languages #justifying my sweet southern boy gus! voice agenda lmao

[raayllum]

was thinking about rayla and les mis and (bear with me) concepts of morality and the miscommunication that can come from thinking a morally driven character is one that does what's Right vs the reality of a morality driven character doing what is intrinsically right to them. it's why javert and superman and rayla can all be morally driven characters, but one is a way too fucking intense cop who only sees black-and-white, one's the biggest good guy paragon in existence, and another is an assassin who is very bad at being an assassin, because morally driven characters are usually driven by a motivation to Protect above all else, but who deserves that protection and what they are protecting people from (ie. who is deemed the Enemy) can all vary wildly

#like someone who is genuinely so convinced they're right based on an ideal or a cause that they'll #destroy themselves and the people around them? #like u can have characters like viren who lie to themselves that that's what they're doing #or characters like claudia who are so personally moral driven they're. a bit unhinged #but there is something about someone who is being genuine and yet can often be so so incorrect about Everything #rayla and runaan existing on opposite sides of the same spectrum y'know? #tag ramble #the english major strikes again #writing advice #not really but musings on character construction and variance i suppose #and is its own contrast with a character who has morals and is willing to bend them or a character who basically has no morals #or their own very limited but very strict 'code' (kaz brekker my beloved) of like. 3 lines they won't cross lmao

[crazy-fangirl2524]

The reason why English feels so distant and people find it easier to express their feelings and emotions in English is because English has become so common that it loses its meaning. The English language itself has evolved into just a means of translation.

#English itself has kinda lost its beauty like yk what I’m saying ?! #not saying English isn’t beautiful but um sorry compare to other languages English is shit lmao #English basically stole most words from other languages anyways #like idk English has become basic yk?? #I still love English but idk other languages are too underrated #I think what I hate most is how most people (especially native English speakers) don’t bother to learn other languages and thus other cultur #and that frustrates me sm like how can u not love learning other languages?! and thinking one is sufficient??? #how ignorant are u to think that only knowing English is enough when there’s like 7000 languages out there #like I love English with my entire heart but sometimes I wish other languages will be more common too #I wanna force everyone to be fluent in at least two languages like come on that’s bare minimum #ik it’s hard tho but like it’s worth it #English language #English literature #literature #history #English

[daz4i]

all aboard

#the hamama thing is actually like a common store for these like. nut/seed snacks? there's no english word that fits :((( #but yeah this is a shop in a town for rich ppl. so they basically made this average store into smth fancy LMAO #and the name they chose... is nutstation... uhhh #love hanging out in rich people areas they're always so funny and detached from reality.

[asteralien]

not to be like “i miss college” even though i do but mostly i think i miss being smart. before depression and life events had chewed up and partially swallowed my brain. just getting to problem solve and think, being Very Into something as the norm. i know being an english major is basically the easiest thing you can be at the undergrad level but i do feel like that was the one and only time in my life where my natural state was actually a pro instead of a con. i graduated with the highest honors and absolutely no one cared but i cared

#aster chat #family life exploding exactly one (1) month from graduation is still just. it. god. it was almost seven years ago and it still hurts #SO much. i had worked so hard to graduate with the honors i did #i took a 400 level history class in my 2nd semester with one of the hardest humanities profs and i got a B #i basically lived in a break room for a whole semester because my misophonia was so bad with my roommate at night #i stashed pillows and blankets behind a couch and slept there to stay sane enough to write my papers #i got so close to Ending Things three times and DIDN'T #my professors LOVED ME #and then graduation came and it was just. over. #went right back home to sit between my parents as much as i could and get yelled at and watch everything go down the drain #like as soon as i walked out of college i stopped existing except as something for my parents and my job to use up #like. i know it's cringy to still be thinking about college but that was the last time i mattered as myself. you know #people liked me because of my brain! my thoughts! not for what i could do for them or for a paycheck #me qua me #okay lmao Antidepressant Time bye #no offense but my english classes wouldn't have made me feel weird about saying 'boon' instead of 'pro' up there #i changed it to not sound like an assclown but my profs would have thought it was funny.

[genspiel]

...so, we know that decim got his job after the 15th floor was vacated by quin. but. was there a previous arbiter of viginti??? who were they and where tf are they now??? i'm-

#tre watches #death parade #decim #quin #ginti #...would their name have been “vi”? #sounds alright until you realize that by the japanese pronunciation of viginti their name would probably be pronounced like “whee” #(because in latin (which is where the names are from) all v's are basically u's etc.) #maybe that's why they didn't show them lol. quin is a much better name #incidentally this is basically the same reason i hope nobody ever puts their poor arbiter oc on the sixth floor #please don't do it #especially if you're creating for an english-speaking audience #do your oc a kindness and put them on some other floor skfkhdh they've already gotta deal with dead people #don't make their life(?) even harder for them #...now that i'm saying this it could actually kind of work for a crack fic or something lmao. but. yeah. |D #going back to the original point though i was under the impression that quin's situation with being moved was more or less unique/very rare #so like... what happened to make there be two openings at the same time lol that's all i wanna know #grabby hands at all of this show's hidden lore forever tbh

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

"tavern/grendel/hercules" sounds absolutely fascinating and I think I will have to read it even though I don't go here

May I ask why both "grendel" and "hercules", since they're from different mythologies?

Olim sudor Herculis (Latin) - Carmina Burana // Beowulf trans. Seamus Heaney (Old English)

okay, so. this isn't really fully based on either of these things. so much as i am rotating them in my brain as i'm writing something. "olim sudor herculis" is a latin drinking song of sorts from Ye Olde Times (this is the version i listen to lol. unironically i love this song. i originally heard it in a class about medieval history and stuff, but like. i literally listen to it for fun. it's part of what inspired this fic, because i was listening to it for fun. ...i probably have weird taste) and the lyrics when translated are about like, love ruins glory, a lover can't be a hero because they're unable to resist their heart and/or sexual desires, and that even the strongest men like hercules can be made fools by it--the only way to win against love is to not have it, and run away from it. which is. lmao. anyway, there's a little more to it than that, but that's the basic kinda run down. and it's really less that the fic is based on that (although i'm thinking about this as a flawed, old perspective--that the only way to not lose to love is to run from it, and then spinning what the song presents as negative--A lover has no regret for wasted time, / But stupidly and pointlessly toils at Venus' comand--as like. the time isn't wasted, the work is worth it, do not run from it--idk that's all just vibes rn) so much as the whole thing has that Medieval Vibe and all which helps lend to the atmosphere for the fic and get me in The Mood as i'm writing hence i listen to it on loop while writing it. so there's the "hercules" part.

grendel is also more metaphorical/below the surface as i'm writing than literal, because the fic is going to deal with loneliness and like. a pretty obvious (not the only, but not a reach either) interpretation of why grendel attacks in the first place is loneliness, feeling like an outsider, being an outsider--obviously, it's not so simple as that, as grendel is a literal monster, but the question of monsterhood and what makes a monster, how we relate to monsters for their loneliness and their bodies and their alienation and their rage and boundless emotion and "disgusting" nature, etc, really comes into play. but like it literally says that like, what harrows grendel is the "hall-joys", the joy and celebration and laughter, the community he is irreparably separate from?? you know?? and that can be interpreted a lot of ways--the extreme version of your neighbor who keeps having loud parties at 3 am and the dorm walls are so thin and you're about ready to rip their arms off? sure. the deep and piercing loneliness of hearing other people laugh and have fun and love each other and be a community knowing that not only are you explicitly not welcome but that you will probably never find that ever? (grendel's mother loved him, was willing to rend people limb from limb for him, but did she like him? did they spend time together? did she kill for him out of the love of a mother, one might call obligatory or biological? did she kill for him out of honor, the bloody cycle the whole fucking epic is about? did they love each other? how alone were they? does it matter, when in the end, they both die alone?) yeah also valid! or the more textual interpretation that grendel's just eeeevil and mean and hates all things good and holy and light and wants to kill it just for the sake of killing it? etc. anyway the point is i have a lot of feelings about monsters and loneliness and beowulf is about cycles and monsters and cause and effect and blood and honor and heroes and the end.

ALL OF THIS however is mostly just vibes that im rotating while writing a much smaller fic which is really more about trent and friendship and loneliness, set in a fantasy tavern setting lol

#dont take my word at all this im not double checking any research at the moment just. talking out my ass from memory #but i have a lot of feelings about a lot of mythology and folklore #ANYWAY im a nerd. im a big nerd #askbox #gertspeak #also the olim sudor herculis english translation didnt have a translators name attached :( #anyway this all just rambling. right now this fic is 90 percent vibes #i do have a plot in mind but i dont want to describe it bc it's short enough in describing it that would probably basically be the fic lmao #honestly though i might just incorporate a bunch of these pretentious literary references anyway #just bc i want to #youre welcome to read it!!!

[hopkei]

the host said if sawanatsu and taiki are boyfriend and girlfriend, then taiki is the girlfriend. taiki is aware of this as well, and says that sawa-san's fans are jealous of him and have said "please dont get any closer (to sawa)" "i am hated by sawanatsu's fans" - taiki

#fantastics from exile tribe #fantastics #sato taiki #sawamoto natsuki #さわたい #jr exile #jpop #hopkei trans #what is this lmao #the usual night part 2??? #yusereya whomst #taiki who always says if he was a girl he wants to date sawanatsu.... hes won.... #also btw this is half translated from jpn and half from korean lol so no subbing just paraphrased #idk how to translate マウント取らないでください ....マウント (mount) is a weird word in english #but its basically like... the fans are telling taiki to stop one-upping their relationship w sawa lmao

[kasumingo]

Using English not as a native but just someone who spends a lot of time in English-speaking circles both at work and among friends is wild, because I can feel what things mean and I think mainly in English but I could not translate some of those sentences to Polish even if my life depended on it

#i'm simply stuck in limbo with being a Pole but using English so much i'm no longer Polish #txt #and at the same time i still have problems with basic English grammar and more sophisticated language #and it never progresses past what I learned in my 20s lmao #i'm in spain without the s

[mike-wheeler-ik-what-you-are]

just so y'all know, may 17th will probably be the day of my metaphorical death

#taking the proficiency cambridge certification #which basically states that you can speak english like your native language #and yeah I'm a bit terrified #considering I live in italy; don't have any english ancestry and have never been to an english speaking country in my entire life #but it's the next level from my current one so yeah #also totally forgot this but I'm only 17 lmao

[radelenagreco]

i'm #newtoradblr i've spent so much time these past two weeks scrolling through radfem blogs i knew i had to make an actual radfem side of tumblr blog for my own sanity. the way i "peaked" is kinda funny 3-4 months ago i liked a radfem post without realizing and all of a sudden i had other radfem posts recommended to me by the algorithm and i was so annoyed because i was very anti-terf etc but for a couple days i read through a bunch of radfem blogs and it was actually such a relief to encounter FEMINISM not some watered down version of it but i felt guilty due to 5+ years of conditioning (and also because i had a nonbinary friend sitting right next to me in class as i was doing this) and i also didn't like the prominent use of the word moid? but anyway, 3 months later, i'm not sure why but the mra nature of the trans movement has grown so much more apparent to me i have like three mutuals who are trans men on my other blog and i would find myself rereading the few feminist posts i would reblog/write because these people are literally reblogging shit like "don't think like a terf. men aren't your oppressors, they're your friends/neighbors/brothers/fathers. if you think that any man could harm you you have been fooled by terf rhetoric" like actual morons/meninists. anyway two weeks ago i saw a post made by someone i knew was a radfem on my twitter tl and i don't know why i knew i was ready i went through her blog and through many others and now here i am.

#still dislike the word moid i know it's in response to 4chan people saying shit like femoid but it reads too much like a racist slur for me #to be cool with people saying it #i don't mean it reads like a racist slur towards men i mean it's way too reminiscent of the word negroid #it really made me think people were right about radical feminism being a gateway to being a conservative because...it literally feels #racist to me lmao i don't think i'll ever like it #gonna go follow the few blogs i followed on my main + others now #and i was actually always pretty radical in my feminism i was never what one would call a libfem i just wasn't A RadFem because i was into #the whole trans thing #it's different when you're not on tumblr/not exclusively interacting with trans people on the internet. people taking such an issue with #feminism and claiming that its most basic aspects (men oppress women) are transphobic and terf rhetoric is really only a thing on tumblr #and in those circles it's especially different when you're not talking in english #and i'm pretty sure everyone i follow on twitter supports trans people but the mra nature of trans right activism just has not hit them the #way it has hit tumblr they're still very normal about feminism it's actually so nice to go there and say i hate men with no caveat #the only people who would bother me if they came across my tweets saying that would be: cis men misogynists and people on the far right in #general #crazy that on tumblr it's the most leftist people i'd have to worry about hahaha... #ipost

[minglana]

just three days in my village was enough to get me to think more in catalan than spanish. peace and love on planet earth😌

#i usually think in english but i have phrases that sometimes pop up in spanish. so basically that spanish has been replaced w catalan #<- what hanging out around ur catalan friends will do to you😌 #i literally couldnt be happier lmao #xarraire

[yume-x-hanabi]

The localization added a line to Milla's previous line to make her call him 'boy' (which doesn't happen in the original) just so they could have Jude make a remark about them being close in age (in JP he just says his name to introduce himself).

There's another instance here:

Karla's just revealed Gaius became king at 22. In the original, Jude muses that'd be his age in 7 years. Here they're making the gap appear smaller with that wording.

(They've also altered the way Gaius and Presa address him iirc, having Gaius call him 'boy' when he originally doesn't, and having Presa not call him 'boy' when she's actually the only character who does 😂)

So yeah, seems like there was a deliberate attempt to make Jude seem older than he really is in the localization. It's kinda funny when you think about it.

#or it would be funny if they didn't constantly alter characterization #i mean i get why they'd do this #and ig it makes more sense this way for the western fandom #(nvm the timeline issues that creates) #(but no one cares abt worldbuilding) #hey it just occurred to me this basically renders shipping discourse moot lmao #this just in guys jumilla is no longer ~problematic~ #(at least in english lol) #anyway #tales of xillia #xillia meta #xillia loc

[yohankang]

i've been so consistent with japanese for the past 2 months and i know i'm making progress but at the same time whenever i see a kanji i can't read i'm like. it is impossible for me to ever learn japanese i can't understand ANYTHING and i will literally never get better it is embarrassing and i should just stop etc.

#i always focused on the vocab and kanji instead of grammar bc that's how i learned english lmao #i mean by reading/listening and not really understanding the rules #but this year i wanted to focus on the basics so even though my kanji level is somewhere between n4 and n3 #i went through the entire n5 coursebook i bought like... 15 years ago omg and i made sure i understand and remember all the grammar rules #and then moved onto n4 grammar coursebook #and honestly i am blown away agkdgjsjd so many things i've known instinctively started making sense #and i noticed i learn faster #bc i already have the words and i am used to the language so applying the rules is easier #so uhhhh fucking around for 10 years instead of diligently studying wasn't entirely a waste of time ig???? #but of course i'm starting to get impatient sgjsfjsj i need to buy n3 coursebook soon and then the real fun will start #k.txt #for the past year i've really been living the naruto way. believe-iting my way through shit