#vouks

[majianguo]

Vouk Hotel and Suites - I came here to swim and explore this amazing hotel. I had been here two years ago during the height of COVID and there wasn't a single guest staying here. The place was much more lively this time and they had the water jets on which made sort of an artificial waterfall as I swam below the walkway. One of the most unique places in Bali!

#Vouk Hotel and Suites #Bali hotels #Vouk

[cyberdelusiondream]

PWI Sulut Terima Penghargaan Kemitraan di Hari Bhayangkara ke 76

PWI Sulut Terima Penghargaan Kemitraan di Hari Bhayangkara ke 76

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#Hari Bhayangkara #Irjen Mulayatno #Polda Sulut #PWI Sulut #Vouke Lontaan

[black-arcana]

Clémentine Delauney 📸© Alen Vouk

#clémentine delauney #visions of atlantis #pirates II - armada #armada

[aohendo]

Prince for Hire Pronunciation Guide

Some of the names and whatnot in Prince for Hire kinda look intimidating (...Nelovskevouk...), so after ages, I figured I’d put together a loose pronunciation guide!

The general rule of thumb is that everything is pronounced exactly as it looks. Whatever floats your boat works for me. But here’s generally how I’ve been doing it, below the cut.

Tagging the taglist because worldbuilding stuff: @cactusmotif​, @houndsofcorduff​, @whimsyqueen​, @on-noon​, @paradisiacalshroud​. Also, some of the previous language development/alphabet stuff is over here.

First off, the alphabet. The only tricky letters here are the ‘C,’ the ‘J,’ and the ‘Y.’ The ‘C’ sound (2nd column, 2nd row) only appears at the front of words, and is basically an ‘S,’ like in ‘silo.’ The ‘J’ sound (2nd column, 3rd row) is more of a ‘y’ sound, like in ‘yarn’ (or ‘bjorn’). Lastly, the ‘Y’ sound (2nd column, 4th row) is pronounced as ‘aye’ (aye aye, captain!) except when at the front of words, where it is pronounced as ‘ee’ (like eek).

[image id: a conlang alphabet organized by row and column with spiky, m-looking letters written in pen on graph paper /end id]

Some exceptions to the call it as you see it thing: a word/name ending in a ‘k’ that is not doubled will drop that ‘k’ sound (as in: kulok = koo-low, not kulok = koo-lock). Doubled letters (as in iiriok, thaav, vuun, etc.) give extra stress.

Although there’s some other non-standard pronunciations (and sounds not touched upon by anything in Prince), for the purposes of Prince for Hire, that’s all you need to know to pronounce things just fine--at least, for things originating in the Novgor Plateau. Obviously the Turre, Aghran, and Musmiel pronunciation conventions are going to be a smidge different.

Below are some of the more frequent names and places in Prince for Hire.

Kiris Avkonin = Kear-ihs Ahv-kohn-in

Yphant na Suem = Ee-phant na Sew-em

Iiriok Nelovskevouk = Eerie-ohk Neh-loave-skeh-vouk

Batar ni Musyr = B’tar nee Moo-sear

Kaar Kulok = Kar Koo-low

Orjiar Thaav = Or-jyar Thawv

Duvutriok Vuun = Dew-voo-tree-ohk Voon

Kysminov Evina = Kayes-min-ohv Eh-veen-a

Martarez Nazvili = Mar-tar-ez Nat-zvee-lee

Aris of Krigover (Krigovervk) = Air-ihs Krih-goh-vorvk

Eskarez = Es-kah-rez

Trusov = True-sahv

(some Turre names)

Bascia = Bah-schya

‘L Tuola Turre = Luh To-oh-la To-ray

Ta Ritasa = Tah Ree-tah-sah

Sciombattor’ Ougle = Shohm-bah-tor’ We-gleh

(some place names)

Dargoulvga = Dar-gohlv-ga

Msvoulga = Mis-vohl-ga

Strauv = Strauv (rhymes with ‘ow’)

Cym = Saim (like ‘sign’)

Toor = To-or

#princeforhire #next up will be the fashion guide #(eventually) #not? writing #conlang #wip #fantasy #writblr #writeblr #writerblr #pronunciation

[yey-news]

Amazon | HOSPITALITY 2.0: Digital Revolution in the Hotel Industry | Vouk, Ira | Hospitality, Travel & Tourism

[lamolinastreetart]

Art by Spanish Manolo Mesa (@manolo_mesa) for Street Art Festival 2023 in Grenoble, France #manolomesa #lamolinastreetart | photo by Andrea Berlese via artist mysl.nl/VOuk

#lamolinastreetart #streetart

[blackdoomsrimayangkala]

Perbentangan Post Mortem PRU Ke-15 Negeri Perlis (at Vouk Hotel Suites) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmsiLN-pUgR/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[froghunter]

Louvre…veiechli Vouk #paris #lelouvre @museelouvre (hier: Auditorium du Louvre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjDIiHQKrMw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#paris #lelouvre

[liaredacteddnd]

yes i know Halloween was yesterday

#first full party drawing in the two and a half years of the campaign #and it's for halloween lmao #also icarus is wildshaped because i feel like he would do that and also #i never got an answer from tay for a costume for him #anyway this was fun #art #drusillia galakiir #dnd character #dnd #party members #hesper #ravius #icarus #allocu #peter #vouks

[erlkoenige]

Swiss people stop sucking the economy's dick challenge

#i meam i wasn't expecting the initiative to get accepted but i'm still pissed #u vorauem d konzernverantwortigsinitiative wär vom vouk agno worde aber wägem ständemehr isch si när abglehnt worde #sone scheiss de hätte mr wenigstens eini vo beidne gha #aber ja d initiative gäge chriegsmaterialie isch mr vo afang ah klar gsi d schwizer lige viu z fest a ihrere wirtschaft #swiss stuff

[alexmcgilvery]

From left to right the new knives are a Ganzo, Vouking, Ganzo, Grohman, Ganzo, and Two Sun

#sickxknives #sharp #knife

[useless-sloveniafacts]

Hello, so I have a question. I'm half slovene (but I've never lived there) do you perchance know how I could improve my slovene spelling? Thank you! Also what do you think about Vlado Kreslin's črna kitara?

Hey! Slovene writing is generally quite faithful to the way the words sound, but there are a few sounds that could trip you up:

L when following a vowel is often pronounced [u̯], closer to U – or like W in English: most often in the sequence OL (volk ‘wolf’, sol ‘salt’ – they aren’t vouk, sou) and in past participles of verbs (govoril ‘talked’, pel ‘sang’, spal ‘slept’, plul ‘sailed’, – not govoriu, peu, spau, plu), but in some other cases as well, though there it’s harder to predict (for example, kal in the meaning ‘marshy pond’ is always pronounced with [u̯], but kal as ‘a sprout, a seedling’ can be pronounced either with [l], or with [u̯]).

V is only [ʋ] (not exactly the same as English V [v], but close enough that the difference isn’t noticeable) when followed by a vowel, L and R, otherwise it’s closer to U – like English W: [ʋ] in vino ‘wine’, vlada ‘government’, but [u̯]/[w] in Triglav, vzeti ‘to take’ (not Triglau, uzeti)

if this [u̯] (written either as L or V) follows an unstressed schwa [ə] (the ‘uh?’ sound; written as E), the whole thing is most often pronounced as U [u]: dobrodošel ‘welcome’, mrtev ‘dead’ (not dobrodošu, mrtu)

when R is syllabic (kinda like what happens in English bird, if English had a normal R), the [ə] element is not written separately: prvi, krt, mrtev (not pervi, kert, mertu), except if R is at the end of the word (e.g. veter ‘wind’, but vetrni ‘of wind’)

A larger vocabulary will help as well, because words sometimes retain their etymological spelling: when you hear the word glasba ‘music’, that S is actually pronounced as Z [z], so you might want to write down glazba – but knowing that there’s a word glas ‘sound’ will help you in recognizing that glas-ba is derived from glas, and keeps that S intact.

There’s also The sounds of Slovene and how they are written (and a shorter version), which might be helpful.

And I really like basically all of Kreslin’s songs, he’s great! :D

#ask #anon #slovene #slovenian #slovenia

[black-arcana]

Clémentine Delauney 📸© Alen Vouk

#clémentine delauney #visions of atlantis

[brightandshinynewstories]

From an outside view, the fact that Vox Machina went after Kerrion first probably looks very clever. He was wildly unpopular and extremely visible in Whitestone, so people would both notice he was gone and be happy about it. Burning his house (and Keyleth using her magic to create the de Rolo crest overhead) was a nice touch, too. 

The brutality with Vouk...I think it depends on how far word spreads, but given the sheer level of oppression in the city, there’s probably a lot of anger dammed up in certain circles. That sort of thing would probably play well there: “Did you hear? Kerrion’s dead. Whoever it was burned the de Rolo crest into his lackey’s face, cut out his tongue. Did you hear about the crest over the house? They haven’t caught who did it, yet. There were lights by the Sun Tree. Did you hear about it?”

I’m enjoying thinking about this because this narrative is so, so wildly different from what’s actually playing out with Vox Machina right now, especially Percy. Gotta love perspective!

#critical role #shiny blogs cr #cr1 episode 30 #cr1

[servallystellan]

WIP Wednesday

“Come to me, Odile,” said Vitale, pulling at his niece. His hands were shaking, Ottoline could see. Odile protested and cried out, droplets of water flying as she squirmed and fought to get back to her mother, as though she could do anything to save her.

“I’ve got her,” Vitale soothed, leaning in to support his sister as she slumped to the ground.

“Vitale Vouk himself,” scoffed Spada, “dirtying his hands with something more than paint.” 

“The child is no part of this.”

Spada grew more blissful as the life faded from Ottoline. The reign of the Cuovan faith was drawing to a close, by a rebellion set alight by his own hand. He huddled closer, unsettlingly close, leaning over Ottoline alongside her brother, watching as her breath grew faint and her face paler.

She looked at him pleadingly—could he not let her have this last moment, unlooked-at, with her own family holding her close? Aloiz was gone; the slow burn of the overthrow had seen to that.

Her thoughts wouldn’t hold together. She refused to give them the pleasure of her atonement and focused on the only thing she could. “You’ll—the children—?”

“They are in my care,” said Vitale, his voice breaking. Blood bubbled up from his sister’s throat as she smiled, appearing almost black until violent scarlet traces of it glistened against her teeth and lips.

As delicate and weak as they’d grown, her fingers found purchase on the handle of the knife at her side. Her hallowed tool, this thing which had been an extension of her when she’d stood over the embalming slab, her anima filtering through her flesh and into the very steel. 

#wip wednesday #novel in progress #am writing

[girls-can-get-married]

Austria has seen its first ever same-sex wedding, just five minutes after marriage equality became law.

Lesbian couple Nicole Kopaunik and Daniela Paier tied the knot at 12:05am on January 1 in the southern town of Velden, according to ORF, more than a year after the country’s Constitutional Court ruled that same-sex marriage would be legal from 2019.

The pair, who come from Altenberg an der Rax in the Upper Mürztal, are both 37 and had been engaged for four years.

Lesbian brides celebrate first same-sex wedding in Austria

Before the law change, queer couples in Austria could only enter into a registered partnership, which provided them with fewer rights than married partners.

Nicole Kopaunik said: “Now, everyone has the chance to decide for themselves if they want a ‘marriage for all’ or if they want a registered partnership.

“That was not the case before. We decided to marry and are happy about it.”

Her bride, Daniela, is adopting Kopaunik’s surname. She explained:

“We are a family, and will have a family name.”

The Kopauniks’ wedding became the first of its kind in Austria with the help of local authorities like Velden Mayor Ferdinand Vouk, who said the town was “used to accepting challenges.”

“It was a great pleasure and honour for us that Nicole and Daniela got married here,” said Vouk.