thinking about aus for ocs is so funny. like i already put this guy in a situation but what if i put them in another totally different one

Imogen and the others when violent offered to break into her moms office:

"Oh you had a plague? Come back to us when you had a World War, brand new unconventional weapons, and a new international order."

I apologize.

insert that YOU chihuahua post where theyre being pinned down i cant for the life of me find it

This one?

Oh, Charles. The hubris. Honey. You had to know this was a possibility. Why would you tempt Apollo like that.

I love how we don't even need Apollo to be captioned, it's just "he's holding a dodgeball and looks Greek statue, of COURSE it's Apollo delivering the gift of prophecy unto unsuspecting tumblr users"

Absolute fucking trainwreck of a post

Language mistakes that reveal how someone's native language works are really cute but it's even cuter when it's a mistake that's mirrored in both languages tbh

More reasons why Zuko being the Firelord is objectively the funniest thing on earth:

a side effect of taking language classes and linguistics classes at the same time is that every time i hear a sound pronounced different to what i expect, i start cataloguing the environments the weird sound occurs in to see if it's in complementary or contrastive distribution with the sound i expected to hear. this is happening in my L1 now also. very funny to me that i keep hijacking conversations with friends to ask them to pronounce lists of words. less funny to them probably

Linguists are like vampires but instead of drinking your blood they harass you about a weird irregularity in your speech that no one else would have noticed.

can't believe there are still people out here in the year 2023 that genuinely think aang should have killed ozai

"even avatar yangchen said—" that's not the POINT, the point is that aang is the LAST airbender the LAST air nomad the LAST person following these teachings, the point is that if he breaks his vows the air nomads will truly die out with him, forever. the point is that the monks taught him all life is sacred and even if ozai is a piece of shit who everyone agrees deserves to die, aang refuses let ozai force him to give up the last thing he has of his people, their lessons, refuses to let ozai wipe the last air nomad from the earth and finish what his horrible family started. the point is that aang beats ozai because his spirit is unbendable, the point is that he takes the man whose ancestors set his on fire and robs him of the ability to hurt anyone ever again, the point is that the Fire Lord ends the fight kneeling before the Last Air Nomad and THAT is the ending aang deserved

Language and Tribes of Europa

One thing that struck me about the series is the almost deliberate use of Slavic loanwords to lend a different flavor to the English and German generally spoken in the series.

The words can be traced back to actual Slavic terms (on this, more below), but what I also found interesting is that their pronunciation has been modified and affected by two factors:

Thus, the Slavic term boj (prounounced roughly like "buoy") is pronounced, in the series, as "bozh" as though an English speaker saw the word and didn't know its origin. The term itself comes from a word that generally means "fight" in Czech, Serbian and Croatian.

And then we have three words ending in "-nik", which is an imported ending from both Yiddish (itself influenced by Slavic as well as High German) and Russian: "lubovnik", "volnik" and "svobodnik"

Interestingly the root "lubov", clearly drawn from Russian lyubov, does not show the iotation of the original word (so that /ju/ -> /u/), which shows German influence on the loanword "lubovnik", meaning, very loosely, "lover". (I'm purposely being a bit vague here to avoid spoilers, but the context is decidedly not as benign as the word would lead you to believe)

The word "volnik" appears to be generated internally within the German of the Crows by analogy to "lubovnik" and it refers to "person who works with wolk [a drug in the series]". It's not clear to me why the orthographical /v/ of "wolk" has been changed to what would be an orthographical /f/ in "volnik", but that may, ironically, be partial English influence since English does not devoice "V" at the beginning of a word and so "volnik" and "wolk" are pronounced the same phrase-initially.

Svoboda in Czech and Slovenian means, quite ironically, "freedom", so that "svobodnik" means loosely, "free worker". Given that svobodniks don't mine wolk, but rather process it, they're removed from the damaging effects of the raw drug, so in that sense, they are indeed relatively free.

There are some other odds and ends relating to language, but they're mostly one-offs so I won't go into detail about those.

Anyway, these are my linguistic thoughts, let me show you them. :)

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look, I know I've talked about this essay (?) before but like,

If you ever needed a good demonstration of the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", have I got an exercise for you.

Somebody made a small article explaining the basics of atomic theory but it's written in Anglish. Anglish is basically a made-up version of English where they remove any elements (words, prefixes, etc) that were originally borrowed from romance languages like french and latin, as well as greek and other foreign loanwords, keeping only those of germanic origin.

What happens is an english which is for the most part intelligible, but since a lot everyday english, and especially the scientific vocabulary, has has heavy latin and greek influence, they have to make up new words from the existing germanic-english vocabulary. For me it kind of reads super viking-ey.

Anyway when you read this article on atomic theory, in Anglish called Uncleftish Beholding, you get this text which kind of reads like a fantasy novel. Like in my mind it feels like it recontextualizes advanced scientific concepts to explain it to a viking audience from ancient times.

Even though you're familiar with the scientific ideas, because it bypasses the normal language we use for these concepts, you get a chance to examine these ideas as if you were a visitor from another civilization - and guess what, it does feel like it's about magic. It has a mythical quality to it, like it feels like a book about magic written during viking times. For me this has the same vibe as reading deep magic lore from a Robert Jordan book.

bonus:

peeta:

#ngl one thing i adore about this series is that the girl is dark and brooding and physically intimidating and deadly with a weapon#and the boy is soft and gentle and generous and kitchen oriented and emotionally brilliant and manipulative#they’re foils in a very traditional way but the traditional gender role split is very neatly inverted#he represents home and domesticity and babies and he’s almost fridged#but he’s not soft in a simplistic way. he knows how to work the crowd by showing a little throat#these books are too stressful for me to reread but parts of them have really stuck with me#the hunger games#peeta mellark

yeah what maculategiraffe said

where's the tweet thats like high value art heists should be legal and should be like a national pass time between countries like capture the flag. thats my platform

like i'd stay in museum security as a job just for that like to be on the defending team against some other country's art heist team. could be like eurovision but more fun. no bloodshed allowed no weapons u gotta use ur hands only. we should also be allowed to trade players between nations

ninety-six countries immediately descend on the british museum to get their stuff back

getting anonymous hate (“just checking in” emails) from jealous haters (my professors) because of my hot takes (incredibly overdue assignments)