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out of curiosity do you know where/why peter t daniels separates scripts into 'true' alphabets, abugidas, and abjads? ive always found issue with this

hang on lemme borrow the book from archive.org for an hour and get back to you

#linguistics #linguistics to read

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Depression is such an effective tranquilizer that it creates a great opportunity for plot twists in your real life. I have a pretty consistent opinion of myself which is "low" and "never ending guilt and shame for reasons I don't understand."

Recently received feedback from two different editing clients that started with "Please pass along to Jacquelynn that she is phenomenal at her job" and "I was blown away by the evaluation I received."

You always hear about how depression (and anxiety) lies to you and distorts reality, but there is logically knowing that and then there is like, physical proof of it and you are suddenly Neo in the Matrix jumping out of the fucked up little tube machine.

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No "other" option. If you don't like multi POV books, please keep scrolling!

#look TCH will have 8 POVs at some point I have no right to complain XD #but nah it really doesn't bother me as long as the author either separates them well #or not being able to tell who's who is crucial to the narrative

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Tell us where you live! Submitted by @elicrumb

#Dutch English and Nethersaxon #I wouldn't say Nethersaxon is on a 100% daily basis #but often

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Cranky because your language doesn't have diminutives aren't you

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THE DAY OF LANGUAGES!!!

This 7th of May, 2024, we use our own language again!

If your language, native or not, is something other than English, on May 7th you can speak that language all day!

You’ll blog in your chosen language(s) all day: text posts, replies, tags (except triggers and organizational tags).

Regardless of what language people choose to speak to you, you can answer in your own.

Non-verbal, non-written languages (like sign language, dialects, otherwise non-written languages) are more than welcome! See my FAQ for tips

English native speakers can participate in any other language they're studying/have studied/know.

The tag is gonna be #Speak Your Language Day or #spyld for short.

Please submit me some language facts for me to share on this day <3

Pinned post and FAQ

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Sunny meadows ☀️

( find me here )

#DUCKS! #adorable 😍

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Een van deze moet de wereld uit. Welke?

Notitieblokken op A5 formaat

Witte plantenpotten

Enkelsokken

Melkchocolade

Legpuzzels van minder dan 1000 stuks

Roltrappen

Gestreepte kleding

Gebaksvorkjes

Naturel chips

Geurkaarsen

#geurkaarsen zijn zo overprikkelend #ik ben fysiek beperkt lol ik kan niet zonder roltrappen #ik bedoel een lift kan natuurlijk ook maar ik kan wel traplopen #dus ik heb liever een storing op een roltrap dan in een lift

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i hate how they market alexa as a ‘member of the family’ like that’s SO fucking blatantly insidious and terrifying also if i wanted an untrustworthy/cold/emotionless machine in my life i’d just talk to my fuckin father 

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Different POVs In Writing

POV - Short for Point Of View, meaning that the audience is experiencing a story from the perspective of a specific person or outside entity; they are part of the story in one way or another

• 1st Person POV - Experiencing a story from the perspective of the main character. Pronouns will be I, me, my, mine, etc

• 2nd Person POV - Experiencing a story from your own perspective as if you were a character within the story. Pronouns will be you, your, yours, etc. Stories are rarely written from this perspective outside of Choose Your Own Adventure style stories

• 3rd Person POV - Experiencing a story from an outside perspective. No personal pronouns will be used for you, but other characters will be referred to as he, she, they, it, etc

• 4th Person POV - Experiencing a story through a collective perspective. Pronouns include we, us, someone, anyone, etc. I’ve never seen a story written from this perspective. Fourth person perspective is mostly used in livestreams, in which the chat forms a non-specific collective presence that are all addressed as one

#why is this '4th person' stuff everywhere 😭 #also the descriptions of the other POVs are... hmmmmm

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It becomes very very evident when an author has never interacted with small children before. PLEASE stop writing 4 year olds with baby voices, I promise you they do not answer in short sentences the way a baby might. They can and Will start monologing

#I recommend browsing through open access CHILDES transcripts for references #English only though I think #and take a good peek at the participant demographics of course because multilingualism #and home background matter #if you have want to be nerdy about it lol go wild

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the anglo mind cannot comprehend binnenpretje

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Hoi hoi, ik heb een Koningsdag themavraag:

Zeg jij:

Kleedjesmarkt

Rommelmarkt

Vrijmarkt

Anders?

#ipc vrijmarkt en rommelmarkt #maar vrijmarkt gebruik ik eigenlijk exclusief voor konignsdag #niet voor een reden ofzo #zo ben ik het gewoon gewend I guess

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