#AP State

[rjdarshini]

#ysrcp #tdp #janasena #congress #bjp #elections #andhra pradesh #AP State #Youtube

[reasonsforhope]

Interior Department Announces New Guidance to Honor and Elevate Hawaiian Language

"In commemoration of Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, or Hawaiian Language Month, and in recognition of its unique relationship with the Native Hawaiian Community, the Department of the Interior today announced new guidance on the use of the Hawaiian language.  

A comprehensive new Departmental Manual chapter underscores the Department’s commitment to further integrating Indigenous Knowledge and cultural practices into conservation stewardship.  

“Prioritizing the preservation of the Hawaiian language and culture and elevating Indigenous Knowledge is central to the Biden-Harris administration's work to meet the unique needs of the Native Hawaiian Community,” said Secretary Deb Haaland. “As we deploy historic resources to Hawaiʻi from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the Interior Department is committed to ensuring our internal policies and communications use accurate language and data."  

Department bureaus and offices that engage in communication with the Native Hawaiian Community or produce documentation addressing places, resources, actions or interests in Hawaiʻi will use the new guidance on ‘ōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) for various identifications and references, including flora and fauna, cultural sites, geographic place names, and government units within the state.  The guidance recognizes the evolving nature of ‘ōlelo Hawaiʻi and acknowledges the absence of a single authoritative source. While the Hawaiian Dictionary (Pukui & Elbert 2003) is designated as the baseline standard for non-geographic words and place names, Department bureaus and offices are encouraged to consult other standard works, as well as the Board on Geographic Names database.  

Developed collaboratively and informed by ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi practitioners, instructors and advocates, the new guidance emerged from virtual consultation sessions and public comment in 2023 with the Native Hawaiian Community. 

The new guidance aligns with the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to strengthening relationships with the Native Hawaiian Community through efforts such as the Kapapahuliau Climate Resilience Program and Hawaiian Forest Bird Keystone Initiative. During her trip to Hawaiʻi in June, Secretary Haaland emphasized recognizing and including Indigenous Knowledge, promoting co-stewardship, protecting sacred sites, and recommitting to meaningful and robust consultation with the Native Hawaiian Community."

-via US Department of the Interior press release, February 1, 2024

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Note: I'm an editor so I have no idea whether this comes off like as big a deal as it potentially is. But it is potentially going to establish and massively accelerate the adoption of correctly written Native Hawaiian language, as determined by Native Hawaiians.

Basically US government communications, documentations, and "style guides" (sets of rules to follow about how to write/format/publish something, etc.) can be incredibly influential, especially for topics where there isn't much other official guidance. This rule means that all government documents that mention Hawai'i, places in Hawai'i, Hawaiian plants and animals, etc. will have to be written the way Native Hawaiians say it should be written, and the correct way of writing Hawaiian conveys a lot more information about how the words are pronounced, too, which could spread correct pronunciations more widely.

It also means that, as far as the US government is concerned, this is The Correct Way to Write the Hawaiian Language. Which, as an editor who just read the guidance document, is super important. That's because you need the 'okina (' in words) and kahakō in order to tell apart sizeable sets of different words, because Hawaiian uses so many fewer consonants, they need more of other types of different sounds.

And the US government official policy on how to write Hawaiian is exactly what editors, publishers, newspapers, and magazines are going to look at, sooner or later, because it's what style guides are looking at. Style guides are the official various sets of rules that books/publications follow; they're also incredibly detailed - the one used for almost all book publishing, for example, the Chicago Manual of Style (CMoS), is over a thousand pages long.

One of the things that CMoS does is tell you the basic rules of and what specialist further sources they think you should use for writing different languages. They have a whole chapter dedicated to this. It's not that impressive on non-European languages yet, but we're due for a new edition (the 18th) of CMoS in the next oh two to four years, probably? Actually numbering wise they'd be due for one this year, except presumably they would've announced it by now if that was the case.

I'm expecting one of the biggest revisions to the 18th edition to add much more comprehensive guidance on non-Western languages. Considering how far we've come since 2017, when the last one was released, I'll be judging the shit out of them if they do otherwise. (And CMoS actually keep with the times decently enough.)

Which means, as long as there's at least a year or two for these new rules/spellings/orthographies to establish themselves before the next edition comes out, it's likely that just about every (legit) publisher will start using the new rules/spellings/orthographies.

And of course, it would expand much further from there.

#don't ask me about the magazine and newspaper half of this #bc I do Not know AP style #except the differences I'm annoyed at lol #ap doesn't respect the oxford comma #hawaii #hawaiʻi #language #orthography #linguistics #language stuff #hawaiian #native hawaiian #united states #publishing #book publishing #indigenous #indigineous people #indigenous languages #language revitalization #language resources #editorial

[puppyvenom]

mmmm normal sane evening im so happy i’m so happy i’m so happy

#sludge speaks #folk punk #harley poe #ajj #ajjtheband #the homeless gospel choir #the front bottoms #pat the bunny #apes of the state #wingnut dishwashers union #kimya dawson #ramshackle glory #johnny hobo and the freight trains #everybody’s worried about owen #punx #up the punx

[neatokeanosocks]

i have finally seen Every Single Godzilla movie ever made. ask me anything

#i watched godzilla vs kong 2021 today #my first thought is: why is the american trilogy so inconsistent with its hollow earth theory. #is it a bunch of huge deep caves? is it a big gap where the core should be? #is the earth a matryoshka doll and the gap between outer and inner earth is hollow earth #and for some reason BOTH sides of the gap have their own gravities #even tho you could keep the direction of gravity the same and jsut make the “floor” of hollow earth the surface of the inner matryoshka? #WHERES THE LIGHT COMING FROM ?? #why can kaiju easily handle an 'entire planets gravity' when most state-of-the-art helicopters cant #you can chuck a bug out a window and it's fine. you can chuck an elephant out a window and it's dead. but a huge ape falling miles? #thats fiiiine #also why is kong an ape and godzilla a marine reptile but all kaiju have a 'lineage' that lets em sense each other and fight #they barely have the same niche why are they territorial #god i wish i was related to godzilla. and if kong is then i definitely am! #but idk. i didn't watch the kong movie. i only watch godzilla movies #shitpost

[ace-with--a-mace]

they banned ap psych in florida cuz the class ap discusses sexuailty and gender which violates ron desantis' piece of shit dont say gay law so fuck you ron for that

in the college board statement they say it was banned because "teaching foundational content on sexual orientation and gender identity is illegal under state law" which is bullshit because these gov leaders believe anything lgbtq is a brain disease so you'd think theyd keep the brain learning class

they banned ap african american studies because "it lacks educational value and historical accuracy" which is making it easier for them to erase black history that is so intertwined with the history of this country that most everything here is so deeply antiblack

this mf has his head so far up his ass that hes ruining our education system even more than it already was

#fuck you ron desantis i hate you so much I hate you i hate you i hate yoy #and cuz me nd my friends are tryna reach our counselors to see whats up or if theyre rearranging schedules and keep mentioning him #i keep getting ron desantis ads ab if i want to elect him president of the united fucking states of America #and then it was an ap class i was interested in taking cuz i thought itd be cool to learn about so fuck you ron for that too #and THEN it was the only class i knew ppl in. ljke half the class was ppl ive seen before or talked too #im ranting ab missing out on the class nd not seeing my friends but its really a bigger issue than that #like its scary hes using his power to attack lgbtq communities and kids and then he has enough support that hes rallying for head seat #its not safe here at all i cannot fucking wait to leave #ron desantis #us politics #ap psychology #college board #lgbtq #so mad im shaking im so sorry if this doesnt make any sense but school starts in a week exactly nd im tryna figure out the little issue #l speaks #keep talking l #ranting in the tags because i can #black history #racism

[jonasgoonface]

drew my dudes again

#local news legend #doom scroll #compost heap #apes of the state #sad boi shit

[puppypunx]

A bunch of the patches I made a while ago

#folk punk #punk #punk diy #battle jacket #diy or die #punk fashion #diy punk #punx #trans punks #diy patches #apes of the state #harley poe

[manic-pixie-dream-dude]

The ask abt Golden Guard AU Luz reminded me that. she's neat :)

#my chicken doodle doos #toh #GG Luz AU #using my state-mandated 30 mins of drawing motivation per month for this b4 I go and die at uni again. bone ape tit.

[drsonnet]

#رفح اليوم، #غزة، #فلسطين #Rafah #Gaza #Palestine today.

Photo by Ahmed HassabAllah Getty images.

#rafah #gaza #palestine #israel is an apartheid state #genocide #israel apartheid #israel #free palestine #free gaza #isreal #muslim #freedom #photographers on tumblr #يوم الأرض #land day #Avatar #ART #VINTAGE #april fools #AP #April Fools Day #Illustration #positivity #playstation #GIF #louis tomlinson #kawaii #smosh

[an-onyx-void]

UN votes to grant new rights to Palestine and revive membership bid | AP News

"While Friday’s resolution gives Palestine some new rights and privileges, it reaffirms that it remains a non-member observer state without full U.N. membership and the right to vote in the General Assembly or at any of its conferences. And the United States has made clear that it will block Palestinian membership and statehood until direct negotiations with Israel resolve key issues, including security, boundaries and the future of Jerusalem, and lead to a two-state solution."

#ap news #associated press #us news #united states news #us news source #united nations #un #the un #the united nations #palestine #free palestine #free gaza #gaza #israel

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Females from few species live long past their reproductive years—but a new study confirms that chimpanzees, like the one pictured above in Uganda's Kibale National Park, are part of the exclusive club. 

PHOTOGRAPH BY KEVIN LANGERGRABER, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY

#kevin langergraber #photographer #national geographic #arizona state university #chimpanzee #animal #wildlife #mammal #uganda #kibale national park #ape

[dingoskidneys]

How much of the self is present in the ancestor?

#i was feeling really bad and dysphoric so i picked up the crayons. as you do #and this evolved out of it and it got me thinking about a “return to animal” type sentiment #like i was watching videos of apes last night and thinking how different it must be to simply exist in your body #without hiding it in clothes and gender conformity and such #and then i was thinking about the idea of “returning” to a state of being you haven't even existed in #couldn't exist in. because you are a product of what came before you etc #(and ofc apes are almost as different from the common ancestor as we are so it wouldn't be returning to ape but like yknow #the abstract idea of the beings we were before we were humans.) #and like why do we call it returning if we ourselves were never there? how much of ourselves actually exists in the past? #why is it that we feel enough kinship to the past that we say “return” when we think about existing there? #anyway. rhetorical questions mostly. this drawing isn't exactly about that train of thought #but i felt i needed to put it somewhere. and this is where i thought of it and i like the way the caption looks #this drawing is sort of about the feverish desire to rid myself of physical discomfort #griffffdraws

[dognonsense]

Chill Fit today! Peep the apes of state official merch. Been painting my folkpunk girls in the bedroom painting :3 doing some excercise now. Behold this video of me kicking that i took for my gf that i find really funny. Just like look at me go, i look so small in my giant tshirt its hilarious

#punk #folkpunk #folk punk #apes of state #my face #fit check #selfie

[thebluestbluewords]

happy holiday break, let’s talk class schedules

According to the Secrets of Auradon Prep tie-in book, AP runs on a rotating block schedule. Six periods per day, plus lunch. Pretty reasonable for a high school class schedule.

Homeroom once a week feels a little weird to me, but after an unofficial poll of some friends, it’s apparently not too uncommon for American high schools to only have it at the start of the week.

It’s sort of nice that the students get a study period every day, instead of having their free block/study block worked into the rotation with the rest of their classes.

In Mal’s Diary, we get another look at her schedule.

She’s in most of the same classes as the sample from before, but no chemistry class. Is Mal not interested in chemistry, or did Fairy Godmother decide it was more important for her to learn about evil fairies instead? Are there other “cultural history” type classes for other students, or did Fairy Godmother and whoever planned the class schedules for the other VKs just decide to pile on allll of the history/social studies classes for the VK to educate them in the ways of Auradon?

I think it’s funnier for me personally if Fairy Godmother received transcripts from Dragon Hall, looked at the VKs’ classes so far, and decided to say ‘fuck it’ on math and science classes, what these kids need is Auradon cultural education. Woodsmen, Fairies, Auradon History, and straight-up Goodness 101. One singular math class will take care of the rest, they’ll be fine.

#descendants #I don’t think that this is an especially balanced class schedule but I assume they’re playing catchup #with like #evil math and science classes #so they’re all set on those and it’s time for AURADON SOCIAL STUDIES #mathematics is a weird name for a high school class but maybe it’s a basic like assessment/general class?? #usually it would be like #algebra #geometry #trig #I know Evie’s in chemistry #but are the boys in science classes? #in the version of these kids that lives in my heart they let Carlos take physics #purely because I think he would enjoy it #I’ll reblog this later with my own class schedules I drew up for these kids based on the state requirements I grew up with #in my heart AP has additional volunteer requirements too #due to being a fancy rich kid school #but based on this schedule it seems like the core requirements are uhh #extremely flexible

[hannahmanderr]

#danny phantom #poll #amity park #danny phantom amity park #y'all only get the midwestern states bc idk if i've ever seen ppl put ap in a non-midwestern state #personally im an amity park michigan truther #but im also biased #as a michigander

[protectionsquad24601]

TO ALL MY APUSH BESTIES; YOU WILL DO GREAT AND I'M PROUD OF YOU!! ALMOST OVER THE MOUNTAIN!!

#apush #ap us history #ap united states history #apush me off a cliff #apush 2024 #ap