#but the english word matter is different

[mysterystarz]

matter

#nova talks about stuff #everything that exists is matter #every particle #every substance #every subatomic possibility of existence #everything contains matter #has matter #is matter #functions #exists #but the english word matter is different #it means to mean something #to someone #to something #to have a cause #a purpose #to be loved maybe #cherished #it’s a difficult phras

[majorshatterandhare]

Okay, so, speaking of Jessica Law: you ever think about the fact that she says the word “law” in both Trial by Song and Gunfight at the Dolorous Guard? Like I’m sure it’s nothing but I think about it every time I hear it.

I also think about her accent a lot. I *really* enjoy /g/ on the end of /ŋ/ words.

#that is genuine enjoyment. fyi. i really like accents #its possible that its actually a /k/ rather than a /g/ but i think its /g/ #also those are ipa notation. /g/ is the sound g makes in ‘gain’ in english. /ŋ/ (called ‘eng’) is the sound ‘ng’ make in english. like in- #‘thing’ (but also in ‘think’ because /k/ and /g/ are so similar it sneaks in there). /k/ is a typical ‘k’ pronunciation in english #difference between /k/ and /g/ is that /g/ is voiced. #and the slashes (/ /) just denoted that its ipa but just discussing the sounds not showing the pronunciation of a word. basically (i think) #the silly problem that i have is that. when starting listening to the mechs i fell in love with jessicas part first. #and i always imitate the singer… (its fun to me)… #this has resulted in me added those /g/s onto /ŋ/ words no matter whos part im singing #its just part of my attempt at a british accent now (although i think *only* when singing) #(which is funny because i actually noticed those /g/s in her accent when examining some of her lines as *nikola*) #the mechanisms #jessica law #udad #trial by song #hnoc #gunfight at the dolorous guard

[liu-anhuaming]

My biggest pet peeve in language learning circles is and always has been when people call Mandarin "Chinese" even though there is not one Chinese language but rather many different Chinese languages (plural! china is linguistically quite diverse), and "Mandarin" 官話 is actually considered its own language family with even more dialects under it and not just one language. I think accuracy matters when talking about what languages you're studying

anyways, here's a tweet on this topic that has been stuck in my mind from the moment i first saw it

#i understand that not everyone is aware of this #but i have gotten in arguments with people On Here before where they were aware of this all and just didn't think it mattered #i think accuracy is super important in general for like. communication purposes? #but also just lumping everything under “chinese” feels really disrespectful and dare i say...racist #like why are people willing to split hairs about mutually intelligible scandinavian languages #but it's crickets when mandarin is given the label of “chinese” #also the idea of different chinese languages being called 'dialects' #i understand that's the word that chinese people themselves use: 方言 #but i think the implications of 方言 is different than the english 'dialect' in this situation #this is my hill i am willing to die on #like it's not a relationship ender or anything for me but i do feel it's very important to be. specific.

[aaravaggarwal9]

In This Life

We were always so near

Yet so far apart

You were always in my sight

Yet just out of my reach

I wish i had accepted it earlier

What i knew my heart was saying

I wish i hadn't been so ignorant

I wish i didn't make those mistakes

Because all I wish now is

We were together in this life

#thoughts #quotes #poetry #love #poetry on tumblr #new poem #poetry by me #i just wish things were different #romantic #heartcore #love poem #you and me #english poetry #feeling #i love her #lovelife #i love you #words that matter #words of mine #original poetry #original poem #sad poem #sad thoughts #young poets

[imissjimim]

@wdcmaxy 🫡

#sorry for the shitty english ong i just read what i wrote like girl... u r fr zerolingual #also the word escaped me when i was typing this - when i say assurance i mean acceptance as well #my vocabulary is in the gutter fr #and forgot to add the other part of ur msg - how hes like. running away ? escaping ? from his life until he meets minha #thats good too #again no matter which way u look at it it rlly all leads back to the same core msg #which is how yk its soooo well planned #like ur interpretation and mine are so different but we land at the same conclusion #actually if we go even further to connect lyrics and mv - which i didnt do - then we can say that once he got back to making the music #that was in him. the music he wanted to make after 2021 2022 stuff- release his solo work.. its like indigo is kim minha and it set him free

[echotunes]

every time duolingo makes me translate "you" with "usted" I am filled with rage. not for any rational reason it's just incomprehensible to me that "you" would ever be formal. like I know that's just how the english language works but it feels wrong

#or plural for that matter #i keep forgetting ustedes (plural) is also informal in latam #meaning it's not AS much of a stretch #but like. the word you is equivalent to du/tú to me. usted/ustedes are two entirely different words #give me Sie and ihr or give me death <- lighthearted but like. y'know #''you'' is too simple. too versatile. not specific enough #english hateposting. i've learned two more spanish phrases today that are 1 to 1 translatable into german #but english doesn't have them so i have to make it complicated when translating for duolingo. sad #(the phrases in question being tener hambre and tener razón) #(<- can you write them down like that with infinitives? i don't know. i assume you can) #but like. yes! hunger haben und recht haben! but no. to be hungry and to be right. fine. i guess #echo.txt #languageblogging

[thisgodwontforgiveyou]

i dont really know if they know that they made a complete mockery of their movie or not which is not a unique experience but what is weird is how that matters so little for this movie

#i was expecting to grapple with an immense hurdle of artistic intent at the end but the way they chose to #ruin the movie was so like. i mean ruin is even a strong word #it was such a perfectly ambivalent strange waste of every element at play from any possible perspective #that i dont even know ho much it matters bc it was like all build up to something that didnt happen #but the something that didnt happen could have been 2000 different things ranging from better than scream 4 to worst dogshit imaginable #and they chose to do literally 0 of the 2000 things and instead like. literally just gank their own antagonists and end the movie on nothin #the last spoken line by a named hcaracter being 'im gonna hold your hand all the way there' is so funny its gonna make me sick #like that is the most torn up i am about artistic intent because like. that had to be a joke #but if its a joke its literally like. completely nonsense #and if its not a joke the people who wrote this literally cant speak english as their native language

[desert-dyke]

been going back and forth on edits with an editor and was initially frustrated with the cuts he wanted to make. Eventually I straight up told him "this was my inspiration for the piece. These are the feelings that need to come through" and guess what? He didn't realize that and two more rounds of edits later, we landed on a really awesome piece that made me tear up. Moral of the story: your editor wants to help you make the best story you can . Be open to changes, but also if it seems like your editor doesn't understand the piece, speak up!

#also if your editor doesnt understand chances are readers might miss it to so its important to work with someone to make it clearer #but also as someone who works as an editor there have been times I needed this pointed out to me as well #i was working on a piece with a bilingual author and i couldn't tell if he was misusing words bc english is fucking hard but it was an #intentional choice to show that the story took place in a different universe than ours which was SO FUCKING CLEVER #the whole story was about hopping parallel universes #but thats also why I only use track changes and allow authors to accept or decline every change no matter how small

[bisonandbubbles]

Oikawa: Looking for advice!

Makki: sorry you're doing what?

Oikawa: something called “get the second opinion”

Mattsun: ...do you?

Oikawa: Actually, it's more like the 23rd opinion but who cares, right?

#blame it on out english class #something called get the second opinion #iwaizumi gave him some advice that was useful actually #makki and mattsun... tried #scraps of words #hq #haikyuu #haikyuu!! #incorrect haikyuu quotes #haikyuu incorrect quotes #hq!! #incorrect haikyuu!! #haikyuu!! incorrect quotes #seijoh 4 #but its 3 actually #nvm #the 22 opinions before this one were all oikawa's personal opinions just a bit different angle on the matter each time

[the-kipsabian]

i always just like surprising people by saying im not a native english speaker lmao

#most often people are just like 'wait for real' like lmao yeah #ive just been taught and been studying since third grade. most things i consume are in english with or without subtitles #ive improved a shit ton of my hearing comprehension purely due to years of wrestling ngl #and yeah ive been reading and writing fics in english for aboutttttt 15? 16? years. so that helps too #not to toot my own horn i know im incredibly lucky to have this especially in our school system for free and shit #but yeah. its just always fun to me when people are very confused about it #ofc im not perfect. but ive been told its hard to tell most of the time lol #night is an absolute mess on main #i will still google words im unsure about. i cant tell the difference between breath and breathe no matter how hard i try to learn #like said im not perfect. im just confusing without the clarification lmao

[willowcrowned]

for your language: what are your thoughts on having a difference between inclusive and exclusive we (first person plural)?

honestly I haven't even figured out the phonetic inventory yet and I think the plan is to do grammar after phonology so I haven't actually given it much thought but it IS intriguing

I guess my one hesitation is that I'm not particularly familiar with any language that uses them, and therefore I don't have a great idea of how they fit into the grammatical landscape. I wouldn't mind doing a bit of research, but since I'm already venturing into the unknown with consonant palatalization (the nightsisters had to get those russian accents from somewhere, and it really sounds to me like Merrin's /doθomir/ (as opposed to Cal's /dæθəmiɹ/) has a palatalized r at the end), I'm fairly loath to commit to something else new on the spot just because it sounds interesting to add.

That said—it WOULD be interesting to explore given the fact that the nighsisters have different clans and would likely want a word to express "we" as Dathomir vs "we" as the Nightsisters vs "we" as [insert clan here], and it would definitely be useful for worldbuilding to add that and then explore the origins of those words as tied to the making/breaking of clans and the additions of the zabrak nightbrothers.......... hm.

So I guess my answer is ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

#actually the phonetic inventory is being a nightmare #bc in THEORY I should be keeping the retroflex fricatives from russian instead of switching them out for my own postalveolar ones #since even though I can't hear the difference I'd be willing to bet actual money that the voice actors are using the retroflex versions #when they speak in english #but if I do that the inventory is going to be WAY to close to russian #AND I won't be able to pronounce it properly #which like. okay. #(a) it doesn't matter if I can bc there wouldn't be a distinction so my postalveolar phone would just count as the retroflex and I'd have #a bit of an accent #and (b) I don't actually have to speak my silly little made up language #but I want to! and I want to do it correctly! #so. ugh #one thing that is going to be different than russian is a long/short vowel distinction #plus I'm adding an alveolar tap in as an allophone #but like. that's still just russian with additions #I want something more interesting than that #willow makes some words #asks #masteryaddleisagilf

[nothingweirdhere]

honestly one of the greatest joys of speaking another language is surprising people who assume you can’t understand them xD

like i was in cadets yeah? and every summer i’d go stay on a military base for training, and ofc there’re people from all over the country there. so at one point a few guys in the flight as well as our officer are talking & they realize they all speak french so they switch languages right? 

well i was doing something nearby & lowkey eavesdropping—i would’ve joined in but i can’t hold a conversation at a fluent pace so i didn’t bother, but i was having fun trying to understand what they were saying—when the officer, who was usually very strict and proper, says “tabarnak,” which is basically the strongest curse word that exists in québécois (it literally means tabernacle, which is where the eucharist—the body and blood of christ—are stored in a catholic church, but is used kinda like the word fuck in english. all the strongest curse words in québec french are related to catholicism)

so i look at him with this huge exaggerated gasp & say “sir” in the most scandalized tone i can muster, and this poor man oh my god. he WHIPS AROUND to look at me with the most stricken expression on his face like “YOU SPEAK FRENCH?! WHY DIDN’T YOU SAY SOMETHING” and i just shrug and go “you didn’t ask”

it’s been years and i’m still laughing about it 💀💀💀

#it was seriously funny #and ofc i wasn’t actually offended but i was very shocked to hear him swear #so i was playing it up a bit but that was my automatic reaction #but i didn’t expect HIM to be so shocked that i understood #ig they thought they were the only francophones around? #which i mean. idk if i would be considered a francophone because i’m not fluent #but like. you don’t need to be fluent to recognize the most profane curse word that exists in québécois xD #tho ig maybe you’re not expecting people who aren’t from québec to know it bc it’s such a regional thing? #and like yeah basically everyone in canada learns french in school no matter what province you’re from #but they definitely aren’t teaching you the sacres #so i can see how it would be unexpected but also. people think that a conversation held in public in a different language is private #it isn’t xD you never know who might understand you #so yeah. very very funny #jx.txt #edit: i said basically the strongest only bc you can stack curse words for greater effect #so if you said something like ‘hostie de crisse de câlice de tabarnak’ ofc that is much stronger #but when it comes to individual words tabarnak is absolutely the strongest #it’s stronger than fuck is in english. more in line with motherfucker i’d say? #(funnily enough in french—in canada at least—fuck isn’t officially considered a curse word. you can say it on tv/the radio/etc uncensored)

[mellaithwen]

......wait wait wait HANG ON I've been typing sneak peak ....this whole time. and.... it's .... not a mountain pEAK it's a pEEKING peek (ofc).

....nOBODY LOOK AT ME ADSJKDJSKDJ

#this hurts...it hurts me deep #but also. listen. the english language is *hella* ridiculous soooooo it's not all my fault #......i don't even think my language has a word for peek #peekING is sbecian but you can't make that into peek really...sbio could work but that's SPYING so thats different #anyway anyway anyway i think we can all agree that regardless of the fact that it doesn't matter it WILL haunt me for ALL TIME :) #thank you for coming to my confessional

[estravenlover]

I was talking the other day with people about how English doesn’t have deferential verb forms and stuff like many other languages do but how in English we still have hierarchical ways of speaking to each other. Obviously race class and gender play huge rolls. Also this is not universal but I notice that at least for me and most women around me that we talk to men in an extremely deferential way that men seem to take absolutely no notice of. I think most men that I interact with have literally no idea women speak to them differently than we do to each other. Even when things are not dangerous, like the other day I was talking to a random man in the grocery store and he was insisting that the Barbie movie already came out, and I know that’s just like factually not true but after he told me I was wrong I immediately agreed with him and continued with the conversation. Like I wasn’t scared of him I had no actual belief he would have hurt me in public because I insisted that the Barbie movie was not actually out yet lol. It was just the first reaction I had to placate him and agree verbally even though I knew it wasn’t true. And obviously it didn’t really matter in that interaction but I do this in my professional life, I do it when talking to strangers, and I even do it when I’m with friends even though I try hard to stop doing it then. It’s my tone of voice, it’s the literal words I say, and it’s even the body language. And it’s not a new idea that women make themselves smaller around men, many other people have said it before and more elegantly but idk crazy to me that so many men in the world don’t know we do this? Like this was also sparked by me working on some internal stuff with men and some white women I work under where I was angry because they seemed to be so dismissive of all the work I put into offering them deference and respect in our interactions and my friend literally had to tell me that they didn’t actually know I was doing that. that’s just how they think I am all the time and how they expect me to talk to them. Which, obviously lol but it was kinda jarring to realize in the moment.

#TO BE CLEAR I don’t think this is an innate thing #this is entirely a learned behavior #I think part of the problem is men not knowing but when I have told men in my life this I have not gotten a lot of positive listening back #lol #so I think as feminists we need to do the work of actively trying not to do this and for male feminists they need to be ready to be able to #be prepared to listen to that and actually speak to the women in their life as equals and not use their social power to demand subservience #again this is my experience but I do think many other women share this #but so often the men in my life demand subservience in subtle ways and this is one of them #but like it doesn’t need to be like this #also I think race plays a huge role #like being brown changes how I interact with people all the time and I’m sure it matters in everyone else’s lives too lol #but I do think white women do this too for men but their experience might be different or whatever in ways I don’t know #idk all a work in progress #ugh English is so limiting and is so focused on catagorization it’s hard to talk about this without it sounding like I’m placing a hierarchy #of other peoples privileges #which I’m not trying to do #life is very complicated and these catagoriyan are not real they are social #but idk I’m just trying to put my experience into words #also to be clear fuck TERFs #I feel like when u talk about feminism on thsi website two weird things happen #TERFs try and claim any feminist discussion as being a terf point…. which like ew no stay away #thsi has nothing to do with gender essentialism and I reject terf logic wholeheartedly #but also some people seems to be reactionary and say discussion of women’s oppression is TERFy??? which is also weird and stupid #terfs don’t own feminism they are a contradictory reactionary group trying to pretend that #but regardless of what idiots on the internet think we need to be able to speak openly about issues that hinder liberation #and this is a small example that I was just thinking about #feminism #my post

[aaravaggarwal9]

A Fairytale

He once fell for a beautiful girl

One who had lost those dear to her

Broken and emptied from the pain

Solitude and suffering changed her

Into one who no longer trusted love

She did not accept his affection

Scared to open her wounds to him

She turned a blind eye to his efforts

And distanced herself from him

Not wanting her heart to shatter again

But he loved her truly and deeply

So his hopes remained unscathed

Slowly he got to know about her past

And though he knew she didn't need him

He still tried his best to heal her

One day his magic worked

With all the strength she had

She let go of the bygone days

And steadily her mended heart

Fell in love all over again

#thoughts #quotes #poetry #love #poetry on tumblr #new poem #poetry by me #heartcore #love poem #always by your side #you and me #i will be there #caring #i just wish things were different #english poetry #feeling #i love her #lovelife #i love you #words that matter #words of mine #original poem #young poets #heartbreak #happy ending #fairytale #long reads #sad poem #sad thoughts

[cheesebearger]

*physically restraining myself from getting in yet another fucking argument about alchemical significations and the perception of alchemical language with someone who is only really versed in the scientific history of alchemy*

#the PERCEPTION of alchemists as 'mystics' is as integral to alchemy as the science was #like there is a REASON people think they were mystics lol. they couched their words in religious doctrine #and we have proof across literature in the early modern period especially of alchemical lang. being used to metaphorize #transcendence or an alteration of the self or of literal racial transformation #there's a reason shakespeare's pericles is only a cohesive narrative when viewed through the lens of an alchemical romance #there is and was a wealth of meaning attributed to alchemy that goes beyond merely 'hiding trade secrets in code' #and it's actually kind of weird to downplay it as just code. as merely code to protect trade secrets #that isnt what these writers were doing - they were producing content for alchemists AND non-alchemists #these books were purchased by laymen. their emblematics were used to decorate people's living room walls as wallpaper #and btw your christian mapmaker shit is once more stupid. yes there is obvious religious meaning in placing religious icons #on a map of the world. it imagines the world as created by a christian god and therefore enforces a christian perspective #depending on what kind of creature or icon used they could be communicating vastly different things #i wouldnt call them a 'mystic' for it but they also werent writing about how overcoming personal suffering can lead to spiritual perfection #like all those readily available alch texts were doing. lmfao #let's just totally ignore the ways in which the EM english audience made paracelsus into a figure of christian mystic alchemy #bc paracelsus personally didnt do it. like thats not how things work. we cannot ignore the perception of these ppl by others lol #it doesnt MATTER that most of the actual alchemists were scientists. it DOES matter that people thought they were mystics #do you understand? that it matters that ppl thought paracelsus was communicating smth about christianity specifically? #that it matters very much actually that people perceived alchemy as a CHRISTIAN (white!) mystic science? #im feeling rabid lol