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My music of the day: Swallow's Tail, by HṚṢṬA

#my music of the day #music of the day #music #mmotd #motd #hrsta #hṛṣṭa #Youtube

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In most languages, the Colored Pencils boss in Paper Mario: The Origami King has a somewhat lengthy name he introduces himself with. In the English version, it is "Jean-Pierre Colored Pencils the 12th".

The French translation, however, goes one step beyond the other versions and gives him an absurdly lengthy name that also forms an acronym if the individual names are taken as initials. The name is "Côme Raoul Aimé Yves Oscar Nicolas Siméon de Couleur", where the first seven names spell out "C. R. A. Y. O. N. S. de Couleur", French for "colored pencils".

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#linguistics #translation #french #français #paper mario: the origami king #hehe

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just a reminder to COMPLETELY boycott Eurovision this year; Azerbaijan and Israel, despite committing genocide, are STILL allowed to compete & have NOT been banned. by refusing to ban both countries, Eurovision is profiting off of the genocide of Palestinians and Armenians.

do not listen to the artists. do not pirate or stream the artists' music, and this applies to ALL the artists who are competing and performing this year. do not listen to the songs on ANY platform, do not give them ANY attention.

write to your broadcasters and tell them you REFUSE to watch the channels until they recognise the Armenian and Palestinian genocides & that you find it disgusting how they are allowing Eurovision despite Azerbaijan and Israel's entries.

do NOT give eurovision OR the competing artists ANYTHING but silence.

boycott ALL of eurovision.

#important #eurovision #fuck this shit

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Barana Hanabneiho Organisation (BHO)

Darfur Women Action Group (DWAG)

Hadhreen (7adhreen)

Nas Al Sudan

Sadagaat Charity Organisation

Sudanese American Medical Association (SAMA)

Sudanese American Physicians Association (SAPA)

Sudanese Diaspora Network (SDN)

Sudan Tarada Initiative and Save Al Geneina Initiative by Sadiea

Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS)

Sudan Solidarity Collective (SSC)

Takaful Organisation

#important #sudan

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@yelldayell :)

enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

#music #friend :) #also me abibeur.bandcamp.com

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What to boycott NOW to help stop Israel’s unfolding genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

Reminder that boycotting DOES work, there is historic proof! Don't let anyone discourage you otherwise!

The BDS movement uses the historically successful method of targeted boycotts inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the US Civil Rights movement, the Indian anti-colonial struggle, among others worldwide.

We must strategically focus on a relatively smaller number of carefully selected companies and products for maximum impact. Companies that play a clear and direct role in Israel’s crimes and where there is real potential for winning, as was the case with, among others, G4S, Veolia, Orange, Ben & Jerry’s and Pillsbury. Compelling such huge, complicit companies, through strategic and context-sensitive boycott and divestment campaigns, to end their complicity in Israeli apartheid and war crimes against Palestinians sends a very powerful message to hundreds of other complicit companies that “your time will come, so get out before it’s too late!”

#important #israel #palestine #free palestine

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Master doc that contains different resources and support for many countries including Palestine, Congo, Haiti, Hawai’i, etc ((op is underneath the link))

#important #palestine #free palestine #congo #sudan #hawai'i #haiti #lebanon #yemen

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"chat is a pronoun" has officially joined my list of internet linguistics pet peeves. "emojis are hieroglyphs" is welcoming them to the club.

#linguistics #nice

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I regret to inform you that Discord's new Terms of Service includes an arbitration clause. You can find it here https://discord.com/terms/#16. This clause includes an opt-out, which I have transcribed here:

You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by emailing an opt-out notice to [email protected] within 30 days of April 15, 2024 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of these arbitration provisions, Discord also will not be bound by them.

These clauses are underhanded ways that corporations seek to deprive you of your right to participate in class-action lawsuits and your right to a jury trial. (This does only apply to us users ,other people still spread the word though )

#important #discord

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English is a hard language to learn too.

#linguistics #english #yepppppppp

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Dw, thats the god damn curse of there not being a propper name for people from the US. USians? Stateians? We keep calling them Americans and its globally confusing.

They're saying I should just say southerners like every country on earth doesn't have a south

#also even if we mostly say “américains” in french #we can also say “étatsuniens” or “étasuniens” for “états-unis d'amérique” #french #français #linguistics

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My music of the day: Our man from Centauri, by Natural Snow Buildings

#my music of the day #music of the day #music #mmotd #motd #natural snow buildings #french #france #Youtube

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#linguistics #english #i may have already reblogged this one #don't remember lmao

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So I've been learning French for a while and 'faire' is actually an incredible word. Like what a fucking breakthrough in economy of language.

Faire is a verb that is usually translated into English as "to do/to make," but it covers way more actions than that, which is very confusing for new speakers. because (I have realized) that's not really what faire means.

Faire is actually a word that just gestures vaguely in the direction of the object of the sentence and goes "you know." "Je fais du velo." "Je fais du courses." "Je fais mes valises." I'm biking. I go grocery shopping. I'm packing my bags. You're just sort of pointing at a bike and going "you know, the obvious thing you'd do with it."

English: "You mean RIDE it??"

French: "Sure whatever."

Like idk I just really enjoy the concept of a catch-all verb that you can just slap onto almost anything because who fucking gives a shit, you get the idea. There's a bike. what do you think I'm going to do with it.

#linguistics #french #français #english #pretty much tho' i feel the need to clarify that even if the académie française are up on their high horses #they don't really decide how french should work they just say they do #the usage still dictates the tongue not strict rules!

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Sometimes you do not experience any gender, or romantic and sexual attraction. Sometimes you just want to listen to The Centauri Agent by folk drone french duo Natural Snow Buildings.

#music #agender #aromantic #asexual #aroace #aromantic asexual #natural snow buildings #nsb #:) #welcome to my life

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#natural snow buildings #nsb #i love this album #music

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My music of the day: War on Torpor, by Do Make Say Think

#my music of the day #music of the day #music #mmotd #motd #do make say think #Youtube