#and no. French is NOT an option

[florbe-triz]

#my art #Trigun #vashwood #fem!vash #fem!wolfwood #trigun maximum #genderbend art #Vashette and Nichole LOL #A french girl and a Latina #don't kill me I'm just having fun #DON'T POINT OUT THE HEELS I KNOW IT'S NOT A FUNCTIONAL OPTION FOR THE SAND PLANET #but she looks good wearing those

[hedgehog-moss]

It’s always funny when anglo writers looking to express a specific idea casually pluck a cool ready-made monosyllabic phrase from their language’s unlimited supply and Romance language translators just curl up in the fœtal position and cry. I'm reading a text in which the American author talks about ‘Haves’ vs ‘Have-Nots’ vs ‘Have-Mosts’ —the poor French translator translated this as ‘ceux-qui-ont’ (the French language: don’t worry I’m just getting warmed up), ‘ceux-qui-n’ont-pas’ (nice we’ve doubled the syllable count but we mustn’t falter), and the beautiful ‘ceux-qui-ont-plus-que-tous-les-autres’ (300% expansion ratio let’s gooo! we did it great work everybody.) From 2 to 8 syllables—the minute I saw that bulky thing I knew it had to be Have-Mosts in the original and I was giggling. The anglo author happily proceeds to use the phrase ‘Have-Mosts’ 5 times per paragraph because why not! it’s so quick and wieldy :) we don’t actually need the word wieldy 'cause it’s just the normal state of our language <3 meanwhile you can feel the French translator’s desperation grow as she is reduced to juggling with “those” and “the latter” to avoid summoning her creature. Eventually she reaches the acceptance stage and uses ceux-qui-ont-plus-que-tous-les-autres again like, it’s my monster. I shouldn’t reject it

#language tag #and when anglo authors use a somewhat long and clunky phrase french translators are like no that's our thing? #they're trying to steal our thing. we have no choice but to make the phrase even longer and clunkier. perfidious albion mustn't win this #like how He Who Must Not Be Named went from 6 to 12 syllables in the french HP translation (RIP voice actors who had to dub it) #even though there were shorter options? but i suspect the translator picked the 12 syllable one due to #our national obsession with alexandrine metre

[spicyvampire]

Phaya's hyper-specific poll [in/sp.]

THE SIGN (2023)

#the sign the series #the sign #thesignsource #thaidrama #dailyasiandramas #phayatharn #tusersilence #userpharawee #user25shades #uservix #userrlaura #userbon #esmetracks #userbunn #mjtag #raeblr #flashing #userblmpff #tansedits #edits:ts #i love you my little homme wazo <3 #figuring out how to make the poll options in photoshop took a while and it wasn't even that complicated #time to forget how i did it until the next time i need it lmao #spot the one that is false but could tbh be true #also wazo is the phonetic transcription of oiseau which is french for bird. if you care

[banancrumbs]

sleepover

inspired by this post!

#my art #sandman #the sandman #dream of the endless #morpheus sandman #morpheus #hob gadling #death of the endless #lucienne sandman #matthew sandman #dreamling #dreamhob #FINALLY RENEWED LETS FUCKIBG GOOOOOOOOOOO #my other option of a title for this one was friends #dream’s friends in season 1 KSNFKSKDKS #also my excuse to draw all my favs <3 #i LOVE all of them kiss kiss kiss #anyway!!!!! #i did this sketch weeks ago in my french notebook but just really did it today lol

[canisalbus]

I had a dream that you revealed Machete's real name, and it was still Machete but pronounced "mah-hee-yet" or "mah-hee-yay", depending on how french the speaker was

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#DEPENDING ON HOW FRENCH THE SPEAKER WAS #beautiful #people occasionally ask me how his name is supposed to be pronounced #and the simple answer is that he's nicknamed after the big knife so you can just say it the same way it's not a big deal #also I'm not going to be there to hear you so I don't really care too terribly much #I say it how it reads in Finnish which is pretty far from the English pronunciation #but is coincidentally relatively close to the original Spanish one which is a reasonably lore friendly option #answered #anonymous #mah-hee-yay

[gouinisme]

*by gender neutral pronouns i mean anything except for she/he (and their equivalent in other languages) but if there's language subtleties i'm missing do tell me i'm real curious

i also count it if you use gender neutral pronouns that are different to the established ones (english example: zie/hir, xe/xye, e/em or any other set of neopronouns)

#curious in how much that factor affects how likely you are to be out and/or to state your correct pronouns #cuz i'm french and whenever i hear someone say they use any pronouns i'm like. i see you. you see me. we see each other #poll #pronouns #nonbinary #non binary #genderqueer #transgender #agender #demigender #genderfluid #gender stuff #neopronouns #sorry for the tags i'm just tryna get a good population #also it's rude how short poll options are allowed to be

[crazycriter]

Thinking about what the tbosas tributes would be like if they went to a british secondary school... headcannons coming your way, right now.

Tanner!!!

Lucy Gray!!

Brandy!!

Treech!!

Lamina!!

Coral!!

also this is completely based on this photo of hiroki & irene where i thought they looked like they were on a school trip LMAO

#tbosas #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #coral tbosas #lamina tbosas #lucy gray baird #treech tbosas #brandy tbosas #tanner tbosas #already posted this elsewhere but i like tumblr more xxx #i used to go to a catholic school where re was a forced gcse if anyone's wondering why they only have two options #lamina is just me in this #projecting as always #preformer treech supermacy btw #all the best fics have treech like that #didn't include languages bc i failed my french gcse and dont want to remember that #sorry to anyone not british trynna decode this

[nikkiissleepy]

event stages! these were kinda confusing this time, shoutout to @_pokii on lnd for getting the answers

#the multiple ruin options was CRUEL #love nikki #putting my own ss bc theirs was in french

[fullcravings]

Healthier French Toast

#healthier #healthy #french toast #food #breakfast #dessert #kids #baking #recipe #dairy free option #dairy free #thecookiedoughdiaries

[autumngracy]

Not me creeping up to the wordcount of the fourth longest book ever written

#A Reflection of Starlight #AROS #valvert #fanfic #writing #Hey I switched back to LibreOffice again after setting up my new computer #(RIP my old computer's installation of MS Office 2009) #And also my old computer in general as it is now giving me the blue screen of death upon boot #but ANYWAY #does anybody know how to make LibreOffice stop highlighting formatted areas? BC with Dark Mode it's highlighting white text #which makes it impossible to read my footnote and page numbers #Also I CANNOT believe this program was coded to be so that 'Ignore' and 'Ignore All' options only do so for the CURRENT SESSION ONLY #Like what in god's name??? #I spent 3-4 hours reformatting AROS after converting it only to learn that all the 'errors' I told it to ignore just popped back #the second I reopened the document like jesus christ #Why even offer those options if it doesn't do it permanently for that document file #HHHHHHHhhhhhhHHHHHH #I then spent another several hours being forced to change the language formatting to French for all the French bits #JUST so it would stop underlining all of them in red #And there's no way for me to get rid of the underlining on things like cut off bits of dialogue #bc they are NOT proper words and I refuse to add them to my Dictionary (thus polluting it) just to get rid of them #Ugh #So anyway remember years ago how I joked about what if I accidentally wrote a fanfic longer than the source material itself #That being one of the longest books ever written (technically THE longest book ever written #if we're counting the FRENCH version of it and not the English translation #And yeah I know I technically split AROS into 3 books but that was only for reader convenience #It's still one book in my heart #And also because I think it would be REALLY funny to surpass Hugo's wordcount #Which is entirely plausible bc in English it was only about 531k so I only a little over 100k off and I think I can easily make that #with the material I have left to write but is already mostly plotted out

[barbaroux]

i made a frev picrew after three sleepless nights!! i hope yall like it :) and if theres anything you want me to add or if something's happening that shouldn't be happening please please please let me know :D

and here's me in all my unyassified glory :')

feel free to add yours below!!

#impulsively posting this without checking for mistakes is something im gonna regret next morning #i spent way too much time and effort adding as many clothing/hair options and all the color variants #and the menus still look so empty :// #im pretty sure i missed some too idk anything about frev fashion #frev #art #art tag #picrew #french revolution #history

[sexygaywizard]

The thing about being a lyric mezzo-soprano is that a lot of the available roles are crossdressing male "pants roles" but I am really shit at butching it up so I am constantly portraying just the faggiest of men

#is ''me voici dans son boudoir'' not like a really faggy song though. honestly maybe i just think that because it's french #ooh look at me i'm in a boudoir. ok faggot #my only other option is to play it like a heterosexual creep which i am incapable of #i talk

[oifaaa]

If you had to choose to go on a date with Lois lane, poison ivy, Harley Quinn, or catwoman. Who would you choose

Lois Lane tho sadly I don't think she'd enjoy it much considering she has superman at home and how the fuck am I meant to compete with that

#ask #anon #but also these options arnt great #im gonna end up dead with either ivy or harley #or robbed by selina #at least lois will treat me right the one night i have her #also side note funny story #you know that anon from yesterday #turns out it may have been multiple anons all in one anon trench coat #as i have now had a couple douzen asks all claiming to be french anon #and a good few of them have been contradicting the others #also with one in particular whos just been sending me pick up lines

[malevolententity]

with my own various language learning experiences both in and out of school it got me thinking! if youre a non-native english speaker, did you learn any english in school? what version?

i wonder just because when i was in school we had the option of a few languages and one of them was german but specifically we learned high german, not low german. and it got me wondering, if english was offered as a language in your school are you told what version youre learning or do you just figure it out after speaking with native speakers?

reblogs are appreciated! sound off in the tags with anything else you feel like!

#polls #i never took the french or spanish options we had but i can assume based on what i remember friends saying it was france french #and spain spanish despite living on east coast USA where most spanish speaking peers spoke puerto rican or cuban spanish

[alabamyright]

decided to make a poll on this because a lot of people i’ve met in the fandom thought that sparks originated in england thinking that ron and russell were london boys instead of los angeles boys. in fact, it is common enough to the point that even sparks has addressed it multiple times and in the sparks brothers even the english celebrities being interviewed thought they were from their own country.

i myself thought that they were british especially since the only pics i saw of them were from 1974. 1974 probably causes people to mistake them for british since they did have a british backing band in the island years. but yeah i wanna know how many people thought they were british or american. took me months to process they were american even hearing their american accents and everything lmao.

#sparks #russell mael #ron mael #sparks band #also i only saw pics of them at first in 1974 #i thought they were british looking at first with their pale skin and delicate clothes #along with glam rock and new wave being more associated with brits #and yes what i mean by the french option is that i saw someone on a forum saying they thought ron and russell were french #probably because of the les rita collab #discuss

[fruity-arsonist]

In one of my lectures, I overheard a large group of people talking about miraculous, and they were having a debate about whether or not Chat Noir was a furry, so naturally I have to ask.

#also i feel i should mention some of the arguments they were using #one of the girls was very avid that he is a furry #she was about to die on that hill #this one guy was like #he isn't a furry he's just french #which is why i added the last 2 options #i think he's a furry #idk he says meow a little too often #miraculous ladybug #adrien agreste #chat noir