#but I can only speak English

[coochiekrab]

I think it’s crazy that teachers are reporting that students in middle and highschool are like straight up illiterate until i think about how many times in my college classes 3 years ago i peer reviewed a fellow students essay that literally was just “hello my name is Firstname Lastname and today i am writing to you about (course material) (writes a summary on what they wrote instead of engaging with the material and answering questions) thank you for reading my essay”

#like this isn’t new #like idk. yes im fully aware of non native English speakers and barriers in education but #i just don’t get how people who can speak perfect English cant *write* in perfect English either when the only language they speak IS #ENGLISH….! #we spend all fuckimg day on our phones and yet they just can’t read? they can’t write? what the hell is going on

[skunkes]

#prefacing this with I Know Spanish. i cant not know spanish‚ my parents don't speak english #but im the only one of my siblings that didnt get to go to school over there 🇲🇽 (just pre school) #adn the thing is like. my siblings wld talk to me in eng of course #(if they talked to me at all! what do u say to a baby when you're 9 12 and 15 yrs older.) #and my parents wld similarly jst not talk to me? i did not have conversations with them from birth to now lol. #thjere is something about how like. my sisters kids are also learning the languages at the same time #but when they mess up in spanish theyre corrected‚ by my sister (their mom)‚ my other sister‚ my parents #why not Me. why wasnt that extended to Me as a child... #the same reason I have the least amount of baby pictures while my siblings all have one full book each i bet #the same reason why my and my eldest sister are 15 yrs apart LOL #igts so crazy to me. i hate mentioning this bc people assume #im one of those ppl who isnt fluent bc their parents speak english and spanish and never taught them #my parents dont speak english❗❗❗❗ #my nephew thats older than me who is my fave family member and also only speaks spanish #is coming up on sunday idk that i can fully carry convo with him! #pure spanglish bc i didnt grow up having convos in it writing it reading it #thats why im so desperate to read books in spanish now. im so deeply ashamed #igts so crazy. i hate it. #saw a comment on smthng the other day thats like ''idk how u can have parents that only speak spanish and not know it lol'' #well can you take a guess. can u take a guess as to how that would happen via interactions. lack thereof. #idk why but its even more embarrassing this way. genuinely how cld u not know...? #its like i was born to feel isolated from my family in every single way...youngest by so many years #the language thing. the Hates Eating thing. the trans thing. most severe failure to launch #im so embarrassed to be alive....! #and i dont belong anywhere. and i am Alone wherever I am. #abandoned by direct and distant relatives. ancestors.

[svtskneecaps]

i should be sleeping but i do want to reiterate how much i love that our collective fan community and also the streamers are constantly like, so new members when? new language when? a teaser drops and we're all like germans???? german time????? asiatic language time??????? new faces??? new friends?? new communities????

i've said this before but it just constantly makes me feel all warm n fuzzy to see it. i'm really happy we're all so excited and united in this.

#qsmp #shut up vic #block game brainrot #this was also why purg2 was great for me specifically #like goddamn was that such a chance for me (and others) to meet streamers in an accessible setting #i only really speak english and half french so this was the first time i actually got to watch any aldo and understand more than every like #tenth word out of his mouth lmfao i get SO LOST #also was extremely fun bc goddamn for a while i rly thought i just Did Not Understand French #bc hearing the qsmp french speakers i'm like. damn. i'm lost. i get lost after like a sentence or two idk i'm so bad at understanding them #but dude holy shit i had kenny on while i did work fully like 5 ft from my phone and i was FOLLOWING #I WAS KEEPING UP???? LIKE THAT WAS INSANE so shoutout kenny for speaking french i can understand i rly appreciate the confidence boost #anyway i hope hope hope to see new members soon yesyes #be it purg2 returners (i have my wishlist but the wishlist does have Everyone soooo i win) or a new language!!! OR MULTIPLE 🙏 WOULD BE NEAT #i have said before that i think it would be fun if they drop two+ languages in at the same time #have the new languages work together to do puzzles and get used to the translations before dropping the full force of like #20-30 odd streamers who are unbelievably loud and extremely excited to meet them #would mayyyybe mitigate some of the french arrival where everyone DESCENDED on them and it was SO LOUD lmfao #anyway i will now sleep it just makes me happy to see everytime i see it #i'm excited to meet (hypothetical) everyone too <3

[autistic-katara]

mutuals do any of u wanna learn ur country’s native language that u dont know bcz of THE FUCKING ENGLISH and then force those guys to speak it as payback with me?

#i will be learning gaelic #(ngl i’m not even sure if its spelled like that or if thats only the way u spell the irish one thats pronounced gay-lick not gah-lick) #(but whatever) #but yk u can learn whichever one shouldve been ur native language #idk on an anti-english kick today #i hate that rhats the only language i speak #my scottish/jewish ass shoukd be speaking hebrew and gaelic rn #ryan shut the fuck up

[quecksilvereyes]

dialogue "i’ve seen greatness in you." for a lil lucy 👀

Little Lucy Pevensie comes back from the country a film that has been left in the sun for days. Perhaps forgotten. Her edges are smudged and her skin is overlit. Her eyes sit, deep dark channels, where once shone all the joy a little girl could fit behind her eyelids. As paper draped over a wooden frame and set alight, little Lucy Pevensie sits in her chair -

And waits.

Her nails are bloody. Her eyes are rimmed red. When she opens her mouth, out come words no one understands, torn open on the blades of her teeth. She frowns.

She tilts her head. When she smiles, there is an afterimage, as a film that was left exposed for too long. Here is little Lucy, chubby-cheeked and bare-faced, plucking dandelion seeds from their stem. Here is some shadow of a thing pulling human skin over razor blades, gone thin and translucent where it doesn't quite fit.

Staring at the wooden desk, fingering the knothole.

Little Lucy Pevensie does not speak when spoken to. She blinks. She frowns. She smiles. There is a scent, in the curl of her hair and in the ridges of her palms that is stronger the further the day goes on. In the mornings, it is a faint thing, as a sailor who speaks of the sea still, for years after he has left it. A whiff of salt when the wind is just right.

By the time the sun sits low on the horizon, little Lucy Pevensie smells of fish and seaweed. A cove that has been flooded for so long it retains the stink of rotten reeds and something dying still clinging onto rock even when the tide leaves it dry and salt-crusted. Algae covered floors and mussel covered walls cradling that last bit of water that can never leave. A salt crust so thick it breaks in sharp edges.

The sea boils under the afternoon sun until the tide washes back in.

Lucy Pevensie sits at her desk and waits. In the right light, her hands are forced shut and dripping white. Her collarbones scrape against her skin in an angle so wrong it hurts to look at. When she wets her cracked lips with her tongue, it is a live thing. A pier left flooded for centuries. A sunken ship.

A flash. An opened hole. One-and-two-and.

Lucy Pevensie is chubby-cheeked and bare-faced. She is youngest of four and worships her older siblings with all her little heart. She plucks dandelion seeds from their stems. Her tongue is pink as a blooming peony. The freckles on her nose are faded, and when she smiles, there are gaps in between her teeth.

"Can you understand me?", asks her teacher.

"Adam's flesh lays bare Adam's bone", says Lucy, and scrapes her fingernails over the tiny bit of bark that wasn't removed when this table was built. In a hurry, surely. "There is none other who can bare the weight."

"Lucy", says her teacher. "The apples. How many have you got if you give ten to Imogen?"

"I've seen greatness in you", says Lucy. "There will be ballads singing of the shape of your teeth when all this has turned to rubble. Are you not proud?" She tilts her head. She smiles.

On the photograph, her eyes are white with froth.

#the chronicles of narnia #tcon #lucy pevensie #narnia #narnia fanfiction #narnia fanfic #chronicles of narnia fanfiction #chronicles of narnia fanfic #tcon fanfiction #tcon fanfic #in which lucy pevensie has forgotten how to be human #in which lucy pevensie doesn't speak english #and can only sample from what a god-beast once told her when she really was just eight years old #in which lucy pevensie waits #in which lucy pevensie bides her time #hello hello hello i think this needs warnings but i cant figure them out #body horror #a little bit #lucy as a dying sea: an offering #madnessiseverything

[safewavess]

I love love love that the ccs will be forced to use the translator in order to communicate with the new ccs joining qsmp because that’s what it’s there for!!!!! it’s a translator!!! use it to translate, even if both of you are able to speak the same language!

I don’t see enough people use the translator, especially when the ccs are both able to speak (usually) english, and it’s still great that they can speak easier if they speak the same language, but the language barrier is one of the causes for the creation of the qsmp! Let the language barrier be a barrier in the first place, and let the translator do the work it was meant to do!

Let people who physically can’t speak the same language interact! It’s part of what makes qsmp qsmp, and even though it has impacted hugely just from adding people who generally create content and talk in different languages, I do think it somewhat lacks in the people speaking different languages category, because while that is true, it is also somewhat untrue in that all of the ccs can speak one of the same language (usually english), even if they’re not a natural at it!

Now, that’s not a bad thing at all! But, it does blur the speaking different languages problem that was meant to occur in qsmp. They speak different languages! Let them speak whatever language they want and let the translator do the work! Again, that is what it is there for! It is a translator! (I’m looking at you twitter)

And even if it takes a million repeats of the same sentence for someone to finally get what another person is trying to say, a hundred fuck-ups of the translation or a thousand language barrier/cultural miscommunications, again, qsmp was made for this to happen! It was made so people who come from different backgrounds and are usually unable to interact because of cultural/language barriers can interact, whether it start out negative or positive!

And I trust them (the ccs and fans) to communicate if controversy/confusion happens culturally and language-wise, and (hopefully) for the fans to not turn anything minor** into a huge drama, so I am extremely excited to see the ccs be forced into using the translator!

#I love love love when people use the translator so much like YOU CAN SPEAK DIFFERENT LANGUAGES AND STILL UNDERSTAND EACHOTHER #I just find it so fucking cool as someone who can only speak english fluently #qsmp #qsmp 2024 #I love hearing people talk in their native langauges even if I don’t understand shit it’s like woah you can speak and understand this whole #vocabulary without a second thought and I can’t??? Speak to me more in hopes that I will someday because I WANT TO #I want to learn languages so bad but I am caught between two to learn first because i cannot speak my own secondary language that more than #50% of my relatives CAN so I’m like I should learn that first but also spanish french and portuguese is RIGHT THERE and the one I should #learn first is so much harder to learn because of accessibility to lessons and just people who can teach it in general and also school lol #I’m not gonna say the language because I’m 90% sure nobody will know what it is but it is a tonal language which makes it much harder to #learn

[blitzy-blitzwing]

Blitzwing likes Husk more and more. 😎😎

#Blitzwing can speak german #he’ll do it eventually in the fic #he liked the language #my doodles #Hazformers #I think Husk might end up being his favorite by the end of the fic #hehehe #I used google translate #I only speak English #😔😔

[infriga]

Some people have been saying that live action Sanji feels a little bit more soft and endearing than manga Sanji, but they can't pinpoint why because he does still feel like Sanji. Some people think it's just Taz's acting, and he does do a great job, but I don't think that's the main reason. Others think his flirting has been turned down a bit, but honestly it hasn't really? He still openly flirts with Nami when they first meet, and he still says things like "women are a mystery to be unraveled" and other goofy simp stuff. And his kindness like being willing to feed the hungry no matter what is obviously something that was always there (it's why Luffy chose him in the first place. Hell, in the manga he chooses Sanji as his cook before he ever actually tastes Sanji's cooking, simply because he sees Sanji feed Gin and realizes what kind of person Sanji is).

But there is a difference! And I've figured out what it is, because there IS one manga/anime Sanji trait that wasn't present in live action Sanji: his hatred of men.

Live action Sanji isn't a misandrist anymore 😳

#One piece #OPLA #OPLA spoilers #Obviously it was played for jokes he wasn't like actively cruel towards men and was kind to them too #Like feeding them if they were starving #And he obviously cared about his friends #He was misandrist is a silly cartoonish way #But it did highlight the way he treated women differently from men and made his flirting and simping come across as way more over the top #In comparison to how he behaved towards women #And I think it was a smart choice because English speaking audiences are especially sensitive to that sort of thing these days #I think the only other thing that gives him a slightly different vibe #is live action can't give him heart eyes or have him do the wiggling stuff lol #So his simping feels toned down even though technically he simps a similar amount as in canon #I do think it's funny how some fans like him better in live action because of this on tumblr dot com aka the OG man hating website #Like fans who are caught up understand WHY he's hostile towards men compared to women in canon (see: WCI) #but I don't mind them leaving it out in the live action #And it isn't like an integral key to who he is as a person/character #People who were already Sanji fans knew he was their problematic little meow meow #But it's nice that live action can showcase his kind and soft side a bit more #Like that stuff is already there in canon but he's a little more tsundere about it y'know? Lol

[ramenwithbroccoli]

tbh it sucks so much we're limited by language barriers and other stuff. there are so many things and themes i'd like to mention, but only a bunch of people will understand. if a classic is written in a language different from english it's a hassle to get people from other counties to read it. sometimes it's translated without a care, sloppily, from a language that wasn't even the original one. sometimes it isn't even translated at all, left in obscurity

#this post is about wanting to talk to people here about literature but realising that nobody would know what im referencing #also translating can ruin stuff so bad. the callout in the middle is for Ferdydurke. that got its translation 24 years from the original #AND IT WASN'T EVEN TRANSLATED DIRECTLY. IT WAS TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH FROM FRENCH GERMAN AND SPANISH VERSIONS #IT GOT A PROPER ONE ONLY IN 2000. 63 YEARS. #sorry i just wish we had more diversity about the books we read. but im kind of a hypocrite aren't i #even i probably have more books in/translated from english than everything else. and i don't even live in english speaking country #eh #ramblings

[special-inchrest]

OK maybe I'll regret asking but. How do I start getting into QSMP.

#qsmp #quackity smp #I CAN ONLY SPEAK ENGLISH PLEASE MY SPANISH IS LIMITED TO ASKING WHERE THE BATHROOM AND HOSPITAL ARE #AND ORDERING FOOD (sparkling water not included)

[akindplace]

Reblog and put in the tags which languages you can speak!

#I wanted to make polls but I got anxious but then I thought about this one and got curious #i am only fluent in Portuguese and English #reblog to spread the poll so more people can answer #and put the languages you speak in the tags!

[tityre-tu-scurra]

As a (wannabe) queer polyglot it's extremely important for me to understand how pronouns work in other languages and how to use them properly, but my fussiness has arrived to the point that I have chosen my preferred pronouns even in Latin and ancient Greek

#I love learning languages and I can say I speak more or less 4-5 of them #Italian and English fluently. Spanish pretty well. Latin ermh I do my best. #ancient Greek I know the grammar very well but still don't manage to translate it. #Czech and Japanese I know the basics but I'm working on them. Czech in particular. #and overall I have a good ear so I understand the basics of Portoguese and French #but for pronouns it's difficult for me in Czech for some reason? #anyway my pronouns in Latin are illa/illam and illud/illud #while in Greek άυτή/άυτήν but only because the Σοφία is female so it's more handy #ight sorry for the long rambling #language tag #vagor dicens #pronouns

[boarcide]

Hindi songs that are so sskk core to me

“I can’t live without you now,

What is my worth without you?

If I got separated from you,

Then I’ll get separated from myself.

Because you’re the one,

Now you’re the one,

Now my life consists of you,

My peace and my pain,

You alone are my love.”

—Tum Hi Ho, Aashiqui 2

“I love/adore you so much,

A hundred times in one moment,

If you leave me and go,

I’ll just wait for my death—

Because for you I have left the universe behind,

My breath stops at you,

I want you more than anything,

You couldn’t even imagine.”

—Soch Na Sake, AIRLIFT

“Your sky, and mine,

Has become all smoke, like a dream,

Your sky, and mine,

Is spread in parts, like breaths…

Wherever you go,

You’ll find me only,

These shadows of mine are comprised in you,

I am a planet now, and you’re a planet too,

And we shall meet again,

In the world of stars now.”

—Saiyaara, Ek Tha Tiger

“You sleep in my sleep,

You cry in my tears,

There is a whisper in my thoughts,

Even if you’re not here it seems like you are,

You’re the disposition of my pain,

They are the prayers of my heart…all the ways leading back to you.”

—Galliyan, Ek Villain

#everyone should listen to these songs NEOW #Soch na sake specifically is near and dear to me. it’s a lovely song #the translations are hard to nail down especially since #a.) I’m not Indian I don’t speak Hindi I can only understand the gists of it #and b.) it’s hard to nail down the nuances of the meaning in English #but these songs are so so good and they are so sskk core #something about being one with the other like the universe meant for you to be together #bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #sskk #shin soukoku

[amphibious-thing]

The focus on they/them pronouns as the be-all end-all signifier of nonbinary gender is a painfully modern concept. If we want to engage with 18th century gender beyond the binary we have to understand it through an 18th century lens. If you want to ask the question: can we consider d'Eon nonbinary even though she socially and legally was a woman? You must also ask: how could someone exist beyond the gender binary in 18th century France and England? What did it mean to d'Eon to be a woman? How does that relate to 18th century concepts womanhood? What ways did d'Eon conform and what ways did she rebel? And is any rebellion against the 18th century patriarchal idea of womanhood a transgression of gender? And if so can we call that transgression a example of nonbinary gender?

#chevalière d'eon #and we can have all these conversation while respecting the names/pronouns/titles d'Eon used in her lifetime #in fact its imperative that we do because language is an important part of gender expression #and understanding how d'Eon used language to express her gender is part of the conversation #unfortunately I don't speak french so I can only comment from the english perspective #I'd love to hear someone who is fluent in french and knowledgeable about 18th century gender talk about the topic

[askadrianalucardtepes]

So I heard you speak Romanian and Latin....then how do you understand my English?

"...because I speak that too? And some French, Japanese and a bit of Enochian while we're at it, as well. I've spent a lot of time studying in my youth and languages were a large part of that. I don't know why you're surprised really, I do find your dialect unusual but I can understand it well enough. I won't deny I am a bit proud of my language skills too of course, I worked hard to learn so many different ones."

#Disclaimer: I only speak dutch and english and can read some latin. Pls go easy on me. #alucard roleplay #castlevania rp #alucard #ask alucard #alucard castlevania #castlevania netflix #castlevania askblog #castlevania #alucard rp #alucard tepes #adrian tepes #ask adrian fahrenheit tepes #askadrianalucardtepes

[selemina]

Let's go Crows! Caw caw! :D

#purgatory 2 #Seapeekay #G0ularte #Gabepeixes2 #Wuant #Aldo_geo #I can only understand english so I struggled to recognize who was talking when #but their pov was very chill last night! #Seapeekay got voted as leader and he is so focused on being good for his team! #Gabe doesn't speak englush so G0ularte or Wuant has been translating like a boss! #Aldo doing his thing and coming back stacked! #Wuant and G0ularte became cobblestone gods! #I hope they have fun today too!