#idiolectic

[lukaszmichal]

I’ve coined the term “philiolect”, from greek philía, “friendship,” to denote a language variety used by two particular individuals specifically within the context of their relationship.

For example my & my bf’s philiolect is based on a Polish substrate with a fair share of toki pona, Latin and Dutch vocabulary, grammatical and morphological borrowings from Ukrainian, Proto-Slavic and Polish Sign Language, and constant attempts to introduce noun incorporation into a boring-ass Standard Average European syntax.

#linguistics #sociolinguistics #philiolect #idiolect #relationship goals

[chungledown-bimothy]

what i'd give to have gotten more of caramelinda talking without being exasperated with her husband and children's shenanigans

i cannot get a good grip on her voice for the life of me, and that makes writing her so fucking difficult

#a crown of candy #caramelinda rocks #dimension 20 #the downside to having your writing process rely on thinking in the characters' idiolect #if i can't hear their voice i cannot figure out what they're gonna say #and plot and world-building gets built around the dialogue #which is perhaps not the 'best' way to write but it's how i do it

[cringesnail]

So excited for when Étoiles finally puts subtitles on his streams so that non French speakers can have mistranslations of his food and gaming opinions

#qsmp #he wants a good subtitles system but i don't think he'll ever gind one that accurately translate his idiolect #pretty sure if you're unfamiliar with gaming/ssb terms even if you speak french you lose 40% of what he's saying

[loki-zen]

Re the whole 'dude' debate: I just think (as I've noticed it in other contexts) that a lot of people have an instinctive defensive reaction to learning that they've been saying or doing something offensive/harmful when they genuinely didn't intend to.

They really shouldn't make this emotional response your problem, but at the same time, it's not evidence that they don't care - if anything, it's at least adjacent to the opposite; if they didn't see themselves as someone who is sensitive to the right issues and who says the right things, it wouldn't feel like an attack on their self-image to learn that they were wrong in this instance.

The emotional priority then becomes convincing you that they're not one of those people and seeking reassurance about their self-image, which is obviously, pretty unhelpful and not something it's all that fair to ask of you in that moment.

I don't actually have a solution btw, just the musing above.

(this post brought to you by Invisible Disabilities)

Also: it is worth remembering that moderating habitual language use is not a task of the same difficulty for everyone, although in most cases that isn't what's going on

#in my personal idiolect i use several gendered expressions gender neutrally #but aim to avoid doing so where it would implicitly gender a trans person as their AGAB #unless I know they don't mind

[grubloved]

my #1 verbal expression of affection is calling people "my ____". im not sure how it started, it just kind of happens... my girl. my love. my (firstname). my favorite thing is that when i start doing this often people will respond in kind :) its true!!!! im ur birde!!!! u are my friend!!!! we are all each other's!!!!!

#birdenest #another weird little idiolect thing i do my sister pointed out to me the othr day is that i will often make statements/ask questions #using someones name as a plural noun. like umm 'what kind of food do emilys like?'. my sister thought this was very funny bc i am treating #the persons name as like. the species of animal they are T_T akfhskfhakdj i didnt realize i was doibg this but that is definitely it... #'a feast for sadies!' 'do sadies like dancing?' #which i suppose puts calling someone 'my trinity' or whatever into perspective. u are the trinity who is mine.... #im allergic to pronouns or somethjng i keep accidentally inventing new ways to not use them or to use them wrong #um to be clear if your name is emily i will ask you 'do emilys like fireworks?'. like i am not asking somebody else this i am just asking u #about the kind of animal u are....

[aeide-thea]

unfortunate that i have such a strong rsd* response to terse replies even when objectively their semantic content is positive and contextually there's evidence to suggest the person generally likes me/enjoys talking to me 😔

⸻ * note that as ever, what i really mean by this is 'repeated social disapproval' culminating in a learned trauma response, which you could probably file under c-ptsd if you liked that language—i don't really buy that it's an ~innate characteristic of adhd~ the way i understand the tiktok+ crowd tends to argue, since i'm pretty sure i didn't experience it as a preschooler

#like if you send back 'lol' & nothing else i WILL be like 'oh ok i'm an embarrassingly unamusing dancing bear who should go hide in a hole' #(which is hard 2 do as a bear!) #because it feels like SUCH a lead balloon of a response even though in theory it's actually a thumbs-up #similarly i AM that person who like. will probably interpret a full stop in chat as disapproving #in the absence of other indicators to the contrary #& like. i know ppl have different idiolects & also sometimes terseness is about distraction and not dislike! however. what if i just 😶‍🌫️ #anyway. a general thought not prompted by any immediate interactions. #the psyche #communication

[landwriter]

Hi Gloam!

Just remembered one of your many Untitled_1 WIPs (death of translation I think?) and it made me wonder: do you know about the word “Saudade”?

In Portuguese, we can say either “I miss you” (eu sinto falta de você) or use saudade, a noun for the feeling of melancholia or nostalgia that missing someone leaves you with. Here’s a better explanation than my own:

Felt like this would be relevant to your interests :)

Virgo! First of all congratulations on the new icon. his NECK. this is VERY relevant to my interests and I'm definitely talking about the language offering right now. Saudade is familiar to me - it pops up on a lot of the classic rounds of "10 Words We Don't Have In English!" sort of thing. I'm really curious if you could give further insight on what this definition means by 'supposedly characteristic of the Portuguese or Brazilian temperament'?

Death of Translation is indeed my language fic, which has been a buck-wild endeavor to undertake because I only speak two languages, and that's if you're charitably rounding up. I am INDEBTED to many fandom friends who have given me some language gems, especially @mandolinearts who has veritably buried me in their beautiful language, and who gave me a phrase that the entire fic literally hinges around!

If anyone else would like to offer idioms in their language they think are neat; common words of soothing when someone is in distress; terms of endearment, affection, dirty talk; really anything you think is cool, I welcome u with open arms, because the bright side of being haunted by a partially-done WIP for weeks is I can KEEP STUFFING MORE BEAUTIFUL LANGUAGE INSIDE OF IT.

Just thinking of this now - but Celtic languages especially would be rad, I have none of that going on currently which honestly does not track imo. Also I love the idea of Hob being a part of the Manx or Cornish revival movements as a "second-language" speaker (spoilers he's NOT).

#asks #language i love thee so #sry gang this is a language blog now #the death of translation #the crowd sourced project of hob gadling's insane idiolect

[garden-ghoul]

when instead of doing crucial short-term activities for my wellness I am preparing elaborate and exciting future activities for fun I call this planting carob trees. eg this morning instead of eating a real breakfast I am going to make a highly involved cholent

#gratuitous personal post #yes I see I've posted about this before. but it's been awhile. I like idiolect.

[veneskaa]

Big Joel i'm sorry i watched your videos too much and now talk exactly like you.. Eventually i'll move on and you'll be unique again.... just give me some time

#i'm actually not sure how i talk as me because im an idiolectical sponge. spongebog aint got nothing on me #idk what this post is i'm sorry. really just to say i've been watching too much big joel recently and now i sound like him. rip

[engagemythrusters]

VERY important question

#you have to pick ifyou dont pick then you dont vote sorry. #'but they're the same' NO visual aspects affect taste we all know this. #also 'yellow' and 'orange' cheddar are the same thing #i dont know yet why people call it two different things i dont know if its regional or familial dialect or if its just idiolect

[kpopwerewolf]

You know, it's interesting that my sister constantly scolded me, saying that if I continued to say "blesh you" in response to people sneezing (as opposed to "bless you"), that no one would understand me.

Well, just a short while ago I said "blesh you" to my dad and guess what! He understood! Wow! It's almost like language is flexible and allows for idiolects!

#linguistics #language problems #idiolects #imagine that #so crazy #never would've guessed #it's not even like it's that hard to figure out what i'm saying #everyone has a phrase they misheard as a kid that they now repeat in the misheard manner #this is mine #deal with it #sorry for the rant

[magidoggie]

My accent in English has a feature that is probably influenced by my native language, Danish. By default I devoice all voiced stops and fricatives at the end of words. This means pairs of words like "horse/whores" and "course/cores" where the second word typically has more of a Z sound at the end, is S in my case.

You'd think this means that these sets of words sound identical, right? they're not. because my weird ass accent has a fully fledged vowel length system (probably as compensation)

course is /koɹs/ meanwhile cores is /koːɹs/ with a long o!

I've had people not be able to tell when I say write vs ride /ɹɐɪʔ/ vs /ɹɐːɪt̚/ (probably because ʔ and unreleased T sounds the same to untrained ears

my wackiest pair (actually trio) of words is horse/whores/horrors

these come out as /hoɹs/ /hoːɹs/ /hoɹːs/

a long R! what!

#doggie barks #linguistics #idiolect

[sayhelloanimalfriends]

people who hate EmmyMade (and yes they do exist i’ve seen it) are hateful and don’t love themselves

people who hate Molly Baz dislike fun and resent the wealthy

people who hate Claire Saffitz hate baking and cooking and only eat pizza flavor hot pockets that’s it

people who hate Carla Music hate fags

people who hate Adrienne Cheatham hate learning because they’re stupid and learning makes them nervous (/said with compassion)

people who hate Helen Rennie are miserable and have anger issues but they tell everyone they’re just “sensitive”

people who hate Sugarologie are lazy and unserious

people who watch the male cooks of youtube don’t matter to me and aren’t compatible with me you might as well be a Blake Sheldon fan

#i hate molly baz and helen rennie #lmao #Helen’s cool but that accent is so grating #and it isn’t the russian accent #it’s her specific idiolect #molly baz tho is annoying and out of touch and disorganized and annoying

[felagund-fiollaigean]

our boss was onboarding the new hires but he had to step out to see to an electrician. so he told us to, “mill about smartly” in the mean time

#i love this #i will be integrating this phrase into my idiolect starting today #milling about smartly #its perfect

[mumblelard]

they are the kami of spare change and little bits of bright plastic i find on the street and they dream nightly of a golden age of cracker jacks and payphones

#coin jar #magpie #horde #shiny shiny #household gods #i want to empty it out and start over but then they give me that look and i cant do it #idiolects #the thing about dying that no one ever talks about #the thing about harry #the thing about jellyfish #the thing from another world #the thing #i want to be a turtle when i grow up #coins #change #be the spare change and colorful bits of plastic you want to see in the world #darn tough #shelves #landing zone #landing on mars #legacy #legless #north fulton county #georgia #end of message

[aeide-thea]

[as per my prev post]

#unclear why my aunt didn't rate a mention here—one suspects some degree of childish sexism but who knows really!! #juvenilia #(also i've censored my deadname but you should probably know that (a) i was going by the full formal form of it at the time #and (b) the blacked-out bits look like that because i'd split it haphazardly onto two lines without even a hyphen) #(honestly big respect for young K's decisively idiolectic approach there)