#it’s the same number of syllables

[anonymousdandelion]

The fundamental difference between Fiddler on the Roof and Fidler Afn Dakh:

English Tevye: Tradition!

Yiddish Tevye: Got iz a foter un heylik iz zayn toyre!

#cannot stress enough that there was a literal translation with the exact same number of syllables readily available!! #sometimes lyric changes are necessary in translations for reasons of rhythm or rhyme #but in this case the translator just went #'oh you want this song in Yiddish? then I'm afraid you'll have to deal with some more Yiddishkeit in it too' #and i'm so glad of it #dandelion says #fiddler on the roof #yiddish #yiddish fiddler on the roof #jumblr #jewish dandelion #I really need to get fluent in Yiddish so I can follow all of the lyrics

[identityfilm]

GRETA GILL 🤝 CHLOE BEALE tall redheads choosing their short brunette gfs

#alotoedit #wlwsource #royalarmyofoz #filmedit #greta gill #chloe beale #pitch perfect #a league of their own #a league of their own 2022 #ppedit #this is my humble offering to the tall redhead gf fandom #could nottttt stop thinking about this ever since i finished the aloto episode #they fucking have the same number of syllables #coincidence i think NOT #parallels #soy #all #gifs

[twiafom]

cannot believe kai was dealkamatized........... if i find out robin's non hijack name is actually fred im going to fly all the way to the arctic circle and go ape mode in the 4 feet of snow in front of his house

#this is a joke robin does not have a non hijack name (L) #mine is beatrice which has the same number of syllables as the total of kai and robin #which is more proof that im superior to them and would have absorbed them in the womb #talking tag #loser trinity #cousin robin #alka L. frog #waij wait i've got it #alkai uzumaki #NAILED IT

[good-wine-and-cheese]

AKIRA au based on the biohazard fish jacket because the brainworms demanded it to exist.

If Grimmer is Kaneda in this AU I can only imagine that Roberto is Tetsuo...watching his old friend from the orphanage deteriorate into someone consumed by power

I guess Lunge would be Kei? Feels like the most likely candidate to have the power to channel psychic abilities as a medium.

#naoki urasawa's monster #wolfgang grimmer #AKIRA #my art #usefully kinderheim has the same number of syllables as akira. UNusefully it does not look as nice on one line #so I split it. uh. kinder HM. lol #it's a fun AU to think about...kinderheim experiments isnt that far off from the esper kids. so yknow

[llatimeria]

The HEEEEMIOPTERA IS THERE... inside... your mind...

SING FOR ME, MY CICANGEL OF MUSIC!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! EEEEEEEEE! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

#creature game #i dont have lore for these yet sorry #hemioptera is pronounced hem-ee-oh-ph-tera #i know the p in ptera is typically silent #but this pronunciation makes it the same number of syllables as phantom of the opera #hem-ee-oh-ph-ter-a / fan-tom-ov-dee-op-er-a #its not exact. but still

[areyoudoingthis]

what's that post about how maybe things won't be okay but you have people who love you and you'll get through it. that's how i feel right now

#just texted my friend that macri and milei have the same number of syllables so all our old march songs should work just fine #i have so many good memories of those four years even tho they were hard af #most of them involve being in the streets with thousands of people singing at the top of my lungs #or in someone's house planning our next intervention or painting signs #i took some time off to recover from the pandemic and process my transition #but it's time to go back #this is how we'll make it through #alex txt

[clear-what-i-was-seeing]

will graham? more like, gay man

#get it because it’s the same number of syllables #hannibal #nbc hannibal #will graham #hannibal shitpost #hannigram #clear posts

[starrdio]

Considering the frequency with which Flum Apricot is Not recognized in public, despite her fame as a member of the Hero's Party, even after saying her full name multiple times, it is not a stretch to compare her unique celebrity status to that of famous skateboarder Tony Hawk

#roll over and die #omae gotoki #flum apricot #flum roll over and die #they even have the same number of syllables #and the '[name] [nature noun]' structure

[agentgreenbean]

[to the tune of troy and abed in the morning] 🎶 only murders in the building 🎶

#omitb #only murders in the building #i sing this all the time #same number of syllables <3

[darklight-owl]

Sorry i had a Will Wood moment

#it has the same number of syllables can you blame me 😭 #imagine the professor listening to Will Wood lol do you think he'd like it #plvspw liveblog

[intercal]

wake me up when intercal ends

#t #same number of syllables wrong rhythm

[setaripendragon]

Born For This by The Score - in Mando'a

Ahaha, here's another one.

Technically, this is the one I started first, but let me tell you, trying to fit Mando'a into the verses of this song? Absolute Hell. It took me forever, and I'm still not 100% pleased with it, tbh.

I'll try to put together a little glossary of made up words for this one, but I genuinely can't remember all of them. I did most of the work on the chorus-y bits… uh… a year ago? Give or take a couple of months.

But here, at fucking last, is the song:

Rugot* Par'bic (Born For This)

Aalar ner brok* (Feeling my pulse) Gaanader kyrbej (Picking the battlefield) Slanar akaan tugyc (Going to war again)

Aalar kaab o'r (Feeling the sound inside) Ner haalas meg (My chest that is) An ni lini (All I need)

Kar'mir… ni rugot par'bic (Knowing… I was born for this) Kar'mir… ni rugot par'bic (Knowing… I was born for this)

Atiniir grat* (Enduring the punishment) Ner jorad kotyc (My voice is strong) Nu lise kyrdir jii (I can't stop now)

Val nu suvari (They don't understand) Ni ven nu kyrdi (I won't stop) Kay ni parji (Until I win)

Kar'mir… ni rugot par'bic (Knowing… I was born for this) Kar'mir… ni rugot par'bic (Knowing… I was born for this)

K'urmankala (Believe) Mhi lise gotal ruyot (We can make history) K'urmankala (Believe) Mhi lise mandokar (We can be mandokar)

Mhi verde meg (We are warriors who) Hibira 'muur aaray (Learn to enjoy the pain) Mhi teh birov traate (We're from many teams) A'mhi solus droten (But we are one people)

Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi rugot par'bic (Cause we were born for this) Mhi rugot par'bic (We were born for this)

Mhi shukla adate (We are broken people) Meg nau'u tracyn (Who light up a fire) Haa'tayl tracyn a'den (To see the fire rage) Cuun runise draar pel (Our souls will never be softened)

Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi rugot par'bic (Cause we were born for this) Mhi rugot par'bic (We were born for this)

Par simire (For years) Adol an aaray (Through all the pain) Ni akaani dha (I fight the darkness)

Ni ven parji (I will win) Aru ner chaab (Against my fear) Ti kot be narser (With strength of will)

Kar'mir… ni rugot par'bic (Knowing… I was born for this) Kar'mir… ni rugot par'bic (Knowing… I was born for this)

Ni nu dargana* ner jorad (I won't lose my voice) Mey ara'novo an kaab (If I ignore all the noise)

Kar'mir… ni rugot par'bic (Knowing… I was born for this) Kar'mir… ni rugot par'bic (Knowing… I was born for this)

K'urmankala (Believe) Mhi lise gotal ruyot (We can make history) K'urmankala (Believe) Mhi lise mandokar (We can be mandokar)

Mhi verde meg (We are warriors who) Hibira 'muur aaray (Learn to enjoy the pain) Mhi teh birov traate (We're from many teams) A'mhi solus droten (But we are one people)

Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi rugot par'bic (Cause we were born for this) Mhi rugot par'bic (We were born for this)

Mhi shukla adate (We are broken people) Meg nau'u tracyn (Who light up a fire) Haa'tayl tracyn a'den (To see the fire rage) Cuun runise draar pel (Our souls will never be softened)

Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi rugot par'bic (Cause we were born for this) Mhi rugot par'bic (We were born for this)

Ibic miite (These words are) Par gar kar'mir (For you to know) Mhi akaani tome (We fight together) Ke'digu trikar (Forget sadness) Bal ke'tayli (And hold on to) Gar vercopaan (Your hope)

Kar'mir… ni rugot par'bic (Knowing… I was born for this) Kar'mir… ni rugot par'bic (Knowing… I was born for this)

Mhi verde meg (We are warriors who) Hibira 'muur aaray (Learn to enjoy the pain) Mhi teh birov traate (We're from many teams) A'mhi solus droten (But we are one people)

Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi rugot par'bic (Cause we were born for this) Mhi rugot par'bic (We were born for this)

Mhi shukla adate (We are broken people) Meg nau'u tracyn (Who light up a fire) Haa'tayl tracyn a'den (To see the fire rage) Cuun runise draar pel (Our souls will never be softened)

Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi- (Cause we-) Jorc'mhi rugot par'bic (Cause we were born for this) Mhi rugot par'bic (We were born for this)

Mhi rugot par'bic (We were born for this) Mhi rugot par'bic (We were born for this)

[rugot = ru (past prefix) + goten (birth)] [brok = noun form of brokar (to beat rhythmically)] [grat = noun form of gratiir (to punish)] [dargana = dar (no longer) + ganar (to have)]

#mando'a #mandalorian language #star wars #conlanging #translation #I haaate the scansion in this one #hate hate hate #and I'm big mad about that #because this song gives me all the clones feels #and I wanted it to be riiight #but these fucking verbs are so long #and the verses! #do I use the same number of syllables? #or the amount I personally can fit into that tempo? #because that is not as many in Mando'a as I can in English #I went with 'the same or less BUT NOT MORE' #and I hope that's good enough #argh

[void-botanist]

A name joke

I did some work on swl names recently because I want to differentiate the nAkkanswl more. I already knew that in the third Akkanswl, where Derik and Wylie are from, it's common for people to have longer names in the native language and go by nicknames. So:

Dayirkitomopp -> Derik

Wanlihandomopp -> Wylie

where -mopp is a suffix that denotes their place in the sibling order. There are six vowels in Kamnswl writing, so people who have more than six kids sometimes skip the suffixes after that instead of making ones with diphthongs.

Similarly, it's tradition for the firstborn to have a particularly long name, made from some pool of significant syllables. The unspoken result of this is that the amount of syllables in a name tends to decrease with every child:

Sanistrezkimatolenandomapp (Snap) Kanakaeneleximipp (Lexie) Wanlihandomopp (Wylie) Dayirkitomopp (Derik)

Which means that in third at least there is a person who commonly shows up in idioms:

My seventh son,

#derik and wylie actually have the same number of syllables it just doesn't read that way #which is appropriate bc twins #memes #set: pajiir & delphonus #my seventh son e

[seebestattung]

ok i am still thinking about when i saw great comet and like the translation was pretty good (dust and ashes in particular) but one thing that still makes me go ??? is that for whatever reason that part in pierre where the ensemble sings 'he's charming he has no sex' is translated as 'so charmant! er hat kein geschlecht' which literally translates to 'so charming! he has no gender'. nonbinary pierre confirmed in the german translation i guess

#if you translated it literally it would have the exact same number of syllables btw. there was no reason to do this #great comet #natasha pierre and the great comet of 1812

[houselamentation]

Beetlejuice musical AU that’s just Solomon trying to make pacts

#which is a shame because LUCIFER is a more effective name to say three times in a row even with the same number of syllables but i digress #obey me #sol #1 #the bit from Say My Name that's like #MC: what was that? Sol: That was possession. Any demon can do that in less than one lesson. MC: Any demon? Sol: Any demon'll do. Sure #MC: Then Solomon. What do I need you for? #alternatively the whole thing is Belphegor being the menace he's entitled to be #these are jokes btw i love every character i mentioned

[martinmynster]

one thing that drives me insane in english is acronyms. hearing WTF said outloud... im sorry i cant take you seriously it makes no sense i hate you why do you make up acronyms aka shortcuts if you're gonna use it like that there's 2 MORE syllables to it now BE SERIOUS

#same goes for asap idk ngl etc 1) use the goddamn vowels as such PLEASE do you call nasa fucking en-ay-es-ay ?? #(once again it's supposed to be a shortcut!) #2) if there's the same number of syllables WHY??? tell me why cant you use words ?? #(ok no that part i can understand why im just being petty bc i dont like the sound of it most of the time) #rant over resuming my video <3