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20.11 // I took exactly 2 pictures in Amsterdam but in my defense I was busy having a great time!

I went to see Hannah Gadsby live and in color with @dutch-polyglot which was just as amazing and wonderful and brilliant as we could've wished it to be!!! They're an amazing comedian and even better at structuring their set for maximum impact. Woof indeed! I still don't know whats up with whales but maybe this is one of life's big questions we'll never get closure on. I also bought two books I have been eyeing for some time because is it really a trip if you don't buy a book somewhere else?

I should definitely be writing my term paper instead of scrolling on tumblr though....someone save me from my impending deadlines... the adhd displacement activity for "term paper writing" is going strong, I started doing a task I'm procrastinating since February.

background music to drown out the train: Like the moon - GAHO

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book from the sky (tianshu) xu bing, 1989-91

I was so excited to see a copy of this in real life bc it's something I studied in art history. this is a book that was typeset and printed by hand using wooden blocks but every one of the characters was invented for the sake of the piece and does not correspond to any word in the Chinese language

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thoughts? (also, i love your blog! i followed you a little while ago and when i had to download praat for my first ever linguistics class this fall i was very excited to see the beautiful logo in the wild)

BRAAT?!

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hii! current linguistic student here! do you have a suggestion on how to write IPA symbols? i usually (and stupidly) copy and paste from the IPA chart, but it takes way to long 😩

im not very practical with computers and softwares and stuff like that. help is needed

very nice and cool blog btw! <3

there are a number of downloadable IPA keyboards for different operating systems - unfortunately i got mine like a decade ago and can't remember its name now.

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do it scared do it bored do it in your target language

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Short English post to spread the word!

Did you know that there is a network of Irish speaking discord servers that is, while currently not as active as the average english speaking server, has well over 100 people in it's servers? The goal of this project (known as the "Gaelspás") is and has been to create an irish speaking space on discord, for irish speakers. If you have any irish at all, perhaps we might be worth checking out! Curious what servers we have? Well: Sciortaí agus stocaí - Server focused on fashion, LGBTQ topics, and more, with the server focusing more on the feminine side of things Amhráin na dTonnta - Ever wanted to talk about music in irish? This is the server for that! Éirenime - Anime discussions, but in Irish and Japanese! (Yes, the only bilingual server thats in Irish, but doesnt speak english!) Túr Ghaeil Ghlais - Conlanging, but in Irish! All these servers can be found in our linktree!

And while you check those out, if you could share this post, do, it helps us out alot in creating one a space online in Irish, for Irish speakers!

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16|09|2024

I spent the weekend at a lotr themed b&b with my mom, and now I want to build my own hobbit hole. The joy of hopening a round door. It was so good. It was so cool kinda litteral bc at night it got super cold but thankfully we had a bunch of blankets. I didn't get much reading done, but I have started the return of the king, and I am so ready for this final section to the adventure. I am enjoying this reread so much. I should also take a moment of appreciation for my mom, bc she is honestly up for any random thing I suggest we might do together, and we had such a lovely time in the past two days. I am looking forward to more future weekends of adventuring together and exploring new places, we make great travel buddies and that's a great way to spend quality time together.

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Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

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How To Romanticise Language Learning

TL = Target Language

Buy a new folder, highlighters and journal all in a specific colour for your TL

Find a drama/series to fall in love with

Create music playlists for different moods (e.g. aggressive rap/upbeat pop/sad songs/old classics)

Cook a traditional meal from the country of your TL

Make a summary sheet of some big historical event that shaped the country of your TL

Learn about the traditional dress (and colour significance) from your TL country

Compose a song in your TL

Research into famous art from your TL country (e.g. Japanese Irezumi) and try to recreate it in a sketchbook

Find a classic tale written in your TL (e.g. War and Peace in Russian)

Make an aesthetic Pinterest board that summarises your TL

Research into classic architecture built in your TL country

Designate a special area to study your TL (and make that area minimalist/pretty)

Make an aesthetic Pinterest board about travelling to your TL country

Write a poem in your TL

Write a short story in your TL

Keep a diary in your TL

Find a favourite YouTube channel in your TL

Write up a list of reasons why you're learning this TL and pin it up on the wall (read whenever you need motivation!)

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This year some of my favourite books I read were written by indigenous American authors and I just wanted to shout out a couple that I fell in love with

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

Horror being my second most read genre, I did not think books could still get under my skin the way this one did lol. It follows four Blackfoot men who are seemingly being hunted by a vengeful... something... years after a fateful hunting trip that happened just before they went their separate ways. The horror, the dread, the something... pure nightmare fuel 10/10

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice

An apocalyptic novel following an isolated Anishinaabe community in the far north who lose contact with the outside world. When two of their young men return from their college with dire news, they set about planning on how to survive the winter, but when outsiders follow, lines are drawn in the community that might doom them all. This book is all dread all the time, the use of dreams and the inevitability of conflict weighs heavy til the very end. An excellent apocalypse story if you're into that kind of thing.

My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

This book follows Jade, a deeply troubled mixed race teenager with a shitty homelife who's *obsessed* with slasher movies. When she finds evidence that there's a killer running about her soon-to-be gentrified small town, she weaponises that knowledge to predict what's going to happen next. I don't think this book will work for most people, it's a little stream of consciousness, Jade's head is frequently a very difficult place to be in, but by the last page I had so much love for her as a character and the emotional rollercoaster she's on that I had to mention it here.

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger

Taking a bit of a left turn but this charming YA murder mystery really stuck with me this year. Elatsoe is a teenage girl living in an America where myths, monsters, and magic are all real every day occurrences. When her cousin dies mysteriously with no witnesses, she decides to do whatever she can, including using her ability to raise the spirits of dead animals, to solve the case. The worldbuilding was just really fun in this one, but the Native American myths and influence were the shining star for me, and the asexual rep was refreshing to see in a YA book too tbh

Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

The audiobook, the audiobook, the audiobook!!!! Also the physical book because formatting and illustrations, but the audiobook!!! Tanya Tagaq is an Inuit throat singer, and this novel is a genre blending of 20 years worth of the authors journal entries, poetry, and short stories, that culminates in a truly unique story about a young girl surviving her teenage years in a small tundra town in the 70s. It is sad and beautiful and hard but an experience like nothing else I read this year.

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Most english orthographic reforms fail because they're trying to make the language better when they should be making it worse. In pursuit of that idea, starting in fall 2024 we're adding six new letters to make reading harder.

1. Reverse P

Completing the b-d-p rotational cycle and causing confusing with g and q (the hook on the q is now mandatory).

2. Lower i

Uppercase is a lowercase i and lowercase is an even lower i.

3. Left bracket

For it's hard work over the years, [ is being promoted to the alphabet proper. Lower case is a reverse h. Fuck right bracket.

4. Long M

Just like a regular M but two of the legs keep going. Long M is a vowel in all cases that Y isn't.

5. Reverse X

Like X but in reverse. To tell the difference we're adding these little curls to X, so regular X now looks like this

6. Reverse F

Uppercase is a reverse F, lowercase is an upside down v. Fuck you is why.

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🍡 osaka + kyoto findings

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august 13th, 2024 || what’s in my gallery: law school off season edition

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Fully into one of the hardest weeks of this internship, but managing so far, and also sort of having fun! 😅

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are there any youtube channels you like watching for japanese studies?

Yeah I have some recommendations. I break my language stuff into study purposes and entertainment purposes. So channels I watch explicitly for studying and reviewing grammar rules and note taking and channels I watch for fun and laidback listening practice.

Because I think a mixture of both are pretty important for my own progress. Sometimes I am in the mood to study and other times I can't really bothered whether it be because I'm busy or lazy.

Study Purposes

Miku Real Japanese

Japanese Ammo with Misa

Mochi Real Japanese

YuYu Nihongo (this channel is specifically for learning Japanese through Spanish though)

YuYu Nihongo Podcast

Entertainment Purposes

Honestly, just about anything or anyone will do in this section as long as you find someone you like personally. But here are some stand out channels I enjoy watching/listening to.

じんむ - ACNH youtuber primarily but you'll see her playing other games like the Suika game.

マフィア梶田と中村悠一の「わしゃがなTV」 - a channel ran by Mafia Kajita and Nakamura Yuuichi (JP voice actor for Gojou Satoru, Gray Fullbuster, Sohma Shigure in Furuba 2019). They do a lot of things related to card games, video game streams, and things like that. They usually have JP subtitles on the screen.

梶裕貴 - the channel ran by Japanese VA Kaji Yuki (Eren Jaeger, Todoroki Shouto). I love when he plays visual novels he voices in, he's pretty hilarious.

ひかりん♂🍡- now these aren't actually the JJK VAs but people who are mimicking the voices. But they're pretty fucking funny and they play in character, so I enjoy watching their content. They have shortform and long form videos for your amusement. Usually they have JP subtitles on the screen.

良平は酒飲みながらゲームしたい。- Kimura Ryohei's (HQ Bokuto, Childe from Genshin, that blond dude from Kuroko no Basket) official channel. He's been streaming a lot of Genshin lately.

Tbh a lot of VAs seem to have channels, so I'd try looking them up. These are the ones that I've been watching most lately or tend to get a lot of notifs for.

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my cause of death will be "editing"