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[serpentface]

WARDI WRITTEN LANGUAGE (BASICS).

Couya's full name (properly 'Haidamane Couya') written formally and with common handwriting conventions.

The Wardi written language derives from earlier proto-language systems consisting exclusively of logograms without direct phonetic meaning or grammatical structure. These symbols gradually became simplified and abstracted to the point of many having little intrinsic clarity, and combined to communicate abstract concepts.

The development of a full written language did not occur independently (as very few written languages do), and its phonetic elements (namely its use of syllabograms) were largely derived the 'ancient' Burri writing system, gradually synthesized with native writing conventions, and in the contemporary forms a wholly distinct system. The language's Relatively universalized form is a very recent phenomena, developing within the past two centuries with the region's conquering/unification into a single entity.

The contemporary written language is a mixture of logograms and syllabograms. It is read from right to left and arranged in horizontal columns. The most formal variant of this system contains each character within a square outline, usually separated by a small space. This outline confers little phonetic or symbolic information beyond making distinction between syllables exceptionally clear, and can be (and often is) omitted in handwriting. The separation of words is conveyed through a narrow rectangle or line in formal contexts, and again often omitted in handwriting (instead indicated instead by a wider blank space).

The pure logograms that have been retained in this writing system tend to be those of very common words or specific concepts (most logogram characters for types of livestock, key crops, water, major body parts, etc are widely recognized and in common use). There has not yet been any attempts to fully 'formalize' the language and omit potentially unnecessary logograms, and they remain frequently used as shorthand while conveying the same semantic information.

Many of the syllabogram characters are directly derived from logograms that depicted monosyllabic words. For example, the spoken word 'gan' means 'cow', and the character for the syllable 'gan' is identical to the common logogram for 'cow'.

The name Gantoche (literally "cow-eye") could be written either fully with syllabograms as:

or through logograms as:

Both ultimately communicate the same meaning, but the former clarifies pronunciation (the words gan and atoche are contracted, it's gantoche and not gan-atoche).

It is a relatively easy written language to learn, as the pure syllabogram characters indicate their own pronunciation with little ambiguity and often have consistency to their construction (ie the character for the syllable 'man' contains most of the same elements as that for the syllable 'wan'- the dot placement in particular has indication of the vowel sounds).

The inclusion of logograms in general and many of the syllabic characters being directly imported From logograms complicates matters. These characters lack visual consistency, and can be confusing to the large swath of the public who know common logograms but not the full written language itself. Ie: the word 'ungande' meaning 'liver' will be composed of logogram-derived syllable characters for 'un' (which alone means 'hand') and 'gan' (which alone means 'cow'). Someone who is only semi-literate in common logograms may be confused at the meaning, especially since these same exact same characters may be used elsewhere on their own to indicate 'hand' or 'cow'.

One major exception to this tendency is that current religious doctrine requires established logogram characters describing God to be used in place of syllabic characters. The word for god is 'Od', and has its own unique character (as do each of the Faces, the capital F 'Face', and Its deified pronoun). The syllable 'od' [oʊd] is very common in the Wardi language, and a wholly separate character is used for the phonetic sound when it is not a reference to the deity (ie 'lion' (odo [oʊdoʊ]) does not contain the same character for God in spite of its first syllable having the exact same pronunciation). Names are a bit of a gray area (ie: the name 'Odabi' is very common and carries the meaning of 'gift/blessing from God'). Religious leadership is currently experiencing a mild schism on whether the written character for God is separated due to being wholly sacrosanct (and thus inappropriate to include in the written form of a personal name) or as more of a functional delineation of the sacred and mundane.

[castielyre]

Art nouveau buildings in the old town of Riga, Latvia

[quibblequibblol]

Auglur 🫐🏵

ok I'm gonna make more

[thegoldenscheme]

the only reason læraðr doesn’t have more content is because no one wants to spell his name. and to that i say you all are cowards. if no one else will write the fics I WILL

[thingsdavidlikes]

Sofa by glebpast

[random-jot]

John Gwynne sat down to write Shadow Of The Gods and said ‘you know what, I’m gonna really commit to using the letter “ð” in this one’

[knightofleo]

Sigur Rós | Var​ú​ð

[marketingsentimental]

[a-bee-wizard]

so i somehow missed that hatari didn't die when matti left

new guy is the guy who raps on helvíti

i guess that's fine. helvíti is the odd one out on that album as it isn't about the evils of capitalism and/or bdsm.

it's also not really a character song like 14 ár or hlauptu. it's just about hell ~in general~

it's also a song about hell that doesn't really reference the divine comedy, which strikes me as odd. hatari is honestly pretty high brow usually (their society of the spectacle bit for example).

listening to him sing spillingardans on iceland airwaves 2023 is a mixed bag for me

i think he has potential, but afaik this was his first performance as "the general" character so i HOPE most of my issues will resolve naturally as he gets used to the role

my main issue is that he yells when he should scream. matti would make noises with his throat that sounded like he ate a cheese grater before going on stage, whereas new guy has the same cadance as someone yelling homophobic slurs at a soccer game

what i think is happening is that he is using the front part of his mouth instead of using his stomach/chest/diaphragm. (<- i don't sing but i do martial arts and have lots of experience screaming and hearing other people scream)

he also doesn't really feel like a general on stage. too jumpy. more like a schoolyard bully, due to the soccer game-type yelling?

this performance specifically reminded me of chain chomps in mario. wawawawawawawa.

again, i think most of this COULD be nerves

and like he is in fact NOT matti, and ultimately that WILL mean changes.

i'm excited to hear any new material written for new guy specifically, and hear him play to his strength. mattis strength was VERY specific, so its not weird or bad or anything that he isn't able to do it as well as he did

just please don't rap. i can't deal if hatari turns fucking rap metal i CANT

im also excited to see where he takes the character of the general. mattis general was always more of a charismatic cult leader than a high ranking military officer to me. with this new guy they could play into the more militaristic aspect maybe? that could be fun. really go to town on the military cosplay bdsm vibes, lmao.

i feel like i need to hear a proper song written for him and his vocals, recorded in a studio to really pass judgement.

but i don't immediatley hate it.

???

release an EP or something, a new song? PLEASE LADS. IM DYING.

[denoriosbelt]

people really are actually mad in wayne's stream chat... lol

[noctumsolis]

Unfair how the fact that þ and ð long ago fell out of use in English, to be replaced by th, is making it harder for me to learn Arabic than it could've been because I keep mixing up ذ and ث!

[phonkwithgotjiclit]

You can’t handle the uber instincts of my uber autism.

Observe.

[twiregret]

Explorer inside Orda Cave, the biggest underwater gypsum cave in the world, Russia

[daybreaksys]

Hwat if I started writing like ðis, using þ, ð, ŋ and hw as a typiŋ quirk? Hwat ðen?

To be really honest, I find it annoying hwen I see it in ðe wild, but I sure a hell love doing it

our offline notes on paper already heavily use ðis, and it's cool ðere, ðen hwy isn't it cool online?

[gaasublarb]

Hobie's Accent Challenge/Practice

I tried to find a sentence with every english phoneme and this came up.

That quick beige fox jumped in the air over each thin dog. Look out, I shout, for he's foiled you again, creating chaos.

So here goes /)////(\ Wish I knew more IPA

Me:

ðat quick bæj fahx jəmpt in ðə ær ohver ɪch thin dahg. Look owt, aɪ showt, for hɪs fohɪld you əgin, crɪæding kæahss

Hobie:

Tha' quick bæj fox jəmpt en ðə eh ohvə ɪch thin dog. Look ow', ah show', foh 'ɪs foɪld yə əgen, crɪæ'en kayohss

[ishouldgay]

Man has one date and he’s like ‘yo want to me my kid?’ And lesbians are the uhauls ???