#Business as a Foreigner

[glryb2gd]

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Me, when someone in a Kdrama speaks English, even if they do it with a perfect American/Canadian/English accent: What is this language and what in the world did they say? goes back immediately to re-listen if there aren't English subtitles

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Did the fungi of the land during the Ordovician period get excited when the first plants started colonising the beaches? Did they get excited about the prospect of having an all new trade partner? Did they immediately welcome their alien friends with water and nutrients? Did the plants make the first move in the relationship? Were the plants glad to find that there was already someone there, to greet them? How did they make it work?

[canisalbus]

it wasn't quite a dream, but more a rambling thought as i was falling asleep, but, was a cardinal like Machete ever asked to officiate weddings? I dont even know if thats a thing cardinals would be asked to do, much less had the personal for that kind of thing, but imagine being asked by a major political hardcore catholic family to do so and only accepting because you know your secret boyfriend is also attending as a political figure and you get to almost secret pretend its your twos wedding

I'm actually not sure, I've never thought about it. He'd definitely have the full rights to officiate weddings, you don't lose the eligibility to perform sacraments when you get elevated from an ordinary priest to a bishop and then a cardinal. But I think once you get into these high positions you kind of grow out of the priestly role and spend less time doing ground-level work. I imagine that weddings of important nobles and royalty were likely presided over by bishops and cardinals.

The scenario is endearing so I choose to believe that it could've happened.

[thistransient]

紅樹林站附近 // near Hongshulin Station

[theodysseyofhomer]

pisses you off by reading lots of greek drama and loving medea the most in every translation

[clove-pinks]

A First World War propaganda piece by Harry Payne, showing a ghostly array of soldiers surrounding a sleeping man with the caption, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO GUARD THE HOMES OF ENGLAND?"

It's not unusual to see war propaganda drawing on the military glory of past generations. What makes this weird is that the artist was well-known for illustrating historical military scenes, and yet he chose to depict so many Victorian era British soldiers from after the Napoleonic Wars.

Buddy, I don't think the guy from the Anglo-Afghan War is guarding the homes of England, or the guy who put down the Indian Rebellion in 1857. The Crimean War guy is not guarding anyone's home, the guy from the Third Anglo-Burmese War is not helping you etc etc.

[rotteneldritchhorror]

Barry knows Italian and Spanish and finds learning languages fascinating, especially learning true slang

Rafe I think would rather die than listen to someone try to teach him more than a couple words cause he finds it so boring and pointless.

[mintcarus]

Revalink Week Day 3: Foreign

[lesbiancarat]

funniest story from the cheolhan live today by far was jeonghan spotting their stylists when he was out and about in japan the other day so he approached them to say hi. but since he was wearing a mask they didn't recognize him so he lowered it and one of the stylists screamed in disappointment bc she thought a handsome japanese man came to talk to them but it was just jeonghan DHFKGJ

[veerbles]

always fascinated by people's different takes on the language barrier between kaz and the ghafas.

I think my personal opinion is that kerch, being the language of the center of commerce and an overall neutral party in the war, is kind of like english - in that it's an internationally spoken language, but certainly not by everyone. considering jesper spoke it well enough to go to university in ketterdam, even though he was a farm boy, it must be pretty widespread. matthias didn't speak it until hellsgate, but he also grew up very sheltered.

inej didn't speak kerch when she was taken, so it's reasonable to assume her parents didn't either. but maybe they spoke a little of it, like in some countryside places in europe? or maybe they learnt in their efforts to find her? or perhaps they focused their efforts inside ravka, and never learnt a word of it.

it's always suspicious to me that kaz never bothered picking up ravkan, being the strategic businessman that he is. I think he wouldn't hide that ability during the ice court/van eck mission if he had it, so either he can speak very little, or not at all; if not at all, it supports the assumption that kerch is the international business language, which is why he never bothered picking up a second language.

so would the ghafas learn enough kerch to communicate? I don't doubt that using inej as a translator would frustrate kaz to no end; words are his strongest weapon, so he'd definitely put effort into being able to communicate with them. but would he learn suli? or ravkan? suli would be a more personal gesture, which he'd see as a leverage to get the ghafas to like him. ravkan would be more useful in other ways, and we know how much kaz likes having more than one reason to do something.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Two disillusioned House Republicans unloaded on their vengeful leadership for inadvertently making a hero out of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar by publicly stripping her of a high-profile committee assignment in what one deemed the "stupidest vote in the world."

The not-so-private condemnation of Speaker Kevin McCarthy's campaign to remove Omar from the House Foreign Affairs panel happened after Republicans clinched the retaliatory strike on a party-line vote of 218-211.

As they rode the elevator away from the House floor, congressional newspaper Roll Call reported that Foreign Affairs Committee GOP member Ken Buck and Republican Rep. Mike Simpson reflected on what had just transpired and decided it was a boneheaded move.

After Buck decreed it the "stupidest" political move, Simpson said the expulsion would probably make the Minnesota Democrat into a "martyr."

After airing their grievances, the pair reportedly asked those around them "not to let leadership know their thoughts."

Buck and Simpson's offices did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

The polarizing ouster only fell into place after McCarthy won over a handful of Republicans who had voiced objections to the effort — including Republican Reps. Nancy Mace of South Carolina and Victoria Spartz of Indiana — by promising to reform internal punishment procedures moving forward.

Incensed Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York denounced the entire process as hypocrisy writ large.

"Don't tell me that this is about a condemnation of anti-Semitic remarks, when you have a member of the Republican caucus who has talked about Jewish space lasers, and also elevated her to some of the highest committee assignments in this body," Ocasio-Cortez said on the floor, referring to Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. "This is about targeting women of color in the United States of America."

[clotpolesonly]

i wonder what kind of money laundering scheme the Lynches had set up, cuz ain't nobody nowhere believed that that cattle farm would make them multi millions of dollars

[jenna-louise-jamie]

it's extremely funny to think about when ben met alex again after brecon beacons. like 'oh hey it's that kid again. i'm gonna follow him around and see what he's up to. oh the kid is trying to spy on me now. i'm gonna threaten him with a gun. sike! lol got you cub.'

[godblooded]

the little kid i work with escaped the ukraine two years ago. my family immigrated in the 50s/60s to escape the turkish occupation in my papou’s village in greece. and it is both immensely heartbreaking and also insanely healing to help someone the way my grandparents weren’t helped when they got to this country.