#Conjugal Rights

[smarthily]

For @sherlockchallenge​​ August prompt LANGUAGE

A bit of German in SHERLOCK

{Translation: Sherlock: Please! Tourist: What does he want? Tourist: Hey, you! What are you doing? Sherlock: Minute! Tourist: Give me my book back!}

[yuujoh]

things that seto kaiba is almost certainly bad at:

singing

playing literally any kind of instrument

learning languages (i will concede that he can read and write well in "business" languages like Chinese or English but a uvular r would kill him and also you can speak well enough to get through a meeting but that doesn't mean you're conversationally adept!!!)

dancing (a man with negative rhythm)

casual conversation

picking his own outfits

speaking in an inside voice

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

you are already booped

[theamazingmaddyas]

I'm just a teensy bit extra, because I've become obsessed with the fake twitter makers, and now I have entire tweets from Bianca in Italian.

I don't speak Italian. I took it for three years in high school but my teacher wasn't great and I learnt diddly squat. I don't know why I decided fake tweeting entirely in a language I don't speak was a good idea, but I spent hours earlier this afternoon on the English to Italian dictionary (because google translate is not it).

Translation (if I Italianed properly)

Bianca: I will not give up until we find Artemis.

Zoe: Lady Artemis would be proud of our newest member.

Bianca: Thank you! I will make Lady Artemis proud of me

Nico: Please stay safe. Percy will help you, if you need.

Bianca: I'm fine. Besides, Zoë will help me.

Nico: Okay, I miss you a lot.

Bianca: I miss you too <3

[padfootastic]

#but he still had access to dumbledore and mcgonagall at the very least#and clearly he never tried to visit sirius to get answers //

AND ALSO! If I were Remus Lupin and one of my best friends got one of my other best friends and his wife killed after which he went and killed my other other best friend (and a bunch of muggles)... I personally feel like I'd want to be at the trial you know? Look him in the eyes as he gets told that he is going to spend the rest of his life miserable in torture prison. Or at least I would want to read about the trial or the sentencing or who voted for him to go to prison etc etc. I'd want to know SOMETHING. And quite famously... there was no trial.

(I'm not even sure if anything other than 'SOME TODDLER KILLED YOU-KNOW-WHO??? (also his parents are dead now)' made the news? Do we know if those pictures of a laughing Sirius were ever even published before or if they were just mugshots that the Aurors had and now that he escaped they released them?)

I honestly cannot believe that Remus wouldn't ask someone, whether it's by writing the Ministry or Dumbledore or literally anyone else from the Order, about the trial and the sentencing. Did he not at least want to make sure Sirius got a life sentence if he did fully believe that Sirius killed them all? Like??

that headline help 😭😭😭 i need that asap. it has to be brought into reality, it’s entirely too hilarious not to be.

and anon yes! truly, sirius’ entire arc is SUCH a glaring plot hole like. with the amount of emphasis given to his betrayal in PoA, the foundation of it is so shockingly weak? a while ago a few others had chimed in and there was a fascinating discussion going on here but it extends out to dumbledore also like if ur the self proclaimed leader of the opposing faction and one of ur (maybe?) inner circle men is outed as a spy, would u not try and get more info out??? not find out how much they gave away??? sirius knew people, did none of them want answers or vengeance or revenge or closure or anything????

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

I have taught an entire discord server the German word for pussy. This has awoken the desire to learn German in at least one person, who has been speaking in full sentences and with passable pronunciation after only half an hour.

Santa is skipping my house this year, but damn if I'm not impressed.

[trilliath]

like okay i realize that "subject" is probably the appropriate noun to use as a result of the verb "subjugate" but like. The word subject has become so weakened in connotation as like "the subjects of the kingdom" or just like "the subject of the sentence"... you know? like the verb is intense but the noun itself is tepid and I need a noun and my brain was like... "subjugants"! and I'm like. That's not a word but.

fuck it i'm writing incredibly self-indulgent fanfiction, i'm making up words and nobody can stop me

[klein-klaus]

//genq; how old is your muse? :O bc klein klaus means little klaus, which makes me assume its a child? then again the lore posts don't imply anything of the sorts.

Klaus is mid-40s.

Honestly I chose the name klein-klaus because my German is super limited and I don't know any other alliterative words that makes sense and I'm bad at names.

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

unpopular language learning opinion but i love learning verb conjugations

[mochayoubi]

been a lil while but ヴァンパイア update- sasaki tells miku she doesnt have any friends and miku is like "i TOTALLY have friends" (she does not)

vocab on this page:

毎日（まいにち）- every day 懲りずに（こりずに）- without giving up 俺（おれ）- I (masculine) 家（いえ）- house 来る（くる）- to come 玄関先（げんかんさき）- entrance; front door 帰る（かえる）- to return (home) 寝る（ねる）- to sleep 自撮り（じどり）- selfie 飯（めし）- meal 親しい（したしい）- close (friend, relative, etc.) 友達（ともだち）- friend 以外（いがい）- except for; other than 知る（しる）- to know

[frecklenog]

nobody:

me, disabled, and with special interests in both worldbuilding and disability accommodations, history, and advocacy: i wonder what kind of disabilities existed on gallifrey. would regeneration reset an autoimmune disorder, or would it follow through to their next form? can they regenerate into a body with an autoimmune disorder? is it there to stay once it hits?

what about limb differences? if gallifreyans can regenerate limbs (at the very least within the first 15 hours of regeneration, as seen in the christmas invasion), would that mean the majority of limb differences on gallifrey would be congenital? would a gallifreyan be encouraged to regenerate regardless of threat to their life after an amputation, or has gallifrey moved past that sort of ableism? (probably not, since fifteen's tardis being wheelchair accessible (or, the entrance, since the ramps within seem pretty steep) is considered remarkable by wheelchair user and unit agent shirley anne bingham. plus, from a doylist perspective, dw is very much a product of its various times, being a universe that started development in the early 60s.) would regeneration ""fix"" (heavy airquotes on that) such limb differences? is it possible to regenerate into a body with a limb difference? what sort of adaptive devices are/were there on gallifrey for those who either can't regenerate because they're very close to or at their regeneration limit, or simply choose not to do so?

a lot of these questions also apply to neurological disorders and injuries, too, if you change the wording a bit. tremors, chronic pain, weakness, paralysis, mobility issues, those sorts of things.

and are their blind gallifreyans? (if so, the doctor clearly didn't spend enough time around them.) deaf/hoh gallifreyans? similar questions there, too! (written gallifreyan language already makes my head spin, personally, but i'm intrigued by the idea of how they might go about designing an equivalent of braille! and i'd bet money that gallifreyan sign would include words and phrases that humans wouldn't think to consider, just like any other language. but then, why doesn't the tardis's translation matrix recognize and automatically translate british sign language, as we see with cass's signing confusing clara in before the flood?)

further, what about potential disabilities with no human analogue that relate to the regeneration process itself-?

my parents: hang on. slow down. what the fuck are you talking about

[teh-nos]

thanks to the sort of gossipy history i tend to read i know entirely too much about the grounds on which i could get out of the unhappy medieval european marriage that i am not and never will be part of.

[skiddo-xy]

Learning Italian right now for me is super trippy since I already speak French fluently which means I don't really know what I actually know

[thymeisasocialconstruct]

Luke’s puzzle solving line is ‘je crois que c’est bon’ and ‘est-ce que c’est la bonne réponse?’

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

No better way to try and practice japanese than by coming up with silly (extremely simple) dialogue to get my favs to say to each other

[jesuisgourde]

Does anyone have any thoughts/opinions on a (free) language learning site that isn't just a mindless game like DuoLingo?

I want to try and relearn Spanish after like 15+ years of not using it at all. But I just tried duolingo and I remember just enough Spanish that I know I won't be able to learn anything from it because it doesn't actually *teach* things.