#ENGLISH IS SO RIDICULOUS

[jezebelgoldstone]

source link & id under the cut & in alt.

okay but this begets within me two burning questions:

so like... what do gondi-speakers say? do they say it's neuter or feminine?

WHY THE FUCK DOES DUAL EXIST IN ENGLISH????

[id: screenshot of a page from a book. text reads: "The Noun. Gender.-The masculine gender in Gondi is used simply for the names of males: all other objects may be spoken of as neuter or feminine. It is difficult to decide under which name non-masculine nouns should be grouped; if the language be viewed from the stand-point of its neighbour, Hindi, they should be called feminine, but as one of the Dravidian languages it is more natural perhaps to view them as neuter.

Number.-There are two numbers, singular and plural: dual does not exist in Gondi." end id.]

screenshot from gondi grammar and vocabulary, public domain, .pdf download available here: https://digital.soas.ac.uk/RB00000065/00001

[mordredpendragon]

obviously i have my biases, but i'm just curious.

a bunch of knights go through grail quest, but what i want to know is your preference for the GRAIL HERO specifically. bonus points if you tell me why!

as a refresher, here's all of the relevant texts they show up in and undergo grail quest

Percival

Peredur (Welsh) Y Seint Greal (Welsh) Perceval + Continuations (French) Parzival (German) Parceval (Norse) Perchevael (Dutch) Prose Perceval (Middle English) Perlesvaus (French) Merlin and the Grail by Robert de Boron (French) Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory (Middle English) The Quest for the Holy Grail (Vulgate) (French) The Quest for The Holy Grail (Post-Vulgate) (French) La Tavola Ritonda (Italian)

Galahad and Bors

Le Morte D'Arthur by Thomas Malory (Middle English) The Quest for the Holy Grail (Vulgate) (French) The Quest for The Holy Grail (Post-Vulgate) (French) La Tavola Ritonda (Italian)

Gawain

The Crown by Heinrich von dem Türlin (Diu Crône) (German) Perlesvaus (French)

Lancelot and Arthur

Perlesvaus (French)

links are supplied by the Arthurian Preservation Project!

[notbecauseofvictories]

also just in general, I highly advise being curious about words. recently I read "obloquy" for the first time (n. abusively detractive language or utterance; calumny) and before that I looked up "catface" as it pertains to historical logging (n. slang, for the shape of the cuts made for sap harvesting); just recently I looked up "plebiscitary" to confirm it did mean what I thought it meant, plus "oculogyric" purely because it so delighted me to say aloud. words are neat.

[rocketbirdie]

i see it's that time of the year again where people start hating on the english localization of remake/rebirth despite having next to no understanding of how large scale translation projects work 🙃

[faygos]

Your art style is so cool and fun I love the colors and the silliness that shines through it always makes me so happy !! <3 Thank you for your art

I don't know if you care much for the ship or if you're still doing requests (no worries if not!) but if you are can I put in a request for some dirkjake please (again no worries if not, just ignore this and know your art brings a smile to my face no matter what!)

thank you for your kind message!! i've been wanting to doodle these two. i like to think that dirk is tall and fast, but jake is way stronger and could probably throw him like an orange javelin

[blueskittlesart]

is detcon actually good

no <3 hope this helps

[hotwaterandmilk]

Series: Himitsu no Mori no Majutsushi wa Nodoka wo Negau Artist: Tsurusawa Tsutako Publication: ‘Himitsu no Mori...' manga volumes (08/2023) Details: Animate paid bonus booklet (with dual volume purchase) Source: Scanned from my personal collection

[meeeeeeeep78]

a more or less visual timeline of my brainworms over the last 2 months,,,, insertdisc5 what have you done to me

(Spoilers left right and centre)

[thatsbelievable]

[celestial14]

tbhx ep 3 came out, time to lose my mind for a bit

the beginning made my heart hurt. not sure entirely why, but one big reason was realizing that Firm Man couldn't kneel all the way down to receive the red stole was because the trust system didn't allow him to...augh. and then the reveal that wolf girl was actually the girl he saved...AUGH.

and it's not like he can't physically bend down, most people can unless they have a physical condition, but he didn't. it was something his 'trust' psychologically changed within him that didn't allow him to. but when his 'shackles' break, he was able to fall, which maybe also symbolized his freedom from hero society? I wonder if that even after he retires as a hero, and Wolf Girl retires from being a villain, if their trust and fear values still remain, just at lower levels, and how that will affect their new futures.

also, I noticed in the flashback of Firm Man saving the little girl, that it wasn't in his style, maybe because it wasn't his perspective? it was lin ling's view on what happened, so he's imagining it in his style? either way, interesting detail.

BUT OOOOOO THE SYMBOLISM OF NICE TAKING FIRM MAN'S PLACE HOLDING THE STATUE, BUT ALSO AS #10??? THAT WAS FIREEEEE. ESPECIALLY WHEN THE HIS THEME SONG KICKED IN???? SICKKKKKK

[charlesemersonwinchesteriii]

And the thing is. Speaking on a meta, Doylist level now. In actual Inuit shamanic practice, cutting out one's tongue (or any other body part) is not a real thing, at least not that I can find reference to anywhere. In fact, actual angakkuit have their own secret verbal language that they use to communicate with spirits (including their tuurngaq). Plus, shamans serve very important interpersonal functions within their communities, so removing their ability to speak would be worse than pointless.

So why is it a thing in The Terror? Well, the most obvious purpose is To Be Scary And Gory because Horror Genre. But fabricating a random "barbaric" practice (that doesn't even make any sense) to assign to indigenous people for shock value would be quite a choice for a show that punishes its characters for believing such lies (DON'T YOU KNOW THEY KILL CHILDREN EDWARD. CAN YOU IMAGINE. WHOMST COULD EVER DO SUCH A THING—), so I have to believe something more is going on here. What that something is, I'm not knowledgeable enough to say.

But I know it must be something. Because the following is an excerpt from an oral history series published by Nunavut Arctic College, Inuit Perspectives on the 20th Century:

In this chapter, the elders talk about shamanism and how one could become an angakkuq. In most cases, angakkuit did their own recruitment, identifying interesting potential candidates and offering to turn them into angakkuit (the person was always free to decline), [...]. The selected candidate would start to see their tuurngaq. In some rituals, the person becoming angakkuq was stabbed (they would not bleed) or shot (their tuurngaq would intercept the bullet).

Might the fact that the tuurngaq in The Terror failed to protect Silna's father in the first place (and failed to protect the Inuit family later as well, in both cases only attacking after the damage had already been done) imply something in itself? Plus the fact that Silna is very clearly not free to decline becoming an angakkuq...... plus the fact that her people banish her, yet allow Crozier to stay, another needlessly cruel and impractical act, just like the tongue-cutting...... It all feels like a deliberate statement. What that statement is would be the task of someone smarter than me to decipher.

[rubberduckyrye]

Okay so like. I found this and.

This really annoys me. And this is a perfect example of the narrative being biased against Kokichi and it's not necessarily the class who have a biased against him.

So it reads:

The night before, Shuichi and some of the others were forced to stay in the Ultimate Entomologist's lab by Gonta, who was tricked by Kokichi.

This is blatantly untrue, as proven by this post here. This piece of evidence is also not being written by Shuichi, as it refers to him in the third person, so this isn't Shuichi being biased.

This is the narrative just. Blatantly lying to the reader. This is the Narrative showing one thing (Gonta in full agreement to get everyone to watch their motives and Kokichi being 100% honest with him about the motive screening party) and just flat out lying in the next breath (Kokichi tricked Gonta)

Now. You could say that Kokichi "tricked" Gonta in saying that Kokichi lied to him about liking bugs, but. Everyone lied to Gonta about that.

So you either have the narrative just contradicting itself because it can't stand the idea of Kokichi being likable in any way (as that ruins the plot you see!) or just singling out Kokichi specifically for something that everyone does and only punishing him for it. Either way? It ain't a good fucking look.

The bias this narrative has towards Kokichi and how much it wants the reader to believe he's a horrible villain is so fucking jarring when they have proof that he isn't.

I do not like how V3 handled it's writing at all.

[anghraine]

It feels extremely silly that only today did I realize that pantry and panadería are slightly similar-sounding for a reason >_>

(The English word pantry is one of the many, many common modern English words derived from Anglo-French: in this case, panetrie, from Old French paneterie, "bread room" ... Spanish panadería also has a complex etymology, but all are related to Latin panis, "bread.")

[tress3]

A Tender Kiss

…His hands cupped your cheeks trembling as if they could break. Sensing his fear, you place your hands on his, in hopes to calm him down.

With a red tint on his cheeks, he attempts to talk again “I… don’t know how to do this… dammit… this is embarrassing to admit” his gaze intense over your lips.

You give him a cheerful chuckle, bringing his attention to you again “~Well now, it’s not like I’m going to bite” You bite into the air to complement the joke. Dumbfounded by your action he leans back for a bit, covering his mouth with the back of his hands and laughs. "Such a childish laughter…" you think, you never saw him like this, a welcome and rare change.

“Really? Hahahah! Making jokes at a moment like this? pfff” As he moved a bit and tilted his head, you were able to see his gentle smile. This flustered your heart, you felt proud that your joke helped him ease his mood. Good job! 

As he comes back in place again, you grab his shoulders and press them lightly “It’s ok, we can do this anot-”.

In a quick jolt, he gets closer to you, grabbing your arms as you can sense his breath over your neck. Catching you off guard by the sudden movement “No! I-I m-mean...” He starts to fumble into his words as he frowns his eyebrows and looks to the side, avoiding eye contact again.

With a deep breath he starts talking again “Listen, I do not fear the fire…” You sense his hands squeezing your arms a bit “I am used to my skin being burnt, a-and I don’t mind anymore when my tools fall on my feet” He leans slightly back and locks eyes, in hopes to not break eye contact.

“And yet, I fear this…. I fear you won’t like it and… Hah, I'm so pathetic” He squeezes your arms again, but tries not to be too rough when doing so. It feels loving in a way, you take the opportunity to change the pacing of the topic.

“Huh, I love this pathetic guy you know” He stops, dumbfounded yet again, eyes widened at you, listening attentively to every word. “He has too much confidence in himself, he also thinks he is the best at everything…” You start listing everything about him some good and some… bad, we all know his strange behavior at the beginning when you both met. He had a mixture of emotions listening to all this, he hated it and loved it at the same time. Your unpredicted humor is something he had grown to love, just how much can you do this to him? He doesn’t know, and yet he loves this kind of situation you put him into.

“But this… it’s not a pathetic situation, so don’t say that” You cupped his cheeks and leaned closer, giving him time to reject the gesture if he wanted, you made a tiny detour to his ears and whispered “I love you” You go back to face him again “Being shy over this doesn’t make you pathetic”.

Something changed in his eyes, they were soft and his left cheek was just slightly red. This was such a tender moment, he had no words to answer back, it was so… lovely and warm, that he couldn’t help but give a sincere smile.

“God he is so hot- ok chill chill chill” you think, “Stop being horny right now! Haaaa- this is not the time right now!” you start arguing with yourself, his sudden movement snaps you back to reality.

A kiss, a simple and yet tender kiss, he did it. Something you were both longing for, a genuine love sparkled over your chests as if it was New Year's Eve. You felt you could wake at any moment if this was a dream. He moves his hands, one on the back of your head and the other on your waist. 

With such an abrasive personality, bickering here and there every day, his true feelings flourished at this very moment. The true March you see drunk in the tavern at night, but sober this time.

This was just the start of a long night.

[cuerue]

okay but people whining about the inclusion of words “trans” and “non-binary” in veilguard is so annoying to me. why does it bother you that those words aren’t replaced by some fantasy equivalent while words like “man” and “woman” are used all the time in the setting. why is it fine to say “man” but saying “trans man” breaks your immersion. think really hard about that one.

[wonder-worker]

"[Elizabeth Woodville] was the only member of [Crown Prince Edward of Westminster's] original 1471 council not already on the king’s council and her name headed the list of those appointed as administrators in Wales during Edward’s minority. [She remained on the council after it was expanded in 1473 and granted new governing and judicial powers]."

"In 1478 Prince Richard married the Mowbray heiress. Like his elder brother he had a chancellor, seal, household and council to manage his estates. His council, like that of Prince Edward, comprised the queen [Elizabeth Woodville] and a group of magnates and bishops, few of whom were Woodville supporters. [...] It was Elizabeth who mattered, for Richard resided with her and Rivers treated his affairs as their own."

— J.L. Laynesmith, The Last Medieval Queens: English Queenship 1445-1503 / Michael Hicks, Richard III and his Rivals: Magnates and their Motives in the Wars of the Roses