#English as an additional language

[williamverse]

There was a storm during my first journey to Dunwall. Thick dark clouds covering the skies, waves crushing into ship's sides. Standing on the ship's deck, I've witnessed something I'll never forget: a Leviathan, rising from the water's surface. It felt like for that spare moment the time had stopped. A giant whale-like creature cut through the water with his fins, glistening against the cloudy sky with his dark skin. Seagulls looked like nothing but countless specks floating around him. His powerful body was covered in countless scars with the sight of which I wondered: how many of them were left by other animals and how many - by humans? Beneath his skin - fat, powering his huge body. Hundreds of other whales were killed for that precious fat, later to be turned into whale oil, that would soon power one of the ships like the one I was boarding. But he was still alive, with his power still flowing through his body, only for him to use. How many nets has he torn? How many hooks had grappled his flesh and than torn out of it with a mighty tail's swing? How will he die: in whalers' hands, getting his flesh turned into food and his fat turned into fuel, or will he die of age, turning his body into a home for a new ecosystem? I saw his eyes, full of pain and hatred, but also of intelligence.

He had enough power to turn over the ship and drown everyone boarding it. But he didn't do that, diving back into the water and swimming away instead. Maybe, if he was trying to avenge himself and other whales, driven by hatred, he wouldn't be any better than humans? I didn't think about that back then, not how I think about it now, after all those years of trial my fate has set for me. In this realm I inherited Leviathan's philosophy.

[Excerpt from Lord-Protector's memoirs - by Corvo Attano]

[incorrect-finding-frankie]

My OC that I would like to share for @janesbeloved AU—Toonville Adventures: The Aftermath:

Percy is a hare that had always wanted to get into acting—which, down the line, it did. And the end result was the hare getting to work on the show every now and then.

And whenever it did get the chance to act in the show, it was usually just for additional thing’s. It never tended to have a major role—except maybe once—in or out of that show.

It sticks around after the whole thing ends, and chooses to work at the film studio that’s attached—commercials and such.

More random details in the tags-

[multiversal-askblog]

Lil smth on Bleach, Azrael and Deca

TODAY ON THE MENU FROM ME, THE GREAT MYEBA IS.... something no one asked for, but I saw someone here on tumblr questioning on how it came into existence? Oh well! (If any of you expected an answered ask I am sorry to inform you I am still procrastinating my way to hell.) Let's start with the main thing where I made these 3 brothers because I liked that idea from like those gacha videos in 2020 or smth (MergeM is... old and repurposed let me put it like that), but, I gave it actual thought, yk? So, these guys are not brothers! Or, well, they are, but they aren't Azrael picked these guys up from the side of the road okay??? There is no actual like code or biological connection or stuff Azrael and Bleach met basically right after Bleach gained access to the wider multiverse, because well, he was meant to be dead because of that soul thing and was just showing up repeatedly at the top of the list for a while! Since Azrael had to basically babysit this guy for a few years because he was unable to do his job otherwise, a bond grew between them! (Something pretty similar happened with Cyanide later on, but there is a big difference between someone who behaves and thinks like a curious child and a snarky adult man who wants nothing more than for you to get lost lmfao). Deca fell into their dynamic much much later, when Bleach was already recovering! Bleach visited Deca and stuff pretty similarly to canon if what I remember is correct and introduced Deca to Azrael, who was by then already like a brother to Bleach! Very silly!

Azrael met Deca earlier but Deca didn't meet Azrael. Only shows to dead spirits on the job lmao But yeah Azrael picked up a stray and then that stray picked up another and they grew close basically

[arashikohedervary]

✨Phrases that'd become part of my daily vocabulary if it weren't for English not being my first language✨:

Part 1: Young Justice

"I'm whelmed."

"I'm feeling the aster."

*slaps forehead* "Hello, Megann!"

"Be back in a flash"

"Are you feeling the aster?"

"The Wall-man has arrived!"

[windor-truffle]

wait shit do you think they're going to let you change the voice language in the graces remaster??? 👀

[enden-k]

well by seeing your pinned post and those two country flags it's probably korean? I couldn't recognize the first one

first is kazakhstan. im mixed. and a mess

[roseverdict]

new shitty superpower idea: you can understand anyone on the planet, but ONLY if they are either speaking in your mother tongue or any language other than their own. you know exactly what someone's saying if they have to keep jumping between languages they've previously dabbled in because they don't remember much vocab from any, or if they learned a second language through schooling or personal hobby interest, but if somebody's multilingual due to being raised with multiple languages, you'd better hope they figure out they need to speak in something else or you're likely screwed

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

OK ANOTHER THING BECAUSE I READ THE NEXT PART… THE WIBBLES??? ;-; the wiggles I am only now discovering are in fact not a universal childhood staple… next thing your gonna be telling me you don’t know about playschool… lol

Playschool like... the educational institution?

I mean my brother went to playschool. I guess.

TW: uh, corporeal punishment at school, so proceed with caution.

My, uh 'playschool' made me learn four languages in addition to maths and environmental science at the age of four, those languages (thankfully one being english) used different scripts, at the same age of four I had midterms and finals of fifty marks each and a grading system from A to F, and when we didn't do homework we were hit with wooden scales on the palms until a centimetre thick 30 cm long scale broke after hitting a whole class of five year olds...

If you're referring to playschool like a show/band/anything else, then I admit that no, I do not know about playschool.

[tovaicas]

anyways my friends activated my conlang brain and I've made smth insane as usual

red is influences, blue is Elezen-family languages, green is like a mix bc I see the Alliance cities as having a trade language (that critically is limited to them).

I see Duskwight as a separate language from Black Shroud Elezen (but sharing a lot - easy enough to learn for those speakers). Coerthan and all its derivatives are a whole different language under the Elezen umbrella and isn't mutually intelligible with BSE. Because they split so early, they probably don't share much more than root words and etymologies; within the same family so not difficult to learn for other speakers of Elezen languages, but very distinctly different.

(also I'm not listing them but the branches extend to include other diaspora Elezen languages)

[itsbebebe]

Looked at the inspector calls tumblr tag out of curiosity and its full of british teens crying abt their gcses and making yaoi out of it to cope. As it fucking should be

[irritablepoe]

Y'all don't say that you have an "ear worm" when you got a song stuck in your head????

[arcadianico]

i don’t want any of the english speakers to become president, solely because there’s already too much english on the server and we do not need them to add another english speaker. like i get that it’s a common language so sometimes defaulting to english really is the easiest solution, especially when the translator doesn’t correctly convey what you’re trying to say but we do not need more english

[jamboreeartsupplies]

Translating

me *reading*: ah yes this sentence in Japanese makes perfect sense and i don't even need any help understanding it. my brain: okay translate it to English then me: i actually don't know any English i've never even heard of English in my life

[stllmnstr]

I just wanted to say this to you, I started reading your works like literally yesterday and I was shocked. Your stories are so good, so well written and they kept me hooked throughout the night. Rooting for you and looking forward to reading more of your fics. (Also ignore my English, it's not my first language.)

🥹🥹🥹 thank you!!!! I’m happy to hear that my masterlist and I were able to bring some entertainment to your evening. I hope you continue to enjoy my stories 🤍🤍

[varietysky]

one of my supervisors messaged me in Slack that he want to talk to me tomorrow but he doesn't clarify why, so now I'll have to wait like 21 hours wondering if I'm in trouble for something