#Foreign language use
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
Mikejima Madara FS2 4*: On a Wintery Street Corner in Paris
Madara: PLEASE PARDON THE INTRUSIOOON ☆ Shu: GEH—? Mi—Mikejima… …!? What in the world are you doing here!?
Season: Winter Author: Yuumasu Characters: Mikejima Madara, Itsuki Shu
Shu: Nnngh… … Yawn~...
(Because of the consecutive all-nighters I’ve pulled—or perhaps due to the immense relief I felt at having delivered the final products—I ended up sleeping soundly until well past noon.
Umu. Fortunately, there’s plenty of lead time before the next job is due. I will need to prioritise a proper rest in order to achieve the perfect results.
Perhaps, I could take a stroll and clear my head—)
Madara: PLEASE PARDON THE INTRUSIOOON ☆
Shu: GEH—? Mi—Mikejima… …!? What in the world are you doing here!?
Hmph! Cease this tomfoolery of yours, and get yourself gone this instant! The last thing I’d want is for a barbarian like you to be rampaging around my atelier!
Madara: Hahaha! What a nostalgic exchange of words!
I recall having a similar conversation with you back in the day when we were both in Yumenosaki Academy! It was about the Museum (1), if I remember correctly—
Shu: NON! I have no intention of reminiscing about Yumenosaki with you!
You came here for a reason, did you not? State your business quickly, and in as few words as possible.
Madara: My business, huh~? What if I told you it's “Nothing at all”?
Shu: (glares) … … … …
Madara: Sorry, sorry! I was just kidding, alright? Please stop with the death glare already!
Actually, I’m here because Leo-san asked me for a favour.
Shu: Hmm? Because of Tsukinaga… …?
Madara: Yes. Apparently, he’s been treating the pen case that Shu-san gave him like a precious treasure, however—
He was so focused on caring for the case, that he left all his writing stuff behind in this atelier.
Shu: So that’s the reason he ended up taking just the pen case home with him? He’s quite the amazing fellow for doing that, honestly.
And what about you? Did you really come all this way to Paris just for Tsukinaga’s forgotten items?
Madara: Nope. It just so happened I had some business in Europe, so I just dropped by.
Shu: “Just dropped by”—you say? Even though “Europe” can be expressed as a single word, it’s still not a place you can travel about hither and yon on a whim and fancy.
Anyway, Tsukinaga’s belongings aren’t here anymore. The other day, I happened to send some parcels to Seisoukan, so I slipped his forgotten items in as well. That’s where they are now.
For heaven’s sake. Anyone and everyone seems to be carelessly leaving their things behind lately. They’re travelling abroad after all; I’d really wish they’d be more careful!
Madara: I agree. The language and culture are different here, so one shouldn’t assume that things will be the same as back home in Japan. It’s better to be more careful in the end.
However, I believe the reason people always leave their stuff behind in Shu’s atelier is because they feel so much at home here, you knowww ♪
Shu: Hmph. I’m not happy to hear that at all. This place isn’t a playground, you know.
It looks like you've made a wasted trip. Will you be leaving Paris right away?
Madara: Nope. I’ve got some time before my flight, so I’ll relax and enjoy myself till then.
… … Hmmm? Why are you all dressed up for?
Are you heading out? If so, I’d absolutely love to tag along ☆
Shu: Hmph. Forget it. Being with you, Mikejima, doesn’t exactly spell rest and relaxation for me.
Madara: Haha! Oh, come on, don’t say that! As the saying goes, “No road is long in good company”, and two people will have more fun together than when they’re on their own, you knowww ♪
<An hour later.>
Shu: Umu. It seems there’s a flea market held here during the weekends.
Madara: Oooh. What a classic Parisian scene~
You may already know this, but the origins of the flea market started right here in Paris.
It is said that the name came from the fact that ‘antiques could be found in such sheer numbers, it was likened to a gathering of fleas’.
Shu: Urk. Please spare me your detailed description. I already knew about the name’s origins from long ago, and simply imagining it as you have described it makes my back itch.
Besides, there are other theories about the origin of the name.
Personally, I much prefer the idea that the name came about because of "the thrill which comes from the time and effort spent hunting for hidden treasures here, which are as elusive as fleas.”
Madara: The thrill of a long hunt, huh? Indeed, the accomplishment you feel when you locate a hidden treasure is reeeally something special!
Madara: … … Oh, what's this? It seems I have found something good right away!
Yes, yes! This piece of pottery will be perfect to display some plants ☆
Shu: Humu. Is gardening a hobby of yours?
Madara: No, I wouldn’t exactlyyy call it a hobby, but—
I’m not sure who started it, but my dorm room is full~ of plants. I myself add in new ones occasionally too.
Madara: [Excuse me, Shopkeeper! I’m interested in this piece of pottery here—]
Shu: (... … Hoho. His French seems pretty good, from all that time spent abroad. The best part of the flea market is the haggling over the price. It’s a battle of wits on how skilfully one can negotiate… …) <Ten minutes later.>
Madara: HEYYYY! I’m baaack, Shu-san!
I’m sooo sorry to have kept you waiting. Things got reeeally lively with the shopkeeper, and our conversation got carried away!
Shu: It’s alright, I don’t mind. I’m glad you got what seems to be a good deal.
It’s really none of my business what happens to you, but witnessing someone I know get ripped off doesn’t sit right with me.
Madara: Ufufu. Have you been worried about me, Shu-san? You’re sooo kind… … ♪
Shu: Oh, for heaven’s sake. Stop jumping to weird conclusions. I simply did not wish to have an unpleasant experience.
Madara: Hahaha! Even so, it made me reeeally happy ♪
And since I managed to score a good deal just now, I’ll give you a treat as a thank you for waiting!
Please recommend a local specialty, Shu-san!
Shu: Hmmm… … In that case, how about “Marron Chaud”—or roasted chestnuts?
It’s a winter specialty that’s sold all over town at this time of the year.
Madara: Hoho! That sounds great. It seems like it’ll warm the body up too!
There’s the scent of something reeeally fragrant coming from over there. Let’s go grab some right now… … ☆
Translator’s Notes: 1) (!) era story, Steampunk Museum.
#ensemble stars#enstars tl#mikejima madara#Itsuki Shu#MaM#Valkyrie#Yuumasu#Thank you so much for normal Madara stories#Foreign language use#French
80 notes
·
View notes
Text
racism in star wars will have wikis saying shit like "this species that is inspired on a real life non-white people is just too stupid to use the Force"
#hm i should make an original post tag#yes this is about tuskens#they 'lack mental capacity' to be jedi. according to some writer#which is fucking ridiculous#they have enough mental capacity to have two languages (spoken tusken and tusken sign language)#(they are usually seen being used together but they can be used independently)#just because they're nomadic and hostile to colonizers doesn't mean they're stupid. or lack the nuance to understand good and evil.#in me opinion there may not be any tusken jedi but for the same reason there's no bardottan jedi - they have their own force culture#they are hostile to outsiders and defensive of their people‚ of course they wouldn't let some foreign order take their children away#i think a force-sensitive tusken would be highly regarded in their tribe. being one with the universe is a special privilege.
679 notes
·
View notes
Text
Hancock: Mama Murphy this jet be straight bussin' fr fr no cap
Mama Murphy, not understanding a damn thing he said: Thank you sir, I love when you visit Mayor Hancock
#these two are speaking to each other in a foreign language only the most jetted out wastelanders can parse#this is going to be a flop and I know but I just like to think Hancock talked like a stoner and super relaxed before being the mayor#and so like hes not used to sound authoritative but is stuck doing it so when hes at sanctuary he just goes wild#and its the worst like thing youve ever heard but that like him#inflicting psychic damage on everyone but MacCready#cause MacCready is like an ipad adult in my mind he needs to be at the club fr#also this is the funniest thing to me like the meme this comes from cause I love like wanna be cool yt boy and his overly loving gma like#its the only humerous wojak cause I can b hear the voices#fallout#fallout 4#fo4#hancock fo4#john hancock#mama murphy
382 notes
·
View notes
Note
at least as far as french goes, learning the genders of things is entirely memorization. and yes, learners of the language struggle with it.
in fact, if you're writing and want to convey that the person doesn't speak french too well, you have them misgender inanimate objects.
there's no rules to determine a thing's gender, not even vibes; in fact, the opposite is true: for native speakers, which gender a thing is will then color the vibes that they associate with that thing. this is why i will forever associate spiders with cunning and motherood.
and finally, i've saved the dumbest for last: in 2020, there was debate if COVID is male or female.
.
#???#these are genuinely such foreign concepts to me#my mom speaks a handful of heavily gendered languages including French and she didn't think it was too much of a fuss to figure out#but I don't#I speak Finnish English#some basic Swedish#and beginner Northern Sami#or at least used to I think I've forgotten most of the latter two if I'm being honest#but this Romance language stuff? my brain has never been conditioned for any of it#answered#anonymous#so which one was it?
242 notes
·
View notes
Text
this has been said numerous times, better, and by more qualified people than me before, but it truly is wonderful that spending enough time with trans people in any capacity ends up completely rerouting your inner gender recognition patterns. like, right wingers are obsessed with saying that we're trying to destroy gender, and it is true in a way, because i really can't see, say, a closeted/pretransition trans woman as anything else than a woman. like it just doesnt compute. it's not like, an effort i have to actively make, it's just as easy as with a cis woman. nowadays <- important addition because it does come from experience, but then once the new pattern starts to set, you can't go back, it's sort of like learning to read
like, brain plasticity is real (hurray for brain plasticity!) and there's no evidence more supportive of the fact that gender is a social game that is deciphered through a complex set of rules and symbols and patterns, regardless of the kind of physical attributes exhibited by individuals, than being genuinely unable to read a trans person as anything else than their actual gender no matter what their cispassing actually is like
#like it is very much like learning a new language or something. you can remember what it was like not to know#but you can't make yourself forget said language (and why would you.) and can't be monolingual anymore#i think it's normal if you're cis and confused and struggling with using pronouns etc for your trans friends#because it's like being dropped in a foreign language class and trying to keep up#but then it just gets easier and easier until you can't remember that one day you didnt even know what these words meant
122 notes
·
View notes
Text
Don't make fun of any accents, ever, for any reason.
The person on the receiving end will most likely fall in at least one of three categories:
Second language
Regional accent
Speech impediment
1. Second language
This person is probably speaking in this language to you because either you don't speak their mother tongue or you speak it worse than they speak the language you are speaking. They are making an effort for you. An accent doesn't make you dumb.
Making fun of someone for attempting to communicate in another language is the height of assholery.
2. Regional accent
Half the time you make fun of regional accents, you make fun of historically disenfranchised accents.
Southern accents? Congrats you're making fun of the way rural, usually poor, people speak. Their speech was highly influenced by black people.
Don't even get me started on making fun of AAE.
Again, an accent doesn't make you any less intelligent.
3. Speech impediment
They know they have a speech impediment. They are probably trying very hard not to sound like that. It is literally not their fault. They have had to deal with people making fun of it their whole life.
A speech impediment doesn't make you less intelligent either.
#submission#manners#good manners#etiquette#politeness#courtesy#nationalism and xenophobia plays a pretty big role in the first one too#In the country I live in a lot of the nationalism and xenophobia specifically centers around language#For foreigners it's a lose / lose situation#If they speak the local language then locals will be rude to them for having an accent#But if they don't use the local language (since most locals born here are actually pretty multi-lingual) they get yelled at#and generally treated like garbage#@ nationalistic people in the country I live in: please choose#Either be patient and kind to people with an accent#or be willing to use English or Spanish or other languages#you can't just yell at foreigners who speak to you at all either with an accent or in a different language#and get mad that they just don't appear here with perfect native speaking abilities
192 notes
·
View notes
Text
There's a lot to be said about flaws in the US education system but I think some of you just weren't paying attention in class
#yes that post about addresses came around again#'my school didn't teach me the US wasn't the only country in the world :( :( :('#'we never learn anything about other countries besides their GDP'#ok first off what on earth school did you go to where you had to learn other countries GDPs#second of all. literally what.#did your foreign language classes never make you do 'cultural' assignments#bc I had to plan at least 3 fake trips to somewhere in Latin or South America#did you never talk about current events in social studies#was the family of every single one of your friends from the US#like#what#op
68 notes
·
View notes
Text
i need a pen grip that works similar to this is this possible to achieve does anyone use something like that
#like#i would like to hold it like you would a mouse? a little bit#i guess i just need a big ball of something#but i looked#i dont think i can find this in my language fdgbgdfsfgf#i have one option i found on some foreign site but i would like to have someone's opinion if there is someone who uses#something like that#also umm that hand.#i need something that will stop my fingers from curling under the pencil#and dragging on the surface
247 notes
·
View notes
Text
hot take I think the sexes would be much happier if we just accepted each other as mysteries instead of constantly shaming one for not being more like the other.
like, personally, in my own life, the whole idea of romance & marriage became way more exciting and attractive when I ditched the notion that men are just bigger stronger women, or women are just smaller prettier men.
like. not only is it okay that men are from mars and women are from venus, it's good.
do I know what's going on in my guy friend's head? I used to think I did, but it turns out I don't. Turns out I've never known what was going through the heads of any of the men in my life. And you know what? what a relief. he can do or say things that don't make sense to me, and they don't have to make sense to me. I know he's a smart, good-hearted guy; I can safely assume he had a reason for saying or doing that thing. And if I listen to him over time, I may even start to understand what that reason was. But I don't have to. What I can recognize instead is that each sex has a wisdom in their way of thinking and doing which befits given situations. More often than not, a situation requires both.
But you simply can't get both from one person, and you shouldn't demand it. And what a relief knowing my guy friend doesn't expect guy thoughts and behavior from me.
#I think this is why I used to be so into foreign guys and the idea of an international marriage#because I was under the impression that men and women are fundamentally the same in the head#but I knew SOMETHING about marriage was supposed to be mysterious and exotic and self-denying#cue a language/culture barrier#M/F#x#(an added bonus is that I have gotten WAY better at writing dudes)#I think the focus on toxic empathy in our culture has played a part in this as well#where empathy is the process by which you put yourself INTO THE HEAD of the other person#well no one can do that. but that especially can't be done between sexes. AND WE DON'T HAVE TO#COMPASSION does not require the plumbing of someone's mind / heart
110 notes
·
View notes
Text
duolingo terrifies me actually. "safe"?? "any means necessary??" what does this mean duo??? what does this mEAN??11!1!!!1
#duolingo#languages#language learning#should probably start using it again ngl#this thing taught me everything i needed for my spanish gcse content last year#before i even got around to covering it in class#langblr#i'm scared <3#if i disappear one day#you know who to blame#foreign languages#me encanta aprender espanol con duolingo#por favor no me hagan daño#i think that's right??#probably an error in there somewhere#spanish
113 notes
·
View notes
Photo
US states by percentage of population speaking a language besides English at home.
356 notes
·
View notes
Text
would nations forget their own languages as they go extinct? when the language is suppressed, do they stumble over words and mix up grammar and realize it just doesn't come as easy to them as it used to? do their native languages fade away and get replaced by new languages, languages of conquest and oppression and change? i wonder if they think about them sometimes, all those words they forgot, all those pieces of their culture and identity that got lost to time and violence and the all-encompassing oblivion of history.
#aph#hetalia#hws#still not used to this hws acronym. it looks wrong#anyway i was thinking about prussia and his german identity despite his baltic roots#the 400 year decline of the prussian language at the hands of the teutonic knights#everything he was replaced by something new and foreign and then even that is forgotten to time too#it's a ship of theseus if you think about it. at what point are they no longer the same thing?#well anyway whatever#mic check
52 notes
·
View notes
Text
Btw if you come on holidays and stay at an AirBnb instead of an actual registered hotel I hate you personally. Not "I hate the gentrification and touristic massification and the way we can't live in our homes and are forced to move away because of tourism" in an abstract way- No, not just that. I hate you.
#I'm from a seaside town that has become popular with tourists who come for the beach and the mediterranean climate#and the typical whitewashed walls of mediterranean coastal towns#in just a few years the average rent has gone up so much that now the average rent id#*is over 1000€ per month#one thousand!#that's a whole salary!#in the past 2 years they've been building a new neighbourhood. they've destroyed the vinyeards to make a new neighbourhood that will make#the town 1/3 bigger than it is. that's a lot. but all those houses are luxury houses with private swimming pools for rich foreigners (we#already have 2 private British schools high schools and college(in the british sense)/baccalaureate where their kids go and never have to#interact with locals. I teach some of those kids and they're very prejudiced against locals and very bigoted against the catalan language#(which ofc they never bother to learn)#there's a law in catalonia that says that for every certain amount of houses you build you are obligated to build a certain percentage of#affordable housing. so in this new neighborhood they built the bare minumum affordable housing which is still too expensive for us#and since there's so few of them everyone is competing to get them. the city hall and the bank have had to make an official competition for#them but you only classify if the renr would not be more than 1/3rd of your salary which is impossible. my cousins who are in their mid 30s#and have been working a good qualified job for 15 years (and their partners too) are considered too poor to be considered for the#affordable housing#everyone is having to move out to other cities away from their friends and family and current jobs. the only jobs left here soon will be#mostly directed at tourists#and the only way to continue living here if you're a normal person and not rich is if you're an only child who one day might inherit the#parents' house#but we look around at what's happening in nearby cities and we see the next step which will be airbnb taking the houses that are left#in many places (I've posted about thia before) there aren't any flats for rent or sell anymore that isn't an airbnb#I'm still lucky in my town when compared to other places like Barcelona which are already full of the airbnb plague#actualitat#airbnb#tourism#touristic massification#gentrification
323 notes
·
View notes
Text
I know people in HMC books speak English so there's not gonna be any kind of miscommunication between the characters, but sometimes I think about how it would be way more funny If there was some language diversity.
Howell Jenkins falls into the portal to an absolutely unknown, magical realm and... everyone speaks English. He was rather happy about it, finding it funny: it's a new, fantasy, fairy-tale based world with dragons and spells and seven-league boots and magic, and yet its habitants English. What are the odds?
However, it does not takes him long to realise (much to his own frustration) that, even though all of the locals native language is, in fact, English, it is pretty different from the English Howell himself is familiar with. He cant understand it quite well at fist, but it sounded like an odd mix of a modern language, specific dialects and an old tongue people was using around Victorian England/Middle Ages. It has so many words and unusual forms (Howell even called them "slang" once in a while), that it takes him a while to fully get every term and subtexts ms. Pentstemmon was referring to.
Their languages were similar just enough to catch the full sense of the sentence, but not enough to undertand all the little details, not cultural nor linguistic. It would even worst If he wasn't a big fun of Shakespeare and old Arthurian Legends growing up, letting alone studying old English (and old Welsh) at the university.
The language also differs from the area. Michael, for example, uses so many words you can hear in Porthaven only, regarding it's unique aspects. Sophie uses a lot of Market Chipping proverbs, and even more old terms connected with hats. The language he heard the King using wheh he got his first chance to met him at the time of his apprenticeship was so long, confusing and vivid, as If it was taken straight out of old English Literature books. And yet, English.
To this day Howell — at this point long-knowing as Howl Pendragon — finds himself confusing new terms, forms of words, proverbs and sayings. Maybe, he thinks, you have to be truly born there to understand all of - although he did better than anyone else would. Sophie seems to catching up just well.
—
Abdullah ends up with a flying carpet and the magical genie, exited to give away his fist wish to find the love of his love... only to not understand a word of what the genie is saying. This is how, instead of searching for Flower-In-The-Night, he now searching through a whole Zanzib for a proper translator from English because, here's the problem, If he can't understand the genie, then genie can't understand him, and If genie can't understand him, it's pointless to even try making a wish. He knows it's English: there's plenty people all around the world visiting the market, and he had even learnt certain words, important for making a trade, but that's not nearly close to a full sentence on unrelated topic.
With a great effort and after hours of searching for a really proffecional master of languages (who charges Abdullah nearly all of his money for one single session), he finally gets to the point. Except, here's another moment. That's where Abdullah finds out the wish has to be spoken from his heart and not through the other person. Here comes another catch — Ingarian English, no matter how simple or structured is, to put is simply, badly different from Rapshutian Arabic. It's not even the same language group!
So, he sits in the small, hot room near the glamorous bottle and tries to pronounce a bunch of difficult, complex words written on a paper, the kind that translator couldn't cut or simplify to ones he's familiar with, for a whole ten (to fifteen) minutes. And, as If trying to make his task as difficult as possible, genie, when he shows up, starts randomly breaking into the language translator can't even recognise, with no talk about understanding. Abdullah assumes it may be a secret genie language only this creatures know and, annoyingly, gets along with it.
After successfully wishing to understand (and use) English, he also finds out he can't wish for anything more language-related, and he shouldn't even bother himself trying to ask for a foolish things like an ability to speak every language in the world. Language is a big part of human's essence and otherwise shouldn't be messing with, just as magic focusing on it is strictly limited.
Using this fact, the genie also finds a loophole - from now on he speaks his secret genie language half of the time, stopping only when it comes to important tasks, because Abdullah "wished to know only one of his languages" and he, apparently, knows more.
This whole puzzle takes new turns, when, while traveling with the carpet, Abdullah meets the solider. Despite claiming being from Strangia, this strange man from the forest starts speaking with them in English in first and then, noticing they're from different country, easily switches to Arabic.
As they wander together, the soliders explains that he is non less confused than they are: he didn't even noticed he could speak English before the passer-byes from Ingary noticed him, and now, being with genie and Abdullah, he also remembered he knows Arabic. He adds that he can't recall anything before his duty in the army, where he definitely used Stangian and nothing else, but it feels like an strong knowledge he has, even If he doesn't remember learning any of this. He decides to wave it off, focusing on the cats and schemes.
The solider becomes a great translator for them along the journey, up to the day the got the inn. He does not understand the secret genie language, though. Especially when from the jinnies and angels they found out there's, in fact, no such a thing as a "genie language"
The story finally clears itself when Midnight and Whippersnapper turn into humans, the Solider turns into a bewitched Prince and the Royal Wizard surprisingly seems to recognize all of the words the genie was — and still is — using.
—
Charmain runs after Sophie with a long, old dictionary she has found in the Great Uncle Norland's Library. The Royals, of course, gave their honored guest the translator, but the things quickly becomes pretty private, with the search for the gold and all this story with lubboks, so Sophie tells them she's gonna manage it by herself.
To say the Dictionary is heavy is to say nothing: it's huge and thick, containing thousands of words from Ingarian English alone, split by topics, marked with tons of colors an additional moments. Even carrying it around is a whole different type of task.
Half of the time Charmain and Sophie communicate with gestures, context clues and even sounds. When they need to say something really long and complex, they write, leaning on the Dictionary, as it's a bit faster than talking. Still, at some moments Charmain has to flip through the massive pages, searching for the right word with her finger, while Sophie has to do the same. Till the end of the day the both learn some basic words from each other's language, which makes it easier.
The poor nanny has even harder times with Twinkle and Morgan, because she has no idea about what they actually want, except they both whining and crying, one louder than another.
Translator does not come in handy that much, as it looks like these children mix languages everytime when speaking to each other. She has to guess things all over the room to finally get what they need, and usually it's the most useless things ever, like striped pants and a bunch of toy horses falling from the sky.
They see Sophie and Twinkle arguing about something, but no one gets the topic of their screaming, let alone the reason why Sophie is so mad at this angelic child. Charmain asks Sophie about it, because she heard an unusual name along the lines of their quarrels, but Sophie looks too annoyed to explain, mumbling something in her native language with some sort of anger.
The only positive side of it all is that, If Chairman can't understand English, then the lubbocks can't either. Wich means that they didn't have to be as cautious when using Dictionary as they would have to If they understood each other perfectly.
Then she has to climb on the roof, where Twinkle is sitting. Charmain tries to dismiss all his attempts to start a dialogue till she's there, huffing and suffocating as she tries to get the Dictionary with her, trying not to fall.
Twinkle seems to be really proud of himself, saying he knows twice more languages that anyone else in this magical House. Charmain flips through the pages, asking either one of is the one she knows (Norlandian, I assume).
Twinkle says no. For a second Charmaine starts to really understand Sophie's feeling, fighting the urge to hit him on the head with this massive book.
Peter does not communicate with this new guest as much and, luckily, he knows the language Charmain speaks, so they don't have to struggle with a language barrier. The way speaks might be a bit different because of the area he grew up and the amount of hiding and spells he encountered, but there's nothing they can't handle. Luckily.
Calcifer knows the Saucepan song, but other than that his linguistic knowledge is far from perfect, certainly not as good as you'd expect from a fire demon. He also cannot use a Dictionary, because it will burn the second he'll come to close to it, and If this happens their main way of communication is basically gone. He makes up for it, talking with Twinkle, Morgan and Sophie, as well as being expressive enough to understand the basics or what he feels and plans. Sometimes someone (aka Sophie) has to translate what he is saying when she's near, wich is a bit longer than Charmain would wish, but still pretty plausible. She got that he desperately needs his logs, after all.
Twinkle could have used some kind of magical bubble to get them finally understand each other fully, but, again, magic connected with languages is pretty difficult and has its important limits, so it wouldn't last long. Little 30 years old boy is enjoying his childhood, running up the stairs and beating these huge bugs, not as much caring about Charmain all this huge book in her hands.
In the end, (as he turnds out to be) the Royal Wizard Howl is right - the only languages lubbocks can understand is punching.
(Many thanks to my rly good friend @your-queen-shuri for being co-author of this concept. A bunch of ideas here are from her!)
#ALSO THINK ABOUT WHAT CHAOS THERE WOULD BE ALONG THE PRINCESSES#like they're really educated so (same with Justin) probably know a lot of languages BUT#they will need a time to understand who speaks wich and who knows which better#also there's definitely a term of “foreign language”as Sophie used it when Howl was speaking Welsh with Mari#and the Asian princess (poor soul was written so wrong) does have an accent#AND YET#all of the protagonist speaks English without a problem#wich is pretty unrealistic as all of them come from different social status#they can't possibly all know English to C2#wich is#it's not making books wose by any cjay#they stole my soul#BUT#I love thinking about the concept#imagine how different the language would evolve because of Fairly Tale norms#like sayings and proverbs#like “just as an eldest daughter” = unlucky#etc#howl pendragon#sophie hatter#howell jenkins#howl's moving castle#hmc#howl's moving castle book#hmc book#castle in the air#house of many ways
30 notes
·
View notes
Text
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.
#I think the only foreign language word that isnt the most basic of basics Rafe remembers is 'tranquillo'#and only cause Barry taught him it and he now uses it to self-soothe when he's getting bad mentally#Sofia and Barry sometimes speak spanish to each other just to have secret conversations and annoy Rafe#Sofia acts fake offended when he tells them to speak english so he can understand them#someone tell Rafe that if he wants to get good at business then he might wanna learn more than just english lol#🪲#obx fandom#barry obx#obx#rafe obx#sofia obx#outer banks#outerbanks rafe#rafe cameron#rafe outer banks#rafe cameron outer banks#barry outer banks#sofia outer banks#obx headcanon#outer banks hc#barrafe#barry x rafe#rafe x barry
39 notes
·
View notes
Text
Manfred von Karma's Japanese name is Karuma Gou (family name first)
In the games it's spelled 狩魔 karuma 豪 gou
The kanji for Karuma come from karu (狩る) meaning "to hunt" and ma (魔) meaning "demon" - which btw being called "Demon Hunter" is fucking badass
But also, Karuma spelled as カルマ is the katakanization of the English word "karma".
Remember this.
The kanji for Gou is 豪 meaning "overpowering/great/powerful/etc" which tracks with his character
But here's the kicker:
In Japanese, many kanji share the same reading/prounciation. For the reading gou we have, for example: 号, 合, 壕, 豪 (used in the game), 業, and many more...
Oh but wait, what does that last one mean? Why, it's the Japanese word for karma!
So the name Karuma Gou can also be written カルマ 業, with both parts meaning "karma".
Karma Karma. They MoonMoon-ed MVK.
MoonMoon von Karma
#ace attorney#gyakuten saiban#manfred von karma#i learned this bc of an online dictionary i do NOT have all these words/kanji memorised lol#and to think i used to hate learning foreign languages
40 notes
·
View notes