#Language

[indecisiveavocado]

South Africa: two? that's nothing we've got twelve. when our leaders resign, they change their mind on seeing the sheer number of languages they need to say it in.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Archaic Words for your Fantasy Novel

and other story/poem

Ablode - bloody; with blood

Acopus - either a herb or stone, introduced by Middleton, in the Witch, as an ingredient for a charm

Arseverse - according to Blount's Glossographia, ed. 1681, p. 51, "a pretended spell, written upon the door of an house to keep it from burning."

Bloudsupper - a murderer; a blood sucker

Boneless - a kind of ghost

Cantrap - a magic spell

Devinal - a wizard

Devineresse - a witch; a prophetess

Dragons female - water dragons

Elfe - a witch, or fairy

Familiar - a demon or spirit attendant upon a witch or conjurer, often in the form of an animal, a dog

Fayry - magic; illusion

For bledd - covered with blood

Gytrash - a spirit, or ghost

He-witch - a wizard

Irp - a fantastic grimace, or contortion of the body

Kitty witch - a female spectre

Night bat - a ghost

Night spell - a spell or charm against the nightmare

Periapt - a magical bandage

Permansie - magic; necromancy

Phitonesse - a witch

Quarter evil - a disease in sheep, arising from corruption of the blood

Signwynarye - a blood stone

Spellycoat - a ghost

Tilstere - a magician, or charmer

Tregetour - a magician, or a cheat

Warlau - a wizard, or sorcerer

Weche - a witch

Wicche - a witch; to use witchcraft; to bewitch

Source ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Word Lists ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

[a-word-a-day-for-writers]

𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲

Divination by the hand; the art of telling the characters and fortunes of persons by inspection of their hands; palmistry.

[spectrallydistracted]

Bwahaha! Also, my doctorate is in rhetoric. I mean, this person is 100% correct. The one who controls the narrative controls history. Facts.

Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened

"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"

"we don't read that shit"

"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"

That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT

[ceescedasticity]

A chain of polls

Consider a line of objects X X X X X. We can highlight one by making it an O instead: O X X X X.

More polls to follow, please hold

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[vinceaddams]

People who try to copy historical writing styles don't say enough weird stuff in them. I'm listening to a 1909 story about a ghost car right now, and the narrator just said he honked the car horn a bunch of times, but the way he phrased it was "I wrought a wild concerto on the hooter".

[bigmickswingin]

a very important part of a theory is that it's a rational contemplation.

when you just come up with something that you think might be neat or interesting, or you like the vibes of, that's probably speculation.

Giggling

[victusinveritas]

[incognitopolls]

Hypothetical scenario: someone is on Ao3, looking for fanfiction to read. This person only speaks/reads English, and they set the language filter to only show fics written in English.

We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

[mehilaiselokuva]

Why did you learn Finnish?

To communicate with my parents and extended family. At age 1 I started to feel a bit hungry and decided I should start speaking so that my parents would feed me.

Hope this helps!

[gongyussy]

i'll let phie-san say it:

[sukinapan]

[theothin]

data poisoning

Games like elden ring can be very "dangerous" for English as a second language speakers.

I have to consciously remind myself, especially if I am interacting with an English speaking client or business partner at work, that this is not how normal people talk.

Thou must have some business in mind, to come all this way.

A pleasure to meet thee, I'd heard tell of a new client.

Heed my words. The meeting tomorrow will be rescheduled.

What is thy business with these files?

I was entrusted this, for thee, a summary of the last meeting.

Thou art of passing skill, this excel list is perfect!

I doubt we shall again meet. I am only helping out on this project.

[a-word-a-day-for-writers]

𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲

The art or science of gesticulation, or of moving the hands according to rule in oratory, pantomime, etc.