#Language

[whetstonefires]

btw, since i've seen this mistake several times in the last week:

it's not 'been put through the ringer.' what would that mean. what would the ringer do to you.

it's the wringer. a device for squishing the water out of clothes so they'll dry faster on the line. wringing them out.

[spaghettiwritten]

rosettes:

acosmist - One who believes that nothing exists paralian - A person who lives near the sea aureate - Pertaining to the fancy or flowery words used by poets  dwale - To wander about deliriously sabaism - The worship of stars dysphoria - An unwell feeling aubade - A love song which is sung at dawn eumoirous - Happiness due to being honest and wholesome mimp - To speak in a prissy manner, usually with pursed lips

Rare Words

[diana-andraste]

[vempress]

it’s so painful to study another language when there isn’t a lot of content available in your country. what was the internet even made for, if not to share knowledge across borders? here i am, stuck watching dubbed american tv shows, when there is a whole world of native german shows that will never reach my screen.

[yuna-greeks]

What languages does Hannibal speak?

So I thought about it. Especially because there are many fics where people just give him a language he can speak.

So I thought about what is officially canon (for the NBC Hannibal), what makes logical sense and what is fanon

Canon:

- Lithuanian: He is Lithuanian and grew up there till the age of 16

- English: He lived in the US

- Italian: he lived there in his late teens and early twenties, season 3 first half

- French: he went to a boring school in Paris, first scene in S3/ the Bonsoir scene

What makes logical sense:

- Russian: mandatory language in Lithuania during the Soviet Union

- Japanese: his aunt Lady Murasaki was Japanese, likely that he leaned it

- Latin: medical terms, his interests in art and culture, knowledge about ancient greek and rom

Fanon:

Basically give him a reason to speak a language and he can speak it.

Like Spanish: is widely spoken in the US, close to Italy and France, comes in handy for medical and social work. So why not. Also because this way he knows if someone is rude in a nother language

[dedalvs]

do u have a favorite phrase in chakobsa?

I love Zaiha lek for "to be crazy", which literally means to drink sand. Jessie came up with that while we were working on the set of Dune: Part Two over in Budapest. She only worked on the second movie with me, but she really breathed life into the language. Her contributions are indelible, and a big part of what makes the language what it is.

[gothicseverance]

Purple prose is a divisive practice in modern times, but a certain amount of it is expected in a Gothic novel.

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Art by SummerRay 🖤

[victusinveritas]

[cosmogyros]

Okay, this is mostly correct but still has a few misleading omissions that appear to be confusing people, so I will once again beg everybody to go look this up from an actual academic source (no, not ChatGPT; no, not Reddit; no, not Quora; no, not Stack Exchange) if you really care about getting it right. Something like this. Or even just the Wikipedia articles for thou and ye.

1. I assume OP stuck a "he" in here (which is confusing people in the notes) as an attempt to indicate that "thou" is in the nominative case. Because "he" is another word that's in the nominative case. Even though it means something completely different.

2. All the words beginning with "t" (thou/thee/thy/thine) are the informal singular. That means you use them only when addressing an individual that you're relatively intimate with. "Ye" and "you", on the other hand, can be either plural or formal (or both). So if you're talking to multiple people and/or people in a higher social position, you'd use ye/you instead.

3. "Thou" is the subject and "thee" is the object. Thus, thou performeth an action, but an action is done to thee.

4. Similarly, "ye" is the subject and "you" is the object. (For groups of people and for individuals of high rank, remember.)

5. OP's explanation of thy/thine is almost correct: it's exactly the same word and merely varies depending on the initial sound of the word immediately following it. So if the following word starts with a consonant sound (like "dog" or "yellow" or "university"), you'd use "thy". If it starts with a vowel sound (like "egg" or "owl" or "heir"), you'd use "thine".

6. "Thine" is also the informal singular equivalent of "yours". "It is yours", converted to the informal singular, becomes "It is thine." You would never say "It is thy."

7. Also, addressing some of the comments in the notes: this is not "Old English". The corresponding Old English pronouns would be þu/þec/þe/þin (singular), git/incit/inc/incer (dual) and ge/eowic/eow/eower (plural). Old English clearly has nothing to do with all this.

But most importantly: This stuff is actually rather complicated and the best way to learn it properly is by reading lots of Early Modern English and picking it up automatically. But that takes years and lots of effort, and if you want to write knight yaoi, honestly you should just go ahead and do it without worrying about getting this stuff right. Just know that you're probably not getting it right, and that's fine, and most of your readers won't know or care. And don't necessarily trust random people on Tumblr to understand these sorts of linguistic rules correctly.*

*Yes, that includes me. If, despite my exhortation in that last paragraph above, you still decide you want to learn to use all these pronouns properly, then please don't trust ANY post on Tumblr, including this one, to be your "Holy Grail" explanation. As I said at the beginning: if this truly matters to you, do a few minutes of proper research and find a trustworthy academic source.

hey when you make posts, i just want you to know, thou/thee/thy/thine/ye are like he/you(object)/your/yours/you(subject) okay? "thou art wearing shoes," "i will wear shoes for thee," okay?

you say thine if the next word starts with a vowel and thy if the next word starts with a consonant and they both mean "your" so "thine own shoes," "thy shoes," okay?

and ye means you and refers to the subject of a sentence, "ye members of the brotherhood of shoes," okay? you need this information to create better knight yaoi. i'm personally more interested in nun yuri but we are a community

[neosatsuma]

jury-rigged. even keel. by the board. three sheets to the wind. loose cannon. son of a gun. pipe down. taken aback.

[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".

[luck-13]

Semitic languages are supposed to be without vowels. Some exist, but omitted often. Eg. as far as I know, Hebrew doesn't have an A if it's second in a word. An A in the end of a word isn't spelt too, but a special letter for an H is there instead. An E doesn't exist at all.

Note: I'm not a Hebrew speaker.

A lttr of th alphabt has gon missing! Its up to you to figur out why and how this vry important lttr could hav dissapard, and gt it back.

[doctorslippery]

[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.

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[tayalla]

there's this word in Serbian 'vukojebina' which literally means 'the place where wolves go to fuck' but they use it to mean 'in the middle of nowhere'. it sure does the job well, but the visual stayed with me longer than I would have liked it to.