#North Sound

[daily-quiz-join]

देश के लिये खेलने को फ्रेंचाइजी क्रिकेट पर तरजीह दें West Indies के खिलाड़ी, कहा कप्तान पॉवेल ने

प्रतिरूप फोटो icc वेस्टइंडीज टीम के कप्तान ने कैरेबियाई क्रिकेट की रौनक लौटाने के लिये टीम की तारीफ की है लेकिन खिलाड़ियों से अनुरोध किया कि वे फ्रेंचाइजी क्रिकेट की बजाय देश के लिये खेलने को तरजीह दें। दो बार की चैम्पियन वेस्टइंडीज टीम दक्षिण अफ्रीका से वर्षाबाधित सुपर आठ चरण के मैच में हारकर सेमीफाइनल में प्रवेश से चूक गई। नॉर्थ साउंड । टी20 विश्व कप से बाहर हो चुकी वेस्टइंडीज टीम के कप्तान…

[ostdrossel]

It was a Cardinal bonanza here today! I loved the coming and going and the sounds in this clip. Hope you enjoy too.

[serpentface]

WARDI WRITTEN LANGUAGE (BASICS).

Couya's full name (properly 'Haidamane Couya') written formally and with common handwriting conventions.

The Wardi written language derives from earlier proto-language systems consisting exclusively of logograms without direct phonetic meaning or grammatical structure. These symbols gradually became simplified and abstracted to the point of many having little intrinsic clarity, and combined to communicate abstract concepts.

The development of a full written language did not occur independently (as very few written languages do), and its phonetic elements (namely its use of syllabograms) were largely derived the 'ancient' Burri writing system, gradually synthesized with native writing conventions, and in the contemporary forms a wholly distinct system. The language's Relatively universalized form is a very recent phenomena, developing within the past two centuries with the region's conquering/unification into a single entity.

The contemporary written language is a mixture of logograms and syllabograms. It is read from right to left and arranged in horizontal columns. The most formal variant of this system contains each character within a square outline, usually separated by a small space. This outline confers little phonetic or symbolic information beyond making distinction between syllables exceptionally clear, and can be (and often is) omitted in handwriting. The separation of words is conveyed through a narrow rectangle or line in formal contexts, and again often omitted in handwriting (instead indicated instead by a wider blank space).

The pure logograms that have been retained in this writing system tend to be those of very common words or specific concepts (most logogram characters for types of livestock, key crops, water, major body parts, etc are widely recognized and in common use). There has not yet been any attempts to fully 'formalize' the language and omit potentially unnecessary logograms, and they remain frequently used as shorthand while conveying the same semantic information.

Many of the syllabogram characters are directly derived from logograms that depicted monosyllabic words. For example, the spoken word 'gan' means 'cow', and the character for the syllable 'gan' is identical to the common logogram for 'cow'.

The name Gantoche (literally "cow-eye") could be written either fully with syllabograms as:

or through logograms as:

Both ultimately communicate the same meaning, but the former clarifies pronunciation (the words gan and atoche are contracted, it's gantoche and not gan-atoche).

It is a relatively easy written language to learn, as the pure syllabogram characters indicate their own pronunciation with little ambiguity and often have consistency to their construction (ie the character for the syllable 'man' contains most of the same elements as that for the syllable 'wan'- the dot placement in particular has indication of the vowel sounds).

The inclusion of logograms in general and many of the syllabic characters being directly imported From logograms complicates matters. These characters lack visual consistency, and can be confusing to the large swath of the public who know common logograms but not the full written language itself. Ie: the word 'ungande' meaning 'liver' will be composed of logogram-derived syllable characters for 'un' (which alone means 'hand') and 'gan' (which alone means 'cow'). Someone who is only semi-literate in common logograms may be confused at the meaning, especially since these same exact same characters may be used elsewhere on their own to indicate 'hand' or 'cow'.

One major exception to this tendency is that current religious doctrine requires established logogram characters describing God to be used in place of syllabic characters. The word for god is 'Od', and has its own unique character (as do each of the Faces, the capital F 'Face', and Its deified pronoun). The syllable 'od' [oʊd] is very common in the Wardi language, and a wholly separate character is used for the phonetic sound when it is not a reference to the deity (ie 'lion' (odo [oʊdoʊ]) does not contain the same character for God in spite of its first syllable having the exact same pronunciation). Names are a bit of a gray area (ie: the name 'Odabi' is very common and carries the meaning of 'gift/blessing from God'). Religious leadership is currently experiencing a mild schism on whether the written character for God is separated due to being wholly sacrosanct (and thus inappropriate to include in the written form of a personal name) or as more of a functional delineation of the sacred and mundane.

[randybutternubber]

Shitting out fire tonight

Og images under cut

It won’t let me add any other photos but the one with jester was a dead fish and the thin man one just had the name and pfp switched

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Leafed through what I think is one of the best Spanish translations of North and South, 30 dead, 79 injured.

[indigo-flowers09]

1c Stanley

lmao got the same pose for the same guy just different universes

so i did em at the same time 😛

you can’t convince me these absolute goobers wouldn’t hit the exact same pose the SECOND that the fact they met another version of themselves hit them

also og thing + more of em :3

[death-of-cats]

Catelyn II ASOS

lmaoooo Catelyn being like 'yeah let's be real here that guy's life was basically worthless to everyone.'

in all seriousness, it is striking how frankly both Catelyn and Robb talk about Theon being a hostage for them to kill strategically to pursue their military interests. kinda undermines the case that Theon should be considered a kinslayer in anything more than a very technical, legalistic sense.

[handweavers]

something really funny that once you notice you can't unsee: whenever a musician/band/artist's bio describes themself as 'north american' they are canadian but trying not to alienate their usamerican audience lmfao. whenever someone is described as "an important figure in north american folk music" they were probably born in like nova scotia or alberta it's so funny

[ricky-mortis]

Howdy hello- guess who made a wings au :)

More to come with this eventually- I’m working on my designs for other characters at the moment, but for now we’ve got Red-Tailed Hawk for Curt and Eagle Owl for Owen.

For DMA I had Barn Owl wings because a) Barn Owls are beautiful and I wanted to draw the wings for them, and more importantly, b) Owen would probably want to disguise his wings, and it would make sense if it was as a different type of owl. I just assume he’d dye his feathers in some way or another. Look- just don’t think about it too much.

[bmpmp3]

not used to this kind of mascot

[green-algae]

10/08/2024; Corolla, North Carolina

[bravenew-what]

Christmas Eve sky.

@heavymetallibrarian @lock-my-feelings-in-a-jar

[ostdrossel]

Do you have special songs,

smells or sounds that instantly transport you to a time or place? These guys do that for me. Once I am hearing them, I know spring is on the way. Male Redwinged Blackbirds usually appear first, along with Grackles, but yesterday, I also saw the first females, as well as some Cowbirds. So despite the snow this morning, spring is really unfolding!

[bisexualseraphim]

If any of you have trouble understanding why British slang is the way it is… I don’t have a fucking clue either. How and why the fuck does “mad” “proper” and “dead” all mean “very”

[randybutternubber]

Eat up you goofy goobers

Og pics under cut

MADE MORE: https://www.tumblr.com/randybutternubber/754635268221550592/i-gotta-make-more-of-these-bc-they-make-me-giggle