#Please make a new post if continuing

[historias-multorum]

[For Hana Inuzuka if she is in the rotation for this month]

Recently, someone has been visiting the animal shelter rather often. A woman about Hana's age with blonde hair and a somewhat heavyset appearance. Although she never adopted a pet, she would always check on the dogs, playing with them and brushing their fur. She seemed to have enough stamina to make sure that each dog's play session got their energy out.

It's another day, and Sara walks in to care for the dogs again. Her eyes light up when she sees them.

@jami-multimuse

Hana was doing her rounds within the shelter as she normally had. She was in charge of everything after all and wanted to make sure everything was running smoothly.

As she had her feet up in the front, she noticed a visitor had come in and put her feet down.

"Hello, what can I do for you?"

[stemmmm]

more people gotta try this shit where bill has not improved and will not change but he's just chilling so its fine probably. its great

[seventh-district]

Making Incorrect H:SR Quotes Until I Run Out of (hopefully) Original Ideas - Pt. 5 - I Finally Finished the 2.2 Main Quest Edition

[Pt. 1] [Pt. 2] [Pt. 3] [Pt. 4] [Pt. 6]

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Actually, the bars aren't so bad anymore.

Think you can fix him? Read about his care instructions over at Tiger Tiger)

[wyrmagedon]

woah molly how’d you do that. rambly in the tags

[st4rstudent]

I think almost everyone's aware now but for anyone who isn't; TTCC has moved wikis.

The new wiki (please do use it) is Here !

There is also an extension to help remove fandom wikis from search results which is linked Here! There is also another extension Here that links to other independent wikis.

You can also find the reddit post about the move Here.

[soulstumble]

Moved to a new thread / @alchemistdetective

"Eager are we? You might not find those ocean fish here, but there's enough. Filet them nice, makes for good food too." She doesn't mind the company, what she's doing right now takes time especially without a vast array of extra brains to pass the processing onto.

"Hmm you could call it that. I'm processing some messages from my sisters. You could say they just sent me a few years of letters all at once." She brings that holotablet back in front, it's probably strange to see but she can pass it off as magic if they ask. On it there's just endless words being written and scrolled by.

"And I need the water to cool down. See?" There's a few holes in her legs, water seems to circle around her just a little. "Like a doll that can overheat. If that makes senses. Not what you expected to fish beside today hmm? Miss hmm your name?"

[yuttikkele]

there’s no way the new norm is a real thing holy cow…

chaz’s design is genuinely cool as heck tho ngl

[qoldenskies]

You mentioned wanting to do something celebratory, have you considered a DTIYS or an art contest? :> I'd love to see more Canary Continuity art!!

very sweet sentiment but i am too shy for a dtiys (and potentially too small, as a creator lol) and i have nothing to give away for an art contest so alas .... naur. i might draw some art for myself at least? idk what OF but itd be nice to make smthn kind of official

[best-non-english-word-torunament]

Why are languages similar to each other?

Let's talk about the way languages are connected to each other!

First, the obvious one...

Language families!

Languages with a common origin form a language family. Language evolves and changes over time, so populations speaking the same language in different places will over hundreds of years form different languages since they evolve in different ways. Now imagine one of those daughter languages splitting again and again... Soon there's a whole family of related but mutually unintelligible languages!

So, are all language families big? And how many are there?

We have two giants with over a thousand languages each: Atlantic-Congo languages and Austronesian languages. Some families have a couple hundred languages, like the famous prototypical examle Indo-European languages. Most families have lots fewer though, only a sixth of all 237 language families contain more than ten languages.

Some languages don't have any relatives and they're called isolates. At present, 184 languages count as isolates, among them Basque and Sandawe.

Some languages are unclassified, as there's too little data to draw conclusions. Family membership is based on comparing cognates, words that have the same origin and whose sound changes can be reconstructed back to the origin (like English 'two', Swedish 'två' and German 'zwei'). It's also common for close relatives to have similar grammar or other features. An example is that Austronesian languages often have fewer consonants.

Language contact!

Two languages meet. What happens? Loans, probably.

Languages borrow things from each other all the time. Words, sounds, grammatical structures and features (like prefixes or suffixes), changing the meaning of something, literally translating words and making up words in the style of another language are all things that happen. Fun loan word facts might be its own post as there's a lot to say about them, for now I only need to establish the fact that language contact probably leads to borrowing stuff and that you can borrow more than words.

Did you know that English didn't have the sound v until it borrowed too many French words with v? Before that, v wasn't recognised as its own sound, just a variant of f that happened sometimes. That's why knives are a thing. Knifes.

There are more levels of similarity due to contact! In areas where languages from different families or different branches from the same family meet and mingle for a long time, they might evolve to become more similar and share some features that might be uncommon globally or uncommon among closer relatives in other areas. These unrelated (or not very closely related) languages share some features, like certain scounds and grammar things. This is called a Sprachbund with a German word. It's possible to say 'linguistic area' or something like that, but it's not as well established and in my opinion sounds worse.

Certain features of a language can also be common in some areas, but not in others. One example is tone; it's very common in sub-saharan Africa and southeastern Asia, but only exists sporadically in other parts of the world. Why? Related languages tend to share features, but language contact definitely plays a role, as unrelated languages have tone. It's language contact!

The point is: Languages that have lots of contact might be similar because of that. Languages are usually influenced both by family origin and by the languages they come into contact with, which makes things interesting.

Onto the last thing I wanted to discuss:

Contact languages!

These arise when speakers of vastly different languages meet and have to communicate, but there isn't a lingua franca. There are two major reasons why this happens: either for commerce or because of slavery or other colonialistic practices.

Anyways, they're pretty interesting! The first kind of contact language that forms is called a pidgin. Its vocabulary is limited and the grammar is simple. There are no native speakers and you can only use it in a few domains (like being able to talk about commerce but not politics).

Now, imagine a community of people speaking this pidgin, made by improvising until something sticks. There are words and a little bit of grammar. Over time it will get a bit more complex, but still no native speakers. Then some of them form families and have children, who grow up speaking the pidgin.

And this is where the magic happens: children have an amazing ability to invent language by making generalisations and improvise until they can speak about anything. There are examples of children deprived of language coming up with entire languages if left alone (like the Deaf school in Nicaragua which tried to teach lip reading and not sign language, but the children came up with a sign language on their own that they started teaching instead). Children will fill in the gaps in the pidgin and give it a more complex structure.

After some time of this the pidgin turns into a creole. The line between them is blurry and unclear, but a creole is a fully realised language that you can speak about anything in, just like all other languages. It also has native speakers.

There's a common way pidgins and creoles are structured: usually one language is used as the base for words, but they're changed and reanalysed to mean something else. This language has often been the colonial power's language: there are a number of English and French based creoles for example.

The grammar on the other hand is usually taken from the other language(s). In the slavery cases, slaves were often taken from many different ethnic groups that might speak similar but mutually unintelligeble languages, or just very different languages, which means that those creoles draw on features from many languages. Of course, words can be based on any of the involved languages, but it's common that one makes up an overwhelming majority. The creoles are still unintelligible for speakers of the language it's based on.

This was all for now! Languages interact with each other in interesting ways and similarities can have many reasons.

[historias-multorum]

[ patch + reverse] - with Shouto and Iida?

The ultimate affectionate gestures compilation

@heromuses

[ patch ] - for sender to patch up receiver's wound/s

"Shoto you have to be more careful!" Tenya scolded.

He was apply the antiseptic onto one of Shoto's many open wounds. They had barely survived a brutal villain attack not too long ago. Tenya got pretty banged up too, but he was more concerned over Shoto if anything else.

[iamstilldefinitelytheratking]

*screaming, banging on the walls* LET ME OUT!!! I'VE BEEN HERE FOR 3 FUCKING MONTHS!!!!! I'VE GOT A FAMILY!!!

[arolesbianism]

Shakes and cries I wanna make Jackie parent hc designs but I can't because potentially one of them is a prevalent character now and her ass has not spoken a single line yet so I both know nothing and can't just start making shit up yet </3333

[wavernot4love]

oh buddy i am currently having a Moment because what do you Mean i see fall out boy again in ten days .... ten days ,,,, we are almost into single digits oh this has crept up on me SO soon

[mikrrokosmos]

trivia: seesaw acoustic is the best thing to ever happen actually

[nonbinary-octopus]

new phone. what the fuck