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[michael-4rt]

(via Impression rigide avec l'œuvre « Grue_Divina » de l'artiste michael-4rt)

[revenant-coining]

Stormaffic

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for kami ^w^

Stormaffic: a gender connected to having a particular affection and/or affinity for/towards storms.

Etymology: storm, affic

for day 3 of our event; for the prompt: “storms”

@radiomogai

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[music-oc-tournament]

PINK TOURNAMENT ROUND 1

AFFIC, CONDITIONALLY IMMORTAL (~250 YRS), ANY PRONOUNS. A GOD OF RELATIONSHIPS (BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE), LOVES MEDDLING IN THE AFFAIRS OF MORTALS, CREATED BY @rutilated-quarz

SALUTATION, 31, HE/SHE. A MULTIDIMENSIONAL CONMAN WITH INCREDIBLE POWERS, CREATED BY @pinkauraflora

[rutilated-quarz]

Affic propoganda for @pink-oc-tournament ! Silly little beasts represent >:3c

[wodenscild]

YEAH- THATS APT- Also! I LOVE THE MONGOLIAN ON THIS ONE MY BRAIN WENT BRRRRRR!!!! I KNEW THESE WORDS FELT FAMILIAR! (After simp: öödrög/optimistic, teneg/silly or stupid)

Thanks for the tag Raf :D & YALLS NEED THERAPY OMGS!

Tags: @transfrogmer @giddyfenix @what-aboutno

Let's all be in a TV show!!!

> Do this quiz

> do this picrew (Based on urself + quiz answers)

> tag ppl

> profit.

Tags (/nf ofc):

@mxlilly @circus-of-horror @yourleastfavoriteguyinthechair @microsoupmouse @the-firefly-jar-system @punkrockinchair @theplushiesystem @coded-pup @florasolarsystem + ANYONE else who wants to join

[multiversetravelingjournalist]

Conlang Idea: Sargonian's "Half voicing"

I came up with a new concept for one of my Arknights fanlangs. I call it "half-voicing" where, in addition to them being fully voiced or voiceless, consonants can be part voiced and part voiceless. For example: /s/,/sz/,/z/, and/zs/ where the second and fourth are considered the same as the first and/or third just with half voicing and starting at one voiced state before going into the other one (hope that makes sense). This was inspired by a character from one of the regions of the game's setting. specifically, his name "Lugalszargus" in which the "sz" sequence caught my attention. Personally, I feel that the continuants such as nasals, fricatives, and approximates would be more noticeable in half voicing. This also applies to the various afficate-like combined consonants such as: /pf/, /pv/, /bv/, and /bf/. when combining all that together, it gives me quite the set of phonemes to work with.

[zasqiaaa]

Hello my name is Zasqia , today i Will describe my mom , because my mom really inspired

My mom is very very beautiful , my mom works as a police afficer so sometimes she is at home like a lion , my mom is 34 years old And this year she’s gonna be 35 , my mom hobbies are cooking , driving , And joging , my mom is very tall , she also has short hair , fair skin , she is very friendly smile , she has also taken care of me for 13 years so it's no wonder I love her so much. Basically my mom is the best woman in my life and means a lot to me.And Many more that cannot be explained one by one

Maybe that’s all i can explain about my mom thank you so much 🫶🫶

[elinfo66]

Candidature de Lucie Castets : réactions à gauche à l'indifférence affic...

[senzacaponecoda]

Poll Conlang: Obstruents part 1

5 votes in 5 different places... But I can pick a winner based on how the subcomponents played out.

Three of the votes were in the minimal nasals category, compared to two in the max. So so far we have /m/ and potentially an assymilating /n/. I'll write those <m> and <n> for the time being.

The other option was relatively well distributed; the only category to get two votes was no liquids. Typologically that's kind of rare and implies our /n/ might have some liquid properties as the nearest kind of sonorant. Maybe our n can be a nasal tap?

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So obstruents are where a lot of the meat of consonant information lies.

Obstruent stops are kind of prototypical. If we don't have any other kind of obstruent we'll have stops.

Almost all languages have a sibilant of some kind, /s/. For physical, phonetic reasons, the sibilant often can be completely invisible to the sonorant hierarchy, allowing it to often form clusters in languages that otherwise avoid clusters. The sibilant is prototypically a (front, i.e. dental or alveolar) coronal (it makes its characteristic sound by directing air stream to the teeth) and often, if voiced, is only voiced secondarily, for example between vowels or by assimilation. Sometimes neighboring sounds, like /z/, or the back coronals end up acting like the true sibilant, but usually this is more for historical reasons (inheriting a sibilant's information load) than phonetic. We (I guess I and one other person) decided against having back coronals, however, and the exact phonetics of /s/ can be decided on on a later date. So for now it's pretty much just a binary choice, have a sibilant or not.

Maybe the second most important question is whether to contrast non-sibilant fricatives and non-fricatives. Many Australian languages do not and many Dravidian languages do not. Of the world's languages, about 9% lack them entirely, altho most of these make an except for /h/, which is usually just a debuccalized something else and not a true fricative.

It's kind of a thing statistically that /p/ is less common in languages spoken by people living an agricultural lifestyle, often shifting to /f/. This has been attributed to recent shifts how we use our jaws and the evolutionary pressures on them, and does seem to be statistically real. But, eh, I don't know how much stock I put into the hypothesis.

It's rare to have fricatives without sibilants. I don't even know of any truly; Turkmen has /θ/ where other Turkish languages have /s/ but in practice /θ/ just acts like a sibilant and as far as I can tell is maybe best understood as just a dental s being a little extra.

Obstruents usually come with degrees of secondary phonation; many languages have 2~3 series of stops and a similar number of non-sibilant distinctions. Because that's a large number of choices to compound and compounds with fricatives, I'll leave it to next time.

Another question is affricates. But what are underlyingly palatal stops usually just get realized as afficates phonetically for physiological reasons. Usually when there are others it's because they come from palatals, such as shifting tʃ -> ts. If we have no sibilant, there'd be strong pressure on one of these to become it. Probably something we can decide once we clean up whether our front or back dorsals are palatal or uvular.

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[revenant-coining]

Pinkaffic

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Pinkaffic: a gender connected to having a particular affection and/or affinity for/towards the color pink.

Etymology: pink, affic

@radiomogai , @imawanokiwaaa

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[ffuffy]

go tr

affic l

I wanna test something. The outcome may affect something I'm planning to do... :)

[music-oc-tournament]

AND DOWN THE STAGE COME OUR PINK PARTICIPANTS!

The time for propaganda is NOW! Whether you’re participating yourself or just a fan, feel free to send propaganda my way via submissions, tagged posts, whatever! Art, writing, playlists, moodboards, shitposts, anything to put your pink person on top!

The first round of polls will officially start on Monday, the 19th. Matchups, and their respective owners, are under the cut!

WHYAN, SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS OLD, HE/THEY. A PLANET EATING CREATURE FROM SPACE WITH SOCIAL ANXIETY, CREATED BY @sushispider1212

VS

BANG, INDETERMINATE AGE, ANY PRONOUNS. A MINOR DEITY OF DESTRUCTION THAT LOVES BEING A MENACE TO SOCIETY, CREATED BY @tiktaaliker

AFFIC, CONDITIONALLY IMMORTAL (~250 YRS), ANY PRONOUNS. A GOD OF RELATIONSHIPS (BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE), LOVES MEDDLING IN THE AFFAIRS OF MORTALS, CREATED BY @rutilated-quarz

VS

SALUTATION, 31, HE/SHE. A MULTIDIMENSIONAL CONMAN WITH INCREDIBLE POWERS, CREATED BY @pinkauraflora

VALENTINE, CREATED IN THE YEAR 2000, HE/HIM. ONCE WAS AN EMAIL ADD-ON THAT SENT LOVE LETTERS OF POSITIVITY, NOW HAS BECOME CORRUPTED BY A VIRUS AND TRAVELS BETWEEN COMPUTERS CAUSING CHAOS, CREATED BY @chrispy3

VS

R4B.BYT, ADULT, SHE/HER. A SILLY CARTOONY ROBOT WHO RUNS AN UNDERGROUND FIGHT CLUB WITH HER GIRLFRIEND, CREATED BY @arcaneyouth

KEVIN, AGELESS, ANY PRONOUNS. A GHOST BLOB THAT LIKES TO FLOAT AND WALK THROUGH THINGS, CREATED BY @kirbyepicyarn134

VS

CAT HAX, AGELESS, IT/THEY/SHE/MEOW. A SILLY CUTE ROBOTIC CAT, CREATED BY @auburn-cat043

KIERAN MIST, 28, THEY/THEM. A FASHION DESIGNER FOR VILLAINS WHO HYPNOTIZES HEROES INTO BEING THEIR MODELS AND ASSISTANTS, CREATED BY @threedeemensional

VS

HIROYUKI 'HIRO' SAKURADO, 17, HE/THEY/???. A TRANS MAGICAL BOY VAMPIRE WHO KILLS CAPITALISTS, CREATED BY @cinnamin-is-a-star

PENELOPE LEPORI, 16, SHE/HER. AN OUTSPOKEN PUNK REBEL WHO LOVES ART, ANARCHY, AND BRINGING LIGHT AND LOVE TO THOSE AROUND HER, CREATED BY @thewikiplayer

VS

CHERRY ICECREAM, 21, SHE/HER/IT. A CUTESY, BUBBLY, FOOD THEMED TRANSFEM IN A WHOLESOME T4T RELATIONSHIP. CREATED BY @davidthephoneguy

DIONYSUS, 28, SHE/HER. RUNS AN INN/PUB ON A FISHING PORT, SWEARS LIKE A SAILOR BUT HAS A SWEET AND POSITIVE ATTITUDE, CREATED BY @velvety-love

VS

CUPID, EARLY/MID 20'S, HE/HIM. AN EASILY TRUSTING LOVERBOY DOOMED BY THE NARRATIVE, CREATED BY @insertsona

CHIKA, 200ISH, HE/HIM. A UNICORN INHABITING A HUMAN FORM, SHY AND EASY TO STARTLE, CREATED BY @to-beloved

VS

MACHKIEL 'MAC' SILVERTONGUE, 16, FLUID PRONOUNS (DEFAULTS TO HE/THEY). A PINK TIEFLING WILD MAGE WITH A PUNK AESTHETIC, CREATED BY @prizmpaws

[rutilated-quarz]

silly little animation of my guy affic bc . why not. i needed to test out using moho pro. anyway go vote for him in @pink-oc-tournament :P

[marketingstrategy1]

New Year 2023:नए साल के जश्न में गलती पड़ सकती है भारी, वाराणसी में ट्रैफिक एडवाइजरी जारी, ये रूट रहेंगे बंद - Affic Advisory Issued In Varanasi For New Year 2023 Celebration Many Routs Closed

New Year 2023:नए साल के जश्न में गलती पड़ सकती है भारी, वाराणसी में ट्रैफिक एडवाइजरी जारी, ये रूट रहेंगे बंद – Affic Advisory Issued In Varanasi For New Year 2023 Celebration Many Routs Closed

नव वर्ष की पूर्व संध्या पर गंगा पार जश्न मनाती छात्राएं – फोटो : अमर उजाला ख़बर सुनें ख़बर सुनें नव वर्ष पर रविवार को वाराणसी शहर में उमड़ने वाली भीड़ को देखते हुए यातायात पुलिस ने रूट डायवर्जन किया है। यातायात नियमों का उल्लंघन करने वालों के खिलाफ कार्रवाई होगी। जौनपुर, आजमगढ़, प्रयागराज और भदोही, गाजीपुर आने वाली निजी बसें, रोडवेज बसों को शहर की सीमा पर ही रोका जाएगा। ��हीं, शाम पांच बजे के…

[varldsormr]

He does not know for what precisely he looks, and as such he spends some time hovering a bit awkwardly amongst the stalls, the inherent stiffness in his limbs and uncertainty of his search carrying him rather slowly from display onto the next - a lingering which seems to inspire some uneasiness amongst the merchants and fellow early bird purveyors around, who track him with a darting gaze. Though none appear to have the gall to question him directly (save one or two who with mustered chipper ask if he 'sees anything he likes', to which they recieve a dismissive grunt and simple raise of the hand before he moves on) he cannot entierly fault their caution;

Jhin's harsh demeanour had suited him well in the past, but as townfolk, he blends in poorly. Looming disconcertingly tall in his roughened coat and buttoned shirt a size unfitting, dark eyes with tired shadows underneath and an almost permanently afficed scowl to his weary expression - he supposes he mightn't look terribly easing to these people. All the more reason to be quick about his business, then, and return before he gets wrapped up in some untennable social encounter. Or worse, still--

As the barman draws towards a pleasant aroma that'd caught his scent from over yonder, letting it guide him towards another stand and turning his gaze to pre-emptively to seek a glance at its fragrant stock instead of looking ahead of where he's walking, he's brought to an abrupt halt by a sudden thud gainst his front. Though not quite enough to stagger him, it does prompt a jolt of alertness as well as a rise of irritation to spring through at having been walked into - until his head snaps down, and the sight of the woman below makes his chest drop just as soon as it'd risen.

Perhaps it is the air of grogginess hung over him, too gently balmed by the fresh spring air that'd clouded his reason until at all at once it's washed away. Perhaps it is the manner through which his confrontation with the devil had ended, how he'd been surprised, bitter and relieved all together to have neither seen nor heard whiff or hide of his old partner nor anyone else since he'd stalked out that door and into the cold winter night those weeks ago - but somehow he did not consider the thought that he may run into other familiar faces, out here. That he may suddenly be face with fairer features, that red-blossomed hair and familiar deep earthen eyes, looking up at him.

That he may find her, of all people, through some cruel twist of heart.

"... Dahlia?"

Ever since that night of raging diamond snow when Thorne had come through her bedroom door a broken, incoherent mess with news of the underworld on his tongue, Dahlia had avoided leaving the house. It was one thing to know the man was alive and had returned to town, clawed out of an early grave no doubt, it was another to learn that he didn't want to see them. To see her. When pressed for answers, Thorne had only offered a dejected shrug. It seemed that not even the devil could understand this change of heart. Comfort had been found in self-flagellation: as the mastermind of their ventures she must have missed something about that whole heist that led to its tragic end. It was only natural, then, if Jhin had closed the door on that part of his life she once had so much power over.

If he didn't want to see her, she would strive not to meet this ghost either. For weeks she gets someone else to run her errands, keeping mostly to her bedroom with the shutters locked and in the grips of malaise. Any little thing seems to trigger off a pounding headache – noise as proof of life happening in the house, food, lack of food, drink, delays in her cycle. Pops is sent up to check on her, but his solution is steaming and crying, 'too much muck in that head of yours'. Well, thanks. Alas, it does help.

When Gloria is bedridden with her annual cold, punctual as always, Dahlia at last feels like the unavoidable has caught up to her and she must take the cart down with Esmeralda, maybe one of the boys, to stock up before another spell of late snow eats away their resources. They head out early on a clear morning, the sky a gauzy green, some of the night still clinging to it. The good thing about doing this with the girl and Billy is that neither would ask questions, and neither would know what Jhin looks like, even if they did see him. It's unlikely, she says to herself; if he's running a saloon he must be running on a different schedule, or so she parrots every time a nervous wave licks at her insides. "God, I am not ready." She whispers under her breath, picking carrots by the bunch, dropping coins into dirt-encrusted hands, drifting away from small talk and 'haven't seen you around lately's.

Esmeralda has disappeared into the butcher's. Billy sleepily picks at his fingernails and hauls baskets of fresh ingredients into the wooden cart. Dahlia follows her list until a faint aroma of anise and cloves in the breeze carries her attention elsewhere – a visiting vendor that brings spices, nuts and charms. A long way from home they are. The lady meanders over to their stall, her list crumpled in one gloved hand, the sleeves of her shirt rolled despite the cold, her thick shawl wrapped loosely around her frame. All that tension had her feeling feverish, easily distracted, afraid to turn her head or glance in the general direction of where her feet wanted to go.