#anyway. bilingual memes for today

[qrichas]

[petalsbleedingbeak666]

As a bilingual, all these happened to me. It's sometimes you forget the word, but much likely you use the correct word in your second language but with your first language grammar.

Czechs for example tend to mess the prepositions all the time. We don't differ between in and at, we use IN whether we're inside the building or whether we're partaking in the institution. So a Czech bilingual - and I believe all Slavic bilinguals - often tells you shit like 'yeah, I'm in school' while on a field trip. I think it's the most common mistake I came over during teaching.

Also, not exactly useful in a conversation but let me share my personal experience with you. Well, two bits of thereof. As I said, I'm bilingual. I'm not ashamed to say I'm better in English than in my actual mother tongue, Czech.

I'm learning Gaeilge on Duolingo. And every so often, I translate a sentence correctly in it's meaning BUT make a grammar mistake in English. I make a mistake I don't normally do in a conversation. I make a stupid mistake such as omitting the definite article WHICH I KNOW IS THERE but it's equivalent isn't used in Irish and it throws me off so bad I say a thing I wouldn't normally say in English just to make it analogic to Irish. It's stupid and I know it shouldn't be happening, but it is.

Another bit of experience is from the University. We were a bunch of friends suffering from the same problem - being so in English (studying it for so long, having most conversations in it, consuming most media in it etc.), we were thinking on English and casually went from our mother language to English and back during the conversation, like mid-sentence. Well, due to the University shenanigans (don't ask the details as they're not important for the plot and this thing is already too long for the attention span of today's youth), we had to choose one more language to study on like A1 level for two semesters. Dumb but mandatory. The options were Polish, Russian, and I surmise Bulgarian (my memory's a twat). Anyway, our professor was Polish and her Czech was about the level of average USinan's Spanish. So she was explaining us the meaning of the word 'zawałeny'. And as I said, we were casually moving from one language to another while needed, i.e. when we lost a word in one and needed a substitute. So, our Polish professor was explaining the meaning and we were like "Yeah, it's busy!" Like not the Czech word for it, literally 'busy' in English. Naturally, she was like the math formulæ meme and we were thinking so hard how the fuck do you say 'busy' in our mother language.

SPOILER ALERT: We had to look in the dictionary.

im going to have a stroke

[mvtteo]

YES, i know i’m so late to the game - pls fight me :/ - but i’m here now & i cannot wait to write w/ all of u & love on all of u, etc !! i’m stef btw !! ok now on to the stuff yall came here for.

☆★ [ tommy martinez + he/him + cismale ] ☆★ did you know that [ matteo de la cruz ] has lived in erie for [ two months ] now? the [ 26 ] year old [ dealer / uber driver ] is known to be [ loyal ], yet [ calamitous ]. which is fitting considering they are a/an [ scorpio ]. whenever they pass by on the street, i can hear [ save me from myself by louis the child ] blasting through their headphones. they remind me of [ a flickering street light in an alley, dirt stuck under your fingernails & a meme that isn’t funny anymore ], and it really wouldn’t be erie without them! [ stef, 21, est, she / her ].

( TW : drug use, abuse, violence )

FORMING

from toronto originally ! he’s only been in erie for about two months ( and who KNOWS how long that’ll last ... more info on that below )

he grew up in a single parent home ( his biological father SLAMMED the door in his face at 4 years old & never returned ), of course a part from the revolving door of ‘ new daddy’s ’ his mother would introduce to him as he grew. money was tight but they made due, a working/lower class family living in an area of the city that was known as a spot tourists shouldn’t visit. 

a lil bit about his mother : emillia vargas ! she took odd jobs when she could & that’s how she put food on the table. that, or her boyfriend of the month dishing out from his wallet. sometimes it was shocking - to have food in the fridge - when at least half of her paycheck was sent to a dealer on the corner. she was from a long line of addicts & didn’t make it to the other side. matteo’s earliest memories are of needles — and the worst was the silence afterwards. their relationship is COMPLICATED to say the least. for some reason, despite everything, he still cares & checks up on her. probably because she’s the only family he knows. or the guilt trip & manipulation she’s thrown his way — that, too! anyway. they don’t talk often & she’s still at the same house up in toronto.

father : the man left when matteo was just four. fighting was constant ( so perhaps it was due to trouble in paradise ), but matteo was too young to really comprehend why he left & he hates pondering on it - even though the lasting effects are REAL. 

anyway. his mother did have her fair share of boyfriends, trying to fill in that void - but to no avail. some of these men were dangerous, some using emilia, some married already, others abusive & controlling, addicts themselves ... needless to say, no one really stuck. and matteo definitely had a part in that too, being spiteful, causing fights or fighting back. things got pretty bad @ his place & the neighborhood knew whose house those red & blue lights always visited.

SPEAKING of his neighborhood, one great thing did come out of it & that was not too far around the corner lived @luzzamaya​ , matteo’s BEST FRIEND / ride or die / partner in crime. he practically lived @ her house, looked up to her father as the male figure in his life & they’re still two peas in a pod today :~)) ... but more on that later too ...

matteo grew up QUICKLY - not really in the way of caring for himself ( bc his actions would in fact prove the opposite ) but he often hung out with people way older than him ( not really wanting to be home after school, etc ) & he began diving into the world of drugs early on. def the kid your parents would’ve been 👀👀 about. YALL CATCH THE DRIFT OK ... moving on.

IMPORTANT BLURB TO HIS STORY (TW : mention of gang violence )

so he was always in the wrong crowd / hanging with kids older than him / he got involved with drugs etc really young. he started selling drugs lowkey around high school + the town and was a lowball dealer until he continuously proved himself + being more closely tied to this GANG ( the suppliers ), we can call it La Línea bc i looked up active gangs and this one was made from corrupt / retired police officers so i was like .. YUP ! so he’s currently affiliated, not initiated bc that prob means killing someone nd he’s like miss me w that, fool. but as he’s grown his relationship with them + has continued selling (drugs, weapons .. contraband etc), they want him in bc they trust him. giving him more & more duties. and it’s not like he can say NO bc they’re all strapped + can literally ruin/end his life ?? or ruin/end the lives of the ppl around him? SO as another gang (aka a MAFIA) that is trying to step on la linea’s territory … ( maybe it had bad consequences, someone from la linea being thrown in prison or dead ). SO they trust their outside dude matteo (since he’s not super recognizable to the mafia since he’s not u know . FULLY in la linea) to work a plan to take DOWN this mafia. how ? buy ratting them out to the police. a literal snitch smh. the only bad thing is now … someone from the mafia traced the words back to him. their leader is now in prison & has sent “”soliders”” to come after matteo nO MATTER WHAT. he’s gotten threatening calls // he’s been forced into fights // held at gunpoint which was his FINAL straw of being like ..  I GOTTTA GO

soooooo now they’re ( him & luz ) are in erie :~). 

also i’m thinking he got involved w the gang bc originally he owed other low-level dealers money + was like trust me on this. i’ll do whatever u ask. nd is a loyal ass hoe. plus all of a sudden he was making DOUGH selling product + had a following / a lil bit of a “”community”” that he’d never rly had before

PERSONALITY / HEADCANONS ( idk how to label - just some more info )

he’s not a horrible dude but a LOT of people would argue that he is. and his actions might seem like he is. but ... he’s learning :,)

sarcastic as hell

has an infamous smirk ok ... super careless so yall are gonna see that a lot

has a rooted issue with authority figures & hates when anyone tells him / offers him / suggests to him what to do

despite seemingly coming across as a meanie, he could also be considered the life of the party. not in the sense of being gregarious, but more so having FUN. drowning out 

immature as hell 

has definitely dealt to his mother before :/. a low, even for him, but. that’s a complicated relationship

his hair is constantly a mess

STREET FIGHTS FOR MONEY $$$ or when la linea previously made him. he tries not to do it TOO often but sometimes he’s just gotta ya know ?

has some shitty tattoos - minus the ones done beautifully by luz of course !! a few to cover some scars :|

assume scruff on his face at all times

has been struggling with sleeping through the night, nervous abt getting caught & will often just walk around @ 3pm for a smoke

loves reggaeton 

bilingual but hardly speaks spanish :/

WANTED CONNECTIONS 

a SPONSOR from AA/NA

a COP / law enforcement that takes him in for dealing

or even a bystander that calls in authorities for him dealing / stealing / anything illegal ...

someone he DEALS to

someone who OWES him money

a FLIRTATIONSHIP 

a ROOMMATE

a BARTENDER/CONFIDANT @ his go-to watering hole

a GOOD INFLUENCE who is aware of his addiction 

a PASSENGER in one of his uber rides

someone he got into a CAR ACCIDENT with

they hit him in the middle of the night // or hit his car ? or vice versa ?

someone he had a BAR FIGHT with

next door NEIGHBOR

ENEMIES

always wanted to do a homewrecker plot tbh

a revenge plot ?

someone he’s met from a DATING APP

a COUSIN

another CLUB RAT

ok i’m literally open to ANY connection u think of. it might be easy to come up w/ those in-depth ones while brainstorming tg but above are just a few ideas :,)))

[scandiblr]

11 questions tag

@langscollector tagged me ages ago to do this, but I was really lazy. I also apologize to the others whose tag games I didn’t answer

Do you like spicy food?

It’s my favorite type of food! My sister often keeps an eye on me while I’m cooking to make sure I don’t put too much hot sauce/spices since no one else in the family likes it

If you could move somewhere, where would it be and why? 

I’d love to live in a Nordic country, preferably Sweden or alternatively Finland, but anything other than here is better. Standard of living, you know

What kind of learner are you (visual, auditory...)?

I love making up stories, using historical figures as tv dramas characters, writing funny stories when learning vocabulary etc

What was the last photo you took?

An angry fella!

What’s your cure for hiccups?

Jump scares. Fun and effective

Do you have a motto/quote you live by?

Once you give up the work, you give up the goal

Share your favorite meme or a funniest joke

I can’t choose just one meme, but I can translate my favorite joke: When butcher’s wife gave birth of their son, he’s been asked to weight him. Having returned from the backroom holding wrapped meat, he answers: “2.5kg boneless” Okay, it sounds better when I tell it. Anyway,

If you were to change your name, which one would you choose?

Neda or Nora

What’s the one thing you regret buying?

I’m really careful with my money, but I do regret buying a whisk because I always end up using a fork instead and the whisk just takes up space

What food do you crave often?

If we count milk as food, then that. I stopped drinking this year because of skin problems, but I’ve been drinking at least two cups a day by then. I really miss it

Describe your ideal day

I wake up at 7am and drink morning coffee on the porch, enjoying sunlight. I take a stroll to buy everything needed for making today’s meals. By noon I finish all house chores. Then I have some time to study until lunch. After lunch I take a nap or watch a movie. Then I go for a jog and take a long bath afterwards. At night I meet with my friends and we spend hours together

That sounds boring, but it’s completely opposite of my usual day, so it’s ideal

My questions

Have you ever self-inserted yourself in a movie/tv show? If so, describe that person

Which facial feature(s) of yours would you like your future child to inherit?

Favorite vine?

What’s that one thing that turns you off even though others find it normal?

If you were a teacher, what subject would you teach?

Favorite board game?

Looking back, are you embarrassed about your first crush?

Do you think single-sex schools are good? Why?

Is there a book you always delay reading?

When do you usually go to bed?

Without which of the five senses would you not be able to live?

I’ll probably never do this again because it took me too long, but I appreciate everyone tagging me! Another reason is that I can never choose who to tag, so now I’ll tag a lot of you. You don’t have to do this! Also if I didn’t tag you, but you want to do it, feel free to and tag me so I can read the answers. Thanks to anyone who chooses to do it!

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[canon-typical-violence]

today’s realization is:

[spins wheel]

That Thing people get unfiltered airtime hating in humanities and social sciences

where authors get to weird verbs on purpose? yeah that one?

that’s literally just a homebrew solution to the fact that English doesn’t do that natively

I was sorting my folder of papers to read later and it was so fucking soothing to read people bending language as needed

if you let me that’s how I would talk

by which I mean when you let me that’s how I do talk

social permission to do it in English would make my writing more accessible—the switch to Spanish for random shit like gestión, aprovechar, or gozo remains, but I don’t need to say accidentar if I could just be verbing accident—but I’ve learned which side of the language partition I don’t get yelled at

I have to believe people when they tell me this wouldn’t be the road of least resistance for them, but I don’t understand why that is the case

a guess: comparative lack of hybridization (because—independent of how many languages they speak and to what extent—not performing daily interpretation etc.? maybe? assuming it’s not just my weird fuck brain again after all?) means a more... solid, inert, discrete form of what any given word is than I have?

some of the only bilingual grammar advice I ever understood at the beginning of the verbs thread era—

(I was doing fine with the papers on linguistics and motion but I die in a fucking fire when you try to get me to understand through a framework built and vetted for and by native English adult learners of foreign languages in English environments! this really should’ve been expected)

anyway,

referred to English verbs as being small, low-content, rigid, and nude, in comparison to which Spanish verbs are mutable in size, highly informative, flexible, and extensively clothed in context

English’s structure is rigid in a top-down way because words get their meanings from their relationships to each other and don’t tell you much on their own

Spanish’s structure becomes rigid in a laterally-moving way because words together propagate a context they all have to agree on

also we have more than two or three fucking tenses? someone pointed out to me how few tenses English has that aren’t created by multiple words (modifying meaning read but not modifying one another as written) together and I have never been the same

result: even before getting into the validity of actually verbing nouns, words for me are... idk, combinations of link-outs to a concept to be rearranged as needed?

I may not have German monster words accessible to me but I hadn’t thought until tonight that maybe other people don’t think of language as being like that always

like I thought the joke was that German does it without putting spaces in

is that. is that not the joke?

like when on those translation chain posts you eventually get to people missing the point and acting like the punchline isn’t, literally, the word components

(I find my favorite fake words bot pleasing or even soothing for this reason; it’s restorative to see language be as flexible as expected, and fun to watch its workings show)

it’s not that I’m ~an intellectual~ or ~like a challenge~ or whatever the fuck, it is not difficult, the linguistic structures of notioning and problematicize and ideate and proper-nouning and pluralizing things to indicate that there are multiple working permutations of them you can run into, that is how I expect language to work

it makes sense

and maybe it doesn’t flow easy but it’s a damn sight easier than someone trying to force themselves to work with language as their master instead of as their tool

nouns are the result of a verb/a verb at rest, any verb can be made to describe an action that results in the noun it’s derived from while in motion, adjectives are there

insofar as this is difficult to understand on my end it’s because it correlates with talking about things that the general language isn’t used to but that’s... really it

it’s a damn sight easier to remember than the STEM fetish for naming things after random dead people actually

yeah I said it

people who’ve followed me for a long time say I developed my own theoretical language for daily use and I’m flattered but also a bit worried

as far as I’m concerned most of the time all you should be seeing is the equivalent of visual proof I’ve broken my boots in

I also have a personal jargon but that’s not a theoretical framework it’s glorified stenography

and memes, it’s memes

I don’t know what I’d need to do to construct an idea of language where this isn’t the easy way out, let alone how to feel out inhabiting it once constructed.

unless I’ve horribly misunderstood what people are complaining about, I need to understand, because that’s my audience and I’m responsible for that, but as the matter stands I don’t get it, I don’t know how to get it, I don’t know where to go to get it, I don’t know how to identify it

(and I am very stressed and sad because I only know this problem exists because people insult me, all the time, as cultural background radiation that is afaict commonly accepted, and the alternative is an elitism I literally lack access to and get accused of anyway?, I was forcibly removed from the house of study fam that’s me and it is a rare occasion that someone making me want to stop existing for the backhanded insult that is the accusation of ‘being too smart for them (and making them feel bad) (but not smart enough to deserve the chance to fix it they can tell you’ll fail)’ does not have years’ and years’ economic clout’s superior credentials to yours fuckass truly but welcome to hell I guess)

language-using cognitions: expla in

[findteenpenpals]

Hiiiiiiii! I don't know who you are but I already love you. Hug me, brotha.

I’m looking for a pen pal! I’m 15, Muslim, a sarcastic prick, and bilingual! I’m fluent in English and Persian. I’ve also got a French project so for the francophones, hit me up… please. I’ve been taking French for years, and although the language sounds beautiful to the ears and is fun to learn but I’d still like to learn it through speaking it with someone as often as I can :D Please, I’m dying with this project someone take this introvert under their wing :D Seriously, everyone who actually ends up contacting me will get a quick response. 

I’m a pretty open/accepting person, and I’m not very sensitive. (But I’ll understand if you are! I’m just letting you know so you don’t feel awkward making a joke about me being a nerd or whatever. I’m a queen anyways, I’ll understand if it takes you a while to see that light and look past my dorky exterior.) But if you’re looking for a listener, and someone you just need to get your thoughts out on then you can count on me. I’m not too shabby at distracting people from a bad day, though, I’ve got tons of funny stories about the events of my life to tell. I like to think my life isn’t that mundane through telling a weird story about the time I fainted in a grocery store (Or that time I convinced my aunt to stop being homophobic, that time I fainted in SCHOOL and I learned years later which way I fell through emails with my elementary school teachers, the great Tiger plushie heist and the eventual familial gossip that ensued, ) even though my life’s pretty… mundane.

My interests include film, I love reading studying about their cinematography, the colour palette of a specific movie, observing a really good actor (Predictable, but I had a really fun time seeing Heath Ledger play the Joker in the Dark Night.), listening to their soundtracks. I also especially love animated films (Disney, Pixar, Hayao Miyazaki,Laika and Dreamworks have made some good flicks.) and it’s something I’ve been nerdy about for as long as I can remember. As for movies in general, there’s something magical about taking whatever’s written on a piece of paper and transforming it to the silver screen. I’m sure, for a director, their minds are always ahead of the current work they produce and they can never get it done exactly like what they imagine. When something they thought up makes it as a movie and ends up being a masterpiece regardless of how different it turned out, that must be really awarding. I just love movies, dammit! I swear to God I don’t sound that pretentious when I’ll talk with you one on one.You can send me stuff about dank memes, (I love memes, so actually do that and I’ll love you forever.) rant about how much undeserved hate your fandom gets, Dan Howell’s fringe, how Bucky Barnes would dance with women today, interior design, what your crack ship’s first kiss would be like and I would still be absolutely enthralled. Despite not being a fan of any of those things besides Bucky and uh… dank memes. Not a normie in the slightest.

I think elderly people are adorable. I don’t fetishize or romanticize them, it’s just that most of the old people in my life haven’t been dicks and they’re fun to talk to about history or just our contrast in interests. Random but it’s a fact.

I’m also the bomb when it comes to Disney or Pixar trivia. Or just trivia in general. You could ask me to tell you a random fun fact (And I really mean the lit ones, not boring stuff like “The Little Mermaid came out in 1995!” I would say something like, “Mark Zuckerberg puts tape over his webcam. Canada has the Apology Act which means that if someone apologizes after committing something illegal (I’m not sure of the exact details) that it can’t be used against them in court to make them seem guilty. At Disney parks, all the images of Walt Disney smoking a cigarette have been photoshopped so you can’t tell he’s smoking in them. Also, most animators chose to work on Pocahontas instead of The Lion King because TLK was more expected to flop. Again, prolly messed up some details.”)

I like to read! Percy Jackson series are great :) I also really like this book called Flipped, heard of it? Huh, weird. Well, on continuing the conversation of things you’ve never heard about, my favourite author is Stephen King! In 7th grade, my teacher told me to read The Stand because it was his most acclaimed and epic book. I borrowed a copy, read it, and I was floored. It had me locked in, and once I finished it I loved it so much that I bought her a new copy on the last day of school and she had a copy to give to me! It was the cheesiest, 90s show ending to that year of middle school ever (Minus the pointdexters. I’m definitely not one at all, I like to imagine I’d be a soft-on-the-inside punk or goth chick. Yeah, I’m not one right now despite that being hard to believe. Sorry if you’re in a bandom and you’re cringing while.reading this.)

Shows: I like Avatar: the Last Airbender (I didn’t get really involved in LoK, though.) Supernatural, (although I’ve just started watching it, so if you’re a die-hard fan go easy on me!) Hannibal, Teen Wolf, Sherlock, the MCU/Marvel, X-Men, k-pop specifically f(x) and IU, I’ve seen a ton of shoujo/rom-com anime when I was younger if you’re interested in that, (planning on seeing Hunter x Hunter soon and waiting for the next AoT season to air.) Jane the Virgin, I’ve seen like two episodes of Suits and if anyone ships anyone on that show then come spill your heart out. 

Music/other: I love photography, I’ve saved around 700 total gifs and images, mostly of celebrities but a lot of them include pictures and art that I just really enjoy gazing at. The music I listen to is kind of all over the place. I like pop in general (specifically synth-pop and electro-pop), EDM, pop-rock, indie, k-pop, RnB, vocal jazz, jazz, music from the 20s-50s, 80s pop and rock, bossa nova, classic rock, rap. (I keep it to mostly Kendrick. I doubt Ego Death by The Internet counts.) Recommend me any music, anything. Weird sex noises? Um, okay. I’m hesitant but I’m asexual and I might just laugh, so go ahead. Country? I have a feeew country songs that I like. Try me. Metal? Haven’t found anything yet, but I’m always willing to listen. Are your kpop faves nugu? My weave’s already snatched by your gods, send me a link fam.

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