#belta

[youfuckingcuck]

"Belta get in your cage"

Belta:

[ethiocarsmarket]

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[quasi-normalcy]

It just occurred to me that "-lowda" is used to connote plurals in Lang Belta because there are a load of whatever you're talking about.

[weshallc]

I’m calling out your name as I’m walking along the river. I’m looking for the place where my soul dwells forever.

Cattle & Cane: Come Home

[banny-pso2ngs]

Koi Koi! Had a spare 600 ac and managed to snag the fit! There goes my luck for the month lmao

[folatefangirl]

It really is a super cool conlang though. If I'd known The Expanse had a goddamn creole made for it, I'd have hopped on the bandwagon much sooner, sasa ke?

[doolallymagpie]

One thing you need to know about Ab-sum DAAAGH! Dalek-Killa is that 'e picked up a very peculiar dialect of Low Gothic from a bunch of humies 'e refers to as "da Belta-Loadaz", so 'e says stuff like "bosmang" and "beratna" alongside 'is propa Orky speech patterns

[alas-poor-cesario]

Fandom: Pacific Rim

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Newton Geiszler/Hermann Gottlieb

Characters: Hermann Gottlieb, Newton Geiszler

Additional Tags: gratuitous use of conlangs, Fluff, Romantic Fluff, Mando'a Language (Star Wars), Mando'a Pet Names (Star Wars), Lang Belta, Belter Creole (The Expanse)

Summary: Hermann wakes after the events of Pacific Rim 1, looking for Newt. A small interlude between our favourite nerds.</p><p>Written as a Valentine's Day present for one of my favourite nerds.

[lucas2101]

The fact that Belter creole is only half done and not usable as an actual language yet is deeply upsetting to me.

[howdydarling]

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🏃💨💨💨

[theexpansefcrged]

For those that might want a refresher course or need an intro in to Lang Belta, there's a Memrise guide HERE made by one of my dear friends Iro that's incredibly useful.

[eladrins]

the downside of eating so much healthier lately is that none of my jeans trousers or shorts fit me properly anymore

[ethiocarsmarket]

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[brennacedria]

☆ elissa

☆ - happy headcanon for Elissa

this is... much more difficult than I feel like it should be. has it been so long since I've been in her head?

I'm gonna cheap out on this one, and say her 21st birthday (the one that passed in the middle of the blight). Alistair found out her birthday without her knowing, though he surprised her with a little celebration about two weeks early since they were going to be out on the snowy muddy roads again on the actual day.

[lazzerot]

I relate to your enjoyment of seeing code-switching represented on a TV show so I decided I do want to reblog this since I like the overall message of your post. Originally I did just wanna let it slide, but I can't reblog this in good conscience without commenting on one of your tags:

I don't think The Expanse as a whole is that much about settler-colonialism as it is about exploitative colonialism and in turn about imperialism in general. Granted, I haven't finished reading Babylon's Ashes yet as I'm writing this post, so maybe the Laconia plot is very settler-colonialist and I'm talking out of my ass here. If that's the case I apologize. But if it's not I just want to say this: In the Expanse canon Ganymede, Io or Ceres weren't settled by any living organism known to humans before humans gained the technology necessary to expand from earth out into the SOL system and colonized it. It's just plain "old" colonialism, which is impossible to have back on earth since every imperial expanding superpower in history colonized parts of earth that were already settled by other people. I get that from an US-American perspective "settler colonialism" is a big buzz word, but not every piece of literature is meant to be read as a metaphor for the US. In a way The Expanse's main message is one of anti-imperialism.

One of the things that i really really love about the expanse is the attention it pays to the language the characters speak. Obviously for practicality reasons the belters have to speak mostly english but the little bits of belter creole we get here and there are so distinct and feel so lived in, and i love that the show just. Refuses to translate them. You just kind of pick up the dialect over time.

I also really love the care that was put into the characters accents. Like i dont know if ive ever watched a show where a character audibly code switches like Naomi Nagata does. When we meet her she's speaking pretty standard English but when she's back with other belters her accent comes on pretty strong. Which is so cool! I feel like the only time we see characters with more than one accent is when one of them is fake because theyre like. In disguise or pretending to be someone else. Its really cool to see a character who just talks differently in different situations and it makes the whole world feel so grounded and real even tho obviously theyre like. In space.