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craving pathetic wet old women characters. where is the feminism
#give me middle aged butches w anxiety & cats. older femmes w/ arm flab who refuse to age 'gracefully'#gimme a bilingual bisexual with a trench coat & crows feet & and no retirement savings#i want them bitter & jaded & dysfunctional & menopausal#i want to watch them make poor financial dietary romantic decisions (and probably commit crimes) where are they?????
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how many languages do you know?
(i’m counting languages where you took one class for a semester if you retained any of it congrats you are a little multilingual)
(reblog for bigger sample size!)
#tumblr polls#language#multilingual#personally i consider myself bilingual#mainly english and a bit of spanish :3#i’ve been learning for about 4 years
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Tomatoes happened
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Tor example, anon is fluid in bengali and english. Here's a typical sentence they would send to their friends who are also bilingual:
"Tomra ki kalke free ? There's this new movie that just koek din age ber hoilo and it looks really nice"
Translation:
"Are you guys free tomorrow ? There's this new movie that just came out a couple of days ago and it looks really nice"
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#polls#incognito polls#anonymous#tumblr polls#tumblr users#questions#polls about language#submitted may 10#language#bilingual#multilingual#languages
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Do I type like I belong on Tumblr
#a lot of people say i type like i use twitter but also i regularly call the replies/retweets notes so like#what is it#am i bilingual but in a way where im not fluent in either
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something I really loved about the qsmp was how it made people who didn't bother learning another language - LEARN another language (if that makes sense)
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I just had my friend who only speaks English, doesn't bother learning any other language, who only watched Phil during qsmp, tell me "saudades meus ovos or whatever" (I'm missing my eggs)
WHICH IS SO CRAZY TO ME - THIS GUY DIDN'T TAKE SPANISH IN HIGHSCHOOL BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T CARE AND HERE THEY ARE TELLING ME A PORTUGUESE SAYING ??? All because of a minecraft server ffs I miss it sm
#qsmp#They are the whitest american you'll ever meet and all of a sudden they're bilingual#rubbing my hands together evilly my influence is spreading#random post don't mind me#back to my regularly scheduled spam of random shit thumbs up
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If you want, you can let me know the language(s) in the tags, and whether or not you speak it fluently!
#my mom acts like it’s super weird to enjoy music in another language so i got curious about how many of you do!#i’m not sure what to tag this#polls#kpop#jpop#cpop#music#spotify#bilingual
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there's no furbish word for dilf :( sad :(
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#fushiguro toji#toji#fanart#jjk fanart#i took this too seriously for what it is but in my defense#uh#i have no defense actually this is the most unhinged thing i think ive ever drawn#bows head in shame gomenasorry....#context ws talking 2 sam about my love of furby and long furby customization#and the free real estate that is fushiguro toji hit me like a truck#i have no clue if this has been done before sorry if it has sorry if it hasnt#i dont know if id be alarmed or proud if i was th first#i saw th art of toji with the very hungry caterpillar n was inspired also . took that ate it made it furby#speaking of furby this one Is sentient and yearns to Consume. toji actively hates it. he speaks furbish tho <3 bilingualism <3#uhhhhh in other news debut toji art !! :D this man's shirt is holding on for dear life jesus.#his waist is so small and for what......................
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Not all Second-Language Speakers are Made Equal.
@waltzshouldbewriting asked:
Hello! I’m writing a story that features a character who’s first language is not English. He’s East African, specifically from Nairobi, Kenya, and is pretty fluent in English but it’s not his primary language, and he grew up speaking Swahili first. I’m struggling to figure out if it’s appropriate or in character to show him forgetting English words or grammar. From what I’ve researched, English is commonly spoken in Nairobi, but it wouldn’t be what was most spoken in his home. For context, this is an action/superhero type story, so he (and other characters) are often getting tired, stressed, and emotional. He also speaks more than two languages, so it makes sense to me that it would be easier to get confused, especially in a language that wasn’t his first. But I’m worried about ending up into stereotypes or tropes. For additional context: I’m monolingual, I’ve tried to learn a second language and it’s hard. A lot of how I’m approaching this comes from my own challenges correctly speaking my own, first and only language.
Diversity in Second-Language English
You seem to have an underlying assumption that second language acquisition happens the same for everyone.
The way your character speaks English depends on so many unknown factors:
Where does your story take place? You mention other characters; are they also Kenyan, or are they all from different countries?
Assuming the setting is not Kenya, is English the dominant language of your setting?
How long has your character lived in Kenya vs. where he is now?
What are his parents’ occupations?
What level of schooling did he reach in Nairobi before emigrating?
What type of school(s) did he go to, public or private? Private is more likely than you think.
Did his schooling follow the national curriculum structure or a British one? Depends on school type and time period.
Does he have familiarity with Kenyan English, or only the British English taught in school?
Is this a contemporary setting with internet and social media?
I bring up this list not with the expectation that you should have had all of this in your ask, but to show you that second language acquisition of English, postcolonial global English acquisition in particular, is complex.
My wording is also intentional: the way your character speaks English. To me, exploring how his background affects what his English specifically looks like is far more culturally interesting to me than deciding whether it makes him Good or Bad at the language.
L2 Acquisition and Fluency
But let’s talk about fluency anyway: how expressive the individual is in this language, and adherence to fundamental structural rules of the language.
Fun fact: Japanese is my first language. The language I’m more fluent in today? English. Don’t assume that an ESL individual will be less fluent in English compared to their L1 counterparts on the basis that 1) it’s their second language, or 2) they don’t speak English at home.
There’s even a word for this—circumstantial bilingualism, where a second language is acquired by necessity due to an individual’s environment. The mechanisms of learning and outcomes are completely different.
You said you tried learning a second language and it was hard. You cannot compare circumstantial bilingualism to a monolingual speaker’s attempts to electively learn a second language.
Motivations?
I understand that your motivation for giving this character difficulties with English is your own personal experience. However, there are completely different social factors at play.
The judgments made towards a native speaker forgetting words or using grammar differently are rooted in ableism and classism (that the speaker must be poor, uneducated, or unintelligent). That alone is a hefty subject to cover. And I trust you to be able to cover that!
But on top of that, for a second language speaker, it’s racism and xenophobia, which often lend themselves to their own ableist or classist assumptions (that those of the speaker’s race/ethnicity must be collectively unintelligent, that they are uneducated or low class due to the occupations where they could find work, or conversely that they are snobby and isolationist and can't be bothered to learn a new language). Intersections, intersections.
If you want to explore your experiences in your writing, give a monolingual English speaker in your cast a learning disability or some other difficulty learning language, whatever you most relate with. And sure, multilingual folks can occasionally forget words like anyone else does, or think of a word in one language and take a second to come up with it in the other language. But do not assume that multilinguals, immigrants, or multiethnic individuals inherently struggle with English or with multiple languages just because you do.
~ Rina
#asks#accents#speech#language#languages#bilingual#bilingualism#ESL#immigration#east africa#african#writeblr
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You know, making Aegon barely fluent in High Valyrian kinda gives weight to the “strongest bond to a dragon ever seen” claim because if they all train the dragons in high Valyrian means that Sunfyre either learned English or he just reads Aegon’s vibes perfectly
#house of the dragon#aegon ii targaryen#sunfyre#bilingual dragon good boy of all time#house of the dragon spoilers
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Cassandra "Duke, are you okay?"
Duke: *face down on the floor, slumped partially off the sofa* "Every new language I start learning is more fuel on the fire of me wanting to shoot English in the face."
Cass: "...Valid."
#duke thomas#incorrect quote#batfamily incorrect quotes#batfam incorrect quotes#batfam#incorrect quotes#batfamily#siblings#sun & moon siblings#duke & cassandra#cassandra cain#cassandra wu-san#cassandra wǔ-sân#擦涩伞得拉 伍 莘#batsiblings#bats 'n' birds#d.c.#dc#dc comix#dc comics#d.c. comicbooks#d.c. comics#detective comics (1934)#dc cartoons#d.c. cartoon t.v. series#bilingual duke thomas#bilingual cassandra wǔ-sân#bilingual#languages#language
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y'know having read them multiple times i don't understand why people say that Night Watch is the darkest City Watch book when Thud! is right there.
like, Night Watch is pretty grim when you focus on the inevitability of it, but throughout the book the whole like... THING of it is "being told something is inevitable, and fighting it anyway." it's a story about hope and inspiring it in others even when you're not sure you're going to make it through either way. right up until the final melee with Carcer, Vimes does what he can to forestall the inevitable, and for most of the book, he *wins.*
Thud! on the other hand is about fighting against the weight of deep ancient grudges, and the outcome of it SEEMS inevitable. Koom Valley Will Happen Again, and throughout the book there seems no way to stop it. the resolution comes right at the very end, although the book 100% earns the reveal. but it's one man and a small team fighting against bigotry and hatred and figureheads stoking war.
that's not even TOUCHING on the actual Events in the book, which include a hit squad armed with flamethrowers very nearly torching Sam Vimes' infant son to fucking death. then there's the whole thing with the Summoning Dark which keeps trying to push Vimes' rage to the point of murder, there's the part where it *succeeds* and drives him into an unstoppable berserker rage, there's people dying slowly in dark tunnels, and the Vurms which feasting on putrefied corpses.
it's also the first time we've seen Vimes in an actual Murderous rage. every time beforehand he's been angry but it's been "oh i'm gonna arrest the SHIT out of you. i might put the boot in for good measure but you're coming with ME, sunshine." but no, this time he's literally chasing down a hitman screaming "i'll kill you" over and over again.
Thud! is a properly dark book. and yet despite it's unrelenting horribleness... Love Still Wins. Love for your fellow "man." Love wins in all Pterry's books, you can tell, it shines off the page when you read them just how much that man loved humanity, warts 'n' all, but in this one it feels like it's the most optimistic ending. it's the one that goes "in spite of it all, the bigots and warmongers and the narrow minded Will Lose, because there are always people willing to go to the ends of the earth for Love, Love of one another."
i think that's why it's my favourite book in the series.
#discworld#sam vimes#thud!#night watch#willikins#sybil ramkin#terry pratchett#gnu terry pratchett#city watch#ankh morpork#koom valley#and if you've read this far into the tags here's a little bilingual bonus#the welsh word Cwm is pronounced Koom#with a short oo like in book#and it means valley
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hello cheea!!! i have a question abt day 3✨
first of all tysm i rlly loveeee everything abt day 3
so abt my question ↓
did the mc wore the same outfit they wore before, to go back home or they kept mycheal's clothes and didnt change ?
ya thats all i just needed to know cuz i wanna draw my mc with mycheal and i didn't know which fit they were wearing
and tysm again u have no idea how much day 3 cheered me up i was feeling down these days thank u soo soo much
i didnt use a translator btw so im so sorry if my question sounds weird im north African and english is my 3rd language
and i hope u have a wonderful day/night
MC is still wearing Mychael's sweater since their old clothes are inside their backpack!! I love seeing MC fanarts with that mushroom sweater, even though it was completely unintentional haha <3
And that's okay!! Being able to understand three languages is real neat <3
#mushroom oasis vn#mychael ask#jar of fireflies#im bilingual myself#though everyones a little bilingual#knowing a third language is super cool
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Joan Tierney Why Are You Haunted? / @/oceaii (tumblr) / Liv Ullmann Changing / The Elektra Complex / Rosario Castellanos Monologue of a Foreign Woman from "Meditation on the Threshold: A Bilingual Anthology of Poetry / unknown / @/violentcherries (tumblr) / @/nutnoce (tumblr) / Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea / unknown
i. Joan Tierney Why Are You Haunted? [ "This haunting is architectural. It is not about you. It is about where you are. There are bones in the foundation. This house is a graveyard. This house is a corpse. You are inside the corpse. That makes you the maggot." ]
ii. @/oceaii (tumblr) [ Black and white illustration of a deer. The deer looks forwards in the first panel and turns back to face the audience in the second panel. "Turn and face / the person you've become." ]
iii. Liv Ullmann Changing [ "I will never forget the loneliness I knew as a child. For a period in my life I hid behind a mask. Did not want to acknowledge any longing. / Now it is a part of me-something I can share. / Both the loneliness and the longing." ]
iv. The Elektra Complex [ "If you were to peel the skin of me apart as a fig's, you would finally understand. I am my mother's daughter. From poisoned seeds sprout poisoned fruits." ]
v. Rosario Castellanos Monologue of a Foreign Woman [ "I didn't want / to be the dead star / that uses borrowed light to survive." ]
vi. unknown [ Black and white illustration of two deer. They are both labeled with words. The deer in the background says "just be." The deer in the foreground replies "just being is the hardest part." ]
vii. @/violentcherries (tumblr) [ "the environment you are not thriving in is not yours forever / IT'S OKAY TO LEAVE / ... / IT'S OKAY to abandon the things you used to love" ]
viii. @/nutnoce (tumblr) [ Black and white illustration of a scorpion doing chores. It's tail just barely curls over the front of a clothes line. Various pairs of socks hang from the clothes line. It stands before a bucket with more clothes inside. "I come from the toughest, meanest place you can imagine. / I want to be gentle, I want to die gently, but / It seems that when life gets hard / I have to get harder to match." ]
ix. Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea [ "I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar." ]
x. unknown [ "1. Man is a MORAL animal. / 2. You can get human beings to do anything - IF you can convince them it is moral. / 3. You can convince human beings that anything is moral." ]
#joan tierney#why are you haunted?#liv ullmann#changing#the elektra complex#rosario castellanos#monologue of a foreign woman#meditation on the threshold: a bilingual anthology of poetry#jean paul sartre#nausea#poetry#poem#words#writing#text#web weave#poetry web weave#web weaving#on heartbreak#on self destruction#on anger#on rage#quote#spilled ink#spilled thoughts#dark academia#light academia#spilled poetry#dark academia quote#dark academia poetry
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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.
#polls#incognito polls#anonymous#tumblr polls#tumblr users#questions#polls about language#submitted may 10#multilingual#bilingual#languages#language
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