#cephalopology

[tragedyseries]

This little sketch is not a true tragedy, but considering that his majesty is usually a cephalopod of surpassing dignity, it is still moderately sorrowful to observe him in a groveling context. He portrays my own shame at being a poor correspondent in juxtaposition to those kind souls among you who have taken the time to put pen to paper, finger to key and a voice to the air in expression of camaraderie. I thank you and hope this eight armed gesture of supplication will suffice for the time being.  

[splatoonpolls]

team present propaganda

from someone who loves anthropology!

The present doesn’t mean we will stay here. There are new worlds Nintendo can make

To add to point one. There are several cultures that would do well in the splatoon world. Polynesian cultures, African cultures, southern European, Caucasus, middle eastern etc. imagine exploring a world inspired by the cultures found in Nigeria or listening to music inspired by Arabic pop and traditional music

i would love if it was akin to gen 5 Pokémon. More of a soft reboot with new characters, maps, and even some new weapon kits.

More subcultures can be explored, you can also say the same thing with team past with 80s goth and punk.

im just a sucker for world building and seeing how more cultures survived. The idea of a future inkopolis and splatlands sounds cool. I can’t lie. But NINTENDO! DROP AN IDOL GROUP BASED ON WEST AFRICAN CULTURES! AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

[splatoonpolls]

FIRST OFF! I DO NOT HAVE A DEGREE IN LINGUISTICS. I AM PLANNING ON TAKING IT AGAIN NEXT YEAR AND MAKING MY THESIS ON IT! SO BE AWARE I MIGHT NOT BE SUPER ACCURATE AND GET INFORMATION FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE STUDIED THE FIELD FOR A LONG TIME.

imagine, a party. And these parties. The languages way of making a sentence would all have different dancing styles. Pronouns being breakdance, nouns being popping, adjectives being ballet, verbs being swing. And all the little fixes are salsa.

Analytical - most commonly found in Chinese, Vietnamese, afrikaans, and English (to a minor degree). If these languages were to dance. All of the words would stand on its own doing its little thing. In Chinese, when you are saying “I would like an apple juice” it’s 我想喝一个苹果汁 wǒ xiǎng hē yī gè píngguǒ zhī. (Note. This is a rough translation from the internet I do not speak Chinese, if you speak the language feel free to correct me) Every word is isolated and doing their own little style

fusional - most commonly found in most indo European languages. Especially in romance and germanic. If these languages were to dance. The popping (nouns) crew would be most likely together. Plus the suffixes would join to make a sort of popping salsa fusion. In Swedish, the sentence “the girls are drinking orange juice” is “flickorna dricker apelsinjuice”. A noun can easily add on another noun and a verb can add a suffix. Plus these languages are also know to conjugate a lot more. Spanish is great example of this too. Where Spanish have 3 different ways to tell about the past.

agglutinative languages - most commonly found in Turkic (Turkish and Kazakh) and Uralic languages (Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian) and Korean is also an agglutinative language. If these languages were dancing, it would be a conga line, In Finnish, the phrase “on my table” is pöydälläni. They can add more words to change the meaning (I am not good at understanding agglutinative languages, if you speak one please feel free to chime in)

Polysynthetic - most commonly found in Inuit languages like Greenlandic. These languages are doing acro dance. I found this example from the learn Greenlandic blog! The sentence “they are going to our church” is Oqaluffitsinnukarpoq. The blog goes more into detail about this

And that’s it of my linguistics info dumping!