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[whencyclopedia]

How to Read a Maya Glyph

For over three centuries, the ancient Maya flourished in Mesoamerica. They built giant stone pyramids surrounded by dense jungle, used a calendrical system that made many believe that 2012 would be the end of the world, and created a writing system that is as beautiful as it is complex. Its decipherment is ongoing, even today. In fact, it is so aesthetically rich and difficult to master, one needed to be an accomplished artist in order to write it properly. Fittingly, ancient Maya scribes and artists were all known by the same title: t'zib.

Deciphering Ancient Maya: Syllables & Concepts

The Maya writing system is logosyllabic, meaning its symbols can represent sounds in the form of syllables (like “ma” or “tot”), or they might represent whole concepts (like “river” or “house”). This made the language very difficult to decode, and in fact, scholars initially thought the entire writing system was phonetic due to the unfounded assumptions of a missionary named Diego de Landa. Originally from Spain, de Landa's first language was naturally Spanish. Therefore, when he attempted to decipher the Maya language, he broke it down into individual sounds (vowels and consonants) rather than syllables, the product of which is an inaccurate record of the Maya written and spoken language and a misleading guide for scholars. It wasn't until 1952 CE that it was suggested that the language might be syllabic rather than phonetic. This was a major breakthrough in the decipherment of the ancient Maya written language.

The distinction between a phonetic and a syllabic language is small but essential. A phonetic language uses individual sounds to build spoken words. English, German, and modern Romance languages like French, Italian, and Spanish are phonetic languages, to name a few. When written, each symbol (letter) represents a single sound (a vowel or consonant) like “o” or “b”. Syllabic languages, however, are made up of consonant-vowel (CV) or consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) combinations, like “ta” or “bot.” Japanese, for example, uses the CV model for the majority of two of its alphabets: katakana and hiragana.

The Maya glyphs are further complicated by their use of conflation, wherein two or more glyphs are combined, and some elements of the glyphs are eliminated or simplified, diminishing their individual complexity in order to create a legible, aesthetically pleasing glyph that fits within the space provided, whether that be on a small decorated cup, or a giant stone stela.

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[keitaiware]

📁 What is a, "Reclist?"

A reclist, is short form for, "recording list." This is what you will be reading in order to create your UTAU. Reclists come in many different recording formats, so let's talk about the various configurations that UTAU use!

CV "Consonant-Vowel," this is one of the more common formats as it is very easy to record and highly recommended for beginner users.

VCV "Vowel-Consonant-Vowel," another common format but has a large learning curse for the user. This format is also known as, 連続音 *(Renzouku) or! Continuous sound. With the continuous recording style, you are able to achieve a sound source with smooth transitions.

CVC "Consonant-Vowel-Consonant," this format is often used for other languages, for example, Russian, Korean, or German.

CVVC "Consonant-Vowel-Vowel-Consonant," a popular format as of late, CVVC builds of the standard CV configuration, with more transitions.

VCCV "Vowel-Consonant-Consonant-Vowel," this format is often used for recording English voice banks.

Honorable mentions would be C+V, I have come to recognize this format recently, and see great potential in it! I will update this post with more information on it in the future.

With all this said, there are more configurations contributed by other users. The ones I listed above are the most common configurations you will find.

For this tutorial series, I have geared all provided materials towards beginners. So we will be going through the process of making your first CV (consonant-vowel) voicebank with added VVs (vowel-vowel). With the additional vowels, you will obtain smooth transitions in between vowels. Do not worry, it is not difficult at all! Below is a direct link to my personal CV-VV recording lists.

Resources - https://keitaiware.com/post/751185124883939328/cv-vv-recording-list-by-ecr0n

[mewling-central]

A Brief Guide to Mewling

Mewling, or as its referred to by the mews as either 'Myukox' if you're a grandpa or 'Ḿaw' if you're a slightly younger grandpa, is my first ever language i've ever made by process of linguistic evolution. So it's weird and at times blaringly novice but it gets the job done. Getting into some linguistic jargon, it's a polysynthetic agglutinative language with free word order. The writing system is a logography (like chinese) that's written top to bottom, left to right. I'm gonna divide everything up for the sake of convenience

Sounds

These are the sounds in it:

you can use this website to specifically hear what each sound sounds like but for the most part everything is BASICALLY pronounced how it's written. For reference of some not immediately intuitive ones (in reference to the perspective of english speakers), ill gloss over those.

/ɸ/ and /β/ are like f and v but instead of using your upper lip and bottom set of teeth, you use both your lips. It's blowing but with a purpose.

/t͡s/ is exactly what it looks like. just a ts sound

/t͡ʃ/ is just ch

/x/ is like the ch in loch or the gh in ugh. that kinda throaty sound you know the one.

/j/ is actually y

/ŋ/ is like the ng in sing (its pretty rare tho in mewling so dw abt it too much)

/ʃ/ is just sh

The syllable structure is (F)CVC where F equals a fricative (s, z, f, v, sh, j, and x), C means any consonant, and V means vowel. The stress pattern is weird but the rule is stress always falls on either the last syllable (in words with only two syllables) or the third syllable from the end (in words with more than two syllables) UNLESS the second syllable from the right ends in a consonant in which that case it will be the one stressed instead.

Syntax

Mewling has free word order meaning that you can shove a word anywhere in the sentence and it would be understood the same. 'the man ate the orange', 'the orange at the man', or 'the man the orange ate' would all be understood to mean the same thing because mewling changes the words based on if its the subject of the sentence or the object. But by default mewling is subject-object-verb, meaning the verb almost always is at the end of the sentence (like in japanese or latin). Adjectives go before nouns, prepositions go after nouns, auxiliary verbs go after the main verb.

Grammar

Mewling is actually kinda fun imo with this. Mewling is agglutinative so when it makes new words it does so by taking smaller words and putting them together. 'ki' (this) + 'mar' (land) = kimar (place). 'ere' (give) + 'tos' (knowledge) = eretos (teach) and so on and so forth. Pretty straightforward. English does this too esp with words w germanic origins: birthday, butterfly, notebook, rainbow, honeycomb, bathroom, etc etc.

Now for nouns, their pronunciation changes depending on their noun case, which is a type of suffix (in this case) that acts kind of like what a preposition does in english. for example:

netal (the tree)

netalotso (at the tree)

netaler (in the tree)

netala (away from the tree)

netalova (towards the tree)

etc etc so on and so forth. Now some noun case do grammar stuff. The subject has no special suffix but it's usually at the beginning of the sentence so it's whatever. The object, the word that's receiving the action of the verb, uses the suffix '-n' or '-on' depending on the word. so in this sentence

Myu miron moraf (the mew eats the fruit)

It goes 'the mew' (subject) 'the fruit' object 'eats' (verb). The fruit is what's being eaten by the mew, it's being affected by the action. Now you could even put the object in front

Miron myu moraf

And it would mean the same thing, because the fruit is still marked as the subject. But if you made the fruit the subject

Mir myon moraf (The fruit eats the mew)

THEN that'd actually change the meaning. english doesn't really do this, we just know which is which because the subject is always before the verb and the object is always after. but doing this allows mewling to be able to change its word order to express different kinds of sentences.

Now verbs were the hardest part to create but GOD is this part fun. the verbs conjugate for tense (time), mood (specific action or meaning), and agree with both the subject AND the object (usually languages will choose one or the other). It has a past, present, and future, and you can add a whole bunch of suffixes to make the verbs specific. for example:

tos (know)

toslan (knew)

tosfas (will know)

and you can make REALLY long words like this

wemokorwanfunolanisolirikorcharaywamapikorusatif (which means something along the lines of "if (this) wouldn't have wanted to accidently been made to need to have started to continue to be able to constantly be improving (by me)" or something like that) tho its rare and more comical than anything to get THIS long. i could talk all day about the verbs but i'll add one more thing.

Mewling has three pronouns: mi (i) pa (you) and yo (they). these are usually changed up with whatever noun case it needs but since the verb changes to show both the subject AND the object the language becomes pro-drop, ie the pronouns can be dropped from the sentence entirely because the verbs make them redundant. for example:

Mi pan maso (I see you) is grammatically correct but more often than not it would be shortened to just 'Moso' because the verb already says that I'm the one seeing you. the pronouns are unnecessary. this in turn allows someone to say an entire sentence in just one word. very useful.

IN CONCLUSION i was really really really REALLY just summarizing cuz i didnt even get into things like relative clauses or sentence reordering for conjunctions or specific cultural notes of the language BUT i hope this'll give at least a smidgen of an idea of how much work i put into this. if you ever want me to translate something don't be afraid to ask too, at this point i could pretty much translate almost anything lol. But for now, sonapatan pafu nenampinon iyer (thanks for reading).

[senzacaponecoda]

Poll Conlang: Diphthongs

Last post ^

So, 7 vowels. Might write epsilon and open o as è and ò for the time being.

I think the most straightforward next step is to decide our diphthongs. Then we discuss feature bleed and that would likely decide our dorsals. Then we go into phonotactics and do spot shifts.

Diphthongs have a number of analyses that also lead to different interpretations between languages.

I'm kind of making this up as I go along but

Segments can be assigned either to an Onset or a Nucleus. Each ON pair gets assigned a unit of time in the language (a mora; but ON pairs are themselves often called moras). These are paired into feet, which are organized into words and phrases, with syllables appearing in the analysis as a secondary effect of sonority patterns.

ON pairs can appear without Onsets for ONØN feet; these often look like CVV syllables. A language can also have OØ ONs, which fuse according to sonority to build ONO or OON... syllables, what look like CVC or CCV... syllables.

So then you can theoretically distinguish vowel sequences (kei < underlying ke Øi) from "true diphthongs" that force two segments into the moraic space of one (e.g. kei having the same length as ka or kēi having the same length as kā).

One can also argue that the "true diphthong" type actually has an inner structure like a foot.

A trochee is a foot with initial emphasis, and tends to weigh every segment equally. This also appears to be the natural way humans tend to group rhythms given evidence from musicology.

An iamb is a foot with final emphasis, and tends favor weighing the final twice as long as the initial. Languages with iambs are more likely to distinguish long vowels from short and do a lot of other things.

The mini-feet a diphthong can be in however doesn't have to be the same as the "big" feet under the word-level.

But by thinking of it like this, we can explain to major types of diphthongs: opening and closing.

As close vowels are less sonorant and more consonant like, they tend to have less of the weight assigned from the mora. So an opening diphthong has properties associated with iambic feet, while closing diphthongs (more common overall) have properties like trochaic diphthongs.

I feel like I should mention right now that Spanish has trochaic feet but iambic diphthongs. ie and ue are almost more like je and we. But the stress generally follows a right-aligned trochaic pattern.

Another type of diphthong is height-harmonized. I've only really heard of it in the history of English, though, and underneath it seems to be a trochaic system undergoing monophthongization.

And of course, many languages contain both kinds of diphthongs, often due to some consonant being phonetically an open vowel (e.g. German's r) or just due to history giving both types (e.g. many SEA tonal languages get both in the process of reducing codas).

So I think four options for now

[yeli-renrong]

Within Indo-European, Italian and Slavic developed an entirely open syllable structure, Pali developed a nearly CV syllable structure (with word-medial geminates), and French lost most final consonants. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

(Are there more examples from Indo-Iranian?)

PAn is reconstructed with CVCVC typical root structure, with internal clusters mostly arising from CVC reduplication and typically being lost. If this root structure, or at least the avoidance of internal clusters, is conserved, word-final consonants (which as we know from IE are fairly easily lost) are an exception to a general CV pattern, which could also explain the tendency toward anaptyxis as in Malagasy.

For the heritability of tendencies toward parallel development, cf. West Germanic developing an equivalence between /i: u:/ and /ij uw/ (reconstructible also from, what is it, Franconian tonal patterns?) as a structural change prefiguring parallel high vowel shifts in English, Dutch, and German. Or maybe the parallel development within English dialects of l-vocalization, presumably arising from an inherited pattern of darkening of coda /l/.

so apparently it’s a puzzle why so many austronesian languages have lost their final consonants?

like, some loss of final consonants is quite common: a sound change will affect a common class of sounds, like you’ll get final [t] > glottal stop > zero, and this process can repeat for different groups of sounds weakening in different ways (or under different conditions)

but at least fourteen different times in the history of the austronesian language family, languages have just lost all their final consonants, with no evidence of, like, different-but-similar sound changes occurring together, except for the fact that complete final consonant loss affecting all classes of consonant is just not a thing that happens in general

and there are some austronesian languages that have undergone quite broad consonant weakening/loss of the normal type–e.g., all final oral stops becoming glottal stops, and all nasals merging to the velar nasal–but these retain at least some consonants in the final position and so are really just normal sound changes of a particularly general variety. but in the cases of total loss of final consonants, there’s no evidence of any consonants surviving the change, or of any kind of gradual loss. and there are cases of some languages with total final consonant loss, whose closely-related sister languages do not show this loss. it’s not like this occurred once, in one branch of the family; it has occurred independently several times. but only in austronesian!

a general phonological property being at play seems unlikely, since this change is only observed in one language family. the change being the result of contact with a particular language or language group seems unlikely, given how spread out the phenomenon is geographically.

another possibility is just that the speakers of these languages (to oversimplify a bit) have just decided sometimes “fuck it, we’re a CV-only language now;” some austronesian languages have undergone similarly odd sound changes, like inserting a [u] after all final consonants, that seem to produce a wholly CV language. in other words, when nearly all syllables are open, speakers sometimes just decide to treat all syllables as open regardless

still seems weird that this sound change is known only in austronesian, though!

[utau-signalboosts]

“They admire the angelic girl who changed their mind...”

Enoch Aogine (仰音エノク) is a Japanese UTAU created by MOMIGIKO (もみぎこ). They have 14 voicebanks across 5 languages: Japanese, Russian, German, Italian, and Latin. While the non-Japanese voicebanks are all monopitch, there are multiple multipitch Japanese voicebanks. Enoch has CV, VCV, CVC, and CVVC ranging from whisper to strong. Their tone is overall androgynous, maybe slightly feminine.

Enoch’s gender is unknown, but their brother Matthias (also an UTAU) refers to them as “sister.” They’re 21 years old and seem to age each year. Their hair covers a red artificial eye. They’re laid-back and like themself, olive oil, and sewing. They dislike evil, snakes, and insects. Their wings aren’t real. They sewed those wings by hand out of respect for a certain girl. That girl saved Enoch at some point.

From January 1st, 2022 to December 6th, 2023, all download links will be unavailable while MOMIGIKO focuses on their studies. December 7, 2023 is Enoch’s 3rd anniversary. When they’re available again, you can find them here.

Intro quote is from their official UTAU Wiki 2.0 page!

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Auto mobiles  And Motor-Sports;                           The Formula One :

The Introduction of Cars:

Do you like cars? Cars are the four wheeled auto mobiles which enable us the facility of travelling from one place to another in a faster manner than the old days. As you all know during old days, people took a lot more time to travel from one place to another. You know why it happened. It is because of the lack of developed technology for an easier, much faster and efficient transportation of people and goods. As human beings improved their views and shaped up their technological innovations, they discovered the wheels which is as you all know in the shape of a circle. Gradually they invented Cars, the four wheeled vehicles. Cars came into the global use during the 20th century. More specifically, Cars came into use during the year 1886 when Carl Benz introduced the first four wheeled vehicle. The car which was introduced by Carl Benz was the Benz Patent-Motorwagen. Cars became widely available in the early 20th century. But most of the cars during that time were not accessible for the public due to their ingenuity and unawareness. The first cars accessible to the masses was the 1908 Model T, an American car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. Cars were rapidly adopted in the US, where they replaced animal-drawn carriages and carts, but took much longer to be accepted in Western Europe and other parts of the world. Gradually cars became common on the streets. And this demand for cars gave the auto mobile manufacturers new challenge to bring some kind of new elements into their cars. As you all know, now a days cars have many facilities like AC, Multimedia system, parking sensors and so on.. Cars even have autonomous systems using artificial intelligence in which the car drives by itself using AI.

The Introduction Of Motor Sports:

As the usual sports events motor sports is the sports event using motor vehicles that is cars and bikes. In the event of car racing the competitors race from one starting point to a finishing point. The winner of the game is the ones with the lowest time taken to finish the race. In the case of four wheeled motor sports, the item is globally governed by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The history of motor sport is from 1894 when a French newspaper organised a race from Paris to Rouen and back, starting city to city racing. In 1900, the Gordon Bennett Cup was established. But gradually the closed circuit racing transformed to greater times and racing in public roads were banned.

Aspendale Racecourse in Australia in 1906 was the first dedicated motor racing track in the world. Thereafter more and more racing events became popular and different types of racing Grand Prix and championships came into being.

Different Types Of Racing sports:

Racing sports are of many types. And each types of racing are just as better as each other and are celebrated grandly by the racing manias (including me). Each racing events pumps dopamine and adrenaline to the nerves of racing hearted people, as their super heroes showcase their talent on the racing track. These racing events are thoroughly enjoyed by both the competitors and audience.

Different types of Racing Events are:

The Formula Racing:

The Formula One

The Formula E

Indy Car Series 

The Dakar Rally

There are many other racing series like stock car, sports car, touring car and off road or Rally racing. Now Here we discuss about the formula one.

The Formula One or F1

As you all Know the first and the most popular racing sport is the Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international auto racing for single-seater racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The series is owned by Liberty Media, an American mass media company controlled by its founder and chairman John C. Malone, through its wholly owned subsidiary, the Formula One Group. The World Drivers' Championship, which became the FIA Formula One World Championship in 1981, has been one of the premier forms of racing around the world since its inaugural season in 1950.The word "formula" in the name refers to the set of rules to which all participants' cars must conform in order to participate in the game. A Formula One season consists of a series of races, known as Grands Prix. The word Grand Prix is the native of France which means ‘great or grand prices’.These GP races take place on the closed F1 circuits  all over the world. The cars used in the race are the fastest regulated road-course racing cars in the world, owing to very high cornering speeds achieved through the generation of large amounts of aerodynamic downforce. But in the year 2017 the cars underwent major changes,

allowing wider front and rear wings, and wider tyres resulting in peak cornering forces and top speeds of up to approximately 350km/h (215mph).  As of 2019 the hybrid engines are limited in performance to a maximum of 15,000 rpm; the cars are very dependent on electronics and aerodynamics, suspension and tyres. Traction control and other driving aids have been banned since 2008. You should never think that arranging and managing this mega grand event is cheap, With the annual cost of running a mid-tier team—designing, building, and maintaining cars, pay, transport—being US$120 million, its financial and political battles are widely reported. Its high profile and popularity have created a major merchandising environment, which has resulted in large investments from sponsors. On 23 January 2017 Liberty Media confirmed the completion of the acquisition of Delta Topco, the company that controls Formula One, from private-equity firm CVC Capital Partners for $8 billion, and the coordinators and other workers including everyone who contribute their part including the audience who gets to the gallery to support their star plays an important part in the success of the game.

Point system in F1

Coming to the point system in the race F1 there are separate points for the constructors (the companies who make cars for their own drivers) and the drivers of companies in which they race for. The rules for getting specific points is that A driver must finish within the top ten to receive a point for setting the fastest lap of the race. In the event that the driver who set the fastest lap finishes outside of the top ten then the point for fastest lap will not be awarded for that race.

The point table is given below:

          1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th FL*

25  18   15  12   10  8    6    4    2    1      1

(*FL means Fastest Lap)

       The current table top of this season 2020 is Lewis Hamilton with 205 points and he is racing for Mercedes Benz, the German automotive company.

The Drivers point table* is given below:

The constructors point table* is given here:

(*the values of the points may change by the next race)

And here I conclude my article and hope You enjoyed the ride to it.

          ❖★❖★ Drive safe! Ride Happy! Dare 2 Dream!! ❖★❖★

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Typing diacritical marks for english long vowel sounds

How do you type a long I?Īlso, a long “i” is the letter with a straight line above it, like an underline, just above the letter. Teacher explains that most words that have the /ī/ sound spelled with “igh” end in “t.” The only /ī/ words spelled with “igh” that don’t end in “t” are “high,” “nigh,” “sigh,” and “thigh.” Teacher distributes Words Rule Word Cards and whiteboards to students as they partner together. How do you spell hate?Ĭorrect spelling for the English word “hate” is, , (IPA phonetic alphabet). The next most common spelling of is in the regular long vowel patterns VCV, V#, Ve#, V.V, and VCle. Long > spelled, ,, or Most of the time is spelled in the regular long vowel patterns VCV, V.V, Ve#, and VCle. What is the most common way to spell long I? The short vowel sound for A can be found in words like apple, attitude, cat, actually, and can. Hold down the Option key followed by the appropriate symbol and the accent will appear underlined in your document….Shortcuts for Typing Accents – Mac.ĬVC – words that begin with a consonant, followed by a vowel, followed by a consonant (examples: cat, bet, bug) Words begin with the simple CVC pattern and progress to words with more than one consonant at the beginning or end of the word (examples: flag (CCVC), went (CVCC), etc.). It, too, often replaces a “s” from old French, which may give a clue to the meaning of the word. Accents are used only on vowels and under the letter c. What is the most common way to spell long I?Īn accent mark may change the sound of a letter, the meaning of a word, replace a letter that existed in old French, or have no perceivable effect at all.When said to someone who has sneezed, the proper response is dziękuję (“thank you”). Interestingly, this Korean word 건배 is very similar to Chinese word, 干杯(Ganbei), and Japanese word, 乾杯 (Kanpai), which they both mean “cheers.” You can use this word 건배 with Koreans whether they are older or younger than you are. 건배 is the most frequently used Korean word for cheers. What Does “Nostrovia” Actually Mean? In Russian За здоровье What is the response to Nostrovia? In Russian language: «Бака» baka: Бака What is the Russian equivalent of Cheers? German has four cases, but Russian has six (and Polish even seven). It depends of course on where you´re starting from: English is a Germanic language (as is German) but it has fewer verb forms, noun genders and hardly any case endings for pronouns and adjectives. Russian is hard (trudniy), German is heavy (schwer). “Ze kitts heff many frents.” – Harden your consonants.Let’s get Fricative! – Gargle Every “R” In Your Throat.“Somesing to sink about!” – Flatten “TH” to “Z” or “S”.“Say vot?” – Instead of “W” and “WH”, just say “V”.In many languages, the letter “ö”, or the “o” modified with an umlaut, is used to denote the non-close front rounded vowels or. Ö, or ö, is a character that represents either a letter from several extended Latin alphabets, or the letter “o” modified with an umlaut or diaeresis. What do different accents on letters mean?Īn accent mark may change the sound of a letter, the meaning of a word, replace a letter that existed in old French, or have no perceivable effect at all. What is the Russian equivalent of Cheers?.What do different accents on letters mean?.

[skopostheorie]

Oscar time

Their first date was counting rubbish in a tip. Literally the Count will count anything he doesn't give a fuck

While the Count does have some level of attachment to them himself, perhaps for the sake of vibes, he started paying a lot more attention to the cobwebs and soot around his house once Oscar starting coming over. Oscar was pleasantly surprised by the Count's castle for this reason.

The Oscar does actually go to the Count's fancy schmancy Count Events for his sake, because he knows it makes him happy. He starts to get into it, too. Waltzes are a personal favourite

In fact, a lot of Count Things that don't typically suit a grouch in tastes are generally enjoyable to Oscar for similar reasons the Count doesn't display a similar aversion to Oscar's things. Oscar likes things that make the Count happy even if he wouldn't chose them himself

(This is actually canon but) the Count is one of the few to not recoil in disgust at all of Oscar's stuff/pinch his nose/etc. Because he doesn't need to breathe, when he's in Grouchland or in the can, he just doesn't.

[ ] The Count is basically impossible to drag away from playing with Oscar's fur, he's basically Velcro'd to that thing

Oscar's first visit to Transylvania could have been its own romcom style Muppet Movie. Total mayhem for a poor old grouch. But he got to see the Count von Count's family who he discovered was as weird as his own Count. The views of the Transylvanian Alps were too beautiful for his liking and could have used some scattered plastics at least. But the castles were at least sort of dusty.

CVC's family were certainly surprised but had gotten used to the idea of the Count bringing home some Strange American when he'd announced he was moving to begin with. They got on with Oscar because they're too weird to realise he's a right bitch. "Oh I suppose that it is what it is like in America elkerülhetetlen ez". He took a liking to them despite his best efforts

The Oscar does find how fancy the Count is so attractive even though it kills him to say that. He thinks about the way he speaks and how long he spends de-linting his clothes and having his cape hand stitched and he starts losing his mind

Technically the Count "confessed" first, but really the "confession" was the kiss which Oscar initiated. Oscar took forever to say I love you but the Count ended every single night with "goodnight my (insert insane thing here)! I love you very much!". Whereas Oscar is only good at saying "I don't dislike you" or something similar

My little cabbage, (they say it in France you know!) my lettucehead, my avocado, my asparagus, my etc etc

...my [random German word he read in a newspaper he thought was cute]. My little Taschentuch. My beloved Gesetzgebung. My Mutterschaftsurlaub

Anyway, their first kiss was on their first date, which up until that moment was only a date because both of them were gay as hell and thinking "I'm sure he just meant this as friends" but then Oscar realises kissing someone is a great way to shut them up and in a leap of boldness the world has never seen hitherto or since he went and kissed that old man

My actual CVC headcanons written as I trudge through episode after episode in the hopes that I might see him for twenty glorious seconds (LONG)

Cookie Monster is his bestie, they hang out and act Strange together

He has phases of enjoying counting in certain ways. There are some days when counting zero of something is like hell to him, and others when it's all he wants to do.

His memory is borderline photographic; that's both how and why he keeps his counting diary. It helps him empty his head and show he's able to keep track of countable things that would otherwise be forgotten.

He moved to Sesame because he was getting sick of the same-same life of back home, restricted by whatever more ancient relics of count life were supposed to be; especially having to spend time talking to other Important People. On Sesame he gets to do what he wants and be like everyone else, even if he is different. It's also why he says his name is because of his hobby and not, like, the actual reason

He went to an international/accelerated school, where Matilda also went; it was indeed maths oriented, but the Count is exaggerating a bit when he says it was a "counting school".

He did actually catch a bit of an Australian accent from Matilda as a child, as she was his main source of English speaking, but it faded after she moved; all the teachers were either American-accented or had accents like his

He actually has no negative physical reaction to sunlight, he just doesn't like it because of the 'tism

He actually needs the monocle, it's a glasses lens, he read way too much in the dark as a kid

He didn't realise that hyponotising people for his counting purposes could upset people and had to be informed of the fact; but of course, this happened quite quickly, which is why it only happened a few times.

He loves watching sports and pays a great deal of attention to the stats. He especially loves sports analysis shows with "360" in the title. Book keeping etc has also, of course, always been of great interest to him, as well as anything else stats-based in pop culture, such as the census (as we know), elections, algorithms, and so on.

However, he isn't some sort of betting wizard. He is certainly good at counting up things, but putting them into practice and making an analysis of them takes more effort for him, especially if it's a synthesis of a variety of factors.

While he doesn't need a steady job these days, he does do odd accounting jobs during tax time to get himself something nice

He can do all sorts of mathematics, but he simply finds the most interest in counting (and by proxy smaller multiplication tables). He can help you with more challenging maths if you ask him; however, it isn't very interesting for him and he only knows it because of his time at his cute little special boy school

He and the Countess do speak Hungarian reasonably frequently, but not all the time

They knew each other before they met on Sesame, but only vaguely, through friends of friends of friends as children

He was nocturnal for a pretty long while but after he made more friends on Sesame he started to change his sleep schedule for convenience

^ In general, a lot of his vampirisms started to naturally go away after he made friends, and a healthy dose of counting every day keeps him hunky dory.

34,696 was only his favourite number on the day they asked; it changes constantly

He has one of those birthday cake books which teach you how to make numbers for kids' birthdays and we frequently bakes them for friends' birthdays as well as for whenever CM comes over

I'll add more later

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Sainsbury’s share price leaps 13% as next UK supermarket moves into buyers’ sights

Weekend reports suggest Sainsbury’s, the UK’s second largest supermarket chain by market share, is set to become the next target of takeover offers as the battle for rival Morrisons moves into its final stages. The bidding would be expected to start at upwards of £7 billion, the price at which the Morrisons board last week recommended shareholders accept an offer from American private equity group Clayton Dubilier and Rice (CD&R).

Apollo, another buyout group from the U.S., is credited with the most advanced, if still exploratory, interest in Sainsbury’s but would be expected to face competition. With the Sainsbury’s share price closing on Friday at 294.7p after gains of over 30% so far this year the weekend reports were always likely to spark another sharp rise today. The Morrisons share price closed on Friday at 291p-a-share, 6p above the recommended offer for the company.

Apollo, which manages $88 billion of assets, has experience of the groceries sector after last year investing $1.75 billion in U.S. supermarket chain Alberstron, which owns the Safeways brand.

Market share of grocery stores in Great Britain from January 2017 to May 2021

With Sainsbury’s holding around 15% market share in the UK’s groceries market to Morrisons’ 10%, the supermarket still looks potentially undervalued at its current level despite strong gains over the past year.

Apollo is also in talks to join the Fortress consortium bidding for Morrisons and could provide extra financial muscle should the latter choose to again up the ante to improve on CD&R’s 285p offer. The current Morrisons share price of 291p indicates confidence the bidding isn’t quite finished yet.

However, interest in a potential offer for Sainsbury’s could well sharpen if Apollo doesn’t ultimately become a significant shareholder in Morrisons. Despite being the larger of the two chains by market share, Sainsbury’s is less profitable than Morrisons thanks to the latter’s stronger presence in more affluent parts of the UK. However, it also has strengths over its rival such as a well developed online business (a notable weakness of Morrisons who work with partners like Amazon) and a chain of smaller convenience stores.

American private equity is being drawn to the UK’s largest supermarket chains due to a perception they have been undervalued for a number of years and their extensive property portfolios. Figures in the City also say they see significant future scope to improve efficiency through smaller, optimised stores and more automation, especially across logistics facilities.

The Sainsbury’s share price rise over recent months has been spurred along by rumours of takeover interest from Czech energy billionaire Daniel Kretinsky. In April the ‘Czech Sphinx’ acquired over £100 million of Sainsbury’s stock from the Qatar Investment Authority. He has also built up stakes in German wholesaler Metro and France’s Casino supermarket chain. Between them, Kretinsky and the Qatari fund own almost 25% of Sainbury’s.

In recent years several attempts have been made to take Sainsbury’s private. Private equity house CVC tried in 2007 were thwarted by the Sainbury family. However, the family now only own around 3% of the company having sold down their stake over the years since. Much of that stock has been bought up by the Qatar Investment Authority who launched, then abandoned, a £10.6 billion bid in 2016 as part of a consortium that also included CVC and Brookfield. They snapped up Argos instead.

Despite recent valuation gains on takeover hopes, the 60% premium CD&R has agreed to pay for Morrisons on its share price before news of interest broke would be expected to inflate the Sainsbury’s valuation well above its current £6.9 billion.

Higher prices do, however, raise questions around how a return on investment will be achievable without selling off stores and leasing them back. CD&R’s bid for Morrisons includes a commitment not to do so but presumably means other assets will be sold. The supermarket’s warehouse property portfolio is estimated as worth around £512 million and manufacturing assets £250 million. The valuations are based on the presumption of 15-year sale-and-leaseback agreements being struck.

Important This article is for information purposes only. Please remember that financial investments may rise or fall and past performance does not guarantee future performance in respect of income or capital growth; you may not get back the amount you invested. There is no obligation to purchase anything but, if you decide to do so, you are strongly advised to consult a professional adviser before making any investment decisions.

https://www.tradingandinvestmentnews.co.uk/sainsburys-share-price-leaps-13-as-next-uk-supermarket-moves-into-buyers-sights/

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A crude sketch of my main conlang’s grammar

I wrote this before the first alphabet post and want to close the window its in. i don’t want to delete it i guess Pa'atic:

Phonology:

Consonants:

p t c k - ' b d j g - t' c' q - d' j' g' f s - -  ħ h - s' - z - - 3 - z' m n - r - l w - y ---

ii uu i u a aa Emphatic consonants (here, written with ') may be pronounced with pharyngealization or velarization. /q/ and /g'/ are uvular.

Between vowels, oral stops are realized as fricatives. Word final /t/ (but not /t'/) obeys rules roughly equivalent to French elision, going silent pre-pausally and before consonants. In medial clusters, c tends to become a fricative preferentially, otherwise the first stop fricates. R behaves like Spanish.

Syllable structure is preferentially open, although the most common is CVC. CVCC is acceptable word-finally, such as in the word mact (what?).

Generally the second open syllable of a word receives stress; stress triggers a vowel to be realized as its "long" counterpart. Typically secondary stress follows an iambic pattern if applicable. Single syllable words are typically ambiguously stressed (just like the English word "the")

Short vowels are centralized, XSAMPA I, U, and E (cf English bit, look, stuff)

Most words are either CVC, CVC(V)C, or CVCCVC.

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At the phrase level, VSO and strongly head initial. This extends to other associated patterns: adjectives follow nouns, prepositional, Place Manner Time. Still, the language provides a topicalization marker -aw to front phrases. Where clauses are introduced with relative pronouns may also be argued to be an example of SVO.

Morphosyntactically, Nominative-Accusative.

If verbs share arguments, at least a subject but preferably all subsequent arguments, they may be serialized instead of linked by conjunction; think "he chased and caught the cat" > "chased caught he the cat".

At the inflectional level, the language is relatively circumflexing, but mostly suffixing.

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Normal verbs may have their inflection inferred from their infinitive stem.

From the infinitive, 4 principle 'states', to borrow a parallel idea from the nominal grammar, are derived, differing principally in aspect:

from an underlying perfect stem: perfective - for completed actions, usually English's simple past or the past perfect constructions (ate, had eaten)

stative - for actions without regard to tense but are relevant, usually english's present perfect (have eaten, [with his] having eaten), often is-participle adjectives as well (is done).

from an underlying imperfect stem: imperfective - for incomplete actions, usually English's progressive tenses (am eating, will eat, was eating) cursive - for habitual actions, 'long-distance' imperfective verbs (”I am learning German”), usually English's simple present.

Perfect verbs suffix in inflection. Imperfective verbs circumflex, with a separate fossil pronoun system for the prefixes; this is akin to analogous systems in other AA languages.

Most verbs fall under one of two conjugation families, simple and waw. They differ mostly by ablaut of a to i or a to u from imperfect to perfect; the waw-conjugation also shows reduction of semivowels.

Supplemental verbs exist as well, usually split along stem lines.

Zero copula, but may be supplemented by the irregular verbs yura or 3irka, depending on context.

The personal endings are: 1  ' - (w)i (-uy if the stem ends on -a (cannibalizing the a)) (sg)  n - án (pl)  n - anna (du) 2m k - ku n - kán n - kanna 2f c - ti n - tán n - tanna 3m y - su, f (imperfect, perfect) n - sán n - sanna 3f y - si, t n - sán n - sanna

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Normal nouns have their inflection inferred from their definite singular.

The feminine is almost always indicated with a suffix -t, or rarely, for certain collectives, a prefix t-. While irregular nouns exist, gender is almost always predictable.

Nouns take three or four basic stems, called states, three cases, and three numbers.

The states are as follows: (with manas, leg)

definite - the definate article carries case; may be prefixed by the number prefixes. "Segolates" (CVCC roots) show a schwa (a) splitting the final consonant cluster (la manas) indefinite - no definite article; the root is suffixed with u or i (following t, but not t'), case is delivered as a suffix to this stem. Number may be prefixed to the noun, normally. (mansu) construct - used to create compound nouns, heads of genitive phrases, subject of passive verbs, adverbal uses, some others; the indefinate root is circumfixed with a-a, to which case and number may be applied (definite constructs take a declined article and are not declined). (amansa) The cases are as follows:

nominative - unmarked (la manas, mansu, amansa) accusative - marked with n (lan manas, mansun, amansan) oblique - marked with r; when preceded by a noun in the construct state, it is genitive, otherwise, it is interpreted as dative by default. (lar manas, mansur, amansar) The numbers are as follows:

singular - unmarked (la manas, mansu, amansa) plural - prefixed with ú- or w- (the latter before vowels). the nominative article la loses its vowel; l-u... First syllable -a-s usually deleted (l-umnas, umansu, wamansa) dual - the plural, but prefixed with ag-. (l-agumnas, agumansu, agwamansa) Personal (pronoun) possession is marked as if the noun is conjugated: mansawi

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Adjectives may be nominal or verbal in nature.

Prepositions are conjugated the same as verbs. The irregular demonstrative ka(t) "that" follows its noun. Is more, but this is just a sketch.

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Aogine Matthias (仰音マティア) is a Japanese UTAU created and voiced by MOMIGIKO (もみぎこ). Very similar to his elder sibling, he has several voicebanks that are meant to support multiple languages. These languages are Japanese, Russian (CVC), Latin (CVC), and German (CVCV). The Japanese voicebanks include an unlabeled tripitch CV, CVVC, CV+CVVC, and CVVC (+VCVC) voicebanks. In the sample above, his voice seems to be quite “calm.” However, I’m sure there’s others who can find a better word to describe it! ^^

His character is said to be negative and clumsy. He is blind due to an accident, and is training himself for the clergy. As mentioned before, Aogine Enoch is his older sibling.

You can read more about Aogine Matthias here!

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Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909) German psychologist conducted the 1st experimenta

Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909) German psychologist conducted the 1st experimenta

Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909) German psychologist conducted the 1st experimental studies of memory. He studied meaningless CVC syllables. You are going to conduct a simulation of the Ebbinghaus study. In order to do so, you will need to do the following: 1. Read the list of 3 letter groups over and over and over until you have memorized them (below). 2. Once you have memorized them, test…

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Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909) German psychologist conducted the 1st experimenta

Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909) German psychologist conducted the 1st experimenta

Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909) German psychologist conducted the 1st experimental studies of memory. He studied meaningless CVC syllables. You are going to conduct a simulation of the Ebbinghaus study. In order to do so, you will need to do the following: 1. Read the list of 3 letter groups over and over and over until you have memorized them (below). 2. Once you have memorized them, test…

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Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909) German psychologist conducted the 1st experimenta

Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909) German psychologist conducted the 1st experimenta

Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850-1909) German psychologist conducted the 1st experimental studies of memory. He studied meaningless CVC syllables. You are going to conduct a simulation of the Ebbinghaus study. In order to do so, you will need to do the following: 1. Read the list of 3 letter groups over and over and over until you have memorized them (below). 2. Once you have memorized them, test…