#digraphic

[magistralucis]

pronouncing the necron 'sz': personal rating list*

broke: /s/ only ('seras')

woke: /z/ only ('zeras')

provoke: /s/ and /z/ pronounced separately ('s-ze-ras')

bespoke: /ʂ/ or /ʃ/ ('scheras')

invoke: tensed fricative /s͈/ ('sseras')

misspoke: /s/ but evil ('ßeras')

(* Further notes in tags.)

[robiberon]

hi hello i just saw one too many bad meme making fun of the french language so here is a PSA in the form of angry texts i sent my gc at 3am <3

(for context, this is abt the tumblr post that said that the word "oiseaux" (pronounced "wazo") makes no sense)

like ik it's a lot, and idk if all of it makes sense, but i'm kind of a nerd for linguistics so i felt the need to defend my language lol

[velaraffricate]

god i wish latin'd had /ʃ/ so we could have a proper letter for it in our alphabet

[o-wise-corvid]

Dathomir Daily

Tunorr su nī sho thol’onzhul. (Look me in the eye.)

(Toonorr soo neye shah thahl-onzh-ool.)

This is a statement used like “give it to me straight” or “come clean”. Eye contact isn’t usually done outside of intimate relationships of family or close loved ones. Otherwise it’s seen as threatening.

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[kelasian]

yorév sëbán gháziriyer dathá ḫáwasësaḥ yóqir búrm ahah

[hanaasbananas]

said "sup guys" to my spelling group today and was immediately humbled by an eight year old going "miss said 'sup!' Miss are you trying to do slang?" followed up five minutes later-while I'm trying to teach 'ei' words- with "miss were you being cool?" while I'm just stood there in my pink hello kitty jumper, grey love heart hijab and rainbow platform converse like "am I NOT???"

[sera-wasnever]

Bless this random 1684 woman hand writing her recipe book for including a legend for the abbreviations she uses :')

[szaalek-czaje]

you are no longer tea D:

I'M STILL CUP OF TEA! Just in Czech* now.

[natequarter]

is it me or is the english /u/ a radically different sound to the french /u/

[jurph]

[phonescreen-daydream]

horrifyingly plummeting literacy rates aside that phonics post reminded me of work :')

[thekillingmoonmoon]

teaching digraphs to my 11 year old today and... I'm so sorry ESL speakers

[softgrungeprophet]

number one way to piss me off instantly is to trot out the wine dark sea as "evidence" that the ancient greeks "couldn't see blue"

first of all "wine dark" is not a literal translation, it's an interpretation of a metaphor that doesn't mention color at all and is comparing the choppiness of the sea to intoxication/drunkenness, not to the literal dark tone of red wine

second of all, if you think lacking a base word for blue is evidence of an inability to see blue, you don't understand how language works and are making ridiculous assumptions about people's biology and color vision from only a couple thousand years ago, based on a non-literal translation of one specific work

third of all they literally did have ways to discuss the color blue. but even if they didn't, not everything is identical to the american english language approach anyway, and there is generally no such thing as a universal trait in linguistics, so even something you take for granted being absent in another language isn't actually evidence for some kind of fundamental biological difference (frankly that veers too close to eugenics for my liking), and is just a different approach to contextualizing reality.

[vicinity-proximity]

[blepzebul]

after all this time, i’ve come to the conclusion that a lot of topics stick in my head if you break down their etymology

[corvidpolyglot]

y'all i am going to lose my shit H IS NOT A FREE LETTER IT REPLACES ANOTHER

Hey so technically speaking with the whole mirror-names thing, couldn't someone from Roshar technically be named Uwu.

The worst part about this ask is that only holy beings are supposed to have 100% mirror names.

 UWU WOULD BE A GOD.