#echo speakers

[spocks-kaathyra]

Cardassian conlang (part 1?)

Finally started making my Cardassian conlang and I'm having so much fun already. Get this:

There's a distinction between alienable and inalienable possession, something that occurs in many natural languages. An example is, like, "my nose" vs "my hat". My nose is inalienable because it will always be mine, while my hat is alienable because it can stop being mine. So in languages with this distinction, you'd use different words for "my" in those two situations.

In my Cardassian language, possession is indicated with suffixes attached to nouns and people's names. People are "possessed" in the sense that, y'know, they're your mom or your friend or your orthodontist or whatever. Generally, you'd use the alienable form for people. Your orthodontist might not always be your orthodontist, your friend might not always be your friend. The exception is that you always use the inalienable form(s) for family. Your mom will always be your mom.

So, to use the inalienable possessive for a friend would be to say that they are as close to you as family, that you trust that they will always be your friend. This is often, like, a milestone in dating. To start saying "my girlfriend (inalienable)" marks that your relationship is serious. (Traditionalists will say that you shouldn't use the inalienable form until you're properly betrothed, but kids these days have their own ideas.) In this way, it becomes a pretty straightforward term of endearment (or, rather, grammatical particle of endearment).

Since there's no equivalent in Federation Standard, the translator often renders it as "my dear."

Here's a table of the 10 different words for "my"

So, presuming that the speaker is a man, and the person they're referring to is also a man who they don't have to use the honorific form with...

/alʊk/ - "friend"

/alʊkɬei/ - "my friend"

/alʊkxa/ - "my dear friend"

/ilɨm̥xa/ - "my dear Elim"

[remotewatch]

I don’t bookmark anything on ao3 and if I can’t find it again it wasn’t meant to be

[secretariatess]

"Feminism failed me because now I have to work a nine to five job and I'd rather be a stay at home wife."

Or maybe we've fostered toxic work cultures that have created a "grass is greener on the other side" situation, or maybe we push our children so fast and hard into a career path without slowing it down to ensure our kids know of all their options instead of diving headfirst into a path they might not care about and thus leading to resentment of their work, or maybe we're getting lazier and lazier generations who feel like they shouldn't have to put in a standard amount of work and being a stay at home wife sounds like a dodge of responsibility, an easier route . . . .

. . . and on top of that, maybe we've romanticized the 1950s and the "traditional household" that we've decided to ignore that the culture was forced in order to get women back into domestic labor after running America while the men were at war so that men could get their jobs back, and have forgotten the commonality of domestic abuse and how ads would brazenly joke about it while victims felt like they had to keep quiet in order to maintain the image of a happy family as well as the alarming rate at which women were taking "mommy's little helpers" to help them with their lifestyles, and we've disconnected the fact that the 50s was followed by the wildness of the 60s and 70s as well as feminist movement wave which maybe indicates that the 50s was not the happy little decade in which men and women were in their "correct gender roles" and trying to replicate that era could possibly be a big mistake . . . .

Maybe the issue we have with feminism gaining women the right to work wasn't that it got us the right to work, but rather that it played into the idea that men and their traits are the standard of being human, and in order for a woman to be successful she has to display those traits instead of taking traits of women and standing on those as women's strengths and arguing for how work can be better when women and men use their feminine and masculine traits together because we're both human, and masculine traits are not better than feminine ones, and vice versa.

Maybe the problem faced by those who actually want to work stay at home lives are not hindered by feminism, but rather a failing economy caused by a government for a multitude of reasons, and not because the government created feminism to get women working to tax them too.

Maybe the problem here isn't people going against gender roles, but rather a multitude of many other factors, and it's a lot simpler to fight and blame the other gender.

I have many criticisms of feminism, particularly modern feminism. But feminism in general won women many victories over the decades, and there are a lot of things we women can do now that our female ancestors would have died to have. History might not be as sexist as we remember it, but sometimes I think we forget how unkind it was to women. Wishing feminism didn't come about or make the advances it did might be a little ignorant of the problems it saw women face and sought to correct.

Maybe it's not our "biology" to follow traditional gender roles, and we must return to that.

Maybe there's something we keep hopping over that recognizes men and women as individual humans first, with different skills, strengths, ambitions, and goals.

[faaun]

LOVELY DAUGHTER UNSOUND MIND!

[pc-98s]

what really gets me about those spy on you and sell your data speakers is they’re not even good as bluetooth speakers, they always disconnect randomly

[my-jokes-are-my-armour]

Fuck... that man still got a voice at his age and is still old school singing right.

[singlethread]

I love watching tv on the phone with my mom so much. Like it’s just so chill and nice and i love it

[spocks-kaathyra]

lecture doodle #?? genuinely haven't made an OC in years but I was recently possessed to draw this man. no I don't know anything abt him besides his name

[rejaul34]

Amazon Echo 4 Alexa Smart Speaker: Elevating Your Smart Home Experience

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[heiswatchingyou]

i forgot how good the bass in in absinthe...

[mirandashadowborn]

also did they change the sound? its ... different >_>

[epicthemutual]

Why does "live and learn" have to mean 'make a bunch of mistakes in the process of being alive" instead of the literal concept of 'be alive, learn about this beautiful world around us'.

[apopcornkernel]

important addition: please don’t call him jiaming just because you struggle with gaming. non-mandarin named characters are already so rare in a country that’s been working to promote standardized mandarin and throwing its other languages to the wayside!!! let the cantonese speakers have this W, literally everyone else in this game has a mandarin name already

i see some confusion on tumblr as well, so let's clear up the issue of Gaming's name

嘉明 gaa1 ming4

sample via twitter user @/lilysqingxin

pronounced like gah-ming

expert mode: gah (high nasal) ming (downward)

NO it's not the english word “gaming”

this is Cantonese, not Mandarin (which would be pronounced Jiaming)

it's romanized as Gaming and not Ga Ming because that’s how Genshin romanizes given names

most of the chinese speakers i’ve personally seen, both cantonese and non-cantonese, are leaning towards hyphenation: Ga-ming

but yeah, that’s it!! welcome gaming we’re so happy to have you 🥹

[ac-cell-erate]

One more week of this apartment. One more week.

[nibaldop]

Llegando del trabajo, esta noche, gracias a una notificación, he podido comprobar (lo que ya sabía), que mi Echo es 100 % original, y que ha avanzado mucho en su español desde su llegada a mi casa. Basta con escuchar ese "encantador acento gringo"!! Continuaré con mi esfuerzo para que Echo, mi fiel asistente personal, mejore cada día su español.

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Just got home from work tonight, thanks to a notification, I was able to confirm (what I already knew), that my Echo is 100% legit, and that its Spanish has improved a lot since it arrived at my home. You just have to listen to that "charming American accent"!! I will continue my efforts to help Echo, my faithful personal assistant, improve its Spanish every day.

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