#english parts of speech

[that-was-a-bit-stupid-of-you]

*adverbs cannot make the insult come true, but the person will believe it like it is. You can say, "you're a bitch" and they'll think they are one. You can say "You are a terrible person with no human values" to a bad person, and they'll start thinking that. Saying "you'll die alone" will make the person have an irrational fear of dying alone and isolation, etc.

[llovelymoonn]

favourite poems of july

knar gavin strindberg grey

dahlia ravikovitch the love of an orange (tr. chana bloch)

danez smith summer, somewhere

hannah gamble your invitation to a modest breakfast: “your invitation to a modest breakfast”

claire schwartz lecture on the history of the house

joseph brodsky collected poems in english, 1972-1999: “a part of speech”

ralph angel twice removed: “alpine wedding”

bob hicok insomnia diary: “spirit ditty of no fax-line dial tone”

caleb klaces language is her caravan

philip good & bernadette mayer alternating lunes

hester knibbe light-years (tr. jacquelyn pope)

tracy k. smith life on mars: “the universe as primal scream”

rigoberto gonzález other fugitives and other strangers: “the strangers who find me in the woods”

stephen edgar murray dreaming

james schuyler other flowers: uncollected poems: “light night”

amy beeder because our waiters are hopeless romantics

diane seuss backyard song

tomás q. morín love train

safiya sinclair the art of unselfing

carol muske-dukes skylight: “the invention of cuisine”

peter gizzi the outernationale: “vincent, homesick for the land of pictures”

william matthews selected poems and translations, 1969-1991: “onions”

c.k. williams butcher

mark mccloskey the smell of the woods

jennifer chang the age of unreason

richard blanco city of a hundred fires: “contemplations at the virgin de la caridad cafeteria, inc.”

bob hicock the pregnancy of words

j. allyn rosser impromptu 

carl phillips then the war

stephanie young ursula or university: “essay”

gloria e. anzaldúa the new speakers

kofi

[daydreamhowell]

“what’s an adverb” so true mr degree in English language and linguistics. this is the question we are all asking as, structurally speaking, the definition of adverb as a word class is basically nonexistent

[satsuha]

i've been thinking about nahyuta's title as the "last rites prosecutor" because i think it's an interesting part of his character that's immediately apparent from his first appearance... in japanese it's written as トムライの検事 (tomurai no kenji) with tomurai meaning funeral/burial. this is pretty self-explanatory considering his tendency to pray for the victim but i actually think it's really interesting that the localization opted for the term "last rites" instead

last rites are a specifically christian practice of praying for the dying to absolve them of their sins before they die - in other words, prayers given to the deceased wouldn't be considered last rites (x)

this is a pretty blatant contradiction of the original's meaning and what nahyuta actually does in the game but i think it's interesting to consider that the person he might be praying for is the defendant (and under khura'in's DC act, the defense as well), not the victim... even outside of khura'in we see that those who are proven guilty in murder trials are executed, and we know that nahyuta has been acting as a prosecutor under ga'ran, almost definitely sending several rebels and defense attorneys to their deaths in the process.

it would just be really tragic if his habit of praying came out of desperation at being forced to send innocents or even former comrades/friends to their deaths... whether it being interpreted as a funeral rite for the victim arose from the people around him or as another act of desperation from nahyuta to cover his actual intentions doesn't matter as much since i think one would have led to the other anyway...

[neroushalvaus]

Koko the gorilla didn't know ASL but, like, you could say that without invalidating the existence of speech-supporting signs

[hesperidia]

can we talk about this line. can we please talk about this line.

i've a half-assed theory here: Bram bringing Aku back to life via special vampire powers (and him keeping vampiric traits, apparently) meant that he gets to start over as a near blank slate, with only the primal instincts (more or less) of protecting Aya and the rest (or how Bram and now Aku called them: Princess and commoners) because that was Bram's last order. However he does not have memories of anything prior, hence "who the hell are you?"

2- He is messing with Atsushi in order to fool Fyodor. (unlikely scenario) But the way he used to speak all old timey and polite-ish until he faced Atsushi and was instantly rude caught my attention. Maybe his "not hatred" for Atsu trascends everything after all

[komarux]

started reading sbr take this

[estiniensays]

Our confrontation was cut short when the imperial guard arrived. It was then that Zenos took his leave. Citing boredom. [Hmph.]

[roomba-mangga]

thinking of using this quote from The Little Prince as an opener to a yaad&thistle au one-shot

it's quiet fantasy and inspired by children's lit - mostly the little prince and howl's moving castle. sort of a warmup and cool-down exercise in between my darker fics, a character study for yaad and exploration of what their interactions might look like under slightly more positive circumstances (outside the context of a forced familial relationship). first draft snippet below:

[ronanlynchbf]

and then an overwhelming sense of dread apear.

[dumbhero]

somehow adding "啊" to the end of my sentences to soften them has wormed its way into my regular speech and i didn't even notice i did that until just now watching this 说说中文 video... languages love to mix with each other in ways unbeknownst to their user

[tovaicas]

anyways my friends activated my conlang brain and I've made smth insane as usual

red is influences, blue is Elezen-family languages, green is like a mix bc I see the Alliance cities as having a trade language (that critically is limited to them).

I see Duskwight as a separate language from Black Shroud Elezen (but sharing a lot - easy enough to learn for those speakers). Coerthan and all its derivatives are a whole different language under the Elezen umbrella and isn't mutually intelligible with BSE. Because they split so early, they probably don't share much more than root words and etymologies; within the same family so not difficult to learn for other speakers of Elezen languages, but very distinctly different.

(also I'm not listing them but the branches extend to include other diaspora Elezen languages)

[theotherpacman]

my most self-indulgent personal fantasy is that I am somehow taken to an alien planet. the aliens are peaceful and just want to learn more about my kind. they assign a team of linguists to decipher my language. I write as much as I can about Earth and use color coded alien highlighters to categorize every word by part of speech. over the next many weeks, using a series of drawings (by me) photographs (from them) and charades (by all of us) they get a grasp of written english and we are able to communicate. I tell them all the stories I can think of, and they are fascinated. during all of this I am treated as an honored guest. (they've also assigned a team of scientists to learn about my biological makeup and what foods are safe for me to eat)

[chaotictoast]

This is possibly the best schoolwork I’ve ever done

[phantomjeanne85]

Why do some people get so bent out of shape over pronouns? I'm serious. It makes no sense. A pronoun is a part of speech. I knew about pronouns long before I knew what transgender meant. They're basic English. Am I really supposed to believe those fools didn't learn the same things I did? Or did they just stick their heads in the sand so they could justify their bigotry?

And while I'm on the subject, the singular they has been used for centuries. It literally means a person of unknown sex, whether you're talking about a stranger you've never met or just talking about a hypothetical person. The singular they exists. Get over it.

And for that matter, LGBTQ+ people have always existed. They just tend to be excluded from history, because most of what we're taught about history is a big fat lie. No one "turns" gay or trans. People are just figuring out how they identify and many of them embrace it because it's the twenty-first freaking century and everyone should be allowed to be themselves.

If you don't like it, that's your problem. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[lightyakami]

and like these days people have usually encountered the fandom BEFORE the manga, and are often reading it specifically because they're so interested in the fandom or the franchise that they want even more of it, so they're probably aware of all the non-canonical material the fandom at large is accidentally passing around before they see the actual source material. it was much easier back in the day when you could remember each specific piece of extra-canonical material being published