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THE SOPRANOS | 1.01 "Pilot"

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Parents lie

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The Penguin (2024) 1x04 Cent'Anni Cristin Milioti / Sofia Falcone

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Jonathan Groff & Murray Bartlett

LOOKING: THE MOVIE (2016)

Dir. Andrew Haigh

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This is sooo Visenya

Waist, wig and walk. Shes about to go to war and shes serving??

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TOM MERCIER We Are Who We Are S01E07 "Right Here Right Now VII"

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Ramy Youssef: More Feelings (2024) dir. Christopher Storer

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HOTD 2022-?

parallels - 2.01

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Dune: Prophecy (2024—)

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The Last of Us Season 2 | The Last of Us Day Official Teaser

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Lexember (December 10th)

Okay, so this glyph is elilla "honey", and I guess I'll have to talk about this. There's this joke on The Simpsons where Homer is writing up invitations to his barbecue. They look like this:

The image is an outline of a pig, and the text is "Come to Homer's BBBQ. The extra B is for BYOBB." Lisa reads this aloud then asks homer, "What's that extra B for?" Homer's response: "That was a typo."

Back to Valyrian, elilla derives from the word for "bee" ēs. Ēs is irregular, as its stem is actually el-, so, for example, the plural of ēs "bee" is elossa "'bees". This is a common enough phenomenon in High Valyrian. Essentially, you had a stage where it was *els in the nominative singular, and the cluster simplified, resulting in a long vowel. (If anything, it's odd that "bee" is ēs rather than ēz, but we'll set the aside for the moment.) Elilla is a kind of derivation of ēs. The stem el- is extended, giving us elilla. Why -illa? No reason. It's a kind of reduplication. That extension, though, was reanalyzed as a suffix, and that suffix became rather productive, resulting in resultatives ending in -illa, hence hūra "moon" and hūrilla "moonlight".

Now, the trick here is all these words are aquatic. Aquatic words usually end in -r and have their own declension patterns. This one ends in -a. Fair enough. You might expect, though, that if it was aquatic, it would follow the declension patternj of aquatic nouns. But no. It doesn't. These -illa words end in -a, like class I lunar nouns, and they also decline like class I lunar nouns. The only thing that tells you they're aquatic is they trigger aquatic agreement.

Okay, so why are these -illa nouns aquatic? Because elilla is aquatic.

But why is elilla aquatic?

Truthfully, elilla is aquatic because it represents honey, which is classified as a liquid. That's the only reason it's aquatic. I also thought there would be a number of these nouns that looked like one class but triggered the agreement of another class.

But then I didn't add more.

So it's just these. It's the noun elilla and every other noun ending in -illa that looks like one gender/declension class but declines like a different one.

Twelve years on, I don't hate it, exactly, but I also hate it. And we're stuck with it.

Anyway, happy Community Christmas!

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Joel is deaf in his right ear, so he will sleep on that side when he has to be on his guard, like in the forest, or until Tess showed up back in Boston. But he turned around during the night to be closer to Ellie and didn’t hear Henry and Sam showing up.

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House of the Dragon: Season 2 (2024)

2x03 The Burning Mill

Baela Targaryen & Moondancer

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TRUE DETECTIVE

S1-E1 | The Long Bright Dark