#i'm not a native speaker ok

[royalarchivist]

Mine: Refer to me however you want!

Mike: Yeah, for me too. I think I use all pronouns too.

[They high-five and fist-bump each other]

Mine:

[via @barbmine]

[eirianerisdar]

As a Chinese person from Hong Kong I'm going to officially say this absolutely blows my mind. Here's why.

In the video, Charles and Carlos were plainly copying calligraphy stroke-by-stroke from a large image in front of them. What makes Carlos' attempt so impressive is that he's effectively gotten nearly all the proportions, starting and ending brush pressures and tail-offs, and the structure right. It's not perfect. But it's damn well near perfect.

Compare it to Charles': Charles didn't do a bad job at all, and has successfully copied many of the requisite features, but he has seen each stroke as a line, as many people who write Chinese characters with ballpoint pens do nowadays - point A to point B, with natural loss of shape and flow in between. It's not necessarily a problem. Charles is writing the characters. But interestingly, Carlos isn't writing at all.

On rewinding the video you see why Carlos' was shaped so perfectly. He doesn't know Chinese. He doesn't know anything about stroke order, or speed. But he knows detail.

If you look at his hands as he writes he separated each stroke into a shape. Then he did his level best to recreate each shape as carefully as he could by pressing the brush until he could see it formed the right thickness of the line.

He didn't write, like Charles did. He painted.

If this is how good Carlos is at copying a language he does not know I wonder how amazing he would be at painting if he actually spent time to learn.

[solradguy]

Finally overhauled and updated the Japanese resources page on my Neocities. Added a lot of new things and also reorganized it so that it's a little easier for absolute beginners to get into

[nereb-and-dungalef]

I keep drinking coffee thinking it's gonna make me Productive and then instead of doing the work I actually have to do I just compulsively make spreadsheets :(

[mitsundere]

university version meets in-game version...

[svtskneecaps]

my wishlist for eventual further qsmp activity is that they're able to make the translations work for voice group calls and show up in the box or something.

yes this is because i'm rewatching purgatory vods again, my main server rewatch got me to the day flippa dies for the first time and i'm SAD i don't wanna watch it :(

just, with purgatory 2 and i'm rewatching bolas with carre as well, like bolas mainly operated in english bc they'd been speaking english to each other for a while and when they needed to coordinate with carre they went quiet so cellbit could talk bc he was their strongest in spanish (those were the few times they ever really shut up in the call lmao) but i'm also thinking about purgatory 2 and how teams that had members who weren't proficient in a common language couldn't use the translations because purgatory teams tended to spend a lot of time split up in the world. i'm thinking about the time bad and brunim were standing right in front of each other and brunim was still asking someone in the call to translate for bad, bc they just weren't able to make much use of the translations so they didn't seem to become habit for the teams.

that's my wishlist. i'm not sure it's even possible with how the voice chat mod they're using works, but i really hope they can figure out how to make that work because that's gonna REALLY help these events be less english or common language dependent. it'll be a learning curve for the players to remember to read the box and it'll probably get messy for bigger calls but the five-six person teams should probably be manageable.

I JUST WANT LESS ENGLISH IN MY MULTILINGUAL MINECRAFT IS THAT SO MUCH TO ASK 😭

[vilevampire]

I loaf technology

[gothicastles]

currently toiling under the man-made horrors (studying for an exam whose content i have little to none interest in)

[burningflash]

It is so indescribably frustrating when you are learning a language and as hard as you try, as much as you know, you cannot physically make some of the sounds. It’s so fascinating that our native language actually shapes the structure of our mouth and why can’t my Australian tongue speak Arabic with a perfect accent it’s not fair.

[lenievi]

wait, it finally clicked why Kirk’s “yes, ma’am” sticks out so much

it’s because everyone else is using “sir”

I assume Kirk (during the call) says it as a way of being polite (but he isn’t from the South - I read it isn’t really very common outside of Southern states to use this), but they’re pseudo-military (they’re navy, yes, I know), and La’an is older and presumably a higher rank, even though they’re both lieutenants (but La’an wears one and a half stripes, whereas Kirk wears just one)

so because everyone else is using “sir” even when referring to women, it just comes across as very old-fashioned (it’s my new favourite thing, actually, Kirk just being all “yes, ma’am” towards Una and La’an lol Maybe the Farragut’s captain is a woman, who knows.)

perhaps it’s just a way to do some kind of a call back to TOS (even though I’m not sure if Kirk ever had an opportunity to use “ma’am”), the same way they had Spock suddenly starting to use “Miss” in the first episode of season 2 that even TOS stopped using 

Maybe they just wanted to make Kirk polite in an old-fashioned way.

[royalarchivist]

[A sad violin song plays over an image of a sad hamster]

Pac: This doesn't have anything to do with me – I wear a blue sweatshirt, you're crazy, this mouse doesn't even have a sweatshirt, this hamster! [Reading chat] Am I a depressed hamster?

[ Transcript continued ↓ ]*

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Pac: Actually– that's fine! I embrace that idea – of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy? [He hits his desk, then starts counting off people on his fingers] Fit is gone, Richarlyson is gone, Ramon is gone, Bagi and Empanada who were always there when we were there are also gone, I haven't seen them! It's just me and Tubbo, and sometimes Philza shows up.

Pac: I lost Chume Labs, I lost the Favela, I lost Murder Mystery, I lost Ilha Chume Labs, it's crazy! Look at how much I've lost, and I've gained nothing! Of course I'm going to be depressed, are you crazy?! How am I supposed to be happy?!

Pac: [Reading chat] "You have us Pac," that's true, thank you. No, that's true, sorry.

* NOTE: Please note that this is an incomplete transcript, as I was primarily relying on Aypierre's translation mod at the time and if I am not confident of the translation, I do not include it. As always, please feel free to add on translations or message me corrections.

[perfectlyvalid49]

Look, so many "rules" that you've been taught about the English language are absolute bullshit that someone just made up hundreds of years ago. They're not inherent to the language, they're what someone decided would make the language sound more professional.

There is actually a group of English rules that were applied because medieval monks were trying to make English more like Latin, because Latin was a respectable language and English was not. But rules like "don't split your infinitives," or "don't end sentences with prepositions" were applied for no reason other than that's how Latin worked, and Latin was cool. Not starting a sentence with a conjunction feels like it came in the same way.

Don't let some long dead dude tell you what is or is not correct in English. If you're a native speaker (or a non-native speaker who is extremely fluent) and it sounds right to you, then it's right.

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

[plain-and-simple-ninja]

sorry if this is weird but seeing you reply in an actually normal and peaceful manner to a frankly very fucking rude set of tags has been an insane breath of fresh air in internet discussions to me 😭 i miss when pointing out someone is being rude and should just go have a good day seemed to be way more of a norm than it is now. anyway hope you have a wonderful day and less rude tags!!

aww???? thank you, anon! it's not weird at all, I'm glad you appreciate that!

I just wanted to say I somewhat agree with the specific set of tags you're referencing - I am indeed sometimes stupid (who isn't?), this specific post of mine was also stupid. but this is my corner of the internet in which I can be stupid about stuff I like whenever I want it/need it. I think publicly posting something unserious and not well thought out is not, like, a crime (as long as it doesn't actually hurt anyone in real life, obviously).

and I actually don't regret not keeping my mouth shut when I made the og post because for some reason so many people came and talked about it OR things adjacent to it. I got fic recs out of it. I got new headcanons. I've actually LEARNT SOMETHING NEW. how cool is that??

one person showing up and being slightly rude doesn't undo it in the slightest :3

oh, and i hope you have a wonderful day too <3 your message was like a tiny ray of sunshine on this cold winter night and I really appreciate it!

[vole-mon-amour]

I wish I was a native English speaker and wasn't born in this country in the first place. (the country itself is not the issue, it's the government)

[oatmealswizard]

using neopronouns for my dad's house i don't think he's noticed yet

[shiisiln]

#The lyrics FEEL it doesn't matter if they make sense

This is like 90% of the music i enjoy

Ok am I, stupid or do a fair portion of the lyrics to Kiss From A Rose just not make any sense at all