#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

[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.

[ketunperse]

pronouncing a basic english word slightly wrong in front of a native speaker, 1 trillion years of pain.

[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.

[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.

[hua-fei-hua]

(referring o lantern rite 3.4)

I found zhonglis performance as mortal adult who doesn't know venti as satisfactory while ventis to be 100/10 (no I am not biased). performance of the century. no millenia.

there was a lot of gay shit happening we know it we know it. I like to believe that hutao knows about a bard boyfriendTM. and she finally got to meet said boyfriend (who is also friends with zhongli,,,, hmm hutao detective glasses on I bet she wasn't fooled at all)

moon(iI am still laughing at the kidsctions to these adults doing. whatever they were. like why were they making upncover sorry fr but it was theater. art

did you meet beinguang at the uhhh place where rex lapis died. (thwir dialogue makes me laugh so much. am pretty sure at this point we can safely say that chess is code for making out hornily)

I also wanted to hear ventis thoughts in more detailed but ngl. I think it's pretty neat that xvn would like to keep their relationship a secret but only venti is the one who can while xiao's affection is apparent to anyone who knows him because he is an open book. Even if he tried he can't hide it. but I also wanted to know what venti thinks of music :( I had hoped that it would be like irodori where eh doesn't say much but just watches,,, is there in the background while giving inputs once in a blue moon

Also I did replay my own recording at yess!!! venti did blink a lot??? was it him going 'play along play along' hahaha idk

venti could go to an improv comedy club and absolutely sweep the competition; that man KNOWS how to play along and do so with SUBTLETY. probably bc he spends most of his waking life playing pretend and has done so for centuries, but then again, zhongli has also walked amongst mortals, who see him n go, "it couldn't be... is it??" so he passes with juuuust enough grace to leave them wondering lol. venti absolutely the best out of the three tho. xiao's acting skills found dead in a ditch lmao

OH but smth else i did remember is that i found it interesting that zhongli chose to call xiao by alatus. i know a lot of people tend to subscribe to the hc that alatus is xiao's true name (it's a pretty strongly supported hc that i refuse to subscribe to, personally) n that his weakness is his true name (also pretty supported by the text in canon n a hc i do subscribe to), so i find it interesting that, if alatus is xiao's true name (and secret weakness), zhongli would address him by such. one could say it's just his way of being more polite to someone who served in the archon war, but like idk. i just find it a bit odd and worth noting

a while back i was chillin w/my friends n making one of those alignment charts that's like "distinguished/functional/disaster" vs. "gay/bi/lesbian" (except we also added ace/pan/straight for a bit more nuance) n it was like "well, we have charas w/straight vibes from mond, inazuma, and sumeru. what abt liyue? do any of the liyue characters have straight vibes?" and the answer was no. liyue gay as hell.

and yes i DID see the beiguang over on yujing terrace!!! i was like "omg beiguangs" n i talked to them n i was like "is... is the chess a metaphor for sex???" bc WHAT WAS THAT?? HELLO???? last lantern rite was very much their wedding and so this year they get to sit back n be the stable established couple

also i can't believe hu tao met xiao's bf n then instantly went, "we will have an immortal pact of mischief, a solemn vow of fun written in silly poetics" she knows what she's doing. she knows EXACTLY who venti is; those dots were hardly even disconnected in her head.

i can absolutely see xv keeping their relationship a secret just bc xiao is a very private character, n venti would respect that. it's just so funny to see them fail bc xiao has difficulty maintaining a separation btwn his public n private lives. ofc he doesn't tell anyone if they don't ask, and he never drops any hints that would prompt people to ask normally, but in this particular type of situation where he has to explain himself and his relationship to someone, he's probably so unused to having a public social life that he has absolutely zero skills when it comes to answering questions truthfully, but with respect to his own privacy.

venti opinion on music.... that would've been nice to see :c though i don't think we asked xiao for his opinion either! hmm hmm... i wonder if they keep xiao's character development behind the ephemeral event quests specifically bc they're ephemeral n there's (maybe) gay shit going on behind the scenes.

but also omg so it WASN'T just my computer choking from the constant abuse i make it suffer venti was fluttering his lashes or smth at xiao. i'd personally interpret it as ~smug flirtations~ where he's just like, "ah, yes, how is xiao going to explain me away? :3" but who knows!!! i have brainworms lol

[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

[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)

[merrymorningofmay]

might have. spread misinformation on the world wide web

[oatmealswizard]

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