#it’s called linguistics

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

hope you feel better soon!

I am riddled with ailments, but I stay silly!

[shaonicwhite]

kind of obsessed with the conlang invented by 12th century composer and mystic hildegard von bingen. she called it lingua ignota and just sort of never explained why it exists or what it’s for? like. girl. why did you do this

in case you're wondering what was up with her, like, in general, she was an abbess who was (1) politically influential, (2) chronically ill, and (3) plagued by visions.

but like seriously girl WHAT was the conlang for. TELL ME

[uncanny-tranny]

If you need help practicing pronouns, try using the pronouns you struggle with on your pets!

Animals have very little understanding of pronouns and human gender. They won't care if you use he, it, she, xie, bun, literally whatever - they only care about you and their food. They'll be fine! However, your loved ones will appreciate your effort in using pronouns, and using them properly. It's a win-win situation!

[aroacenezhaanddainsleif]

ENJOU YOU LITTLE SHIT-

edit: turns out this kokuchuu and the one actually used for enjou have different kanji for koku so his name probably actually meant "in the valley", but this is funnier to me

[guppygiggles]

This is becoming a trend, now… eheh.

The name he chose is Damon Faraday!

[deepwaterwritingprompts]

Text: Whatever death is like, human language is useless there. Ghosts therefore speak a tongue precious few living are trained to understand. I translate between parties, for a price.

[captocie]

i've just seen another post asking what the gender neutral or nonbinary word is for "sir" or "ma'am" and i'd like to put forth "em" as a solution.

"sir" comes from sire, "ma'am" comes from "madam." "em" then, comes from "eminence" as in "will that be all your eminence?" or "will that be all em?"

it's short and quick to say, like both sir and ma'am, and it's gender neutral and stems from a word denoting nobility like both sir and ma'am

[fulesthefirst]

Only in Elisabeth das Musical could the reprise of a song come before the actual song but be titled as the actual song, and the actual song be titled as the reprise solely because of semantics.

I'm looking at you, Die Schatten werden länger.

By definition, a reprise is the repetition of an already introduced musical pattern. But specifically in Elisabeth, the repetition comes first and the actual song later. When we hear Die Schatten werden länger for the very first time, it sounds like a reprise because it's just a small breath (or a shadow, if you will...) of a motif that gets its musical meaning only in hindsight when the actual song is revealed in act two.

They can technically title the song Die Schatten werden länger (Reprise) with its iconic, fully formed, over four-minute runtime, but that is mad crazy, folks.

[official-linguistics-post]

Hi sorry Dr. Linguistics what are your pronouns that you use personally and which ones do you think are the most fun to say?

i use they/them but i have the most fun with people who use any pronouns because then i can challenge myself to use a different one every time

[visualtaehyun]

This might just be the rowdiest and funniest cast reaction I've ever seen:

Tee, Por and Save are the ones who are most consistently focused on watching - Tee clearly LOVES the romance, and Por and Save get teased endlessly for their characters' behavior with their crushes

Pat has that annoying (affectionate) younger sibling energy, unexpectedly saying the funniest shit like "โตเป็นผู้สาวแล้วน่ะ" /dtoh bpen phuu saao laaeo na/ = "(Teerak's) grown up to be a young woman now", being clingy with his phis, and adorably getting encouraged to sing along to the ost in the final scene ☺️

Tho and Kong are still arguing about which of their characters fell first, made a move first, initiates anything at this point lol

Au always has a joke ready ("ฮ่องกงรึห้องฟ้า" /haawng gong reu haawng Fah/ = "Hong Kong or Fah's room?"), often playing back and forth with TeeTee, when he isn't twisting himself into a pretzel reacting to his own scenes lmao

...and every couple interaction has them all yelling and fighting over the blankets555555

[bogkeep]

christmas haul...!!!! i have successfully rolled a charisma check on my parents and convinced them to gift me a steamdeck >:3c i'm so excited to be able to play hades 2, and slay the princess: the pristine cut, and and and!!!!!! gamez!!!!! yippee!!! yay!!!!!!!!!

here is a closeup of the Worm because it's very important

[eri-pl]

So I was thinking about how I switch between Polish and English in my thoughts (blame that one poll), and ended up thinking about confidence, and how the Latin word for faith landed up as the English word for certainly/probability (makes sense) and Polish word "konfident" meaning a secret agent, or, basically, a snitch (derogatory), and how the literal Latin meaning is "someone who trusts" (I think?), and @edennill I can very much think of a group in the Legendarium that would have the exact same linguistics phenomenon going on.

Yes, it's the king's Men, using the word "faithful" as derogatory (I know it's not a thing in canon, they call them different names, but I like this idea)

[slimetutorialfan]

how am I supposed to take linguistics seriously when everything sounds so silly? It started out with diphthongs and fricatives, but then I'm expected to simply accept the fact that the bow-wow theory, the pooh-pooh theory, the ding-dong theory and the yo-he-ho theory are all completely normal terms???

[mjbythebay]

Because there's an eclipse, in latin class my teacher had us translate all these old Roman dudes thoughts and shit on eclipses and incase you didn't know they filled a basin with oil or tar so they could see the reflection of the eclipse and study it, or just watch it like normal because they were also obsessed like we are

[badninken]

I would like to know which One Piece manga translation is considered the most faithful to the original and where to find it. Analysing scenes is kinda hard when there are several versions with very different tone and sometimes completely different meanings. Not even bothering to cross-reference anime subtitles, I have very little faith in those to begin with.

[leveragedlibrarians]

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