#language blogger

[losttranslator]

me when people ask me how to say "I don't care" in french

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The IASIP meme of Charlie Kenny gesturing wildly at a conspiracy board, with the second picture added to his papers - the second picture being a table with 7 columns classifying an exhaustive number of ways of saying "I don't care" in French, based on how common, vulgar and funny they each are.

Column 1: Socially acceptable and common: -Je m’en fiche -J’en ai rien à faire* (*less formal variation of “Je n’en ai rien à faire” which still belongs to this category)

Column 2: Vulgar and common enough to not be shocking: -Je m’en fous -(J’en ai) rien à foutre

Column 3: More vulgar, and common with a ‘teenage’ connotation: -(Je)* m’en tape -(Je) m’en branle -(Je) m’en balec’ -(Je) m’en bats les couilles -(J’en ai) rien à battre -(J’en ai) rien à branler -”Balec’” (* omitting “je” is frequent and makes the expression even less formal)

Column 4: ‘Familiar’ (only somewhat vulgar, completely informal) and uncommon enough to be considered somewhat funny: -J’en ai* rien à carrer -J’en ai* rien à cirer -Je m’en tamponne (le coquillard) -Je m’en balance -J’en ai* rien à péter (* can be replaced with “Je n’en ai rien à …” to give it a formal connotation, in which case the expression belongs to category 6)

Column 5: Socially acceptable and uncommon/formal enough to be considered funny: -Je m’en contrefiche -Je m’en soucie comme d’une guigne -J’en ai rien à fiche

Column 6: Vulgar and uncommon, somewhat formal: -Je m’en contrefous

Column 7: Socially acceptable and very uncommon / very formal, enough to sound snobbish (and therefore a bit funny): -Peu m’importe -Il m’importe peu -Je n’en ai cure -Je ne m'en soucie guère

[yarensdiary]

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[theereina]

[cuties-in-codices]

Where do you find these manuscripts? Is it like a website or do you find it randomly??

hey, thanks for the curiosity! lenghty answer below the cut :)

1)

medieval manuscripts are typically owned by libraries and showcased on the library's websites. so one thing i do is i randomly browse those digitized manuscript collections (like the collections of the bavarian state library or the bodleian libraries, to name just two), which everybody can do for free without any special access. some digital collections provide more useful tools than others (like search functions, filters, annotations on each manuscript). if they don't, the process of wading through numerous non-illustrated manuscripts before i find an illustrated one at all can be quite tedious.

2)

there are databases which help to navigate the vast sea of manuscripts. the one i couldn't live without personally use the most is called KdIH (Katalog der deutschsprachigen illustrierten Handschriften des Mittelalters). it's a project which aims to list all illustrated medieval manuscripts written in german dialects. the KdIH provides descriptions of the contents of each manuscript (with a focus on the illustrations), and if there's a digital reproduction of a manuscript available anywhere, the KdIH usually links to it. the KdIH is an invaluable tool for me because of its focus on illustrated manuscripts, because of the informations it provides for each manuscript, and because of its useful search function (once you've gotten over the initial confusion of how to navigate the website). the downside is that it includes only german manuscripts, which is one of the main reasons for the over-representation of german manuscripts on my blog (sorry about that).

3)

another important database for german manuscripts in general (i.e. not just illustrated ones) is the handschriftencensus, which catalogues information regarding the entirety of german language manuscripts of the middle ages, and also links to the digital reproductions of each manuscript.

4)

then there are simply considerable snowball effects. if you do even just superficial research on any medieval topic at all (say, if you open the wikipedia article on alchemy), you will inevitably stumble upon mentions of specific illustrated manuscripts. the next step is to simply search for a digital copy of the manuscript in question (this part can sometimes be easier said than done, especially when you're coming from wikipedia). one thing to keep in mind is that a manuscript illustration seldom comes alone - so every hint to any illustration at all is a greatly valuable one (if you do what i do lol). there's always gonna be something interesting in any given illustrated manuscript. (sidenote: one very effective 'cheat code' would be to simply go through all manuscripts that other online hobbyist archivers of manuscript illustrations have gone through before - like @discardingimages on tumblr - but some kind of 'professional pride' detains me from doing so. that's just a kind of stubbornness though. like, i want to find my material more or less on my own, not just the images but also the manuscripts, and i apply arbitrary rules to my search as to what exactly that means.)

5)

whatever tool or strategy i use to find specific illustrated manuscripts-- in the end, one unavoidable step is to actually manually skim through the (digitized) manuscript. i usually have at least a quick look at every single illustrated page, and i download or screenshot everything that is interesting to me. this process can take up to an hour per manuscript.

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in conclusion, i'd say that finding cool illuminated manuscripts is much simpler than i would have thought before i started this blog. there are so many of them out there and they're basically just 'hidden in plain side', it's really astounding. finding the manuscripts doesn't require special skills, just some basic experience with/knowledge of the tools available. the reason i'm able to post interesting images almost daily is just that i spend a lot of time doing all of this, going through manuscripts, curating this blog, etc. i find a lot of comfort in it, i learn a lot along the way, and i immensely enjoy people's engagement with my posts. so that's that :)

[gh0st-m00ns]

I want to crawl under his skin and into his ribcage to curl up and kiss his beating heart softly. (⁠｡⁠ﾉ⁠ω⁠＼⁠｡⁠)

[gracies-dreams]

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[tranquilstudy]

november 30 /24

I haven’t had a ton of time to work on graduate school stuff, but I have made some progress. I dug up my old personal statement for UofA and have been editing it to include my new professional experiences. I just… find it so hard to write. I don’t know, I think it’s hard for me to advertise myself like that, in such a blunt and concise way. But, I don’t want to put it off either. What do you find motivated you when you’re faced with a mentally impossible task that you have to complete? I’m chipping away at it when I can, making outlines, and hopefully I can get people to look it over soon. Any tips for personal statements, anyone?

🎧: O_well. — ahwlee

📖: Les Misérables — Victor Hugo (page count: 327)

❓: what is something you’ve always dreamed of doing but haven’t done yet?

🎮: ace attorney (trials and tribulations)

[adolin]

Hi I hope this isn’t an insensitive question but how did you learn English? Did you grow up speaking it or did you make a conscious effort to learn at some point? Sorry I rly don’t know much about Italy and whether it’s common to know English there 😅 anyway I hope you’re having a good day!

HI no worries, it's a very normal question to ask!

Learning English is very common in Italy (it's a mandatory subject through at least 10 years of schooling, depending on your specific schooling path) but fluency is relatively rare; I'd say that most people leave school with a B1 level knowledge at best, and even younger people who are very on social media aren't necessarily fluent. (*)

(*) Admittedly my sample size is skewed bc I tutor kids in English on the side.

I feel like all the fandombrained Italians on tumblr are very fluent and we all have a similar origin story of starting to watch english language shows in our early or mid teens. Personally, my motivation for learning English outside of school was that I absolutely NEEDED to read all the available Wheel of Time novels and the translations weren't coming out fast enough, but I also remember manually translating lyrics to songs I liked and wanted to learn more about it (thank u Green Day!) and wanting to catch up with Gossip Girl episodes as soon as they aired in the US.

Pre-Netflix taking off (I'm talking like late 00s/early 2010s) there were so many sites dedicated to sharing english language TV shows with different language subtitles, and while you don't have to learn the language to follow along to a subtitled video, I would bet that so many of my Italian mutuals picked up English from Supernatural.

Anyway, I think the thing that really made very, very good at English was writing directly in it, and often. Thank u AO3 <3

[crazycatsiren]

I feel like I just have to say this.

There are people on Tumblr:

Who have disabilities that affect their language/speech.

Who have intellectual and/or developmental disabilities that affect thinking, speaking, and writing.

Who live with executive function and/or go through periods of brain fog that can impact their language usage and/or speech capabilities.

Who are not native English speakers, or whose first and/or primary language is not English.

Maybe keep this in mind before you start nitpicking because someone didn't write something perfectly in your eyes.

[saiwriting]

Thoughts, Thoughts, Blog #13

It is difficult to live in a world where men are so obviously, harmfully bad and yet still have to persist in love. For fear of sounding like a pick-me, I do understand, but I could never make myself hate men. Especially if I date them? That is not to say I cape for them or I excuse any of their behavior or actions, but to say that hating them will bring about any change in the world is to say that hate does anything other than destroy yourself from the inside out.

We have seen on multiple occasions now the ways in which hate can be counterproductive to a society in which we want everyone to thrive in, so how is this any different? But, I will say, men make it extremely hard. I think what I'm getting at here is that, at the end of the day, i just simply don't have a hateful bone in my body. I can be an advocate for change and an advocate for women without vilifying a group of humans who have had the same amount of misguidedness for centuries.

We all are stumbling in the dark trying to figure this shit out. I just personally don't think that hate will be even close to the light that we need in order to have clear navigation. And, if I'm being honest, I couldn't tell you what the actual solution is other than...love. This is why I never antagonize women and people about their sentiments and hatred towards men. I get it completely. There is just a part of me that sees deeper than that, and that is that regardless of anything, we are all still human and humanity as we have created it is inherently misguided and destructive.

I am by no means the philosopher that will figure out the men's mental health crisis nor am I the activist that will finally set the women of the world free. But what I do know is that hate is not constructive. I feel the same way about hate as I do about complaining: what are you going to do about it? That is the questions I think we should all ask ourselves a lot more. Because harbored hate does absolutely nothing to the person you are hating and does everything to the person that is hating.

This sounds like a hippy-dippy "love everyone" type of rhetoric, but it holds true when given a much more thorough look under the microscope. Hate does not allow us to let go enough in order to make necessary movements towards change or to even make steps to healing and freeing ourselves from ensnarement by others. Hate in itself is a self-afflicted ensnarement that we don't even recognize. It's kind've like the Devil card in tarot or even The Hanged Man. Freeing yourself from self-imposed shackles will open your eyes to the fact that the chain around your neck is not even tightened and the rope around your ankle can let you go.

What do we want to let go? What do we need to let go? And how can we, as people, bridge this gap between them vs. us and the forced factions we impose onto ourselves. Much to think about before my nature walk that I have procrastinated for the day.

[chaeilay]

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[theereina]

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[hereisnxbiya]

Someone said : Har wo cheez mujhsy dur hogai Jisko shiddat sey chaha mainy.

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