#latin sounds

[thoodleoo]

for the past several year some of my students have been keeping track of things i say in class and hanging them up on my wall so here's a small collection of some of the things that stood out to them

[beedreamscape]

I know I've mentioned Bolo being cake in Portuguese (and the mispronounced Bola being Ball) but Idk if people know Porco, from Patia's surname, means Pig in Portuguese (and other romantic languages that use it as an alternative word for it) and I wish Marisha had talked more about it, if it was intentional or not.

[toskarin]

What's the point of Katakana if it can't even transliterate foreign words well. Either make a letter for every possible syllable in all human language or just give up on being a syllabary and become an alphabet

posts written in the latin alphabet

[onebizarrekai]

♪ miles's [ ds nightmare's ] & vick's [ ds cross's ] themes - the Few

these two are the smallest batch, mainly because I never really latched onto either of their themes, or felt like they were as suited to them as the others. I feel like there might have been some other attempts at variations, but I can't find them anywhere.

[numbersareimaginary]

>"every engineer is a fascist"

>is engineer

modus ponens is a hell of a drug. try it sometime.

Engineering as a discipline within the United States has a really interesting relationship to capital. It wants so desperately to be a Professional Practice, like doctors and lawyers, but in reality its a job like any other (and indeed, so are doctoring and lawyering, but they've managed to achieve cultural status that engineering has not). Engineers are technical workers, but they see themselves always as temporarily embarrassed entrepreneurs, as just one break away from being their own boss, from being the capitalist themselves. So they have Professional Associations (not unions, never unions) and they talk a big talk about leadership and business management and blah blah blah blah and it's like, c'mon you're a fucking number cruncher. And as you should know by now if you've been paying attention, capitalism and fascism are deeply intertwined.

Engineering education is deeply flawed and produces a lot of really worrying biases in students. "Engineering ethics" is a joke and education on it even more so. Almost every engineering student I've talked to is deeply illiterate on history, on politics, on social issues, etc etc, no matter how good they may be at 3D dynamics or fluids or robotics or whatever. Engineering curricula also breed that sort of "I know how to solve one kind of problem so every problem must be solvable by the same methods"-type thinking that creates the sort of people who will happily drop into discussing eugenics at the lunch table.

This ties into the field's massive demographic problem. Engineering fields lag behind all others in terms of gender and racial equality, queer involvement, etc etc. An overwhelmingly white, male, conservative discipline with a mindset of being the best at solving everything is uh... dangerous. Also, just as a personal anecdotal sidenote. Almost every engineer and engineering student I have met is the sort of person who would build gas chambers for $70,000 a year and not even question themselves. People I know and care about and love have gone off to build bombs and fighter jets and missiles and not once thought their own morality. The people I interact with daily scare me for their complete lack of ethical or moral core, for their joking about cushy jobs at Lockheed Martin or Raytheon, for their casual dismissal of anything that isn't capital E Engineering. I stand by my original statement, asshole.

[m4rs-ex3]

it kinda just clicked for me that archdragons have their name name and then the title they receive(?) as an archdragon, ie "anak araw" -> "sol regem", which is really cool but like *shakes by the shoulders* WHERE ARE ZUBEIA AND AVIZANDUM'S!!! WHERE ARE THEY!!!!!!

[falmerbrook]

Why does pretty much every game except the one that takes place in Cyrodiil lean into Ancient Roman aesthetics for Cyrodiil and the Empire? Why are the only Roman aesthetics in Oblivion shit built by the Ayleids? Why is the one game where I could've been in fantasy Rome generic fantasy Europe??? Where is my fantasy Rome DAMMIT!!!!!

[somewhereincairparavel]

jason grace x roman!reader giving eachother latin nicknames while mixing latin and english while speaking to e/o <3

[chiropteracupola]

an assortment of my temeraireverse fic-dragons!

[cygnet and honoré are from fifteenth-century britain and france, aquilillus, flavia magna, and bán are from second-century britain, and cipachcoatzin is from sixteenth-century mesoamerica]

[uziraphale]

Ego quoque twink eram - I too was a twink

Look ye here @ennonymous-twink

[rosdev]

So I was drawing Red being a little kid along side Rubert and I thought "Hey what if i made a silly au were they are little kids and siblings?" And then I remember how I fell down a rabbit hole for dad Mango content so–

Mango becomes Papa luchon! >:]

(And Gold is alive too and Purple is Mango adopted child)

idk how Red found Rubert cause Minecraft doesn't really exits but he's here! Let's say they live in stickcity with a few changes

I'm gonna keep some of my hc's of the sticks in the au but they're siblings here so NO shipping, also they're like 8 so– no

In conclusion, just a silly au with family fluff like, there's no big angsty lore behind it ;)

And you know, if you had a little question then you can– you can ask -twirl hair-

[spoiledmilks]

It has been 3 years since my favorite youtube channel has been deleted

Quickly sketched this for the death-anniversary

Memento mori, unus annus 🖤🤍

[haveyouheardthisband]

[canisalbus]

canis albus et canis fulvus.

amor aeternus.

(im just learning latin :3)

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[anghraine]

It feels extremely silly that only today did I realize that pantry and panadería are slightly similar-sounding for a reason >_>

(The English word pantry is one of the many, many common modern English words derived from Anglo-French: in this case, panetrie, from Old French paneterie, "bread room" ... Spanish panadería also has a complex etymology, but all are related to Latin panis, "bread.")

[chase-solidago]

new life plan for the forthcoming administration:

become an expert in sortes Sapphōnis rhapsodomancy from the Carson translation. At this point, making decisions based on random fragments of Sappho makes as much sense as anything else in this world.