#like. huh?

[unbelievablerose]

okay no because WHAT is the language situation of fallen london.

aimless linguistic ranting ahead. read at your own peril

the unterzee is decidedly a german noun, even if it should really be untersee, but zailor has NOTHING to do with the german (“seemann” or “segler”) except perhaps a tentative phonological link (as in they sound similar vaguely) between segler and sailor which might honestly also be the origin of the word sailor in the real world. but then. Why is it changed to a z. is it spelt zegler and zee in german in the fl universe? did english speakers just extrapolate incorrectly that the pronunciation means you must surely spell see with a z, and it evolved from there? how is unterzee pronounced - with truly german pronunciation, or something more anglicised?

the clay men speak loamsprach, are they german-speakers? sprach isn’t even the german word for “language”, that would be sprache. and maybe that’s another victim of the see/zee misunderstanding, but maybe it’s some sort of english-german pidgin and that’s why it’s so strange?

but then why do they need a pidgin? who are the citizens of fallen london communicating with that would speak german? before the fall, did they call the sea the zee too? or is this a post-fall linguistic shift?

does it have something to do with. gosh. whatever prince albert’s name is in fl frankly i don’t care. is it to do with him? he was german, so perhaps the traitor empress(?) wanted to… acknowledge? that? combine their cultures? i know christmas trees were a victorian result of the german tradition of tannenbäume… but this seems like a truly organic linguistic thing - the lowest trenches of society use it freely, in a way that probably wouldn’t be the case if it was implemented by royals and primarily enforced within high society.

and the words which have german elements are so arbitrary… unterzee but not zailor. loamsprach but they haven’t, as far as i can tell, shifted to that method of language naming for any other language. there’s no clear link in terms of semantics (particular word-groups w/ similar or associated meanings) so how did these words come into use? Why?

in short: what is going on down there

[shewantsitall]

today one of my students called another kid stupid within my hearing and when I asked him (very calmly and in a neutral tone) if that was a kind thing to say he fell to the ground sobbing and saying he didn’t say that from the mere question and idk

something about that is just so marvin falsettos to me

it’s the gaslighting and dramatics combo I think?

[rhysnolastname]

ok i need to go to sleep i can’t think about rhis 😭

[bronzetomatoes]

I saw Barbie I loved Barbie but I was utterly shocked that there wasn't a single lesbian in it. I figured that'd be a given

[rascheln]

Every time someone actually wants to talk to me I'm like. Baffled.

[hacknet]

HUH

[sweetheart-dot-jpeg]

am i the only one who doesn't understand how genderbend shit works

[frenchphobic]

most bad takes about utena come from people who dont even finish it. utena bad because steven universe. utena bad because q baiting. i think we need to start gatekeeping

[myrfing]

how is it that some people will try to “make friends” with you and get you to like them even when the both of you clearly do not mix and they don’t even like you or have any interest in you as a person. like I’m not talking about being polite for some reason they cannot settle with just being polite and take some personal affront to you not wanting to be besties with them and just being polite even though talking to them is mutual sandpaper on the brain. ???

[toesuckler]

gurl "she feels like she is being chased by a bunch of toxic lgbt activists"... that is an odd statement. explain????? what???? what??? huh???

[holyviolence]

wait i just realized how crazy it is that i was so stressed this morning to the point of tears and i started reading the entire wikipedia page on buddhism

[bisexualgaledekarios]

so did anyone take rey’s spot or was this just a 29 person rumble??

[lavenoon]

💔- if i needed help solving a problem, i would UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ASK YOU

🫀- i want to dissect you

🤎- im jealous of you

/p

I think the /p platonic tone tag is what gets me I'm mostly just. baffled. Anon in what world would I take this as a declaration of romance

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

as an aroace person with limited sexual experience, no interest in watching porn, and poor sex ed as a teen, there IS something simultaneously funny and vaguely tragic about being 28 adult years old and realising how extremely tiny your frame of reference is for genitalia and deciding you should expand this to better understand bodies (yours and others). and then you're just there like "okay so what the fuck do I even google right now, anyway"

[almondpiglet]

ppl were drawing mikus from all over so heres habesha miku and her lil twin sibs rin and len!!

[nipuni]

Phoenix

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon soon 😊