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kiragecko · 1 year ago

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When I get into foreign media, one of the first things I do is study the names. Because being a nerd is fun.

My friend is writing extremely good Untamed fanfic, so I've spent the last week trying to figure out how to pronounce Mandarin. And then, despite the fact that y'all can just LISTEN to the show to hear the pronunciation, I decided to share my new knowledge.

I'm a historical linguist (I study how languages might have been spoken in the past) so I'm also including how these names might have been pronounced in Middle Chinese (4th-12th C).

We don't know exactly how things were pronounced then. But this story is set in vaguely historical fantasy China, so I want it to have some vaguely historical names.

Explanation of the symbols afterwards.

The Names

Hanzi (Chinese Characters) | English Translation/Pinyin | IPA (Phonetic transcription of sounds) | Respelling (Phonetic Transcription designed to be easier to understand for English speakers) (Middle Chinese Reconstruction: IPA | Respelling)

姑苏蓝氏 | Gusu Lan Clan | ku˥˥‧su˥˥‧län˧˥ ‧ʂʐ̩˥˩ | kōo-sōo lán ʂʐ̀

(kuo‧suo‧lɑm dʑiᴇˣ | kwo-swo lahm jyé)

云深不知处 | Cloud Recesses | yn˧˥‧ʂən˥˥‧pu˥˩‧ʈʂʐ̩˥˥‧ʈʂʰu˨˩˦ | éeᵘn-ʂə̄n-pòo ʈʂʐ̄-ʈʂǒo (ɦɨun‧ɕiɪm‧pɨu‧ʈiᴇ‧tɕʰɨʌˣ | hhyoon-sheem-pyoo ʈye-chyúh)

蓝启仁 | Lán Qǐrén | län˧˥ tɕʰi˨˩˦‧ʐən˧˥ | lán chěe-ʐə́n (lɑm kʰeiˣ‧ȵiɪn | lahm káy ñen)

青蘅君 | Qīnghéng Jūn | tɕʰiŋ˥˥‧xɤŋ˧˥ tɕyn˥˥ | chēeng-xóʸng chēeᵘn (tsʰeŋ‧ɦˠæŋ kɨun | tsaeng-hhang kyoon)

蓝景仪 | Lán Jīngyí | län˧˥ tɕiŋ˨˩˦‧i˧˥ | lán chěeng-ée (lɑm kˠiæŋˣ‧ŋˠiᴇ | lahm kyáng-ngye)

蓝翼 | Lán Yì | län˧˥ i˥˩ | lán èe (lɑm jɨk | lahm yeek)

云梦江氏 | Yúnmèng Jiāng Clan | yn˧˥‧mɤŋ˥˩‧tɕiɑŋ˥˥ ‧ʂʐ̩˥˩ | éeᵘn-mòʸng chyāhng ʂʐ̀

(ɦɨun‧mɨuŋᴴ kˠʌŋ dʑiᴇˣ | hhyoon-myòong kuhng jyé)

江厌离 | Jiāng Yànlí | tɕiɑŋ˥˥ jɛn˥˩‧li˧˥ | chyāhng yèn-lée (kˠʌŋ ʔiᴇmᴴ‧liᴇ | kuhng yèm-lye)

江枫眠 | Jiāng Fēngmián | tɕiɑŋ˥˥ fɤŋ˥˥‧miɛn˧˥ | chyāhng fōʸng-myén (kˠʌŋ pɨuŋ‧men | kuhng pyoong-maen)

魏长泽 | Wèi Chángzé | weɪ˥˩ ʈʂʰɑŋ˧˥‧tsɤ˧˥ | wày ʈʂáhng-tsóʸ (ŋʉiᴴ ɖɨɐŋ‧ɖˠæk | ngwèe ɖyuhng-ɖak)

藏色散人 | Cángsè Sǎnrén | tsʰɑŋ˧˥‧sɤ˥˩ sän˨˩˦‧ʐən˧˥ | tsáhng-sòʸ sǎn-ʐə́n (dzɑŋ‧ʃɨk sɑnˣ‧ȵiɪn | dzahng-sheek sáhn-ñeen)

兰陵金氏 | Lánlíng Jīn Clan | län˧˥‧liŋ˧˥‧tɕin˥˥‧ʂʐ̩˥˩ | lán-léeng chēen ʂʐ̀

(lɑn‧lɨŋ kˠiɪm dʑiᴇˣ | lahn-leeng keem jyé)

江厌离 | Jiāng Yànlí | tɕiɑŋ˥˥ jɛn˥˩‧li˧˥ | chyāhng yèn-lée (kˠʌŋ ʔiᴇmᴴ‧liᴇ | kuhng yèm-lye)

金光善 | Jīn Guāngshàn | tɕin˥˥ kuɑŋ˥˥‧ʂän˥˩ | chēen kwāhng-ʂàn (kˠiɪm kwɑŋ‧dʑiᴇnˣ | keem kwahng-jyén)

秦愫 | Qín Sù | tɕʰin˧˥ su˥˩ | chéen sòo (dziɪn suoᴴ | dzeen swò)

金子轩 | Jīn Zǐxuān | tɕin˥˥ tsz̩˨˩˦‧ɕyɛn˥˥ | chēen tsz-shyᵘēn (kˠiɪm tsɨˣ‧hɨɐn | keem tsée-hyuhn)

金子勋 | Jīn Zǐxūn | tɕin˥˥ tsz̩˦˥‧ɕyn˥˥ | chēen tsz-shēeᵘn (kˠiɪm tsɨˣ‧hɨun | keem tsée-hyoon)

莫玄羽 | Mò Xuányǔ | muɔ˥˩ ɕyɛn˧˥‧y˨˩˦ | mwò shyᵘén-ěeᵘ (mɑk ɦwen‧ɦɨoˣ | mahk hhwaen-hhyó)

金阐 | Jīn Chǎn | tɕin˥˥ ʈʂʰän˨˩˦ | chēen ʈʂǎn (kˠiɪm tɕʰiᴇnˣ | keem chyén)

清河聂氏 | Qīnghé Niè Clan | tɕʰiŋ˥˥‧xɤ˧˥‧niɛ˥˩‧ʂʐ̩˥˩ | chēeng-xóʸ nyè ʂʐ̀

(tsʰiᴇŋ‧ɦɑ‧ɳˠiᴇp‧dʑiᴇˣ | tsyeng-hhah ɳyep jyé)

岐山温氏 | Qíshān Wēn Clan | tɕʰi˧˥‧ʂän˥˥‧wən˥˥‧ʂʐ̩˥˩ | chée-ʂān wə̄n ʂʐ̀

(giᴇ‧ʃˠɛn‧ʔuən‧dʑiᴇˣ | gye-shen wən jyé)

温情 | Wēn Qíng | wən˥˥ tɕʰiŋ˧˥ | wə̄n chéeng (ʔuən dziᴇŋ | wən dzyeng)

温若寒 | Wēn Ruòhán | wən˥˥ ʐuɔ˥˩‧xän˧˥ | wə̄n ʐwò-xán (ʔuən ȵɨɐk‧ɦɑn | wən ñyuhk-hhahn)

温旭 | Wēn Xù | wən˥˥ ɕy˥˩ | wə̄n shèeᵘ (ʔuən hɨok | wən hyok)

温晁 | Wēn Cháo | wən˥˥ ʈʂʰɑʊ˧˥ | wə̄n ʈʂáhw (ʔuən ɖˠiᴇu | wən ɖyew)

王灵娇 | Wáng Língjiāo | wɑŋ˧˥ liŋ˧˥‧tɕiɑʊ˥˥ | wáhng léeng-chyāhw (ɦʉɐŋ leŋ‧kˠiᴇu | hhwuhng laeng-kyew)

Others

抱山散人 | Bàoshān Sǎnrén | pɑʊ˥˩‧ʂän˥˥ sän˨˩˦‧ʐən˧˥ | pàhw-ʂān sǎn-ʐə́n (bɑuˣ‧ʃˠɛn sɑnˣ‧ȵiɪn | báhw-shen sáhn-ñeen)

欧阳子真 | Ōuyáng Zǐzhēn | ʔoʊ˥˥‧jɑŋ˧˥ tsz̩˦˥‧ʈʂən˥˥ | ōw-yáhng tsź-ʈʂə̄n (ʔəu‧jɨɐŋ tsɨˣ‧tɕiɪn | əw-yuhng tsée-cheen)

SYMBOLS USED

Pinyin (English translation) | IPA symbols | Respelling | English Example

m | m | m | mind

n | n | n | need

N/A | ɳ | ɳ | 'need' with tip of tongue curled up

N/A | ȵ | ñ | canyon

ng | ŋ | ng | sing

N/A | b | b | bat

b | p | p | keep

p | pʰ | p | peek

N/A | d | d | deep

d | t | t | cat

t | tʰ | t | tack

N/A | ɖ | ɖ | 'deep' with tip of tongue curled up

N/A | ʈ | ʈ | 'cat' with tip of tongue curled up

N/A | g | g | goat

g | k | k | peek

k | kʰ | k | keep

N/A | ʔ | none | uh-oh (sound made in English when two vowels need to stay separate, and neither is a 'i' or 'u')

N/A | dz | dz | beds

z | ts | ts | cats

c | tsʰ | ts | tsunami

zh | ʈʂ | ʈʂ | 'cats' with tip of tongue curled up

ch | ʈʂʰ | ʈʂ | 'tsunami' with tip of tongue curled up

N/A | dʑ | j | jump (hold tongue like a 'y' then say 'j')

j | tɕ | ch | pitch (hold tongue like a 'y' then say 'ch')

q | tɕʰ | ch | check (hold tongue like a 'y' then say 'ch')

f | f | f | fig

s | s | s | sit

sh | ʂ | ʂ | 'sit' with tip of tongue curled up

x | ɕ | sh | ship (hold tongue like a 'y' then say 'sh')

h | x | x | loch

N/A | h | h | help

N/A | ɦ | hh | help with slightly more air

l | l | l | lamp

r | ʐ or ɻ | ʐ | 'zip' with tip of tongue curled up

y | j | y | yes

yu | ɥ | yᵘ | you ('y' with lips rounded like you're saying a 'w' or 'u')

w | w | w | wet

Vowels

i | i, ɨ, iɪ, ɨi | ee or y | see (Can/Amer/Brit/Aus)

i | z̩ | z | bzzz (Can/Amer/Brit/Aus)

i | ʐ̩ | ʐ̩ | bzzz with tip of tongue curled up (Can/Amer/Brit/Aus)

u | ɥ, y | eeᵘ or yᵘ | lips say 'sue', mouth says 'see'(Can/Amer/Brit/Aus) ⁹

u | u | oo or w | threw (Can/Amer/Brit/Aus)

u | uə | wə | threw up(Can/Amer/Brit/Aus)

N/A | ʉi | wee | weak(Can/Amer/Brit/Aus)

N/A | ɨo | yo | yore(Can/Amer/Brit/Aus)

iu | ioʊ | yow | yoke (Amer/Can), between yore and yoke (Brit/Aus)

io | iʊ, ɨu | yoo | pure (Amer/Can), cute (Brit/Aus)

o | uo, uɔ | wo | wart (Can/Amer/Brit/Aus)

N/A | əu | əw | about (Can), starting as 'comma', ending as 'goat' (Amer) , no (Brit/Aus)

ou | oʊ | ow | soul(Can/Amer/Brit/Aus)

a | ä, æ | a | lad(Can/Amer/Brit/Aus)

a | ɑ | ah | arm (Can), palm (Amer/Brit), my without the 'e' (Aus)

N/A | ʌ | uh | run (Amer/Can/Brit), 'comma' (Aus)

a | ɛ | e | bed (Can/Amer/Brit), between 'lad' and 'led' (Aus)

ao | ɑʊ, ɑu | ahw | now (Can), 'palm' + 'w' (Amer/Brit), starting as 'my', ending as 'soul' (Aus)

N/A | ɨæ | ya | yap(Can/Amer/Brit/Aus)

ia, ya | iɑ | yah | yard (Can/Amer/Brit), yikes without the 'e' (Aus)

ia, ie | iɛ, iᴇ | ye | yes (Can/Amer/Brit), between 'yap' and 'yep' (Aus)

N/A | ɨʌ, ɨɐ, jɨɐ | yuh | yuck (Can/Amer/Brit/Aus)

yua, ua | ɥɛ, yɛ | yᵘe | lips say 'wet', mouth says 'yet' (Can/Amer/Brit), lips say wet, mouth says between 'yap' and 'yet' (Aus)

iao | iɑʊ | yahw | yard + 'w' (Can/Amer/Brit), yikes + 'w' (Aus)

N/A | ɨæ | ya | yap(Can/Amer/Brit/Aus)

ua | uä, ua | wa | wack(Can/Amer/Brit/Aus)

ua | uɑ, wɑ | wah | warm (Can/Amer/Brit), white (Aus)

N/A | ʉɐ | wuh | won(Can/Amer/Brit/Aus)

uai | uaɪ | why | wide (Amer/Can) wack + 'y' (Brit), way (Aus)

N/A | uɛi | wey | wet + 'y' (Can/Amer/Brit), between 'way' and 'wed' (Aus)

e | ə | ə | comma (Can/Amer/Brit/Aus)

e | ɤ | oʸ | lips say 'wore', mouth says 'yore'(Can/Amer/Brit/Aus)

e | e | ae | day without 'y' (Can/Amer/Brit), bed (Aus)

ei | eɪ | ay | day (Can/Amer/Brit), bed + 'y' (Aus)

N/A | we | wae ¹⁰ | way without 'y' (Can/Amer/Brit), wed (Aus)

ui, wei | ueɪ, weɪ | way | way (Can/Amer/Brit) , wed + 'y' (Aus)

N/A | iᴇu, jiᴇu | yew | yes + 'w' (Can/Amer/Brit), between 'yap' and 'yep' + 'w' (Aus)

N/A | wiᴇ | wye | ??

N/A | iuɪ | ywee | ??

N/A | iuᴇ, jiuᴇ | ywe | ??

N/A | iuᴇi | ywey | ??

(The 'i's at the beginning of the last 3 are there to distinguish them from other sounds, but we don't actually know how they're pronounced. Same thing with all the extra 'j's and 'w's in the Middle Chinese transcriptions.)

Other Symbols

ˠ - say the sound while back of tongue is raised.

ᴴ, ˣ - the 2 marked tones of Middle Chinese (third 'tone' is syllables with 'p', 't', or 'k' at the end, final tone is unmarked). It's uncertain what they were, but the guess is 'ᴴ' was low and 'ˣ' was high.

ó, ò, ō, ǒ | ˧˥, ˥˩, ˥˥, ˨˩˦ - Modern Mandarin tones. I'm ADHD and can't hear my own tone and volume, so I am have no help for you.

#the untamed #mo dao zu shi #linguistics #mandarin #middle chinese #historical linguistics

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unseentravler · 8 months ago

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Ninjago Avatar AU

Backstory 15

Voyage of Destiny's Bounty Part 1

1- The letter

In 90 AAG, Wu got a letter from Misako telling him about Lloyd. She thinks he might be an air bender and is worried about his safety. In her letter, she asks Wu to go get Lloyd and bring him to Ninjago, where he would be safe from the fire nation.

Wu decided to go and take Kai with him, but leves Nya with the Ninjago royal family as she is too young. They get a ship called the Destinie's Bounty and set sale for the colonies where Lloyd lives.

2 - Kiyoshi Island

Their first stop after leaving Ninjago is Kiyoshi Island. They need supplies and directions. They stop in a village called Lek and meet with the local chief Lyet and Leader Kyoshi warriors Pixel.

Pixel is intrigued by this new fighting style and wants to learn it. Unfortunately, her duties as the leader of her village's kyoshi warriors keep her from leaving her island with her Destiny's Bounty.

3 - Junkyard

On their way to the colonies, they were attacked by the Soto pirate. They were able to get way, but the Destiny Bounty was damaged, and they needed to make it to a port to repair the ship.

They stopped in the port town of Xiǎo Zhēn in the South Isla colony for repairs. Wu hired Ed and Eda to do them and they brought Jay with them.

Jay and Kai end up hanging out, and kai tells him about his family, bending, and Spinjitsu, and Jay is fascinated by it all. He talks to Wu about spinjitsu and asks him to teach him. Wu happy agrees and invites him on their voyage.

4- Omashu

Their next stop was Omashu, where Wu met with King Bumei, as his a member of the White Lotus. Bumei agrees to help them and give them supplies. While Wu is talking with Bumei, Kai and Jay go to explore the city.

While out, they get separated, and Jay runs into Cole, who is secretly practicing his earth bending. Jay scared the crap out of Cole, and they ended up in the tunnels underneath the city.

Kai freaks out when he can't find Jay and go's to Wu. Bumei officers help in finding the 2 lost boys.

Meanwhile, Cole and Jay are trying to find their way out of the tunnels and run into a Badger mole. Cole is able to connect to/ Impress the badger mole, and it leads them to the King Bumei, who is waiting at one of the tunnel openings with Wu and Kai.

Bumei kenw and was friends with the Badger mole and somehow knew were to pick up the boys. He was impressed with coal's ability to connect with the earth and recommended him to Wu for further study.

Wu accepted and offered Cole a place on the destiny's bounty. Cole, wanting to get away from his father, agreed.

5- School

They finally make it to Lloyd's school in the New Azulon colony, but they are too late. Garmadan got word of his sons a weakening power and swooped in before Wu could get there.

The teacher who originally told Misako about Lloyd's power tells them about Garmadon and that he is planning to train Lloyd to be a master assassin and to be loyal to himself and the fire nation.

Garmadon in the meantimehas taken Lloyd to his personal base on an island in the middle of nowhere. The base is run by Fire Nation's staff, but it is outside of the fire nation Territory, so we can avoid all the bureaucracy of the colony governors.

6 - Snake

To find Garmadon's base, Wu tracks down one of Garmadon's informants, Pythor, to an island of the north coast of the earth kingdom.

When they get to the island, they meet Zane, who is helping the local resistance against Pythor and his men. With the help of the locals and Zane, they defeat Pythor and capture him.

Because Pythor is a snake ( not literally in this case), He tells them where Garmadon is and how to get there in return for his life and his freedom. They agree but leave him locked up on the island, with Echo in charge of the island, promising to free him if they return.

They finally know where to find Garmadon and Lloyd and begin the final leg of their voyage with a full crew.

Part 16

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j-a-rale · 1 year ago

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“The commander and the knight were having a disagreement because Vucusoq’s soldiers felt that Ikeqedare’s soldiers behaved like cowards during the attack on the keep, shrinking away from the fighting and failing to stop us as we retreated into the wood. Ikeqedare’s soldiers are also hanging back from the fighting today to ‘protect the keep,’ which is another bone of contention between the two of them.”

“Honestly, I can’t really blame them. If I saw those soldiers of lyete riding toward me shining like the sun, I might start seriously reconsidering all my life choices and wondering if I shouldn’t have gone into carpentry or something.”

Chapter 26, Beast of Shadouer Castle

Find out more about this LGBTQ+ retelling of Beauty and the Beast at https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09V2SL7ZC/

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yoacusomultimediosblog · 2 years ago

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Soylent Green

Carlos Morales Tapia* “It’s people! Soylent Green is made out of people!”– Thorn “Not the blood, sir. But all of a man’s water, ultimately, belongs to his people—to his tribe. It’s a necessity when you live near the Great Flat. All water’s precious there, and the human body is composed of some seventy percent water by weight. A dead man, surely, no longer requires that water” – Lyet-Kynes, El…

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#Carlos Morales Tapia #yo acuso

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tomatoart · 4 years ago

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childoftermina · 4 years ago

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Does any creep have Piercings?

-Slenderman none

-Trenderman none

-Splendorman none

-Jeff the Killer he used to have a labret and Snakebites

-homicidal Liu he has his ears pierced

-BEN/Ben drowned has his ears pierced and wears moon earrings!

-Candy Pop none

-Moth boy none

-Lyet none

-Nathan the Nobody he got an industrial in his right ear

-Jason the Toymaker none

-The Puppeteer he used to have a nose piercing -Dollmaker none

-Bloody Painter none

-Laughing Jack none

-Masky none

-Hoodie none

-Eyeless Jack none

-Jane the Killer she has her ears pierced and used to have a monroe piercing, but she had to take it out bc it was too painful for her

-Clockwork she has her ears pierced

-Sally ears pierced as well

-Zero ears pierced

-Nurse Ann ears pierced

-Judge Angels none

-Suicide Sadie ears pierced

-Kate the Chaser none

-Ciara Heloise multiple Ear piercings

-Nina the Killer doesn't have any but wants some

{I have one nostril piercing on each side of my nose, 3 earrings (lobe) on each side of my ears and an Ashley Piercing}

#ben drowned #creepypasta #jeff the killer #creepypasta headcannons #slenderman #masky #mh hoodie #nina the killer #jane the killer

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salacioussardine · 3 years ago

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Double Planet Dance-Off

She couldn’t bring herself to believe what had appeared before her eyes as her ship floated freely in a lazy post vector jump stun. Three planets, different in size and rotation but identical in color and clime, hung in perfect balance together as they rocketed around their strange yellow star. They were all massive red-hued affairs, two big ones sandwiching a diminutive-by-comparison third between their hulking masses as they traveled their compact solar system.

How did that work? That shouldn’t work. As far as Lyet knew, planets shouldn’t do that; flying through the Big Empty in perfect formation like old Goose and Gander walking Gosling back home from the pond. How did that work?

Lyet shoved the questions and thoughts of geese-related children’s stories to the back of her mind, she had work to do and essentially no time to do it.

‘C’min Chief, we have connection?’

Static

‘Chief! I’m on-site!’

Copy

More Static

Proceed

‘Copy Chief.’

Lyet slung around in her pilot’s chair, reaching over backward to get at an object she had tossed behind the seat earlier. She really should get better about cleaning up her ship, the thing was filthy and she spent more than a couple minutes grasping blindly and fruitlessly before she gave an exasperated sigh, unclipped the harness holding her in, and disconnected the tubes plugged into the femoral arteries in her thighs. She gasped slightly as the long, oddly flexible needle pulled from her flesh, leaving only the smallest of red spots on her legs where they had intruded deeply into her circulatory system.

Need to clean my ship, she thought, more like need to design pants you can keep on when jumping vectors. She stood up, only slightly unsteady, and pulled her aged brown leather pilots pants back up to her hips, sinching the sand-colored belt back through double ring buckle and pulling it tightly as she moved behind her chair.

‘Where the hell did I put it?’

She started kicking things around. She always started kicking things around when she got irritated, especially if it was her fault that she was in a particular situation and double-especially if she had literally JUST had the damned thing a minute earlier!

Her eyes bulged, that funny vein throbbed slightly. ‘Where the actual FU.. Oh! There you are!’

She grinned merrily as she picked up the object of her desire, not from the floor, but from the cup holder of the console next to her pilot’s chair. She had secured it there before making the jump to this strange place to avoid this exact scenario. She always worked against herself somehow, especially when trying to be helpful to her future-self.

She sorted through the twisting, Lovecraftian mess of cables hanging from the dash. Ultimately pulling the one she sought from the tangled mass, she plugged it into a small port on the side of the improvised atmospheric assessor.

‘Let’s get some data, baby! High-five, Birdo!’ The computer hmmmm’ed in response, he sounded unsure.

The “thing,” as she had come to refer to it as, was actually a rather complex scientific instrument. Shaped a bit like a standard laser pistol and projecting a similar-looking beam from its fore, the device was used for quick analysis of environmental conditions of asteroids. This one had been boosted a bit thanks to the ship’s resident tinkerer, Alfredo, and could reliably tell a user of the chemical composition of planets and their atmospheres. It could, theoretically, also destroy an asteroid in a blinding flash of plasmatized metals and other galactic material if you swapped out a lens or two and rerouted the primary power cabling, but that wasn’t it primary purpose according to the scientist. Lyet hadn’t taken much heart from that, especially when he had so painstakingly described how not to do that over Salsbury steaks on-board the mothership Rapture a few days ago.

‘”Reliable” my ass,’ Lyet muttered as she tried to align the guiding beam with the northern pole of the orb nearest her ship. She was straddled across the two chairs in the cockpit, legs spread wide to balance herself on the two cracked, red leather-upholstered bucket seats at the front of her tiny scouting vessel. The damned thing was only usable insofar as one could get the beam through the thinnest layer of magnetic distortion around the body and even then, the device was as like to rupture a battery and try to melt your hand once the trigger was actually pulled.

The Planetary Integrity Sensor, or PIS-5 as Lyet liked to refer to it, was just the latest in a long line of contraptions designed by Alfredo to skirt the oppressive gauntlet of “COGS” in the pursuit of the crew’s goals. Upon seeing the price of a planetary scale assessment engine, not to mention the size of ship needed to carry the immense device, the shipboard scientist set to work finding an alternative that wouldn’t cost the crew of the Rapture an arm, a leg, and thirty-six trillion additional credits. In the end, he had accomplished the requisite goal for little more than an old transponder relay, an environmental survey gun from a crate of mining equipment stolen last month, a few broken pairs of eyeglasses, and some chewing gum of questionable origin.

If you asked Lyet, who always seemed to be the one on the explody-end of Alfredo’s creations, it was the ever-present chewing gum that was the problem. It got gooey under the heat of the electric current and things started to shift about. She had scars from more than one project that had decided to dissemble in her grasp and by now could just about guess where the damned thing would come apart first based on the thickness of Bubblicious relative to the length of wire connecting the battery to motherboard.

The radio chirped. Standing by…

‘I’m working on it, dammit,’ the woman muttered to all involved, ‘juuuust about there…’

She pulled the trigger, grasping the machine in both hands and pulling two index fingers hard against the resistance of the metal-sheathed firing mechanism. They hadn’t oiled the trigger, why hadn’t they checked the goddamn trigger?!

‘Why didn’t you check the goddamn trigger, Alfredo?!’

Copy?

‘Punk ass “scientist”’ she muttered, bracing herself in a firing stance upon her already precarious perch in the floating craft and pulling with all her might on the reticent trigger while bracing the instrument tight against a shoulder. It gave with a slow, begrudging glide and then a loud *click*.

A purple beam fired from the end of the contraption. It flew through the flat, central windshield and raced down the axis of the planet below. Lyet tumbled from the chairs blinded and assaulted by strange squigglies floating violet in her closed eyes.

‘ARRRGGHHHH! WHAT THE HELLLL, MAN?’

Her computer chirped cheerily at her from the purple-flecked darkness, an unperceived light began flashing on the dash accompanied by an incessant and very noticeable beeping.

‘Thanks Birdo, be right there.’ She pulled herself up the back of the co-pilot’s seat, clawing up the broken leather from the pile of refuse she had tumbled into behind it. Flailing around wildly as she leaned over the seat gymnastically, she ultimately hit the flashing button with a wide-spread palm.

‘Processing data, please wait!’ The jovial computer informed the woman rubbing furiously at her eyes. ‘Would you like some trivia while you regain the use of your sensors?’

‘They’re called “senses,”’ she replied absentmindedly before pausing, ‘wait, what? No. What?’

‘Ok’

Got the data? The radio sounded much less cheery than her odd computer companion, especially as the latter hummed to himself absentmindedly as he worked and the other just kinda buzzed at her.

‘Got it Cap, just blind as staring at an eclipse in the summer. A quick idea, you know, just to toss around, maybe we use glasses with things? Like welding googles perhaps, or duct tape?’

Copy. Send when ready.

She rolled her eyes. ‘Aye aye!’

“In Earth-year 12021HE…’

‘NO Trivia, Birdo!’

‘Ok!’ He hummed a song of long-lost empire that would normally be quite sad, being about a horrible corruption of family and friend at the hands of greedy reactionary politicians, but was instead pretty cheerful when he did it with improvisational beeps and boops and harmonized hmmm’s.

The window wiper moved of its own accord, passing slowly and in short stutters across the driver’s side windshield. Its mate ground away to the right, the gears of the arm long-since stripped away. Lyet heaved another dramatic sigh and glared at the troublesome AI. She shifted her gaze, looking first at a planetary eclipse happening down the gravitational block before peering through the darkness and flipping a few switches until the windshield wiper turned off.

‘Data parceled, zipped, and ready to ship, your Royal Highness!’ Birdo informed his pilot with a digital bow and a polyphonic coronation.

‘None of that, you know I won’t abide bowing. Binary or otherwise.’

‘Of course m’lady!’ He doffed an implied cap this time.

‘Thin ice, buddy.’ She plopped down into her seat with a groan. Turning and opening the console compartment on her right, she began digging, pulling wads of paper receipts, various napkins, a leaking pen, and other odds-and-ends in great handfuls as she searched.

‘Ah!’she found it.

‘Data please, Baby Birdo?’ She gave a deep sigh as she reclined fully and dropped liquid into her eyes from the cylindrical object she had been seeking.

‘You got it Cap! Planet looks habitable. There is water below the surface and it appears that there are organic compounds as well. Oxygen plentiful, as is nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and methane from the looks of it.’

‘Alright, good start. Anything weird about it that you can tell? They told me that it was a strange system but that, that is just ridiculous if you ask me.’ She gestured at the planets enjoying their ballet,’how do they stay in position like that? Shouldn’t the little one be crushed between the big boys?’

‘Excuse me?’

‘The planets, Birdo, they are lined up like a couple geese escorting a wandering youngin’, how does that work with, you know, gravity and physics and whatnot?’

‘There is more than one planet!?’

‘Are you kidding me? Look!’

‘Would love to, Lyet, really would, but I don’t have eyes and you still haven’t replaced the sensor array on my nosecone. Maybe we could schedule that, you and I? Make a weekend out of it: I get my face fixed, you do… something. Whatever it is you do with your time.’

‘Sonofabitch.’ The exasperated women palmed her face in response to the snarky vessel.

Come in, Lyet. Where is that data? The radio was somehow even less amused than before.

‘Sending!’ she sang back into the microphone attached to her lapel. She slapped the big green transfer button near the top of the communications console and Birdo pinged enthusiastically as he began the transfer.

It worked! Another voice exclaimed in the radio background. Lyet couldn’t help but sense a bit of disbelief in the voice of the tinkerer aboard the Rapture.

She rolled her eyes. ‘”Worked” is a word one could use, sure. It technically gathered some data, sure’

She reached under the chair and pulled on the lever below to shift the primary seat forward. ‘Let’s get a look at the little one, shall we?’

With the press of a couple buttons and a pull on the throttle, followed by a hard slap to the console as it spluttered at her in response, the ship flew forward at an angle. It careened forward at a tilt, plunging first downward before skirting back flat just outside the atmosphere of the first giant sandy planet. She came to a halt above the small body sandwiched between the two behemoths, placing the ship facing the spinning northern axis and pulling hard on the parking brake.

Grabbing the PIS-5 gun from the floor where she had left it, Lyet again assumed the position on the two seats with the device aimed out through the flat center pane of the windscreen.

With an unnecessary amount of patting at her bomber jacket pockets, she ultimately produced a pair of slim, silver-lensed sunglasses. ‘Second packet incoming’ she informed the microphone at her throat as she took aim.

The trigger this time gave almost no resistance to her dual index fingers; she pulled hard in expectation of an alternative scenario. The grip gave a loud cracking sound in protest of her vigor. With a brilliant purple flash, the laser blasted down to the planet below.

‘Receiving that sweet data!’

‘Thanks Birdo.’ She looked down at the scanner in her hands. That gum didn’t look good, it was starting to run a bit in places and some pieces had grown burnt, black bubbles along the edges. Where did he get gum anyway? Gum trees had been extinct for millennia and the fad of the stuff had died not long after. It was impressive how long people had held onto the habit considering it was essentially chewing cud like a cow and grinding your teeth together for no real reason. And where did Alfredo get enough for all his nonsense creations?

Lyet pondered the source of the omnipresent “glue” while the ship hummed to himself pleasantly once more. He was generally pleasant and he was generally humming, it made for a nice environment on his decks.

‘You know what would make this better?’

‘Not trivia, that’s for sure.’ She didn’t look up from where she was using a toothpick and trying to convince a glob of sticky pink fluid back to its home with the green stuff nearby

‘Hmmm… Ok.’

‘Data is ready, by the way.’ The computer was dismissive.

‘Thank you Birdie Baby!’ Lyet blew a kiss toward the main console.

‘Mmhmmm. Yep, planet looks much the same. More water per cubic meter of planet it looks like, and closer to the surface I’d wager.’

The pilot looked closer at the smaller planet below her ship. The computer was correct; if she strained hard, she could see tiny blue stripes and blotches across the surface of the rocky body.

‘Good catch, that’s promising. Send it up to Rapture, please and thank you.’

‘Your Majesty.’

The ship waited for her to hit the green button, flashing at her alluringly. When she didn’t, he simply sent the data with an admittedly less-enthusiastic ping and a digitized raspberry.

Receiving. Standby.

Lyet and Birdo floated in silence for a bit, one enjoying the silence and another compiling a massive playlist of trivia questions. Birdo had an idea, a passion; he would create the most expansive, all-encompassing trivia list in the known universe. It would cover human history and non-human prehistory, sciences and arts, coffee blends and roasts, baking temperatures and convective advantages, lawn chair angles and competitive hedge-trimming, croquet etiquette and fishing faux pas, zero-gravity horticulture and undersea caseiculture, defensive driving and aggressive jogging. The computer would be famous, and rich, he was sure of this. No more milk runs or scouting parties with the eccentric pilot for this space whale, no sir! She could come with of course, he was sure she would, she liked his company and he liked that about her. If only she would submit to quality-testing his questions!

‘Mmmmmm’

‘What was that, ship?’ Lyet inquired, her brow raising as she looked up from a piece of loose wiring she was bravely trying to reconnect to the orange motherboard of the laser gun.

‘Nothing’

‘Hmmm. Welp, shall we move to the third and call it a day?’

‘You got it boss!’ The ship was quite cheerful again.

They rocketed onward, peeling first toward the huge body shadowing them before curving hard up and toward the cloud-wrapped north pole. The ship came to a skidding, sideways halt above the churning reddish-brown mass, aiming the nose to peer down into the storm, Lyet stared into it billowing before them.

‘Wow’

‘I can definitely sense that’ the ship confirmed.

She leaned her head to activate the lapel mic. ‘Cap, we have a storm on the surface of the third target. Not a hundred percent that I can get a reading through that.’

The radio hissed briefly. Copy that. Please hold.

Lyet leaned forward to look down at the raw data the ship was picking up from the planet below.

‘That looks a bit wild. What is the magnetic field doing there?’

‘I am pretty curious myself. Appears to be misshapen here and very weak in places, almost torn. What do your wet, rod-ridden eyes see?’

‘Wet eyes…what? Nevermind, the storm forms at the top somewhere and stretches down toward the equator. Gets thinner as it goes and… it dissipates outward into the atmosphere?’

Lyet struggled to understand, let alone describe what she saw as she looked closely at the storm. It was, as she said, mostly concentrated in a churning fury around the northern axis of the planet but as the planet spun, it pulled the storm southward where it gained altitude and was ultimately captured by the pulling gravity of the small planet nearby. It must, she reasoned, be incredibly dense and solid to withstand the forces of the two much larger bodies that hulked over it and cast part of it in perpetual shadow.

‘Wild,’ Birdo intoned at the astonishing description, ‘I don’t think that really helps our predicament with the whole “penetratation” problem and the storm.’

She heard the air-quotes. She heard the air-quotes? When did Birdo start using air-quotes? And so questionably?

‘Well,’ she began, eyes slitted in suspicion and pointed squarely at the computer console, ‘we can hope we get lucky where the magnetic field is kind of torn and the storm thins out a bit? Maybe we will be able to get the couple seconds of surface-contact we need and be done with it.’

‘Hmmm. Doubt it.’

‘Thanks for that. We’re gonna go ahead and try anyway, alright?’

‘You got it boss!’

Sarcastic little shit, ship was like a damned teenager today. Lyet rolled her eyes dramatically at the ship in general and once again gained her splay-legged perch atop the two cockpit chairs. With one foot slightly forward and a two-handed grip on the device, she aimed the guiding laser down to the planet.

After about five-minutes, her arms collapsed as she let out a great huff.

‘Been watching you sweat there for like ten-minutes now’ the sassy ship supplied her.

‘Seriously, shut up you iron-brained hulk. Why do you insist on tormenting me?’ She fell back into her chair, arm flung across her face as she let out an intentionally exaggerated sob.

‘WOE! Woe be upon me! Why must I live this life of entanglement with this infernally insolent vessel?’

If you two wouldn’t mind, the radio intervened into the flight deck theatrics, you are requested to proceed to a lower altitude and get an upper-atmosphere reading using your onboard sensor array. From there…

‘Uhm.. Cap.’ Lyet interrupted ‘the nosecone sensors on Birdo are still out of service at this time.’

There was a pause. They’re what now?

‘Dysfunctional, sir. We stripped the housing out yesterday afternoon.’

And?

‘And they delivered the wrong part.’

And I’m only hearing about this now because?

‘Well sir, I was actually planning to hop down to UGPS and mail it out for replacement this morning. Got it all wrapped up on the ship here Captain.’

Other than a few clicks, the radio fell silent. Could she hear breathing? Was he just hot-miccing her right now?

‘Sir?’

Nothing. Was that a cough poorly muffled in the background? She could imagine the Captain now, big bald head bulging out of a too-small captains hat that cut off the blood supply of the vein that liked to throb along his forehead in times much like these. It sat there, growing bigger than anyone would think possible, like a purple and red slug threatening to tear free from him and attack your eyes.

Even without being there, Lyet could see it. She shuddered and coughed obligingly, ‘Uhm, sir?’

Make it work, Lyet. Don’t care what you do, either fix the nose array or find somewhere that infernal Piss gun will work. Don’t care. The radio clicked.

‘Cap!’ She confirmed with a haughty salute into empty space.

‘Welp Computer, what’s the plan?’

‘Don’t call me “Computer,” Meatball. It’s super rude.’

Lyet was quiet, sending a wink and a kiss soaring across the cockpit to Birdo’s main computational housing.

‘That’s what I thought’

‘Welp!’ he imitated, ‘I think we should probably go for the second idea. You aren’t so hot when it comes to electronics, and you may hurt one of us if you go trying to rewire something freehand and without Alfredo.’

‘Fair points. Alright! Let’s do it then!’

They settled again over a portion of the storm that was so turbulent it was almost self-cannibalizing and large gaps to the surface appeared in the writhing vapors. She checked the proprietary cable hanging from the side of the scientist’s machine before resuming her elevated position once again. A piece of eyeglass lens was sliding out of position as green sour apple gum strove valiantly for a liquid state of being. Lyet gave a grunt of no confidence as she shifted the errant glass back into place and blew on it to little effect.

‘Need about two-and-a-half seconds of contact with the ground, Lyet.’

‘You got it Baby!’ She closed one eye, sighting with the guide laser at a tiny speck of white in the vast brown cloud-layer.

‘Now or never,’ she said to nobody in particular before turning her head to add ‘sending now’ to those listening on the radio specifically.

The return Copy was drowned out in the crack the instrument produced as the pilot pulled the trigger. The fact that she was gentle, yet firm, in her application of force to the firing mechanism made no difference as the entire device disintegrated in her hands. She looked at the grip sitting isolated in her hands, her mouth an “O” of surprise and her eyes “o”’s of distrust affirmed in the engineering of the PIS-5. It let out a shrill whistle and a jet of smoke flowed from the piece. She dropped it in shock, recoiling backwards reflexively on her perch.

With an ear-splitting crack, he grip exploded in a wave of violet light. Lyet screamed as she toppled from the chair once again.

‘Mmmm, bad choice’

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dihalect · 2 years ago

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ok i posted this bc yknow. the bolded part is homophonous with "light". but i'm so frustrated trying to figure out where l's surname came from

we know his name is pronounced something like "low-light", bc it's transliterated as "rōraito".

according to forbears.io — which seems to be the source with the most info on this name — it's most prevalent in russia and armenia. the creator of death note, tsugumi ohba, has stated that l is a quarter russian, so that tracks. (in fact, he said that he's something like ¼ japanese, ¼ english, ¼ russian, and ¼ french or italian. so that gives us a handful of languages to work with.)

however. no mainstream romanization system for russian or armenian includes "aw". occasionally you'll see "av" written as "aw" or "et" as "iet". but if that was where the spelling "lawliet" came from, it would be pronounced like [lɑvlʲet] "lahv-lyet", which sounds pretty different from "low-light". i've tried looking up other ways of writing "low-light" in russian and armenian, with no luck. (it doesn't help that i don't speak either of those languages, so i'm just going off of wikipedia's romanization tables.)

honestly, here are my guesses:

there's no source on forebears.io, and there are only 201 supposed incidences of this surname worldwide. it's entirely possible that many or all of those are fake; death note has been a popular piece of media for a long time, and people on the internet love trolling. in this case, this name wouldn't actually have any ties to any of the places named on that site. ohda just made up the name to look/sound ambiguously european.

it's a nonstandard transliteration of some preëxisting name. conveniently enough, forebears.io lists potential alternative spellings. the most common is "loeuillet", a french name with 827 incidences worldwide. and as a french speaker, i can say that that spelling kind of works for the pronunciation we're given.

no satisfying answers yet, really.

fun fact: l's surname is transliterated into japanese as 'rōraito'.

#ALSO i just remembered.#when japanese loans words from languages with stress (including basically all european languages)#the vowel of the stressed syllable tends to become long #e.g. TAble -> tēburu‚ comPUter -> konpyūtā #other factors affect that process too but thats not super relevant #the point is that the 'low' syllable should probably be stressed #so it's NOT french or armenian in origin. those languages uniformly have stress on the final syllable #could still be like. english or russian i guess.#txt #ling shit #idk im probably missing some stuff here #edited to fix tags and add the detail about his ethnicity

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kurosmind · 8 years ago

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thing that irk me out: when people put Cullen as bisexual in lgbtqa+ dragon age inquisition positivity posts and forget ALL ABOUT JOSEPHINE MONTI-BI-LYET

#like I get you forget about wlw #but can you fuckin not do it #ugh #kuro no one cares

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redslippersquotes · 5 years ago

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The Knickerbocker: Notes by a Traveller in Holland, 1835

DELFT, — an old town, whose stagnant canals, and dull, deserted streets and quays are in striking contrast with those of Rotterdam. The indolent repose of a warm, sunny afternoon. Dutchman at a window with his pipe-lolling in a huge elbow-chair, and ogling in his mirror the gliding form of a servant girl, with white stockings, and red slippers, without quarters. Fine chime of bells, or carillons, in the tower of the New Church. A Dutch belfry looks like a Chinese pagoda, many of them contain from fifty to a hundred bells, of various size, and skillfully tuned. They are struck by hammers, connected with a set of keys and pedals, in a chamber below, upon which the carillonneur strikes with all his strength, having his hands guarded by heavy leather gauntlets. Pavement of the New Church thickly inset with tombstones, engraven with escutcheons, death's heads, fat-cheeked little cherubs, and many a ‘Hier lyet begraven Dirck’ Tomb of Grotius, and the splendid monument of William, Prince of Orange, his marble statue stretched upon a sculptured sarcophagus, with his favorite dog at his feet. Pleasant view from the church tower. The sexton, a queer, cadaverous little man, with a coarse blue surtout, black breeches, carroty wig, cut close round the forehead, with a pig-tail curl in the neck, — tobacco juice running out of the corner of his mouth.

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New Survey Shows Patients in Asia Pacific Fail to Recognize Their Fragility Fracture is Due to Osteoporosis, Missed Opportunity to Prevent Another Fracture

Nearly half don't know that a fracture is a warning sign for a treatable underlying cause1;

3 out of 4 with early diagnosis of osteoporosis say it's key in preventing another fracture1

HONG KONG, Oct. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

Almost three quarters (74%) of patients in Asia Pacific who have had a fragility fracture say they are worried or very worried about breaking another bone1, but nearly one-third (29%) of patients did not discuss fracture prevention and osteoporosis, the underlying cause, with their doctor1; according to a new survey. The results of the Fight the Fracture-International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) Survey 2017 were announced at the 5th Scientific Meeting of the Asian Federation of Osteoporosis Societies (AFOS) in Kuala Lumpur. The Survey interviewed 400 patients from five Asian countries/territories aged 60 years and over who had suffered a fragility fracture in the last two years and is the first project undertaken by Fight the Fracture, a public education campaign jointly launched by AFOS, IOF and Amgen.

For the full multimedia release, click here: http://www.prnasia.com/mnr/ftf_20171019.shtml

Other key survey findings include:

• Almost 80% of patients say their fractures have had a great impact on their quality of life1.

• Of those patients who had a late diagnosis of osteoporosis, 4 out of 5 (80%) wish they had received earlier diagnosis as they feel they would have benefited from it1.

• Of those patients who had an early diagnosis of osteoporosis, 3 out of 4 (75%) agree that it has been key in helping prevent another fracture1.

"I remember feeling extremely, extremely unwell when the fracture happened and I thought I was going to die," said Madam Zhuang, age 68 of Taipei, who had suffered a fracture three years ago while on holiday in Japan, and was diagnosed with osteoporosis soon after. "I am glad my osteoporosis is being treated now, as I cannot risk another fracture ‒ my orthopaedic specialist told me that a second fracture within a year of the first one could be fatal."

A Failure to Connect

Despite the great extent to which the lives of patients and their families are impacted by fractures, the survey showed that patients in Asia Pacific have a limited understanding of fragility fractures and osteoporosis as an underlying cause, as well as increased risks of another fracture after the first one:

• Although a majority of patients (78%) claim they know what osteoporosis is1, over 80% of patients believe that weak bones are an inevitable feature of the normal ageing process1.

• Almost 40% of patients were not sure, or did not believe that they are at risk of having another fracture, whether at the same or different site1. Research shows however, that once a patient suffers a fragility fracture his or her risk of a future fracture increases up to 10 times2.

• More than one-third (37%) of patients say they were diagnosed with osteoporosis only after multiple subsequent visits to their doctor1.

Public Awareness Critical

"Fragility fractures have crippling consequences for patients and their families. A second or third fracture is even more devastating for a patient, potentially costing his or her healthy mobility, independence or even life," said Professor Cyrus Cooper, IOF President. "These findings are welcomed, timely evidence of the urgent need for greater awareness and understanding among patients, their families and caregivers. We encourage patients who have suffered a fracture to start conversations with their doctors immediately about ways to prevent another fracture from happening to them again."

The survey is the first phase of the Fight the Fracture campaign, which aims to empower patients who have suffered a fragility fracture and their caregivers to proactively seek medical professional help in secondary care prevention ‒ the prevention of a subsequent fracture ‒ by providing them with educational information, tools and resources. These resources are hosted on www.fightthefracture.asia

About AFOS

AFOS consists of 10 member societies spanning 10 Asian countries and regions. It is the only pan Asian professional association that targets osteoporosis as an agenda. It encourages collaborative effort in clinical research and sharing of knowledge into osteoporosis. Osteoporosis and Sarcopenia, the AFOS journal, has been set up to for this platform. There is also concerted effort to reduce the load of osteoporosis in the region by encouraging advocacy, public awareness programmes as well as programmes to identify and treat the high risk populations.

About Amgen

Amgen is committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing and delivering innovative human therapeutics. This approach begins by using tools like advanced human genetics to unravel the complexities of disease and understand the fundamentals of human biology.

Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people's lives. A biotechnology pioneer since 1980, Amgen has grown to be one of the world's leading independent biotechnology companies, has reached millions of patients around the world and is developing a pipeline of medicines with breakaway potential.

For more information, visit www.amgen.com and follow us on https://twitter.com/amgen

About the International Osteoporosis Foundation

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) is the world's largest non-governmental organization dedicated to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis and related musculoskeletal diseases. IOF members, including committees of scientific researchers as well as 240 patient, medical and research societies in 99 locations, work together to make fracture prevention and healthy mobility a worldwide heath care priority. www.iofbonehealth.org

About Fight the Fracture and the Fight the Fracture-IOF Survey 2017

Fight the Fracture, a public education campaign, aims to empower patients who have suffered a fragility fracture and their caregivers to proactively seek medical professional help in secondary care prevention ‒ the prevention of a subsequent fracture ‒ by providing them with educational information, tools and resources. With this support in place, we envision patients will have a better understanding and awareness of fragility fractures and a common underlying cause, osteoporosis, which would encourage them to take the necessary steps to initiate a conversation with their doctor toward improved, proactive management of their condition.

Supported by the International Osteoporosis Foundation and Amgen, the Fight the Fracture-IOF Survey 2017 was conducted in June 2017, through interviews with 400 patients who have suffered a fragility fracture across five Asia Pacific countries/territories – Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand. All patients surveyed had suffered a fracture within the last two years and are aged 60 or older.

About Fragility Fractures and Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis affects both men and women3. Osteoporosis is a condition that weakens bone over time, making them thinner, more brittle and more likely to break3. As a result, the skeleton becomes fragile, so that even a slight bump or fall can lead to a broken bone ‒ referred to as a fragility fracture4. Fractures most often occur in the hip, spine, arm, wrist, ribs, legs and pelvis5. Fractures are expensive to treat, and disabling to the lives of those affected5. Moreover, fractures are associated with heightened risk of death6.

Osteoporosis can significantly compromise quality of life, leading to loss of independence, chronic pain, disability, emotional distress, lost productivity and reduced social interaction6. There is no cure for osteoporosis, however steps can be taken to help prevent, slow, or halt its progression6.

Risk factors for osteoporosis include age, smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, previous broken bones, a family history of osteoporosis and low body weight7.

Osteoporosis may be managed with anti-osteoporotic medication, weight-bearing exercise, adequate calcium intake and vitamin D exposure (sunlight and/or supplements are often required)6.

References

1 Data on file: Fight the Fracture-International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) Survey 2017 ‒ Regional Consolidated Report. 17 July 2017.

2 Lyet JP. Fragility Fractures in the Osteoporotic Patient: Special Challenges. JLGH 2006;1(3):91-95.

3 International Osteoporosis Foundation. What Is Osteoporosis? 2015. Available at: http://www.iofbonehealth.org/what-is-osteoporosis (Last accessed Sep 2017)

4 International Osteoporosis Foundation. Capture the Fracture: A Global Campaign to Break the Fragility Fracture Cycle. 2012. Available at: https://www.iofbonehealth.org/capture-fracture (Last accessed Sep 2017)

5 International Osteoporosis Foundation. Gaps and Solutions in Bone Health: A Global Framework for Improvement. Available at: http://share.iofbonehealth.org/WOD/2016/thematic-report/WOD16-report-WEB-EN.pdf (Last accessed Sep 2017)

6 International Osteoporosis Foundation. Facts and Statistics. Available at: https://www.iofbonehealth.org/facts-statistics (Last accessed Sep 2017)

7 International Osteoporosis Foundation. Who's at Risk? 2015. Available at: http://www.iofbonehealth.org/whos-risk (Last accessed Sep 2017)

Contacts

AFOS

Dr Fen Lee Hew President of AFOS [email protected]

Amgen

Seok Lin Hong Director Corporate Affairs JAPAC T +852 2843 1114 [email protected]

International Osteoporosis Foundation

Dr. Philippe Halbout, PhD Chief Executive Officer 9 rue Juste-Olivier, CH-1260 Nyon, Switzerland [email protected]

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