#mnemonic device

[hello-worldshitposting]

(yes this is a very real mnemonic device i use in my very serious university classes)

[beastwars-transformers]

Im CARBOHYDRATE

I’m LIPID

I’m PROTEIN

and I’m NUCLEIC ACID

THE ORGANIC SISTERS

[buckieduckie2]

this might seem slightly immature but the way that i remember the order of Norway, Sweden, and Finland is i noticed that when you read the from left to right, it reads NSF and then there’s russia, and if you pronounce russia like a barbie it comes out Wussia. so, it then reads NSFW and now i can always remember the order 👍👍👍👍

[canis-lunaris]

Daylight saving is upon us!

For anyone else who struggles to remember which way the clocks are set during daylight saving time (which will happen tonight, technically tomorrow ((ie. Sunday, 31-03-2024)), at 2:00 am), here's my totally original and never-before-heard mnemonic hack:

→ Spring(/March) forward

← Fall back

(In each case, the change happens at 2:00 am on the day of, and most modern devices ((ie ones with an internet or satellite connection)) do it automatically, but analog/offline devices need to be adjusted manually!)

So there you have it folks, now you know. Godspeed, I hope y'all get through the adjustment period with no trouble!

[digitalsatyr23]

Was trying to come up with a way to easily memorize the days of the week in Spanish and I remembered this weird nursery rhyme song from a Japanese air conditioner commercial. The song goes like this: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday comes again. I was struggling to translate it and keep to the general tune but I THINK I GOT IT. “Otra vez” literally means “again” and has the same syllable count as “comes again” in English and roughly means the same thing, so you could write it like this: Domingo, Lunes, Martes Miercoles, Jueves Jueves, Viernes, Sabado Domingo otra vez.

I’m a little iffy on the second line, but I think it more or less works for purpose of the song. It’s silly but this is going to be a really easy way for me to remember this stuff.

[markscherz]

why is he so fuckin itty bitty

Toads are very much R strategists: they can sometimes lay tens of thousands of eggs in a single clutch. The tadpoles are very small, and metamorphose quite quickly; the froglets that emerge from the water are often very small indeed. It takes some species years to attain adult body size. This individual has probably been out of the water for about a year, I'd guess. Still got some growing to do!

[serpentface]

FAMILY TITLES AMONG THE HILL TRIBES

(ft. various linguistic notes and tangents)

In-universe Brakul’s self-given title of ‘Red-Dog’ is Brakul 'ne-Dainh' in his native language (Bict-Urbinnas dialect of the Highland language group) and Brakul 'Chin-Reyla' in Wardi. Ne-Dainh/Chin-Reyla is not something he treats as or considers an actual surname or identity, just a self-styled nickname. He already has a title.

Family names/surnames are not a native practice among the Hill Tribes (though some clans or individual families have adopted this practice), and all traditionally use titles that designate immediate ancestry, clan and tribe. These full titles are officially given when one comes of age and are spoken aloud in ceremony (with the entire direct male and female lines listed by name, with most traditions expecting 12 generations of each being named).

The function is to cement one’s sense of place in the world, and their place in a direct ancestral line, which puts the person under the full watch and guidance of their ancestors. It's also a critical method of recording lineage- the long held practice of each person memorizing at least 24 total direct ancestors allows for very long, largely accurate records of family history to be kept, with some people able to trace their ancestry all the way back to initial settlement of the Highlands (or even beyond).

Brakul’s full title is:

“Brakul virsum Kuligan et Borunil an Briyonis ne-Taig an Bict-Urbinnas”

Which dead literally translates to “Brakul son of Kuligan and Borunil of the Foothills (of) Red-Cattle, of the North (Urbin/Erubin) River Valley” but has a much richer meaning in the original language.

"BRAKUL VIRSUM KULIGAN ET BORUNIL"

The actual meaning here is closer to ‘Brakul, son of Kuligan and his father’s fathers, and Borunil and her mother’s mothers’.

“Virsum” means ‘child (son/daughter) of’ (the gender is contextual), but implies the person’s status as a descendant of a full male and female line of ancestors. A different word is used if you’re just saying ‘I’m so and so’s son”. The title describes him as a son of his father Kuligan and of Kuligan’s male line, and of his mother Borunil and Borunil's female line.

All ancestors (within this particular system of kinship, divided into one direct male line from the father and one direct female line from the mother, and not including husbands from the female line or wives from the male line) are invoked and credited with the word ‘virsum’. Speaking it as part of the personal title is part of the routine and necessary honoring of one’s ancestors, who watch over their descendants from the afterlife and can temporarily return to the land to guide and protect (and sometimes punish, or teach sharp lessons to) the living.

"AN BRIYONIS NE-TAIG"

The actual meaning here would be understood as ‘clan/people of the foothills where cattle are lit red by the setting sun'.

‘Briyonis’ is the word for ‘foothill’, citing his clan’s specific location being the foothills that form the slopes of the north Urbin river valley. He is of a lesser clan within the powerful North Urbin River tribe. His clan benefits from close affiliation to their more powerful ruling clans located directly in the river valley, which grants them access to a greater variety of cultivated foods, but their actual position in the foothills still renders them predominantly reliant on cattle for subsistence. Clan names referencing cattle or horses are very common, given their frequent centrality to life.

The ‘ne-Taig’ literally means ‘red cattle’, but the ‘ne’ color word for red specifically invokes shades of red seen in and cast by a rising/setting sun. This red cast is culturally regarded as a unique beauty and evocative (and part of the name) of the solar god Hraighne. The foothills his clan is physically located on are a vantage point from which the western horizon is not fully obscured by mountains, and they experience very striking sunsets and are directly touched by the light. This is fairly unique to this location, and is invoked in the clan name and identity. ‘Ne-Taig’ here suggests a visual of grazing cattle illuminated red by the sun as it crosses the horizon.

‘Ne-Dainh’ carries the same implication, a dog illuminated red by setting sunlight. The Wardi language does not have a comparable word for a sunlit red and ‘Chin-Reyla’ really does just mean ‘(orangeish) red dog’ (‘reyla’ is specific to orangey-red colors, which is the closest match he could get. There’s no way to impart the meaning of ‘sunlit-red dog’ in Wardi that is non-clunky enough to be appropriate for a name).

"AN BICT-URBINNAS"

‘an Bict-Urbinnas’ is fairly simple, Bict means ‘north’, and 'Urbin' is the name of the specific river that stems from a northern and eastern tributary. This river has a very ancient name (or a derivative of one) that predates settlement by the Hill Tribes, and its exact meaning is lost.

The root -(n)nas designates a river valley, but has strong implications of being an esteemed and bountiful place, rather than solely a literal geographical descriptor (as the river valleys are centers of power and trade in the highlands). It may be a loanword from the Wardi language family, as its usage is VERY similar in form and function to the Wardi -(n)nos, which also suggests a place of esteem and bounty (more specifically having connotations of a kingdom).

’An’ literally means ‘of’, but in the specific sense of describing the place and identity of a collection of people. ‘an Bict Urbinnas’ would be understood in speech as ‘of the north Urbin River Valley (people)’. The clans historically settled in and around the valley of the North Urbin River form the totality of the Bict-Urbinnas tribe.

The ‘Urbin’ word predates the contemporary Wardi name ‘Erubin’ for the river, the latter of which invokes the semi-mythological founding figure Erub, who himself was of a Wardi tribe located downriver to the south of the Highlands. The real historically extant ‘Erub’ was most likely named Urub after the river, with his cited name shifting over the centuries in folklore, and the Wardi name for the river shifting with it.

‘Erubin’ as a corruption of ‘Urbin’ functions very well in Wardi language due to ‘-bi/bin’ denoting something as a ‘gift’, usually in a more metaphorical sense. ‘Erubin’ is understood as meaning ‘(The river that is) Erub’s gift’, and the Erubin/Urbin river is a key tributary to the much larger Black river, one of the key rivers that feeds the region's wetter and more fertile west. This 'gift' meaning also occurs in the name of the southeastern Imperial Wardi city-state Erubinnos, which is understood as meaning ’((The kingdom that is) Erub’s gift’. He is considered to have conquered and taken the land (from the core city's actual founders, the Wogan people) and established a kingdom there in the early days of warring Wardi tribal monarchies.

[bisexualbaker]

The mnemonic device I came up with and have come to rely on: Entomolgy starts with “ent”, which sounds like “ant”, therefore it is about bugs. Ant-o-mology.

[heckyeahponyscans]

Evidence that G3.5's Core 7 strategy was not effective: when I was tagging that last picture I could only remember six of the ponies

[deus-ex-mona]

still thinking about how silly gens 2 and 3 are~~

the sanbaka arguing over fast food orders (“cheeseburgers ftw! [ken, probably]” / “<-no way! teriyaki’s better for sure! [kotaro, probably]” / “<-not a chance. nuggets are the best. (with bbq sauce) [kodai, probably]”) {ft. arisa (probably) and her “apple pies are the best!!” up in the corner}

and the 1-4 girlies complaining about their lessons (“classical literature’s wayyy too hard!!” / “and math and history and physics too!” / “[doodle of akechi] (<-looks just like him)” / “what’s with his lab coat?”)

[wild-moss-art]

I can't believe it's "righty tighty lefty loosey" when it SHOULD be "clockwisey tighty counterclockwisey loosey." It's literally going left and right at the same time

[knifeeater]

it wouldn’t help you it doesn’t help me it’s Friday afternoon there goes Antigone to be buried alive

Antigonick Sophocles transl. Anne Carson

[fayewoodss]

not dream saying the "STALAGMITES are falling" and my autistic ass pausing the video just to go, "erm actually it's STALACTITES ☝️🤓" to myself

[goldensunset]

you have enabled me so! here is the original galaxy i wanted as my username (ngc 6946, also known as the fireworks galaxy!)

ok that's all have a nice day <3

i’m dipping a spoon into that and swirling it around and eating it. like a slushie

[stinkard]

Put your hands up if you're still remembering the order of the zodiac signs by using the homestuck trolls in the year of 2024

[vaticinatrix]

ah yes the four biosafety levels:

1: if you get sick from this, you're a weapons-grade dumbass and it's almost impressive

2: you can get sick from this, but you'd still have to fuck something up seriously

3: honestly pretty risky, but with proper procedures, there's no reason to be scared

4: honestly, you should be scared