#music and language
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you know what would be fun? multilingual music exchange. english music is everywhere, someone hit me with like idk croatian opera ir algerian disco recs or something. i'll exchange for bengali music that makes me cringe a bit but might be enjoyable to someone who didn't have to grow up with it and doesn't understand it
#music and language#btw this does NOT apply to kpop#like nothing and everything against kpop but I can do that on my own#give me smth totally new and specific#ask game#ask exchange?
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bro i LOVE indigenous fusion music i love it when indigenous people take traditional practices and language and apply them in new cool ways i love the slow decay and decolonisation of the modern music industry
#but also !!!!!!! indigenous people who make traditional music and release it !!!!! just as cool !!! equally as valid !!!!!!!!!!! indigenous#people who just release in english/the main language of their country are also very cool !!!!!! more love and focus on the art of#indigenous ppl !!!!!!!!#anyway i have been on a big Inuit pop/indie fusion kick lately#i've also been meaning to do a deep dive into the Blak (indigenous australian) music scene#anyway ! :3#music#words of wyrm
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My version of flirting is looking at someone I find attractive multiple times and hoping they're braver than me.
#flirting#eye contact#romantic academia#art#love language#vintage aesthetic#dark academia#literature#poetry#love#light academia#romanticism#love quotes#spilled ink#lovers#escapism#music#tumblr writers#academia#social media#txt post#tumblr crush#looking at you#writersclub#chaotic academia#love life
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Sharing music is a huge love language for me 🤍.
#quotes#writing#poetry#positivity#thoughts#spilled poetry#spilled thoughts#spilled words#spilled writing#spilled truth#my thoughts#spilled feelings#spilled ink#posts on tumblr#my posts#artists on tumblr#art#writer on tumblr#aethestic#literature#dark academia#light academia#music#love#life#love language#peace#reminder#motivation#romantic
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do allow me, will you? ➢ THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965)
#the sound of music#maria rainer#georg von trapp#christopher plummer#julie andrews#filmedit#musicaledit#periodedit#perioddramaedit#*userbolt#gif: misc#mom said it's my turn to gif the ländler#sexier than sex. sharp transitions and perfect timing. body language and expressions all masterfully wrought#it is all of that but it also just looks so FUN!!!!!#if you'll excuse me i'll be throwing up behind the dumpsters out back 👍#also let me just put this in#norribeth#for inspiration. don't mind me
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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.
#polls#incognito polls#anonymous#tumblr polls#tumblr users#questions#polls about interests#submitted may 30#polls about language#music#singing#lyrics
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A candid image of me cleverly tricking my unsuspecting friends into sharing an interest with me so I have someone to infodump to
#don’t worry I tailor the traps to everyone specially:))#infodumping is a love language#the interests include but are not limited to#stranger things#our flag bbc#banana fish#mdzs#qsmp#kpop#haikyuu#mcyt#anime#yuri on ice#newsies#animal crosing new horizons#musicals#music#dsmp#shoutout my sister for dealing with this constantly#omg hit tweet! /j
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If you want, you can let me know the language(s) in the tags, and whether or not you speak it fluently!
#my mom acts like it’s super weird to enjoy music in another language so i got curious about how many of you do!#i’m not sure what to tag this#polls#kpop#jpop#cpop#music#spotify#bilingual
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Every single frame of this show could be put in a museum
#Wheres that one image that's like when you want to info dump but have no coherent sentences#and is a drawing of a guy holding a picture with tears running down their face#That's me right now#Only tears#It's so beautiful#from the sound design#To the shots the colors the acting the use of minecraft body language#The slowness and quiet#And the music my gosh the music#Just aaaaaaa#Whitepine
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i really think learning languages is like. good for your soul. net positive.
#listening to 1970s yugoslavian music rn on radioooo and its sooo#u latici tulipana you are bringing hope back into my life#language learning#mine
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"Odysseus could have raised Astyanax as his own son! He shouldn't have killed him! Zeus is just an idiot who doesn't understand anything about children!"
Imagine you are Astyanx. Imagine that one day, you discover that your father, the man you thought was your father, is actually the murderer of your real father, who stole you from your cradle. Imagine that for years, you see your father lying to everyone, but the thought never crossed your mind that he might be lying to you. How do you know he didn't take you to ensure Troy would have no heir to the crown? That he took you to one day make you a puppet king in Troy for him? He's such a good liar, how do you know he wasn't lying when he looked you in the eye and said, "I love you, my son."
You know that your father—no, he's not your father, never was—did terrible things, but it never crossed your mind that you were one of the terrible things he did. You are a Trojan prince. You are Hector's son. You are not a little orphan from the battlefield that Odysseus took pity on. Odysseus destroyed your city. Odysseus lied to you. Odysseus has manipulated you. And Odysseus will PAY.
So many Greek tragedies tell about exactly this - about the attempt to prevent a tragedy, and about how the attempt failed, just as the gods and prophets had warned. If Astyanax had stayed alive, he would have murdered Odysseus' family no matter what Odysseus did, because that's how Greek tragedies work.
and yes, zeus suck.
#epic: the musical#epic the troy saga#the odyssey#odysseus#astyanax#the horse and the infant#english is not my first language
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As much as I adore conlangs, I really like how the Imperial Radch books handle language. The book is entirely in English but you're constantly aware that you're reading a "translation," both of the Radchaai language Breq speaks as default, and also the various other languages she encounters. We don't hear the words but we hear her fretting about terms of address (the beloathed gendering on Nilt) and concepts that do or don't translate (Awn switching out of Radchaai when she needs a language where "citizen," "civilized," and "Radchaai person" aren't all the same word) and noting people's registers and accents. The snatches of lyrics we hear don't scan or rhyme--even, and this is what sells it to me, the real-world songs with English lyrics, which get the same "literal translation" style as everything else--because we aren't hearing the actual words, we're hearing Breq's understanding of what they mean. I think it's a cool way to acknowledge linguistic complexity and some of the difficulties of multilingual/multicultural communication, which of course becomes a larger theme when we get to the plot with the Presgar Translators.
#imperial radch#also a great example of the 'you don't have to be Tolkien' phenomenon#if you want to think about linguistic differences by building all the languages in your setting#and being able to explain what those differences are through actual texts in the language in question#that's AWESOME#but it's not the only way to do it#it's also interesting because of course this style only works in book form#everyone's speaking different languages but in a written account they're all 'translated' for you#but of course if it was a TV series they would all have to be speaking a language the audience understands#(or you *would* have to go wild with conlangs)#and i think that's really cool as well--#how for a series where song is so central we don't actually hear any of the actual in-universe words or any of the music#it's all been filtered#and again you know this is happening but seeing the examples of how real songs--the shape hymns and 'L'homme Arme'--are presented#makes you a lot more viscerally aware of how limited your perspective is#it's good#ann leckie i love you
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I have some very specific thoughts about the Wisdom Saga to share:
On the very first listen I was like "hm idk about this, it's different and idk how I feel about it yet" bc quite frankly it's not just new, it's modern. The addition of video game mechanics in Little Wolf, the use of the words "tramp" and "champ" in Legendary, "Splendid" in We'll be Fine- it's all closer to the way we speak than Odysseus.
But here's why I think this choice is so interesting; there was a study I read about people who leave their home country and live somewhere that doesn't speak their home language. The results showed that for those people, their language and vocabulary is sort of stuck in the time that they left. They don't develop variations, or the new slang that gets incorporated, and so people who move home after many years away are then seen as speaking sort of archaically.
This means that Odysseus for the past TWENTY YEARS has only had the same linguistic patterns between him and his men, whereas Telemachus has been developing his language along with his country his whole life. Twenty years is a long time, especially where technology and language is concerned (video game mechanics and "that is so sick!") which is why it felt so different on the first listen.
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Sunflowers x starry night
#art#painting#starry night#artist#vicent van gogh#music#linguistics#language#culture#education#sunflowers
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"this song reminded me of you" i love you! "i made you a playlist" i love you!! "i wrote you a poem" i love you!!! "can we listen to music together?" i love you!!!! "i thought you'd like this album" i love you!!!!
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