#new dialect

[baba-is-blog]

BABA IS AMUSED

BABA IS LANGUAGE

ANON IS SPEAK

[teeny-tiny-revenge]

Underdicussed aspect of Ed and Stede's future life in their "Inn": within a couple months they are going to be incomprehensible to anyone else. Mr Zangy and Mr Tangy have speedrun the development of a new dialect. It's still sort of English, but it's riddled with made up words like zangy and tangy, with technically normal words that have been given a completely new meaning because one of them said it in accident once, then it became A Bit for a couple days, and then it just became normal to use this word in the new context and they forgot it didn't always mean this. Some words have gone from being nouns to being adverbs and verbs. They are about to invent their own grammar. They talk to each other all day about all sorts of things because they love being together and they love talking to each other, and with every day their language moves further away from being actually intelligible to anyone else. When the crew comes to visit, they'll find a pair of retired pirates/not-yet innkeepers who use completely nonsense words for common household items and who talk to each other in gibberish.

[elodieunderglass]

Time for our regular reminder to people from New England that our native dialect’s charming slang for a small liquor store is a racial slur in the rest of the English speaking world.

Yes I know we don’t mean it that way. Yes I know we have no idea. Yes I know that people from Pakistan hardly ever visit New England let alone settle there, and it is 💯 innocently meant in New England.

It is extraordinarily unfair that the racial connotations of keeping a small corner shop means that it unintentionally doubles the impact of the slur.

It’s wicked uncool but there you go and now you know.

[fisheito]

portable friend (magic)

[weepingwillow2000]

“Bu-but it would be hard for [INSERT BIG FRANCHISE NAME HERE] to h-hire Romani actors cause there’s not many-" bro Nosferatu did it why can’t they?

There is no excuse anymore.

[glossytoothpick]

Some of these titles are so fucking funny

[bishopony]

finally learning Spanish so I can finally comfortably my friends in Chile and Spain :') mi dormitorio tiene dos ventanas babyyyy

[canisalbus]

I just recently started following you so i don't have the full lore of your murderous gay religiously traumatized doggos, BUT, from my understanding, they are Italian and i don't know what part of Italy they are from, yet i can't help headcanoning Vasco as Tuscan, while Machete is probably from some part of Veneto. And as an Italian who has heard Tuscans and Veneto dialet, well it's an hilarious mental image.

Vasco is indeed Tuscan, Florentine to be specific. He comes from a wealthy and influential noble family that has lived in Florence for centuries. He's proud of his roots, and it's usually easy for strangers to tell where he's from. He's a resonably successful politician and has worked as an ambassador and representative of Florence on numerous occasions.

Machete is originally Sicilian (ironically about as far from Veneto as possible), although he was taken to mainland at young age and has lived in several places since then, before ending up in Rome. The way I see it, he exhibits very little local color, his demeanor and (even though Italian hadn't become a standardized language yet) way of speaking are formal, neutral and scarcely give away any hints about his personal history, at least in the 16th century canon.

[basedhighsenberg]

I always think I've escaped Terminal New Yorker Syndrome until I'm in traffic and someone acts like a retard

[i-lavabean]

The inevitable has come to pass... I made an OC for the Horizon world.

She's a stubborn little tot, the kind you'd see in an optional side quest

[jaybee2000]

Cannot express to you how strange it is as a new englander to hear people talking about wicked outside of my specific theatre space

Because wicked movie wicked art wicked memes wicked soundtrack wicked costumes

Means something else in New England. Wicked as noun and not adjective is CONFUSING

Anyway. Wicked movie is wicked awesome

[willwoodoutofcontext]

oooooooo shalalala ooooooooo shalalala

- karen, thannsdfghjkl you for the casserole, but i need you to lea-n into a typo

[elis-corner]

marsha and karen are rival housewives with a strange underlying homoerotic tension

[eeyes]

Whys this guy on apple support hate emojis and joy and fun so much

YOU LOOK AT THESE AND TELL ME THEY ARE INFERIOR TO THE WRITTEN WORD