#not pronounced correctly just pronounced

[this-is-a-new-low-for-me]

Get handed an open summoning book but they forget I love trying new words and I immediately speak the ancient chant. No hesitation. No idea what it says or does. I just like the way unfamiliar words feel as I speak them. I mispronounce everything horribly. The demon is here and judging me.

[serpentface]

WARDI WRITTEN LANGUAGE (BASICS).

Couya's full name (properly 'Haidamane Couya') written formally and with common handwriting conventions.

The Wardi written language derives from earlier proto-language systems consisting exclusively of logograms without direct phonetic meaning or grammatical structure. These symbols gradually became simplified and abstracted to the point of many having little intrinsic clarity, and combined to communicate abstract concepts.

The development of a full written language did not occur independently (as very few written languages do), and its phonetic elements (namely its use of syllabograms) were largely derived the 'ancient' Burri writing system, gradually synthesized with native writing conventions, and in the contemporary forms a wholly distinct system. The language's Relatively universalized form is a very recent phenomena, developing within the past two centuries with the region's conquering/unification into a single entity.

The contemporary written language is a mixture of logograms and syllabograms. It is read from right to left and arranged in horizontal columns. The most formal variant of this system contains each character within a square outline, usually separated by a small space. This outline confers little phonetic or symbolic information beyond making distinction between syllables exceptionally clear, and can be (and often is) omitted in handwriting. The separation of words is conveyed through a narrow rectangle or line in formal contexts, and again often omitted in handwriting (instead indicated instead by a wider blank space).

The pure logograms that have been retained in this writing system tend to be those of very common words or specific concepts (most logogram characters for types of livestock, key crops, water, major body parts, etc are widely recognized and in common use). There has not yet been any attempts to fully 'formalize' the language and omit potentially unnecessary logograms, and they remain frequently used as shorthand while conveying the same semantic information.

Many of the syllabogram characters are directly derived from logograms that depicted monosyllabic words. For example, the spoken word 'gan' means 'cow', and the character for the syllable 'gan' is identical to the common logogram for 'cow'.

The name Gantoche (literally "cow-eye") could be written either fully with syllabograms as:

or through logograms as:

Both ultimately communicate the same meaning, but the former clarifies pronunciation (the words gan and atoche are contracted, it's gantoche and not gan-atoche).

It is a relatively easy written language to learn, as the pure syllabogram characters indicate their own pronunciation with little ambiguity and often have consistency to their construction (ie the character for the syllable 'man' contains most of the same elements as that for the syllable 'wan'- the dot placement in particular has indication of the vowel sounds).

The inclusion of logograms in general and many of the syllabic characters being directly imported From logograms complicates matters. These characters lack visual consistency, and can be confusing to the large swath of the public who know common logograms but not the full written language itself. Ie: the word 'ungande' meaning 'liver' will be composed of logogram-derived syllable characters for 'un' (which alone means 'hand') and 'gan' (which alone means 'cow'). Someone who is only semi-literate in common logograms may be confused at the meaning, especially since these same exact same characters may be used elsewhere on their own to indicate 'hand' or 'cow'.

One major exception to this tendency is that current religious doctrine requires established logogram characters describing God to be used in place of syllabic characters. The word for god is 'Od', and has its own unique character (as do each of the Faces, the capital F 'Face', and Its deified pronoun). The syllable 'od' [oʊd] is very common in the Wardi language, and a wholly separate character is used for the phonetic sound when it is not a reference to the deity (ie 'lion' (odo [oʊdoʊ]) does not contain the same character for God in spite of its first syllable having the exact same pronunciation). Names are a bit of a gray area (ie: the name 'Odabi' is very common and carries the meaning of 'gift/blessing from God'). Religious leadership is currently experiencing a mild schism on whether the written character for God is separated due to being wholly sacrosanct (and thus inappropriate to include in the written form of a personal name) or as more of a functional delineation of the sacred and mundane.

[mr-urple]

phenomenon i've noticed about my speech

[royalarchivist]

Fit: Pierre is French, he's wearing a baklava, the Spy from Team Fortress 2 is also French and wears a baklava, very interesting coincidence, hmm...

Pac: Hmm... Wait- in English you say "baklava"?

Fit: Yeah.

Pac: In Portuguese we say "balaclava."

Fit: Balaca- yeah, yeah, it's– you're correct, you're correct, yeah, yeah.

Pac: Like it's almost close, right? Oh, it's– I always keep saying "balaclava."

Fit: "Balaclava" well, it is– I think you are correct, it's supposed to be 'balacava'* but... us English speakers, we say "baklava."

Chat:

[Transcript continued ↓ ]

Pac: Oh, ohh, I see, I see, I see now.

Fit: Or– no no– actually no it is 'balacava,' I'm thinking of the food. I'm sorry. I'm sorry...

Pac: [Punches Fit and breaking into laughter] You hungry, Fit? You hungry– [In a teasing voice] You hu– you're hungry, you know.

Fit: [Hiding his face in his hands in embarrassment, completely off-screen]

Pac: Oh, oh baklava, I think it's a– it's a– it's a– I don't– Well, I don't know whats it is actually, to be honest. I don't have a clue.

Fit: I– yeah, 'balacava' it is a 'balacava' you are correct, I'm sorry... It is a 'balacava,' fck.

Pac: [Laughs] No no no, you don't need to be sorry for it.

[libraryspectre]

Allow me to ramble on the internet about my grandma again

I got much of my diy spirit from my maternal grandmother, who spent most of her time (that wasn't cooking, fishing, gardening, community service, or hunting) doing Art. This could be painting murals on any available surface, hot glueing old jewelry and seashells on things, making elaborate holiday decorations by painting plywood cutouts (cut by my grandfather), glueing ribbons and patches and rhinestones on denim jackets, and, once, making her entire front walkway into a genuinely gorgeous mosaic of broken tile.

The thing is, she didn't have many developed skills. She wasn't a particularly talented painter. But what she lacked in skill she made up for in sheer audacity and an eye for aesthetics, and most of the things she made ended up looking cool and fun/pretty, even if it wasn't my taste (she was VERY maximalist when it came to clothing especially, but I loved most of her painting and a lot of the decor.) She didn't have a lot of money and her materials were cheap - acrylic paint, plywood, garage sale trinkets and goodwill clothing. Tons and tons of hot glue. The corner of the garage where she worked was a wonderland to me, even though it was mostly things like costume jewelry and aquarium beads in old cottage cheese containers.

She was always enlisting me for help - I'd get excited when she told me to wear old clothes, because that meant we were painting. Her attitude was really good for me as a creative kid who struggled with perfectionism. She'd always tell me that if you mess up, you can just paint back over it! "Paint is cheap" was one of her favorite sayings. But the biggest lesson I took away from crafting with her was to customize, to stamp your identity on your surroundings, to take it into your hands to change anything in your environment you weren't happy with. Approach any art project with enough gumption and it will probably be AT LEAST fine - and you can almost always improve upon it in the future. In the meantime, at least it will be yours. And NEVER let yourself be bored when you could be creating.

I've gone down a lot of crafting avenues she never touched - she wasn't one for fiber arts, and I keep falling deeper into that rabbithole. But I've held on to that spirit of customization. I think of her often as I learn new ways to alter my clothes, stumbling blindly into embroidery and rudimentary sewing, bleach dying and fabric paint. I hate the landlord white of my apartment walls and dream of the day I can just paint on them anytime I want. I need to do at least a few seabirds in her honor.

[jula483]

boys 💜🖤

[cowboyshit]

just wanted to put this somewhere I could keep it 🥰💗

[skunkes]

I love how vampire media always has vampires with my birth name in em

[camellcat]

you ever realize you never properly learned how to say a character's name, so by the time you finally HEAR it, you have no idea who they're talking about? cause I feel like I keep doing this and it's very confusing to keep being corrected like that

[alxastrx]

We're not talking enough about how FUNNY Rook and Rollo's first interaction was.

Like imagine just wandering the streets and a little bitch named Rook comes to you and calls you in YOUR native language "King of Handkerchief" (even funnier if you hc Rook as absolutely BUTCHERING the french words because he can’t have a correct french accent for shit) and you're just like ?? What the fuck did you just call me ??? Like dude I'm not even mad Rollo almost overblotted I would've too 💀

[bishonenspit]

god does anyone remember when colleens manga recs saw like something vaguely resembling hypothetical critique of their shoujo history video on here and then had like a micro freakout on twitter about it and started talking about shoujo elitists or something

[asteria7fics]

I don't have a headcanon as to what her real name would be, though I do like Beatrice because Lemony Snicket, but I do think whatever it is, Bebe hates it. So she goes by Bebe and her parents just roll with it after a couple dozen "My name. Is. Bebe."

Oh man, absolutely.

I actually like Beatrice the most too, even though it's been a bit ruined for me for personal reasons. So I'll happily only call her Bebe haha.

I do imagine she would have older/distant family that would call her that name and it would for sure drive her insane. Man, the tantrums I bet she pulled as a really little kid were legendary.

[bittersweetburnedcaramel]

"Tis a cohelen anf resable posst"

- Toffetarti Bittersweet, very sick right now and could use some hot choccy milk

[songsofbloodandwater]

Do you know how to pray the Mojubá? Do you know how to pray in the morning? To greet the new day that arrives, asking for the blessing of your mother, father, mother of saint, of your ancestors, etc? It's important for us to have a repertoire of our own prayers, our people don't need to keep repeating the catechesis, for our Ancestors it was a mandatory act of colonization [...] I’m going to do a little bit of Ibase for you to add to your repertoire [...] so you can draw upon your own tradition. "I salute Olodumare, Lord of the day, I salute the East, I salute the West, I salute the North, I salute the South, I salute the Ancestors, I salute my Father, I salute my Mother, I salute my Father of Saint, I salute my Mother of Saint, I salute my Eldest Guide, I salute my Community, I salute my Head (Orí, Crown), I salute Oshún sengese oloya hun, I salute Yemoya Lady of the River Ogun, I salute Ogum Lord of the Universe, I salute Oya Oriri, I salute Exú lalu ogiri oko, I salute Xangó the one who bears the crown, I salute all Orixás, every single one of them, to them I give my salutations and reverence. Axé." That is the translation.

Sourced from @ sueidekinte on TikTok. Translated by me.

[deadtiredghost]

I know that 12!April is canonically meant to be gorgeous or whatever, and I can get behind that in theory but by god. The human designs in 2012 were so bad! Everytime I look at them I cringe. The turtles and Splinter' designs were so good tho, I love them to bits and they looked amazing and comparing that to April and Casey who look like playdough....

I just hate the way they look. The 2D fanart of them is what I refer to mentally when thinking of them 😭

The animation was why I couldn't get into tmnt 2012 as a kid - I glossed over it after a few episodes because of the animation and I hate myself everyday for it because I didn't get to watching it till I was 18.

(I watched anime as a kid so the 3D was jarring in and of itself)

But ya, other than the animation I actually like April's character. Controversial opinion I know. (might make a post about my thoughts in the future) the only thing I really hated about April was the way the entire cast pronounced 'Kunoichi' - it killed me every time they said the word. A little part of me died.

[tallbluelady]

you don't even realize your impact, do you?

"What exactly were the pixies calling me back there? I'm a bit surprised that 'sapling' didn't catch on with them from Feo Ul," Rowan asked as she ducked with Urianger under an overhang to hide from said pixies.

"With thy blessing of the Echo, thou shouldst ascertain the meaning of their words, shouldst thou not?" He leaned out to check if they had given up on their harassment ploy.

Rowan shrugged. "Sometimes it wavers when I'm not paying enough attention. But it sounded like they were teasing you for having a... Ey-o Lie-ah?"

Urianger froze at that and Rowan saw a blush start to creep up his ears and cheeks. 

"Star Dream. Of all the things they recall of thee..." he muttered.

"You told the pixies about me?" Rowan asked.

He nodded. "Surely thou knowest of thine importance to m- to the Star. Tis only with the Blessing of Light and the Echo combined that thou mayest slay the Lightwardens. But beyond that, thy generosity and determination serveth as an inspiration and guidance to all that meet thee."

"Much like how stars and dreams guide astrologians?" Rowan asked, politely ignoring his slip up.

"Precisely. Fae runes are wont to not directly translate into our own tongue, so adaptations must be made."

She nodded. "It does sound rather pretty. I almost wouldn't mind being called that if the one calling me that weren't threatening to turn me into a leafman."

"They shan't get the chance. I shall render thee invisible once more, then we may regroup with our comrades."

Rowan nodded again, a little sad that she didn't get to hear Urianger speak it himself.

Thanks for the prompt!