#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.

[bayetea]

sounds like frazel is gonna be featured in tsats 2 but if mark oshiro puts out the new book and "reveals" that frank is short for franklin I'm exploding him

[hayesdraws]

People that "can't pronounce" 'Jean Moreau' correctly "no matter how hard" they try and say 'Jean' like 👖are driving me insane. It's an easy name. Get it right

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

why do i feel the sudden urge to try my hand at podfic

[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 💜🖤

[breadbut3d]

French speaking test tomorrow and I can't speak french at all! Yay!

[cowboyshit]

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

[lavellaned]

when i tell you i felt it in my soul every time lavellan's name was mispronounced in dai. trying to get a white american to properly pronounce a name that comes from anywhere but fucking england is like trying get a fish to climb a tree. and then add on the phenomena of old men who mispronounce your name on purpose every time they say it or just straight up rename you because they can't be fucked to go 5 minutes without letting you know in every way they can how little they respect you. lavellan is so much more stronger than me to just fuck off to the fade peacefully i would've started killing.

[backpackevil]

ok im here to confess that i always thought that ur username was blackpackevil and just yesterday i realized that it was BACKpackevil. .. wtf dude why is your backpack evil/j

The sound I just made was SO cursed I'M LAUGHING SO HARD

I'm actually wiping away tears this is so fucking funny

"wtf dude why is your backpack evil" GOT TO ME SO HARD IDK WHY AKXKJDJXJF

If you want an actual answer to the username question tho it's under read more lmao:

Ahem...this will take a while

I've only really had like 3 usernames in all my time on the internet: the first actual username I used (that I remember using anyway) has my dead name plus a silly adjective I liked back when I was in early middle school; second properly used username I had was literally just my preferred full name that still remains on some social media I haven't used in years and then there's my beloved backpack of the evil variety that I made up over 4 years ago.

It was originally evil.in.your.backpack but then I went to change my username on my socials and that simply wouldn't fit in some sooooo I improvised, narrowed it down to BackpackEvil and ended up liking it more than the og so I just stuck it on every social I use on the same day and yippee that hasn't changed

I can only say that I didn't even have a proper reason for the evils in backpacks kind of username, I just kinda accidentally thought of it while trying to decide on a new username and it stuck

"backpack" is also what I called my sona for the past 4 years (that thing was on most of my profiles the entire 4 years until literally less than a month ago when I picked up my current one of Kaito). I actually designed backpack right before sitting down to think of a name for it (so I guess the username was kinda inspired by this sona)

The sona was always very edgy and shit so idk, the "evil" part kinda stuck. Honestly bLackpackevil also goes into the edgy ass theme so yeah, you definitely got the vibe :D

Also here's some instances of backpack (their design has changed over 4 entire ass years, don't worry about it)

I don't really use them anymore tho, I just draw a chibi version of my irl self because I've grown to like it more than drawing an entire complicated design (sorry backpack)

Y'know, these little guys

(yes I have split dyed black and lightened dark blond hair and I love black and white half and half motifs in my clothing AND I'M NOT BEATING THE DANGANRONPA ALLEGATIONS I KNOW, THIS HAS BEEN MY HAIR AND STYLE SINCE BEFORE THE DR BRAINROT YOU GOTTA BELIEVE ME)

The only thing I can add I guess is that the want to include backpacks in my username kinda came from the fact that (IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY) this was around the time I first tried stitching pins for my school backpack and so my backpack looked sick as fuck because it was customized with nerdy pins from games and anime I liked and well, what can you do I am a nerd after all (some of those pins are still holding up and are on my current main bag lol)

What's funny about that tho is that I can't wear backpacks anymore :D I haven't been using backpacks for like 2 years

That's not a joke, there's some weird issue with the skin on my back and wearing messenger bag/shoulder bag style bags is basically my only choice of not giving my back any more permanent scars

But yeah, backpackevil is kinda catchy and I still like it so I haven't changed it in 4 entire years now and am not planning to any time soon :P

[thebctman]

Holy shit the new season of night agent has me SOBBING.

[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

[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

[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 💀