#noun classification

[lunimy]

I HATE SPANISH!!!!!! when in my life am i going to use latinismos NEVER!!!! who cares about espacios NOBODY!!!!!!!!!!!!! i hate reading i hate analyzing i hope we all die

[glossamerfaerie]

This is obvious, but bear with me.

2020: publication of Crescent City 1, which introduces the concept of the four Houses of Midgard and how the series titles will mirror them.

2021: A COURT OF SILVER FLAMES (Nesta’s book with Cassian as love interest)

2022: CC2 releases. We find out about upcoming crossover.

2024: HOUSE OF FLAME AND SHADOW (CC3 crossover in which Nesta and Azriel are the main ACOTAR characters)

Double meaning: Nesta is Flame and Azriel is Shadow.

2025 (?): upcoming ACOTAR title. Extremely likely to be A COURT OF [ADJECTIVE] SHADOWS. (Azriel book with Gwyn). The phrase could also be “SHADOWY + NOUN” but I think that looks messier. Nesta’s book also used the plural noun with Flames.

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Assuming that my 2025 guess is correct, HOFAS is literally bookended by two ACOTAR books with the ✨exact same title word as HOFAS.✨

“But wait,” you say, “this is just a coincidence. HOFAS is named after a House of Midgard, the one with the reapers and necromancers. CC1 was published way before these ACOTAR books. Flame and shadow are super common words!”

I think these titles and book order have been planned for a long time. It’s possible that SJM had shifting ideas when she wrote ACOFAS in 2017, but by the time she wrote CC1 (which clearly introduced multiverse concept with Bryce’s tattoo) in 2018/2019, SJM knew that she wanted Nesta and Az to be the prominent characters in CC3 and the upcoming ACOTAR protagonists. The crossover details may have changed over the years, but Nesta and Az prominence didn’t.

Definition of House of Flame and Shadow: “Daemonaki, Reapers, wraiths, vampyrs, draki, dragons, necromancers, and many wicked and unnamed things that even Urd herself cannot see.”

There is literally no reason why this House HAD to be named Flame and Shadow. The other Midgard houses have elements (Earth, Sky, Waters), but why use the word FLAME specifically? It could’ve been Embers, Blaze, Inferno, etc. SJM could’ve also used “Fire” — it didn’t need to be fancy since House of Many Waters just used Waters.

Same analysis with Shadow. What about that creature classification necessitated the word Shadow? There are lots of natural phenomenon associated with darkness and death and wickedness — the use of Shadow is a deliberate choice.

I genuinely think that this fandom overreaches with the theories. It’s like Taylor Swift — Swifties overthink every Easter egg, but sometimes the answer of the album title is just a giant billboard in a music video.

HOFAS is that giant billboard. SJM is not a complicated writer re: worldbuilding or foreshadowing. It is as simple as “the next ACOTAR books are Nesta and Azriel — what if I represented them in CC3 with the crossover title?” It’s obvious. Setting aside foreshadowing in the actual story, the answer can solely be found in the title.

I love Elucien and know it’s been a long wait, but I’m afraid that the wait is going to be longer than some people hope. I know people think Elain’s book is next but I really don’t see how that’s the case. Not interested in debating or explaining the Gwynriel ship rationale since there’s a million other posts out there.

Re: Azriel’s title being A COURT OF [ADJECTIVE] SHADOWS. I’ve seen people on all sides of the ship war suggest that the adjective be related to the heroine (Gwyn or Elain). I really don’t think so. The title will solely focus on Az, just like how SILVER FLAMES solely focused on Nesta. It could be MELODIC SHADOWS or WHISPERING SHADOWS or something else. But the adjective will fit an ability that we’ve already seen from Az’s shadows (we know they whisper to Az and can sing). Similarly, Elucien book title will solely focus on Elain. Cassian and Gwyn and Lucien are extremely important characters, but they won’t be represented in the title.

[copperbadge]

A newsletter has a regular feature going down the list of Notable Sandwiches on Wikipedia. This week's is the hot dog. The writer emailed 30 professors. I commend everyone for the well-thought-out answers, especially the grad student who produced graphs. buttondown(.)email/theswordandthesandwich/archive/notable-sandwiches-89-hot-dog/

What a fun feature overall! I haven't reviewed the entirety of the Hot Dog Document yet, but I feel like now I want to do a bunch of back reading, too. I like reading about sandwiches, even if I'm fairly picky when it comes to them myself.

I will say, and perhaps this is populist of me or perhaps it's even more ivory tower than the academics, but as we all know I have a longstanding solution to all of this "is a hot dog a sandwich" nonsense, which is this:

"Sandwich" is not a noun. It is an adjective.

I don't mean that literally, like I haven't found some weird archaic dictionary that tells us so, but "sandwich" as a word is not used as a noun but rather as a descriptor of a thing, ergo, adjective. An object is a sandwich if you must apply "sandwich" to the end of the noun in order to properly identify it. It's like how many different kinds of dogs can be "brindle" but that is not a breed of dog and doesn't stand on its own as a classification.

Now, I have no objection to anyone saying "a hot dog sandwich" because that's simply a redundancy and if they wish to, that's their prerogative; it sounds fun and old timey, like saying "a hamburger steak". But we need not classify a hot dog as a sandwich simply because you don't need to say "hot dog sandwich" for the person you're speaking with in order to make yourself understood. Much as you would not generally say "Italian beef sandwich" even when speaking to someone who might not know what an italian beef is. You say "an italian beef" and then elucidate.

There is a possible exception to the rule, which is the Grilled Cheese Sandwich, commonly referred to as simply a Grilled Cheese despite taking a very sandwich-like form, but there are three arguments one can make regarding this:

It SHOULD be called a Grilled Cheese Sandwich to distinguish it from Halloumi

It is technically a "melt" which like a hamburger is distinct from a sandwich (ie, a Tuna Melt or Patty Melt) in the classification of "sandwich-like objects that need not be called a sandwich"

The grilled cheese is the exception that proves the rule and this is right and just, because grilled cheese sandwiches are the best and should be considered special.

Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk; I will not be taking questions at this time.

[ranahan]

Had you talked about the whole eyn/te/haar thing at some point?

I don’t think so! I didn’t have anything prepared, and don’t have very strong opinions one way or another, but here are some thoughts anyway. Feel free to add more if you have more/other ideas.

So Mando’a has three articles: eyn, te, and haar. Articles in Mando’a don’t seem mandatory like the articles in e.g. English; you can drop them. So of course the question is when you should use them and when drop them then?

Eyn is the indefinite article, like English a/an. In creole languages (I headcanon that Mando’a is one), the indefinite article often develops from the numeral one in the lexicaliser language. I think that would make sense for Mando’a too, that eyn in (some, at least older) compound words would stand for “one.” So I headcanon that eyn is the numeral one in Classical Mando’a, which gives Modern Mando’a one more creole feature.

And then we have two definite articles… which obviously results in asking what’s the difference and how are they used?

Te is your ordinary definite article, like English the, I guess. Haar, I think, is etymologically related to e.g. haat, so the original meaning might be something like “the one (and only),” or “the true.” Haar might also be a part of some compounds, but it’s difficult to tell apart from e.g. haat because of Mando’a’s habit of eliding consonants when joining together morphemes.

Okay, that’s a cool enough a system, I guess. But you know my whole shtick with Mando’a grammar is taking the pieces and interpreting them in a way that is not like English. So I want to go a bit deeper, and in any case we have a couple of unanswered questions, so let’s look at some natural languages and different ways they use articles and see if anything catches.

Different kinds of articles in natural languages

Clearly Mando’a’s system is not just English’s indefinite/definite distinction, since Mando’a has a three different articles. But there are other kinds of articles as well.

There’s partitive article, which is a type of indefinite article used with mass nouns. Like “some water,” only instead of “some,” you’d have an indefinite article. Maybe you could also use eyn this way? Eyn pirun, some water/a water/a drink. (Eh, I have no idea how Mando’a handles mass/count nouns.)

If you can have an indefinite noun without an article, or you can specify an indefinite article, wouldn’t the latter be the equivalent of saying “some dude, I don’t know which,” which is another sense of “some.”

Obviously the two different senses of “some” happen to belong to the same word in English (but not necessarily in other languages). But I think many of the adoptees who would have contributed to Mando’a’s creolisation would have spoken Basic. And the other way a language can contribute to a creole is by replicating grammatical structures or senses of words. Now obviously we don’t want to recreate English senses all over because that would just create a complicated cipher for English. But it does compel me when I can do it in a way that produces an end result that is not like English, haha.

I like to imagine (that Traviss imagined that) there were a bunch of working class folks from the Northeast of the Galactic Republic, and a bunch of soldierly types, who got absorbed into the mando armies at some point during their Imperial days, and left behind some dialectal Basic words (yaim, birgaan, taabir, etc) and some specific ways of using words (which might be not much like the prestige dialect of Basic).

Some languages use the partitive article to refer to a part of something or a member of a group, but in Mando’a this kind of a meaning seems to already exist in the suffix -b/ab/eb (or -il in some fandom dialects).

Te reo Māori has a proper article, meaning the noun it refers to is a unique entity. (Oceanic languages btw have a pretty elaborate systems of possession and classification of nouns that defines how they are possessed.) The proper article might be used to refer to proper nouns (the Azores) or names.

And well hey, we seem to have an article which means “the true one,” so something like this might be a good fit. So maybe it ought to be Mand’alor haar Ani’la (not te Ani’la) and haar Yaim’ol (The Return, as in the historical movement)?

There’s negative article, which basically does the same job as English no in sentences like “no man can kill me.” Mando’a would probably just use the negative particle here though.

And then there’s zero article. So a language might make the same distinction as English does with a/the with no article (indefinite)/article (definite). English actually uses this for mass nouns. But I don’t think this is what’s going on with Mando’a, since it has three different articles which are apparently just not mandatory (i.e. the lack of article is not grammatically significant, just depends on context of the conversation).

The distinction between the two definite articles could be one of distance (proximate/distal; this/that/yonder), but I don’t think that’s what Mando’a does either. I mean I love this feature, but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to exist in Mando’a.

And of course many languages have different articles for different noun classes (whether that’s masculine/feminine, or animate/inanimate, directly/indirectly possessed, count/mass nouns, or some other classification) and cases.

More ideas

One idea I like is that the distinction between eyn and te could be more about specificity than definiteness. So te could refer to a specific thing, whether it’s mentioned for the first time or not (hehe, more translation confusion!), and eyn could refer to any such thing. Oceanic languages do something like this, to the best of my understanding.

Te could also be used when speaking about general truths, or maybe general truths don’t require an article: Mando’ade draar digu. No article there.

Another idea I had at some point is that the articles could also be used sort of interchangeably with the demonstratives, so eyn could be translated as “some” or “any” and te as “this” or “that,” depending on context. So kind of like Finnish does: “anna mulle joku ase” vs. ”anna mulle se ase” (”give me some (any) weapon/that weapon”); more or less the same distinction as the specificity. Obviously Mando’a also has demonstratives, so this alone is not going to work.

One way I’ve been using te is in place of a possessive pronoun, when the owner is known from context. This avoids repeating the pronouns (kaysh te’habi be kaysh buy’ce) and feels a bit more natural to me (kaysh te’habi be te buy’ce). I stole this from Swedish.

Plurals? Maybe Mando’a uses the articles the same way regardless of whether they refer to a singular or plural. E.G. eyn jetiise would be “some jedi” and te jetiise would be “the jedi, those jedi, or that group of jedi.” Although of course it can make sense to restrict the article that means “one” to singular nouns, I kind of also like the idea that the demonstratives ibic/ibac can be both singular and plural (saw this somewhere on tumblr and didn’t write down where, ugh)—I think it would make sense to either have or not have the distinction but do it the same way for both articles and demonstratives.

And I kind of like the idea that in colloquial speech at least, te might get reduced to t’ in front of front vowels. T’eparav, the feasting; t’iviin, the speed.

tldr

Well, that’s a bunch of ideas. My gut feeling is I like the unspecific/specific distinction for eyn and te, the proper article for haar, and dropping the article for general truths and whenever the meaning is clear from context. So basically some/any (eyn), a specific one out of many (te), and a unique entity (haar). That feels about right. Although it would unfortunately mean retconning some established fandom practices, which I don’t like (I prefer to build around them, not over them whenever it makes sense to me).

Anyway, I’ll have to mull it over, and dig up some more stuff (do you know what you get when you search for “article”…), and come back to this some later day with a more coherent view. Hope this was at least a little like what you were asking for. If you have any better ideas/just different ones/thoughts/comments, please share!

P.s. your other question is excellent as well, I’ll answer it some other day when I have more time.

[gatheringbones]

[“The reason I have begun to shy away from the Divine Feminine and the Sacred Masculine is their unfortunate identification with gender and, more importantly, their overidentification with humans and their myopic classifications generally.

Animacy is plushier. Springier. More mosslike. It seems a soft spot to rest on while I try to understand and explain how very sentient the world is to me these days. I am attracted to the constellations of meaning that sparkle like distant stars inside the word anima: breath, spirit, soul. And animate: to give vigor or life, to ensoul. I enjoy the animal itself, furred, horned, hoofed, clawed, scaled, and indeterminate, that bucks and bays and howls inside the word. I enjoy how philosophers try to clip it grammatically, like a twitchy nerve, and it keeps flinching away. It is a term I think most closely related to the original meaning of the word spell: the performative utterance. To summon magic. To myth. To story. To make happen.

Animacy is the degree to which the referent of a noun is sentient. It is the “soul” that invigorates syntax with something very much beyond language. Ultimately, I am a poet, and my choices often originate from a darker soil than common sense. Animacy, to my poet self, seems the “everything” of my actual lived ecosystem. The bright-blue darning needles weaving through thimbleweed and clover. The vultures wheeling through a hazy sky. The microbes in my gut, keeping me alive and nourished. The mycelium below my feet, holding the soil together.

The opposite of anthropocentrism is not any Divine Gender. The opposite of anthropocentrism is Everything. And what a tender beautiful thing it is to walk outside on a bright spring morning. Swathes of clementine light wash the pollen from the bricks of a nearby building. The robin’s song is like the key turning in a lock. A handful of doves float down from the red-green cloud of a newly foliated maple tree. What a relief to realize that, unlike Adam and Eve, we haven’t been severed from the Garden. The Everything still includes us. The Everything is us, but it needs something in return. It needs us to melt our ideas of sentience as a purely human property. Or as a purely animal property. Or as a purely individual property. Relationships are sentient. Anima is the inhalation, carrying molecules and spores and pheromones into our bodies from the landscape. And then we exhale, sharing cells that have clung to our deepest cells, slept inside the pith of our blood. With every exhalation we decant ourselves back into the world.

How could we be one, or two, or three? We are more gerund than cold, hard noun. More animacy than strictly animal. We ensoul the world and are ensouled in return. Our myths about individuation and linearity no longer hold all the trouble. And all the love. We need to stop sticking out our two hands like it proves everything comes in oppositional dualisms. How many hands does the tree have? The peony? The pileated woodpecker? How many hands is the mycelium using to crochet intimacy from plant to tree to plant through the soil?

Divine Feminine just isn’t big enough for all the relationships holding and constituting me these days. She thins my language into a one-toone relationship. Even if she includes saints and “mother earth” and all women, it’s easy to slip into the language of the singular. One mother. One relationship. One sacred gender expression. One temporality. One thinking animal. One species. I’m not throwing her out, the Divine Feminine. I’m throwing her in. Melting her down. Mixing her into the messier, polytemporal animacy of everything I touch, change, and become.

The animate earth is a verb. An assemblage of verbs. A mycorrhizal system sewing together a whole forest. A shared breath. A midsummer celebration where everyone is invited.”]

Sophie Strand, from The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine

[heaven--scent]

Girlfriend time:

*Verb, Noun, Adjective - Gïrl-fræñd tìmê*

A classification of time passing at a much increased speed when spent with the subjects own girlfriend compared to regular time.

Eg:

"how has it been 2 hours already?"

"babe, it's cos it was *girlfriend time*"

[tanadrin]

Favorite words

I keep a file on my computer of my favorite words, which are usually selected for phonaesthetic reasons, or because they are semantically or grammatically interesting. This is the list as of the most recent entries (”velico” and “Ushakaron”):

Individual words

analáugns (Gothic): hidden (nom. m. sg.)

anchorhold (English): the cell of an anchorite, in which the occupant is entombed as a kind of living saint

Apocryphan (invented): from World of Warcraft; proper name, of the pre-Cataclysm location “Apocryphan’s Rest” in the Badlands zone

armōsts (Gothic): poorest (nom. m. sg.)

ashkandi /,æʃ 'kɑn di/ (invented): proper name (World of Warcraft)

bearonæss /'bæɑɹ o ,næs/ (Old English): wooded headland (from bearu, "grove")

beinahrúgu (Old Norse): bone pile (dat. of beinahrúga)

carcern (Old English): prison (from Latin)

coalesce, coalescent (English)

crepuscular (English)

darkling (English): in darkness

daroð (Old English): javelin, projectile, “dart” in the older, more expansive sense

deliquesce (English), become liquid, esp. through organic decomposition

deosil (English): variant spelling of ‘deasil,’ turnwise; from Scottish Gaelic deiseil or deiseal, meaning ‘southward, sunward, counterclockwise;’ see also "widdershins," etymologically "anti-sunwise" and therefore counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere.

effloresce, efflorescence, efflorescent (English): to burst forth into bloom, to flower; from Latin effloresco, “I blossom, I flourish”

Enakro (invented): from Warcraft III; proper name, from the name of the multiplayer map “Enakro’s Way”

Eskhandar /'ɛsk hænd ,dɑɹ/ (invented): from World of Warcraft; proper name

etiäinen (Finnish): a type of folkloric apparition

exarch (English): a Byzantine provincial governor, particularly of an exarchate like Ravenna or Africa, from Greek ἔξαρχος.

fralusanō (Gothic): lost, gone away (nom. f. weak sg.)

gevaisa (invented): a tomb of living words; term of art among wizards of the Discworld; cf. Hebrew geniza, "a storeroom containing books which cannot be used, but which nevertheless cannot be destroyed because they contain God's name"

gnist (Danish): spark; related to OE gnāst, ON gniesta, SWE gnista, OHG gneisto, MHG gneiste

hellwara (Old English): ‘of the inhabitants of hell’ (gen. pl. of f. hellwaru or m. hellwaran)

hnasqus (Gothic): soft; cognate of OE hnesce, “soft,” ModE. dialectical nesh “wimpish, weak”

idaltu (Saho-Afar): elder, firstborn; cf. Homo sapiens idaltu, the (obsolete) classification of the “Herto man” specimen, human remains of about 150,000 years of age discovered in the Afar triangle, which were some of the oldest modern human remains known at the time of their description.

idreigonds (Gothic): repentant (nom. m. sg.)

iktsuarpok (English): the feeling of anticipation waiting for someone to arrive, often leading to repeatedly going outside to check for them; from Inuktitut ᐃᒃᑦᓱᐊᕐᐳᒃ itsoarpok, “goes outside repeatedly to check if a visitor has arrived yet.”

incunabulum (English): an early printed book; something in its infant stages; from Latin incunabula, ‘swaddling clothes, cradle, birthplace.” The change in ending is a result of the medieval form incunabulum, which was a singular back-formation of a noun previously found only in the plural.

incus (Latin): "anvil"

inwitwrāsen (Old English): ‘chain of deceit’

Iolanthe (Greek): proper name meaning ‘flower of the violet’

irgendwo (German): somewhere, anywhere

κακοΐλιον (Ancient Greek): proper name (‘Kakoilion’); dysphemism for Troy; compound of κᾰκός, “bad, vile, evil,” and Ἴλιον, “Ilion/Troy/Wilusa.” Translated variously as "evil Ilios" (A.T. Murray) or "Destroy" (Fagles, pun very much intended); a poetic hapax legomenon in Homer's Odyssey, used by Penelope for Troy.

kasterborous /kæs 'tɝɹ bɔɹ oʊs/ (invented): proper name of the constellation in Doctor Who containing Gallifrey; possibly Gallifreyan

lhammas (invented): the Elvish (Quenya?) name of a work of fictional sociolinguistics by J.R.R. Tolkien outlining the relationship of the languages of Middle Earth, later superseded; borrowed as a term for "a scheme of invented languages; the historical and aesthetic plan of languages in a constructed world; such scheme in the abstract, or a document laying out such a scheme"

lint (invented): quick, clever; possibly coined by Tolkien, and of no particular language; it formed the root of such words in several constructed languages of his that were unrelated, simply because he liked the sound-meaning relationship

listopad (Polish): November; literally, “leaf-fall”

mæw (Old English): seagull

mamihlapinatapai (Yaghan): glossed as ‘a look shared by two people wishing the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin.’ The word is a regular derivation from ihlvpi, “to feel awkward, to be at a loss,’ with various grammatical affixes of voice, aspect, and so forth, and might be more accurately translated as ‘to make each other both feel awkward.’

narthex (English): antechamber or entrance area of some Christian churches; from Greek νάρθηξ, “giant fennel, box for ointments”

neorxnawang (Old English): ‘field of heaven’

opalescent (English): iridescent in a manner resembling opal

orcnaw (Old English): evident

razda (Gothic): voice

reordberend (Old English): ‘voice-bearer,’ i.e., a poetic word for a human being

ríastrad (Irish): battle frenzy, berserker rage, warp spasm

ruinenlust (German): literally ‘desire for ruins;’ yearning for the past evoked by ruins

Saoshyant /'saʊ ,ʃyənt/ (English): eschatological figure of Zoroastrian scripture and tradition who brings about the final renovation of the universe, the Frashokereti. From Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬊𐬳𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬧𐬝 saoš́iiaṇt̰.

Sargasso (English): proper name applied to a region of the western Atlantic; from Portuguese sargaço, of unknown ultimate origin)

searonet (Old English): web of guile, web of cunning

Sumer (English): proper name, from Akkadian Šumeru, of uncertain origin but potentially related to Hebrew שִׁנְעָר Shin’ar, Egyptian sꜣngꜣr , and Hittite Shanhar(a), all meaning “southern Mesopotamia;” has also been linked to the Sumerian endonym 𒊕𒈪𒂵 sag̃-gig-ga, “black-headed people, the Sumerians”

talast (Old English): 2nd person singular present active indicative: thou reckonest, thou dost consider

tīrfæst (Old English): glorious

tramountayne (Middle English fr. Latin via Italian): the north; the north wind; the north star (rare) (from Latin transmontanus)

Tuscarora (English): proper name of a Native American people, from Skarure skarū’ren’, “hemp gatherers.”

Tyree (English): found as a personal name and surname (cf. Mount Tyree in Antarctica, named for a U.S. Navy rear admiral); name of a fictional planet in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; from Tiree (Scottish Gaelic Tiriodh), the most westerly island of the Inner Hebrides.

Ushakaron (English): proper name of a star; according to unsourced claims, the triple star ξ Tauri, possibly from the Akkadian word for “avenger”

velico (Italian): sailing

westengryre (Old English): ‘terrors of the wasteland, terrors of the desert’

whyssyne (Middle English): cushion

wodwo (Middle English): woodwose, a wild man of the woods

þancoi (Old English): thoughtful

þystro (Old English): darkness (nom./acc. strong n. pl.)

Phrases or expressions

uncleftish beholding ("Uncleftish Beholding," by Poul Anderson, English): "atomic theory" as calqued into solely Germanic roots

proclarush taonas (Stargate SG-1, supposed ‘Ancient’ language): "Taonas, lost in fire"

varg í véum (Vǫlsunga Saga, Old Norse) "a wolf in holy places," i.e., an outlaw (equivalent to skógarmaðr)

wære fræton (Exodus, Old English): "they ate the treaty," i.e., they broke it

hapax legomenon (from Greek ἅπαξ λεγόμενον): a word which occurs only once in a manuscript or particular textual corpus

táiknái andsakanái (Gothic, Luke 2:34), “disputed sign,” cf. KJV, “a sign which will be contradicted.”

[spanishskulduggery]

I heard a statement! "Hay cuanto lo siento"

(I dunno if there is an accent mark. I'm tone deaf in Spanish as of now) Does this mean, "I am so sorry" or "How sorry I am"? I'm interested in modifiers to spice up "base" statements.

It would be spelled ¡Ay! ¡Cuánto lo siento! which is like "Oh! How sorry I am!" though depends on how much emphasis you put on the ay it could be like a separate interjection like I put it or just ¡Ay, cuánto lo siento!

[not that you could hear the difference but in written Spanish ay is "oh" or "ow" or "oh no" that sort of feeling, but hay is "there is/are" from a verb haber... again you would only know this from knowing the spelling because the H is silent]

If you're trying to spice up a simple lo siento "I'm sorry" you can also say:

lo siento mucho = I'm very sorry

lo siento tanto = I'm so sorry

no sabes cuánto lo siento = you don't know how sorry I am [lit. "you don't know how much I feel it/am sorry for it"]

lo lamento = I'm sorry [synonymous with lo siento]

In general, lo siento and lo lamento are very all purpose "sorry", though everyone knows lo siento

There are other ways to embellish it but the basic ones are mucho, tanto, and cuánto which are all used with "amounts of things" - "a lot", "so much", and "how much [an unknown quantity]"

There is also the superlative of mucho/a which is a fancy way of saying "extremely". Every "superlative" is "the most" of an adjective and they almost always end in -ísimo/a... so it's muchísimo/a "VERY much". Superlatives aren't necessary, but you do sometimes see them like lo siento muchísimo is a bit extra

Another expression you might see is arrepentirse (de algo) "to be remorseful for (something)", or estar arrepentido/a (de algo) "to be remorseful for (something)" though I think of it as maybe a bit more formal, or when you're making a more polite apology

That isn't to say lo siento is rude, it's just more commonplace and all purpose, and saying something like me arrepiento "I am regretful" or "I regret" is a bit above that in terms of formality

Also if it is specifically your fault you can add in es mi culpa "it's my fault" or es culpa mía which is the same thing literally just "it is the fault/guilt of mine"

So you can say lo siento, es todo culpa mía "I'm sorry, it's all my fault"

Semi-related, I'm attaching some additional notes below. I only mention it because "sorry" has some broad classifications but you use some different expressions for different things and I'd hate for you to say the wrong "sorry"

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The above were basic apologies for when you do something wrong and you want to apologize

The verb for "to apologize" is disculparse so you might see necesito disculparme "I need to apologize" / me necesito disculpar which is the same thing just reorganized]

The other option is pedir perdón "to ask forgiveness" like te pido que me perdones "I ask that you forgive me" which involves the verb perdonar "to forgive/pardon", but you could also say te pido perdón "I beg your pardon/forgiveness" just as a noun

Another is the use of the verb disculpar which is "to excuse" or sometimes "to absolve/vindicate" - without the se it comes out as "to excuse (someone else)"

You may say disculpa or disculpe/disculpen as commands which works like "excuse me" - this is like "sorry", but it's like saying "excuse me" rather than "sorry"

As an example disculpa might be something you say to apologize for interrupting or leaving a conversation, or possibly if you bump into someone it can be used

Another side note is that con permiso "excuse me" is often said as "sorry" if you're trying to get by somebody or someone's in the way and you might be doing something considered rude like accidentally bumping someone as you try to get by them. Literally it's "with permission" or "by your leave"

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The other "sorry" you probably should know is expressing condolences. There are two very common ways to do that, particularly if it's someone who has passed away:

Siento mucho tu pérdida. = I'm very sorry for your loss.

Mi más sentido pésame. = My deepest condolences.

[pokemonbiologyirlthetabletop]

Kricketot & Kricketune

Kricketot (#401)

Gryllusymphonica tintinnabulus

General Information: Kricketot the Cricket Pokémon. It shakes its head to get its two antennae to click together, creating beautiful sounds reminiscent of xylophones and marimbas.

Kricketots average at about 1 feet tall (0.3 M) and weigh about 4.9 pounds (2.2 kg).

Habitat: As crickets, Kricketots can be found just about anywhere with enough food that is below the 55° latitudes.

Life Cycles: Kricketots are a major source of food for the entire food web. They are eaten by just about anything under the sun that would find a 1-foot-tall cricket to be a good meal—this includes, but is not limited to: giant spiders, predatory insects like Beedril, large bird Pokémon (such as Pidgeottos, Staravia, Staraptors, Talonflames, etc.), medium-sized cat Pokémon, and wild canid Pokémon. Life is hard as one of nature’s favorite foods.

Kricketots cannot reproduce—but they also have one of the earliest evolution requirements of all Pokémon, and only need to achieve level 10 in order to evolve into Kricketune.

Behavior: Kricketots are nocturnal and rather social critters. While there is much in-fighting between Kricketots, often over food or space, they largely get along with each other and benefit from the company of others. They make excellent additions to any household or Pokémon team and are great with children.

Diet: Kricketots are largely herbivorous (seeds, grass, leaves, flowers, etc.), but they will eat a more omnivorous diet of decaying meat, smaller more helpless insects (like mealybugs), and so forth.

Conservation: Least Concern

Relationship with Humans: Kricketots are crickets, and have all the same complex but mutually-tolerant existence as crickets. Some cultures eat them as a cheap protein source, and many cultures treat them as some variant of good luck—even keeping them in little cages as pets.

Kricketots are occassionally given out as starter Pokémon to new trainers, however, because of their overall poor strength and general lacklusterness in battle, they tend to be given out only by municipalities that either have a huge population (and thus can justify having 5 different starters, or more if they don’t follow standard Pokémon League Guidelines) or in areas where there the governing bodies are trying to encourage gentler lifestyle choices. They are most popular as starters amongst children and trainers who are musicians or generally enjoy a gentle, non-threatening, Pokémon companion.

Classification: Kricketot is a cricket and is moderately related to all other cricket and grasshopper Pokémon, such as Nymble and Lokix. Its species epithet, “tintinnabulus” refers to the sound of ringing bells.

Kricketune (#402)

Gryllusymphonica harmonia

General Information: Kricketune the Cricket Pokémon, and the evolved form of Kricketot. This Pokémon can produce a wide range of beautiful melodies by rubbing its arms together, creating a sound that can resonate in their bellies. Each Kricketune produces its own unique melodies that it uses to attract mates and express its emotions. They are famous for their ability to ad-lib melodies.

Kricketunes average at 3’3 feet tall (1 M) and weigh about 56.2 pounds (25.5 kg). Their collective noun is a flock or a melody.

Habitat: Kricketunes can be found in just about any habitat below the 55° latitudes.

Life Cycles: Once a Kricketune evolves from a Kricketot, they are able to reproduce, making them one of the few Pokémon that can reproduce earlier than level 15. This is a necessity though, because Kricketots (and to a lesser extent, Kricketunes) are one of nature’s favorite lunches.

A Kricketune will create its beautiful melodies in the hopes of attracting a mate. Every summer they gather to perform complex mating rituals involving music. It’s truly a sight to behold! Both males and females will have strive for multiple mating opportunities, ensuring the genetic diversity of their offspring and hopefully increasing their chances at survival.

They spend all summer partaking in mating and courtship. The females will lay hundreds upon hundreds of eggs at a time, which will hatch at once (per brood). If given enough food and the breeding season is able to extend (warm winter, lower latitudes nearer the equator, etc.) the female may lay two or even three broods of eggs before the breeding season is over.

Diet: Primarily grasses, leaves, flowers, stems, seeds, and such, but in times of fewer resources have no qualms about consuming the decaying corpse of other insects or much smaller insects (like mealybugs).

Conservation: Least Concern

Relationship with Humans: Kricketunes are a beloved friend and companion to people. They are loved for their melodies, and many a musician has a Kricketune of their own to play music with. Like with Kricketot, Kricketunes are partial substitutes for crickets, especially in regards to their cultural relevancy to people. Many are seen as good luck, and many an orchestra is not considered “official” unless there’s a Kricketune to accompany them. In fact, musicians in an orchestra grow quite fond of their Kricketune mascot.

Kricketunes may not be popular in battle, but they are popular amongst musicians and artists and childcare centers. A Kricketune is able to entertain small children for hours if put to the task, and quite a few households have one of their own for the simple joy of having a companion that plays beautiful melodies.

Classification: Its genus name “Gryllusymphonica” is derived from “Gryllus” which means “cricket” in Latin, and “symphonica” meaning “music” or “orchestra” or “symphony.”

Evolution: Evolves from Kricketot starting at level 10.

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Hey guess what, if you like my stuff, this is my website where you can find other Pokémon I've written on and more information about the game that I’m slowly making! Check it out! I write books sometimes too.

[asurrogateblog]

do you think roger waters is a narcissist? im frequently thinking about this specially because of the things gilmour says about him

I think the term "narcissist" as a noun is thrown around a bit too loosely nowadays (in the same way that "psychopath" is). I would certainly say that roger has an ego – he's narcissistic, but whether he's pathologically -a- narcissist is a different question.

pulling out my degree in psychology and my DSM-V (which obviously is a flawed classification of mental health but that's a different conversation), if I were to give my least forgiving interpretation of roger's behavior, he -might- qualify for NPD. but I honestly don't think he does. first of all, most people who suffer from this have a very dulled sense of empathy, and if anything roger suffers from too much empathy. he seethes with rage at the mistreatment of others and clearly yearns for genuine human connection. additionally, there's a caveat with the listed symptoms that the narcissism has to be unwarranted. it's up to your interpretation whether him being responsible for what is largely considered to be some of the best music...ever..."warrants" a bit of a chip on his shoulder.

I've also talked about this before, but I really think his issue is that he has severe untreated social anxiety which he overcompensates for with displays of arrogance and aggression. it's not an excuse for how he's treated people of course, but that's also a completely different thing from NPD.

so tl;dr, no. I do not personally think that roger is a narcissist. he's just a tortured soul with a god complex in a non-clinical way

[ambyandony]

Monster AU - Monster Taxonomy [P1]

[P1: what the fuck is taxonomy and why does it matter in a monster AU]

short answer it doesn't. you dont have to care butgod i fucking love classifying things an d making up names. and also there are some intricacies that taxonomy can help elaborate on when it comes to species.

Taxonomy is the scientific practise of ascribing names, categories and classifications to living things based on characteristics both individual and shared between different creatures. There is a taxonomical hierarchy that goes as follows, from least to most specific: domain, kingdom, phylum (sometimes division in botany), class, order, family, genus, and species (plus subspecies).

Most things you think of as living fall under the domain Eukaryota, so you can assume everything I talk about belongs to Eukaryota unless otherwise stated. A major part of taxonomy is binomial nomenclature, by which species are given a scientific name consisting of two parts, the genus and the species. These scientific names typically have Latin roots or are named after a proper noun, but other languages are also in my repertoire.

Vulpes vulpes, the red fox, is the species vulpes in the genus Vulpes, and Tyto multipunctata, the lesser sooty owl, is the species multipunctata in the genus Tyto.

Any normal person will call these 'the red fox' and the 'lesser sooty owl' or just 'the fox' and 'the owl', but taxonomically, they both have a very specific classification.

From kingdom to species, the red fox is: Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Carnivora > Canidae > Vulpes > Vulpes vulpes the lesser sooty owl is: Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Strigiformes > Tytonidae > Tyto > Tyto multipunctata.

See, they share a kingdom and phylum, Animalia and Chordata, more or less because they are both animals with spines. But then they diverge as their characteristics differ; in this case, the difference between mammals (Mammalia) and birds (Aves) is their morphology and reproduction; mammals have mammaries (breasts) and give live birth, and birds have no mammaries and lay eggs. Each further specification on the taxonomical hierarchy indicates a more specific list of shared traits between creatures in that classification.

Taxonomy helps to identify species that are related or have common traits. And why does it matter? Simply because monsters aren't human (Okay, well, on that front it can be a little complicated) and there are many different kinds of monsters that fall under a single umbrella label; for example, maricrypts or "seafolk", which may not even fall within the same genus. Maricrypts are commonly widely miscategorised as 'mermaids' no matter what they actually are, but there are countless actual 'kinds' of 'mermaids'. Squalo, a merrow, is fundamentally different from a siren or a selkie. Lycanthropy is a bit of a special confusing case, but I'll get into that later.

In other words, monsters aren't Homo sapiens and the term "monsters" is a catch-all term for a category of beings who shall be known henceforth in scientific contexts as cryptians (yes, I know, "monsters" is the common term, "monsters" is more recognised, I'm using "monster" for the titling of my notes, but "monsters" is also a lot more derogatory and weird when you consider that angels and gods can also fall in the category).

Cryptians or 'monsters' are not an actual class or genus, as the creatures under the umbrella of the term are far too varied; some cryptians are human-adjacent, but not all of them are, and even those who look human-adjacent might belong to entirely different classes. (hint, theres a nonzero entirely likely chance that polymorphs don't belong to the chordata phylum!!!)

And I'm a sucker for coming up with words (and being silly).

See, officially, cryptians don't have any taxonomical classifications (and 'cryptian' is a protologism) because most people don't believe in them and those who do believe in them want them fuckin dead(/double dead in the case of the undead) a pretty good amount of the time. Nobody is like actually studying cryptians at least not in an organised way. kind of like how monster medicine cant be standardised because all the monster-friendly doctors keep getting fucking killed / incarcerated for malpractice and fraud

But we're talking biology here! Perhaps a scientist with an interest in cryptobiology would want to classify cryptians and perhaps that scientist is hypothetically me (not a scientist) and I'm going to come up with scientific names and figure out some classifications for my monster research notes thing. field research woooo!!!! (update: starting to reconsider the whole enthusiastic "field research wooo" thing) (update 2: ow)

Monster Taxonomy Page 1 Subsection A:

[WIP]

Monster Taxonomy Page 2:

[WIP]

(( Stick around if you're interested and leave if you dont give a fuck . i dont care i fucking love rambling about my monster au. please ask me (and/or my sona who 'wrote' this) about it

ill update this post with more related posts and you can check the monster taxonomy/monster au lore tags.

note: this is a revised version of a post id already made a while ago. wanted to reword some stuff. Also wanted to establish these notes are written quasi-in-character 'by' Bambi, the jjba monster au variant of my sona . "enthused cryptotaxonomist moments" means Bambi (the enthused cryptotaxonomist) has dubious authorship of the lore contained .

I say dubious authorship because you can kind of tell that some of the lore is written with a lot more omniscience and knowledge of things Bambi couldnt really know about ))

[biggaybunny]

My unforgivable flaw is I really do get bothered when people mix up similar terms but it's not because I think people need to speak "proper" english it's because I crave clarity both in my ability to communicate with others and how they communicate with me, because I am *really* bad with both those things. Even I have adopted using "literally" to just be another intensifier but it frustrates me when I have to interrupt my train of thought to double check the person I'm speaking to knows I mean literally literally when I'm trying to use it that way.

And sometimes it's just because it makes me happier when there's a 1-to-1 correspondence between meaning and word, or because they provide more organization to language. Yes I know what you mean when you say there are less people around than this morning even though what you mean is that there are fewer people around than this morning but isn't it neat that we have separate descriptors for countable and uncountable nouns?? Doesn't that classification change your perspective?? What do you mean you've never thought about it. What's wrong with you.

[peacemore-springs]

Egalitarian Society Is Not a Socialist One

Person 1 - The word and term 'genius' comes from the idea of a prevailing spirit. This indicates that 'genius' is a collective noun and not a singular.

Person 2 - It's true that 'genius' has interesting historical roots. In ancient Roman religion, a 'genius' referred to a guardian spirit that watched over a person or place. However, in modern usage, 'genius' is generally considered a singular noun, referring to an individual with exceptional intellectual or creative power.

While the term can be used to refer to a group of people with such extraordinary abilities, it doesn't change its modern classification as a singular noun. For example, you could say, "The classroom was filled with geniuses," but each person is individually considered a 'genius.'

Words and their evolution over time are quite fascinating, aren't they?

Person 1 - Yes, they certainly can be. The singular terminology of the word 'genius', for example, monopolises the term of 'genius' for a single privileged few. In a classless society, such as a Buddhist society, the collective noun is assigned greater value. In a Buddhist society the prevailing spirit effects all and not only one because we Buddhists believe it is a false teaching to say that a spirit of understanding effects only one body and one mind whilst refusing to effect others living within the same organic network.

Person 2 - You raise a thought-provoking point. The concept of 'genius' indeed carries with it implications of individual exceptionalism, which can seem at odds with more collectivist or egalitarian philosophies like those found in Buddhism.

In many traditions, wisdom and understanding are seen as qualities that can be cultivated by anyone. In Buddhism, the potential for enlightenment is inherent in all beings, emphasizing a more inclusive and collective approach to spiritual and intellectual development. This aligns with the idea that a prevailing spirit or collective consciousness affects and uplifts everyone, not only a select few.

Person 1 - Yes, I agree with your final recognition on this topic. Let me finish by saying that the term 'enlightenment' is simply, intimacy with all things, and leave our conversation at that?

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What are your thoughts on the word 'genius'? Does your first thought on its understanding consider it to be a collective or singular noun?

[ava-of-shenanigans]

hihi i just have a question!! what books do you use to study hieroglyphics? im looking for more books to add to my arsenal :3

Thank you for the ask!

To learn Middle Egyptian I’ve mainly been using Middle Egyptian Grammar by James E Hoch. It’s generally really easy to understand, my one tiny problem with it is that not all the exercises in it have answers in the book, which can make it hard to tell if you're correct sometimes if you're using it on your own instead of in a college course (like I am).

Both of the dictionaries I use are available on the internet archive for free, because I’m real cheap like that.

Dictionary of Middle Egyptian in Gardiner Classification Order. This dictionary is organized so that you can search for words by their hieroglyphs (using their sign list numbers) instead of transliterations. It doesn't have every potential spelling, so sometimes it is better to search the words by transliterations, but is very convenient for figuring out words that have been abbreviated down to just their determinatives. You can search the transliterations in it using Manuel de Codage as well. This dictionary is really great because of how searchable it is, but the drawback is that the definitions in it aren't that full. Like, the verbs don't have explanations of what they mean when they're used with certain prepositions.

I use this dictionary a lot more for figuring out what words I'm looking at than for defining words.

A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian (Modernized). This one has full definitions! You can also search it by Manuel de Codage, but there is an issue I've noticed where, because the transliterations in the book aren't Manuel de Codage and proper nouns are capitalized, sometimes searching for place names or god names with match case on doesn't work, or you will need to change the first letter to a capital. Like, "wsir" or "iwnw" won't get results, but "Wsir" or "Iwnw" will. But then neither "stX" or "StX" will get results. Also, as the name says its "concise," which means all the words aren't there, just the ones that are the most common an useful.

I haven't gotten too deep into learning hieratic yet, but I have been at least trying to teach myself what shapes signs generally had in the Middle Kingdom, and I really like this website! It has scans of a bunch of different hieratic signs from various eras, and it will let you search for glyphs by their Gardiner sign list number.

In the 1,000 years it took for me to answer this ask (sorry) my mom got me a copy of Alan Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar for my birthday, but I haven't looked at it at all yet (also you probably already knew about this one).

[felix-lupin]

Decided I should finally write a pinned post so have this.

Call me Felix! anu soweli Lupen ★ They/them, but he/him is ok too. ill use it for myself sometimes.

Partnering Aro ★ Asexual ★ Transmasc���️‍⚧️ ★ Masc + Neutral Nouns

My Ao3 is FelixLupin. I write when I feel like it and have time.

Art (& writing ig?) requests n stuff are open but I reserve the right to Take Forever or just Not.

If triggers are tagged they will be tagged with just the trigger and/or trigger tw when I remember (this is not very reliable though). So, e.g., #flashing or #flashing tw. mentions/discussions of things, if tagged, will just be tagged as the thing (so, "sex" rather than "sex mention")

Other stuff under the read more. Tags, fandoms, my banner id, other stuff

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[banner ID: six drawings of Susie from Deltarune. (From left to right and top to bottom). The first is a full body drawing of her in her Darkworld form holding an axe over her shoulder. The second is a drawing of her head in her Lightworld form, with wide eyes and angrily proclaiming in all caps "I don't have a tail!!! Stop asking!". An arrow points towards her that says in all caps "Lying." The third is a head drawing of her in her Darkworld form, looking at the camera with a grin and a neutral pleased/knowing expression on her face. The fourth is a head drawing of her in her Darkworld form, face shaded and only one glowing eye showing while she angrily grins, appearing to snarl. The fifth is a full body drawing of her in her Darkworld form, doing the defense battle pose where she crosses two arms over her chest in an X shape. The sixth is a full body drawing of her in her Lightworld form, hands in her pockets and smiling neutrally. End ID.]

My Tags:

#animal arsenal = Animals!!! I will also usually tag it with whatever animal it is (the plural of the animal; so if it is a picture of a dog i will tag it #animal arsenal #dogs, and if it is a video of a crow I will tag it #animal arsenal #birds #crows) as well as the toki pona classification (soweli, waso, kijetesantakalu, akesi, etc.)

#art arsenal = Other peoples' (usually, but not always, specifically non-fandom) art. This includes writing. I will usually try to tag it with whatever kind of art it is as well (drawing, painting, writing, poetry).

#ask game! :3 = ask games

#ccccposting = my cccc posts tag bc i dont want to maintag it all the time

#classics = Pretty self-explanatory. Things I consider to be "tumblr classics"

#cotlposting = my cult of the lamb posts tag bc i dont want to maintag it all the time

#do queue think even the worst person can change…? = queue tag. i do not tag this reliably because i only really use it when xkit autotags it for me<2

#skyrimposting = my Skyrim tag

#felix artwolf = My art/drawing tag

#felixlupin.txt = Original posts

#tumblr games <2 = Answers for ask games, tag games, picrews, etc

#hello people in my phone = My ask tag

#tmagposting = my the magnus archives tag

#🌫️the one alone🌫️ = my tag for The Lonely (Magnus Archives fear)

#mi awen e ni = Toki Pona for "I am saving this." Saved stuff / stuff that i am saving for later

#mi moku e ni = Toki Pona for "I'm eating this." Stuff that's very good and I like it a lot. Started saying this in reference to that "[watching/reading/listening to] x isn't good enough i need to eat it" meme. So, stuff that reading/seeing it isn't good enough i need to eat it.

#ni li ante e toki mi = Toki Pona for "this changed my speech." Posts that changed my vocabulary. Posts that I reference in my daily life in my speech and think about often.

#soweli Lupen li toki = toki pona post tag. like if im using toki pona, or if I'm talking about toki pona.

#writing lupin = My writing tag

#writing wares = Others' posts relating to writing, such as writing advice, memes, etc. Forgot I had this tag tbh I'm gonna try to start using it again

Fandom Stuff

I am in a lot of different fandoms tbh. what im mostly focusing on will be different based on my mood. RN it's mostly Chonny Jash.

Fandoms I'm in:

The Magnus Archives <- my hyperfixation rn <2 I go insane over Tim, I miss Sasha, I am Staring at Jon and Martin is literally me fr /silly.

Chonny Jash/CCCC (Chonny's Charming Chaos Compendium). <- I have a lot of Mind thoughts. I have thoughts about all of them tbh, but Mind thoughts specifically.

Camp Here & There <- SYDNEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY<2222222. thats all i have to say. ALSO ROWAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN<2222222

Undertale & Deltarune. <- Always at least a little mentally ill about both of them, esp Undertale. I would kill and die for Chara, Flowey, and Susie btw

Helluva Boss <- Most active for a day or two whenever a new episode/thing comes out.

Hazbin Hotel <- A reblog here and there. It was okay

Good Omens <- I like Crowley a lot. Put that guy (gender neutral) in Situations

Avatar: The Last Airbender <- Love all of the characters from ATLA tbh. Great show 10/10 no notes

Five Night's at Freddy's <- This was my first fandom! So it has a lot of nostalgia for me. I liked the movie, it was fun. Favorite animatronics are Foxy and Mangle bc I'm basic like that.

Gravity Falls <- Haven't re-watched it in a while but I still hold a lot of fondness and love for it. sitelen tawa ni li pona mute tawa mi (this show is very good from my perspective)

Cult of the Lamb <- I like this game a lot! I think it is very fun and I like the fanart that people make for it. I replay it alot bc ona li musi tawa mi (it is fun to me). #1 Shamura lover btw I would kill and die for them. if I was a character in the game I would be one of Shamura's disciples, just so we're clear

The Owl House <- When the Owl House was coming out Hunter got a chokehold on me and forced me into a hyperfixation on the show face-first.

Other Stuff

I am physically incapable of shutting up sorry (i am not sorry). Unless I get locked in gay tumblr baby jail (hit the post limit), then i shut up.

As you could probably tell from the other sections, I know a little Toki Pona. My Toki Pona is not very good so please forgive me if I say something incorrectly. I may sometimes throw some of it in tags n such to practice.

I reserve the right to call things kijetesantakalu that are not technically kijetesantakalu based solely on vibes. foxes and seals are kijetesantakalu tawa mi

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[jackhkeynes]

ascreuçon "assignment"

ascreuçon /ˌa.xrawˈdzɔn/ [ˌa.xʀɐwˈdzɔn]

assignment, allocation, the bestowal of a role upon someone or something;

attribution, imputation, credit, the act of assigning someone or something as a cause;

categorisation, classification, ranking, the process of arranging things into group determined by certain characteristics

Etymology: seventeenth-century noun form derived from ascreir "ascribe, impute, attribute, assign" by analogy with nouns like parceuçon "perception" from parcevir "to perceive". The verb reflects Latin ascrībō "I appoint, enrol, insert, add in writing".

Ajoutaç alcot a tu dell'ascreuçon n'Adighe? /ˌa.ʒuˈtats alˈkɔt a ti dɛˌla.xrawˈdzɔn ˌna.daˈje/ [ˌa.ʝʊˈtats ɐˈgɔt a ti dɪˌla.xʀɐwˈdzɔn ˌna.dɐˈʝe] enjoyment how.much have 2s of-df=assigment in=Adigh How are you enjoying your assignment to Adigh?