#the bilingualism in my head ::

[hinamie]

there's no furbish word for dilf :( sad :(

[corkscrewrawks]

[return2zero]

so... yes... plot bunny and drawing bunny both haunted my brain and took my one brain cell hostage

oh yes, read from Right to Left!

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Sudden mini idea caused by what happened earlier today with Xavier's lines and recalling a bit of his Heartstring Symphony moment...

Now, it's my turn to suffer from neck pains caused by drawing this up til 2am... time to mimir!

[dreamersbcll]

my personal headcanons for a spanish-speaking carpenter household:

- Sam refers to Tara as Mi Amor, or Mi Cielo (my love, my sky/heaven)

-Though Tara prefers to call her big sister Sam, or Sammy, she also loves calling her Mija (darling)

-Tara can cook all the latin dishes she wants, and Sam can help by doing dishes

-Sam picked up English faster than Tara, meaning when she fought with their mother, they did it in English so Tara couldn’t understand.

-Tara couldn’t count past 10 in English until she was older, so once she hit ten, it was all in Spanish

-Sam’s nickname for Chad is Cõno. He thinks it’s endearing, and it makes Tara cry laughing every time

-Sam can speak both fluently, but is shit at writing it . Spanish in high school was rough for her.

-Sam loves to teach Chad all the bad words and disguise them as compliments (she enjoys watching him get cussed out by other abuelas)

-When Tara gets tired, she drifts into Spanish, pretending she can’t speak English so people leave her alone

-The two mostly speak English, but when emotional or needing to speak privately, it’s in Spanish every time.

[unionizedwizard]

just heard a short clip of my voice pre-T and it's even more impressive than the other changes i've been through. i dropped like two octaves (?) (????) in the span of a year. insane

[uldahstreetrat]

okay so various headcanon rambling here quick about Zana cause she's my kiddo and I love her

I've been playing with the idea of her being bilingual for a while but couldn't quite decide on like, what that second language's irl equivalent would be? like Ishgard and French, I couldn't decide what language would work well for Ala Mhigo imo but I think for the time being I'll settle on Turkish, as suggested by my husband

that being said I've been recently reminded that the Echo just -- translates language for you??? and Zana suddenly gets the Echo in post ShB so what a TRIP that has to be

I don't even know which language it would translate into for her?? both, randomly, dependent on how she's thinking that day?? kid is gonna be going through it fr lmao

[confused-beany]

When someone talks shit about a character in their native language thinking they'll get away with it but then the character replies back in the same language is just... PEAK

[moondvncer]

now, you know what would be cool? added to the "normal" asleep condition cutscene we could have gotten a super short slice of life cutscene, like, lae'zel sharpening jaheira's sword, or maybe astarion sewing the others' clothes - maybe even teaching them how to do it, or even gale trying to teach minsc some basic spells or even the main party being asleep while the others are just in the background talking, karlach talking about her many fights and ok I'll stop here but the more I play this game the more I crave for everyone to interact with each other more and more and more!!!!!!

[spicymiilk]

As an ESL, the most annoying thing about English that I just straight up cannot understand is why it's "toward" and not "towards" and "forward" instead of "forwards"

why. who made this the rule. also fuck the word salmon

[zondel]

Seeing starlings is so fun, cuz from afar the look a bit like a blackbird, until you realize that the bird moves like it drank 20 cans of monster energy

[kitsquared]

Sitting between dad and aunt (siblings) who are talking in tagalog like okay okay cuz it's a topic im a part of then suddenly they switch to ilocano and keep talking and im like ???? What what what

[fairysteve]

i trapped myself into doing history research but i'm just gonna handwave a bunch of stuff because alternative universe

first and most important; the harrington family is british and royal enough to have a position with power and money to throw around, probably through some carefully planned marriages

they moved to france either for the absolute monarchy they had going on (britain grew increasingly parliamentarian, see: act of union in 1707) or because they wanted to remain catholic (see: english reformation during 16th century)

there was a french trading post established in indiana in 1673 and fort ouiatenon (first fortified european settlement) was built in 1717

thing is england and france has a really complicated history and also i have no idea where anything in indiana is so handwaving!

because the harrington family has to move from england to france in the 1500s/1600s and get established enough to then help with the colonisation in the late 1600s

...i got really attached to the idea of steve being born in the 1600s/17th century at one point, i don't know why. his name is probably like étienne stephen harrington which is just the same name twice in different languages. firstly stephen -> stephanos which means "wreath, crown, reward, honor, renown, fame" which fits what his family is going for, secondly, saint stephen is the first martyr of christianity. he was stoned to death.

anyway now that all that is set up

harrington family is trying to establish a settlement in what later becomes hawkins, indiana. they have wealth and power and an heir that they brought with them from france. but after the house got built and they got settled in, there was a lot more for them to do than expected.

slavery in indiana started with the french rule so. guess what the harrington family had. which is another reason steve never saw anyone if they were racist and didn't want their pure son interacting with anyone with different skin. steve has absolutely no prejudices because they never actually told him this, and he's really fucking lonely.

steve was 15 the last time he saw his parents, or anyone. they left for some reason or another and never returned. either they settled somewhere else or they got sick or murdered. maybe they returned to france and then were unable to get back to the colonies. i literally do not care

realistically, they must have left someone in charge to take care of the house and their son, but i assume they left after enough time passed without their employers coming back. not like steve was gonna do anything. don't ask why they never approached him to question him.

steve stopped ageing around 19, so a few years there something must have happened to the house. a curse, a spell, weird dimension stuff, who knows.

the house is frozen in time basically. but new people who enter aren't affected. steve would start ageing normally if he left.

idk i'm still figuring the whole magic house thing out. i don't even know what kind of house it is for it to be historically accurate. it's a european style house because i say so tho.

i would love for this to be historically accurate but i can't process the wikipedia articles enough and also i feel like most of it would fall apart oops

[braceletofteeth]

Do you ever remember the perfect idiom to explain something but its equivalent(s) in english doesn't have the same connotations. and you suffer

[the-incradible]

I HAVE MADE A GREAT DICOVERY ABOUT JOJO’S

(steel ball run spoilers I guess)

So the protagonists of parts that are in the “jojo” bloodline are “jojo”’s because thay have a first name that starts with jo and the last name jostar, right?

and araki uses a lot of western names for his characters and stands, ok?

so I noticed something about some the names that araki uses...

Jonathan

Joseph

Jonny

ARE ALL FROM HEBREW ORIGINS!

Even jesus’s original name was Joshua (son of Joseph).

Now, you might be asking yourself, “why does it matter?”, well you better get ready for this.

In the transilation between hebrew and english (with some other languages) there was an odd decision that was made. I won’t go into detail because even I have no fucking idea why it was decided to do this (other then to pronounce it beter) but the short version is:

these names don’t originaly start with a J sound in Hebrew.

in fact, all of the name start the exact same way in Hebrew.

Yōnatan

Yosef

Yochanan

Yehoshua

ALL OF THESE START WITH A “Y”!

AND BECAUSE JONATHAN, JOSEPH AND FUCKING JESUS STARTED THE ENTIRE SHOW

IM AFRAID “JOJO’S” SHOULD HAVE A DIFFERENT NAME

IT SHOULD BE CALLED

[bangzchan]

bang chan everyone .i mean good evening

[hoperays-song]

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