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Lexember Day 07
/ˈzaʔaʃoʁ/
Zaʾashor
“Without Water”
Language: Celestial Spoken Commonly by (but not limited to): Aasimar and Clerics of Faerûn, Deva and Celestials Setting: *Forgotten Realms [*Homebrewed for a Character Backstory but built upon the Forgotten Realms Setting.]
Etymology: SUPERNAL; /zaʔaħuʀ/ meaning “without water” SEMICOGNATE; Infernal: /ˈkemad/ /ˈsaːʔa/ kemad sāʾa meaning “without” & “water” Abyssal: /ˈzeːˌʔˤeːwus/ zēʾēwus meaning “without water”
Word Type: Noun; abessive case.
All descendants have a slightly different source for the abessive case endings from the initial Supernal, ultimately from dialectal variation, with the exception of Infernal that dropped the abessive case entirely.
#conlang#fanlang#lexember#forgotten realms#dungeons and dragons#dnd#my self imposed theme for this year is going through swadesh or similar words because both languages are in relatively early stages of deve#and I don’t have enough pre-existing vocab to expand upon to make complex words#I’m also not going to include declensions as I go for speed reasons but I may go back and add them once I’m done#everything is subject to change but this is where it's at right now
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Please stay the fuck out of the Dagon Age tag if you're a BG3 stan bitching about the fact that Dagon Age doesn't use non-white people solely as victims or villains, or that queer people don't exist to be written as rapists, or that women in positions of power aren't universally evil.
Dagon Age👍
#dragon age#veilguard#yeah idk what they're on about#the closest ive gotten to complaining about veilguard being “woke” or whatever was critiquing taash's character arc and how trans people#are represented in game#and even then the issue wasnt the fact that there WERE trans people#it was that bioware couldnt be bothered to actually think about how gender and transness worked in thedas#and ended up just using a bunch of modern ideas and vocab. which just makes trans players like me feel like we're nothing more than a tool#for virtue signaling game companies to look hip#but im p sure i know who this person is and that wasn't even what the post was about.#so they're just accusing anyone they disagree with of bigotry#also. not a bg3 stan. my feelings on bg3 are fairly lukewarm.
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🇲🇽 Spanish Word Wheel - Chimuelo 🦷
[For How To Train Your Dragon Fans]
Chimuelo | Chimuela - Toothless [Mexico]
Desdentado | Desdentada - Toothless [Standard Spanish 🇪🇸]
• The dragon’s name is Toothless.
• El dragón se llama chimuelo.
• Toothless is a black dragon.
• Chimuelo es un dragón negro.
Explanation: In Mexico, “Chimuelo/Chimuela” is used to describe someone “who has no teeth or is lacking teeth with many gaps.”
In the movie “How to Train Your Dragon” the dragon “Toothless” is fondly named “Chimuelo” in Mexico.
[Gif not mine]
#thespanishgarden#language learning#spanish language#langblr#studyblr#spanish vocab list#language lab#learn spanish#how to train your dragon#toothless
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I have some thoughts about why some of veilguard’s writing is the way it is and it comes down to development hell and corporate meddling which is perhaps too generous for some problems but also feels right for a Lot of the things I think
Thoughts in the tags
#veilguard critical#basically it boils down to two ideas#1- this game is the stitched together scraps of an mmo#and 2- ea really wanted this to be mass effect with a dragon age skin#thoughts for 1 - the simplified and repetitive writing just fits better for a game#that has you spending hours grinding with your friends#learning lots of vocab and worldbuilding doesn’t make the gameplay loop fun for gamers you’re trying to pull from other live services#that game would not have been for da fans but for trying to grab literally anyone playing a live service#so you get lots of reminders about what things are and why they matter#with little depth because the game doesn’t need that for the main loop to work#also ea doesn’t value the writing team so there’s that#for 2 - this game is very much taking its plot beats from me2 and to an extent me3#which i actually like to an extent#but the collectors/reapers don’t have the same goals as solas#so just transferring that plot doesn’t actually work#it does for elgy and ghilly but not solas#also uh the darkspawn are the me3 reapers#I can’t unsee it#they’re just red instead of blue#ea doesn’t like or know what to do with dragon age#so they push making it a medieval mass effect because they know mass effect does well#hence the plot the mobs and to an extent the dialogue#anyway this game feels like three different ones had to get stitched together with fabric glue#just good enough to run a red carpet and not fall apart#and yeah it looks cool and it’s fun to wear#but if you start picking at the seams it’s gonna come apart#I love this game for what it is#but I also mourn what it might have been if they’d been allowed to make a single player dragon age game without meddling#bioware as a studio has its issues#but a lot of this feels like Corporate Nonsense issues
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新年词汇
大家好，新年快乐！
I've been seeing New Year's posts and sayings all over social media lately, so I just wanted to make a post collecting some of the phrases I've seen.
恭喜发财 gōng xǐ fā cái - may you have a prosperous New Year (财 indicating wealth and fortune)
恭贺新春/禧 gōng hè xīn chūn/xǐ - Happy New Year
龙年大吉 lóng nián dà jí - (wishing you) great luck (大吉) in the year of the dragon
身体健康 shēn tǐ jiàn kāng - (wishing you) health
万事兴隆/龙 wàn shì xīng lóng - may everything (万事) be prosperous (兴隆), with the pun that 隆 and 龙🐲 are homophones
龙/荣华富贵 lóng/róng huá fù guì - (wishing you) glory (荣华) and wealth (富贵), again playing with the similarities between 龙🐲 and 荣
龙凤呈祥 lóng chèng chéng xiáng - the dragon and the phoenix will bring luck
梦想成真 mèng xiǎng chéng zhēn - (may your) dreams come true
龙行龘龘 lóng xíng dá dá - (may you) fly like a dragon (i.e., upwards and full of energy)
3x 龍（龙) indicates the appearance of the flight of a dragon
生活䲜䲜 shēng huó yè yè - (may your) life be full of fish
4x 魚 (鱼) indicates abundance, prosperity
前程朤朤 qián chéng lǎng lǎng - (may) the road ahead be shining and splendid
4x 月 indicates brightness, shining
(for more discussion on the unique characters in these last three, see this post on Zhihu)
Hope everyone has a great Spring Festival and a Happy New Year!
春节快乐！
#中文#汉语#mandarin#mandarin studyblr#langblr#chinese new year#spring festival#lunar new year#year of the dragon#龙年#新年快乐#词汇#mandarin vocab
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How do you even know Elvish, my guy?
#I mean yeah he has an elvish name that his mother gave him and in theory she could've taught him what she new when he was little#or he could've learned it as part of crow training but still#never really imagined him using it in his daily vocab#dragon age#dragon age the veilguard#veilguard#da rook#de riva#rook de riva#proffbon oc mien de riva#dragon age the veilguard spoilers#veilguard spoilers#dav spoilers#elf rook
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also Sabri coming out to Taash and Neve’s got me a little emo
#:))))))))#i like this#im still. meh on the word ‘trans’ actually being used in dragon age voca#*vocab#feels too modern#but this is nice#:D#roscoe rambles#roscoe plays veilguard#oc: sabri ingellvar
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i find it so endearing whenever hookfang teases snotlout by laughing at jokes (even if he doesn't understand) or huffing out hot air at him or knocking his helmet with his tail or giving him a sly smile or rolling his eyes it's like their understood way of showing affection
#snotfang is like my favorite dragon/rider relationship after hicctooth#they're just so much fun ??#and have their own way of showing each other that they care#every single time snotlout's like 'HOOKFANG!'#i can hear it in my head akjhsdkjahsdkj#my sweet glorbs....#rtte#jackshiccup text#snotlout#hookfang#me everytime im talking abt snotfang: wow they’re so endearing#sorry my vocab is limited
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Wyldfyre?
Wouldn't say it out loud but would make the most devious pranks where at the end someone gets slapped with a sign that says it. That's the only way she can say it if we don't count CoD lobby chat function.
Oh yeah she does say it out loud once. To Cinder. She would call Cinder it (because he is one)
#and this is only after she gets it finally in her vocab#ninjago 🚬 requests#ninjago#lego ninjago#soul's askbox#ninjago dragons rising#dragons rising#ninjago dr#ninjago wyldfyre#dragons rising wyldfyre#wyldfyre ninjago#cinder ninjago
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on the whole I don't mind how being trans is incorporated into the world for Veilguard but the thing that I keep getting stuck on is that, apparently (if Taash's notes are anything to go off of), TEVINTER is the place with hyper-specific gender labels? TEVINTER?? Really??? You're telling me the extremely socially rigid mind-control conversion therapy country came up with "demigender"? Like, are you sure?
#dragon age#veilguard#datv#bat plays datv#i do like that they use the words transgender and nonbinary#mainly because it's really annoying when people pretend that's not what's going on just because of fantasy conlang stuff#taash's note where they go through like 20 different real-world terms is... weird though#like 'yayy agender' but also. uh.#and the fact that this is a TEVINTER thing. what#where're my strange country specific slang#failing that show me the insular vocab-obsessed vints at drag queen night in some bar#who the hell came up with all of these and how are they so centralized that a country without the internet has standardized definitions
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our first session ever playing dnd, and somehow i ( the dm ) got something so simple wrong.
well, you live and you learn i guess.
#.txt#all of us wanted to play dnd for so long#and somehow#SOMEHOW#we (i) fucked up the rules#its fine#but#it was SUPER FUN#playing the dm was more fun than i expected it to be#dont want to always play dm though#my pronounciation and shit is HORRIBLE#and despite being a writer#my vocab?#non existent in normal convo#dnd#dungeons and dragons
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Lexember Day 22
/ˈseːˌnˤeːwˤʌ/
Sēnēwu
“Not Straight, Wonky”
Language: Abyssal Spoken Commonly by (but not limited to): (Some) Tieflings and Warlocks of Faerûn, Demons, and Fiends Setting: *Forgotten Realms [*Homebrewed for a Character Backstory but built upon the Forgotten Realms Setting.] Etymology: SUPERNAL; /sara/ meaning “upright, erect” COGNATE; Infernal: /ˈsaːʀaxˌwuː/ sārahwū meaning “horizontal, prone, nonparallel, indirect, not simple” EQUIVALENT OF; Celestial: /ˈʃelaʕait/ shelaʿait meaning “unsturdy, weak”
Word Type: Negative adjective
#conlang#fanlang#lexember#forgotten realms#dungeons and dragons#dnd#my self imposed theme for this year is swadesh or similar words because both languages are in relatively early stages of development#and I don’t have enough pre-existing vocab to expand upon to make complex words#I’m also not going to include declensions as I go for speed reasons but I may go back and add them once I’m done#everything is subject to change but this is where it's at right now
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I was obsessed with Eragon as a kid but I WHOLEHEARTEDLY blame The Last Dragon Chronicles by Chris d'Lacey for making me wish for a dragon friend in the way OP describes
childhood emotion of wanting a dragon that is your friend so bad that it feels like there is a vacuum in your soul that only a dragon who is your friend can fill
#dragons#such a great kids series about dragons tho highly recommend#just bought the box set recently for my 5 year old cuz she discovered dragon tales for the first time#and i fear her dino obsession might be demoted in her list of “most amazingest animals everrrr” in favor of dragons#“dragons are just like pterodactyls mama except they can cook their food...with FIRE BREATH..and eat people that are mean to them ...#“ can i be a drahon when i get all grown up mom?”#btw if you think pterodactyls is a word not in her 5 year old vocab i must inform you that A. kids are sponges and Dino Dana is her favorit#and she genuinely knows more scientific facts and the scientific names for dinos than most adults i know myself included
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Spanish Word Wheel - El Tuerto
El Tuerto/La Tuerta - One-Eyed Person | A Person Who Has Lost Sight in One Eye
• Aemond "One-Eye" Targaryen
• Aemond “El Tuerto” Targaryen
• Laurie is blind in one eye.
• Laurie es tuerta.
Popular Phrase: “En tierra de ciegos el tuerto es rey.”
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”
[Gif not mine]
#language learning#spanish language#thespanishgarden#langblr#studyblr#spanish vocab list#house of the dragon#hotd#aemond targaryen
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The premise of Skyrim is just so funny. The shouts are just dragon language, making the fights between dragons basically an argument? But now this puny human has a minimal grasp of the vocab. Imagine you're disagreeing with your bud about something unimportant like pineapple on pizza and then a mouse came running over and called you a bitch
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The luxurious daffodil yellow of the humble sticky note.....
#im getting distracted but i am studyinggggg so many vocab words and examples :[#drinking a loverly smoothie too mwah. the dragon fruit mix plus coconut yogurt and mik mwah#didnt add a banana this time mm its hardly a diff anyways ill add it again next time
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