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[cuprohastes]

Space Law!

There was a sign on the wall in three of the Universal languages used in the sector:

[Do not tell the Humans something is Impossible]

Ipsquib read it in two of the Universal languages he knew how to read and then said to Atrix Attomyar Denoue, “What the heck?”

Atto, in Passable Tsin, said: “You know the Humans. You tell them they can't do something, and it just encourages them.”

Ipsquib, pondered this. “Like... doing things that aren't physically possible, like that one EVA guy who forgot his suit who ran outside a space station nude to talk to their friend?”

Atto thought about it. “Pretty sure that's just made up,” she said, “But yeah I guess, or more worsely, they're rules lawyers.”

“Eh?”

“Remember that legal case on Epsilon Eridani - The one with the jewellery?”

“The Glitter Band?”

“Yeah. They caught someone stealing it, but it belonged to their family before the Intercine, and it was stolen, but because the other side won they upheld it as owned by the thieves, but then the regime fell and... anyway, everyone had a claim to it.”

“Right. I still don't follow it. How did it work out?”

“One of the human lawyers,” said Atto, “Managed to prove the entire species didn't exist and thus by the wording of the law, it could never have been owned by any party, and therefore it must be an artifact of a non-native species, and as the only representative of a non-native species in the courtroom, he awarded it to the family of the original owners. Nobody could figure out how to legally prove them wrong.”

Ipsquib paused and thought about that for a moment. “OK, that's… Ugh. Humans.”

“Yeah. The uh, Diogenese defence they call it. The Galactic Federated worlds would ban it, but they're terrified the Humans will come up with something worse.”

[leroibobo]

last post reignighted old memories, here’s some more navajo country/place neologisms that i know (exclusively asia this time, would do all continents but then the post would be too long; also, again, i'm not too knowledgeable here, please correct me if you know navajo at all):

some of the neologisms have patterns. not everything that fits into a category follows the pattern, but it's good to get them out of the way. also, "bikéyah" can mean land, homeland, country, and continent. in most names the implication is "country", but i'll use "land" for clarity.

the color blue in navajo culture is associated with the south, so the name for south asians, naakaii dootłʼizhí, literally means "blue traveller". i'm not entirely sure what the "traveller" in the name refers to, but if i had to guess, it's shorthand to indicate that south asians would have to travel to get to the navajo country, as there may not have been an easy translation/neologism for “south asian”. naakaii is also used to refer to spaniards and by extension mexicans, and naakaii łizhinii (black travelers) to black people in the americas.

bangladesh - Haʼaʼaahjí Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah (eastern land of the south asians)

pakistan - Eʼeʼaahjí Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah (western land of the south asians)

sri lanka - Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah Dah Naaʼeełígíí (land of the south asians if you go up (?))

east asians are binááʼádaałtsʼózí, literally "their eyes are narrow".

japan - Binááʼádaałtsʼózí dineʼé bikéyah (land of the east asians)

korea - Binááʼádaałtsʼózí Dineʼé Bikéyah Yázhí (small land of the east asians; add náhookǫsjí (northern) or shádiʼááhjí (southern) at the front to get north/south korea respectively)

thailand - Binááʼádaałtsʼózí Chʼídadeeldlóóhí Bikéyah (east asians' land of the elephants. elephant is literally "its nose is a roper/lassoer"; animal name construction like that is common for pretty much all languages, english has prairie dog where navajo has dlǫ̀ǫ̀ for example)

add dootłʼizhí (blue) to that to get southeast asians. (not sure why thailand's not here, maybe it was coined earlier?)

cambodia - Shádiʼááhjí Binááʼádaałtsʼózí Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah (southern land of the southeast asians)

vietnam - Tábąąh Binááʼádaałtsʼózí Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah (beach/sandy land of the southeast asians, probably referring to its place on the map)

chinese people are tsii��yishbizhí diné, literally "the people with braided hair", a reference to queues. this was coined by code talkers.

china - Tsiiʼyishbizhí Dineʼé Bikéyah (land of chinese)

hong kong - Shádiʼááhjí Tsiiʼyishbizhí Bikin Haalʼá (southern city of the chinese whos' houses [are ordered differently from each other?])

taiwan - Tsiiʼyishbizhí Dineʼé Bikéyah (small land of chinese)

navajo doesn't have an "r" sound so i'm guessing "ásáí" (arab) is a loan fit to navajo best as possible.

jordan - Náálíníbąąh Ásáí Dineʼé Bikéyah (land of the arabs along the white(?) [something])

saudi arabia - Ásáí Dineʼé Bikéyah Ntsaaígíí (big land of the arabs)

yemen - Shádiʼááhjí Ásáí bikéyah (southern land of the arabs)

not everyone who lives in a place may have the ascribed characteristics in a name, whether it's being arab or having narrow eyes, so this is your reminder that these names are meant to be fairly basic, and etymology isn't always perfectly reflective of everything a concept encompasses in any language (like how i'm using "navajo", which is an exonym, and not diné). besides, it's not like the borders created by european colonists were any more sensitive.

everything else i know, other than the ones i wrote on the previous post:

bhutan - Iiʼniʼ Tłʼiishtsoh Bikéyah (land of the thunder dragon)

indonesia - Kéyah Dah Ndaaʼeełí Łání (the many islands (literally floating lands))

iran - Tsiikʼi Déíbaalí Bikéyah (land of those who have flowing hair? if i got the translation right, i have no idea what this is referring to. i know that long hair is an important part in navajo culture but something tells me that's not the case/there's more to it than that here)

iraq and/or syria - Honoojítah Tooh Dineʼé Bikéyah (land of the people of the [something] river[s?]; probably a reference to the tigris and euphrates rivers)

lebanon - Gadtsoh Dineʼé Bikéyah (land of the people of great/big cedars)

mongolia - Chʼah diʼilii bikéyah (land of those who wear furry hats)

oman - Bidiltłish Shizhahí Bikéyah (land of those who's sword is [something], probably a reference to the flag)

tajikistan - Dziłtah Hóteelnii Bikéyah (land among the broad mountains)

uzbekistan - Naakʼaʼatʼą́ąhnii Bikéyah (land of cloth. maybe a reference to the silk road?)

[figureskatingcostumes]

Tsin Nam Nicole Chan's free program costume at the 2018 Junior Grand Prix Amber Cup (in Kaunas).

(Source: yanablumka)

[rhanylssitagpa]

#FoodPornByShar: Pao Tsin

Pao Tsin is a Chinese restaurant that is a go-to place of mine whenever I crave Chinese food. It’s not actually a restaurant. I haven’t seen one yet. But there are kiosks of Pao Tsin in almost every mall and other places with high foot traffic. They’re kinda like Master Siomai or Siomai House. One of my favorite thing to order in Pao Tsin is their siomai rice meal. I love their siomai,…

[coffeenewstom]

Kretisches Kaffeetagebuch: die verlassene venezianische Siedlung Voila

Kaffeegestärkt machen wir uns weiter auf unsere Fahrt durch das östliche Lassithi-Gebirge, einem der weniger bewohnten Landstriche Kretas. Dass das nicht immer so war beweist das verlassene Mittelalterdorf Voila. Die ehemalige Festung Voila liegt einen Kilometer vom Dorf Chandras entfernt, auf dem wunderschönen Armenochantrades-Plateau von Ziros im Schatten der modernen Windrädern. Man erreicht…

[rbtura]

Definite vote on typewriter keys. I think putting a lock pick in my mouth would remind me of the dentist

ROUND ONE: Typewriter keys vs. Lock pick

Propaganda:

Typewriter keys:

I have a typewriter and the keys are TEMPTING

They are round. They are shiny. They have letters like alphabet soup stuff. Some have fractions on them! Or punctuation! And when they’re on a typewriter and you hit them, they make a VERY nice clicking sound.

Lock pick:

Six of crows

Kaz did it. You can too. Escape the inescapable prison.

[oh-he-grows]

Quick little garden tour:

the wildflowers are immaculate despite the heat and drought

peppers of all shapes and sizes- Txorixero, Jigsaw, Chinese 5-color, Tsin Tsin, Poblano, Jalapeno. in the background is my onion bed (overtaken by weeds that were impossible to deal with) and behind that is the pea/spinach/carrot bed which is dried up. I've plucked plenty of peas and pinach pods and i'm drying them elsewhere for seed saving.

herb bed, with blank spots filled in by zinnias and a bitter melon chives, parsley, thyme from left to right

cranberry beans, which have just started producing pods

the watermelon patch between the beans and tomatoes, with another zinnia that i'm too kind to tear up, and the wild tomato jungle strung up with a semi-florida weave

a 4x4 section entirely dedicated to lemongrass because I love thai curry, with a wall of zinnias and gifted tomato plants, then zucchini on the right side

the last-finished garden bed where I tried to plant bare-root strawberries but it's been so hot and dry only a couple survived. I replaced the bare space with some late-started exotic peppers. also in containers are some perennials, succulents, and crispy ass lavender

the sunflower bed is doing great with regular sprinkling

the left half of my garden which is still missing about 12 yards of compost, but we'll get to that before the next growing season. next to the wildflowers are two owari satsumas that i keep meaning to plant but really i'm too lazy so they've stayed in their pots next to the wildflowers. I have a meyer lemon and a calamondin orange in the same situation just off-camera.

[mindutme]

T’owal T’uesday #18

I finally made a new T’owal font! I’ve been meaning to for ages but font-making can be a bit of a pain and there were some minor details of the writing system I was still undecided about. But as I’ve been working on the font for Valya, I found a shortcut that made making glyphs so much faster, so I put that project on pause for a few days to make this font. It’s much simpler than the Valya one, since there are far fewer glyphs to make!

Here’s a bunch of random bits of text thrown together, typed in the new font! I’m calling the font Tsin Tsyon, which translates literally to “by hand,” since it’s a script-ish sort of font. I figure at some point I can make a few different fonts, so I can use different styles for T’owal text! There will probably be an equal-weight font kind of like Arial, and maybe a serifed one like Times New Roman.

The very top (underlined bit) is the name of the font. After that is the T’owal text from this post (“Conlang Conflict / Team Let’s Have a Bouba”), and then the text from T’owal T’uesdays 16, 15, 14, 10, and 9.

There are still some things to work out with this font—particularly, deciding some details with how the punctuation will work. I’ll keep you updated!

[a-dragons-journal]

Hapxì Na'viyä

Peu lu fwa lu hapxì na’viyä?

Lu sätare - hu na’vi, hu ayioang, hu ayewll, hu kifkey. Kìng azam, kehe, azazam, mìkam swirä azazam, Na sanhì a virä ka taw txonä, Ke’aw slä ‘awsiteng, ayhapxì fì’uä a’aw. Lu fwa omum futa nga man, Ketsran len, ketsran tsengne nga kä.

Lu temrey, mì lora kifkey atìzevakxnga’. Tìng Eywa’evengìl awngaru nìwotx ‘ut a kin awnga fte rey, Slä nìteng tìng fayut ayevengur. Krro nga lu stxeli swiräru alahe. Sa’nok Anawm tstunkem ke si ‘evengur a’aw nì’ul to ‘eveng alahe. Peyä ayeveng temrey fa tìtxur sì tìkanu feyä. Na rey Eywamì, na terkup Eywamì. Fwa ‘aku sre’ sì tsin peyä livu fwa po ska’a.

Lu fwa rey ‘awsiteng hu fraswirä. Fwa tsaheyl si ulte kame, Fwa tireapängkxo Eywahu sì kifkeyhu. Kawkrr ke kämunge ‘uti nì’ul to ‘u a ngal kin. Leioae si fraswiräru na smuk.

Lu loran sì tìtxur, tul ulte spä, Ta’leng aean, zekwä avol, Mikyun sì kxetse fte pivlltxe, Sanhì fte nivrr na kifkey, Kuru fte kivame tsawti.

Peu lu fwa lu hapxì na’viyä? Pefya slu fko hapxì na’viyä? Wo oel ngati, ma Sa’nok Anawm; Wìntxu ‘evengur ngey teyngta pefya tätxaw kelkune.

(English translation:)

What is it to be Na’vi?

It is connection - with Na’vi, with animals, with plants, with the world. A hundred threads, no, a thousand, between a thousand creatures, Like stars that spread across the night sky, Divided yet together, parts of one thing. It is to know that you belong, No matter what happens, no matter where you go.

It is survival, in a world beautiful and cruel. Pandora gives us all we need to live, But also gives these things to all her children. Sometimes you are the gift to another creature. The Great Mother does not do favors for one child more than another. Her children survive by their own strength and intelligence. As we live in Eywa, so we die in Eywa. To remove her teeth and claws would be to destroy her.

It is to live together with all creatures. To bond and to See, To commune with Eywa and with the world. Never take more than you need. Respect all creatures as your siblings.

It is grace and strength, running and leaping, Blue skin, eight fingers, Ears and tail in order to speak, Bioluminescence to glow like the world, Kuru to See it.

What is it to be Na’vi? How does one become Na’vi? I reach for you, O Great Mother, Show your child how to return home.

[bboan]

Revolusi Cina dan Dr. Sun Yat Sen

Dr. Sun Yat Sen

Dr. Sun Yat Sen adalah seorang revolusioner yang bercita-cita membebaskan Tiongkok dari penindasan. Perjuangannya dimulai di Honolulu, saat ia berusia 18 tahun, dengan menyadarkan rakyat mengenai penderitaan mereka di bawah pemerintahan Manchu. Di sana, ia mengkritik praktik-praktik tradisional dan keyakinan agama yang dianggapnya sebagai takhayul, bahkan menghancurkan arca yang disembah penduduk. Aksi ini membuatnya dikucilkan dan meninggalkan tanah kelahirannya pada tahun 1884, bersamaan dengan pecahnya Perang Tiongkok-Prancis. Meski Tiongkok memenangkan perang, mereka harus menyerahkan wilayah Annam kepada Prancis melalui Perjanjian Tien Tsin pada 1885. Kekalahan diplomatis ini memicu tekad Dr. Sun Yat Sen untuk menggulingkan Dinasti Qing.

Walaupun tengah menuntut ilmu kedokteran di Amerika, Dr. Sun Yat Sen tidak menghentikan aktivitas politiknya. Ia mendirikan organisasi revolusioner, Hung Chung Hsiu, untuk mempercepat jatuhnya pemerintahan Manchu. Pada 1895, ia kembali ke Tiongkok untuk menghimpun dana dari komunitas Tionghoa perantauan (overseas Chinese). Kemudian, pada 1905 di Jepang, ia mendirikan T'ung Meng Hui (Chinese Revolutionary Alliance) untuk menyebarkan gagasannya, yakni "Tiga Prinsip Rakyat" (San Min Zhu Yi): nasionalisme, demokrasi, dan kesejahteraan rakyat.

Aliansi Revolusioner T'ung Meng Hui

Pada tahun 1906, Dr. Sun Yat Sen mengunjungi Penang dan mendirikan cabang T'ung Meng Hui di sana. Melalui organisasi ini, ia terus berpidato kepada komunitas Tionghoa perantauan tentang perlunya menggulingkan pemerintahan Manchu, yang ia anggap sebagai kekuatan asing dari suku Manchu yang mendominasi etnis Han. Dalam pidatonya di Penang tahun 1907, ia menekankan bahwa bangsa Manchu menindas rakyat Tionghoa dan tunduk pada kekuatan asing seperti Inggris, Prancis, Rusia, dan Jepang. Ia menyerukan perlunya bangkit melawan penindasan untuk mencegah Tiongkok jatuh sepenuhnya ke tangan negara-negara asing.

Puncak perjuangannya terjadi pada Revolusi Xinhai, yang dimulai pada 10 Oktober 1911 (Double Ten) dengan pemberontakan di Wuchang. Revolusi ini memproklamasikan berdirinya Republik Tiongkok pada 1 Januari 1912. Wilayah republik baru ini hanya mencakup Tiongkok Selatan, sementara Tiongkok Utara tetap berada di bawah kendali Kaisar Pu Yi dari Dinasti Qing. Revolusi Xinhai menandai berakhirnya kekuasaan dinasti kekaisaran terakhir di Tiongkok setelah lebih dari 2.000 tahun pemerintahan kekaisaran.

Revolusi ini lahir dari ketidakpuasan rakyat terhadap Dinasti Qing yang gagal mempertahankan kedaulatan negara dari pengaruh asing. Kekalahan dalam Perang Opium dan Perang Tiongkok-Jepang, serta serangkaian perjanjian yang merugikan, membuat rakyat kehilangan kepercayaan pada pemerintahan Qing. Selain itu, upaya reformasi seperti Reformasi Seratus Hari dianggap terlambat dan tidak cukup untuk mengatasi masalah sosial dan ekonomi yang parah.

Setelah Dinasti Qing runtuh, Sun Yat Sen meletakkan dasar bagi Republik Tiongkok yang modern, berbasis pada prinsip-prinsip nasionalisme, demokrasi, dan kesejahteraan rakyat. Namun, transisi menuju republik tidak berjalan mulus. Setelah Sun Yat Sen wafat pada tahun 1925, Tiongkok mengalami gejolak politik akibat perebutan kekuasaan antara Kuomintang (KMT) dan Partai Komunis Tiongkok (PKT). Meskipun demikian, Revolusi Xinhai tetap dikenang sebagai tonggak penting dalam sejarah Tiongkok, membuka jalan bagi era baru tanpa pemerintahan kekaisaran.

Berikut beberapa peninggalan dari peristiwa Revolusi Xinhai :

1. Republik Tiongkok: Pendirian Republik Tiongkok pada tahun 1912 sebagai hasil dari Revolusi Xinhai menandai berakhirnya sistem kekaisaran yang telah berlangsung selama lebih dari dua milenium. Sistem republik menggantikan kekuasaan dinasti, meskipun pemerintahan republik ini menghadapi banyak tantangan, seperti konflik internal, perang saudara, dan ancaman dari kekuatan asing.

2. Konstitusi Republik: Salah satu warisan penting dari era ini adalah upaya untuk membentuk sistem pemerintahan berbasis konstitusi. Konstitusi sementara 1912 merupakan dokumen penting yang mengatur struktur dasar pemerintahan republik, meskipun implementasinya mengalami kendala karena konflik politik yang terus berlangsung.

3. Kuomintang (KMT): Partai Nasionalis Tiongkok atau Kuomintang, yang didirikan oleh Dr. Sun Yat Sen, menjadi salah satu kekuatan politik utama selama periode ini. KMT berperan dalam menyatukan Tiongkok melalui Ekspedisi Utara dan memerintah negara hingga awal Perang Saudara Tiongkok.

Sumber :

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24572067

[theater-kid-throwdown]

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Submissions are, in fact, finally open! Please read the rules below! But first, taglist :]

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[cuprohastes]

OK, New Plan.

Space piracy isn't a thing. It's not economical, practical or something anyone can pursue for any length of time.

Anyway, the ship had been captured by space pirates, and they'd dropped the temperature in the passenger modules down to a few ticks under the freezing point of water: The Atrix passengers were all huddled up, torpid, protecting their little guys, and the Thotari Pirates were planning on pillaging the cargo and personal possessions while things were quiet.

They'd checked the manifest: 12 Atrix passengers, and four crew, also Atrix. Easy pickings.

So it was a little bit of a surprise when they cracked the door to the passenger module and one of the Atrix turned out to be somewhat genetically human.

It was holding a hot beverage in one hand and used the other to grip the first Thotari Contract Pirate around their scrawny neck, dragging them off their feet.

Then it used that individual to beat the others until they snapped their contract markers and sat their asses down.

Everyone knows the Thotari take contracts very seriously. Snapping the marker was as good as surrender: No Thotari with any self respect would work unpaid.

The Pirate Executive Officer, employed for her bulk and experience took personal umbrage regarding this whole mess and thundered onto the ship, with several large sharp weapons, and some very cool looking armour, determined to perpetrate terminal events to the Human's biology.

The Human took one look and threw it's drink in her face. Then gave her a vicious kicking while the bitter alkaloids in the toxic concoction caused the PEO to collapse with uncontrollable spasms.

According to the logs, the Human took time out and poured another cup of coffee, turned the heat up, glared at the rest of the Thotari until they snapped their contract markers rather than deal with any of that and walked onto the Pirate's ship.

At which point they called the Pirate's backer up, and spent a half hour explaining in horrifying detail what they would personally do to that individual, and how much worse it was going to be if they didn't stop this inane crap.

The Thotari picked up their PEO and hooked her up to their ship's medical bay, said 'no hard feelings it's just business' and left.

---

"How was your trip?" asked Dave The Human.

"Pretty quiet," said Phalanges Mitten, AKA Dave. "Glad to be back, though. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to take a decent nap on those haulers - And don't get me started on the Coffee!"

[zaobitouguang]

珂拉琪/Collage Lyrics - 這該死的拘執佮愛

[I haven't seen translations of any 珂拉琪 songs out there, so I wanted to make some as a learning material for Taiwanese. I am not a native Taiwanese speaker, so this is my best attempt at a translation! If you have any corrections/suggestions let me know, but please be kind. You can listen to this song from their first album MEmento MORI here.]

你的心 親像花 lí ê sim, tshin-tshiūnn hue Your heart is like a flower 無人應 隨蔫去 bô lâng ìn, suî lian-khì Nobody responds and it soon withers 你愛的人 誠固執 lí ài ê lâng, tsiânn kòo-tsip The person you love is so stubborn 予伊的夢 伊提袂起 hōo i ê bāng, i the̍h bē khí They(1) can't lift up the dream you give them

你是一个 如此溫柔的人 lí sī tsi̍t ê, lû-tshú un-jiû ê lâng You're such a gentle person 你應該 愛你值得愛的人 lí ing-kai, ài lí ta̍t-tit ài ê lâng You should love the person you deserve to love 但是 頭前有我欲行的路 tān-sī, thâu-tsîng ū guá beh kiânn ê lōo But there's a road I have to walk ahead of me 毋知你敢會了解 m̄ tsai lí kám-ē liáu-kái I don't know if you can understand

是按怎拆開你的 心肝內底 sī-án-tsuánn thiah-khui lí ê sim-kuann lāi-té How do [I] open up your heart 會看著 暗淡的愛流成水 ē khuànn-tio̍h, àm-tām ê ài lâu sîng tsuí To see this dark love flow into water 當我越頭離開時 心內亂雨紛飛 tǹg guá ua̍t-thâu lī-khui sî, sim-lāi luān-ú-hun-hui When I turn my head to leave, [my] heart is thick with rain

因為你 的眼神 in-uī lí ê gán-sîn Because of the look in your eyes 戇戇咧望 真毋願 gōng gōng teh bāng, tsin m̄-guān [I] stupidly look, [and I'm] not willing

Chorus: 若是你 會當看著𪜶佇咧彼搭 nā-sī lí, ē-tàng khuànn-tio̍h in tī-leh hit-tah If you can see where they are 咱就會使 做伙搝彼陣落水的人 lán tio̍h ē-sái, tsò-hué giú hit tīn lo̍h-tsuí ê lâng Then we'll be able to pull those people out of the water together 伊寫的彼條歌 是拆破生死的紙 i siá ê hit tiâu kua, si thiah-phuà senn-sí ê tsuá This song that they wrote is paper that tears life from death 敢講你 真正攏無感覺 攏無感覺 kám-kóng lí, tsin-tsiànn lóng bô kám-kak, lóng bô kám-kak Do you truly have no feeling? Have no feeling

是按怎拆開你的 心肝內底 sī án-tsuánn thiah-khui lí ê sim-kuann lāi-té How do [I] open up your heart 會看著 暗淡的愛流成血 ē khuànn-tio̍h, àm-tām ê ài lâu sîng hueh To see this dark love flow into blood 當我無閣咧注神 磕袂著就想著你 tng guá bô-koh teh tsù-sîn, kha̍p-bē-tio̍h tō siūnn-tio̍h li When I'm not paying attention any more I tend to think of you

但是你 的眼神 tān-sī lí ê gán-sîn But the look in your eyes 無彩工 準拄煞 bô-tshái-kang, tsún-tú-suah A waste of work, forget about it

[repeat chorus]

猛獸亂使 侵門踏戶 bíng-siù luān-sú, tshim-mn̂g-ta̍h-hōo Wild beasts wreak havoc, trampling through people's homes 厝邊頭尾 寸草無生 tshù-pinn-thâu-bué, tshùn-tsháu-bû-sing Around the house, not a blade of grass grows

[repeat previous section]

(1) Taiwanese does not have gendered pronouns, so I'm translating the pronoun 伊 i as "they". This song also uses the plural they, 𪜶 in.

New Vocabulary:

隨 suî - immediately

蔫 lian - to wither

固執 kòo-tsip - stubborn

提 thê - to lift

如此 lû-tshú - like this

溫柔 un-jiû - tender, gentle

值得 ta̍t-tit - to deserve

暗淡 àm-tām - dark

流 lâu - to flow

越頭 ua̍t-thâu - to turn one's head

離開 lî-khui - to leave

眼神 gán-sîn - look in one's eyes

彼搭 hit-tah - there, that place

搝 khiú - to pull

拆破 thiah-phuà - to tear

生死 senn-sí - life and death

血 hueh - blood

注神 tsù-sîn - to pay attention

磕袂著 kha̍p-bē-tio̍h - often, apt to

無彩工 bô-tshái-kang - to work to no avail

準拄煞 tsún-tú-suah - whatever, forget about it

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Pierre Verger

Young Woman in Traditional Dress

Tsin Ho, Indochine, 1938