#unless tumblr playin wit me

[jksthot-remade]

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NO UR NOT TY ILY! ❤️

[zwoelffarben]

I'm mostly monolingual (I have some bad german (four years of bad german not maintained), one year of spanish from kindergarden, and orphaned polish, yiddish, and japanese words; but it's mostly english), but I'm an autistic wit enough knowledge oabout linguistics to be dangerous.

The two that really interest me are colors grouping and grammatic gender; I'm not gonna get into grammatic gender 'cause that's a can of worms too wriggly for a quick post, but I can talk about colors.

Let's start wit an anacdote. I was watching a streamer playin' a quiz show wit her chat, and the question pops up, "How many colors are in a rainbow?"

A. 5 B. 6 C. 7 D. 8

... I'm usually a lurker but I'm something of an expert in colors (My blog url Zwoelffarben is an approximation of zwölf Farben (cause tumblr won't let me have umblauts in my url, sadge) which is German for twelve colors.) so I chime in, "Dat depends on the culture you're from tho." And She was like, "What, Really?"

So I explain that yeah, different cultures draw the lines around different color groups differently, and I site Blue-Green Distinction as it's the example¹ wherein a lot of cultures (and in particular a lot of south asian cultures) just don't distinguish between green and blue: they have a category, (anglocentrically dubbed in linguistics as Grue) which a lot of what we'd call green or blue both fit into. My favorite word for this category is the Vietnamese Xanh. In Vietnamese you've got 'forest' xanh, 'ocean' xanh, 'sky' xanh, etc, but ultimately Xanh is xanh.

And that started a conversation in the chat; She's Irish and I'm american and while we had the same answer to the question (7) my RoyGBiv mnemonic was completely different from her Rainbow Song mnemonic so we got the same answer while not agreeing about what colors actually made up the rainbow. Others in the chat chimed in that their rainbow had six or eight colors. I think I rememeber seeing someone say eleven, but this was weeks ago and I'm not gonna go looking for a vod to check the chat replay for a tumblr post.

And that's not accounting for biological differences in perception like color-blindness: this difference in perception was purely driven by cultural differences. Xanh is Xanh unless you think it's green or blue, saavy?

¹I chose Blue-Green because it seemed the most appropriate example, since even in cultures that distinguish them, Teal causes problems making it an accessable example to english speakers, and because red-pink and siniy-goluboy (dark/light blue) aren't really conseptualized as being different in hue (they are enrealis but theyre not perceived that way).

[marzbwildnfree]

I feel like this recent experience with my family just scarred me... like idk how I’m gonna feel about them now. That specific side atleast. I know the shit may be small and insignificant to some but it holds weight to me and it’s the principal behind the action and words. As I’m thinking about it now I want to sock her in her fuckin face for being a lil bitch and a dumb one at that. But I’m gonna hold onto my peace. And try my best to transmute my anger and pain into positivity and light. I am more than just a physical body here on earth. I am a soul sent here from the heavens above to be a light for others. So fuck you if you think you gon make me get out of character lol. I’m kool off of everybody and they mama. I’m keepin to myself and my solid few I run with. Everything deactivated and I only want my divine page active and my tumblr so I can post random thoughts like this and have NOBODY read it unless I feel like sharing it. My presence is a gift. My love is a gift. My friendship is a gift. Playin wit ME is playin wit The Divine. So dont do it. Periodt.