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[cin-cant-donate-blood]

Chukina Santu Word of the Day #2

If you don't know yet, I'm posting entries in the dictionary of my conlang for fun.

Yata

content word

As noun: the sun

As verb: to shine

As passive verb: to sunbathe

As adjective: bright, shining, belonging to the sun

I thought I'd use today's word to showcase some of Santu's grammar. At a glance, it seems to resemble toki pona, but it is, in my own humble opinion, a lot deeper than toki pona's grammar, sacrificing some simplicity for far more flexibility and clarity.

The example sentence we'll be playing around with is the following:

(Nu) yata ki yata.

Which means "The sun is shining." Not very complicated so far (but keep in mind, the verb comes first). The particle nu is optional in simple sentences. Here are some ways we can create alternative meanings using a few grammatical particles.

Yata ki yata na mina.

This means "The sun shines on me." I use the particle na to mark that mina, me, is an object.

Nu na yata ki yata.

By placing the object particle in front of the verb, I've created passive voice! The sentence now means "The sun is being shined on." or "The sun is sunbathing." Here's another one:

Yata ki nu yata.

In this example, we took the verb particle nu and put it in front of the subject. This turns the subject into an infinitive or gerund. It could be translated as either "The act of shining is the sun." or "To shine is to be the sun." though the latter would probably require an emphatic extra verb particle, like this:

Nu nu yata ki nu yata.

How about a harder one? Check this out:

Yata ki na yata.

This one uses the object particle on the subject. It could be translated as "The shined upon one shines." or "The shined upon one is the sun." (we talked about how to clarify that distinction if it is necessary in the first post). One last example:

Nu cha ta yata ki mina.

In this case, we use the particle cha, which on its own means "with" or "by means of". Then we use ta, which means "from". When right before a word, it tends to imply a thing that comes from something else. By placing both in the verb phrase, we've constructed a sentence that means something like "I make use of the sunlight." or more literally "I use the thing from the sun."

Anyway that's all. I hope not every post I make on this theme ends up being this long.

[hayatheauthor]

everyone says "reading helps with writer's block" and i somehow chose not to listen but trust me when i say it does! even if the book or story or poem isn't the genre you're writing or vibe you're going for...you don't know when a random dialogue or description or passage can give you that 'lightbulb' pointer to kickstart your next scene or whatever you've been hung up on

so...read. its what made us yearn to write after all.

[cheriecoke]

since i've seen others talking about this, as someone who writes predominately lengthy fics (5k+ words), what annoys me the most is that i've seen so many people on tumblr & tiktok specifically say "i hate when writers have too much build-up and don't get straight to the smut, i just skip to it." ???? writers spend HOURS on pieces like that, and to find out you don't really care is very disheartening & is quite literally going to kill not only writing on these platforms but literature as a whole

[quazikam]

HATE that I'm randomly remembering this post relating to shuichi's development because I feel like crying now

still can't fathom the people who say saihara had no development like the fuck? sorry but did you play the game

In chapter one, Saihara is weak- he relies heavily on Kaede and sticks with her for practically the whole chapter

In the trial, he is too scared to reveal the truth of the crime to everyone, fearful of condemning yet another person

the biggest point to mention here, though is that Saihara didn't try to stop her death. He's not strong enough to at this point

Kaito is furious, exclaiming to him that he *should* have done something, that she had BELIEVED in him, and that she had 'passed her wish' onto him, yet he did NOTHING to stop her death

let's just say saihara definitely took this to heart- (5 chapters later of growth and support thanks to kaito and look here)

this line-

THIS LINE DAMMIT

IT SHOWS HOW MUCH SAIHARA HAS GROWN

KAITO PUT HIS FAITH IN HIM AND HE'S MANAGED TO CHANGE HIM FOR THE BETTER

[mechazushi]

*I know this looks weird, bare with me for a second...*

They're naturally at forehead smooching height.

[butterfilledpockets]

the dude-dles

(some warmup doodles of the B.E.N.T)

↓full page ↓

this shitheads own the only hammer capable of shattering my art block

[dsmp-lainey]

trying to get people in mcyt spaces to care about the female creators, and especially within mc rp those womens characters, in a more than incredibly surface level way is so exhausting sometimes.

like is it really THAT hard for some of y’all to appreciate and engage with them outside of their relationships to male creators/characters???

is it truly so impossible to give them at least a fraction of the love and analysis their male counterparts receive?

[barszcz-czerwony-i-biali]

I'd like to blame someone (idk who) for me not realizing that Bethlehem בית לחם literally translates to bread house until two minutes ago while reading shoftim 19

Now I want to go up to christians and tell them their guy Josh was born in Bread House

[zylphiacrowley]

A Master at His Craft

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[johnbleepingzoidberg]

UNTITLED EVIL LUIGI AU COMIC THING | Page 2 & 3 of (???)

Eggman Bowser’s come to make an announcement. Particularly to shut down any premonitions Mario may be holding onto a little too tightly. Bowser and Mario are able to set aside their differences (for now, at least) so that they can work together on a common goal-- figuring out where the hell Luigi is.

(A/N under cut)

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believe me when i say i really wanted to link all the pages together in a neat, practical way so that everything would appear more organized than it actually is, but tumblr hates me and won’t let my posts show up in the tags if i include a hyperlink of any kind. :D

i read somewhere that tumblr only disallows posts from showing up in tags if it includes an external link (vs an internal/link to another tumblr page), which, in theory, shouldnt be an issue since the pages i’d be linking to are also on tumblr but regardless it’s not cooperating with me anyway. i’ve been on tumblr for what feels like a million years but this is the first time ive tried to make my posts cohesive like this so if anyone knows how to fix this issue im all ears 🙃 for the record, everything related to this au will be going into the following tags on my blog: #my art, and #evil luigi au. we’ll just have to sort things that way for now, i guess 😭

i start work tomorrow so can’t say when there will be a new page but i do have a lot planned out already. so hopefully i’ll be able to continue what ive started for at least a handful of more pages 🤠 next page will be fun to work on. for a bowuigi-centered story, where’s the luigi?! he’ll show up soon. just in the form of a flashback for now though 👀

also sorry if my handwriting is evil. it’s just personally easier/faster to write out everything by hand than type everything out but i may try to type the next page’s dialogue to see how it goes and to see if it makes things look ✨cleaner✨

(also also i spent so much time trying to figure out how to draw them doing a handshake for the “truce” panel. i ultimately failed. therefore.... fist bumps LMAO)

[shaadowmilkcookie]

@aimless-aimz those thangs are thanginggggggggg

[cin-cant-donate-blood]

I am a huge conlang nerd. Nerd enough to have several conlangs in the works. My biggest conlang right now is an IAL (international auxiliary language: a language designed to be easy to learn for everyone, so that it could be used as a world language).

It's called Chukina Santu (choo-KEEN-ah SAN-too, or [t͡ʃuˈki.na ˈsan.tu]), or just Chukina, and I'm pretty proud of it.

Anyway, taking inspiration from some other conlang blogs on tumblr, I've decided to post one word from my Chukina Santu dictionary once in a while (maybe once a day if I remember). Partly for fun, and partly to motivate myself to keep expanding the language. Maybe this will remind me to post other stuff once in a while too, who knows?

Anyway I'll start immediately. If I forget to ever do this again, let this post stand as a testament to my inaction.

Chukina Santu Word of the Day #1!

Pampa

content word

As noun: rabbit, bunny, hare, lagomorph; stomper

As verb: to be a rabbit, to stomp

Derived from: the noise a stomping rabbit makes! Pampampam.

Chukina is a language that strives to have a small vocabulary, for ease of learning. Many animal names also function as names for an action or trait associated with that animal. The associated activity of the bunny is stomping; put another way, it could be said that the word for rabbit in Chukina is "stomper" or "one who stomps."

Now, what do you do if you need to make a distinction between stomping and being a rabbit? It's not as big a problem as it might seem: English does just fine with tons of homonyms that you can tell apart with context, such as right and right, or bat and bat. Just as with English, if you have to clarify, you can just add a modifier, like baseball bat.

Here's an example:

Pampa ki ma.

This sentence could either mean "The woman is stomping." or "The woman is a bunny." How can you tell which it is? Well, in most contexts it should be obvious, and generally it is probably the first definition unless you're talking about furries.

But what if you are, though? Then you can just say it like this:

Pampa ki ma sama.

Which means "The human woman is stomping." or:

Mamu pampa ki ma.

Which means "The female is a stomping animal." that is to say, a rabbit! If you add both modifiers, you get:

Mamu pampa ki ma sama.

Which means something like "The human woman is a rabbit." Chukina Santu does this a lot: it prefers that you not be super specific, but doesn't prohibit clarification if it is necessary.

Oh, and if you're confused by the word order Chukina is a VSO language and ki is the particle that marks subjects okaybye

[lunarharp]

being attached to that moment qifrey held a baby one time and my ideas for the future :)

[floofysmallbob]

does anyone have any good fics where vi works for Silco and jinx was in Stillwater?

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[thunderboltfire]

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