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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.

[kentopedia]

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

[butterfilledpockets]

the dude-dles

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

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

[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.

[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)

[lunarharp]

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

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[spnstillstudies]

was just perusing your tags today… screenshotting my favorites… in case you ever wondered if i see your kind/thoughtful/unhinged reactions: yes<3 i cherish every single one<3

[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

[floofysmallbob]

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

[lilidawnonthemoon]

[satorugojoswiife]

girl gojos literally racist🤨

Genuinely curious, did you actually read the chapter or are you someone that only keeps up with the series through leaks and/or twitter/tiktok summaries?

Gojo mistakenly believes that Miguel's build is how it is solely because he isn't Japanese (and is black) and Miguel goes on to correct him saying that is an untrue stereotype.

I'm not sure where you live, but I've definitely heard people claim that some athletes have an advantage due to their race, which isn't actually true, but it is a common misconception.

So yes, what Gojo says is based on a racist stereotype, but there is a big difference between saying something racist due to ignorance and saying something racist out of malice.

Gojo didn't realize what he was saying was incorrect and a racist stereotype and once Miguel educates him he immediately apologizes (something gojo is known for not often doing)

Also please don't hate on gege for including this. He is using this as an example to educate his audience. It may seem super obvious to more western audiences, but to japan that is a monoethic country its more understandable that people wouldnt know.

This is how I interpreted the scene in this chapter. If you think I got it wrong or missed something, please let me know :) I like to stay as informed and educated as possible and continuing to be open minded to different perspectives is important to me.

[clotpolesonly]

controversial statement but finding nemo has what the dreamer trilogy wishes it had. marlin and nemo could do tdt but declan and matthew could never do fn, i'm just saying.

[freshfrenchtoast]

the damage viz translations have done to kageyama's character cannot be forgiven......