Draco Feb

[dracofeb]

Many Greetings!

Many greetings to anyone reading this! My name is “Draco Feb”, though I respond to either “Draco” or “Feb” (yer choice). I....am actually a kind of boring guy. I like languages and history and gaming some, that’s about it. Feel free to come say “Hi!”

[eclecticdaydreamer]

Blaster With Anime Bangs

A few days ago, GoldenToast145 (Twitch, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram) mentioned on stream how hard it was to draw VTuber's hair because some of them have the crossed bangs. Then I joked about how Golden should draw her hummanoid sona with the anime bangs so she'd fit in with her new friends. So I felt inspired XD.

[eclecticdaydreamer]

Bandit X Chat

When BarleyTheBurr (Twitch, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram) started streaming Tomodachi Life for the first time, they made a Mii that represented chat. Chat chose to be a tall, curvy, non binary, goth, dommy mommy, witch. When Barley introduced Chat's Mii to Bandit's Mii, they ended up flirting with eachother. So of course I had to draw them in the kabedon pose XD.

This is chat’s Mii

[mapsontheweb]

Most spoken language by linguistic region in Spain

[bold-baddie]

[vriskakinnieaynrand]

[mapsontheweb]

Is the name of this language group Finno-Ugric or Ugro-Finnic?

(by u/Perenyevackor)

[mapsontheweb]

When ''Victory Day'' is celebrated across Europe

(by instagram/the.world.in.maps)

[eclecticdaydreamer]

Ferret in a Turtleneck

I wanted to shake off the art rust by doing an artistic rendition of this image of a ferret in a turtleneck I saw in my feed.

Here’s the time-lapse

[mapsontheweb]

Monasteries destroyed by Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries

[yvanspijk]

Probly haplogy

Probably is often pronounced /probly/. The syllable ba is deleted because it’s followed by another syllable starting with a b. This is called haplology – or haplogy if you will.

Some people have an issue with /probly/, but what they don’t know is that their beloved form probably is the result of haplology too: in Middle English, it was probablely: probable + ly. The part le was lost because it was followed by ly.

Haplology can be found in all ages and places. My new infographic shows cases from English, Latin, French, Greek, German, and Portuguese.

Haplology is a so-called sporadic sound change. In the short article on my Patreon (470 words, tier 1), you'll learn all about the difference between sporadic sound changes such as haplology, and regular sound changes.

[swolleneyeball-deactivated20170]

i fukcing hate this show

[sugarkillsall]

This is the best scene in the entirety of IZ imo it’s literally perfect

[partlysmith]

according to the staff commentary for this episode, the script actually called for heavy traffic to be rushing past Dib and Zim in this scene, which is why they’re shouting at each other, and you can even still sort of hear the sound effects but then, for whatever reason, in the finished episode they just forgot the cars

[morbi]

The lack of cars is because of a miscommunication with the animation studio, but since it was too late to fix, they just leaned into the absurdity of keeping all of the car sound effects instead.

They talk about a similar thing that happened in the commentary for “Walk Of Doom”, where a two-second animation of a police officer walking through the bank was accidentally drawn too big for the shot, so they sent it back overseas to get it revised.

But when they got the new animation back, he was even bigger.

They didn’t have the time or money to get a second revision done, so instead they just added these giant clomping boot sounds and a deep booming laugh as he walks by.

It’s the funniest joke in the entire episode.

[the-haiku-bot]

But when they got the

new animation back, he

was even bigger.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[mapsontheweb]

The word for guitar in European languages

The word for guitar in European languages

[shine-reblogs]

Okay, today is Speak Your Own Language Day, so I should be speaking Spanish, HOWEVER I want to use this day of language learning and appreciation to explain something about how Spanish works, and Hispanic people already know that so it wouldn't make much sense to explain it in Spanish, which is why just for this post I'm gonna use English.

I'm gonna be talking, of course, of grammatical gender, because of this viral image:

I'm sure you've seen an image like this floating around and people crying about how having non-binary be translated with a feminine and masculine form depending on usage defeats the purpose of the term.

But it doesn't!!!

Spanish is not like English, it has ✨grammatical gender✨ which has nothing to do with gender identity whatsoever. It's not that we believe chairs are female and stools are male, our grammar is just like this. Every word has a grammatical gender and there must be grammatical gender concordance. Thus, non-binary must have both a feminine and masculine form to use depending with which word you're pairing it.

Let's say you want to talk about a "non-binary person". 'Person' in Spanish is 'persona' a grammatically feminine word (despite its usage being gender neutral and encompassing people of any gender, as I said, grammatical gender ≠ gender identity). Because 'persona' is a grammatically feminine word, you have to apply grammatical concordance accordingly, and so to say "non-binary person" you would say "persona no binaria".

Now let's say you want to talk about "non-binary gender". 'Gender' in Spanish is 'género' a grammatically masculine word, and because of that to say "non-binary gender" you would say "género no binario".

See? It's not about grammatically imposed misgendering, it's about how this language is built.

But Shine, I hear you say, that's all nice and good, but how do I refer to my non-binary friend? And well, dear reader, you're in luck because I'm not only Spaniard but also non-binary myself.

In Spanish 'friend' (like a whole lot of words) has a feminine and masculine form. When those words are used to refer to people, grammatical gender does match gender identity. For the most part. And broadly speaking, feminine words are associated with the vowel -a, and masculine with the vowel -o (this is not universal, there are exceptions to this, I'm trying to paint the broad picture to give you a general idea).

So what about gender neutral? Well, officially we don't have one. The Real Academia Española doesn't recognize it... But the RAE isn't word of god, it compiles usage, so the more a term is used, the more chances it will be officially recognized. Not using a term because it's not officially recognized is actively detrimental to the goal you want to achieve.

Okay, not an official gender neutral, but what have we come up with? Well, at least in Spain, it's associating gender neutral to the vowel -e. So you have the femenine ella/la/-a, the masculine él/lo/-o, and the gender neutral elle/le/-e.

Now time for practical examples!

"My friend, David, is a boy." 🇬🇧 → 🇪🇸 "Mi amigo, David, es un chico."

"My friend, Liz, is a girl." 🇬🇧 → 🇪🇸 "Mi amiga, Liz, es una chica."

"My friend, Alex, is non-binary." 🇬🇧 → 🇪🇸 "Mi amigue, Alex, es no binarie."

And that's how you do it!! At least in queer friendly spaces in Spain, can't speak for other places. I have seen the 'x' thrown around to make gender neutral in Spanish, but -e is way more intuitive for spoken language, so I like it better.

But anyway, thanks for coming to my TED talk and remember I generalized a lot when doing this. If you're learning Spanish I can only wish you good luck in dealing with our bullshit if you come from English, and assure you that once you internalize our orthography rules you will never again mispronounce a word you read for months before you hear it spoken (we have a very consistent spelling/pronunciation system, gotta be one of my favourite things about my language).

[eclecticdaydreamer]

Delphine, Twin Moon Knight

Despite never playing Elden Ring, or knowing much of the lore, I instantly loved Rellana (Twin Moon Knight) when I saw a clip of her fight on YouTube. So I commissioned @nimbustheliger to draw my OC Delphine dressed as her. Delphine is already her family's knight, so it fits.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Another List of "Beautiful" German Words

for your next poem/story

Alptraum - nightmare

Erdreich - earth

Filigran - delicate

Frühling - spring

Gestern - yesterday

Glücklich - happy

Hellrot - light red

Hören - to hear/listen

Kopfkino - "head-cinema"; a fictional film that’s screening in your head if you have a very lively imagination

Lebewohl - farewell

Leichtigkeit - lightness

Märchenhaft - fairytale-like

Niederschlagsmenge - rainfall

Schlafen - to sleep

Seelenverwandter - soulmate

Sich etwas vergegenwärtigen - "to be-present something to yourself"; to refresh a past idea in your mind

Staubfänger - "dust-collector"; a useless piece of art that basically only collects dust

Tohuwabohu - chaos

Trinken - to drink

Wortschatz - "word-treasure"; vocabulary

If any of these words make their way into your next poem/story, please tag me, or send me a link. I would love to read them!

Sources: 1 2 ⚜ More: Word Lists ⚜ Part 1 ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

[tayalla]

to compare apples and oranges (comparing something fundamentally different, not a valid comparison) in different languages:

German: Äpfel mit Birnen vergleichen = to compare apples and pears 3/10 you can totally compare those, both are sweet fruit, taste great in pies, and even come from the same family! (same in French and Dutch, I believe)

English: apples and oranges 4/10 a different family at least. and you have to make orange marmalade first before you bake with it

Russian: сравнивать тёплое с мягким = to compare warm and soft 7/10 those are indeed completely different properties

Danish: Hvad er højest, Rundetårn eller et tordenskrald? = Which is highest, the Round Tower or a thunderclap? 9/10 the word højt could mean either tall or loud! so it can describe both a tower and a thunderclap, yet they can't be compared in a meaningful way. cool polysemy usage. a bit wordy, though

Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin: porediti babe i žabe = to compare grannies and toads 10/10 oh it rhymes! awesome, no notes