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chongoblog

It’s fun to use contractions inappropriately, but it’s hard to explain why that’s

lunarthesugarglider

thats a common interest we've

chongoblog

Yeah, but people get annoyed by it, like when you throw soda cans in the trash can’t the recycle bin

#I hate you so much :)#linguistics #liz reblogs random things

keepcalmandcarriefischer

It's the last day of April

my-little-bologna

Wake up babe, new meta layer just dropped

sanerontheinside

I don’t know who needs to hear this

but it’s time to move the noodles to the pot

#this is beautiful #memes and stuff #liz reblogs random things

thehummingbirdsmatter

I love when a meme gets so many steps away from its source material that it would be completely incomprehensible if I didn't know what today's date was

#ahahahaha #memes and stuff #liz reblogs random things

wholeheartedsuggestions

how many pillows do you sleep with?

Voting ended onMay 1

#one and it is VERY FLAT #I took the flattest pillow my parents owned off to college with me and I have spent twenty plus years rendering it even flatter #also I only use it when sleeping on my sides #when sleeping on my back I shove it upright and out of my way; otherwise I get a crick in my neck #people who like thick/fluffy pillows or multiple pillows baffle me #and yet they are clearly in the majority #on that hopefully distant day when my pillow succumbs to the ravages of time (alas!) I despair of finding a suitably flat replacement #look! a poll!#liz reblogs random things

fantasiavii

One thing I love about Murderbot that I don’t see talked about much is how it literally translates everything it hears. I think it’s easiest to notice with swears. This is most obvious in Fugitive Telemetry with the crew of the Lalow. They say things like “that picker” and “penis move” and “pussing corporates,” some of which confuse even the Preservation humans. But it does it all the time.

In System Collapse, Tarik says “motherless” (as opposed to something like motherfucking) and the BE corporates say things like “lame-skulled” and while you could think those are just futuristic insults as a result of linguistic drift (which they could also be), I think they’re just literal translations. It becomes more noticeable when you see how religious terms are rendered: “oh high one! Oh deity!” Which is like…sure. They could literally be saying that. But imo it makes more sense if MB is translating something they’re saying in another language.*

I think the most notable case of this is when Thiago calls Amena “my daughter.” On first read I literally thought it was just a Preservation thing but then I realized it made a lot more sense to me (a 21st century American) if he was saying something like mija but MB was just literally translating it into its archive bc that’s how it processes language.

This is also the reason for Amena’s use of Second Mom and Third Mom. It sounds kind of clunky in English but Chinese does a similar thing which sounds perfectly natural in that language (e.g. da-ge, er-ge, san-ge for first/oldest brother, second (oldest) brother, and third (oldest) brother).

Anyway! It’s a fun little detail I really enjoy about MB. There are definitely way more examples but I didn’t have time to track them all down.

*Don’t ask me which languages. Linguistic drift ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

prokopetz

The one that most obviously struck me as signposting this convention is Murderbot's constant use of the set phrase "humans and augmented humans". That's clunky as hell at face value, but it makes a lot of sense if interpreted as a diegetic translation artifact, with "augmented humans" being a literal translation of some word in whatever language Murderbot is "really" speaking which has no snappy English equivalent.

#the murderbot diaries #linguistics #martha wells loves playing with translation issues; they crop up over and over again in her work #other people's thinky thoughts #liz reblogs random things

existennialmemes

asteroidtroglodyte

Sure I’ll reblog that

#it approacheth

were--ralph

Hey! how make much did you make an hr on your first job and what was the job?

#I think about... $8/hour?#for home care work paid directly by the person I was helping #I was in high school so of course I was not doing anything particularly medical #it was mostly helping her move around the house (and use the bathroom and change clothes and get into/out of bed)#and also some cooking and paperwork organization and general companionship #once she had me trained up a bit she hooked me up with a local home care organization and they paid me a little better #I think maybe $10/hour?#(also actual tax withholding! very important to note!)#listen this was circa 1998-2002; my memory for the details is iffy #anyway it's true that $10 went further in 1999 than it does in 2026 but home care work has ALWAYS been an underpaid field #although one should note that the new jersey minimum wage in 1999 was something like $5/hour so it could have been worse #(my second job was food service at an assisted living home and for the record that field is ALSO underpaid)#(my third job was teaching part-time homeschool to two brothers but that is a story for another day)#liz reblogs random things

rylandsgrace

ILONA MAHER as LUISA MADRIGAL

Dancing With The Stars (33x06)

cognitiveinequality

#👀👀👀#I am looking respectfully #and also #hot damn!#video #liz reblogs random things

oysters-aint-for-me

there’s a used bookstore in rural western massachusetts (the montague book mill) whose motto is “books you don’t need in a place you can’t find” and i just feel like that summarizes tumblr too

oysters-aint-for-me

posts you don’t need on a site you can’t search

#valid #liz reblogs random things

thememedaddy

#I support this #liz reblogs random things

sometiktoksarevalid

purlturtle

ansixilus

You're right and you should say it.

#:)#video #liz reblogs random things

nyanakin

no because this is genuinely what i sound like and nobody outside of sw prequels fandom believes me 😖

jackhawksmoor

LISTEN

#yes this #the movie is pretty good #but the novelization is AMAZING #star wars #matthew stover #rots novelization #liz reblogs random things

lizclimo

#yes good #liz reblogs random things

lizclimo

#THIS!#THIS SO MUCH #this is how you do it!#liz reblogs random things

runawaymarbles

I do think it's kind of funny when plot summaries are like "character A encounters the last person they expected...their ex." Idk about you guys I'd be less surprised if my new coworker/roommate/random dance partner was my ex than I would if it was, like, Megawati Sukarnoputri the first woman president of Indonesia.

runawaymarbles

Any of my exes could plausibly attend the same conference as me. But I'd be really surprised to encounter former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice

shakibone

Which of these would surprise you more to find on the doorstep?

Your ex

Megawati Sukarnoputri, the first woman president of Indonesia

Voting ended onApr 28

sqbr

This poll is ambiguous if you (a) Don't have an ex or (b) Are Egyptian diplomat Hassan Gamal Ahmad Hassan, whose marriage to Megawati Sukarnoputri was anulled in 1972.