ANOTHER MEMEY LANGBLR

:: :: @pipsbadgerboots :: ::★ Dutch ≈B1 ★ - kijk jongens dit was oorspronkelijk een serieuze langblr maar nu is het in het algemeen memes en grapjes XD - ook een studente van Latijn

[literallys-illiteracy]

The Mushroom Herald: (HK Silksong Spoilers act 3)

all of his dialogue in silksong that I could find, also where to find him for the achievement

Witness Quest: Passing of the age:

Under chapel fallen to the monarch's might, Over camp collapsed to the black thread plight, Scorched field on edge, shells black and burned Up towers spinning, near the surgeon spurned, Cage of one who raged against the silken lie, Fell heart of frost, who soars on high, Past Cradle's peak, last test of fitness, That the age may pass, this shroom its witness.

The Mushroom Herald's Silk-Song (continue playing Needolin at any encounter):

Stone shall break and steel shall rust… Lies and Truth may be discussed… Caps and shells will fall to dust… But mister mushroom readjusts…

Encounter Dialogue:

H = Hornet Dialogue

Encounter 1:

…Crossed weapons, sleeping of course, but shaped unlike any you’ve seen before… …To travel underneath is one thing, but travelling up above may require a different sort of sight… (H): "Sir Herald… It seems rare coincidence for us to meet in this distant land. Unless, perhaps, you followed me here?" … A path that meets itself is an ill portent indeed. Those who peer sideways know well enough… … oh, excuse me…

Encounter 2:

…Great strides move the world, but small steps shouldn’t be overlooked… …One mystery leads to another. Scrutinising the belly of the thing will prove useful… (H): "The meaning behind your musings is as opaque as ever. Would you converse with me directly, sir?" …Trust yourself. And each other. The solution is always within grasp… … oh, excuse me…

Encounter 3:

…The elements do not conspire against you. They have their own desires… …when one spies a great peak, the natural inclination is to begin climbing… …the little left-behind… you’ve decided, then? A companion for the journey… … oh, excuse me…

Encounter 4:

…yes communication is the heart of it. The grandest boasts and tiniest murmurings all have their meanings… …your point is well made. Even the flowers have their stories to tell. Light can be cast anywhere.  (H): "I’ve no desire to interrupt your meditations, Herald, but I am eager to speak with you if you would listen…" …Take note of it all, render it in line, you’ll be glad that you did. You can take the journey home with you… … oh, excuse me…

Encounter 5:

…At the bottom of a well, you can only look up. The past is hidden from those who look forward… …Those echoes may guide you still. Yes, that's true. For the kind-hearted, a weapon can also be a friend… …you’re so eager to follow in her footsteps. But what are you leaving for those who come next? … oh, excuse me…

Encounter 6:

…One can visit the past, but them memories become contradictory… …when the call rings out again, will you let your previous actions cloud your vision? …by claw, by voice… History always rises to meet us… … oh, excuse me…

Encounter 7:

…Do they realise it would only be the beginning? If they cleave themselves free, they would need to find their way anew… … oh, Wyrm child. No surprise it’s you who meets me here. Following me are you? Or calling me? It is true I would not have sought the lands below if not for your grand actions within them.  But now, having journeyed their breadth, what singular sights I beheld… Flaming lakes, tangled woods, caves consumed by sand and frost…  Remarkable things all, though given their void claimed state it seems you and I may be the last to hold those memories.  (H): "I cannot allow that outcome, Herald. I act now to save that place, both for myself and for those bugs still alive within." (H): "As one who has seen so much, tell me simply, do you believe my efforts in vain?" Me? Certainly you can ask, but I cannot provide good answer. I’ve no mind for outcomes. Always my vision is too clouded by the present. Only the journey… the now. For myself, that is the purpose, and as far as my sight can see. If any other could come to understand that state, Wyrm child, I suspect it may be you…Though maybe not yet, not this present, hmmm? Maybe in a future far, when your actions might hail me so again? Alas from these quaking caves it is past time I made my swift exit. Ours may be long and winding roads, but I hope you too come to know the many joys upon the path…

Locations in more detail:

1: Centre of the first Moss Mother boss arena.

2: The small platform on the eastern side of Bone Bottom

3: Raised platform found west of the Far Fields Weaver nest

4: Small hole/pathway beneath entrance to the Wisp Thicket

5: adjacent to the First Sinner boss arena enterance:

6: Peak of Mount Fay, next to the Fay where you receive the double jump.

7: Above "The Cradle" boss arena, above 3 platforming sections, before Nameless Town.

[theclonewriter-blog]

“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

[onewordtest]

“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement. 

[joehywheelah]

“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”

[tenoko1]

“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”

[cj-amused]

Things I didn’t know

[prismatic-bell]

“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”

[jawnwats-deactivated20160713]

You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.

[notesoftruth]

Okay, but someone please explain question marks when followed by a dialogue tag. How do?

[flootzavut]

“The speech tag is still part of the previous sentence,” she explained, ‘so it isn’t capitalised.“

“What do you mean?” he asked. “But there’s a full stop as part of the question mark!”

She nodded gravely. “I know!” she said. “A lot of people find this confusing. But the speech tag belongs to the line of dialogue, it’s still part of the sentence, so it’s wrong to capitalise it.”

She reblogged the post again, because she had recently read far too many potentially enjoyable stories marred by poor dialogue punctuation.

[dechart]

I’ve only seen this post in screenshots till now..

[eddiestarchild]

NOICE. Can’t wait to use this

[magpiefngrl]

“There are two more ways"—she pointed to the blackboard—“to punctuate interruptions. One is with the em dashes outside the quotations marks to indicate continuous speech. The action occurs at the same time as speech. The other—” she sipped from a glass of water “—is em dashes within the quotation marks to indicate interrupted speech.”

[logically-devonian-blog]

How the Geneva Drive (the mechanical step that makes the second hand on a clock work by turning constant rotation into intermittent motion) works.

[thelynnfiles]

Oh snap!

[cutlerish]

As an engineer, this makes me happy.

[thefurrynerd]

If only one loop of this gif were equal to one second…

[endoshan]

easy peasy

[aibohphobia]

watching this while listening to a clock ticking is the best decision i have ever made

[puppybeargf]

[sonbr]

You may like this amazing web page then: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ It’s a full break down of how a mechanical watch works, every single part including a complication. Every diagram is interactive and beautifully put together. It’s a fantastic read, fun to play with and really informative.

[eightyonekilograms]

Seconding this recommendation, and in fact this person’s entire blog: he has multiple of these explainers and they’re all good.

In particular, if you’re a programmer who finds floating point numbers to be exotic dark magic, I strongly recommend his Exposing Floating Point post. There are many guides/tutorials on floating point arithmetic out there but IMO this is the best one and makes them really not seem so difficult by the end of it (or at least, all their counterintuitive behavior now makes sense).

[bluequillss]

theyre matching :3

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Color Theory

Color theory is a set of guidelines for mixing, combining, and manipulating colors. Color theory includes ideas like:

Color harmony: Color harmony describes color pairings that are visually pleasing and provide a sense of visual order. Color schemes based on complementary and analogous colors are generally perceived as harmonious. But, since humans respond to colors differently depending on personal preferences and life experiences, there are no universally “right” colors for achieving harmony.

Color temperature: Color temperature deals with breaking colors down into warm colors (associated with sunset and daylight) and cool colors (associated with overcast light). Experimenting with combinations of warm and cool colors can help you mix colors to achieve a particular effect.

Color context: Colors appear to behave differently when viewed in different contexts. For instance, a rusty orange may seem dull and subdued when placed beside a vivid yellow, but when paired with a dark purple, the orange suddenly seems much brighter.

Color Wheel - a circle diagram that illustrates the relationships between different colors.

Sir Isaac Newton developed the first color wheel in his 1704 book Opticks.

Newton created an asymmetrical color wheel with 7 colors—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

In 1810, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe developed a symmetrical color wheel with just 6 colors (eliminating indigo) that is similar to the one we commonly use today.

Artists and designers use color wheels to create color schemes that produce a desired artistic effect.

Primary Colors - colors that combine to make a range of other colors.

Traditionally, these are red, yellow, and blue.

In the RYB color model, the primary colors form a triadic color scheme—a group of three colors spaced evenly apart from each other on the color wheel.

When mixed, these three primary colors form many other colors.

More accurate color theories actually use different primary colors.

The CMYK color printing model deals with printed colors—cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. It is a method of subtractive color mixing in which printed colors absorb (i.e. subtract) light and combine to form a range of colors, including red, blue, and green.

The RGB color model applies to colored light—like the light that emits from a phone or computer screen; its primary colors are red, green, and blue.

The model is a method of additive color mixing, meaning that different colors of light combine (i.e. add) to form other colors, including cyan, magenta, and yellow.

Secondary Colors - the result of mixing two primary colors.

In the traditional color model, the 3 secondary colors are:

green (yellow + blue), orange (yellow + red), and purple (red + blue).

Tertiary Colors - the combination of one primary color with one secondary color.

There are 6 tertiary colors on the traditional color wheel:

magenta (red-purple), vermillion (red-orange), amber (yellow-orange), chartreuse (yellow-green), teal (blue-green), and violet (blue-purple).

Complementary Colors - colors found opposite each other on the color wheel.

Complementary color schemes include blue with orange, red with green, and yellow with purple.

These contrasting colors can make a bold statement when paired in fashion, film, photography, and other forms of art.

Analogous Colors - colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.

Analogous color schemes include yellow paired with chartreuse and green; red with vermillion and orange; and blue with teal and violet.

The 3 colors in each pairing share a common hue, so they appear to match.

Color Temperature - the way to measure the color of visible light.

The unit used to measure color temperature is degrees kelvin.

The best way to understand color temperature is to visualize a piece of metal being extended into a fire.

The color of the metal will change depending on how long it’s held in the fire and how hot it gets.

The metal will range from red to warm white to blue as it heats.

This is also the general range of colors from one end of the color temperature scale to the other.

The Kelvin Temperature Scale. The kelvin scale consists of units of measurement that relate to the color of a light source. The higher the Kelvin number, the closer it is to replicating bright sunlight. In general, higher temperatures on the kelvin scale, the whiter or bluer a light appears. The lower the number, the more yellow and red the light appears.

In order to understand the kelvin range and how kelvin color temperature applies to different light sources, it’s useful to review a few identifiable lights and their kelvin color temperature value.

Candlelight, for instance, generally has a color temperature of around 1500K.

The sunrise and sunset are usually measured around 3200K.

An overcast sky usually has a color temperature of around 9000K.

The current color temperature scale in use is known as the correlated color temperature (CCT) scale and is based around the color emitted by an incandescent bulb.

Sources: 1 2 3 ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

[no-129]

🎨color study note

[linguistness]

Best language learning tips & masterlists from other bloggers I’ve come across

(these posts are not my own!)

THE HOLY GRAIL of language learning (-> seriously tho, this is the BEST thing I’ve ever come across)

Tips:

Some language learning exercises and tips

20 Favorite Language Learning Tips

what should you be reading to maximize your language learning?

tips for learning a language (things i wish i knew before i started)

language learning and langblr tips

Tips on how to read in your target language for longer periods of time

Tips and inspiration from Fluent in 3 months by Benny Lewis

Tips for learning a sign language

Tips for relearning your second first language

How to:

how to self teach a new language

learning a language: how to

learning languages and how to make it fun

how to study languages

how to practice speaking in a foreign language

how to learn a language when you don’t know where to start

how to make a schedule for language learning

How to keep track of learning more than one language at the same time

Masterposts:

Language Study Master Post

Swedish Resources Masterpost

French Resouces Masterpost

Italian Resources Masterpost

Resource List for Learning German

Challenges:

Language-Sanctuary Langblr Challenge

language learning checkerboard challenge

Word lists:

2+ months of language learning prompts

list of words you need to know in your target language, in 3 levels

Other stuff:

bullet journal dedicated to language learning

over 400 language related youtube channels in 50+ languages

TED talks about language (learning)

Learning the Alien Languages of Star Trek

.

Feel free to reblog and add your own lists / masterlists!

[fagwithnoproblems]

saving for later

[wisteria-lodge]

Hi wisteria!! I adore your work within the shc system. I was wondering if you could explain (or link to a previous explanation) performances vs models vs systems? I'm especially having trouble with the latter of the three

That's fair. 'System' is a word I only use in the context of Bird primaries, so I just use it less.

A 'performance' is acting. You know you're 'pretending' while you do it, you don't do it while you're by yourself. Like 'customer service face' - that's a performance. (Kind of an exaggerated perky Badger performance.)

A 'model' is an additional primary or secondary you teach yourself how to use because it's fun, it's useful, it's cool, it's a coping mechanism, it's culturally required. It goes deeper than a performance and becomes 'part' of you more. You probably do keep using it while alone. Like to keep up the Badger example, there is a sort of "Good Parent" Badger secondary model a lot of people seem to think is either useful or required. BUT... if it becomes necessary, or if you don't have the extra bandwidth... you can and will drop your model.

A 'System' or a 'Truth' (I use those words kind of interchangeably...) is specific to Bird Primaries. What makes Birds Birds is the way they *decide* on their belief system, and then can change or tweak it as needed. That's what I mean by 'System' : a Bird's constructed belief system. A Bird's system might look 100% Badger, in which case I'll say they have a Badger System. But, they arrived at those same behaviors though a different process than a Badger would have, and also a Badger and and Bird with a Badger System are going to look different under pressure, and different when they Burn. So it's still a meaningful distinction.

[the-phoenix-heart]

Which house combo is the most represented in media and which one is the least represented ? (I’m betting on Badger Lion for the first.)

Full disclaimer, these are all just my theories because I do not have access to every sorting ever. And obviously there are exceptions to all of what I’m about to say. This ended up becoming a small analysis on all the sortings.  

You’re definitely right on the Badger Lion. They don’t call it the protagonist sorting for nothing. When a character just wants to help people because they’re people and they immediately jump into helping them it’s easy to get a story going and just in general they make for nice characters. 

I would also put alongside it, Lion Badger, True Lion, and True Badger. A good amount of protagonists are somewhere on the Lion and Badger spectrum because they’re, frankly, easy to write. A character who does things immediately because they know they are right?? Shounen protagonists. A rival who jumps into the fight and is in it for the glory? Yes that’s a Shounen rival. A person who does things because they are right and joins with people and cares for them? A modern spin on a classic archetypical hero. A person who does things because people are people and they want to make people feel better through kindness and teamwork? Have you watched Steven Universe and Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts?

I submit to you that the Badger secondary hero is becoming a lot more common in the modern era because there’s been a shift into shows where family and love and recovery are the main focus. While you can get that across with a Lion secondary protagonist, it’s easier when you have someone who isn’t actively trying to fight people and is instead trying to rehabilitate them. Kipo Oak from the above show is very much a True Badger and I’m fairly certain that Steven is a True Badger.

Another common sorting for opposite reasons is the Snake Bird. A villain who does things only for themselves and possibly those they are very close to by being studious and planners. They basically make for easy villains. True Snakes also get this treatment as well. True Snakes are more likely to be anti-heroes simply because if you need a trickster character who’s not really on any side you’re usually gonna have them be liars and thieves and shapeshifters-all very Snake qualities. 

Snake Lions are kind of a wildcard. They can be played as protagonists or as villains or as secondary characters. If they’re a protagonist they’ll definitely be a fan favorite-if they’re a villain/antagonist they’ll probably be a fan favorite. If you have a character who pretty much just follows their friends around and also will jump in to fight-chances are they’re a Snake Lion. They are not the most common only because Society has a tendency to think of protecting your loved ones over all else as selfish. Oh, and Snake Lions have a tendency to die a lot. 

Lion Birds are also wildcards. They are the vigilante/fed sorting, but where they stand in media is gonna depend on how they are viewed. Sometimes you end up with propaganda bots, sometimes they’re hardcore activists, sometimes they’re blinded child soldier creators, sometimes they’re somewhere in the middle. Because Lion Birds can be so many things they usually aren’t the center focus if they’re even in the story. Batman and Mulan the main character Lion Birds I’m familiar with, are weird outliers. Batman because he’s a detective first which most comic books don’t do nowadays, and Mulan because she doesn’t feel like Bird secondary, but then again Mulan never was my favorite growing up. I might be missing something. You also have Sarah Williams from Labyrinth as a main character. 

You also have Snake Badgers which I have basically no experience with. If I were hard pressed I would say Snake Badgers are love interests. They’re usually doing things for their close friends and their lover and using the people they know and working hard to get their rewards. If they aren’t a lover then they are usually the main characters super “platonic” best friend. Again Tiana is a weird outlier of a main character who is a Snake Badger (I would also count Cinderella as a Snake Badger).

I’ve touched on Lion Snakes before, but there aren’t a lot of them, and even fewer of them are unburnt in some way or not modeling anything else. Lion Snakes are usually antiheroes, or morally complex heroes. There are cases where you have a Lion Snake who just uses the Snake skillset but I wouldn’t say it’s super common. Rarely are Lion Snakes the main character, they’re usually secondary, a deuteragonist, or a member of an ensemble main squad. 

We haven’t talked about Bird primaries yet which is why we gotta touch on something. Bird primaries are the least common primary sorting. Bird primaries are the most complex and thus harder for authors to write. Plus sometimes you look at a Bird primary and you think you’ve found one when it’s really just a Burnt Lion!

The most common of the Bird primaries is probably the Bird Lion. Bird Lions make for good protagonists who are confused about their place in the world-running from idea to idea, and also morally complex characters who are figuring out truth and what their place in it is. They also work as a wildcard, but thanks to that Lion secondary which most associate with good they usually aren’t villains, or if they are they’re working for another villain. 

Bird Snakes are weird and possibly the most morally complex? @wisteria-lodge (oh hey it’s about time I @ you) classified them as the Maverick/Artist sorting which makes sense. They’re usually Birds who have their truth and now they’ve just got a project they’re working on with their improvisational secondary. They usually show up as secondary characters or villains, although that villain status is subject to change depending on what they want to do and how they want to do it. 

True Birds you’d think would be more common, but once you get out of kids shows with a stereotypical nerd character Double Birds becoming harder to locate. I personally love True Birds, but apparently others don’t. These characters might actually be the most wild card of the bunch, ranging from characters like Victor Frankenstein to Entrapta to Hannibal. 

But poor Bird Badgers might just have it the worst of the Bird primaries. There are very few examples of Bird Badgers and even though they are great examples nobody really likes to write them. They’re never the main character though. That’s just a fact. 

Once you get outta the Lion and Badger secondaries there aren’t a lot of Badger primary characters. Badger Snakes are weird because they care about people (what they have judged as people) and will do whatever they can for them, but people have this idea that caring about people and being manipulative or lying or stealing is a conflict of interests. Woody from Toy Story and the Arthur Conan Doyle version of Sherlock are examples of main character Badger Snakes, although I would call them outliers. Usually they’re in ensemble casts or side characters. 

And then you have Badger Birds, which are like, nowhere. And of the characters I’ve seen that are Badger Birds, the ones I do know have no connecting thread between them. I don’t know why characters who do things for people because they’re people and use their plans and strategies to do it are uncommon. I guess maybe it’s because the idea behind a character who does things just because they’re people is thought to be not smart because they’re too kind for braincells? Doesn’t make sense to me, but that’s the only thing I can think of. Dean Winchester is a very weird outlier for this category. For some reason mixing Badgers and Birds isn’t very common.

If you hard pressed me to make a list of all these sortings in order of their relevance in media this is what you would. 

1. Badger Lion - (The Protagonist) Examples: All Might/Yagi Toshinori (My Hero Academia), Adora (She-Ra), Amalthea (The Last Unicorn)

2. True Lion - (The Badass) Examples: Princess Leia Organa (Star Wars), Bakugou Katsuki (My Hero Academia), Ron Weasley (Harry Potter)

3. Lion Badger - (The Powerful) Examples: Captain America (Marvel), Neville Longbottom (Harry Potter), Moana (Moana)

4. Snake Bird - (The Mastermind) Examples: Jareth (Labyrinth), Crowley (Good Omens), King Haggard (The Last Unicorn)

5. True Snake - (The Trickster) Examples: Loki (Mavel), Klaus Hargreaves (The Umbrella Academy), Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place)

6. True Badger - (The Peacemaker) Examples: Steven Universe (Steven Universe), Kipo Oak (Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts), Chihiro Ogino (Spirited Away) (I place this one below Double Snake and Snake Bird as they’ve begun to rise into relevance recently-also once again there are several dark versions of this sorting) (After this the numbers get more muddled)

7. Snake Lion - (The Rebel) Examples: Darth Vader (Star Wars), Tony Stark (Marvel), Todoroki Shouto (My Hero Academia)

8. Lion Bird - (The Thoughtful) Examples: Batman (DC), Sarah Williams (Labyrinth), Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)

9. Snake Badger - (The Love Interest) Examples: Prince Lir (The Last Unicorn), Tiana (The Princess and the Frog), Jaskier (The Witcher)

10. Lion Snake - (The Independent) Examples: Hawks (My Hero Academia), Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the Caribbean), Toph (Avatar the Last Airbender)

11. Bird Lion - (The Truth-Seeker) Examples: Harry Potter (Harry Potter), Harley Quinn (DC), Luke Skywalker (Star Wars)

12. True Bird - (The Knowledge-Seeker) Examples: Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein), Entrapta (She-Ra), Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place)

13. Badger Snake - (The Take-Charge) Examples: Draco Malfoy (Harry Potter), Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)

14. Bird Snake - (The Artiste) Examples: Schmendrick (The Last Unicorn), The Joker (DC-Nolanverse), Ciri (The Witcher)

15. Bird Badger - (The Survivor) Examples: Luna Lovegood (Harry Potter), Diego Hargreaves (The Umbrella Academy), Daphne Blake (Scooby Doo)

16. Badger Bird - (The Martyr) Examples: Michael (The Good Place), Poison Ivy (DC), Dean Winchester (Supernatural)

This is me inviting my fellow sorters to talk on this post and give their thoughts on this. I’m very susceptible to error so if you think I messed something up please tell me. Or just give your regular thoughts on it because I love reading them. Also Wisteria I kinda stole your system.

[arizonaraine]

This list is everything I never knew I needed.

[writingonesdreams]

Why are Bird Badgers so unpopular to write? They are very complex, yes, but they can be really interesting?

[the-phoenix-heart]

This is a pretty old post, but Bird Badgers are still the least common so I'll try to answer.

Bird primaries are the most detached of all the primaries. Not necessarily the coldest, but they usually have the biggest picture to look at. Lion primaries are caught up in their own wants, Snakes are dedicated to their people, and Badgers are dedicated to their communities. Birds are the most likely to take a step back and see it all without emotions clouding their judgement.

The badger secondary is seen by most as a fundamentally attached secondary. They take their greatest power from people. Some people can see that as incongruous with the Bird primary.

There's also the fact that Bird primaries and badger secondaries are the least common respectively to write. Bird primaries are usually too complex and cerebral for writers and badger secondaries are usually relegated to side characters.

When I look at the Bird Badgers that I am familiar with, there is a level of chill to them. Sure, you have characters like Diego Hargreeves who have no chill ever, but then you have people like Luna, Cinderella, Daphne, characters who are curious and open, and can roll with the punches. Hardly anything can faze them.

[scifibabee]

Dialogue Punctuation Cheat Sheet

hey friends, i've found myself talking about dialogue grammar a lot as i do more and more beta'ing, so figured it'd be helpful to share more broadly :)

1. Dialogue + Tag (same sentence):

"I missed you," he said. "I missed you," Will said.

Use a comma inside the quotation marks.

Don't capitalize the dialogue tag unless it starts with a name.

2. Dialogue + Action (separate sentence):

"I missed you." He stepped closer.

Use a period inside the quotation marks.

The action isn't a dialogue tag, so it stands as its own sentence.

3. Dialogue Split in Two (same sentence continues):

"I think," he murmured, "that you should stay." "I think that," he murmured, "Will should stay."

Use a comma before closing the quotation mark and after the tag.

Don't capitalize the second part unless it's a name or proper noun.

4. Dialogue Split in Two (separate sentences):

"You're here," he said. "I wasn't sure you'd come."

Use a period after the tag, because the next quote is a new sentence.

Capitalize the new sentence of dialogue.

5. Tag + complete sentence of dialogue:

He released a breath before answering, "Always."

Use a comma after the tag.

Capitalize the complete sentence of dialogue.

6. Questions & Exclamations:

"Are you serious?" he asked. "Don't touch me!" he snapped.

Keep the ? or ! inside the quotes.

Follow with a lowercase tag unless it starts with a name.

hope this is helpful for somebody out there!!

[omghotmemes]

Senpai says you’re welcome

[quintusbenedictus]

Reblogging again because I just realized that if I had this advice in high school I would’ve never made a tumblr account.

[unpopularly-opinionated]

Also works for most of those news sites like WSJ or NYT that only let you read a little bit, or block adblockers. Also some disable the scroll bar but if you go to the right side of the console after hitting F12 and look for the CSS element “overflow” and change it from “hidden” to “visible” then you can continue scrolling for free. Might have to click around on different parts of the page to find it, but it should work.

[ralfmaximus]

There’s also a Firefox/Chrome extension called Behind The Overlay that does all that with one mouse click. Used it for years; what a time saver.

And if you encounter a true paywall, use Archive.Today to bypass it. Just paste the paywalled url into the blue “search archived snapshots” box near the bottom:

[starsandskiees]

This is the only tiktok you’ll ever need, I’ve made about 13 of these and I’m not stopping anytime soon

[lunarcatninja]

I’m reblogging again because I did it myself and added pictures for those who have trouble learning from the video.

First take a standard rectangular piece of paper (I used one from a small notebook which I ripped out then cut the holes off)

Then fold in half touching the shorter side to the opposite shorter side.

Fold again making the new shorter side touch the other new shorter side

I did this one more time, but this time I unfolded it right after to get back to where it was only folded twice. It should have left a crease in the paper.

Using this crease, fold the corners up alongside it to look like this

This are also going to be unfolded, but this time you’re going to push in alongside the triangular folds you just made and undid.

Doing this once will result in this

Hold tight because tumblr won’t let me add more pictures. I’ll reblog will the rest of the instructions

[lunarcatninja]

Continuing on,

Do the other side of you haven’t already to get this

You’ll open these newly created flap to change which parts are touching

Leaving you with this

Then you start pulling the top “tabs” down

Do both sides to get the final folded form

Decorate as desired.

Hope this helps!

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Ratio for the rectangle size is 2:3

So 6 cm by 9cm

[cottonkhaleesi]

I uh, lost an evening:

Thanatos knows that I hecking love cute origami, and moths, so really, what was I supposed to do, scroll past and not take the opportunity to make butterfly and moth page markers???

[kaiserouo]

i love this image

[haru-dipthong]

I’ve been having trouble putting this idea into words so you’ll have to bear with me, but I was struck when I saw a Japanese news program interviewing foreign tourists in Japan, and some australian women were dubbed over with a stereotypically feminine speech register (lots of のs and わs), and my first thought was “they weren’t speaking that femininely in english”.

A friend of mine from the UK recently mentioned that he noticed that australia has a generally more masculine culture than england - he felt that everyone is a bit more masculine here, including women. This kind of confirmed to me that my impressions of the dubbing were right - the tourists were speaking in a relatively (internationally) more masculine way. Yet their dub made them sound so much more feminine.

It made me wonder. When translating something, do you translate the manner of speaking “directly”, or “relatively” in terms of cultural norms? Maybe this graph will help me explain the question.

A direct appoach in this case might appear to a Japanese person to result in an unexpectedly masculine register, but preserves how the speaker's cultural upbringing has influenced their speech.

The news program translators chose the relative approach - I think I would prefer the direct approach. I think I prefer it because I believe translation should be a rewriting of the original utterance as if the speaker was originally speaking the target language, and the direct approach compliments that way of thinking the best.

Actually now that I type that, I’m second guessing myself. Does it? It does, if for the purposes of the “rewrite it as if they spoke japanese” thought experiment, we suppose the speaker magically learned japanese seconds before making the utterance, but what if we suppose the speaker magically grew up learning japanese - then maybe they would conform to the relative cultural values. But also, maybe they would never have said such a thing in the first place - their original utterance was informed by their upbringing and cultural values, so how could you possibly know what they would have said if they had known japanese from birth? Maybe my initial instinct was right after all?

If you work in translation, I’m very interested to hear if you have come across this problem and how you deal with it 🙏

Further reading: I think this question also ties into this problem I’ve been struggling to answer for a while.

[losttranslator]

me when people ask me how to say "I don't care" in french

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The IASIP meme of Charlie Kenny gesturing wildly at a conspiracy board, with the second picture added to his papers - the second picture being a table with 7 columns classifying an exhaustive number of ways of saying "I don't care" in French, based on how common, vulgar and funny they each are.

Column 1: Socially acceptable and common: -Je m’en fiche -J’en ai rien à faire* (*less formal variation of “Je n’en ai rien à faire” which still belongs to this category)

Column 2: Vulgar and common enough to not be shocking: -Je m’en fous -(J’en ai) rien à foutre

Column 3: More vulgar, and common with a ‘teenage’ connotation: -(Je)* m’en tape -(Je) m’en branle -(Je) m’en balec’ -(Je) m’en bats les couilles -(J’en ai) rien à battre -(J’en ai) rien à branler -”Balec’” (* omitting “je” is frequent and makes the expression even less formal)

Column 4: ‘Familiar’ (only somewhat vulgar, completely informal) and uncommon enough to be considered somewhat funny: -J’en ai* rien à carrer -J’en ai* rien à cirer -Je m’en tamponne (le coquillard) -Je m’en balance -J’en ai* rien à péter (* can be replaced with “Je n’en ai rien à …” to give it a formal connotation, in which case the expression belongs to category 6)

Column 5: Socially acceptable and uncommon/formal enough to be considered funny: -Je m’en contrefiche -Je m’en soucie comme d’une guigne -J’en ai rien à fiche

Column 6: Vulgar and uncommon, somewhat formal: -Je m’en contrefous

Column 7: Socially acceptable and very uncommon / very formal, enough to sound snobbish (and therefore a bit funny): -Peu m’importe -Il m’importe peu -Je n’en ai cure -Je ne m'en soucie guère

[linguistness]

Best language learning tips & masterlists from other bloggers I’ve come across

(these posts are not my own!)

THE HOLY GRAIL of language learning (-> seriously tho, this is the BEST thing I’ve ever come across)

Tips:

Some language learning exercises and tips

20 Favorite Language Learning Tips

what should you be reading to maximize your language learning?

tips for learning a language (things i wish i knew before i started)

language learning and langblr tips

Tips on how to read in your target language for longer periods of time

Tips and inspiration from Fluent in 3 months by Benny Lewis

Tips for learning a sign language

Tips for relearning your second first language

How to:

how to self teach a new language

learning a language: how to

learning languages and how to make it fun

how to study languages

how to practice speaking in a foreign language

how to learn a language when you don’t know where to start

how to make a schedule for language learning

How to keep track of learning more than one language at the same time

Masterposts:

Language Study Master Post

Swedish Resources Masterpost

French Resouces Masterpost

Italian Resources Masterpost

Resource List for Learning German

Challenges:

Language-Sanctuary Langblr Challenge

language learning checkerboard challenge

Word lists:

2+ months of language learning prompts

list of words you need to know in your target language, in 3 levels

Other stuff:

bullet journal dedicated to language learning

over 400 language related youtube channels in 50+ languages

TED talks about language (learning)

Learning the Alien Languages of Star Trek

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Feel free to reblog and add your own lists / masterlists!

[indigostudies]

cool new language resource i just discovered: lingotrack! it functions somewhat like polylogger, allowing you to log your activity for languages, but, more than that, it has an explore section where you can find media that's in a particular language, such as books, tv shows, films, etc! one of the hardest things when you reach a more proficient level of a language is finding media in that language to engage with, so i think this is probably a good resource, or at least a place to get started. besides the explore function, there's also collections of media/resources, and a library function where you can add your own resources. it does require you to have a paid account to log study time for multiple languages (the free version allows you one primary language), but the other aspects seem to be available to free users in their entirety!