bona to vada your dolly old eek!

Hil - Palonomi

[palarepolari]

Ik sprak gisteren een beetje Nederlands in de apotheek!! Da waren een paar Nederlandse, op vakantie ik beloof, en zij zagen "ah sorrie, oh no I mean sorry, I was speaking Dutch by accident!" EN IK ZAG "Ah nee het gaat me goed, ik leer Nederlands" en wij hadden een korte conversatie daar, voordat wij alle onze dingen krijgten en gingen. War lief :) ik leer maar sinds januari maar ik vind dat het werkt!

[pusheenthenerdcat]

EVERYONE PLEASE GO READ ABOUT THIS HISTORICALLY QUEER LINGUSTIC SUBCULTURE WITH YIDDISH AND ROMANI INFLUENCES

i have learned so much cool shit in the three minutes of experiencing this article

[diamondsandphoenixfire]

I have definitely said “zhoosh it up” for “add a little extra something!”

[amanufacturedheaven]

Rare Language Learning: Polari

If you have ever used the words:

- Naff

- Butch

- Camp

You have unknowingly been speaking the sociolect known as Polari, the language of queer people primarily used in the 30s to the 70s. Polari is now an endangered language, as labelled by the University of Cambridge

Something of note: Many resources out there imply (or state) that Polari was a language invented and used solely by white cis gay men, which is decidedly untrue. Many words of Polari come from drag culture, lesbians, and the Romani people and their language. The use of ‘the language of British gay men’ may be a more palatable title to the general public, but it is not to me. I did my best to curate a variety of resources, but unfortunately much of queer history has been lost many more decades than I’ve been alive, if you have any other resources for studying Polari I would love to read them, message me or leave a link in the replies.

Articles

Learn Polari, the Secret Language of the Gays ⚢ Out Magazine

Polari: The code language gay men used to survive ⚢ BBC

Polari and the Hidden History of Gay Seafarers ⚢ National Museums Liverpool

The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language ⚢ Fabulosa!

Polari People ⚢ Fabulosa!

Polari: a language born from prejudice ⚢ Englishpanish

The secretive gay language that gave LGBTQ people a voice ⚢ GAYTIMES

A brief history of Polari: the curious after-life of the dead language for gay men ⚢ The Conversation

Study Material

The Polari Bible ⚢ Internet Archive

Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang ⚢ Internet Archive

Sociolinguistics / Polari ⚢ StudySmarter

FlashCards ⚢ Quizlet

New Polari Translator ⚢ LingoJam

Polari: A sociohistorical study of the life and decline of a secret language. ⚢ Dissertation, University of Manchester

Polari: a language born from prejudice ⚢ Englishpanish

Simon Bowkett: a short blog in Polari for LGBT+ History Month ⚢ Civil Service LGBT+ Network

[luimnigh]

So a documentary in Irish came on in the background, and it reminded me that the Irish for "husband" and "wife" are "fear céile" and "bean céile".

"Céile" means "spouse" or "companion", and "fear" and "bean" are just "man" and "woman".

"Man spouse/companion" and "woman spouse/companion".

But "céile" shows up in other phrases. Most prominently, in the phrase "le chéile", which means "together" but would literally translate "with companion".

But there's also "céilí" or "céilidh", which would literally translate as "companions", but actually means "social call/social evening" or a irish dancing party/competition.

[palarepolari]

It's been a shada journo with the old scheming cheat, girls. I can nishta halted pensing in toot the kervare chooses that were trolling roughshod over my poor bijou vida this temple letzta annie... maintain the bijou butterfly in my neck has carked it and halted its searches to ferricadooza me (literally) I'm sensing mucho dollier, but Madam dePrime remains in her latty, I guess. And I need to start parlaring your actual Polari again.

[palarepolari]

Ooh, vada that, another kervare journo with the old scheming cheat. Madame dePrime not only remains in her latty but has been hammering away at an extension of late. Just a manful of journos after I scribed that last post, some shada naff ferricadoozad my actual vida (Duchess Gloria I beseech Thee battyfang that cackbag) and nanty senses to have trolled bona since. When I pence that I was "sensing mucho dollier" (mme dPr not to be screeched of) it fairs tooting so mucho shadarer

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[hachama]

This joyful person is Mark Kanemura! He hosted socially distant dance parties on Instagram during the early covid shut downs, and is a professional dancer.

[palarepolari]

It's been a shada journo with the old scheming cheat, girls. I can nishta halted pensing in toot the kervare chooses that were trolling roughshod over my poor bijou vida this temple letzta annie... maintain the bijou butterfly in my neck has carked it and halted its searches to ferricadooza me (literally) I'm sensing mucho dollier, but Madam dePrime remains in her latty, I guess. And I need to start parlaring your actual Polari again.

[genderoutlaws]

Sadie Sadie The Rabbi Lady — Jewish drag queen, activist and founding member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

ph: Jean-Baptiste Carhaix | 1983

[palarepolari]

when you vada a dolly palone and you’re like oh dios what a dish

[palarepolari]

hic bona nishta troll where i vada it trolling. im nanty lattysnapper and i’ve nanti wish to be.

[palarepolari]

Uney mass tempo for the shada uneys just trolling in 😘

[palarepolari]

what possessed me to sess this way? now my lallies are out of their latties UGH

[palarepolari]

So your dolly palone is hypermobile...

[prettylittlelyres]

Curls of Smoke - Chapter 3 - now available to read on Wattpad!

After his girlfriend’s manipulative behaviour reaches a terrifying peak, Florian Fleet leaves the school he attended with her and applies for a place somewhere new: on the ballet course at Oxworth Arts Academy. Healing from the trauma of that abusive relationship and struggling to keep his father happy, Florian’s new life is rocky to say the least. But shocking news from home is about to make it even more difficult, and Florian’s world will never be the same again.

“Don’t be upset?!” shrieked Kayla, “Of course I’m upset! Why wouldn’t I be upset?! You’d rather spend time with Trina’s brother than with me!” She jerked her head in Charlie’s direction. “Yeah, I know you’re eavesdropping!”

Charlie closed his sketchbook and put it in his bag. “To be honest, Kayla, it’s hard not to overhear. I’m in the same room, and you’re shouting.”

“Get out of my studio!” Kayla snarled at him, throwing her bag in his direction. It fell short, but made him flinch all the same. “God, you’re pathetic.”

“Fine, I’ll wait outside,” Charlie said, flinging up his hands in exasperation, “Duchess Gloria! Shada to vada you’ve venayed to class in such a kervare stink, but maybe it’s nanty but a shoddy journo.”

Chapter Four is also now available! I’m making the first upload of each month a double-feature, so I’ll be uploading two chapters in the first week of January, February, etc. as well.

[prettylittlelyres]

I had lots of fun writing Charlie’s dialogue in this chapter, too - first time I’ve written anything in Polari for quite a while - and am so glad I chose to expand the opening sequence of this book so that I could give his character more development.

The usual warnings apply for Kayla’s hideous (emotionally manipulative, psychologically / verbally abusive) behaviour. Also (hopefully won’t trigger anyone but to be on the safe side - and it gets worse in later chapters so TW then anyway!) warning for unwanted advances in Chapter 3.

[palarepolari]

Bona journo, duckies! I've scrived a novo glossy with a character qui palares your actual Polari tongue!

[palarepolari]

Sharp beak, razor claws, murder in his eyes, Duo is his name-o.

And he says go and practice.

And he knows where you live.

[palarepolari]

Tà geansaí aige. (tah Gansey egger)

He has a sweater.

That's all he has.

[palarepolari]

@wtfduolingo

Today's Hindi lesson got existential. For reference, I started learning two weeks ago today and this is what it decides to throw at me.

ID

Duolingo asks me to translate "What is tea? What is water? Who am I?" with the following options available for the answer:

1. What is tea? What is water? Who am I?

2. What is tea? What is water? Who am Raj?

3. What is tea? What is akhbir? Who am I?"

Curiously, the first option is almost word for word what goes through my head when I forget to drink water right before going to sleep, and then wake up dehydrated.

[prettylittlelyres]

Chapter Nineteen of "This Still Happens" is now available to read on Wattpad!

(If you like hurt-comfort, this one's for you!)

"But then there's a noise outside, or she sees something out of the corner of her eye, and Mrs Paulson jumps to her feet, peering out of the window. "Oh, thank the Lord," she whispers, pressing the tips of her fingers against her collarbone."

"But then there's a noise outside, or she sees something out of the corner of her eye, and Mrs Paulson jumps to her feet, peering out of the window. "Oh, thank the Lord," she whispers, pressing the tips of her fingers against her collarbone."

[scriptlgbt]

How do I write about a character’s strictly homosexual grandparent born in the 1910s? That would mean that they had to have straight sex and an unhappy coerced marriage to fit in in order to have children since there is pretty much no way they could have adopted or had ivf or surrogates back then. Unless I make both grandparents are strictly homosexual and didn’t actually have sex to make children, but that is still fitting in...??

Adoption did actually exist then! 

It’s existed throughout history. 

The formalities of it have varied, however, as well as the reasons one might adopt. But adoption has always been an option. I would almost argue that it was easier to adopt in the past as things had less paperwork and vetting, even going so far as circumstances where children were taken from their parents without parents knowing they were safe. (This still happens today of course, especially with racialized kids. The foster care system needs a lot more care involved and needs to be abolished for some communities with pre-existing cultural systems for dealing with childcare and such.)

You might also look into the concept of “foundlings” which were children who were abandoned and taken in by others. This is the term for the “doorstep children” you often hear about in historical and fantasy settings. It doesn’t happen so much now, as generally these circumstances are much easier to investigate with DNA testing, security cameras, more thorough witness tracking and interviews, and so on, and parents who do this can be found and prosecuted for child abandonment. But it has happened a lot, all throughout history, especially in communities and societies that stigmatized pregnancy and children born out of wedlock.

Regarding your question, I would just suggest having it be an adoption scenario.

 You could also have a trans or intersex parent. (If you do have an intersex parent, I would look into the different intersex conditions and pick one specifically that would work in this circumstance, because they are not interchangeable.)

I also want to add this, but to be super clear, I want to clarify that this is not intended as a callout or correction. I just figure if you don’t already have this info, it might be a good supplement for information regarding terminology and historical realism.

I figure maybe you might know this part, but in the interest of just-in-case, and because it was worded this way in the question, I want to add this info. The term homosexual, while more commonly used in the past (including the era you’re writing about), is a clinical term for an antiquated diagnosis that is generally pejorative these days, in the English language anyway. At the time frame that you are describing, in most of the English speaking world, while homosexual was still used, there were still other phrases and slang and whatnot that people used. One of the terms was “similisexual” (link is to a book on WikiSource published in 1910 using this word) and there were several others too. 

Especially with stigma and criminalization, people found language to use to allude to who they were and talk in language only each other could understand. (Polari, etc.) I might suggest doing some research into the variety of language used at the time to at least add some variety and a nod to the folks who are very uncomfortable with the term homosexual. Not everyone is of course, and some people prefer it. But it’s worth it to mix it up. 

Also, tangentially, but another thing, it’s not necessarily straight sex especially if no one involved is straight. That’s one of those things where the people involved get to define it. (So you as a writer would, with your characters, but you don’t need to keep it uniform if you feel like your characters might feel differently about it.)

Thank you for asking this stuff!

- mod nat