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[phantaksi]

intro

i'm learning french and modern greek! i speak english and russian natively

here's my art sideblog

[decafblackberrymora]

noob vs pro vs hacker

[phantaksi]

do you know what they needed that many for T_T i can barely grasp εκείνος in modern

also more on modern greek: what even is τούτος. this bad boy can fit so many demonstratives

[decafblackberrymora]

ekeinos i'm pretty sure is just "that". like that thing, which is away from the speaker/listener. εκείνος ο άνθρωπος -> that man.

τούτος is uhh... i think it's just a more formal thing of αυτός/εκείνος? i don't see it used often outside of fixed expressions

yeah i have no clue what they needed that many 3d person pronouns for. i think ὅδε was their version of εδώ. αὐτός and εκεῖνος were the same. probably. don't take my word for it. οὗ i think is a possessive thing? (of the top of my head)

[decafblackberrymora]

noob vs pro vs hacker

[phantaksi]

do you know what they needed that many for T_T i can barely grasp εκείνος in modern

also more on modern greek: what even is τούτος. this bad boy can fit so many demonstratives

[theeroins]

random hc η μαρίνα έβαλε στη θεοφανία να ακούσει chappell roan κι εκείνη πέρασε ένα ολόκληρο σκ προσπαθώντας να μάθει στο ταγματάρχη το χορό του hot to go

[theeroins]

+ bonus παρασκευάς που φλεξάρει τις φιγούρες του σε ταγμ. και κεφάλι 🥹

[real-language-facts]

resurrected a dead language and it came back wrong

[siena-sevenwits]

@swinging-stars-from-satellites, how right you are.

[everydaylouie]

cat game

[coffeenuts]

[catmask]

many people ask 'how do i know my art is good enough to start a comic'. this is a very common mistake. you do not make a comic to make good art you make comics because its fun and looked yummy

[neshamama]

every nation's government every single one mind you can get fucked but the land they attempt to control and poison in the name of power is divinely imbued so on national holidays i think of landscape

like in 1972 when shin joong hyun was ordered to write a song celebrating the president (a military dictator) park chung hee and he came up with ten minutes of psychedelic meditation on the korean landscape. so they cut his hair, had him arrested and tortured, and banned his music for years. ever since i figured that was the true way to celebrate your country, especially in the bad times, look to "beautiful rivers and mountains."

[republique-francaise-officiel]

Imaginez si les cinés étaient comme les trains et au milieu de la séance un contrôleur se faufilait entre les sièges dans le noir pour contrôler les tickets de cinéma

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[wonderbitchin]

This woman takes care of abused cats. This particular cat is Keci, he was accidentally stepped on as a kitten causing him to suffer from seizures, neurological issues, and limited motor control. The music calms and soothes him

[decafblackberrymora]

the guitar work on money for nothing (1985) is the closest the human race have ever gotten to hearing the voice of god

[decafblackberrymora]

if i had a dollar for each time i've been fooled by a neuter noun ending in -ος thinking it was masculine i could pay for a greek tutor

[phantaksi]

to other greek learners: for more emotional damage, see *η* άβυσσος

[decafblackberrymora]

appaerently they dont use "courriel" outside of canada? yall just calling it email? courrier électronique? losers

[oneheadtoanother]

idk anything about this but I love it

[phantaksi]

lots of trendy language model related words come from greek! these one's etymologies are interesting

from wiktionary:

stochastic

From Ancient Greek στοχαστικός (stokhastikós), from στοχάζομαι (stokházomai, “aim at a target, guess”), from στόχος (stókhos, “an aim, a guess”).

sycophantic

From Ancient Greek σῡκοφᾰντῐκός (sūkophăntĭkós).[1][2] By surface analysis, sycophant +‎ -ic. σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) +‎ φαίνω (phaínō, “show”) +‎ -της (-tēs, masculine agent-noun suffix). συκοφάντης is a false friend of English sycophant, since the modern meaning of the English word is different. Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek συκοφάντης (sukophántēs, “informant”).[1] But how a φάντης (“who shows”) σῦκα (sûka, “figs”) came to mean "informant", is debated. First attested in 1537. From Latin sȳcophanta (“informer, trickster”), from Ancient Greek συκοφάντης (sukophántēs), itself from σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “to show, demonstrate”). The gesture of "showing the fig" was a vulgar one, which was made by sticking the thumb between two fingers, a display which vaguely resembles a fig, which is itself symbolic of a σῦκον (sûkon), which also meant vulva. The story behind this etymology is that politicians in ancient Greece steered clear of displaying that vulgar gesture, but secretly urged their followers to taunt their opponents by using it.

behold, a sycophant:

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

I'm probably never going to find it again, but there was a response to one of those "artworks we think we can make" posts that was like "Okay, go for it." Like, dead serious.

Are you going to come out of it with a Klein-level work? No. Dude was bonkers skilled. But I am here to tell you that if you've ever gone to Home Depot and shuffled through paint chips and been like "God, this is such a gorgeous color, I fucking love this color" and then immediately been like "...but I can't imagine painting a wall with it." and bought a can of soul-killing eggshell off-white or what the fuck ever, you absolutely can go pick up a $10 canvas from a craftstore and a $5 sample of that color and just hang 6 square feet of it on a wall and enjoy the fuck out of it.

For real, buds. If you see an artwork and you're like "Shit, I could have made that," that is a reminder that god can't stop you and probably neither can science.