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beleester

>#I love how this gag would be funny at any point since the third century BCE

motherfucker-unlimited

Germans completely outdid the english language by calling tv a farseer. They got their orcish shamans to name that shit

inoffizielles-deutschland

tagged by the @the-ghost-bird (thank you!!) to put my on repeat playlist on shuffle and post the first 10 songs (shuffled my entire library bc thats what i do when i don't listen to smth specific)

skin to bone - linkin Park

the tain part iii - the decemberists

the conflict of the mind - Aurora

save me for a day - Amanda Jenssen

ricardo brennand - redkattseven

(i just) died in your arms - cutting crew

how - daughter

burnin for you - blue öyster cult

the thief - Infinite mass

atrophy - infinity frequencies

i tag: @komplikacije @wandererunlost @quatregats @fuer-diesen-sommer @culmaer

#literally how did it manage to avoid every single of my non English songs #tag game

got tagged in two very similar games by @the-ghost-bird and @wandererunlost (thank you both!!!) so i decided to just combine them!

Last Song - utopia by goldfrapp

Last Series - watched a season of project runway bc we needed smth new for dinner time, can't recommend in any way, having contestants bully a trans woman on camera and seeing everyone calling it annoying drama (if they said anything) was disgusting fr, I'm getting mad thinking about it right now

Last Movie - in the mood for love (my fav)

Current Obsession - my (and my bfs) forever project Rauchschleier

Currently Reading - im on page ten of everything was forever, until it was no more by Alexei yurchak, which i got from the library but I've been very bad at reading and i won't be able to extend the loan again so we'll see how it goes

Currently Working on - Rauchschleier long term, black of night (idk title isn't decided) a little shorter term but i mean it's still 100 pages of comic, and also just generally trying to make illustrations but coming up with stuff out of context isn't my strong suit, but i neeeeed the painting practice so I'm trying to come up with a theme to help me steer at least

Last Search - glyn warren philpot the great pan (couldn't find it)

Tea or Coffee - neither

Fav Fruit - how could i choose... I'll say red currants bc i want some right now

Fav Flower - again... how could i choose, i love all flowers that look like little stars, all kinds of roses, i could name so many i love if i could remember their god damn Names lmao

Fav Colour - grey

i tag : @quatregats @fuer-diesen-sommer @komplikacije @culmaer @aefensteorrra

#tag game

ozempicofficial

absolutehumandisaster

Viktig fråga för sweblr

Bästa översättningen av "mutuals"?

ömsisar

bekanta

varför ställa två hotta brudar mot varandra?

något annat (dela med klassen!)

not a swedish speaker but wants to clicky button

Voting ended onJun 12

#why give up the Swedish tradition of using English words (badly) now #i suggest mutjäl

grimeclown

I don't know which of you needs to hear this but "narc" is not short for "narcissist" when someone calls you a "narc" for snitching they are calling you a "narcotics officer"

gaesnek

monkey-mulch

technically narc isnt even short for narcotics officer its just cant for Cop, I believe Roma in origin

red-mercer

I read years ago in a book that it was derived from nakk, Romani for nose, as in someone who always has their nose in other people's business

grimeclown

ITS DERIVED FROM "NARCO" AS IN "NARCOTICS" WHAT FUCKING BOOK

grimeclown

Okay you know what pulling back on my derision because i can see how this mistake would be made but narc and nark are etymologically unrelated

slunch

tl;dr: all "algorithmically" pushed stuff on a newsfeed is mostly ads. nothing that's really surprising form this vulture article, but it is dismal and makes me grateful for one website where you only see things from people you follow WITHOUT horrible short-form video content

bitchking-of-angmar

What if every viral song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama in recent memory was the result of a stealth marketing campaign?

https://web.archive.org/web/20260515113210/https://www.vulture.com/article/social-media-feeds-chaotic-good-projects-clipping.html

Have a paywall free link to the source!

succumbing-song

dragon-in-a-fez

#lmao

hauntanelle

one time my friend and i came up with a basic “language” called wheat vegetable root. wheat represented every noun. vegetable represented every verb. root represented every adjective. it was very body language based. if my friend beckoned and said “vegetable”, i understood that my friend was telling me to walk with them. if my friend pointed to something and said “wheat”, i understood that they were showing me something. if they said “root wheat” and smiled, they’re saying this thing is good. if they say “root wheat” and frown, they’re saying this thing is bad. we spent a whole day talking like this and drove the rest of our friends insane.

foxgloves-garden

Got reminded of this post because someone liked my reply to it. Almost immediately afterward, we got a discord DM with some good news. Guess what the brain's autofill decided we were gonna say in response? That's right. Root wheat.

2productive

sirenofthegreenbanks

this is from "research as a leisure activity" by celine nguyen, publs. on stubstack in 2024. it's a very good read

1000-life-hacks

spraakentusiast

*gutenberg.org

firebatvillain

One fun thing about learning new languages is reconsidering the structure of words and language in your mother tongue. It seems with each new language I study, I get more little insights into English, either in how it's similar or how it's different.

For example, a couple years ago, while learning Spanish, I encountered the word for a store, "la tienda." I thought "huh, that's a lot like tener (tiene) - the word for store in Spanish literally corresponds to 'to have/keep'. How interesting!"

Then I stopped for a moment, and for the first time in my life, thought about seriously about the meaning of English word for the place where you buy things, "a store."

thatlittleegyptologist

There are times when I think 'yeah I have a PhD, but it's only in the study of Ancient Egypt' and then the little bitch voice who screamed at me to get up during the depression I experienced during writing it re-emerges and just sticks something like this in the forefront of my mind:

It forces me to remember that, no, it wasn't 'just about Ancient Egypt'. My ass can read that with no issue. Not many people can do that. It's a skill, and one many people with a lot less skill in it will try to square up on. It feels egotistical, but at the end of the day, no, I do know more about this than most people.

Downside of this is that as soon as you learn the sentence structure for the Egyptian language, most people's attempts at faux hieroglyphs on things become so laughably fake it's kinda painful. Also people who use hieroglyphs in usernames to mean something else. Best one I saw was a guy using the 'enemy with axe embedded in their skull' hieroglyph as 'guys getting down at the club'. I mean they were at the club, but like the receiving end.

hyperspacial

she should be at the club

the club in question:

thatlittleegyptologist

#Being able to read hieroglyphics is such a flex #I got a BS in history and all I got was a 60 page paper on pharma bankruptcy in the 80s so. Wish had left academia with something useful

I can flex harder? I can read Old, Middle, and Late Egyptian, which is like reading Old, Middle, and Modern English. I can also read Hieratic, which is the shorthand form of the Hieroglyphic script, and I can do that in all those three languages too. On top of that, I can read Coptic. On top of that again, I am familiar with (academic) French, German (when brain is in gear), Spanish, and Italian. I have other languages, but those are the ones I'm most competent in.

ospreyonthemoon

That is incredibly impressive. Good job!

melonbride

where can you learn hieratic? how does it compare to the hieroglyphs? is there a one-to-one conversion between the logographs between the two?

thatlittleegyptologist

I learned Hieratic at university as part of my MA degree. It required me knowing Old, Middle, and Late Egyptian before I even started to learn it because you have to know what it is you're looking at. I don't know of anywhere you can learn it properly outside of an academic institution.

No, it's not a one to one conversion. I said it's like shorthand, and I meant that. Each sign has its own form, but it's not necessarily anything like the sign it represents. They're quick forms of the signs, designed to be written in ink rather than carved in stone (because they really didn't write in full glyphs in ink unless they were doing something special like a Book of the Dead, and even then that's called Cursive Hieroglyphs) and often they're just lines because there's an assumption that the reader is familiar with what *should* be there.

This is the difference:

The second image here is the *original* text, whereas the first image is the transcribed version into hieroglyphs which is easier for most Egyptologists to parse than the Hieratic original.

Some signs *might* look like their hieroglyphic counterpart, but the majority of them have a different form all together, and you have to be able to parse that. For instance, you have to know what you're looking at to understand that:

The full section is easier, but you still have to know some things:

You've really got to know what you're looking at to understand that the edge of the cartouche, the sun symbol, and the wsr (jackal head on a stick) symbol are all rolled into that sign that looks like a 13.

It ain't easy.

It's one for one on the number of marks on the page but not for what it looks like, and it all depends on the handwriting too. Some are better at writing than others, and some had more time to write. The text above is a legal text recorded at the time the trials were happening, so it's quick and messy. Something like P.Ebers, a medical papyrus, is much neater because it was copied up cleanly.