Suessolok's Blog

It me, I'm a guy living in San Diego makin' music and makin' friends. This is my blog where I just like stuff.

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From Wikipedia:

Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte (Spanish for Our Lady of Holy Death), often shortened to Santa Muerte, is a female deity or folk saint in Mexican and Mexican-American folk Catholicism. A personification of death, she is associated with healing, protection, and safe delivery to the afterlife by her devotees. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, her cult has become increasingly prominent since the 2000s.

The worship of Santa Muerte is condemned by the Catholic Church in Mexico as invalid, but it is increasingly firmly entrenched in Mexican culture.

Santa Muerte is also seen as a protector of homosexual, bisexual, and transgender communities in Mexico, since many are considered to be outcast from society. Many LGBT people ask her for protection from violence, hatred, disease, and to help them in their search for love.

Her intercession is commonly invoked in same-sex marriage ceremonies performed in Mexico. The Iglesia Católica Tradicional México-Estados Unidos, also known as the Church of Santa Muerte, recognizes gay marriage and performs religious wedding ceremonies for homosexual couples.

Man how did I not know about this magical gay skeleton queen until today?

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Santa Muerte is a pretty interesting saint when it comes to Mexican syncretism. Because her worship is both very highly praised but also not depending where you are. So in some places, worshipping Santa Muerte - everyone does, she is loved and praised. But in some places you do not openly say that - which is very different from any other saint.

And it’s because not only is she a saint of death and the protector of the LGBT, but also for people who work in places that the Catholic Church would normally heavily condone: prostitutes, gang members, pickpockets, traffickers, coyotes (people who help others cross the border) and so on. Because in those lines of work: 1) You’re at high risk of death and 2) no other saint is going to protect you in something that can be considered sinful. So Santa Muerte is sometimes seen as a controversial saint to say the least.

However, common to misconception she is by no means a bad saint. Arguably, a fairly neutral saint because she is death and death is the great equalizer. Which is in part why she became the patron saint of LGBT people - because in death’s eyes, everyone is the same. And also Mexico in some areas is still reeeeeally bad when it comes to accepting gay rights. It’s getting better and I’m glad my homeland is, but there’s more work to be done.

Also, if you want to do any Santa Muerte worship you can always light a prayer candle for her. Different colors represent different things you ask of Santa Muerte:

red - you are asking for guidence in love and passion

gold - you are asking for security or help with monetary affairs

green - you are asking for protection from crime and for justice to occur

purple - you are asking for physical or spiritual healing

brown - you pray for the wisdom to help see you through a crisis

black - you are asking for protection or rightful vengence of a wrondoing

white - you are giving Santa Muerte gratitude

Now for anyone who knows anything about patron saints, it should strike you as weird that one of the candle colors acceptable is black. Because normally in Mexican syncreticism, black candles are a big no-no. Black candles often associate with black magic, witchcraft, brujeria or Satanism. But with Muerte it’s seen more as magical protection. However at a public shrine never offer a black candle, that could make you lok very suspicious as you might be asking Muerte to seek vengeance and that could land you in hot water. It’s better to light a black candle at home.

Also, this goes without saying but, don’t light a candle for vengeance because that’s a very grave offer and it’s not a normal thing that is called upon Muerte. Usually the black candle is protection (especially protection from bad magic).

Source: I grew up in a very Mexican family and beign LGBT, she is indeed a patron saint of mine.

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Transcript:

*Gen 1 Pokemon cry*

- Let’s go Peggy!

- HAaAH!

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How to teach yourself linguistics online for free

Wish you were enrolled in an intro linguistics class this semester? Starting a linguistics major and looking for extra help? Trying to figure out whether you should study linguistics and what comes after?  Whether you’re just trying to grasp the basics of linguistics or you’re trying to construct a full online linguistics course, here’s a comprehensive list of free linguistics websites, podcasts, videos, blogs, and other resources from around the internet: 

Linguistics Podcasts

Specific episodes:

The International Phonetic Alphabet

Constituency

Gricean Maxims

Kids These Days aren’t ruining language

Learning languages linguistically

Podcasts in general:

Lingthusiasm

The History of English Podcast

Talk the Talk

Lexicon Valley

The World in Words

A Way With Words

Linguistics Videos

Modular topics:

NativLang (cartoons)

The Ling Space

Tom Scott’s Language Files

Arika Okrent (whiteboard videos)

Structured video series like an online course:  

Introduction to Linguistics (TrevTutor)

Another intro linguistics series (DS Bigham)

Phonology (TrevTutor)

Mathematical linguistics (TrevTutor)

Syntax (TrevTutor)

Another syntax series following the chapter structure of a free online syntax textbook (Caroline Heycock)

The Virtual Linguistics Campus at Marburg University

Blog posts

General

How much do I need to know before taking intro linguistics? (Spoiler: not much) 

28 tips for doing better in your intro linguistics course

How to find a topic for your linguistics essay or research paper

For typesetting linguistics symbols: What is LaTeX and why do linguists love it? (with sample LaTeX doc to download and modify).

Further linguistics resources about specific areas, such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition (first/second), historical linguistics, neurolinguistics, prescriptivism. 

Phonetics & Phonology

How to make your own paper model of the larynx

Teaching phonetics using lollipops

How to remember the IPA vowel chart

How to remember the IPA consonant chart

IPA transcription practice

A detailed explanation of sonorants, obstruents, and sonority

A very elaborate Venn diagram of English phonological features

The basics of how Optimality Theory works, with coffee analogy

Allophones of /t/, explained with internet gifs

Several good visualizations and explanations of the vocal tract

How to type IPA on your phone (Android and iOS) 

Various ways to type IPA on a computer

Morphology & Syntax

Morphological typology cartoons

So you asked the internet how to draw syntax trees. Here’s why you’re confused.

Types of trees: a sentence is an S, a sentence is an IP, a sentence is a TP

A step-by-step guide to drawing a syntax tree, with gifs

Distributed Morphology

Garden path sentences: how they work, some examples

Structural ambiguity and understanding people in Ipswich

How to draw trees on a computer (TreeForm and phpSyntaxTree) 

Pronoun typology and “the gay fanfiction problem”

The solution to violent example sentences: Pokemon

Semantics & Pragmatics

The difference between epistemic and deontic, necessity and possibility (with bonus modals as Hogwarts houses)

Why learn semantics? Comebacks to annoying people.

Presuppositions, implicature and entailment, and more presuppositions in Lizzie Bennet Diaries

Gricean maxims in Welcome to Night Vale

Scalar implicature and a duck gif

Giving a shit about Negative Polarity Items, NPIs explained using Mean Girls references, and a follow-up on Free Choice Items

The lambda calculus for absolute dummies

The Lambda Calculator (software for practising in Heim & Kratzer style)

Teaching & Academic/career advice

Linguistics resources for high school teachers

Teaching linguistics to 9-14 year olds

On writing an IB extended essay in linguistics (& follow-up)

IPA Bingo

IPA Jeopardy and IPA Hangman

Practising syntax trees using cards and string/straws

Find a linguistics olympiad near you!

Editing linguistics Wikipedia articles instead of writing a final paper that no one but the prof will read (see also wikiedu.org)

Should you go to grad school in linguistics? Maybe

Figuring out if you actually want to go to linguistics grad school

How to decide which linguistics grad school to go to

How to look for linguistics undergrad programs

How to interact with someone who’s just given a talk

An extensive list of undergrad and/or student-friendly conferences - apply to one near you!

Linguistics jobs - a series about careers outside academia

Languages

Linguistic approaches to language learning resource roundup

Will linguistics help with language learning? / Will learning a second language help with linguistics?

The problem with “economically useful” as a reason for language learning

Further link roundups

This list not enough? Try these further masterposts: 

A very long list of linguistics movies, documentaries, and TV show episodes

Books (fiction and nonfiction) about linguistics

Linguistics podcasts

Linguistics videos on YouTube

20 linguistics blogs I recommend following

How to explain linguistics to your friends and family this holiday season

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why divide people by unrational things when you COULD divide them by whether their word for cotton candy is valid or not ?

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examples: 

american english: cotton candy ✅ good

british english: fairy floss ❌ not valid

spanish, german: sugar cotton ✅ good

french: daddy’s beard ❌ NOT VALID

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update! it has come to my attention it’s actually candy floss in britain and also some other non-english languages which is STILL ❌not valid and fairy floss is actually australian (but still ❌not valid), but that is just distracting from FRANCE and the FRENCH whose usage of “daddy’s beard” remains  ❌❌❌ THE LEAST VALID thanks !

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Don’t forget Hebrew where it’s literally “grandma’s hair”

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By Matt Baker

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Ngl i saw the top line and was ready to scroll through this rainbow homestuck nonsense

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Can any linguist tell me why we horizontally flipped the Latin alphabet halfway down the line?

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I just so happen to be working towards at Masters in Linguistics and currently have a BA in History so this area is my expertise!

So in terms of why some of the letters were rotated or flipped when going from hieroglyphs - one reason might be due to when the alphabet went from Phonecian hands to the ancient Greeks.

Modern Greek, and as well Ancient Greek is written left-to-right but that wasn’t always the case. In Archaic Greek texts, there wasn’t exactly a standard direction to write letters so some Greek was written right-to-left. However there were also places that used something called “boustrophedon”, which is a bi-directional text. Basically one line is written left-to-right, but then the next line is written right-to-left. And when the text flipped, so did the letters.

You can see above that the lines are changing direction and because of this, the letters are being flipped. If you look at the epilsons (the “E”s) specifically it becomes very apparent.

Eventually Archaic Greek was standardized by the time it got to the Ancient Greek we’re familiar with, they chose to keep the left-to-right direction. Hope this answers your question!

Also just a fun fact: technically the Proto-Siniatic and Phonecian alphabets are not alphabets. An alphabet is a writing system where one character represents one or more phonemes (base sounds) in a given language.

The Proto-Siniatic and Phonecian “alphabets” are actually abjads, which are writing systems where only the consonants are represented by letters and the reader has to supply the appropriate vowel.

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everyday occurence

me: (on the wikipedia page of some obscure musician to see if they’re gay)

sidebar on the artist’s page: GENRES: folk, anti-pop, folk rock, FUCKPOP

me: what the FUCK is FUCKPOP (clicks)

very short page for the musical genre FUCKPOP: FUCKPOP is an experimental subgenre of the goth nintendo kids club funk genre. coined in 1542 by Romanian nuns, it is often confused with psychedelic tooth grinding, as both genres highlight the use of gun sound effects and playing the piano with bendy straws. LIST OF FUCKPOP ARTISTS: sufjan stevens, ludwig van beethoven, cocorosie, the wiggles, ke$hastuck

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sometimes I feel I’ve got to

DUN DUN

run away I’ve got to

DUN DUN

get away f

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Hey-Ya except Andre 3000 is able to succinctly confirm his understanding of the situation.

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D O N ‘ T

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I studied cringe for 18 months

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*gets called in to professionally analyze a novice minecrafter’s youtube intro* hmm,, yes this is definitely cringe

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while you went to the gym, i studied the cringe

[suessolok]

how to avoid cringe:

step one - don’t study cringe for 18 months

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tag urself, which one are u

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I’m sad cause I wanna do this one but it doesn’t have a straight or ace option and every single one I come across doesn’t so I’m excluded yet again so as a response I did this

#whycanmyfellowAcesandStraightjoi ntoo

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WHAT

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damn. she got it

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Thank you internet. You never cease to drive me further into nihilism.

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that’s the tumblr for you

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me @ my friends when showing them my stuff

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i love brockhampton

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https://twitter.com/abe_yasushi9092/status/960181403987017728

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Taste closed

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Inspector, if you can’t find the murderer I suggest wrapping this up (yea)

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“Check your geography” *lobs massive fucking globe at guy in wheelchair*

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IF YOU 50-50 AND BONELESS OFF THE RAIL

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who decided skeletons are scary like ???? you have a skeleton do not be afraid of u

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if there was a meat man running at me at high speeds i’d be hyperventilating