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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?
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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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
why divide people by unrational things when you COULD divide them by whether their word for cotton candy is valid or not ?
examples:
american english: cotton candy ✅ good
british english: fairy floss ❌ not valid
spanish, german: sugar cotton ✅ good
french: daddy’s beard ❌ NOT VALID
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 !
Don’t forget Hebrew where it’s literally “grandma’s hair”
By Matt Baker
Ngl i saw the top line and was ready to scroll through this rainbow homestuck nonsense
Can any linguist tell me why we horizontally flipped the Latin alphabet halfway down the line?
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.
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
Hey-Ya except Andre 3000 is able to succinctly confirm his understanding of the situation.
D O N ‘ T
I studied cringe for 18 months
*gets called in to professionally analyze a novice minecrafter’s youtube intro* hmm,, yes this is definitely cringe
while you went to the gym, i studied the cringe
how to avoid cringe:
step one - don’t study cringe for 18 months
tag urself, which one are u
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
WHAT
damn. she got it
Thank you internet. You never cease to drive me further into nihilism.
that’s the tumblr for you
me @ my friends when showing them my stuff
i love brockhampton
https://twitter.com/abe_yasushi9092/status/960181403987017728
Taste closed
Inspector, if you can’t find the murderer I suggest wrapping this up (yea)
“Check your geography” *lobs massive fucking globe at guy in wheelchair*
IF YOU 50-50 AND BONELESS OFF THE RAIL
who decided skeletons are scary like ???? you have a skeleton do not be afraid of u
if there was a meat man running at me at high speeds i’d be hyperventilating