#language woes

[ana-chronista]

I've spent today obviously being impressed by Jan's culinary prowess but also having to keep overcoming my slight confusion because to me a chip sandwich is different to the crisp sandwich he actually made. Is there also a video of him making a chip butty and having to show it off to Nace? Or is that coming when they stay in London? Inquiring minds need to know.

[ruhua-langblr]

Realizing that I learned tone pronunciation for words by listening to how it’s spoken and I’ve been picking up vocabulary from reading almost exclusively for the past year so I don’t hear it pronounced

[teacup-creations]

Happy Pride!

Not everyone can celebrate pride publicly. It perfectly valid to celebrate in whatever way makes you happy (and safe!)

[yoshifics]

My family, seeing me about to go out: Where are you going?

Me, forgetting the word for appointment: I've got a date with the doctor

[rachywritessomething]

Sometimes I think about how literally every Spanish speaking person not from Spain has been so much kinder to me about my Spanish than any person I encountered in the five months I lived in Madrid...

Like, if you’re American and want to immerse yourself in Spanish to pick up the language, you’d have better luck in San Diego than Spain.

[soryualeksi]

Ok but who put the fast-speaking NPCs into the Mineral Town remake, because I can NOT read that fast. ;_;

[tatiletotesamaze]

I think it’s fair to say that the Sith Pureblood’s language, though obviously quite different before the colonisation of their homeworld and their culture by the exiled Jedi, is still around and still spoken.

I personally think that Pureblood families will speak it at home and have (Imperial) Basic as almost a second language. 

For Sith practioners and those from long standing Sith families the language is spoken in a more formal or official capacity (the latter group are more likely to be fluent or more than passingly familiar with the language). Alien or non-Imperial Sith (ex-Jedi, older initiates coming from colonies, etc.) will be expected to learn the language but not necessarily assisted. The language and by extension the culture of the Sith - both in its religious-political sense and the pre-exiting Pureblood culture that draws from - are kept away from them as another way othering and separating the “lessers” from the “true” Sith.

Imperial Basic has a lot of loan words and concepts from the Sith language as a result but fluency outside of Pureblood or Sith lineage families is rare. It’s not entirely unusual for a Force-blind child in a Sith lineage household to not know the language.

[sanspatronymic]

Currently in Germany, performing acts of filial piety, and let me just say the one Russian phrase I wish every language had an equivalent for is “просто так.”

Просто так is a beautiful everything-phrase that literally means “just that,” but can functionally mean anything from “that’s all” to “just like that”.

Ordering in a restaurant and the waiter starts listing extra options or dishes you don’t understand, but are sure you don’t want? “Нет, просто так.”

How would you like your [ice cream/room/existence]? “Просто так.” (Just as it is.)

An excellent, non-rude way to end a conversation where you aren’t 100% sure of what’s being said, but you would very much like to be left alone now. Wishing that German had so simple a phrase. Anyone know one?