Adrian was here; Dave's a queer.

@transientgodhood

Your name is Jeffery David Strider and you were born thirty-six years ago as a human. These days, though, you're physically ten years younger than that, and a troll. Your pesterchum handle, when it actually works, is transientGodhead. Your baby brother is dead, but you've been given another chance. You met an alternate version of him, in a timeline where the only change was that you died and he survived. You aren't handling your chance well, but at least you have him. You hope that a bad brother is better than nothing.

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wait this is the wrong blog why did i log onto this blog

i have a new blog

gifmethat

So you know what I don’t get? Why people repeat words. (x)

hyperboreanhapocanthosaurus

Grammar time: it’s called “contrastive reduplication,” and it’s a form of intensification that is relatively common. Finnish does a very similar thing, and others use near-reduplication (rhyme-based) to intensify, like Hungarian (pici ‘tiny’, ici-pici ‘very tiny’).

Even the typologically-distant group of Bantu languages utilize reduplication in a strikingly similar fashion with nouns: Kinande oku-gulu ‘leg’, oku-gulu-gulu ‘a REAL leg’ (Downing 2001, includes more with verbal reduplication as well).

I suppose the difficult aspect of English reduplication is not through this particular type, but the fact that it utilizes many other types of reduplication: baby talk (choo-choo, no-no), rhyming (teeny-weeny, super-duper), and the ever-famous “shm” reduplication: fancy-schmancy (a way of denying the claim that something is fancy).

screams my professor was trying to find an example of reduplication so the next class he came back and said “I FOUND REDUPLICATION IN ENGLISH” and then he said “Milk milk” and everyone was just “what?” and he said “you know when you go to a coffee shop and they ask if you want soy milk and you say ‘no i want milk milk’” and everyone just had this collective sigh of understanding.

#english #gif

dovelyengineer

Whatever floats your boat, daddy-o.

transientgodhood

technically you're not my kid and i'm kind of uncomfortable with you calling me that when i have my own echo drooling on me right now.

#hipsterwrench

dovelyengineer

I dunno. I guess it’s kinda like that. We’re all separated by teams and classes.

so a video game.

We go to respawn!

...so you live in a video game.

#hipsterwrench

dovelyengineer

I honestly don’t know what we’re killing each other over, all I know is that it pays heavily, so I don’t care. Neither does anyone else really.

transientgodhood

so what happens once someone dies?

#hipsterwrench

dovelyengineer

I ain’t got no mom, sir. Just two daddies. JD and Audio.

TFI stands for Team Fortress Industries! Basically we’re bunch of folks who kill each other for money and that’s about it and all.

transientgodhood

yeah, alright, that's my fiance's name, you're officially my son's alternate. that's a new one, i almost never see you guys.

what's this about killing each other.

#hipsterwrench

dovelyengineer

Really? That’s weird.

My pop’s middle name is Dave. We call him JD tho. He still works for TFI. He’s a soldier!

transientgodhood

and now i'm squinting again.

what's your mother's name?

also what the fuck is tfi?

#hipsterwrench

dovelyengineer

Yeah? Why’s that?

transientgodhood

same name as my kid. i thought i was the only man fool enough to name their child that.

whatever, i'm dave.

#hipsterwrench

hipsterwrench started following you

i'm just squinting really hard at your name.

#hipsterwrench

karsprite

IT’S A KRAKEN.

SHE MADE A KRAKEN.

transientgodhood

RELEASE THE KRAKEN.

#karsprite

hemoknight

me ‘n m’lady managed it, once.

godtiered life player, she grew the necessary parts, out of curiosity.

kinda think that killed the relationship actually.

transientgodhood

fucking game mechanics, man. i didn't even get anything out of that bullshit.

that sounds like a horrible experiment.

#hemoknight

hemoknight

all i have to say is at least it is alone, and a human.

there’s a reason trolls don’t do the pregnancy thing. a very, very good reason.

transientgodhood

i've seen a few weird ass trolls on my dash that manage. i just don't fuck other trolls to avoid any weird shit. i have one kid, that's enough for me.

#hemoknight