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So, TLDR: the face (in ASL) is divided into top half being masculine, so thatās where the masculine signs are done, and the bottom half being feminine, thatās where the feminine signs are done. So when someone is Gender Neutral, you make the sign in the cheekbone, since itās theĀ āmiddleā.
How interesting!!!!!
The thing about translating is that sometimes words just. Don't have translation, or they have shitty translation. For example, yerbabuena and menta are two different types of plants, but both of them get translated to mint in English
Raven and crow, on the other hand, are two different types of birds, and yet they both get translated to cuervo in Spanish
Now, as y'all may or may not kmow, a group of crows gets called a murder, and a group of ravens is a conspiracy (to say murder of crows or conspiracy of ravens is somewhat redundant if you think about it btw)
So. They get the same name in spanish, right? So a group of cuervos... How does that get called?
Crimen. Crimen de cuervos. Crime of cuervos iā
@elodieunderglass crime birds. Coming soon to a station near you.
A group of crows/ravens gets called what in English??? (if I didn't know this was a real language I'd say that sounds fake)
A murder of crows, an unkindness of ravens, a parliament of rooks. In English, collective nouns for animals can be very poetic.
Aren't rooks a chess piece?
Rooks are a Eurasian corvid, Corvus frugilegus. They tend to gather in very large groups, which is probably why they are called a parliament. A group of owls is also a parliament. Geese are a gaggle on the ground, and a skein (yes, the word for a bundle of yarn) in flight. Like I said, English!
iāve had to block a couple white youtubers from my recommendations lately bc they always advertise themselves asĀ āwhite person speaks (perfect) chineseā and it gives me a gross feeling
iām still thinking about and while i donāt like to assume malicious intent, thereās a part of me that thinks youtubers who title their videos like this know exactly what theyāre doing
like when i see people making videos about them speaking languages that are primarily spoken by people of color, and they explicitly mention the fact that they are a white person speaking this language in the title/thumbnail, it seems completely intentional
clickbait titles are one thing, but this feels like something else. itās one thing to say smth likeĀ āforeigner speaks perfect chinese and shocks native speakersā (which i also hate btw), but specifically sayingĀ āwhite manā in your title really just pushes it into a different realm imo. like if youāre going out of your way to title 80% of your videosĀ āwhite man does xyzā then thereās no way youāre not at least somewhat aware of the privileges you hold as a white man
and yeah this is directly about å°é©¬nyc and a bit about jjsays (her word of choice isĀ āamericanā instead ofĀ āwhiteā but some of her video titles still give me gross vibes)
and maybe iām just overthinking this, but i find it really hard to believe the people who do this donāt know exactly what the implications of titling their videos like this are
iām having trouble finding the right words to express myself here, idk, what do yāall think?Ā
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Drench is the i-umlauted causative of drink
Soā¦quench logically ought to be the i-umlauted causative ofā¦..quink??
You know, actuallyā¦
okay letās see here
ā¦oh?? *kwankijana?? (hehā¦kwankā¦) - so it is a causativeā¦
Ohā¦my aspjfkl;dasfjdsklf god? *kwinkanÄ ? Itās real!! I need to know moreā¦
āUncertainā, huhā¦okay, to go out, makes senseā¦when you quench your thirst, you make it go out. When you drench something, you make it drink (at least that was its original sense).
So, to quink is to go outā¦likeā¦I guess you could say āThe fire quinkedā ? Wait - the past tense of drink is drank, so the past tense of quinkā
YESS!! QUANK!Ā āThe fire quank not long after sunsetā¦āĀ āMy energy quank by the third mile of the raceā¦āĀ āMy love for you quank many years agoā¦ā
Although, considering thatĀ āto quench oneās thirstā is used in contexts that metaphorically express satisfaction, perhaps we could also sayĀ āMy desire for revenge finally quank with his untimely deathā orā¦hmm, quink, quankā¦kwunk?
Letās see hereā¦so, looking it up, the forms ofĀ *kwinkanÄ starting with kunk- are equivalent to the forms of *drinkanÄ starting with drunk-. Presumably because Proto-Germanic didnāt allow /kwu/, so it just became /ku/. But that /u/ would have likely become modern English /Ź/, and the sequence /wŹ/ seems perfectly fine to meā¦so we can restore the /w/ through analogy. Though weāll have to spell it kwunk for it to read the way we want. This means we can now sayā¦
āWeāre going to let the fire quink by itself.ā
āSorry, the fire quank hours ago.ā
āThe fire will have kwunk by morning.ā
āMy jealousy will quink when I finally steal her husband.ā
āMy jealousy quank after I stole her husband.ā
āMy jealousy has kwunk now that Iāve stolen her husband.ā
āMy hunger wonāt quink no matter how much I eat!ā
āMy thirst already quank.ā
āOh no, my appetite is quite kwunk with all the food Iāve eaten.ā
āOh, Iām not hungry.āĀ āYouāre not kwunk, are you?? You spoiled your dinner with snacks!ā
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love those old soviet posters that are just advertising like, an activity. not someĀ āgo to mikeāsĀ hardware for the BEST deals around!ā justĀ āhey, you can learn stuff at librariesā orĀ āconsider going for a hike in the countrysideā big kin
Iād love some examples!!
Caring for birds will increase your fruit harvest!
What are you interested in? The library has many books to match your interests.
Tourism is the best relaxation!
Vitamin C. Vitamins help you to become healthy and strong
Fresh air strengthens health and improves quality of education! (Soviet classroom design, from my personal experience, includes big windows that let in a lot of air and sunshine)
Thereās a theory that early Europeans started saying ābrown oneā or āhoney-eaterā instead of ābearā to avoid summoning them, and similarly my friend has started calling Alexa āthe faceless womanā because saying her true name awakens her from her slumber
English has an avoidance register used in the presence of certain respected animals, which sounds fancy until you realize itās spelling out w-a-l-k and t-r-e-a-t in front of the dog.
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Icelandic folklore requires you avoid saying the names of evil whales, otherwise youāll draw their attention.
Yall have evil whales?
Iceland does! They are the illhveli, literally āevil whalesā, and they live to kill you. They love nothing more than killing and eating humans and sinking their ships. Their greatest enemy is the steypireydur (thatās blue whale to you), which is the greatest of the good whales and the protector of sailors.
All evil whales are, well, evil. So evil that if you speak their name at sea, they will hear it and home in on you. So instead you use all sorts of euphemisms for their names. Also if you try to cook their meat it literally disappears from the pot. Thatās right, theyāre so evil, you canāt even eat them.
They include such types as the hrosshvalur (horsewhale), with big eyes and a red mane and tail. This is probably the best known and most feared of the lot.
The raudkembingur (redcomb) is especially cruel and bloodthirsty even by illhveli standards. If you manage to escape it, it will die of frustration.
Good luck escaping the mushveli (mousewhale) though, it has legs! And will clamber onto the beach in pursuit!
Or what about death from above? The stƶkkull (jumper) leaps high into the air and pile-drives boats to pieces.
Meanwhile the skeljungur (shellwhale) sits in the path of boats and lets them get wrecked on its shelly hideā¦
ā¦ while the sverdhvalur (swordwhale) slices through boats with its dorsal fin.
The katthveli (catwhale) is relatively harmless though. It meows.
The same canāt be said of the lyngbakur (heatherback), a classic island fish that lets sailors get on its back and then dives, taking them to a watery grave.
The nauthveli (oxwhale) on the other hand specially targets cattle, attracting them into the sea with its bellow before tearing them apart.
How can you avoid all these murderous whales, like the taumafiskur (bridlefish) here? Any of a number of ways, including getting a steypireydur to help. There are substances, ranging from angelica to sheep dung and chopped fox testicles, that they find abhorrent. And you can distract them with loud noises and barrels.
For more, I assure you this link will answer all your questions.
https://abookofcreatures.com/category/illhveli/
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do yāall realize just how beautiful it is that everything is interconnected in this universe like if you didnāt do that one thing then you probably wouldāve never met certain people or if you decided to stay in that one place or didnāt read that one book then things could be so different thatās so crazy
is there any more damning criticism of an academic book than the solitary question mark pencilled in the margin
Frankensteinās monster being called justĀ āFrankensteinā is actually poetic justice on a meta scale. Oh, so youāre going to reject your son/creation for fear of God and his hideousness?? You wonāt give him a name and only call him āCreatureā?? Well everyone forever is going to only remember him by your family name.
Howās that feel Victor?
reminder that full suits of armor...werenāt actually the norm for medieval warfare. like, at all.
full plate armor was only widely used for less than a century, at the end of the Middle Ages.Ā it was soon outdatedĀ by the growing use of firearms, and was more common in performative joustingĀ than in actual warfare.
and knights in shining armor?Ā they probably barely existed. shining suits of armor were the sorts of things kings wore in paradesāthe medieval equivalent of a fashion photoshoot. in reality, polishing armor to a shine was horribly expensive and difficult to maintain on grimy battlefieldsāpainted armor was muchĀ more practical.Ā
knights in shining armor existed in medieval times the same way hardboiled detectives existed in the 20th centuryāas a tropeĀ for contemporary & future audiences to romanticize. in that regard, they were very successful!
shut up nerd
Besides the yearly application of linseed oil paint, they also russeted the armor, or even left the blackened forge scale on it.
The latter two might be the reason behind the term Black Knight which may be an insult to lesser Nobles.
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Damn those victorians!! They scrubbed off the finish to look more rich!
Painted
Russeted
Blackened
ok but this is so much more badass than plain polished armor
doing leftism exclusively on the internet gives you brainworms. like yeah read theory, talk to people on social media, but at some point you have to go outside. please. the things you say and believe about politics have repercussions in the real world and you have to live in that world to understand what those repercussions could be. find out whoās doing mutual aid in your community. join the iww or food not bombs or a community garden or a street medic collective or a prison letter writing campaign or something helpful that forces you to talk with real human beings directly about and in the context of their actual lives
people on twitter will say literally anything huh
im taking these away until you show me that you can use them responsibly
Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost
TheĀ āgetting it done in an unconventional wayā method.
TheĀ āitās not cheating to do it the easy wayā method.
TheĀ āfuck what youāre supposed to doā method.
TheĀ āget stuff done while you waitā method.
TheĀ āyou donāt have to do everything at onceā method.
TheĀ āit doesnāt have to be permanent to be helpfulā method.
TheĀ ābreak the task into smaller stepsā method.
TheĀ ātreat yourself like a petā method.
TheĀ āit doesnāt have to be all or nothingā method.
TheĀ āput on a personaā method.
TheĀ āact like youāre filming a tutorialā method.
TheĀ āyou donāt have to do it perfectlyā method.
TheĀ āwait for a triggerā method.
TheĀ ādo it for your future selfā method.
TheĀ āmight as wellā method.
TheĀ āwhen self discipline doesnāt cut itā method.
TheĀ ātaking care of yourself to take care of your petā method.
TheĀ āmake it easyā method.
TheĀ ājunebuggingā method.
TheĀ ājust show upā method.
TheĀ āaccept when you need helpā method.
TheĀ āmake it into a gameā method.
TheĀ āeverything worth doing is worth doing poorlyā method.
TheĀ ātrick yourselfā method.
TheĀ ābreak it into even smaller stepsā method.
TheĀ ālet go of shouldā method.
TheĀ āyour body is an animal you have to take care ofā method.
TheĀ āfork theoryā method.
TheĀ āeffectivity over aestheticsā method.
Self-love
Eartha Kitt. Photographed by Gordon Parks. (1952)
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man the Appalachian mountains really arenāt shit huh
The Rockies are new, young and virile and fresh from the Laramide orogeny, tall and lanky teenagers on the geological scale. the Appalachian mountains are old, formed hundreds of millions of years ago before dinosaurs walked the Earth. They are ancients, elders, witnesses to half a billion years of life coming and going. To be tall is not a virtue. To be small is not a sin. The Appalachians are eroding under the weight of time, slowly shrinking and returning to the Earth from which they sprang. Appreciate them while they are still here.
I do want to say real quick again about the age of the Appalachiansā¦
They said ābefore dinosaurs,ā but we have a cave here that began forming between 450 million to 550 million years ago.
There are no bones in that cave. No fossils. No nothing.
Thatās because this cave began forming before bones existed on land, and had only just started to exist in the ocean. Shellfish hadnāt evolved yet. Limestone, which forms many caves, was just starting to become a more prevalent rock.
The mountains arenāt older than dinosaurs. They are older than bones.
