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weâre you born a misogynist or do you think society (porn) made you that way?
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literally my favorite type of tweet
Uchikoshi is the only game developer of all time
I absolutely love that the PokĂŠmon universe is literally tearing itself apart at the seams. Fantastic worldbuilding, A+++
how to write good (?) indians/indian-origin/non-residential-indians! (as an indian) [reposted from my old blog @/soru-ya and updated!!]
kinda decided to write this since pavitr is pretty popular in the spiderverse fandom, and he deserves his indian-ness bc he is so cute let me know if you feel like i missed stuff out!
first thing to note is that india is not just a country, it is a fricking subcontinent đwe're now the most populated country in the world.
we have 28 states, each with their own state government, and 8 union territories, which are kinda like mini states except they're too small to be called states, so they come under the central government (consider them the plutos of india). each state has a different culture, and while a few things overlap, don't expect everything to!
second thing to note is that since every state is different, every district and subsequent city/town/village will have its own culture/traditions based off of the local history and/or mythology.
there's going to be your overall state history, and then there's the district and city and town and village history, which are all pretty important. taking pavitr as an example, since he lives in mumbattan or mumbai, which irl is the financial capital of india, he'd know the state and city history but also the history of the town he's actually from. maybe not in detail though, there's a lot of stuff going on.
third and final thing to note is that none of the states speak the same language. languages do overlap based on where the state is (north/south/east/west), but each state has its own native language, and that language is often prioritised. also, even in the state, each district, city, town, and village have their own dialects and slang.
for example, i speak telugu at home, the native language of andhra pradesh and telangana (they speak two different dialects of telugu, my dialect is from andhra pradesh), but i live in tamil nadu, and am therefore expected to know and speak tamil (i do not speak it well. it is very tough.) i also speak hindi, since that was my second language in school, and a bit of french, since that was my third language. because of hindi and telugu, I do understand a bit of marathi (since a few verbs and words overlap from both languages) and since I used to visit relatives in punjab, I do understand a bit of punjabi. that's a lot, I'm sorry đ
now that we've gotten the history-geography-culture-and-tradition stuff out of the way...
how do you write good indians?
since we're a pretty complicated people (inter-state/mixed-religion marriages happen too), there's no one way to define us as a people. chances are that if you write an indian guy living in the u.s. who's in his mid-forties and really hates the smell of tandoori chicken, there'd actually be a guy like that irl.
here's some stuff I've seen around me though!
we as people are actually pretty influenced by (or rely on) family and the people around us.
word of mouth goes so fucking hard in our communities.
we do well in large groups, although we also do have introverts who prefer to be left alone (again, we're people).
most of us are actually multilingual (refer point 3 i made) and we tend to mix and match languages depending on what kind of friend group we're with. here's an example of a chat i had on whatsapp (typed out because you know internet safety)
S: Bengali weddings are exhausting bro (my friend's brother is getting married. that's the context.) SA: We tried booking a temple and they said august has more shubh din (this is hindi) so they decided august Me: :0 in telugu weddings we just use horoscope S: Ya it's the same everywhere. S: Bhai reception tak mera ho gaya tha. (again, this is hindi) SA: btw you guys are coming on monday na? S: Haan maate (this sent me because it literally means 'yes mother' but the context is kinda like- 'yeah bbygurl' idk)
so like- when we chat, we just put words anywhere and everywhere. 'na' is like 'yes' but in the form of a question- you're affirming an action.
what's the difference between indian-origins, indians, and non-residential-indians?
indians are all those people who have the indian passport or other methods of identification (pan, aadhar, driver's license) and live in india (like me). indian-origin people are those whose nationality is not indian, but have indian parents. many indians you'd see in the united states/canada are indian-origin or non-residential-indians (NRIs), who have an indian passport but live abroad for work or education.
the big question - the â¨accentâ¨
a lot of reblogs mentioned that the accents depend on a lot of stuff, and I agree! every indian does have an accent, and that accent lets us know/hazard a guess as to which place the person is from.
however, the accents I was mentioning are the accents like baljeet's from phineas and ferb (i have never heard an indian-american or and american nri speak like that) so there is no one true indian accent!!
btw, grammar rules go wheeeeee- we have no rules when speaking hinglish/telgish/tanglish or any other mix of english and a language. well, technically we just mix our language's grammar rules with english's, so all sentence structures are valid!
thank you to everyone who rebloged this last time with points of their own!! let me know if i've missed something once again ^^
I don't blame anyone who doesn't want to read ~7 paragraphs of me trying to communicate the most basic fact of queer rights to a decidedly unsympathetic audience so to distill that post down to its core insight:
A major linguistic impact of progressive movements has been the creation and promotion of words that make it about equally easy to refer to a majority group as to the corresponding minority group(s), e.g. 'neurotypical', 'cis', 'allosexual', 'perisex'. This is on the whole a convenient, useful, and good thing, and anti-minority efforts have an ideological interest in combating the use of these words.
Bc he's Majora's Transmasc. duh
writing sw fic in a star wars based conlang I constructed myself to avoid breaking suspension of disbelief by using any words that have connections to earth culture (all of them)
This meme is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy
It's so ableist of straight people to just go around flaunting their straightness: some of us are nonbinary and don't have an 'opposite' gender (so to speak) to be attracted to and it's so insensitive of them to try to universalise that experience!
I said Iâd do it!!! 24Lsmp pearl with her hoes but puss in boots death (ish)
He so grumpy!
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My elderly father started talking about how frustrating he finds âthe pronouns thingâ and I was like. Oh no. He had such a good stand on this, heâs been they/them-ing his cishet siblings for godâs sake! Is he regressing?? And he was talking about how difficult it is to remember, and how onerous it feels to expect strangers to keep track of it, and Iâm like oh no oh no.
Then he says, âI mean, the problem isnât the gender thing. The problem is four words: she, her, he, and him. We got rid of stewardess and turned it into flight attendant. It doesnât matter if the flight attendant is a man or woman, so we got rid of it. We just need to get rid of those. I donât need to know.â
âYou donât need to know⌠peopleâs gender?â
âNo. I donât care, I donât need to know, and I donât want to remember it.â
So we can relax. Itâs just a continuation of his crusade to they/them the world. He doesnât want to remember anyoneâs gender. Heâs abolishing the genders.
Why is it called oven when...
BUY A MAN EAT FISH,
HE DAY, TEACH FISH MAN,
TO A LIFETIME.
Pronouns are words used to refer to yourself and others. I, We, You, Your, He, She, They, You're, Theirs, His, It, Herself etc are ALL pronouns, it's very hard to speak English without using them. Singular They/Them has been used for centuries. The word "You" used to only be used for groups, see how language evolves.
Cis and Trans are Adjectives which are describing words. Cis is not a slur or a pronoun. Cis is a Latin prefix that means "On the same side of" whereas Trans means "On the other side of."
Puberty Blockers were first created in the 80s to stop children from starting puberty too early. Children can get their period as early as 7 years old and a child shouldn't have to go through that. The effects are completely reversible, all the child has to do is stop taking them whenever they're ready and they'll start their puberty again. You only have a problem with puberty blockers when Trans kids use them.
No doctor is performing gender affirming surgeries on under age children, there's so much that you have to do before even being approved for top or bottom surgery (or any kind of gender affirming surgery), it's also very expensive, none of this would ever be performed on a child.
Drag Queens reading stories to children or dancing for them isn't any different than hiring a professional to dress up for your child's birthday party or going to Disney World where everyone is dressed up and playing characters. There is absolutely nothing inappropriate about Drag Queen story time. Drag Queens wear far more clothing than literally any of us. If you're fine with taking your child to Hooters or to a sports game with cheerleaders but you have a problem with Drag Queens... You sexualize Queer people and say it's inappropriate for us to be around children yet you have no problem with over-sexualizing women if it's for your entertainment and you have no problem with your child seeing it.
Introduction to linguistics
Language as medium
Sign languages
Basic facts
Sign languages are languages that use the visual-manual modality to convey meaning. They are full-fledged natural languages with their own grammar and lexicon. Sign languages are not universal and not mutually intelligible with each other.
Both spoken and signed communication are types of natural language, since both emerged through an abstract, protracted aging process and evolved over time without meticulous planning. Sign language should not be confused with body language, a type of nonverbal communication.
Although signing is primarily used by deaf and hard-of-hearing people, it is also used by hearing individuals, such as those unable to physically speak, those who have trouble with spoken language due to a disability or condition, or those with deaf family members, such as children of deaf adults.
It is unclear how many sign languages currently exist worldwide. Each country generally has its own native sign language, and some have more than one. There are somewhere between 138 and 300 different types of sign language. Some sign languages have obtained some form of legal recognition, while others have no status at all.
History
5th century BCE - earliest written record of a sign language
16th century CE - first manual alphabet
1620 - first modern treatise of sign language phonetics
1698 - earliest known printed pictures of consonants of the modern two-handed alphabet
1755 - first school for deaf children
1864 - foundation of the only liberal arts university for deaf people in the world
Characteristics
Sings are the equivalent of words, which are made up of three main components:
Handshape: different configurations of fingers that are extended or bent. Most sign languages have about 30 distinct handshapes.
Location: locations on or near the signerâs body (about 10 locations) or in the space around it (based on oppositions of left and right, up or down, and forward or backward).
Movement: the direction that the hands move in. There are six basic directions which are modified in a number of different ways.
Just as words in spoken languages can be described as combinations of a limited number of consonants and vowels, signs in sign languages are combinations of a limited number of handshapes, locations, and movements. Typologically, the grammars of sign languages combine features that are common in spoken languages but which do not usually co-occur. On the one hand, they are largely analytic and depend on sign order. Sign languages are basically SVO, but with some flexibility. On the other hand, they have very rich morphology which is only sometimes applied.
Their morphology is mostly based on two processes. The first one is reduplication, i.e., repeating all or part of a sign. In many sign languages, nouns can be made from verbs by reducing and repeating the movement, so that SIT means âto sitâ and SIT-SIT means âchairâ.
The other process is internal modification. This means that one component of the sign changes while other parts do not. Some verbs, for example, can show the subject or object through the direction of movement. In other cases, verbs can indicate information about number by changing the handshape.
These two processes can be combined. Adjectives in ASL have up to 12 different aspectual forms made by modifying the speed and manner of movement along with the number of repetitions.
Sign languages are also about a lot more than hands. Non-manual elements such as facial, head, and shoulder movements are an integral part of sign language grammars and mark types of sentences and different parts of sentences like relative clauses.
Classification
Sign languages can be grouped in the following families: French Sign Language family, German Sign Language family, Vietnamese sign languages & some Thai and Lao sign languages, Arab Sign Language family, Indo-Pakistani Sign Language, Chinese Sign Language, Japanese Sign Language family, and BANZSL family.
Is there any sort of general theory of semantic shift that has widespread acceptance? Like I've noticed a lot of words in Ancient Greek philosophy that mean "mind" or "soul" usually meant "life" or breath" originally, technical words in logic or rhetoric often take on more mystical meanings over time, etc.
But is there a widely agreed upon predictive theory of how words typically evolve in meaning that lets us infer their prior (or later) meanings based on current ones? Or is it just descriptive, i.e. we know how these words all changed in similar ways so we put them in the "changed like this" category.
No, there's no such predictive theory. I would classify semantic change in the "very poorly understood" camp. The best we've got is a bunch of terms to describe common sorts of semantic shifts (metanymy, amelioration, etc.).
I say this a lot, but it's also important to remember that theories don't need to be predictive of future facts about the world to be scientific, they merely need to be predictive of future observation. So, e.g., paleontology can't predict what new types of organisms will evolve, but it can make predictive theories about dinosaur anatomy that can be tested against future observation (newly dug up fossils). Likewise, historical linguistics will probably never be able to predict language change, but it can make predictions that can be tested against future observations about language.
But as far as semantic change goes, there isn't even one of those, as far as I know.