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@aeiryka

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opinion of a fansubber: you aren’t google translate, so you can translate properly and pick the right words for the right context. I’m sure you can figure out what the intent is when the phrase is used, so make sure to pick an appropriate word to convey that intent.

yes there might be some silly ppl who might insist that you translate 1:1 to keep the “original meaning”, but just ignore them. as long as you translate out of love, respect, and good intention, i’m sure you will be able to make it enjoyable.

which translation would you guys prefer? 变态(biantai/perverted) 同性恋(tongxinglian/homosexual). 变态 has the connotation of disgusting, used colloquially usually means gross/fucked up/disgusting. tongxinglian is officially homosexuality, gay is usually 钙 in modern slang.  so anyway, my chinese speaking peeps where ya’ll at, give me some feedback please :D

also if anyone ever wants to discuss how certain phrases are translated please do send a message, i’m open to other suggestions. i usually translate verbatim, but i also prefer to keep it as close to the intended meaning as possible

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Reblog If you want a good relationship in 2011.

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The medical community on literally every female specific health issue ever: “very common condition” “no known cause” “no known cure” :))))))

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I love where I live

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*fixes my sleep schedule* *ruins it the very next day* bro

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iu, 스무 살의 봄 / spring of a 22 year old (2015)

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NO I DIDN'T OMG I'VE BEEN STARING AT THE LINK TO VOL 3 FOR WEEKS BUT EVERY TIME I'M ABOUT TO CLICK IT I'M JUST LIKE "WAIT NO I DON'T THINK I'M READY FOR THIS NEXT LEVEL OF BULLFUCKERY" AND SO I JUST GO WATCH/READ SOMETHING ELSE which on the bright side means i'm now caught up to a bazillion things, BUT I'M ALSO JUST SITTING HERE PUTTING OFF THE THING also friend me on love live u bloob i can't believe u friended pb and not me 8C

lmao haven’t played for a few days after I full combo’d all the 15 lp hards I could... have to just grind to rank up and it’s so boring but 933267914

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With tumblr deciding that its a good time to jump back 7 years and decide that a forum like format of posting is a good idea for a social media based website in the year 2015, I have decided to embrace it and will not be tagging all of my posts with the following signature:

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Sorry, but I think you got your timeline backward. As far as I can tell, that long meeting with Symone Sanders was three weeks ago:

In an interview, Symone Sanders said she first connected with the senator about three weeks ago, offering him advice on how to better understand the message of Black Lives Matter activists in an hourlong chat.

Apparently he’s been reworking his stance ever since then, and it seems like Symone Sanders was going to have her big reveal on Saturday anyway regardless of the interruptions. (and of course Seattle BLM chapter is still very suspicious)

Of course, it’s entirely possible that the disruptions forced him to drop other commitments and deal with the issue sooner, but other than that I can’t see much good has come out of this, while at the same time destroying a lot of the Black Lives Matter reputation and image.

Yo, wtf is this shit?! This man is trying to make a difference but y'all won’t let him, let this man do his thing cause he’s proven that he’s here for us that he wants change, if anything y'all need to interrupt Trump, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz hell even Hillary Clinton. Wtf is this going to solve by interrupting someone who constantly shows his support for us?

Edit: this is not an attack on The Black Lives Matter Movement, I still support the movement but this act was unnecessary. The only positive thing that came from this is that it showed us that white liberals aren’t as progressive as they think.

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Zodiac signs' wake up time

Aries: 7 A.M

Taurus : 9 A.M

Gemini: *never sleeps*

Cancer: 10 A.M

Leo: 12 P.M?? 5 A.M??? It fluctuates

Virgo: 3 A.M but then goes back to sleep and wakes up at 12 P.M

Libra: 2 P.M sometimes even 4 P.M

Scorpio: ??????

Sagittarius: early bird so usually from 6 AM - 9 AM

Capricorn: Time is but an illusion and they sleep whenever they want to and wake up exactly 6.7 hours later

Aquarius: 10:30 A.M

Pisces: only wakes up if awakened

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Reblog with your name and the name your parents almost gave you in the tags

If you are using a name you picked yourself, use the name you went with and the name you almost went with.

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Not to derail things from what this is about, but this is kinda applicable to way more things in life. I mean, even just in terms of forming opinions and beliefs, and simply having thoughts of experiences, it’s quite freeing to understand that nobody is born with innate preferences so don’t feel like you have to pick sides.

it is tremendously freeing to realize that saying “I’m not informed enough about this issue to have a real opinion” is an option

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The issue with Gender Studies classes (and in some sense the whole field of study) is that at its core, it’s designed for the benefit of people with privilege. 

For the people teaching these classes, the primary goal isn’t to create a safe space for marginalized people, it isn’t for marginalized people to talk to each other. The stated mission of these classes is to educate privileged people about their privilege and teach ways that they can be more aware and respectful. It’s in the language and the curriculum, teaching things like internalized oppression as things that happen to “marginalized people”, and if you happen to be one of those marginalized people oh that’s a nice side-effect I can pat myself on the back and go back to talking to the privileged people.

In a sense, it’s kind of obvious because the teachers are either privileged people that had their eyes opened and felt like it was a spiritual awakening, and are basically evangelizing to their fellow privileged folk, or they are marginalized folk that are really mad at how the system is so they want to go yell at the people that oppress them.

The reason intersectionality is so popular in classrooms is because for with each unit, you change the people you’re talking to, so you still teach things to asian dudes and cis black girls, and fulfill your objective of talking to everyone that signs up for the class.

When marginalized people are talking to other marginalized folk, they don’t take it to formal, structured settings like classrooms, it’s family friends warning each other to be careful, it’s parents teaching their children how to be safe, and yes it’s people blogging to each other about how much they hate white people.

So basically, classes on privilege are not safe spaces. They aren’t designed to help marginalized people speak up and feel comfortable, or even for it to show people how they should act and treat marginalized people. Since this’s so embedded into the very design, don’t expect this to change anytime soon unless students and teachers make a big effort to change this at a fundamental level.

Don’t criticize marginal folk for not taking classes that teach their oppression or expect them to take them. Don’t imagine that you understand oppression more than someone with lived experiences because you took a class on it.

And don’t for a second imagine that the words bloggers aren’t as valid and deserving of respect as the words of your professor.

Note: While this sort of thinking does infect the entire academic study as a whole given the sort of people that enter into the profession, it is large enough that it is also another closed-off community, so collaborative aspects of the field like conferences and papers and upper division classes are in a sense a safe space for marginalized people to talk to each other.

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Hey, this is actually something studied quite extensively in anthropology and linguistics, and the short of it is that interjecting “foreign” words into your speech just because it’s foreign is racist.

This level of racism is a bit more insidious since it operates on something called indexicality. Basically, your usage of the language only makes sense insofar that people understand and assume racial caricatures.

For Americans, it’s probably easiest to explain with reference to Mexicans, since the hate for them is obvious as hell. When someone tells a joke about a janitor called José, or the punchline starts with “Ei Amigo!”, the only reason someone laughs is because they know the racist stereotypes attached to Mexicans. This is called direct indexicality since everyone acknowledges the racist subtext.

This goes further to usages of Spanish that the speakers and listeners don’t acknowledge as racist, but only make sense if you understand the racism behind it. This is when people start peppering their speech with words like adios, macho, and hasta la vista, or when people start pretending to use Spanish grammar like when they say el cheap-o. The usage of Spanish only makes sense if you know the stereotype of Mexicans as lazy and stupid, and so it tries to show that the speaker is laid-back and casual. This is called indirect indexicality because people won’t directly acknowledge that they’re referring to it, but it wouldn’t make sense otherwise. It’s harmful because it hammers in the racial stereotypes as the default and the assumed context, and it’s made worse with how it flies under the radar or someone just looking at the words used.

This connects to using Asian languages in speech because 100% of the reason you would mention a senpai or greet someone with ni hao is because of the fetishization of Asians and the oriental caricature of the exotic land of cute girls. It doesn’t matter that you didn’t mean it, you’re just as harmful and toxic, just in different ways from direct mentions of racist stereotypes.

Basically, whenever you want to borrow words from other languages to use in your speech, think long and hard about why you’re doing it, and what you’re trying to imply.

Here’s the paper this is based on, written by a native Spanish speaker on Mock Spanish. It also talks about the written forms of this kind of racism, the double standard for native speakers using the language and whites borrowing it, and how this is basically the racist lingo of elites and academics because direct racism is crude, so do read it if you’re serious about respecting POC.

i don't understand about the not being able to say certain words though? i'd understand if it were something religiously or culturally tied to some groups like "namaste" is to hindus or even "mashallah and inshallah" for some arabic speakers and muslims

if you’re using someone’s language as an accessory and you don’t even speak the language, it’s rude and disrespectful

when diasporic asians are unable to speak their own native tongues because we were forced to assimilate into just speaking English and a lot of us were made fun of as children when we tried to even speak even a whisper of it and now many of us can barely even read or write or even understand or speak the languages that were once supposed to be ours to claim

when a lot of us can’t even communicate to our grandparents, sometimes even our parents, because of that language gap and all we can say is: hi grandma, i love you, did you eat today? things that a two year old can say and you can’t understand or respond to anything she says and you just give the phone back to your parents. the shame and sadness that comes with it hurts more than anything. wanting to communicate but the words were always someone elses and you were never allowed to hold them as your own.

when first generation immigrant parents of diasporic asians refuse to teach their children their native tongue because they’re afraid their children will be bullied or lose opportunities for speaking it, because they sacrificed everything for you to come to america to give you a better life and how could they impede your chances even if it means also sacrificing communication with family, of culture, of knowing your own roots

when first generation immigrants lose job opportunities or employment or housing or become victims of hate crimes just because they can’t speak english and that their native tongue, their ‘asian accent’, is deemed as less-than, as not worthy compared to european and western languages and accents

when people who do speak the language are made fun of and told to go back to where they came from and why don’t you speak English because you’re in America

when all this and more is happening, using our languages as an accessory is salt in a festering wound.

 it’s disrespectful and cultural appropriation.

it doesn’t have to be religious or ceremonial

people think it’s so cool to bastardize our languages in order to make their own sound more interesting and 'cultured’ when we’re vilified for even speaking it 

 it’s fucked up