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teaboot · 3 months ago

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hiiiiiii so i have concepts of a story that were halted months ago due to my inability to fathom writing From The Perspective Of A Toddler. & now i have learned that you apparently remember the experience VIVIDLY. & i would like to ask,, if you would be so kind,, if you would be amenable to. giving tips. answering questions. etc

for instance the extremely crucial Do You Remember When You Learned How To Spell Your Name. & What Was Thinking Like

. pretty please i had lost hope

Oh, sure! Yeah, no problem

Kay so I learned how to read at around 4 and was p much fluent around 5- I remember cause I LOVED Calvin and Hobbes and Calvin was one year older than me

When I was 3ish I remember my mom starting with the alphabet, and I remembered learning it in chunks- so I usually didn’t forget just a single letter, but the whole chunk. ABCD-EFG-HIJK, like how the song goes, but if I got stuck on D and couldn’t remember E I’d jump to H just grasping for the next thing I could remember. And she made me learn in German too, so I got the idea of certain letters being able to make different noises

*(English alphabet LMNOP was the hardest cause it sounded like a word- ELEMENOPEE- and since all letter names sound like words I thought it was just one letter, like DOUBLE-YOU and WHY.)

**(My favourite German letter was OOPSILON ‘cause my mom made it sound like something you’d say after falling down in a silly way- like “whoopsie-doodles” or smthn)

So by the time it came to reading and writing, I already had most of the sounds memorized- the hardest things to remember where letters that COULD sound the same but weren’t interchangeable- like G and J- and which letters were usually in pairs and when- like -CK and Qu- -and which directions they faced when I wrote them down.

The most common backwards-letters were J, L, N, b, d, S, Z, a, q, and r.

I’m not getting doxxed today but my name had letter/s that I consistently wrote backwards.

In early grades, our teacher wrote our names on big pieces of paper and taped them to the top of our desks so we could see them every day, and let us decorate around them with pencil crayons so they’d be personalized. So remembering the right letters in the right order was pretty easy pretty fast, but some would still be backwards.

After we had the alphabet song down, we all got workbooks with 26 double-sides pages or so where there was one line of a single letter spelled in dashes we could trace, like Aa Aa Aa, then a line of capitals we had to free-write, like AAAA, then a line in lowercase- aaaa. After there was a line of text using that letter we could trace- Anna ate an apple- and then like five lines where we’d repeat it.

We were only supposed to do one or two a day, and I frequently got in trouble for blowing past that.

We had other workbooks just like that for learning cursive, but IMO cursive was easier because we already knew the letters, we just had to learn how they looked then they were fancy and how to connect them fluidly.

The worst part of learning to write was keeping the pencil steady. Holding a pencil to write when you’ve never done it before is kind of uncomfortable till you find a position that works for you, and it takes a while to get a feel for how close your fingers should be to one end. On top of that, it’s super hard to get a tidy line of any shape until your motor skills catch up- and they only catch up if you DO it enough.

My least-favourite things about learning to write was guessing which words ended in a silent E, whether or not a Wr- word was just an R-, and remembering that Q was always followed by a U.

Th- Wh- Ch- -Ce and Sh- sounds had an entire class one day, and a separate poster on the board with trains and people shushing so we’d know which one was which. Like a cheat sheet! Our teacher would sometimes tape construction paper over them before class started or during recess and we wouldn’t notice until after she announced a surprise pop quiz.

I hope some of this was what you were looking for?

Good luck writing! :D

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leosrequiem · 5 years ago

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Letters of the American English Alphabet Rated by ME

A - The classic. 7/10 Not much to say here, it's usually a soft letter, good in making words sound less abrasive. Good at the beginning of a phrase/name but not very appealing. It is a vowel and starting phrased with a vowel feels weird. I gave it one extra point for being the first letter of the words ass, apple, angel, and anguish.

B - Meh 4/10 Less than average. It has terrible vibes. It’s almost uncanny. I can’t really explain it but I associate it with words like blubbery, bloat, baluga, balloon, berry(ies), and they all have a lumpy, rubbery and round look that all make me slightly uncomfortable.

C - 5/10 This letter is the bane of my existence in school. I associate it with feelings of failure even though it is not terrible to get a C. I associate it with words like: cool, clean, cock, cucumber, and conception and those are all pretty fun words which cancel out the overall negative feelings so it earns a nice average rating.

D - AW YEAH BOOOY 7/10 D is an interesting letter. I think it looks good at the beginning of words/phrases because the hump faces the way we read. One could argue the flat back is a block and makes it hard to start the word but I argue the opposite. It acts more like a gate that doesn't let you turn back, encouraging you to read further. However I am deducting 2 points from my original rating because the lowercase D is the worst letter for someone with dyslexia. I often confuse it for B and P and that is no good.

E - 6/10 A very versatile letter able to make a bunch of cool noises like E and eh and ey as well as it sounding different in different accents languages. It's the second vowel on this list meaning you can pronounce it without using anything in your mouth. The letter E is full of joke material like the meme E and puns like Eggciting. Despite this it's still a boring vowel that's hard to write in uppercase.

F - 2/10 Stupid. Fuck you. FFFFFF is such a dumb sound. And that’s the hex code for pure white which is the color of Apple™ and I hate them. F is also a boring letter that just looks like a broken E. G - 5.5/10 Not much to say here again. I associate this letter with pirates though, and that’s cool so I’m giving it .5 points above my original rating.

H - 7.5/10 H is like the eboy of letters. If I was drawing humanized letters, H would absolutely be a scrawny white eboy, mayhaps even a Tumblr sexy man. Cool letter. I don’t ADORE it, but I like it. Hell yeah.

I - 1/10 Bane of my existence. Between I and lowercase L… This vowel is only good in words, never the beginning of words. Ice? Igloo? Insane? Stupid looking words. Terrible design.

J - 5/10 No thoughts. The only good thing about this letter that's above average is that I like writing it in cursive, that is all.

K - 3/10 I just don’t care about this letter, everything it does can be done with a C or an X. We as a society have moved the need for K.

L - 5.3/10 Just barely above average because I associate it with lovecore and I fuck heavily with it. I also enjoy how smooth of a sound it is.

M - 5/10 Smooth sounding and that's all i care about.

N - 3/10 Nothing interesting fuck you.

O - 7/10 DONUT

P - -2/10 It’s a nerdy looking letter. Pronouncing it is like trying to speak with marshmallows in one's mouth. It’s massively unimpressive and looks terrible in the front of a phrase. It feels like a fucked up vowel rather than a usable letter.

Q - 0/10 Useless letter. Can almost never be used without having a U or CK next to it. Just use C or CK, It’s so ridiculous and a waste of time. It’s also a dyslexic nightmare letter often being confused with P.

R - 6/10 I don’t know what to say I just like to rrrrrrrrrrr, but that’s it.

S - 10/10 Slithery goodness. A flexible letter that can be written in so many ways before it’s confusing! I associate it with sky, snake, slithery, soup, serendipitous, serenity, soothe and I just think these are some nice words. Drawing S’s out also makes me feel like an evil snake or a creeper.

T - 6/10 Testosterone

U - 3/10 Helpful but ugly. This letter NEVER looks good or sounds cool in anything. Unique is a dumb looking word. Unicorn is too. (No hate to those funky horses)

V - 5/10 No thoughts but fun to use as an arrow pointing down!

W - 7/10 Double U? You mean double V? Despite the stupid name for this letter I think it deserves some appreciation because without out I wouldn’t be able to express as much confusion as I can now.

X - 8/10 TWO LINES and also reminds me of pirates but for a much more obvious reason. I like pirates!

Y - 8.5/10 No thoughts, just think its stupid in a fun way.

Z - 9/10 only because it’s a super uncommon letter and when I see it I get excited.

#long post #cage rattling posts #grrrrgrgrgr #bark bark bark bark bark

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niedolia · 8 years ago

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russian names & how to use them: terms of endearment

Ok, they’re not really names, but let’s just roll with it for consistency’s sake. Here is where I apologize for those of you who had trouble on my Russian names post, because if you thought that was confusing, this is going to be an absolute enigma. That’s why we’re not really going to get into the details here; I have to assume most of you are utterly unfamiliar with Russian. So we’re going to go over some basics then get to the good part.

It may sound gutteral to you, but Russian is actually a very affectionate language when you get to this part, and knowing this should serve you well.

Contents: notes on Latinization and Cyrillic (which might interest artists), a note on possessives, the actual list.

CYRILLIC VS LATINIZATION

I know what you’re thinking: Damn it, Vasya, why are we covering this controversial topic? Well, I have an answer: you’re probably doing it wrong, either way. It’s harsh, it’s true, and I can only help you so much but I’ll try.

You have a choice here and it really depends on which audience you’re trying to appease, so let’s look at both sides:

Cyrillic: your English-speakers are dazed. what’s with this alien alphabet out of nowhere? how awkward. Latinization: it’s ugly, it really is. and transliteration is never ever correct, there are sounds in Russian that don’t exist in English. and even when English does offer an actual equivalent, it gets ignored so that Westerners can stomach it. even the gods can’t help you if you just ripped the transliteration from Google Translate.

I’m not suggesting either way at this point. I’m as dazed as your English-speakers after transliterating so many names recently.

that neutral option called english

I’ve seen a lot of people recommend this, just stick to English terms of endearment. It’s a good neutral route that provides a translation intext so your average English-speaker knows what’s going on right then and there. I envy you who chooses this; why are you here?

I also want to remind people you can provide translations intext if you’re the type to do so. Don’t knock til you try it:

“Cолнышко моё,” Viktor whispered. He pulled Yuuri, his Yuuri, his dearest sweetheart*, closer.

* солнышко actually does get translated as ‘sweetheart’ even though it literally means ‘dearest/little sun’.

So there we go, here are your options.

so you chose cyrillic:

Stop capitalizing words randomly. It’s not your fault, I know, you just copied whatever Google Translate gave you because you don’t know where else to turn. But seeing stuff like Мой Дорогой is kinda weird. The lowercase and the uppercase letters aren’t that different, so just go in and replace that capital with a lowercase. Boom, you’ve just made me happy.

For your convenience (in qwerty style because I’m lazy):

ё й ц у к е н г ш щ з х ф ы в а п р о л д ж э я ч с м и т б ю

A note for artists: I have no idea how many artists read these but just in case. Handwritten Cyrillic is different from typed Cyrillic (seriously, writing д all the time would kill me) so if you’re handwriting your Cyrillic you probably want to know that. This is a pretty good reference actually, and you should be able to follow it. Sometimes д is written like ‘d’ but otherwise this is standard. If you need any more references, I could link you to more / write a sample of my cursive Cyrillic.

so you chose latinization:

So hey, good luck, bye. Oh my guy, everything that is wrong with standard Cyrillic to Latin transliteration is beyond both of us. It’s getting better, slowly, but for now we’re in a bit of a standoff.

Because you’re getting incorrect transliterations. And therefore wrong pronunciations; I imagine many of you are pronouncing Vitenka wrong - it’s Vityen’ka, go look up the audio. And you either don’t know this or are just following the “standard” rules.

Because I don’t know whether to give you the real transliteration or stick to the “standard” just in case that’s what you want.

This is why below you might end up with two different transliterations: a more accurate spelling and a “standard” one (which will be in parantheses). I don’t know what to tell you.

THE POSSESSIVES

Russian is a heavily gendered language so there’s going to be different possessive words for the genders; if you know French, it’s like mon/ma, it’s dependent on the noun it describes.

мой - masculine моя - feminine моё - neuter (sometimes written as just мое but моё is technically correct)

Although Russian has a loose word order and possessives can go before the noun (ie моя вода), I’ll be presenting them after the noun below for simplicity’s sake; they are often written this way in stand-alone phrases.

Feel free to remove the possessive, I’m just including them for reference.

TERMS OF ENDEARMENT

Remember how I was saying that Russian is an affectionate language? That’s because virtually every noun can have a diminutive, even inanimate objects. Which means a lot of possibilities. I could go up and call you ‘dearest chair’ and you can’t do shit about it. So I’ll run you through the more common ones in use today. If you want a personalized one... ask someone familiar with Russian.

Now, diminutives for nouns can either denote smallness (ie small child) or affection (dearest star). Hence, small/little & dearest are the closest equivalents in English that I can see realistically (ie cолнышко | small sun, dearest sweetheart).

Now, in Cyrillic alphabetical order:

Cyrillic | Latinization(s) | (my + small/little/dearest) + Translation.

** obviously some of these are more popular than others. cолнышко, дорогой/дорогая, любовь, and милая, for example, are ones I see more often. but all the ones I’ve listed here have at least some level of common use, ie in movies, songs, etc.

you’re missing a bunch vasya ://

Yeah probably, lol, I can barely get English terms of endearment down. So if you’re noticing a really good term missing from this list please feel free to message me / tag it & I’ll add it. Chances are this post will see a few additions as I remember a few more to add myself.

i have further questions / comments / requests!

And I have an inbox complete with anon and everything! Seriously, feel free to message me about any questions you have left about all this Russian naming stuff, etc. I also have a tag here to see if I’ve already answered something you’re curious about. Thanks for reading!

- Vasya

#free to reblog #yuri on ice #yoi #victor nikiforov #idk how else to tag it #its more general this time but yoi is why i wrote this so ://#this has almost 40 terms ok #yall should have some variety lmao #vasileks russian crash course #this will prob be my last post like this #idk what else i'd explain for fanfic lol #well its been great

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makeuptips10-blog · 7 years ago

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The Definitive Guide to Each of the Kardashian-Jenners’ Tattoos

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The Definitive Guide to Each of the Kardashian-Jenners’ Tattoos

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Believe it or not, but the Kardashian-Jenners have a lot of tattoos, with each having its own special meaning, from small symbols for their significant others to permanent marks to remind them of their wild—and regretful—drunken nights. And though some sisters have more tattoos than others (Kim and Kourtney don’t have any—that we know of), the family has enough ink as a whole to cover an entire body apart.

To keep track of the Kardashian-Jenners’ tattoo collection, we’ve collected each and every tat that the Keeping Up with the Kardashians family has inked on their body. Some of these tattoos were removed, while others remained. But each tat has a special story behind them. Check out our guide to the Kardashian-Jenners’ tattoos ahead.

Kylie Jenner

M on Her Pinky

In 2016, Kylie and her best friend, Jordyn Woods, tattooed squiggly, lowercase ms on their pinkies. The friends never revealed the significance of the letter, but Kylie later told fans on Snapchat that the decision was in-the-moment, so one can assume that it’s a special message between them. “I don’t really decide what tattoo I’m gonna get until [I’m there],” Kylie said.

Small Heart on Her Arm

In 2015, Kylie tattooed a small outline of a heart on the back of her arm in red. The heart is believed to be Kylie’s very first tattoo.

Sanity on Her Hip

Not too long after her heart tattoo, Kylie tattooed the phonetic spelling of the word sanity on her hip, which was done in red ink like her heart. A year later, Kylie added a before in front of her sanity tattoo, so that the full tattoo reads before sanity. It’s unclear what the significance is, but fans have assumed that the tattoo nods to the craziness of Kylie’s life at the time as a teen in the spotlight.

Mary Jo on Her Arm

In 2016, Kylie tattooed her grandmother’s name on her mom’s side, Mary Jo, on her arm. The tattoo was also done in the writing of Kylie’s grandfather, who passed away in 1975. The tattoo was also done in red.

LA on Her Ankle

In 2017, Kylie transformed her lowercase t tattoo with a lowercase la. The change happened after Kylie’s breakup with her longterm boyfriend, Tyga, whom she previously paid tribute to with a lowercase t tattoo on her ankle. Now that too says la to stand for Kylie’s hometown in Calabasas, Los Angeles.

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Butterfly on Her Ankle

A couple weeks before changing her t tattoo to la, Kylie debuted a butterfly tattoo on her ankle in honor of her current boyfriend, Travis Scott. The butterfly, which Scott also has on his ankle, nods to the rapper’s 2017 single, “Butterfly Effect.”

Photo: Snapchat (@KylieJenner).

Kendall Jenner

Hearts on Her Middle Fingers

In 2015, Kendall got two matching tattoos with her friend, Hailey Baldwin. The tattoos were hearts on each of Kendall’s middle fingers in white ink. One heart was a full heart while the other was broken. Baldwin got the same tattoos except hers are in red ink. “I really like tattoos. Right now I have two: They’re both in white ink on my two middle fingers. The one on my right hand is a full heart to represent an angel and my left is a broken heart—kind of like the devil side,” Kendall wrote on her app and website at the time. “Hailey and I have matching ones on the left side but hers is red (see pic). I definitely want more eventually, I just don’t know what I would get right now. I don’t have anything in mind. You’ll just have to wait and see!”

Photo: Snapchat (@KendallJenner).

Meow on Her Lip

On a drunken night in 2016, Kendall tattooed the word meow on her lip. She later explained on her app and website that the tattoo had no significance other than that the model wanted a face tattoo. “There’s no real meaning behind it,” she wrote. “I just wanted to be able to say that I have a tattoo ‘on my face!’”

When confronted about the tattoo on The Ellen DeGeneres Show two years later, Kendall admitted that the tattoo wasn’t one of her smartest decisions. “It was literally the first thing that came to my mind,” she said. “I don’t know, just my drunk thoughts.”

Khloé Kardashian

Daddy on Her Back

When she was 16, Khlo tattooed the word daddy in cursive on her back, followed by a cross. The tattoo honored her late father, Robert Kardashian. More than a decade later, she regretted the tat, which she called a “tramp stamp,” and had it removed. “Got this bad boy when I was 16…. Not so cute anymore🙊 I should’ve listened to Kim when she told me ‘you don’t put a bumper sticker on a Bentley.’ Bye-bye bumper sticker!!!” she captioned an Instagram video of her lasering off the tattoo.

I Love You on Her Wrist

To replace her back tattoo, Khlo tattooed the worse I Love You on her wrist in her dad’s handwriting to honor her father, which is a much more subtle tribute than the palm-sized tattoo on her lower back.

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LO on Her Hand

After Khlo and NBA player Lamar Odom began dating in 2015, they got matching tattoos of each other’s initials on their hands, which came together when they held hands. Khlo’s was an LO in cursive, while Odom’s was a KK. After they broke up and Khlo began dating Tristan Thompson, she removed the tattoo.

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Kris Jenner

So far, Kris is known to have one tattoo: a cross on her lower back. However, pictures have yet to be seen. Fans found out about Kris’s tattoo in a post on Khlo’s app and website. Apparently, the mom of six got the tattoo at the same time as Khlo when she and Nicole Richie got tramp stamps in honor of their dads. “My mom has tattoos. She has a tramp stamp of a cross,” Khlo wrote. “[If it were] somewhere more visible. I think that would look really sexy on her and she could pull it off because she’s edgy.”

Source: http://stylecaster.com/kardashian-jenner-tattoos/

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