#Turtle is a Verb

[nonspeakerlibrary]

I type. And I don't need to always type. I don't need to type when something else is faster. I don't need to type when I have another option. I don't need to type when something else is more natural. I don't need to type if I don't want to. I don't need to always do the same thing.

Sometimes people will start learning to use an AAC method and focus on it, get stuck on it, rather than the more general communication. How do you have people listen, and communicate, and pay attenion, and include you? The focus doesn't need to be one app, one device, one method. There is the question, the idea - how works for you and them and your relationship and getting ideas across and being understood to each other. What's comfortable here, now, with these people, in this situation, in this moment. It's not about an AAC app, its about your communication.

Not everything is words, not everything needs to be words, not everything should be words. Our words are powerful, and our words are ones we use when we want to, and our words are ones we use how we want to. But our words aren't the only communication method that exists.

It's I can do what is right for me, whatever that is, because I am a person.

And I can have relationships with people who treat me as a person.

And its not about one method of communcation, its about communicating, as a person, with other people.

[trolledu]

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Rhetorical Devices

These devices, sometimes called “figures of speech," appear in all speech and writing (you can find them in advertising, political speeches, and newspapers, as well as in essays, letters, and poems).

EXAMPLES. It helps, if you wish to give a brief description of what a writer is doing at a given moment, to know some of these shorthand terms for frequent practices.

Alternative Ordering - "A man that looks on glass, / On it may stay his eye, / Or, if he pleaseth, through it pass, / And then the heaven espy."

Analogy (comparison of A and B) - "No more be grieved at that which thou hast done: / Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud."

Anaphora (repetition of opening word) - "All shuffle there, all cough in ink, / All wear the carpet with their shoes, / All think what other people think; / All know the man their neighbor knows."

Anticlimax - "In silk, in crepes, in Garters, and in rags."

Antithesis (opposition of A and B) - "For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, / Who are as dark as hell, as black as night."

Apposition (list of different formulations of the same thing) - "The Mind of Man, / My haunt, and the main region of my song."

Catalogue - "The leaden-eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle, the hairy sea-leopard."

Chiasmus (an X-like arrangement) - "By brooks too broad for leaping / The lightfoot boys are laid; The rose-lept girls are sleeping / In fields where roses fade." [books : boys :: girls : fields]

Hierarchical Ordering - "Such sweet neglect more taketh me / Than all th' adulteries of art."

Metaphor (comparison without "like" or "as") - "Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, / The land of spices; something understood."

Metonymy (assemblage by parts) - "Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass."

Onomatopoeia (imitative sound) - "And murmuring of innumerable bees."

Paradox (union of dissimilar qualities) - "There is in God, some say, / A deep but dazzling darkness."

Parallelism - "These are thy wonders, Lord of Power . . . / These are thy wonders, Lord of Love."

Periphrasis (circumlocution) - "The Peer now spreads the glittering forfex wide" [= opens scissors]

Personification (an abstraction made into a person) - "Love is swift of foot, / Love's a man of war."

Pun (a play on two meanings of one word) - "Therefore I lie with her, and she with me, / And in our faults by lies we flattered be."

Quotation - "My flesh began unto my soul in pain, / 'Sickness cleave my bones.'"

Simile (comparison with "like" or "as") - "Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore, / So do our minutes hasten to their end."

Synecdoche (use of the part for the whole) - "Diadems — drop — and Doges — surrender."

Zeugma (two dissimilar objects of same verb) - "Or stain her honor, or her new brocade."

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[incorrect-tmnt2012-quotes]

[When the Turtles, Dogpound & Fishface were trapped in Stockman’s Maze of Doom]

Stockman, over the speaker: Okay, Bradford, your turn. Give me a noun.

Dogpound: Blood.

Stockman: Okay! Now Donatello, you supply an adjective.

Donnie: Psychotic.

Stockman: Ooh, good one! And, Raphael, a verb.

Raph: Choke.

Stockman: Well, you've already used choke three times, but I'll allow it. Aren't Mad Libs so much fun?

Fishface: No. No they're not.

[ahollowgrave]

Steer (verb): to direct the course of.  A young nun far from home. Some waterway of Vylbrand.

Wooden plants creak in protest as the ferry glides through water pushing the opposite direction. The ferryman whistles a tune as he gazes forward, his work second nature to him. You marvel at it. Watch as his arm flexes and the ferry effortlessly pivots past an outcropping of bright white stone. The canyon river is narrow and winding and he knows it well. His eyes - a velvety brown - catch yours and his big mustache bends with a smile and a wink.

You look away, embarrassed.  Lean over the edge of the boat. The water here is impossibly clear and you can see the smooth pebbles at the bottom. Schools of fish drift by, and minerals and rocks glint in the afternoon light. You spot and identify several useful water plants before the flow of water begins to make you dizzy. 

You could not bear to catch the ferryman’s eye again. Your stomach clenching at the mere idea. Thankfully, the ferry is full. Farmhands lean against one another, hats pulled low as they doze. Their hands are weathered with dirt packed under the nails, in the knuckles. They breathe in sync. A trio of adventurers in the front have a map out; they’ve been arguing in hushed voices since boarding. They talk over each other in familiar patterns. A child leans over the edge of the boat, their mother’s fingers clutching the back of their tunic. She points out a turtle sunning itself on a rock. Their laughs match.

A sharp, green shoot of yearning sprouts along your rib, pierces the soft muscle of your heart. 

Your pack rests solidly against your legs. A short but effective wall between the seat you claimed and the rest of the passengers. It isn’t personal, you try to say with your expression, you just need your space. 

The ferryman’s hands pull the rudder and the boat responds in a graceful, slowing turn. It comes to a stop with a gentle bump against the dock. There is a chorus of rough laughter from the bow and as you watch the adventurers clap each other on the back, share long-lived grins. They’ve had that argument before and they’ll have it at least twice more before it’s done. The mother and her child are the first ones off, carefully aided by dockworkers. The child squeals with laughter as a worker pulls a flower from behind their ear. You rub at your chest. Falling in behind the farmhands you shoulder your pack. You will lose your fellow passengers soon -- to the crowd and to their paths. You don’t know their names and only some of their faces yet still you grieve these minuscule relationships.

Laughter and song pour out onto the street from an open door. An tavern, bustling and busy in the middle of the day, bards reciting old favorites. From the street you glimpse skirts flaring in the steps of a spirited dance; flowers blooming with each turn. It would be easy enough to slip inside, find a corner to claim, build more tiny relationships between strangers.

The letter you carry -- carefully folded in your chest pocket -- is time-sensitive. And the address it bids you travel to is far from this harbor town. Isolated. You linger. You could delay your trip for a day, perhaps two. 

You leave the open door behind. Guided, as always, by the chilled hand of your most holy bride.

[magpielangs]

Lexember Day 28: Eik

eik, *imka, /ēīk/ - (vt) to cut, slice, separate, to split apart; (n) point, end, edge, border imeik, *im~imka, /ī.mēīk/ - (vi) to be sharp, to be dangerous

The Proto-SZ word *imka meant "to cut," which quickly came to refer to the place where something has been cut, and then spread to other types of edges as well. Meanwhile, the reduplicated form also was used for edges, but specifically shifted to mean sharp ones, which then was metaphorically extended to describe other dangerous things.

Chí la mimeika mizhíd eiklhu se nésó ikás yimeik turtle DEM PRES-dangerous PRES-possible cut-IRR one LOC-use GEN-rock GEN-sharp That turtle is dangerous and might cut you with a sharp rock.

The Svinık cognate is just a verb, though the word for "knife" is derived from it, literally "cut-tool."

ikh, *imka, /ix/ - (vt) to cut, to split, to break tukh, *duw-imka, /’tux/ - (n) knife, blade

[bunnyphoenix]

I was so ready to be a hater but I have to say I actually liked Elphie. From Greg defender to Greg hater to Greg defender again I fear.

(No significant spoiler, but under the cut because long)

Sure Maguire chooses the worst opening scenes/chapters ever for some reason. They are not fully unrelated to the story but the vibe is different. It gets good past that part, and it's not a very long book. I can't believe 'influential book reviewers' got ARG copies just to say they could not finish after reading a little of the beginning..?

Some people seemed to hate the writing, but I'm not sure why. It's certainly fanficcy and it makes me wonder if Greg has finally figured out how to use a computer and been reading some (this is not a diss he said so in an interview). The short sentences without verb, the present tense, metaphoring something mundane and/or plot-irrelevant, occasional thesaurusmaxing... It reminds me a bit of certain one-shots where the author wants to make sure you think they're doing something deeper than shipping. I probably do that. I feel self-conscious now lmfao

It's a deeply introspective book... among the flowery, there are multiple quote-worthy pieces of genius. Something else that's fanficcy is the dialog tags are very specific: tells you how the character is feeling or his tone very often. This is different than other authors who simply write the dialogue and lets you imagine / lets it convey how the character is saying it, the emotion. IDK. Sometimes it feels like cheating, because I guess these things should be 'show not tell' but what do I know, I started writing last year and don't have a diploma.

I liked that in this book, we get in Elphie's head. He didn't do that much in W:TLATOTWWOTW (insane abbreviation); this one might be my favorite in the series actually. I think I'm biased because there were a handful of Elphie & Nessa cute moments and I love them. I did not like that he retconned Sheltergod as Shell's birth name, I thought it was more fitting if it was something he made up himself in his sanctimonious era. But he's very fun. He's my fave.

Also I know this is one is a subject of contention so I'm going to post a minor text snippet. Although Gregory omitted (or forgot) Turtle Heart in his OOO family tree, not only the narrative suggests Shell is Frex's only son, but also it is suggested that Nessa even looks Quadling. NESSA MIXED RACE CONFIRMED!

[quothalinguist]

The Vuochanad word for Lexember 13th is the verb “slioftum” (“to crawl, to walk”). While it can be defined as “to walk,” it is only used for animals and insects that walk on more than two legs, where the walking still has a horizontal element. In the sentence, “Slioftudhen alofñam udhèt” (“A turtled crawled on the sand”), the verb occurs in the narrative tense.

[paloma-ascends-into-hellfire]

i'm bored so... parts of speech tag game!

fave pronoun: thy

fave noun: leaf

fave proper noun: Athena (my nickname!! ily irl friends!!)

fave verb: to write

fave adverb: swiftly

fave adjective: effervescent

fave conjunction: nor

fave preposition: amid

fave interjection: whoa!

fave article: a

np tags (please indulge my insanity): @book-girl4eva @mimmmyyy @auroraofthesun1 @gonna-live-just-to-spite-you @ace-of-pussy

@dingus0401 @sondheim-girly @the-slowest-turtle @wants-to-marry-sirius-black and anyone else who'd like to join :)

[mathhombre]

Angidaasowinan

Lovely article about the indigenous math courses Danny Luecke is developing at Turtle Mountain Community College. A model of culturally sustaining math teaching and learning.

"Angidaasowinan is the Turtle Mountain Ojibwe word for mathematics. The root is the verb angidaaso meaning “s/he counts” (-win implies the noun form of the action, and –an implies plural). Thus there isn’t a direct translation between mathematics and angidaasowinan, leading to misunderstanding between the more noun/definition-based perspective of math concepts and the verb/action-based perspective of mathematical activity."

YES. Exactly. I want to teach for learners doing math, not passive results for students to know.

[mushyroomswebkinz]

Would the turtles prefer

Uno, Janga, Hungry hippos, Sorry or Operation as a game to play together if they do game nigh

And do they have a least favorite subject in school or a class they don't do too well in

They definitely cycle through different games during their little family game nights! However they seem to keep going back to card games or Uno!

The list of the four turtles least favorite subject in school! Even straight A Leo has a least favorite.

Donnie- English, still has no idea how to identify a verb or adjective in a sentence.

Raph- Math, has Dyscalculia (dyslexia for numbers) and has a hard time understanding those word problems. (Why does James need 220 watermelons???)

Mikey- History/Social studies, thinks it's boring and would rather be in P.E or Art

Leo- P.E. (physical activity), likes to run and play games but absolutely hates being told what to do when it comes to physical activity

[qqchurch]

“What are you glaring at, you idiot!” The Immortal Giant Turtle’s foul mouth was on full display. ”We’ve been around each other for years, and you still don’t recognize me? You’re a complete fool!”

It might have been under some pressure itself, as it kept cursing.

“Lord Turtle, your cursing skills are a bit lacking,” Lu Yuan called out from outside, laughing. “Let me teach you a formula for cursing: combine a verb, one organ of the opponent’s female relative, and another organ of their male relative. Or reverse it.”

The Immortal Giant Turtle imagined this for a moment and nearly withdrew into its shell. Too vicious it had too much pride to say something like that.

lmao what a bad influence

[raptorwithink]

Verenpovari

/"A Prophet Of Blood"

Digital painting

Donatello being a witch doctor, because I enjoy him and his whole... situation. This visual is somewhat inspired by one scene in "Twilight Of The Ring" (Eastman&Laird's tmnt vol.1. i.37) where he holds a ritual trying to contact the Great Turtle Spirit.

"Povari" is an old/dialectal Finnish word translating to "fortune teller". So the title of this painting could be read as "one who tells your fortune by reading it from blood", or alternatively "one who tells you the future of your blood/bloodline". The verb "povata" is telling the future, but also used in more mundane ways. Like say that you are going out and your friend keeps saying that "it's surely going to rain", you might say that your friend "povaa sadetta", with an underlying implication that they are rising the likelihood of a bad thing happening by talking about it.

[familyofpaladins]

loss

for the fanfic wip game

I'm afraid, that at the moment the word "loss" does not appear in any of my wips

I do, however, have the word "lost" which is sorta the past tense verb form of loss... so maybe it counts lol?

This is from my WIP Pressing Play which is a tmnt 2003 fix about Cody Jones and takes place after the turtles go back to their own time

Cody stood there for a minute absorbing everything the president had told him. The turtles went somewhere but never came back. And within a couple years of then leaving, most of the people who knew them had died, so there was no one left to look. Cody's chest felt heavy. He had lost almsot all of his family before he ever knew them. And the 4 members he Had gotten to know now (in the flesh and not through written memories and other mementos) had also disappeared without a trace.

[warriors-rewritten-chaos]

Warrior Cats Suffixes- B

I had a WC Name Generator on Perchance that I made but I don't seem to have access anymore, so I'm remaking it here as just a simple list. The definitions used are the ones that Clan cats have for those things, and thus are the origins of the names. Definitions used are whatever I found when I googled it.

-bark: "[noun] an outer layer of a woody plant such as a tree or stick; [noun] the sharp explosive cry of certain animals, especially a dog, fox, or seal"

-beak: "[noun] the hard, pointed part of a bird's mouth"

-beam: "[noun] a ray or shaft of light; [verb] (of a light or light source) shine brightly"

-bee: "[noun] a honeybee; [noun] an insect of a large group to which the honeybee belongs, including many solitary as well as social kinds"

-beetle: "[noun] an insect of an order distinguished by forewings typically modified into hard wing cases that cover and protect the hind wings and abdomen"

-bellow: "[verb] (of an animal) emit a deep loud roar, typically in pain or anger; [noun] a deep roaring shout or sound"

-belly: "[noun] the front part of the cat trunk below the ribs, containing the stomach and bowels"

-berry: "[noun] a small roundish juicy fruit without a stone"

-bill: "[noun] the jaws of a bird together with their horny covering. A duck's bill; [noun] a mouthpart (such as the beak of a turtle) that resembles a bird's bill"

-billow: "[noun] a large undulating mass of something, typically cloud, smoke, or steam; [verb] fill with air and swell outward"

-birch: "[noun] a slender, fast-growing tree that has thin bark (often peeling) and bears catkins"

-bird: "[noun] a warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate distinguished by the possession of feathers, wings, and a beak and (typically) by being able to fly"

-bite: "[verb] (of a person or animal) use the teeth to cut into or through something"

-blade: "[noun] one of the elongated linear leaves of a typical grass"

-blaze: "[noun] a very large or fiercely burning fire; [verb] burn fiercely or brightly"

-blight: "[noun] a plant disease, typically one caused by fungi such as mildews, rusts, and smuts (smut as defined as a fungal disease of grains); [verb] infect (plants) with blight"

-bloom: "[noun] a flower, especially one cultivated for its beauty; [noun] a delicate powdery surface deposit on certain fresh fruits, leaves, or stems; [verb] to produce flowers, to be in flower"

-blossom: "[noun] a flower or a mass of flowers, especially on a tree or bush; [verb] (of a tree or bush) produce flowers or masses of flowers"

-blotch: "[noun] an irregular patch or patches on a surface, typically the fur"

-blur: "[verb] make or become unclear or less distinct; [noun] a thing that cannot be seen or heard clearly"

-boar: "[noun] a tusked Eurasian wild pig from which domestic pigs are descended; [noun] a male domestic pig"

-bolt: "[verb] (of an animal) run away suddenly out of control; [noun] thunderbolt"

-bone: "[noun] any of the pieces of hard whitish tissue making up the skeleton in vertebrates; [noun] the calcified material of which bones consist"

-bough: "[noun] a main branch of a tree"

-boulder: "[noun] a large rock, typically one that has been worn smooth by erosion"

-bounce: "[verb] (of a cat) jump repeatedly up and down; [noun] an act of jumping or an instance of being moved up and down"

-bound: "[verb] walk or run with leaping strides; [noun] a leaping movement upward"

-bramble: "[noun] a prickly scrambling vine or shrub, especially a blackberry or other wild shrub of the rose family"

-branch: "[noun] a part of a tree which grows out from the trunk or from a bough"

-breeze: [noun] a gentle wind"

-briar: "[noun] any of a number of prickly scrambling shrubs, especially the sweetbriar and other wild roses"

-bright: "[adj] giving out or reflecting a lot of light, shining; [adj] (of a cat) intelligent and quick-witted"

-bristle: "[noun] a short stiff hair, typically one of those on an animal's skin or a plant; [verb] (of hair or fur) stand upright away from the skin, especially in anger or fear"

-brook: "[noun] a small stream"

-brush: "[noun] scrub vegetation"

-bubble: "[noun] a thin sphere of liquid enclosing air or another gas"

-bud: "[noun] a compact growth on a plant that develops into a leaf, flower, or shoot"

-bug: "[noun] an insect of a large order distinguished by having mouthparts that are modified for piercing and sucking; [noun] a small insect"

-burn: "[verb] (of a fire) produce flames and heat while consuming a material such as coal or wood; [verb] destroy, damage, or injure by heat or fire"

-burr: "[noun] a seed or dry fruit or infructescence that has hooks or teeth"

-burrow: "[noun] a hole or tunnel dug by a small animal, especially a rabbit, as a dwelling; [verb] (of an animal) make a hole or tunnel, typically for use as a dwelling"

-bush: "[noun] a shrub or clump of shrubs with stems of moderate length"

-buzz: "[noun] a low, continuous humming or murmuring sound, made by or similar to that made by an insect"

[whispering-about-the-tmnt]

Aren’t siblings like that though? Pretending to take a swing at each other. Me and my siblings do it all the time 🤷 I guess I feel incomfy calling normal sibling behavior bullying. Since so many use that as an excuse to trash on the character not saying that’s what you were doing. Just explaining why I don’t use that word so lightly.

Hmm. I get what you're saying, and I am sorry if my use of the word bothered you. However, the two terms are not mutually exclusive -- mild bullying can absolutely be considered "normal" sibling behavior.

Note the definition of the verb bully: seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce (someone perceived as vulnerable). And Raph, although a loving sibling, was clearly seeking to intimidate Don (whom he knew would be receptive -- or vulnerable -- to it). And yes, Raph was only mildly bullying Don in that scene, but for me even that is bothersome. Had they not shown Don going right into flight mode, then maybe I would have read it different... as more of a mutual thing, rather than one-sided.

This does not mean that I thought he was abusing Don... that is something he would absolutely not do. Ever. There is a distinct difference, and I will take anyone to task who claims that Raph is an abuser.

Anyway, a curious thing that I've noticed is that people who do the bullying do not tend to think of it that way, while those who have been bullied by their siblings are far more likely to use the word. As a kid, I was frequently picked on, teased, slapped around, etc. by my older siblings; but when I told them to stop bullying me, they would simply say that I had no sense of humor, that it was all in good fun, that if I had any guts I would fight back, etc.

So, I simply do not like to see that behavior, no matter how "normal" it might be, in media or real life. It is a personal preference, and the question was asking what I disliked (implying personal preference).

Also, the Turtles are said to be in their mid-20s in the 2007 verse, so to see Raph behaving like that makes him seem a bit immature. I mean, pretty on-point for him, but still...