#Vocabulary Differences

[adam-scott]

SEVERANCE (2022–) #02.05 ‘Trojan's Horse’

[theenglishnook]

Tongue Ties: English, Spanish, and the Lingua Franca Connection

English and Spanish stand as two pillars of global communication, each with distinct characteristics but also surprising similarities. Their differences and similarities offer a fascinating lens through which to explore the evolution of languages and their paths to becoming lingua franca. Differences: Phonetics and Pronunciation: One of the most apparent differences lies in phonetics and…

[corseque]

Did you know the fantasy MMORPG Final Fantasy Fourteen only uses the word "okay" 9 times in dialogue throughout the entire hundreds of hours long story? And each use of "okay" that got through seems like an actual mistake that simply didn't get edited out?

There is no use of "okay" in A Song of Ice and Fire. There is no use of "okay" in the entire The Witcher series. It's something that's like... just really largely accepted for fantasy. I would argue that vocabulary choice and word choice does a huge amount of heavy lifting to make something "feel" like a fantasy!!!!! It's a part of the genre expectation that I think is largely agreed on.

If you're writing a medievalish fantasy in a fantasy land, and you chose to establish a unique vocabulary and to minimize modern anachronisms to facilitate the feeling of being in a different fantasy world than our own modern mundane world, in a way that is commonly accepted for fantasy, and you've done it in all 3 previous of your games except for deliberate exceptions for artistic reasons, then you expect that to continue into the next part of the story so you feel like there's continuity.

the FFXIV English localization team made a point never to use "okay" commonly because it DOES make it feel too modern. It's actually a really easy thing to keep an eye on, editing wise.

and FFXIV is a game that has ACTUAL MODERN CARS and PARKING LOTS!!! and the English writing team STILL cared about eliminating "okay". Because they cared in a basic way about how word choice affects fantasy experience. Anyway, so that's how it feels when fantasy writing cares about the little details :)

Anyway, I'll continue to look at it as the most easy softball lob toward the writers' and editors' bats that they just fucking whiffed for no reason. Or whiffed on purpose, which is even fucking worse.

And after this week's revelations that BioWare always HATED and devalued the medieval fantasy Dragon Age and LOVED and valued the futuristic sci-fi Mass Effect, this style change is even more important to me. When a company looks down on fantasy PERIOD and suddenly in the latest game even the very language is changed to not feel as much as a fantasy game.... HMMM Hmmmm hmmmm I'm sure it's nothing!!!!!! but yeah it's childish to have basic expectations for a fantasy setting

[kusanagihaku]

realised this compilation of all the omamoris has been sitting in my drafts forever but in light of shop update tomorrow here's all of them in one post!!

i don't have hodge and podge to draw warding cards, but i hope these can give you blessings and protection in whatever you do!! meanings for each ghoul under the cut:

jin: 財源廣進 （cáiyuán guǎng jìn）

prosperity and wealth

"jìn" for jin!

tohma: 黃金滿屋 （huángjīn mǎn wū）

house filled with gold and silver (because he transferred from vagastrom to frostheim!); abundant wealth

kaito: 歩歩高升 （bùbù gāo shēng）

to continuously improve

kaito has 歩 in his name!

luca: 萬事如意 （wànshì rúyì）

for everything to go your way

“rú" for luca!

alan: 金玉滿堂 （jīnyù mǎntáng）

halls filled with gold and jade; abundant wealth

alan has 堂 in his name!

leo: 八面玲瓏（bāmiàn línglóng）

to have good social relationships

leo has 玲 in his name!

sho: 高飛遠翔 （gāofēi yuǎn xiáng）

to fly high and far = to have a great future

sho has 翔 in his name!

haru: 飛黃騰達 （fēi huáng téng dá）

to achieve meteoric success in your career; to make a lot of money

飛 = fly, 騰 = run/soar, like haru's super speed!

towa: 三羊開泰（sān yáng kāi tài）

originally 三陽開泰 - to have a surge of good luck

but 陽 (sun, yáng) replaced with 羊 (goat, yáng) just for towa!

ren: 年年有魚 （niánnián yǒu yú）

originally 年年有餘 - to have excess / more than enough every year

but 餘 (excess, yú) replaced with 魚 (fish, yú) just for ren!

taiga: 紅虎齊天（hónghǔ qí tiān）

originally 洪福齊天 - boundless blessings, supreme bliss

but 洪福 (hóngfú) replaced with 紅虎 (red tiger, hónghǔ) just for taiga!

romeo: 富貴有餘（fùguì yǒuyú）

to have a surplus of wealth

富 = rich, 貴 = expensive, like romeo!

ritsu: 夢想成真 （mèngxiǎng chéng zhēn）

to have your dreams come true

part of ritsu's name 針 (zhēn) sounds like 真 (real, true)

subaru: 鶴壽松齡（hè shòu sōng líng）

to have a long life

鶴 = crane, like subaru's goc sprite!

haku: 玖天觀月（jiǔtiān guān yuè）

originally 九天觀月 - to reach for the stars

but 九 (nine, jiǔ) replaced by 玖 (jiǔ) from haku's name!

zenji: 吉祥善事 （jíxiáng shànshì）

to have auspicious and kind deeds

zenji has 善 in his name!

ed: 長命百歲（chángmìng bǎi suì）

to live to an old age

because ed is 400+ years old...

rui: 龍精虎猛（lóng jīng hǔ měng）

to have the spirit of a dragon and the ferocity of a tiger; to be energetic and lively

because he never sleeps!

lyca: 八方來財 （bāfāng lái cái）

to get fortune / money from all directions

"lái" for lyca!

yuri: 學海無涯（xué hǎi wú yá）

endless learning, boundless knowledge

because of yuri's research!

jiro: 身體健康（shēntǐ jiànkāng）

to have good health

i feel like if i were to wish good health on only one ghoul... it would be jiro...

[aaliyahhves]

I don't know about you guys but me personally, I think anything is much more fun when you have ships to ship.

Like you guys see two teammates talking about playing chess, I see nico's ex wooing the man of the dreams of rb's champion.

[dictionaryhoarder]

I think it's super funny when your vocabulary rubs off on other people especially when those people are much older than you.

I say "oki"/"okie" a lot in text messages and when I'm speaking because I find it fun to say and it feels way less formal/blunt that "okay" (depending on the context ofc)

My gen X mother has picked up on this and has started also saying "okie" when she's texting in the family group chat.

I don't know how much of it is a conscious effort to connect with me & my siblings and how much is her just picking up language to use in the ever-evolving familect (linguistics term for the specific language families use with each other, like a dialect but on a much smaller scale). Either way, I kind of love it.

[bonefall]

It's so funny that your idea is that DOVE should be the one mad because of course they make Ivy throw a hissy fit about their circumstances being different. Girl, your daughter chose to make a valiant sacrifice. Her kid's death was entirely preventable

To be clear; I'm unsure if they're going to give Ivypool another hissy fit. I only read that there is apparently going to be a scene where Dovewing and Ivypool (and also Icewing) bond over having dead kids.

And, I don't really like the idea of that, on its face. Even if this scene is written to be a very straightforward, positive moment of understanding between all of them, I feel like Dovewing's situation is so different from the two of them that I'd find it interesting if she was kind of offended by the comparison.

ESPECIALLY if it was Ivypool making an attempt to connect with Dovewing over this, y'know? Assuming she's totally being good intentioned here, legitimately trying to connect with her estranged sister over what she thinks is a similarity.

Bottom line is, Bristlefrost laid down her life to end tyranny. Beetlewhisker was an adult who chose to take the offer of demon training, and died standing up to Brokenstar. Rowankit was a baby, sick and in pain for days at his mother's belly while his father and older sister raced for a cure, as a parcel of lifesaving medicine sat untouched in the next territory over.

If anything, I'd prefer an Ivypool hissy fit, because I'd like to see her be framed as unreasonable, OR show how bereavement is causing her to lapse into old, bad behaviors. I strongly hope the narrative will examine the differences here (ESPECIALLY if this SE's theme is grief) instead of having the three of them "connect" in an uncomplicated way.

[asteroid-fruitcup]

copying the way you type is my love language

[esmeraldablazingsky]

romance(?) novel where a full half of the love interest(?)’s dialogue is redacted at the beginning of the story due to the pov character struggling with a language barrier + the love interest’s incomprehensibly formal way of speaking

[lass-us-slay]

I love how D-16’s optics are yellow, instead of the same blue like the other bots. Showing that although he’s not a “good” bot, he’s also not “evil” that D-16 does have a heart. No matter how buried it is under all that hate, betrayal, and hurt.

I also love how D-16’s optics slowly get more red as he finds out the truth of Sentinal Primes lies. I love how even if it seemed he really did want to kill Sentinal (and did), there was still a chance to turn him back. But no one was able to, no one saw that “hey, maybe if I push harder, he’ll listen?”

I love how close D-16 was to not become Megatron. But still did because the world is not perfect, the world isn’t fair.

Anyways I just got back from watching Transformers One and absolutely loved it!! Gives me soooo many brain worms eating away at my actual common sense <3 ✨✨🫶✨🫶🫶

[dabisbratz]

This is so random too but like who would make the tips your dicks touch together and and say some dumb shit like “look our dicks are kissing”?😗

And he pulls away and there’s just a string of clear pre attached-

this is so satoru. so satoru !! n bokuto coded !!! their strange sense of humor ends up bein kinda hot :O frottin with your hands wrapped around both your cocks n them tellin you ycant let go, ycant loosen your grip, laughin in your face when ywhine cause there’s so much friction n stickiness n s’so much?? cooin n deathly serious when they go “look at that, our dicks are kissing !!” n ycant even laugh or groan cause your breath is stuck in your throatkehdudgdgd

somethin tells me they’d split the string on their fingers n suck it off too !!

[br4ndts]

HELP????????????? i'm apparently AI now.

[thedreadvampy]

Me trying to be low-key and normal: "Ehhhhh so I think Saltburn is really the epitome of naive camp per Sontag largely because Emerald Fennel has a strong desire to reflect a very specific aesthetic sensibility but you know, because rich people lack a certain uhhhhhhh connection to the I guess cultural zeitgeist of Normal Fucking People it's just a clusterfuck of absent signifiers, right?"

Me trying So So So Hard to impress people and look cool: "So I'm trying to read The Second Sex but it's full of sentences like 'reifying the alterity of women removes access to the human Mitsein' and it's like lol, what does that even mean?" [<< knows full well what that sentence means and actually thinks that's the clearest and simplest way to express the idea]

[alpacacare-archive]

its DESTINY

[jessiescock]

ok i got another one

i can’t seem to find a comprehensive list of dub languages online rn, these are the audio options i can select on my netflix account – not included in the poll but also available to me are hindi, indonesian, thai and a japanese audio description. idk tho if those are all that were produced or if there’s more options that are just not available in my region, lmk if there’s something else i missed here! also if you’ve listened to/watched multiple of these options do kindly tell which one(s) you like best!

[ghostdiva]

Zooble, fed up with Jax's shit: will you cut it out?!

Jax, swiveling to Zooble: What are you gonna do about it? huh? Send me into a digital world so you won't have to deal with me?!

cue everyone else looking at Jax with a mix of shock and horror on their faces.