#speech stuff

[riotgrrrlhole]

A kid decided that the a and f were going for a drive , so this is now a parallel fotogram of fast and furious (2001)

[zarithial]

Sending a silly ask while half asleep, you can ignore this if you want...

You have affected me too much I have start typing rrrghh while messaging friends, I never used to do that.

How does one stop argh or rrgh?

hello im also hal f asleep. unfortunately ther is no way to stop arghhh and rrgh

my speech mannerisms infect absolutely rhrhrhrhr

apologies for the rhgrhrhrhr

[ejzah]

Having sets of ready made artic cards is very handy. One of my favorite things is that while putting together the set of /t/ words, the producers apparently ran out of common words to use and decided to go with this:

[mikoworks]

Curly mood

[crackers4jenn]

2025 hot destiel take: I've always believed that Castiel saying "the one thing I want, it's something I know I can't have" isn't some bleak "because Dean doesn't wanna dick Cas down" admission, it's "because, by confessing, the empty will take Cas, there's literally nothing for him to 'have' afterwards." His punishment isn't unrequited love, it's unfinished love. This is why happiness isn't in the having, it's in just saying it. Because it's all he gets. Cas doesn't get sucked into the empty thinking Dean could never love him back, he goes peacefully knowing that he does - that it doesn't matter that they don't get to experience the other side of the confession because confessing was fulfilling enough :')

[kingofmyborrowedheart]

For the last month or so I’ve been combing through old Taylor interviews and ended up creating an archive of them. Since it’s finished, I figured I’d share this resource with everyone else!

[basket-of-radiants]

A comic about Szeth and cooking. Or that's what it's going to about. Part 1/4.

(In case it wasn't clear, Nale is 100% just messing with him. Honestly they both kinda are.)

[ghelullu]

"Whatever gets you off, Baby"

Grand Prairie, 25.10.2018 - video by Fake Fan

I highly recommend clicking the YT link, because Copia is purring at the beginning of it and says other horny stuff

[riotgrrrlhole]

So this is the portrait one of my kids made of me , she was laughing and then she draw herself next to me , and made me realize she and I have gone a long way 😭 ( she is one of my first patients after I finished university)

[wisteria-lodge]

In defense of T'Pau and her unusual grammar:

So in "Amok Time," (right before Spock goes into heat) we meet T'Pau, this grand high elder of Vulcan who is officiating Spock's wedding/fight to the death.

She has a very specific way of talking. Some examples:

"Thee names these outworlders friends. How does thee pledge their behavior?" "If thee wishes to depart, thee may leave now." "Are thee Vulcan or are thee human? "I grieve with thee."

If this is supposed to sound archaic and Shakespearean... then it's just completely wrong. "Thee" is not even slightly conjugated. If you're using thee/thou/thy correctly, that first sentence should be:

"Thou name'st these outworlders friends. How dost thou pledge?"

BUT my point is, I don't think this is supposed to read as "archaic" (also, if that were the case, wouldn't the universal translator just kinda auto-update the vocab?)

What is actually going on is Quaker Plain Speech.

Thee/Thou/Thy used to be English's set of informal pronouns, which you used for close friends and social inferiors. The Quakers came over to America in the 1600s, and were very into the idea of simplicity and equality for religious reasons. No titles, "Friend" as the default address, etc. They also artificially got rid of You/Your/Yours, English's *formal* pronouns, because they were what you used for talking to a social superior, and they were trying to get away from that sort of thing.

Skip forward like a hundred years. Language changes. Standard English drops Thee/Thou/Thy completely. The Quakers KEEP the pronouns, but the usage simplifies. Now they basically just have "Thee," and use it for everything, and don't conjugate the verbs around it in any special way. "In the eighteenth century, "thou hast" disappeared, along with the associated second-person verb forms, and the otherwise strange "thee is" became normal "plain speech."

Which is EXACTLY how T'Pau talks.

(I found this scene from The Philadelphia Story (1940) where Jimmy Stewart walks into a Quaker library, and the joke is that the librarian talks to him in Plain Speech - "What is thee wish?" and he (confused) responds in Shakespearean English - "Dost thou have a washroom?")

So I think that when Theodore Sturgeon wrote "Amok Time" in 1967, T'Pau's style of speaking was meant to communicate not necessarily "old-fashioned" but more "religious/ceremonial" and maybe "isolated." Especially since he's from New England, the right spot to run into Plain Speech in the wild.

In-universe, I think that (because it's a very important occasion) T'Pau is speaking a hyper-simplified, hyper-logical ceremonial Vulcan dialect, which the universal translator is rendering as the most stripped-down and "plain" English style of speaking possible.

[mortalscience]

[octy-in-boots]

I had to do a teaching simulation with virtual children avatars who live in Uncanny Valley, USA. I really don't enjoy these.

Here's an out of context screengrab.

Separate shots so you can really appreciate the weirdness.

[blu3b3rrin]

uhhh parkciv ate my brain so i jumped for the cringeass yaoi

EDIT: minecraft but i read yuri in PARKOUR CIVILIZATION (this comic is loosely based on this fic ↓) https://archiveofourown.org/works/59668831/comments/839813416

[samijey]

and then he did!

[viviraptor-art]

we in the industry call that a freudian slip.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

hope you feel better soon!

I am riddled with ailments, but I stay silly!