#A-Z dictionary

[all-turkic]

English Dictionary of Turkic Mythology (A-Z)

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[dailyhomestarfacts]

Fact 8:

Excluding holidays and easter eggs, only four toons and three sbemails have had all twelve main characters appear

Toons:

Where's The Cheat?

Weclome Back

One Two, One Two

Meeple Grove

(Theme Song Video could technically count, but only in the DVD version)

Sbemails:

different town

rock opera

dictionary

[hercarisntyours]

words can't explain how happy i am that elita is a main character now

[riesenfeldcenter]

Noah Webster's first dictionary (and the first American dictionary!), A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1806.

"No person acquainted with the difficulties attending such a compilation, will flatter himself or the public, that any thing like perfection is within the compass of one man's abilities. Nothing like this is here promised. All that I have attempted, and all that I can believe to be executed, is a dictionary with considerable improvements; a work required by the advanced and advancing state of science and arts. The dictionaries of a living language must be revised every half century, or must necessarily be erroneous and imperfect."

Not only does Webster go from A to Z, but he includes a chronological table of events events going from Adam and Eve to 1806. If you look closely enough, you can find out when and where Henry II first wore silk stockings.

[minglana]

finding a translation for an aragonese word i dont know, not in any of the aragonese dictionaries, but in the aragonese wikipedia page for yiddish and hebrew expressions that come from bavarian. such is the life of a minoritized language blogger

[not-jiraikasa-kun]

Turns you into a dictionary so you know… /silly

best dictionary out there wonderful cover all the pages are actually pretty and nice to look at instead of all the boring dictionaries </3

-scruffy

Absolute Bonkers! Curious Dog…

[tl-os]

[leoreadss]

It’s here!

And it has a Terry’s introduction.

*undistinguished autistic noise*

[greatmotivation]

Negative motivation relies on punishment, belittlement, and comparison to elicit action. It fuels insecurity, damages morale, and stifles creativity. Instead of empowering individuals, it fosters a culture of compliance and resentment. Over time, it corrodes trust and erodes the foundation of healthy relationships, leading to disengagement and dissatisfaction.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

4 December 2023

[animutate]

um what do you mean its spelled taser. no its not.

[felix-walter]

(tgwp teaser) my very own slang words/insults I made up.

Bod - A friendly or acceptable person.

Lamer - An insult to describe a foolish or rude person. Actually a demoscene slang.

Sompin' - Something.

Take (her/him/them) to Six Flags - Used to describe taking someone to do fun activities.

YouTuber accent - Use to describe a person having an accent or voice reminiscent of a stereotypical YouTuber.

Picky shit - A picky person.

Judgey cucky - A person who likes to judge people based on their behavior, looks, interests and opinions in order to make them upset or angry.

[journeytojaburo]

I wonder where this psychic attack is coming from

[minglana]

screaming crying and yelling...... my dad has a book by rafael andolz signed by andolz himself.....

[valeriehalla]

actual writing advice

1. Use the passive voice.

What? What are you talking about, “don’t use the passive voice”? Are you feeling okay? Who told you that? Come on, let’s you and me go to their house and beat them with golf clubs. It’s just grammar. English is full of grammar: you should go ahead and use all of it whenever you want, on account of English is the language you’re writing in.

2. Use adverbs.

Now hang on. What are you even saying to me? Don’t use adverbs? My guy, that is an entire part of speech. That’s, like—that’s gotta be at least 20% of the dictionary. I don’t know who told you not to use adverbs, but you should definitely throw them into the Columbia river.

3. There’s no such thing as “filler”.

Buddy, “filler” is what we called the episodes of Dragon Ball Z where Goku wasn’t blasting Frieza because the anime was in production before Akira Toriyama had written the part where Goku blasts Frieza. Outside of this extremely specific context, “filler” does not exist. Just because a scene wouldn’t make it into the Wikipedia synopsis of your story’s plot doesn’t mean it isn’t important to your story. This is why “plot” and “story” are different words!

4. okay, now that I’ve snared you in my trap—and I know you don’t want to hear this—but orthography actually does kind of matter

First of all, a lot of what you think of as “grammar” is actually orthography. Should I put a comma here? How do I spell this word in this context? These are questions of orthography (which is a fancy Greek word meaning “correct-writing”). In fact, most of the “grammar questions” you’ll see posted online pertain to orthography; this number probably doubles in spaces for writers specifically.

If you’re a native speaker of English, your grammar is probably flawless and unremarkable for the purposes of writing prose. Instead, orthography refers to the set rules governing spelling, punctuation, and whitespace. There are a few things you should know about orthography:

English has no single orthography. You already know spelling and punctuation differ from country to country, but did you know it can even differ from publisher to publisher? Some newspapers will set parenthetical statements apart with em dashes—like this, with no spaces—while others will use slightly shorter dashes – like this, with spaces – to name just one example.

Orthography is boring, and nobody cares about it or knows what it is. For most readers, orthography is “invisible”. Readers pay attention to the words on a page, not the paper itself; in much the same way, readers pay attention to the meaning of a text and not the orthography, which exists only to convey that meaning.

That doesn’t mean it’s not important. Actually, that means it’s of the utmost importance. Because orthography can only be invisible if it meets the reader’s expectations.

You need to learn how to format dialogue into paragraphs. You need to learn when to end a quote with a comma versus a period. You need to learn how to use apostrophes, colons and semicolons. You need to learn these things not so you can win meaningless brownie points from your English teacher for having “Good Grammar”, but so that your prose looks like other prose the reader has consumed.

If you printed a novel on purple paper, you’d have the reader wondering: why purple? Then they’d be focusing on the paper and not the words on it. And you probably don’t want that! So it goes with orthography: whenever you deviate from standard practices, you force the reader to work out in their head whether that deviation was intentional or a mistake. Too much of that can destroy the flow of reading and prevent the reader from getting immersed.

You may chafe at this idea. You may think these “rules” are confusing and arbitrary. You’re correct to think that. They’re made the fuck up! What matters is that they were made the fuck up collaboratively, by thousands of writers over hundreds of years. Whether you like it or not, you are part of that collaboration: you’re not the first person to write prose, and you can’t expect yours to be the first prose your readers have ever read.

That doesn’t mean “never break the rules”, mind you. Once you’ve gotten comfortable with English orthography, then you are free to break it as you please. Knowing what’s expected gives you the power to do unexpected things on purpose. And that’s the really cool shit.

5. You’re allowed to say the boobs were big if the story is about how big the boobs were

Nobody is saying this. Only I am brave enough to say it.

Well, bye!

[tl-os]