#German Grammar be like that

[thetimecrystal]

i think my german 1 professor is out for blood /silly

[gammija]

ig another annoying thing about the 'this transcends language 😲😱' comments about the most obvious of cognates and literal english loanwords, is that it's another example of how native english speakers (and, by virtue of their population size, mostly USamericans) are the arbiters of what gets seen as 'universal' vs what's weird and foreign on the anglophone internet. cause to me as a dutch speaker, a lot of german compound words would '''transcend language''' - but the tweets that go viral about those kinds of words are about how they're silly little nonsense words to laugh at, can't be a real language, can you believe anyone speaks that!

[maxedes]

if i had a nickel for every time nico hülkenberg has made a comment about george that sounds like he wants him biblically, i‘d have two nickels.

which isn‘t a lot, but it‘s weird that i happened twice.

[jungkoode]

CODE : EPITAPH SNIPPET

(or kiki playing around with the new german based language she spent the last 3 hours making up 👀)

"Sklekt dain Hertz skneller?" he says, voice dropping lower as the knife continues its path down between your breasts, over your sternum. "Angst oder etvas anderes?"(Your heart is beating faster // fear or something else?)

The blade pauses at the center of your chest, right where your heart hammers against your ribs. You force yourself to maintain eye contact, refusing to look at the knife.

"I don't speak your Valis Core bullshit," you snap.

"Ik vais," His knee slots between your thighs, pinning you harder against the wall. "Haisst nikt, dass es dir nikt gefällt, venn ik spreke." (I know // Doesn’t mean you don’t like it when I speak it)

[hikaruchen]

To Embrace and Kiss the Lord.

INPRNT

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Speedpaint Video:

[ina-shumelim]

I’m sick so here’s grammar

As I am currently continuing last year’s trend of falling ill much more than I used to, I ended up trying once again to read Samuel Kleinschmidt’s 1851 grammar of Kalaallisut, that is, West Greenlandic (Grammatik der grönländischen sprache mit theilweisen einschluss des Labradordialects). In doing so I stumbled across the following note:

… the dual (zweiheitsform) is commonly used only if what is named or mentioned is to be labelled explicitly as twoness (zweiheit); wherever twoness is understood, — as, e.g., the twofold limbs of the human or animal body — the plural (mehrheitsform) is used quite pervasively. (Kleinschmidt, Grammatik, 1851: § 14; my awkward translation attempts to render the to modern eyes and ears curious language of the original.)

This was rather surprising to me because when I had encountered the dual as a nominal category before, it had often been as a vestige, reduced to those things appearing naturally as two. Thus in Akkadian (at least from the second millennium on) as well as in Ancient Greek where one would usually speak of their (two) eyes in the dual, while for two amphoras of the drink of choice (be it šikaru or woinos), the plural would likely have been preferred. This inclination of the dual towards twofold body parts seems to have lexicalised in many Arabic dialects in which some of these body parts form a plural looking remarkably like a “pseudo-dual”, while innovating a new dual suffix to express actual “twoness” (cf. Haim Blanc, Dual and Pseudo-Dual in the Arabic Dialects, 1970).

But, as Kleinschmidt rightfully points out, these naturally twofold objects do not actually require marking because their “twoness is understood”; from this perspective, dual marking makes sense especially for those items that could appear in any number, not just two. And we find a case similar to the one described for 19th century Kalaallisut in modern Slovenian: Nouns that typically appear in pairs tend to not take the dual here; in fact: “When these nouns are used in their dual form, a possible interpretation is that the two items are not the pair of body parts belonging to the same person” (Franc Marušič & Rok Žaucer, Dual in Slovenian, in The Oxford Handbook of Grammatical Number, 2021: 438). While in Slovenian, however, the word “two” requires the dual of whatever is counted, Kleinschmidt remarks: “Even with the numeral mardluk (two), which in itself is a dual, the plural is not uncommonly used for that very reason, e.g. inuit mardluk two people” (Kleinschmidt, ibd.). The Kalaallisut dual was already uncommon in the 19th century, and today it has fallen out of use in the central dialect completely, being limited to only the Northern dialects (cf. Michael Fortescue, West Greenlandic, 1984: 2.1.1.8).

[waytootiredstudent]

You know most of the time I'm like "yeah German is kinda difficult sometimes but it makes sense and is clear" and then I have to write the word "entgegengenommen" and have a sudden understanding of everyone who curses it. Like. Look at that word. There are too many letters in there that are repeating too often.

Fun fact: even though you say it like you read it it does not make it any fucking easier. I just had a couple french people over recently and if I had made them say that I think that would be the point where they tried to murder me. I wouldn't even blame them.

[fraulein-landa]

Food.

[anghraine]

It feels extremely silly that only today did I realize that pantry and panadería are slightly similar-sounding for a reason >_>

(The English word pantry is one of the many, many common modern English words derived from Anglo-French: in this case, panetrie, from Old French paneterie, "bread room" ... Spanish panadería also has a complex etymology, but all are related to Latin panis, "bread.")

[kyokosayuki]

The dog motif with Henry is so incredibly interesting to me because, as Tunes already correctly pointed out: it is something that is prescribed to him by others.

I do have to argue, though, that it doesn't solely seem to be about his loyalty. He gets the dog comparison from so many strangers—people who sometimes don't even know Hans, nor Henry's connection to him, know of no loyalty he could have, not even to Radzig—that for the longest time I struggled to pinpoint what exactly makes them think of Henry in that way. Now, I think that I was too preoccupied searching for one truth when I should have been looking for many.

I think not everyone who sees Henry as a dog sees him as the same dog. Some see the loyal hound, one of the dogs you would take out for hunting: the tool, too stupid to understand himself to be one. Others see the mangy street cur, fletching his teeth, scared and angry, looking to fill his starving stomach. And others see the guardian shepard, submissive to the sheep he kills wolves for.

These views of him are either only one side of Henry or downright mischaraterizing him, which makes sense since most of these people don't actually know Henry. Now, if I remember correctly: Hans only compares Henry to a dog during their first hunt together, where he makes him walk behind his horse. A power play, of course, not yet defanged, and an indicator that at this point, Hans doesn't know Henry either.

I will have to rely on my memory for this, which is not the greatest, so I hope I haven't forgotten anything that directly contradicts this read BUT I do think that the dog comparison is a way to push Henry into a limited role, to put him into place, which is why—as the story progresses and he and Hans grow closer, Hans starts to understands Henry as a full person, more of an equal than a dog who heels or bites.

And that is something other's have no chance to understand, ESPECIALLY because Hans clings to every shred of structural control. It seem unthinkable to them that he would let go of the dog he can use in favor of the human behind it. They don't know that Henry is just as much a dog to Hans as Hans is a bird to Henry. Which means: only in name, only to jest, to parody, to make fun of their roles.

'you are a dog to many, loyal, hungry, barking and hollering, but to me, you are more.' and 'you are a bird to many, loud and pompous, colorful and prideful, trapped in a cage when all you want is freedom, but to me, you are more.'

This shared more is hidden behind sarcastic "My Lord"'s and playful "I'll throw you in the stocks"', in the way they know what can hurt the other, in the way they say I care witout those words leaving their lips..

[cuntylestat]

i do find it incredibly annoying when people feel the need to point out every single language mistake someone makes. as someone who works in an environment of 98% non-native english speakers working in english it really doesn't fucking matter. as long as i understand what someone is trying to tell me i don't give a shit whether they make mistakes, it's not english class

[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!

[lookinghalfacorpse]

You've used piglin language quite a bit in your fics and I'm curious what language(s) did you base it on? If any at all?

yes!!!! i like to create languages for fantasy settings, but my secret is that i base them solely on the other two languages that i (kinda) know: japanese & german

japanese is easier because their grammar rules are so straightforward and clean, but something about how i've seen native german speakers use their language is so Piglin to me.

so, the first sentence i used in v-m:

Ou um an srull I am an idiot. (inspired by) Ich bin ein Idiot.

almost the same as english, like german is. but the next one:

Phil, Em wor dsokirum am wuar. Phil, Em has sculk on her ear. (inspired by) Phil, Em hat sculk am Ohr. (or something like that) (maybe) (native speakers please don't kill me)

i've seen a lot of native german speakers drop pronouns in situations where it can be implied, so i was inspired by that and dropped the "her." The literal translation would be "Phil, Em has sculk in ear."

i also wanted the reader to know that r's are rolled, so i had dream struggle to roll them so that's demonstrated. i added in some sounds that would be hard to pronounce but would come off sharp and powerful-sounding, like sro and dso. things like that also come off as more ancient to me? i spent a while crafting the word dsokirum as the word for sculk because i wanted something long and kind of menacing, unlike the english word.

[froget-me-nots]

hello kummer.voll community i have translated a bit of episode 84 [under the cut] and if anybody would be willing to give me advice it would be greatly appreciated 😓

"Ich wollte Base zerstören. Wirklich es zerstören, damit es nicht zurück kommen könnte, und uns weh tun. Aber ich habe Niemand getötet! Hunter hat viele Leute* getötet, wann er Base zerstört hat. Sogar, er hat jeder außerdem dich getötet, Mikey. Und nicht nur könnte ich nicht mit mir selbst leben, wenn ich so etwas getan hätte, sondern es hat auch nicht für Hunter gut gegangen! Es war ein großes, lebens-andern** Ereignis, und du und die Mikes haben zufort es gelöst. Ich wollte nur... Alle weg zu ziehen... bis es keine Base gab. [I don't know how to approach this sentence gulp]. Todesfall bei ein tausend kleine Schnitte, und keinen echter Todesfall. Nur der Ausfall von ein par Freundschaften. Du könntest das erlauben***."

* how would you say "all sorts of people"

** is there an actual word/phrase for life-altering

*** is there a better way to say this?? handling something isnt really the same as allowing it

"I wanted to destroy the Base. Really destroy it, so that it couldn’t come back and hurt us. But I didn’t kill anyone! Hunter killed all sorts of people when he destroyed the Base. In fact, he killed everyone but you, Mikey. And not only could I not live with myself if I did that, it didn’t work out for Hunter! It was a huge, life-shattering event and you and the Mikes immediately set about correcting it. I just wanted to… pull everyone apart… until there wasn’t any Base. Separate the magnets until their fields no longer overlapped. Death by a thousand little cuts, and no actual deaths. Only the loss of a couple friendships. You could handle that."

[mantisgodsdomain]

More notes for Roach conlanging. Roach has grammatical gender, in which only Male, Female, and Object are grammatical genders, whereas Worker uses feminine grammar, Queen and King use a slight variant on feminine grammar, and Drone, and Queen-Alate use masculine grammar. This is because King is derived from Queen, due to their similar positions in a colony, and Queen-Alate is derived from Drone, as both are forms of alate.

Queen is an alteration of feminine grammar that functionally just adds a handful of extra syllables to it, and King is an offsprout of Queen that uses the same grammar with different pronouns. Queen-Alate, despite the name, is derived from Drone, as they are both for referring to different types of alate ant.

Most Roach dialects are intelligible to speakers of Snakemouth Den Cordyceps Roach, but Snakemouth Den Cordyceps Roach is not entirely intelligable to speakers of Roach dialects due to a mix of the excessively specialized vocabulary caused by the specific needs of its speakers, the fact that its speakers do not necessarily have Roach mouthparts and thus may not pronounce syllables in a similar way, and due to the fact that Inanimate Object is a full grammatical gender that does not exist in any other dialect of roach and replaces a decent chunk of terminology for things that previously had Other Words For Them.

[lavenoon]

I got a new tattoo!!

@naffeclipse so he can't come to the appointment, but he can look at the result <3

*self insert Aster is not a girl (he/ she)

og detective au by sunnys-aesthetic!

(tat pic under cut, warning for my bare, complaining about being shaved leg lmao)

I'll now go back to not including my tattoos in my doodles unless they suit me, because man that's a lot of lines lmao