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Rites, Writings and Ris

Chapter 355: Mornings, Manuscripts, and Maiar.     

Welcome back, friends, to a new episode here at Dwarf Telenovela Central.  Thorin has been king for one year.  And what a year it’s been!!  Please join us again next Friday for more excitement! Same dwarrow time, same dwarrow tunnel! Keep those cards and letters coming, friends!

[dollypegs-blog]

Thai summer rolls... my rolling needs work, but they were still yummy!

[lunar-years]

What makes me most sad about Jane the Virgin is that despite what it may seem from my posts, villadero has never been the ONLY thing I enjoyed about the show. When I first binged the first two seasons I literally loved every aspect of it. I loved all the Petra drama, I was dying for Xo and Rogelio to get together almost as much as I was dying for Jane and Michael to get together, I loved the grad school and raising Mateo plots. This show has dealt with a lot of hard hitting meaningful issues about religion, sexuality, immigration, being latinx in America, etc. And it was also just, fun. The drama and intrigue and quirky telenovela framing made the show funny, exciting, and heartwarming all in one. there was so so much to love about it beyond just the ships. But the thing is, that’s all been dwarfed by the love triangle drama...again.

At least for me, when Michael died, the show lost all its spark. I love Michael (obviously), but he was never the only part of the show I enjoyed or was invested in. Still, when he died, it’s like suddenly I couldn’t enjoy any of the other parts anymore, either. It just felt so unnecessary to kill him, especially when I was so excited about the end to Jane’s love drama and to see where they go with exploring Jane’s marriage and start of a new family. But because the whole thing just seemed like a cheap ploy to make j*fael happen once the narrative had gone in a completely different (and in my biased option, better) direction, I found myself suddenly hating not only j*fael, but also Rafael (a character I once liked, though never with Jane) so so much more. Once they’d actually put them back together that was it for me. I couldn’t enjoy that central aspect of the show, and suddenly the show as a whole was no longer fun or enjoyable so I dropped it. The heart of the show was...gone. I just hate the [toxic] j*fael dynamic of two people with nothing in common, and I hate the person Jane becomes when she’s with him so much. And that one aspect of the show (even before they brought Michael back only to ruin him) ruined all the other aspects of the show for me, too. Like there are things I know I would be really into...like Petra and JR and even the angst of Xo’s cancer plotline....but I just can’t enjoy them in between what they’ve done with Jane and Rafael and Michael. And that makes me so sad.

[ao3feed-tolkien]

The DTC "After School Specials"

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2Uxv2V1

by Dollypegs, Stevie_Foxx

So, when Dolly and Stevie do …er… research for this story it involves a lot of messing about, giggling, and chatter and other kinds of things we have to look up, from brooding times of a bonebreakers to the lyrics of songs, to the history of rollercoasters, and how to cook a porcupine. This sort of thing sparks conversation as to what would happen if… We are somewhat awash in such things and we wondered if any of you might be interested in these odd tidbits. Thus we’ve decided to add another part to the Dwarf Telenovela series. We’re calling it The DTC After School Special. There will be no rhyme or reason to when we post something. But if you think you’d get a kick out of it, do subscribe/bookmark so you’ll know when ‘something’ pops up.

Love and cuddles Dolly & Stevie!

Words: 1741, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of Dwarf Telenovela Central

Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2Uxv2V1

[ao3feed-thehobbit]

The DTC "After School Specials"

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2Uxv2V1

by Dollypegs, Stevie_Foxx

So, when Dolly and Stevie do …er… research for this story it involves a lot of messing about, giggling, and chatter and other kinds of things we have to look up, from brooding times of a bonebreakers to the lyrics of songs, to the history of rollercoasters, and how to cook a porcupine. This sort of thing sparks conversation as to what would happen if… We are somewhat awash in such things and we wondered if any of you might be interested in these odd tidbits. Thus we’ve decided to add another part to the Dwarf Telenovela series. We’re calling it The DTC After School Special. There will be no rhyme or reason to when we post something. But if you think you’d get a kick out of it, do subscribe/bookmark so you’ll know when ‘something’ pops up.

Love and cuddles Dolly & Stevie!

Words: 11, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of Dwarf Telenovela Central

Fandoms: The Hobbit - All Media Types

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2Uxv2V1

[newstfionline]

Spanish Thrives in the U.S. Despite an English-Only Drive

By Simon Romero, NY Times, Aug. 23, 2017

ALBUQUERQUE--Wander into El Super, a sprawling grocery store in the same valley where fortune seekers on horseback laid claim nearly four centuries ago to one of Spain’s most remote possessions, and the resilience of the language they brought with them stands on display.

Reggaetón, the musical genre born in Puerto Rico, blares from the speakers. Shoppers mull bargains in the accents of northern Mexico. A carnicería offers meat, a panadería bread, a salchichonería cold cuts, and there’s also a tortillería--that one’s self-explanatory for many who never even studied the language of Cervantes.

“Everything I need here is in Spanish,” said Vanessa Quezada, 23, an immigrant from the Mexican state of Chihuahua, gesturing toward the branch of the First Convenience Bank, where tellers greet people with a smile and “Buenas tardes.”

Indeed, the United States is emerging as a vast laboratory showcasing the remarkable endurance of Spanish, no matter the political climate.

Drawing on a critical mass of native speakers, the United States now has by some counts more than 50 million hispanohablantes, a greater number of Spanish speakers than Spain. In an English-speaking superpower, the Spanish-language TV networks Univision and Telemundo spar for top ratings with ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC. The made-in-America global hit song of the summer? “Despacito.”

At the same time, more than 20 states have enacted laws making English the official language, President Trump won the election with a platform that included building a border wall, and his push for new limits on legal immigration would require that applicants speak English to obtain legal residency green cards.

Juan Rodríguez, 44, a Colombian immigrant who owns La Reina, a Spanish-language radio station in Des Moines, said it was an “extremely uncertain time” for some Spanish speakers, particularly undocumented immigrants who are trying to be seen and heard less often now that the president has made deportation a priority.

“But that fear doesn’t prevent us from living our lives in Spanish,” Mr. Rodríguez added. “Iowa may be an English-only state, but it’s also our state.”

Throughout the world, the position of English as the pre-eminent language seems unchallenged. The United States projects its influence in English in realms including finance, culture, science and warfare.

But on a global level, Mandarin Chinese dwarfs English in native speakers, ranking first with 898 million, followed by Spanish with 437 million, according to Ethnologue, a compendium of the world’s languages. Then comes English with 372 million, followed by Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Portuguese and Russian.

Immigration from Latin America bolstered the use of Spanish in the United States in recent decades, but scholars say other factors are also in play, including history, the global reach of the language, and the ways in which people move around throughout the Spanish-speaking world.

Authorities in parts of the United States have repeatedly argued for curbing the spread of Spanish, like the former Arizona schools chief who said all Spanish-language media should be silenced. A judge pushed back this week against that official’s drive to also ban the state’s Mexican-American studies program, saying the ban was “motivated by racial animus.”

Linguists trace some of the coveted vibrancy that Spanish now enjoys to decisions made well before Spain began colonizing the New World in 1492.

As the Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes explained in “The Buried Mirror,” his book about the Hispanic world, the 13th-century Spanish king Alfonso X assembled a cosmopolitan brain trust of Jewish intellectuals, Arab translators and Christian troubadours, who promoted Spanish as a language of knowledge at a time when Latin and Arabic still held prestige on the Iberian Peninsula.

Alfonso and his savants forged Spanish into an exceptionally well-organized language with phonetic standards, making it relatively accessible for some learners. They are thought to have hewed to a policy of “castellano drecho”--straight or right Spanish--imbuing the language with a sense of purpose.

Even today, Spanish remains mutually intelligible around the world to a remarkable degree, with someone, say, from the Patagonian Steppe in Argentina able to hold a conversation with a visitor from Equatorial Guinea, one of Africa’s largest oil exporters.

Drawing on entropy, a concept from thermodynamics referring to disorder, Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Julie Barlow, the Canadian authors of a 2013 book charting the evolution of Spanish, describe the degree to which Spanish is spread out geographically over a wide array of countries.

By this measure, Mandarin ranks low on the entropy scale since most of its speakers live in the same country. English boasts greater entropy, but Spanish, the majority language in more than 20 countries, ranks first, followed by Arabic.

Rivaling Spain and parts of Latin America, the United States exemplifies how the movement of people throughout the Spanish-speaking world is taking the language in new directions.

In metropolitan Los Angeles, an area with more than 4 million Spanish speakers--more than Uruguay’s entire population--linguists say that a new dialect has coalesced as different types of Spanish come into contact with one another. And here in New Mexico, an influx of Mexican and Central American immigrants is nourishing and reshaping a variant of Spanish that has persisted since the 16th century.

Ojos Locos, a cavernous sports bar in Albuquerque, offers a glimpse into how Spanish is changing. Like El Super, it’s part of a chain founded in the United States aimed at the Latino market.

“What’s a sports cantina without delicious authentic Mexican comida--mas tacos, mas wings y mas cerveza,” Ojos Locos explains on its website. Such servings were in abundance on a recent Sunday when Mexico’s national soccer team played against Jamaica, and mexicano Spanish seemed to be the venue’s dominant language.

But some tables were effortlessly mixing English and Spanish, especially those where children were accompanying their parents, while others, including tables of mixed-ethnicity couples, cheered, conversed and cursed (Mexico lost, 1-0) over their frozen margaritas almost entirely in English.

The ways in which families use languages at the dinner table also show how Spanish is evolving.

In the Nava family, which moved to New Mexico from northern Mexico more than 20 years ago, the grandparents passionately debate in Spanish the performance of their football team, the Dallas Cowboys.

But when their adult children talk to one another, it’s in Spanglish. And the language of their grandchildren? Mainly English, with a sprinkling of Spanish words here and there.

“Our real communication is in Spanglish,” said Cindy Nava, 29, a policy analyst at the New Mexico Legislature who arrived in the United States at the age of 7. “But we still recognize the importance of speaking Spanish correctly.”

Irking some grammarians, Spanglish is indeed gaining ground, evident in the way characters in telenovelas are speaking, Daddy Yankee’s reggaetón lyrics or ads like the Wendy’s commercial in which sweethearts bond over bacon cheeseburgers served on buns of “pan de pretzel.”

Long before Mr. Trump was elected, the growth and durability of Spanish had caused concerns, leading to “official language” laws that in some cases limit the use of any language other than English in government offices and documents, and in other cases are largely symbolic.

Rosalie Porter, who came to the United States from Italy as a child and is now the chairwoman of an organization seeking to end bilingual education and declare English the official language of the United States, said, “When I was an immigrant child, my language was not politically correct.”

“Today it’s different,” said Ms. Porter, whose group, ProEnglish, was founded by John Tanton, a Michigan doctor who started a handful of organizations seeking to restrict immigration. “Immigrants enjoy a lot more visibility” she added, emphasizing that she understood the business reasons behind the growth of Spanish-language media.

Even apart from political efforts, the continued growth of Spanish in the United States is not assured. Linguists have documented how new generations of Latinos around the country are steadily shifting to English, just as descendants of other immigrants have done.

But if the past is a guide, Spanish will continue to evolve and endure.

“In many places in the U.S., English and Spanish are in bed with each other, a contact that is both generative and exciting,” said Junot Díaz, the writer who masterfully explores the immigrant experience in the United States, largely through the travails of his Spanglish-speaking Dominican protagonist, Yunior.

“For many of us,” he went on, “Spanish is our path to love, and as history has proven no one can legislate away love.”

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Rites, Writings and Ris

Chapter 354: Tizzies, Talk, and Too Much Tea.     

Welcome back, friends, to a new episode here at Dwarf Telenovela Central. When’s a birthday not quite as happy as it could be?  When you’ve turned sixteen and everybody in Arda knows it!  Please join us again next Friday for more excitement! Same dwarrow time, same dwarrow tunnel! Keep those cards and letters coming, friends!

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Rites, Writings and Ris

Chapter 350: Flight, ‘Fessing up, and Fright! 

Welcome back, friends, to a new episode here at Dwarf Telenovela Central. And you all thought ‘Wings Aloft’ was just one of Mr. Wandi’s hairstyles!  Please join us again next Friday for more excitement! Same dwarrow time, same dwarrow tunnel! Keep those cards and letters coming, friends!

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Rites, Writings and Ris

Chapter 356: Growling, Glitter, and Glass.    

Welcome back, friends, to a new episode here at Dwarf Telenovela Central.  Hold onto your girdles, guys and girlies!  Watch out!  Drunk wizards!!  Please join us again next Friday for more excitement! Same dwarrow time, same dwarrow tunnel! Keep those cards and letters coming, friends!

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Rites, Writings and Ris

Chapter 352: Small Talk, Silver, and A Squabble.    

Welcome back, friends, to a new episode here at Dwarf Telenovela Central.  Thorin tries something new…  at the breakfast table, of course!  Please join us again next Friday for more excitement! Same dwarrow time, same dwarrow tunnel! Keep those cards and letters coming, friends!

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Rites, Writings and Ris

Chapter 353: Riots, Reading, and Rudeness.     

Welcome back, friends, to a new episode here at Dwarf Telenovela Central.  Obviously the New York Times bestseller!  Please join us again next Friday for more excitement! Same dwarrow time, same dwarrow tunnel! Keep those cards and letters coming, friends!

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Rites, Writings and Ris

Chapter 351: Napping, New Shapes, and News. 

Welcome back, friends, to a new episode here at Dwarf Telenovela Central.  It’s like the old saying, ‘Ravens that flock together….   Please join us again next Friday for more excitement! Same dwarrow time, same dwarrow tunnel! Keep those cards and letters coming, friends!

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Rites, Writings and Ris

Chapter 338: Cake, Conversations, and Coiffures.     

Welcome back, friends, to a new episode here at Dwarf Telenovela Central.  Back home and back to work… and some pleasure.  Please join us again next Friday for more excitement!  Same dwarrow time, same dwarrow tunnel! Keep those cards and letters coming, friends!

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Rites, Writings and Ris

Chapter 348: Roundabout, Rocks, and Roadies     

Welcome back, friends, to a new episode here at Dwarf Telenovela Central. Things seem to be bouncing along!  Please join us again next Friday for more excitement! Same dwarrow time, same dwarrow tunnel! Keep those cards and letters coming, friends!

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Rites, Writings and Ris

Chapter 349: School, Scythes, and Shock.     

Welcome back, friends, to a new episode here at Dwarf Telenovela Central. Harvest time!  And um….  Just remember friends, our beloved heroes don’t die, they just get really big boo-boos.  Please join us again next Friday for more excitement! Same dwarrow time, same dwarrow tunnel! Keep those cards and letters coming, friends!

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Rites, Writings and Ris

Chapter 340: Gonad, Gossip, and Goodies.     

Welcome back, friends, to a new episode here at Dwarf Telenovela Central Finally!  The family gets to spend some time at home, for a little bit anyway.  Please join us again next Friday for more excitement! Same dwarrow time, same dwarrow tunnel! Keep those cards and letters coming, friends!