#language fuckery

[difeisheng]

gaining proficiency in a second or third language just makes you stupider in your first and the empirical evidence i have to present for this claim is that i have figured out it is not just a once or twice mistake and i am now on a sparsely frequent basis forgetting to conjugate verbs in english because in chinese you don't have to

[insanityisfine]

pessoas que não falam Português E Inglês, não conseguem perceber a alegria pura que eu sinto de cada vez que abrevio "assinado" ou "assinatura" para "ass".

posso estar a ter um dia péssimo, que esta treta faz-me sempre sorrir. sobretudo quando eu deixo o caps lock ligado e de repente vejo

ASS

em letras garrafais.

há que aproveitar as pequenas alegrias da vida.

[d1sc0-1nfern0]

Unironically said the words "El bread horno was más hotter" today so that's nice.

[definite-human]

Y'know, considering the fact that the words "view", "see", and "look" are all synonyms, it's amazing how different their meanings are when you add the prefix "over-"

[effervescentdragon]

Omg I’m sorry if I sounded rude! 😭 what I meant is that I was a bit confused since Spanish is a Romance language too

Thank you for clarifying your intent anon, that is very appreciated. 😊

I think all of us who have been teased or looked at as less for not speaking a foreign language fluently, or even speaking a different dialect, are a bit trigger-happy when it comes to (supposed) monolingual speakers, especially English speakers, asking certain questions without a clear indication that it's an honest question. We assume bad faith because in most cases, we've encountered bad faith or straight out mocking and entitlement. That being said, I hope I clarified the point sufficiently? I love talking about this stuff, really, so if you have any other questions, hit me up!

Thank you for the ask, and especially for reading my fic! 🥰

[porttohuume]

The one who pisses without farting dies without fucking

- and other classic finnish sayings

[understanding-hold-on]

the funny things about "iykyk"

1. this looks like an actual english word to an unsuspecting person. english is literally a language where queue exists.

2. you do actually need to know to know what it means. incredible.

[brokendreamsandpyramidschemes]

I nuked my entire fantasy universe because I corrected a white friend while reading the menu to an authentic pakistani restaurant, from "naan bread" to "naan roti" and the fucker replied with "yes, I'll have the naan roti bread" without hesitation.

[sualne]

having a normal one with poems again.

[fidgetspringer-art]

Olath - Aberrant familiar

[tabooiart]

pokey train is FINALLY done!!!! train pokey!!!! hes a lounge car, specifically a private lounge because yknow. i dont have a ton of notes about his design. his belt is vaguely supposed to look like a mic belt, hes wearing spats yadda yadda. I think he takes a lot of pride in his role and job :)

lil lineup of all the designs together under the cut!!

i do plan on doing a drawing of all of them together!!

[difeisheng]

gotta love when some detail of a word you've used without thinking for years fully sinks in. for example, it really only just hit me that the term for santa claus in chinese (圣诞老人, shengdan laoren/singdan louyun) literally translates to "christmas old person"

[rukafais]

Before Entreri could respond, Kimmuriel came up to stand right before him. "Join with me," the drow psionicist said, lifting his fingers for Entreri's forehead.

The ever-wary assassin brushed the reaching hand away.

Kimmuriel tried to explain, but Entreri knew only the basics of drow language, not the subtleties. The psionicist's words sounded more like the joining of lovers than anything Entreri understood. Frustrated, Kimmuriel turned to Jarlaxle and started talking so fast that it seemed to Entreri as if he was saying one long word.

Sometimes I just think about this scene and crack up again

[cuteniarose]

Personally I find it really funny that based on what the twins said in the Book 2 finale re: having to tell their mom about what happened to Unalaq, it's literally canon that Unalaq's wife a) exists, b) is alive, and c) is just chilling in the Northern Water Tribe

She took one look at all the spirit fuckery her husband was getting up to and went "Well that's none of my business" and honestly I respect that

[effervescentdragon]

the biggest fuckery is actually knowing grammar rules for oxford comma and for nebensätze and commas in another slavic language, and then using them all while writing your fourth, actually native language

[porttohuume]

Hi yes hello you used to know me as ecstasyandsapphism on here but I chose that username years ago and I kinda outgrew it (still sapphic and ecstatic but y'know) so for my non-finnish followers: my new url is a finnish pun on the word gateway drug— "porttihuume"— which I mistyped once in a text as "porttohuume." Now, portto is an old-fashioned word for a prostitute. So, my new url basically means Slut Drug.