#master of dialects

[fivefourthreetwoonedoodoodoo]

Some would call this a dealbreaking turn-off..

They’re wrong.

Chest hair, chain, white shirt, the way his hair curls, the lips and the fkn glasses.. 🤤

[quatregats]

Also sorry I'm thinking about all the linguistic details that POB managed to cram into this book. Specifically the way the coffee house is called Joselito's (Spanish diminuitive for José 'Joseph') but Stephen, when speaking in Catalan, refers to the waiter as "Jep" (Catalan diminuitive for Josep 'Joseph'), and also that he uses "the Catalan of the island" which I'm not sure if POB uses that phrase intentionally but I'm guessing he does - Stephen is not from the Balearic Islands, and would certainly not speak Balearic Catalan as his native dialect, so while in English the line seems to convey that he's at home (he's speaking his native language - and this is true), the fact that even in his native language he's still chameleoning into another dialect feels very interesting, IDK

[lokittystuckinatree]

DW Master fans of Tumblr, you won’t believe what my grandmother’s maiden name translates to in Italian…

[roxannepolice]

I think the whole "but he was too busy burning them" thing doesn't really work for me because. Well. How often that happened? Like, no, seriosuly, how often was the Master's plot aimed at plain destruction? They'd sometimes resolve to this, in an Atreides "who can destroy a thing holds ultimate power" way, but how is "burning" the Master's modus operandi? Like, their thing is domination and control, destruction is mainly a means to an end. They're a sadist, and a sadist is as dependent on an object of torture as a masochist on a torturer. It's the same issue as with "lover of chaos" line, like what? The "obey me" guy? You don't have hierarchy in chaos, you can't be the master of anything.

Steven, my man, you have only yesterday reaffirmed yourself as one of the best closed story writers BBC has, but I think you're getting your typology of evil wrong.

Or just really don't like a likeable villain representing unpalatable power based kinds of villainy as opposed to good old trickstery.

[rotzaprachim]

I find the dialect issue really interesting in Italian, like it’s been a hot second since I studied it (don’t want to get it mixed up with Spanish etc) but I used to be faaaairly profficient-ish. But Italian has some interesting stuff with dialect and language that is of course super political - absolutely I believe that the minority languages of Italy are LANGUAGES, not “dialects,” eg napolitano, Sicilian, Calabrian etc. However! That doesn’t stop the complicating factors that

a) many are (due to repression in part) somewhat unstable and there’s been clear linguistic pushes in the direction of standard Italian

b) many (not all) young people don’t speak their regional language (which is also geographically associated)

c) the minority languages are for the most part still related to Italian and lend easily to blending and mixed forms

d) the standard language in Italian classes for foreigners is that florentine standardized form and they will almost never tell you regional slang or alterations

in essence there’s a dual issue here: minority languages are called “dialects” in a way that is deeply politically loaded, but for many many speakers there is a kind of language spectrum between minority languages (or remnants and borrowings from minority languages and “standard” Italian) that created a lot of…. Actual dialects in modern spoken Italian

but anyway I do think this all encourages a situation where the reality is that the majority of Italian speakers have some kind of mixed form or where regional dialects affect the standard spoken form at LOT , so that when you learn Italian you’re like oh this is easy. I’m getting an a. I’m a b2. Why the fuck can I not understand anyone ever. What is this. Like the standard form/minority language binary are kind of two ends of a spectrum and class will prepare you for like, official tv channels and Dante but not talking. Italians can understand you and they tend to be very very friendly and accommodating in matching that official form and altering their words/grammar, but you can’t easily follow a lot of *their* conversations and daily pronunciation and the literary language is very ornate. There are also not so many resources for this kind of thing

[enlitment]

Progressing from reading AO3 fics to racy JSTOR articles to Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic, call it the humanities student pipeline

[shallowseeker]

Come on, loser. More books? You don't have to read Wittgenstein, Kant, and Hegel just 'cause Andy Gallagher did.

[professional-writher]

Linguists (me) when they realize they physically can’t learn every single language that ever was and ever will be

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

the master is called that not because of kinkiness or education joke, theyre called that bc hegel

[al-mayriti]

she just sent me all these videos about italian dialects !!!!!

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

When British writers come up with an American character’s dialogue and give them the most painfully British things to say with their American accent and inflection and it makes the actor come off as stiff. :P

[quietwingsinthesky]

this all to say how gallifreyan is as close to a second language for even as it can realistically be for someone who can’t actually interface with the telepathic subtext. which, honestly, mostly comes up once they’re out of time hell when their relationship to clara gets more and more antagonistic. whole conversations with missy (<- happy to make clara mad) that clara can’t follow because the tardis translation circuit isn’t built to translate gallifreyan and/or the doctor disabled it doing so. talking to the doctor in off-handed gallifreyan knowing that he’ll respond in kind without thinking for at least a few sentences before realizing it. it is completely petty, a way of even marking off something they share with the doctor (and the master, but clara is less likely to care about that) that clara doesn’t.

[shamemp3]

one day ill have a consistent dialect

[snowdrop-yoongi]

thinking about how hegel wrote the dialectic of lordship and bondage and actually published it for the world to see. in 1807, no less. go have BDSM sex like the rest of us, you pervert

[raffaellopalandri]

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[justapalspal]

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