#morpheme

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morpheme (English) /ˈmɔː(ɹ)fiːm/ The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry meaning.

oiseau (French) /wa.zo/ a bird.

[icecakeandgingertea]

Fan art of shiny new genin Dokuso Arashi and Senbei for Infraredphaeton's amazing fanfic Morpheme on Ao3

Arashi's soon-to-be-vogue "Swamp Chic" + camo netting

[starsailorstories]

Wait okay talking about Morpheme earlier reminded me of this bit from a patreon story a few months ago that is subtly the most Bell Town Core(TM) thing ever

“There’s something kind of romantic about it,” Morpheme says, over the commotion of a group of building crew girls beating out a small flame on a floating patch of creosote. “I think it will inspire everyone.”

[painfulbladderqueen]

Whelmed

Currently on the chapter in my linguistics class that’s talking about morphemes, specifically, free and bound morphemes. The example was that -whelmed in overwhelmed and underwhelmed doesn’t stand as it’s own word, so it isn’t a free morpheme.

But I’ll be honest, the idea of using whelmed as word is very funny to me.

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

can a brave soul with a m&g ticket PLEASE tell dan that the word monochrome means one colour and not achromatic colours (white, black, and grey). please. i’m begging you.

[dedalvs]

Zhyler anon here again... I... I think you got the plural morpheme wrong. It fills me with apprehension and terror to correct you, someone I admire greatly, on your own language... but I have evidence (the Zhyler page on your website, on the "Relay Texts" page, links to the "Cursèd Relay", which links to a Zhyler text you translated in 2005(?!), which includes some grammar explanations, which includes the plural morpheme) 😭😭😭

So help me....

First you insult me by asking me to translate something into Zhyler, then you follow it up by pointing out a mistake, which leads me to discover two other mistakes, and to top it all off, you're using the word morpheme?! Who even are you?!

All right, now you have homework. First, watch this:

David's LCC1 presentation from literally 2006 that should have put an end to this whole morpheme nonsense

Then read this:

A kind of write up of the same presentation written eight years later because people were paradoxically still on about this morpheme nonsense

Then these three posts in this order on Tumblr.com, an obscure microblogging website you probably haven't heard of:

First post

Second post

Third post

Now for your question.

Yes, I got the frickin'-frackin' plural wrong! The stupid language is a stupid homage to not-stupid Turkish, and plurals in Turkish are associated with -lar/-ler. I turned that into the stupid past tense in stupid Zhyler and I STUPID FORGOT THAT in the first stupid post so I stupid got it wrong. Okay?!

But that's not all. Apparently in my own documentation I exclusively used IPA; I didn't have any kind of romanization. The romanization was invented for my website. I forgot this and so misread [j] as <j> (i.e. [dʒ]). I thought it was odd there was so much [dʒ] in this translation, so I feel better about that, but it means that every place you say <j> (and its associated orthographic letter) it should've been <y>. So that was wrong, too.

Anyway, after all that, I did correct the stupid translations, so here they are. First, enemies:

Then friends:

There! Art thou happy?! I'm not even going to get into how the plural is supposed to produce an even number of syllables but I don't remember what happened with case/possessive suffixes, so I don't know if it's literally supposed to be vedgayayum and širkÿyayum which seems ridiculous, but what isn't with this ridiculous language?

Now I banish thee once more!

[randomwordzard]

ouch oof my hobby that I do because I enjoy it

[greens-spilled-tea]

Fuck it I'm bored. I hate describing my experiences with DID as "multiplicity" or "plurality". I don't experience DID as having multiple people in one body! We're not different people! I just have different states of being "me"!

Anyways I'm gonna call that being polyego from now on. Poly being multiple or man, ego being self or "I". I experience polyegoism. I'm polyego. Etc.

[eemoo1o-tfrmoo]

I think we need to hone in more on the fact that Hiccup views Stoick as a local Tavern Karen

[reborrowing]

causative is a weird place to start trying inflection, but it does let me immediately bake in the very important concept that borrowing is simply sharing without informing the other person that it's happening lol

so like, same underlying verb would get used in

Borukha Phoebek sandwich hal ta Valse - Phoebe shares a sandwich with Val

Labarokha Valik (vo ta Phoebese) sandwich - Val has/makes [someone] (Phoebe) share a sandwich; Val borrows a sandwich (from Phoebe)

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mayhaps (English) /meɪhæps/ maybe, perhaps, possibly, perchance.

morpheme (English) /ˈmɔːɹfiːm/ The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry meaning.

[clonehub]

lowkey i think the clones would not have a strong culture of like. consistent place names and the like. names to them are personal and may or may not carry significant history, but when it comes to naming places--well. they have no place. they don't settle anywhere. their history doesn't bleed into any earth and it isn't carved into any rivers or mountains. any settlement or place they name i think would be more literal since I think they'd have a more literal than conceptual language (and notice how their language is unnamed [for safety reasons]).

so their village could easily be Blue River Village because it happens to be by a blue river. It could be Settlement A until they come up with something else. It could also be 501st village. they might choose a name from their language. but place names convey as much as they do because they have the benefit of sheer time on their side--years, decades, centuries of conflicts and compromises and movements and changes from all sorts of people. but they're one people with a linear and brutally short history.

[starsailorstories]

it has everything to do with the fact that rivet is 50 and morphie is 18 but it cracks me up how rivet has no idea where her girlfriend is and is like "my feelings are my own business, i must bear up bravely and get on with it because to do otherwise would be to shame myself and her" and meanwhile morpheme is living a block away from her girlfriend and is like "I AM DYING FOR WANT OF HER, MY EVERY NERVE IS BURNING UP WITH LOVE, TAKE MY RIGHT ARM IF IT WOULD ONLY GRANT ME ONE KISS"

[j-esbian]

frustrating how so many craft books have a section about "how to sell what you've made"

like on one hand i get it because the person writing the book has obviously made their craft a full-time job. and they might have some tips and tricks that might be useful, and there are people out there who might be trying to start a small business out of it

but on the other hand it's just exhausting and feels like another voice saying "what's the point of having a hobby if you're not going to monetize it"

[chronically-enthusiastic]

Does anyone else affectionately call tumblr 'the tumble-dryer'? /gen q

[coffee-without-anesthetics]

I AM ON THE VERGE OF UNDERSTANDING AND IT'S INFURIATING

transcript from my best of understanding: kanji -> もと死神の俺が　二人聞でも三人聞でも戦うぜ romanji -> moto shinigami no ore ga, futari bun demo san nin bun demo tatakauze the gist of what i get -> i used to be a god of death(in the context of the game "a reaper"). even if there's two people or three people, i'll fight.

I AM THIS 🤏 CLOSE TO ACTUALLY GETTING IT. THISSS CLOSE.