#regional linguistic differences

[gnomewithalaptop]

Okay because I'm genuinely curious, what does everybody call this little guy

Put where you're from in the tags if you want! (general regions only obviously pls don't doxx yourselves)

[aroaceleovaldez]

Not to get pedantic (oh who am i kidding that’s most of this blog) but I am genuinely fascinated by the potential applications of the established canon in HoO and TOA that the gods canonically have both historic and regional forms, and can appear as specific versions of those forms and have kids of those specific forms, which influence what powers the kid has/what pantheon they fall under/etc etc (and also the implication that demigods can be born under multiple forms of a singular deity). This is somewhat backed up even earlier in the first series when we’re told that Percy has earthquake powers because of his father being Poseidon “The Earthshaker” (which is Mycenaean Poseidon) - which could also tie into why Percy generally takes leadership roles, is hopping in and out of the Underworld a lot, and is apparently particularly powerful for even just a Big 3 kid, since all that would line up with Mycenaean Poseidon being generally put at the head of the pantheon and also being a chthonic deity.

Now this gets really interesting when we start looking at deities being combined and conflated, because a.) the Romans weren’t the only ones doing that and b.) the Romans had their own gods originally, they didn’t just take the Greek ones and slap a new name on them. They merged a lot with their own preexisting deities alongside adopting worship of deities from other cultures as the Romans spread (and the Greeks also did this), and c.) the ancient Greeks and Romans did exist at the same time.

Like, we know in terms of the Greeks and Romans that if their godly parents are “equivalent” then their demigod children are siblings, just like if Greek demigods have the “same” godly parent then they are also siblings. However, very few Greco-Roman gods are one-to-one, and a lot are like three gods in a trench coat, and then if you want to get into historical forms then you can start running into weird things like “Well, if you go back far enough, these two Greek gods may have originated from the same thing-” and also if we’re talking historical forms, again, the Greeks and Romans existed at the same time! Which means there would be historic forms of godly parents that are both Greek and Roman! So like, where do we go from there? Would Hazel be equally siblings to a child of Plutus as she is to Nico because both Hades and Plutus were conflated into Pluto? Orcus was also conflated with Pluto - does that mean when Nico killed Bryce Lawrence, he was killing his half-brother? (cause then that parallels just a couple chapters later when Will faces off against Octavian-) Are there demigods who, depending on their godly parents’ form(s), are technically both a Greek and Roman demigod? If Hermes and Pan possibly originated from the same god, does that mean all the satyrs are siblings with the Hermes kids? If we want to get into all the nonsense of Dionysus’ origins and Zagreus and Hades, does that mean Nico is technically siblings with Dionysus kids? Does Dionysus joke about this during their therapy sessions? Are some demigods in certain cabins siblings with kids in other cabins but each others’ siblings aren’t siblings depending on what form their godly parents were in?

I have a headache now.

[carfuckerlynch]

me 99% of the time: linguistic differences r so so cool i love the different ways people talk 🥰

me every time i hear @bisexualalienss call it pop: the midwest was a mistake

[mirrorbird]

what do you call this creature when you're eating it

[gayvampyr]

anyway i will always trust and respect native speakers’ usage of their own language more than anyone who tries to police how others speak, or who deems variations in dialect “incorrect/improper” because it’s different from how they personally speak, especially since the history of language policing is chock full of racism, classism, and xenophobia

[random-kazakh-stuff]

There is a concept in Kazakh called law of harmony(it is shared across some other Turkic languages. Also Hungary because history yk. Oh and Finnish).

Basically, there are tough and soft vowels. And preferably those sounds shouldn't be in one word, or at least if the word is ending in one type, the suffix should be of the same type. There are also sound and noisy consonants, which are used in suffixes. So if word ends in a sound consonant you append a suffix that starts with a sound consonant.

Example: You have a home - "үй/üi". This is a soft word, because of the vowel "ү/ü". So the plural suffix will be "лер/ler", with a soft e.

[cottagecore-raccoon]

I run into regional differences with this all the time, so I’m curious to see how this breaks down! I’m always caught off guard when someone asks “how are you” while continuing to walk past me, but that’s just the culture of where I went to school

[peridot-tears]

Dan Jeannotte said that because he speaks Quebecois French, he of course doesn't sound anything like people from France. But Arno lived in the late 1700s-1800s in the Paris area, and I believe Quebecois French, like American English, is actually closer to how people from the original countries spoke during that time period?

Am I...am I wrong?

that's right Haytham you're inaccurate you're just adrian hough's regular accent

[recreationalcynodont]

desperate to know everyones thoughts and prayers on this one. everyone must vote or perish in the indecision of cat

[sapphia]

just saw an american refer to mcdonald’s as mickey d’s and i think the fact that we shorten mcdonald’s to maccas sums up so much of the linguistic differences between new zealand and the us

[provendermalkin]

curious about contractions!

Just because I think the ways speech varies are interesting. Please feel free to elaborate or expand on the subject if you want. :)

[timetravellingkitty]

KASHMIR MASTERLIST

Background

History of Kashmir from 250 BC to 1947 [to understand Kashmir's multi religious history and how we got to 1947]

Broad timeline of events from 1947 to the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution in 2019 (BBC) [yes, BBC. hang on just this once]

Human Rights Watch report based on a visit to Indian controlled Kashmir in 1998 [has a summary, background, human rights abuses and recommendations]

Another concise summary of the issue

Sites to check out

Kashmir Action - news and readings

The Kashmiriyat - independent news site about ongoings in Kashmir

FreePressKashmir - same thing as previous

Kashmir Law and Justice Project - analysis of international law as it applies to Kashmir

Stand with Kashmir - awareness, run by diaspora Kashmiris (both Pandit and Muslim)

These two for more readings and resources on Kashmir: note that the petitions and donation links are from 2019 and also has explainers on the background (x) (x)

To read

Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora? - about women in the Kashmiri resistance movement and the 1991 mass rape of Kashmiri women in the twin villages of Kunan and Poshpora by Indian armed forces

Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir - a compliation of writings about the lives of Kashmiris under Indian domination

Colonizing Kashmir: State Building under Indian Occupation - how Kashmir was made "integral" to the Indian state and examines state-building policies (excerpt)

Resisting Occupation in Kashmir - about the social and legal dimensions of India's occupation

On India's scapegoating of Kashmiri Pandits, both by Kashmiri Pandits (x) (x)

Of Gardens and Graves - translations of Kashmiri poems

Social media

kashiirkoor

museumofkashmir

kashmirpopart

posh_baahar

readingkashmir

standwithkashmir and their backup account standwithkashmir2 (main account is banned in India wonder why)

kashmirlawjustice

kashmirawareness

jammugenocide (awareness about the 1947 genocide abetted by Maharaja Hari Singh and the RSS)

To watch

Jashn-e-Azadi: How We Celebrate Freedom parts 1 and 2 - a documentary about the Kashmiri freedom struggle (filmed by a Kashmiri Pandit)

Paradise Lost - BBC documentary about how India and Pakistan's dispute over the valley has affected the people

Kashmir - Valley of Tears - the exhaustion with the conflict in the post nineties

In the Shade of Fallen Chinar - art as a form of Kashmiri resistance

Human rights violations (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

Land theft and dispossession (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

A note: I know annoying Desis are going to see this and go "Oh but Kashmir is Pakistan's because-" and "Kashmir is an integral part of India because-". I must make my stance clear: Kashmir belongs to the Kashmiris, the natives, no matter what religion they belong to. Neither Pakistan nor India get to decide the matter of Kashmiri sovereignty. The reasons given by both parties as to why Kashmir should be a part of either nation are bullshit. The United Nations itself recognises Kashmir as a disputed region, so I will not entertain dumbfuckery. I highly encourage fellow Indians especially to take the time to go through and properly understand the violence the government enacts on Kashmiris. I've also included links to learn more about Kashmiri culture because really, what do the rest of us know about it? Culturally and linguistically Kashmir differs so much from the rest of India and Pakistan (also the amount of fetishization of Kashmiri women...yikes). This is not just a bilateral issue between these two nations over land, this actually affects the people of Kashmir. And if you're still here, thank you for reading

[thusjuniperus]

Okay, my new thoughts on alphabet modification are:

eliminate C

eliminate Q

eliminate X

Q is the only one I feel remorse about, as it has a long tradition. Unfortunately, we do not use the partikular hard K sound that the o.g. Phoenisians used the Q symbol for, so it just has the same sound as K, whitsh makes it redundant to us.

arguably eliminate J, but this one is komplikated

Like X (/ks/), this isn't a single sound, but a kombination of multiple sounds. The komplikation is that one of those sounds is relatively unkommon and we don't have a letter for it. It's the sound in the middle of the word "measure" or the end of "beige", and in IPA it is represented as ʒ, whitsh is fitting bekause it is kind of like a Z but not. A voised SH, I think?

Anyway the kombination that happens most of the time we speak the letter J is /dʒ/, so you would end up with "just" spelled like "dshust" or "dzhust", whitsh seems a bit mutsh. Maybe you'd get used to it, the way we're used to konsonant klusters in words like "throw".

no upper/lowerkase differentiation other than "letter bigger"

Prev℩ousʟy when I kons℩dered th℩s, I was ʟ℩ke "dshust wr℩te everyth℩ng ℩n kaps!" and stup℩dʟy had not reaʟ℩zed the reason we ℩nvented ʟowerkase to beg℩n with: kap℩taʟ ʟetters are k℩nd of hard to wr℩te!

Letters where the way I was taught to wr℩te them had me ʟ℩ft my pen to make more than one stroke, upperkase: A B D E F H I J K P Q R T X Y. Lowerkase: f i j k t x y, and the y ℩sn't even nessessary, you kan draw ℩t ʟ℩ke an open-top g. Lowerkase ʟetters were bas℩kaʟʟy ℩nvented as a shorthand/faster method of wr℩t℩ng the b℩g showy kap℩taʟ ʟetters.

I feeʟ we shouʟd now aʟso have some method of wr℩t℩ng f, k, and t that doesn't requ℩re a sekond stroke, but perhaps that ℩s for another day.

[nagititiis]

having thoughts of Haru talking in a way that’s like. a bit out of touch with his peers because he’s spent most of his life around older generations 

[allfearofanend]

idiosyncratic pet hate:

Wildly different pronunciation of names and 'foreign' words in movies/TV shows where the characters have never seen the word written down, and should realistically be straight mimicking whatever pronunciation was used by the person who introduced the word