#semantic shift

[datasoong47]

[sharkchunks]

The Paradine Case (1947, Alfred Hitchcock)

Semantic change rocks! Dialogue from Scene at 1:48:25, images above slightly skewed from a moment later in the scene.

[bicokun]

Oh, semantic shift, what would we do without you?

Fun fact for anyone who doesn’t know, both of these words come from the Greek word phakelos, meaning bundle and eventually reached Old English as faggot meaning a bundle of sticks for burning. Now, even in American English vs. British English you can see that there was a recent pejoration (meaning turning a neutral word into an insulting one) in American English in which the word was then used for a person who gathered sticks, which was then used to denote the type of person who gathers stick (poor, low-class), which then took the low-class connotation and applied it to women to refer to prostitutes, and finally used it to refer to effeminate men due to the derogatory feminine connotations of the previous usage. The British just took the bundle of stuff to burn meaning and ran with it to refer to that bundle of tabacco you burn.

For applying it to a bassoon, it was a lot more straightforward in that when it’s folded in half it looks like a bundle of sticks.

[alliterative-endlessknot]

It’s #WorldBookDay! Here’s our video about the history of the book!

[heartavenue]

one thing that I catch myself doing is saying "when I get there I'm going to xyz.." and although this is just a case of semantics and not a underlining assumption that I am not in my desired reality. I still find that it would benefit me to stop saying such things, because there is no getting there but only being.

[ly0nstea]

Its called semantic drift, words get reanalysed and change meaning. Navy in the context of an adjective for colour has gone from use by the navy to darker therefore any colour can have a navy variant in modern English.

[pathological-runaway]

what if the word star in the world of sky had the same evolution as in english (a similar one at least) and went from meaning the ball of burning gas in the sky to one of the elders to a prominent person in the community to someone famous

i imagine samekh wouldn't like being called the same thing as that one singer with a weirdass hairstyle but alas

[raggedclawsscuttling]

But that's all slang?

[kasarian]

lil mwahs and schmooches (oc kiss day 1!!)

[bluehatted]

Olllld sketches of costumes worn for an annual performance of "The Skinning of Lupine". Which takes place on the new moon closest to the anniversary of when the lupmish first came to Riverbed (and is very much colored by that context). Lupine is the pseudo-historical first Lupmish (werewolf). "The Skinning" is a dramatization of how they (and by extension all lupmish) came to be. It's just the first --and most intense-- of many more stories involving them.

Historically, Auntie plays the part of Lupine, but she's getting ready to retire the role.

Summary of the story is below the cut:

Thousands of years ago, a baby was born with the fur and face of a wolf, and out of shame it was left in the wilderness to die. The midwife tasked with sending the baby to its death took pity on the poor thing and prayed for its safety*. The moon goddess took notice and raised the kid as its own. It taught it to live and hunt like a beast and named it Lupine. They lived happily this way for many years. Eventually, the village that kicked them out began to encroach on their hunting grounds, leaving them with nothing to eat for winter. Lupine goes into the village out of desperation to beg for scraps, but is met with empty streets. Suddenly, they're surrounded by hunters. With a single strike from the lead hunter's axe, they are skinned alive. Lupine screams**. Lupine, bloody, runs away with pelt in hand and cries to the moon goddess about what happened. The moon is enraged at what the hunters have done to their child. It comforts them, sews their pelt back on, and promises that when the moon's face is full, Lupine can be a beast again. The moon then breaks its sewing needle in half and gives the pieces to Lupine to be their fangs, ordering them to seek revenge. Lupine runs off to do just that***. And that's how the lupmish came to be! *The midwife was entirely omitted in earlier versions of the modern dramatization of the story, though the character predates it significantly. Since their reintroduction it's been traditional for them to be played by a child in adorable old person makeup, much to the joy of all. **As previously mentioned, Auntie is usually the one playing Lupine. She's such a laid-back and jovial person normally it's always disturbing for the audience to hear such an anguished, blood-curdling scream come out of her. ***It varies year-to-year but usually the performance ends right here, and wraps up with a speech by the player of the moon that usually touches on the morals of the story like "don't be greedy" and "don't fuck with the gods" and hammering home the cultural importance and responsibility of being lupmish.

[kutyozh]

Some real and false friends – Czech and Russian

příbor – прибор cutlery – device, gadget

svaz – связь union – tie, relation; connection (but: союз = union)

rodina – родина family – homeland

žízeň – жизнь thirst – life

snášet/snést – снести/сносить to bear, to endure; to reduce – to carry down; to demolish; to endure

neděle – неделя Sunday – week

zapomínat/zapomenout – запоминать/запомнить to forget – to remember, to keep in mind; to memorize

věnovat – виноват to dedicate – guilty (m short)

lehce – легче lightly, easily – lighter, easier

vařit/uvařit – варить/сварить to cook, to boil – to boil

stůl – стул table – chair

čas – час time – hour

starat se/postarat se – стараться/постараться to take care – to try

země – земля Earth, ground, country – Earth, land, ground

město – место city – place

[nyxwolph]

🤦‍♀️ it's always fun to learn how some words change meaning over time.

(Even more fun when they come to mean the opposite of their original meaning.)

"womanizer" is one of those words that should mean something other than what it does.

example "i'm a womanizer. i see a guy and i womanize him."

[thathilomgirl]

There are now 2 blue-haired Christian anime girls out there

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

"my education is my highest priority" everything returns to vocaloid

[bugging-u]

Theres a difference between a "bug" when you're walking in the woods vs a "bug" when you're doing a taxonomic study.

Just like a grizzly bear is a big puppy when i see one on my dashboard, but decidedly not when i see one 20 feet from me in an open feild.

Blame whoever coined such a splendid word as "bug" and expected us NOT to use it to describe all small, spineless creatures; be them legged or wriggling.

The day people learn the difference between a bug and an insect is the day I rest. Until then, I shall be sleep deprived.

[hinotorihime]

so i found a copy of the french edition of the d&d4 player's handbook which is super cool!! and.

listen.

listen i know it means "breath". i know it's just the french word for something that's, like, full of air and it makes perfect sense in context. however,