#vulcan: language
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I'm convinced the reason so many Vulcan's say fascinating and logical is because in their language they would have 10+ words to describe something but they all translate to fascinating and logical.
#star trek#spock#strange new worlds#star trek aos#star trek tos#vulcan language#vulcan lore#vulcan meta#vulcans
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Speculative Reconstructions of the Vulcan Language
The Vulcan language is, to use a technical linguistic term, clunky as hell.
If you've used it at all, you've probably noticed. The pronouns are a nightmare; verbs are simplistic and not all forms are given; everything’s a compound even if it has no business being; and a lot of words we need simply don’t exist. The creation of the language began as gibberish made up to fit how the actors’ mouths were already moving and it shows.
So I've been going through extant Vulcan phrases, looking for alternatives. You see, Vulcan was created grammatically after many Vulcan phrases were canonical, meaning not all phrases fit with the grammar we're given. You’ll see this in formalized phrases from ceremonies or as part of etiquette—stuff that simply doesn’t translate according to the rules we have.
I explain this by saying those phrases use an archaic or regional dialect. The stuff Vulcans are willing to share with us makes up the VLD and the grammar lessons. That doesn’t mean that’s how they actually talk. They very well might often use archaic or regional terms they don’t consider part of the standardized form of the language.
This is especially true when, for instance, Spock breaks into Vulcan at a time of intense feeling. He isn’t going to speak in proper Vulcan he learned in school: he may well pull from the language of poets or from secret Vulcan profanity they won’t put in the dictionary.
I could go further and say: the Surakian linguistic reform that attempted to standardize the language and regularize forms in use (which can explain the over-simplicity of the grammar and general lack of irregular verbs) never took hold as well as they pretend it did. How Vulcans actually speak is much messier. Uhura probably goes on regular rants about this.
As a person who is trying to use Vulcan rather than simply analyze it, I’ve given myself permission to make some of my own changes. However, I don’t currently feel comfortable just making things up. This language is in use by a lot of people and any creations I invent will be incomprehensible to any other Vulcan language user. Thus I mine the corpus of existing Vulcan for forms I might use in novel ways to make the language easier and more graceful.
So, here we go: I’m going to slice and dice the Vulcan language looking for useful grammar, thus angering everyone who already uses the language and being completely irrelevant to anybody who doesn’t. But maybe there are five people out there who will find this stuff interesting or even useful.
to be continued...
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linguistics is fun:

- from the latest mensa bulletin

- from the novel spock’s world by @dduane
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What can be better than Jim speaking Vulcan? Jim speaking dirty in Vulcan.

You can find the uncropped version here.
#I experimented with the genital sheath in this one#just fyi#star trek#star trek tos#star trek art#spock#kirk#spirk#tos spirk#spock x kirk#vulcans#vulcan language#k/s art#k/s#st tos#star trek fanart#star trek spirk#star trek the original series#james t kirk#james kirk#s'chn t'gai spock#k/s fanart#spirk fanart#fanart#eldar of zemlya
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I think it would be funny if there was a large age gap between Tuvok and T'Pel's first kid and the rest of them. Like, what do you mean I'm an older brother now? I'm 35 years old.
#This is my big brother Sek he's 40 years old and we're not from the same country* but he's nice and I will make him read me ten books#st voy#*I don't know if Vulcan has 'countries' but I think it'd be interesting to have a sibling that grew up#with a completely different culture/language that they connect with their parents about and you can't
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so in postcrisis, clark learns kryptonian bc first jor-el's ghost from his ship and then the eradicator both kinda beam it into his head and all, right. what are the odds that kara shows up and then after the shock of it all wears off she has a serious giggle because yes, her grown up little baby cousin is fluent, but he has the speech patterns and taste in idioms etc of a grandpa.
#rimi talks#like okay in all seriousness thinking about the eradicator and its whole ~pureness of krypton~ thing and language is actually fascinating#like what kinds of phrases would it associate with '''''impurities''''' and would that kind of thing impact how clark learned kryptonian?#what about jor-el? like ok byrne jor-el was like what if kryptonians were vulcans that suck shit but what would that look like?#what kinds of linguistic shifts would there have been between when the eradicator was made and jor-el's day?#....... i think the tolkien as a formative influence on me is showing#but anyway. kara having to teach clark kryptonian slang could be so cute#clark#kara
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Been experimenting with different brushes







#golic vulcan#star trek vulcans#star trek vulcan#vulcan calligraphy#vulcan language#vulcan#gen lis vuhlkansu#vuhlkansu#star trek#the next generation#star trek tng#lt cmdr data#star trek the next generation#data tng#data soong#picard tng#worf son of mogh#doctor crusher#will riker#geordi la forge#deanna troi
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A Lucifer Headcanon
So not Ghost but kinda; I've always headcanoned Lucifer having a limp from the fall. Much like Hephestus being tossed off Olympus by Zeus he sustained permanant damage to his legs; in Lucifer's case the left. It's why he would carry a cane and in this case always on his right (you use a cane on the opposite side of the injury).
It's a nice little tie to some of Hephestus' more "satanic" traits. Also there was likely some Vulcan (same guy kinda, probably a much older deity who was adjusted by the Romans; can you tell I love the classics?) bits in there.
Anyway, it also explains why when anybody asks me who my favorite Greek God is I answer Hephestus. And Lucifer is my favorite biblical character(not really honestly because the modern conception of Lucifer is MOSTLY bible fandom inventions).
Thank you for attending my TED talk.
#a non ghost post?#nah#who am I kidding?#ghost the band#the band ghost#ghost band#headcanon#lucifer#satan#hephestus#vulcan#hephestus is the bestus#classics nerd#but also not#because damn am I awful at languages#may your wheel ever be stuck in a ditch
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If Saavik isn't Spock's adopted daughter, then why does the Vulcan Language Dictionary has this entry:
t'kam'la: cherished student
a student who is cherished as a daughter or son [source:Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: Forgotten History]
#saavik#s'chn t'gai saavik#t'kam'la#star trek#spock#s'chn t'gai spock#star trek tos#vulcan language#Vulkhansu#Vulcan language dictionary
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#did you see#did you see him????#like i KNOW i am carrying on at this point but the visuals in sun vulcan are a massive reason its so firmly stuck in my head#it was very iconic with its visual language and hiba's sword was enduringly delightful and its always fun to see how they update things#like watching shark swim through the ground in strongest battle#i'm going to stop now but also i AM rolling around on the floor over this#get rings or die trying
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Charlie Kelly from Always Sunny is my favorite representation of dyslexia in anything ever. Specifically because everyone's frustration when his dyslexia gets in their way feels very true to my frustration when my dyslexia gets in my way. I like watching people get mad at dyslexia lol
#also i like how casually everyone is like yeah well charlie cant read ya kno what can u do?#and its the only dyslexia rep ive seen where its not framed as 'wah im bad at school' or 'im dyslexic but i can succeed anyway'#thr problems of dyslexia extend outside of school and continued to be a struggle even if its masked by success to the outside world#but this is from the mouth of a person who does not enjoy being represented in media. bc im like fuck off i hate u when i relate to#characters lol. or ur not writing it right fuck off. tbh it makes me feel better to watch other dyslexic ppl fuck up in the same ways i do#like on tv typically characters dont constantly fuck up the words coming out of their mouth unless somethings medically wrong with them but#thats a very dyslexic thing to do bc theres a problem with language and its translation in ur brain.#the dyslexic rep i hate the most is probably p3rcy jackson bc like i get the point of succeeding depite handicaps but i hate it and also he#has visual anomalies in the movie so extreme its probably more an eye issue rather than streight up dyslexia which is the inability to read#and that makes me feel like a dipshit bc the words arent running away and i still cant read lol. also fucking hate that they retconed sp0ck#as sorta vulcan dyslexic. mostly im just being a hater bitch bc i havent watched it but the sp0ck story is so so so fucking good bc hes#stuck between two worlds and experiencing prejudice of both sides. is that not enough for you????? fuck off. i reject u dyslexic sp0ck#but again. im a fucking hater and a contrarian so i mostly just get mad when i relate to characters#unrelated
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Ive seen a few things along the lines of Vulcans meeting 'Country Hick Humans' and not understanding their accent and slang but Id like to see the reverse.
Vulcans are so proper and clear in their diction and speech that whenever a non-native Golic speaker hears a 'Country Hick Vulcan' or just any Vulcan with a super heavy accent they cant understand them because they sound so different to every other Vulcan theyve heard
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Working on some calligraphy lately. This is kind of a messy job; I'm working on memorizing the letters and making the shapes more fluidly without having to stop and stare at the chart. So there are a couple mistakes, me running out of space at the bottom of the page, one point when I changed the text a little to fit it, etc.

It's a combination of two quotes from Surak and one from Michael Burnham.
Pulau na'vathular k'nuhk. Nar-tor pulaya s'au k'ka'es, k'el'ru tun-bosh. Tal’uh ish-su vi saudau dan-irak kwi’tu eh pula’uh na’ish-veh.
Reach out to others courteously. Accept their reaching in the same way, with careful hands. Find the person who is farthest from you and reach for them.
I badly need a new brush pen, one that's a little firmer so I can make a fine line without my hands shaking. But it still looks pretty good if you're not looking too closely.
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I'm dying y'all.


Credit: T'Kay, Vulcartist. And a breakdown of the various ways she makes money off of doing stuff like this. You should pay her, she's super awesome!
I want this TATTOED ON MY ASS.
#ea nasir#Ea Nasir and his defective copper live in my head rent-free#Vulcan calligraphy#vulcan language#Star trek#Shitposting
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not me writing an entire k/s fic full of chess metaphors only to find out MONTHS later that the english term is castling and not rochade. i thought we were all using the persian term... like a dumbass... 😭
#more adventures in writing fic in your second language#famous last words... 'i know how to play chess i don't need to google' yeah girl but do you know how to translate chess? oof#not changing it now btw. i'm still proud of the symbolism and i don't think anyone will actually care.#let's say the 3D syzygy rochade was invented by a federation species who DID adapt a persian chess term. there. i fixed it#most european languages derive their term from 'rukh' apparently. so. who's to say that andorians and vulcans don't#lylahyf#spirk#star trek#chess#pinkgrapefloyd
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Halloween. Spock is confused. :D
You married a Vulcan???????????? :o
These ones feel kind of random and weird. Idk. 😅🫶🌌
reference pics ✨
@senshistock
this picture I found on pinterest 😅
#star trek tos#star trek#spones#mckirk#mcspirk#idk#leonard mccoy#spock#spock/mccoy#james t kirk#idiots in costumes#sometimes you see a random reference picture of a person biting another person's neck and you think of the husbands or is that just me😅🫣😬#why yes that is a wedding ring with vulcan engravings on leonard's hand 👏💅#does the halloween one even make sense? english isn't my first language and my brain is melting right now :D#tumblr just butchering the quality of my uploaded image as usual 🥲
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