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(I would love if someone could add an image description; I cannot.)
Okay but let me blow your mind a little more: Notice how she still stumbled a bit on “talking?” That’s because the al is more accurately an o or aw, depending on your regional accent.
This isn’t so much a rule of English, it’s a rule of linguistics. Or rather, several of them, and the way we can tell what linguistic ‘family trees’ look like. Languages drift over time in the mouths of their speakers; but books are fixed at the time they were printed, so text generally preserves ‘archaic’ structures that aren’t actually used any more.
For a fascinating example of what this might look like in English over time, check out this deep-dive on Quora.
It’s also not necessarily about how native speakers pronounce things, his advice is pretty specific to someone going from Chinese (Mandarin I assume?) to English. Listen to how they speak in Chinese, there’s very clear stops between words probably because it’s a tonal language but when you do that in English it sounds unnatural. Dropping the Ts is a good way to make it flow from one word to the next if you are struggling to make them sound natural
Not to derail but… Am I the only native English speaker who pronounces my “t”? Unless I’m speaking in a more American accent (sometimes when I say certain things/or am trying to emphasise the American in my accent, it comes out), then it sounds less pronounced, but otherwise I pronounce it pretty strongly.
No you’re not! It’s a regional thing, even in america. In my accent for example sometimes I pronounce the Ts and sometimes I don’t
I was watching a WIRED documentary on US accents on youtube, and according to that doc the replacement of “t” with a glottal stop when it’s the last letter in a word/syllable is in several US accents, but especially prevalent in Southern California, and this particular dialect quirk seems to have originated in the Indigenous American communities in California.
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A little update <3
I still read all of your lovely replies! I have not given up on art my friends! I have even started my own webcomic on webtoon! It’s called Seth In Space and it would mean a lot to me if you would support me there! Love you all and happy halloween!!
I’m so happy to tell you all that I’ve made great progress with my mental health!! To genuinely be able to say that I feel happy is so liberating and free! I know a lot of you are still in that dark place. I’m here to say that it does get better. Much better! I still have some tough days but progress is progress! Be kind and gentle to yourselves. I love you all and thank you to everyone who’s supported me over the years!
Here’s links to my commissions and projects! Commissions Animal Crossing Commissions Animal Crossing Tarot Cards Tarot Readings Seth In Space
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
I look forward to this post every year, I’m so glad OP is in a better place emotionally, and like Jack said, even though we don’t know each other, I’m always rooting for her.
💀🖤🧡🎃🧡🖤💀
compilation of italians singing from their balconies during the lockdown since no one is allowed to visit other people
Y’know an awful lot of Terry Pratchett’s books are concerned with how powerful women are when they get angry and how important anger is as a driving force to defend what is right and to tackle injustice.
A lot of his most interesting and most deeply moral characters are angry ones. Granny Weatherwax, Sam Vimes, Tiffany Aching. All are to a large extent driven to do good by anger.
And that honestly means a lot to me.
Terry was an angry man. This is not the same as saying he was a bad man. He held a righteous fury, the kind that comes from looking at the world, and knowing just how much better it could be if only we stopped being bastards. He held a genuine belief that people can and do change the world for the better, not by big things, but by the little. He believed in the kindness of others, and that kindness means more than wishing well and prayers. He knew the difference between being good and doing good, and that you technically couldn’t be the first without the latter.
He was angry at the world because he loved it, and he wanted us to feel the same, to not feel helpless, to know that something can be done, to know that anger is not just the tool of abusers and tyrants but the chisel by which The People might chip away at oppression and fear and bring it crumbling down. He gave us the drive needed to believe in hope. because he wanted to make the world better with words and not violence.
I hope he knows that he did.
Oh wow. I didn’t know that, this is very important.
I HAVE SO MUCH STUFF UNDER NDA RIGHT NOW BUT I MANAGED TO DO THIS IN MY FREE TIME
If Boomers didn’t want my generation to be full of obstinate spite against widespread evils then why did they expose me to these lines in Lord the Rings at the tender age of eight:
fuck your Climate Change Denial-ism, we’re going to get through this
Liz and I have been playing dishonored and I care about only one thing!!
the fight is harder each year.
gotta keep going because nothing ever stops.
you deserve to be new and whole.
Can someone explain what’s happening besides someone being reborn?
In the first comic, which is from the Warrior’s point of view, the Warrior has defeated the Monster, who jeers that there will always be another Monster to fight. The Monster dissolves into mist, leaving another tiny, baby Monster in its place. The Warrior picks up this helpless new baby Monster and carries it away. They will try again and do better this time.
In the second comic, which is from the Monster’s point of view, the Monster says that this has to happen; it can’t come with the Warrior, and there will always be another. It tells the Warrior to use what they have learned to fight. It wants to die knowing that the Warrior has hope for the future. It dissolves into mist, and the exhausted Warrior collapses. The new baby Monster comes and brings the Warrior some water in a leaf. Because we are reading this in the Monster’s voice, we realize that it is a new Monster, but also somehow, magically, the same. We also see that the Monster is not inherently evil. It is only very strong, and inevitable.
The third comic is a dialogue between the Monster and the Warrior. The Warrior is exhausted and horrifically wounded. The Monster is also horribly maimed. They are both dying. The Warrior doesn’t want to fight anymore. The Monster tells them to rest and heal. The Warrior hands over their amulet, and we see the Monster’s paw become a hand just before they both dissolve into mist. It clears, revealing that the Monster has turned into a beautiful humanoid, who says they will take care of the new baby monster the Warrior has turned into. The two have changed roles. The Warrior takes up the former Warrior’s gear and strides into the new year with the new baby Monster riding on their shoulders.
It is a beautiful, ruthless, hopeful metaphor about keeping up the good fight, year after year, even when we are worn down, and how we can still face the new year with hope and light, no matter how painful the last one was, and how it is okay to rest if we can’t fight.
It’s not the new year, but things are so difficult for so many of us right now, and we are so worn down from so many fights on so many fronts, I feel like we could all use this again. Love, rest, fight, love.
