crazy how that stuff works
Tch. Would've been funnier with breasts 🤣
excuse me?
You thought this was a pipe? Ha! You simpleton. You rube. You dolt. You jackanape. You utter buffoon. I've bamboozled you again! If you gave this "pipe" even the most cursory of examinations, you would see that it is only an artistically rendered facsimile of a pipe in the abstract. Idiot.
half life and second life are in the same franchise
If you play them at the same time it’s like being alive normally
I think conlangs are cool as a concept but I also feel that an author has to earn the right to inflict them upon me. Subjecting me to your fake language is an intimate act and I expect to be wooed first by quality writing and immersive worldbuilding.
Oh, the “silflay hraka u embleer hrair” payoff
I misquoted, it’s “u embleer rah” and it’s from Watership Down. The author went to a lot of trouble for the payoff so I won’t spoil it
Can someone spoil it please I don't have the time or energy to read much for leisure anymore and I hate getting left out of jokes
it isn’t so much of a joke but I get this!
- watership down is a book about rabbits. Their fictional language is called Lapine.
- in the book the language is revealed one word at a time with context and footnotes. It is reinforced much as one would teach a language, and the reader picks it up naturally. Different contexts and nuance are noted, like how rabbits can only found to four due to having four toes, so five-plus numbers are bundled into a word that can mean”five” or “a thousand”
- this sentence is the only one in the book entirely in Lapine and has no translation. At the point of reading it, the reader understands it.
- silflay = graze/grazing time , hraka = inedible droppings, embleer= fox musk, rah = leader.
- at a climactic scene, there is a scene where the terribly vulnerable protagonist rabbits are hiding in a burrow under siege by a horrifying fascist rabbit army. Their last, badly wounded fighter rabbit has wedged himself into the only entrance, and is defending it with surprising effectiveness. The vulnerable rabbits are variously disabled, mentally ill, injured and generally preparing for an inevitable ghastly death. The army is going into the narrow tunnel one by one to attack the fighter, but it’s a weirdly creepy situation, and they realise that when they do kill him, his corpse will prevent them from getting to the burrow anyway. A strange dread is coming over them. The terrifying fascist leader suggests that the fighter just come out and be torn to pieces quickly rather than slowly. The fighter rabbit replies, “silflay hraka U embleer rah,” the only Lapine sentence in the book, with no translation provided. The reader simultaneously understands it at once, knows that in this context it means “eat shit and die you bastard” - this feels quite daring for children, and their parents will never know because it’s in a secret language! - and it has one of those tolkienesque hope/horror feelings that wouldn’t have come through the same way in the reader’s own language.
- the rabbit in question is a very irritating himbo and this is a legendary moment where his deeply annoying character traits and development transcend him as a person. The defiance, the wilfulness of “tear me to pieces slowly; I hope you choke. My dead body will only be an inconvenience to you on your way to murder my friends; but I hope it’s deeply annoying” is quite resonant. He’s been a jerk to the protagonists for the whole book, and then he goes and DOES THIS for them. Adams set it up well! Tragic defiance from a jock!
- although this all sounds like one of those warrior cat books, it’s considered a classic piece of literature and widely read outside of the usual children’s genre, because the greater themes of tyranny/justice, state violence, refugees/home-building are considered to be well-handled. And there are some situations where built-up, epic, pointless tragic defiance hit well.
Conlang privileges granted to one (1) rabbit.
i love how with birds the males are usually the ones who go around breasting boobily
i had my phone muted. i didn’t realize this had that awful sex music in it
waiting for my turn to speak in a conversation and trying not to interrupt literally feels like I'm trying to jump into a game of double dutch
me trying to use my abysmal social skills
either you guys need to stop tagging this with autism/adhd or I need to see a psychologist one or the other
Green Collar Boy voices his opinion about getting his nails trimmed.
17 Days
I swear to God he says “fuck you” in response to being called a good boy.
Good Lord! He does say “fuck you” where did my sweet innocent pup learn this phrase?!
The way this video lives in my head rent free and the number of times I find it applicable to so many instances throughout my day is unreal
What makes it additionally worst is the red banner says “German style”
…and isn’t that the flag of Spain?
This is a triumph of globalism.
man ive always wanted to taste the english french toast in american flavor thats made in german style with the spanish flag on it thats made in china. such a local delicacy
Earth food
Don’t forget the pizza