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mandarin pronunciation guide
it’s always frustrating to see people mispronouncing things if you know what it’s supposed to sound like, and this happens quite often with mandarin, because a lot of the pinyin phonetic representations aren’t exactly intuitive for english speakers. luckily for people who want to be respectful, they are incredibly consistent. none of that sometimes-this-letter-sounds-one-way bullshit like with english. so here’s a quick guide:
first of all, mandarin has a pretty limited range of ways words can start and end, which is why there are so many homophones. but it makes it easier for pronunciation. most words start with a consonant, and if they start with a vowel it will be an 'a' or 'e' most of the time.
- most important, mandarin does not have the 'ay' sound english-speakers say in 'hey', 'day', etc. if an 'a' is the only vowel in a word, it's pronounced like the 'o' in tongs. the common name 'yang' is not yay-ng but yah-ng. the city of Shanghai is not shay-ng hi but shah-ng hi.
- the letter c is always pronounced as ts, like the beginning of 'tsunami'
- z is pronounced similarly, but by vocalizing it rather than it being only breath, like turning a P into a B or an F into a V in english.
- 'zh' is a sound we don't have in english. it's at the very front of the mouth, like a harder version of a 'j' almost mixed with a soft 'g.' so the name 'zhang' would not be 'zah-ng' but 'jah-ng'
- x is pronounced like a sh at the very front of your mouth, so the city Xi'an is pronounced like 'tshee-an'
- e is always pronounced as a schwa (ə), the 'uh' sound in 'duh'. so 'sheng' is pronounced like 'shung'
- q is pronounced as a tight ch the same way x is a sh, so the Qing dynasty is the 'tching' dynasty.
there's obviously a lot more to it, but those bullets are the biggies. it's not the hardest thing in the world, and even just removing the english 'ay' sound from any pronunciation of mandarin does wonders to make it sound more normal.
I’m so tired of hot actors with no actual talent or magnetism. we need more ugly little cuntservers giving performances that fuck so hard you leave the theatre with road rash. willem dafoe if you’re out there
of course you have blood all over you. and pronouns
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^^^ me when I’m trying to calm down my horse named “Website”
weird horse
"Websight" is a Valid Warrior Cat Name!
train wreck of a post. hit reblog
This will haunt my nightmares.
Squelch! Squelch is the technical shorthand for noise gating. Your antenna will constantly pick up ambient noise, which is useless and annoying to listen to all day while you wait for a call. Squelch tells the radio to mute the speakers if the overall power of the signal coming through is below a certain level. You twiddle your squelch until it just cuts out ambient noise, and when someone tries to talk to you the extra power from their signal will go above your squelch setting and it'll unmute so you can hear whoever's calling you.
You know what? Fuck you. *untwiddles your squelch*
she twiddle my squelch till i end up abandoned and unidentified at a local museum
life honestly gets so much better when you stop hating pop music for no reason
I don’t hate it because it’s popular; I hate it because it’s a product that is intentionally manufactured to get stuck inside your head
Which is the reason it’s popular
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life honestly gets so much better when you stop hating pop music for no reason
Eras Tour Audio Master Post
Lover era ~ Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince + Cruel Summer + The Man + You Need to Calm Down + Lover + The Archer
Fearless era ~ Fearless + You Belong With Me + Love Story
Evermore era ~ 'Tis the Damn Season + Willow + Marjorie + Champagne Problems + Tolerate It + No Body No Crime
Reputation era ~ ...Ready for it? + Delicate + Don't Blame Me and Look What You Made Me Do
Red era ~ 22 + We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together + I Knew You Were Trouble + Nothing New + All Too Well 10 minute version
Folklore era ~ Invisible String + The 1 + Betty + The Last Great American Dynasty + August + Illicit Affairs + My Tears Ricochet + Cardigan
1989 era ~ Style + Blank Space + Shake It Off + Wildest Dreams + Bad Blood
Midnights era ~ Lavender Haze + Anti-Hero + Midnight Rain + Vigilante Shit + Bejeweled + Mastermind + Karma
i don’t care if this isn’t the right type of pot to make matzoh ball soup in. my end goal in life is to own it and make matzoh ball soup with heart shake matzoh balls in it for everyone during passover
List of Small Things™ I enjoy about Fullmetal Alchemist in no particular order
Everyone in FMAB/manga is just Some Guy™ and very human and I love that so here goes:
- Falman getting stuck with a serial-killing suit of armor in his appartment for days and his reaction to it. It may have been weeks. He's been on sick leave the entire time. He's a guy in his early thirties with a flock of early-greying hair because being in a dead-end-role in the military is stressfull, ok. He gets stuck at home with a funny little serial killer (and eventually some foreign body guards, and a foreign prince?? lighting signal fires in his backyard?? like man what a week)
- The whole military ambush against the Devil's Nest was yes, kind of kickstarted by the gang kidnapping Al for Greed, but it was mostly kickstarted because Ed was down south to do his yearly official report and Bradley and Armstrong just happened to be present when he was informed Al had gone missing. Greed's entire operation was done in by a teen doing his paperwork
- on that note, Greed really decided to spend his immortality wisely by pursuing absolutely none of his supposed ambitions and just decided to settle down with a bunch of buddies. An offshot of the buddies he was initially made to guard, too. I don't think Greed is aware of this either
- everyone on that radio building. The radio host 100% down to get some coup-shenanigans into his station to drive engagement. The guys sympathising with Mrs Bradley and taking care of her. Breda taking control of the narrative with a perpetual frown by the skin of his teeth.
- I know the story of how the Bradleys met is technically not canon(?) but Mrs Bradley slapping her future husband upon their first meeting because he got his flirting tips from his siblings will never not be funny. Idiots. All of them.
- EVERYTHING about Darius and Heinkel. They lost their jobs and became wanted criminals upon helping out some scrawny 15 year old. They have families they miss dearly. They haven't looked back since. "You guys don't HAVE to help me save the world" - "It's not like we have anything better to do"
- i was going to say the Ice Cream Truck, because it's iconic, but actually, when told to disguise a vehicle, 15-year-old pinacle of edgelord fashion Edward Elric turned it into a colourful nightmare of spikes that barely resembled a car but might be closely related to the worlds deadliest parade float. None of this was necessary. Ed is just like that.
- Hawkeye growing her hair out after meeting Winry, and Winry getting piercings after seeing Hawkeye's
- Denny Brosh bursting into tears when he sees Maria Ross is still alive. Dude managed to not quit his job despite working in the same city (department?) where his best friend's killer was his supervisor. They were also very real for showing us that this is a guy who oversleeps and is older brother to at least three younger siblings. There was no need to give us more on Denny Brosh but every little detail hit so hard when they reunited.
- okay so remember that time Ed and Ling ate Ed's shoe. Remember that Ed spend some time on a "deserted island" as a kid. Gluttony's stomach had nothing on him. Izumi raised some anime-ass boy-scouts. 100% Farm boy behaviour. These kids are so 15 it makes me want to bite things
- immortal, soul-spliced dwarf in a flask got rid of his Sloth and still managed to procrastinate on his world domination plan until the last minute. Most Human disaster.
- the entire half-episode they spend on Dr. Knox and his regrets and family. FMA is so good about humanising everyone.
- everyone bullied Yoki because he was a small town fraud exploiting workers for his own benefit. Simply a jerk. He also hit Pride with a car in an epic rescue, and cried and screamed the whole way through
- that one shot of a kid curiously poking a soldier they found bound on the ground with a stick
- (I know it's technically not canon, but-) "I'm trying to save your life, asshole!"
- Edward Elric
i love saying "get off my dick" even though i don't have one
i don't have a dick but you're still determined to ride it
Took a year to complete this quilt! Pattern is by NASA Astronaut Karen Nyberg called Cupola View. Fabrics used were also designed by Karen, the collection is called Earth Views.
I wish I was taller. I wish I was a baller. I wish my cat had a phone I would call her.
obviously dietary requirements aren't a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she's up to today and she said extremely seriously "ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia"
this totally scans for a swear intensifier btw. what in the gluten free christ is going on here, Julia
it's always funny when someone comments on eurodance like "why don't they make music like this anymore" because they DO and it's one of the most creatively stagnant genres on earth (spoken with love in my heart for it)
all you need to make eurodance is one female vocalist (mediocre-to-incredible), one male vocalist who Cannot sing but can say shit like "I'm a sex king man with a party plan / international nation hand in hand" in a deep voice, and an apartment somewhere in italy
I only just fucking put together why this post started getting notes again
kids these days don't know about Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men. they'll never understand
“The oldest olive tree in the world located on the island of Crete. It is estimated to be as over 3,000 years old and still produces olives.”
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gotta share @telesilla’s tags -
the world has ended so many times but the tree is still here and so are we
what was i made for?
“ophelia” by john everett millais but it’s barbie and for the sake of this concept let’s pretend that there is in fact water in barbieland