The-antihero-of-the-story - 「ᴀɴᴛɪʜᴇʀø」

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last night i dreamt tumblr added like a billion buttons to the mobile app so instead of this

we got this

and everyone just rolled with it but sometimes the wide naruto got too wide and blocked off all the other buttons and people would just post "got naruto'd again :/" and the only way to reset him was to log out and log back in

Violence isn't the answer. Violence is a question, and the answer is "yes."

Charles, Kerls & churls

English has the word churl, meaning 'rude, ill-bred, boorish person'. This word is not only related to German Kerl and Dutch kerel ('guy; dude') but also to the name Charles. Carolus, the Latin ancestor of Charles, was borrowed from a Germanic word meaning 'freeman', a variant of which became English churl. Click the graphic for more.

Like I said in my previous post, I just started making pixel art a few days ago, and here is what I did in those days. I take advice and constructive criticism because I know that will be super helpful, especially as I'm just starting.

First one: Some donuts I made when watching a YouTube tutorial about how to use aseprite.

Second one: A coin I made in a few minutes (I couldn't find the colour I wanted so I just gave up on that and did whatever).

Third one: A viny pumpkin

Fourth one: a chocolate cinnamon roll

ngl, schwa is actually kinda mid.

tone tags are such an interesting phenomenon linguistically. bc they're of course intended to add clarity to text communication, in a way that's more explicit than nonverbal signals, but they're also more removed from the message than verbal signals are -- arguably more removed than nonverbal signals are too, bc they're so constructed.

and that distance gets in the way of efficacy, from my perspective -- like there's a reason we spontaneously developed emoticons extremely early on in the internet days (and eventually latched onto emojis so hard), and ~*~wAyS tO eVOkE tOnE~*~, and the ones that caught on are the iconic [in the linguistic sense, ie resembling the concepts they evoke] ones bc they can be guessed.

and i think there's also a reason that when speaking out loud we don't just say what we want to say and then add "genuine" or "not mean" at the end as if speaking it makes it so -- we use full sentences like "I'm really not trying to be mean here." that's the part that really interests me, the abstraction of concepts that have never been just about tone, have always needed carefully chosen words to be expressed at least sometimes. that's where i think tone tags are distinctly less effective than just writing out the sentence for someone to read as part of the message and not as an abstracted layer on top of the message. (whereas with stuff like /lh for lighthearted i kinda get it -- i still find a well-chosen emoticon or emoji does a much better job at making me read a message in a lighthearted tone, but i get the desire to be explicit.)

ik this reads like a critique even though i started out saying it was just interesting, and idk it's both. i think the desire to implement a completely explicit tone layer on top of messages is fascinating, and i think its failure states are also fascinating, and im not about to grump at people for using an imperfect tool bc they're all imperfect.

Typology Tuesday #1

Warman, a Torricelli language spoken along the Sepik River has a typologically unique conjunctive structure. 'and' is a verb in the language, where it agrees to the coordinands

This unique system is also seen in the related language Yeri

What's pretty weird about this is that this is seldom talked about, cause most languages either employ a noninflecting particle as a coordinating structure.

Wahoo