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Do not invoke me unless you can master the shape of my name.
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Mindscapes - Otherworldly Incantations
~:David J. Peterson's Web Thing
<aside> 💡 Latin transliteration Main article: Malé Latin
Towards the mid-1970s, during President Ibrahim Nasir's tenure, the Maldivian government introduced telex machines in the local administration. This was viewed as great progress, but the local Thaana script was deemed to be an obstacle because messages on the telex machines could only be written in the Latin script.
Following this, in 1976 the government approved a new official Latin transliteration, Dhivehi Latin, which was quickly implemented by the administration. Booklets were printed and dispatched to all Atoll and Island Offices, as well as schools and merchant liners. This was seen by many as the effective demise of the Thaana script. Clarence Maloney, an American anthropologist who was in the Maldives at the time of the change, lamented the inconsistencies of the "Dhivehi Latin" which ignored all previous linguistic research on the Maldivian language done by H.C.P. Bell and Wilhelm Geiger. He wondered why the modern Standard Indic transliteration had not been considered. Standard Indic is a consistent script system that is well adapted to writing practically all languages of South Asia.
The government reinstated the Thaana script shortly after President Maumoon took power in 1978. There was widespread relief in certain places, especially rural areas, where the introduction of Latin had been regarded with suspicion. However, the Latin transcription of 1976 continues to be widely used.
Maldivian language - Wikipedia
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<aside> 💡 The Punjabi language is written in multiple scripts (a phenomenon known as synchronic digraphia). Each of the major scripts currently in use is typically associated with a particular religious group, although the association is not absolute or exclusive. In India, Punjabi Sikhs use Gurmukhi, a script of the Brahmic family, which has official status in the state of Punjab. In Pakistan, Punjabi Muslims use Shahmukhi, a variant of the Perso-Arabic script and closely related to the Urdu alphabet. The Punjabi Hindus in India had a preference for Devanagari, another Brahmic script also used for Hindi, and in the first decades since independence raised objections to the uniform adoption of Gurmukhi in the state of Punjab, but most have now switched to Gurmukhi and so the use of Devanagari is rare. Often in literature, Pakistani Punjabi (written in Shahmukhi) is referred as Western-Punjabi (or West-Punjabi) and Indian Punjabi (written in Gurmukhi) is referred as Eastern-Punjabi (or East-Punjabi), although the underlying language is the same with a very slight shift in vocabulary towards Islamic and Sikh words respectively.
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Heaven Gaia Spring/Summer 2022
<aside> 💡 In Francoist Spain, Basque language use was affected by the government's repressive policies. In the Basque Country, "Francoist repression was not only political, but also linguistic and cultural." The regime placed legal restrictions on the use of language, which was suppressed from official discourse, education, and publishing, making it illegal to register new-born babies under Basque names, and even requiring tombstone engravings in Basque to be removed. In some provinces, the public use of the language was suppressed, with people fined for speaking Basque. Public use of Basque was frowned upon by supporters of the regime, often regarded as a sign of anti-Francoism or separatism. Overall, in the 1960s and later, the trend reversed and education and publishing in Basque began to flourish. As a part of this process, a standardised form of the Basque language, called Euskara Batua, was developed by the Euskaltzaindia in the late 1960s.
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Understanding Railroad Signals
Railway signalling - Wikipedia
a Guide to Unusual Railroad Signal Styles
The revolution will be translated
Ao no Exorcist (Blue Exorcist) Movie: Directed by Atsushi Takahashi, Art Directed by Shinji Kimura (Tekkonkinkreet). Created by A-1 Pictures.
<aside> 💡 The Tocharian (sometimes Tokharian) languages (/təˈkɛəriən/ or /təˈkɑːriən/), also known as Arśi-Kuči, Agnean-Kuchean or Kuchean-Agnean, are an extinct branch of the Indo-European language family spoken by inhabitants of the Tarim Basin, the Tocharians. They are known from manuscripts dating from the 5th to the 8th century AD, which were found in oasis cities on the northern edge of the Tarim Basin (now part of Xinjiang in northwest China) and the Lop Desert. The discovery of this language family in the early 20th century contradicted the formerly prevalent idea of an east–west division of the Indo-European language family on the centum–satem isogloss, and prompted reinvigorated study of the family.
Tocharian languages - Wikipedia
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From the screenplay for *Sorry to Bother You* (2018)
https://twitter.com/weredawgz/status/1467390860555952131?s=21
Ignoring Genocide (HRW Report - Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda, March 1999)
Chinese honorifics - Wikipedia
Qunari Horns by Valhallan (part 2)
the Grotto (@randommandelbot, July 11, 2022)
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<aside> 💡 - æther as inverse of gleaming: portable juice instead of needing to be plugged in to access qi
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<aside> 💡 - the taste of a language
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<aside> 💡 - bunch of villages separated by geographical features like mountains, forests, rivers each with their own dialect
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<aside> 💡 Tropes to include
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<aside> 💡 wheelchair-using mermaid?
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<aside> 💡 dom as bodyguard? who speaks a language that is being targeted? witnesses when iboshi’s family’s tongue is slain, does he leave? or continue to stay loyal? he must always have the agency and liberty to leave
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<aside> 💡 “throne” with xùyào bringing up the rear of the palanquin and foiling an attack with the flag he’s bearing that turns out to also be a sword
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<aside> 💡 diesel—fire piston—compression—ignition—similar concept for language—compress into extremely dense song information that can be hidden in non-language areas of brain—potentially copy into a fire piston vial with carrier fuel or fluid like æthergen—but potentially fragile?
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https://twitter.com/sqiouyilu/status/1506901327812567041?s=21
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<aside> 💡 aethergen as inorganic pava gleaming synthetic
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<aside> 💡 - what if chinese were the written language of the internet and technology?
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<aside> 💡 - create new chinese character like 舌+蛇=舌它 as the magic for making a fake language or something
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<aside> 💡 iboshi takes her family’s language but leaves hers
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<aside> 💡 anima research ether
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<aside> 💡 käntu and ahosabai going into imperial palace? do they confront iboshi? DO THEY GO ON A ZEPPELIN???
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<aside> 💡 languages are associated with kin, but they aren’t 1:1, and kin all have various languages and degrees of fluency; avoid essentializing
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<aside> 💡 ahosabai experiencing sub drop?
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<aside> 💡 masculinity as a discrete entity to be respected — even if someone doesn’t understand it
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<aside> 💡 sign language during oral sex while mouth is… occupied
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<aside> 💡 music as compression of feeling and metalingüística (stet autocorrect) information, the instant of an entire memory and cascade triggers coming from one song for example, music and art as vectors for language
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<aside> 💡 kin not species or races
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<aside> 💡 - sign languages need to exist and be represented in the repository
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<aside> 💡 kissing with tongue, ahosabai and käntu making up their own mutually intelligible language or code to deceive tongueslayers by pretending there’s a real language there
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<aside> 💡 D/s between ahosabai and käntu, ahosabai feels tension but comes to the point where an individual is still an individual and while käntu is affiliated with empire, he is not only empire, and as an individual there is still that level of relationship, so the submission might not always have to have Bigger Implications
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<aside> 💡 sign languages
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<aside> 💡 city of industry strip with train through
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<aside> 💡 Storing imprints
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<aside> 💡 refraction as worldbuilding process
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<aside> 💡 linguistics is a humanity pretending to be a science
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<aside> 💡 sound as physical sensation / immersion in loud sounds—like being inside a gong / voice and vibration—sexual, sensual, carnal, spiritual
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<aside> 💡 D/s and empire — power on micro and macro levels — understanding the nature of power and exchanging it — underscores iboshi’s cruelty about how her power must be negotiated but the masses’ can be taken — ahosabai seeing power can be entrusted to someone
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<aside> 💡 iboshi: oh, now you care? now you have a code, ethics—only when it becomes personal? amardeep: clenches hands and jaw silently
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<aside> 💡 instead of language hacking, shifting language to a different part of the brain for safekeeping? like turning it into music so it’s not recognized as language to be destroyed
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https://twitter.com/sqiouyilu/status/1506373847209021440?s=21
<aside> 💡 - so your language tastes like bitterness and shame
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<aside> 💡 not erase a language but scramble or corrupt it so it can’t be used and can’t be relearned
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<aside> 💡 retrofuture? the gleaming in here is called the ether, and when they’re plugged in it’s the ethernet, very advanced internet with retro tech
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<aside> 💡 ahosabai as having super masculine inner energy while otherwise being femme and käntu being masculine but with big feminine aura
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<aside> 💡 lang hacker can’t read or is strongly dyslexic?? language as spoken
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<aside> 💡 - the ruler commanding for language annihilation whose own family speaks a targeted language / LKY / brutally pragmatic / named Iboshi?
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<aside> 💡 käntu as shy/meek but when in dom mode can be deliciously brutal
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<aside> 💡 Ahosabai as railroad worker? open with ahosabai speaking like three or more languages on a daily basis and noticing the entrance of palatinos into the region, esp infrastructure - include a sign language, very useful for loud work sites
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<aside> 💡 retrofuture aesthetic? like they’re cavalry riding horses but they’re mecha horses
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<aside> 💡 speaking not just languages like tongues but love languages
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<aside> 💡 breathplay but instead of choking it’s domming you into deep breathing through e v e r y sensation
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<aside> 💡 or highly industrialized but with a lot of things like magic shops, TCM, etc
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<aside> 💡 losing language like TOKiMONSTA? then regaining it?
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<aside> 💡 meaning is created, not found—positivity and hope in existential nihilism
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<aside> 💡 language copy encoded in song, safely in another part of the brain—study aphasia
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<aside> 💡 ahosabai with same aversion as me to singing or hearing singing despite music love—scene with käntu singing to ahosabai and THE INTIMACY!!!!!!!!
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<aside> 💡 writing about shared air in the pandemic feels like the ultimate body horror but somehow, it just feels right to lean in to the squick
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<aside> 💡 just use hanzi. integrate it, make iboshi impose simplification to remove semantics and cultural connection. sure, it improves literacy. but it makes ahosabai’s use of traditional/unsimplified more subversive. iboshi’s language policy a combo of colonial english and imperial and colonial chinese
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<aside> 💡 genetics are not understood in aurei. everything is based on a social understanding of kin, including things like evolution
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<aside> 💡 people have to continue to dream in order for there to be a future at all
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