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crazyshitisay: pyro-lover: When you attend school you are technically in story mode but once you...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:27:39 -0400

pyro-lover:

When you attend school you are technically in story mode but once you graduate your life turns into an open world game with just side quests here and there.

sevey6: tendous-satoris: Me: I love strategy/tactical RPGs! Me, playing such a video game: My...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:11:08 -0400

sevey6:

tendous-satoris:

Me: I love strategy/tactical RPGs!

Me, playing such a video game: My strategy is to be physically stronger than my enemy. My tactic is to hit them really really hard.

You A Fool: You’ve got to time your attacks, know when to dodge and use health items intetmittently.

Me, A Genius: keep attacking constantly… no breaks…no health… only win.

smartass-stripper: khazzman: penny-anna: sainatsukino: linguisticparadox: audreycritter: whets...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:54:40 -0400

smartass-stripper:

khazzman:

penny-anna:

sainatsukino:

linguisticparadox:

audreycritter:

whetstonefires:

whetstonefires:

tiny-smol-beastie:

reformedkingsmanagent:

wizard-guff:

storywonker:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

Legolas pretty quickly gets in the habit of venting about his travelling companions in Elvish, so long as Gandalf & Aragorn aren’t in earshot they’ll never know right?

Then about a week into their journey like

Legolas: *in Elvish, for approximately the 20th time* ugh fucking hobbits, so annoying

Frodo: *also in Elvish, deadpan* yeah we’re the worst

Legolas:

~*~earlier~*~

Legolas: ugh fucking hobbits

Merry: Frodo what’d he say

Frodo: I’m not sure he speaks a weird dialect but I think he’s insulting us. I should tell him I can understand Elvish

Merry: I mean you could do that but consider

Merry: you can only tell him ONCE

Frodo: Merry. You’re absolutely right. I’ll wait.

#legolas’ hick accent vs #frodo’s ‘i learned it out of a book’ accent #FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

Legolas: umm well your accent is horrible

Aragorn: *hollering from a distance* HIS ACCENT IS BETTER THAN YOURS LEGOLAS YOU SILVAN HICK

Frodo: :)

Frodo: Hello. My name is Frodo. I am a Hobbit. How are you?

Legolas: y’alld’ve’ff’ve

Frodo, crying: please I can’t understand what you’r saying

Ok, but Frodo didn’t just learn out of a book. He learned like… Chaucerian Elvish. So actually:

Frodo: Good morrow to thee, frend. I hope we twain shalle bee moste excellente companions.

Legolas: Wots that mate? ‘Ere, you avin’ a giggle? Fookin’ ‘obbits, I sware.

Aragorn: *laughing too hard to walk*

@ghostriderofthearagon

dYinGggGggg…

i mean, honestly it’s amazing the Elves had as many languages and dialects as they did, considering Galadriel (for example) is over seven thousand years old.

english would probably have changed less since Chaucer’s time, if a lot of our cultural leaders from the thirteenth century were still alive and running things.

they’ve had like. seven generations since the sun happened, max. frodo’s books are old to him, but outside any very old poetry copied down exactly, the dialect represented in them isn’t likely to be older than the Second Age, wherein Aragorn’s foster-father Elrond started out as a very young adult and grew into himself, and Legolas’ father was born.

so like, three to six thousand years old, maybe, which is probably a drop in the bucket of Elvish history judging by all the ethnic differentiation that had time to develop before Ungoliant came along, even if we can’t really tell because there weren’t years to count, before the Trees were destroyed.

plus a lot of Bilbo’s materials were probably directly from Elrond, whose library dates largely from the Third Age, probably, because he didn’t establish Imladris until after the Last Alliance. and Elrond isn’t the type to intentionally help Bilbo learn the wrong dialect and sound sillier than can be helped, even if everyone was humoring him more than a little.

so Frodo might sound hilariously formal for conversational use (though considering how most Elves use Westron he’s probably safe there) and kind of old-fashioned, but he’s not in any danger of being incomprehensible, because elves live on such a ridiculous timescale.

to over-analyse this awesome and hilarious post even more, legolas’ grandfather was from linguistically stubborn Doriath and their family is actually from a somewhat different, higher-status ethnic background than their subjects.

so depending on how much of a role Thranduil took in his upbringing (and Oropher in his), Legolas may have some weird stilted old-fashioned speaking tics in his Sindarin that reflect a more purely Doriathrin dialect rather than the Doriathrin-influenced Western Sindarin that became the most widely spoken Sindarin long before he was born, or he might have a School Voice from having been taught how to Speak Proper and then lapse into really obscure colloquial Avari dialect when he’s being casual. or both!

considering legolas’ moderately complicated political position, i expect he can code-switch.

…it’s also fairly likely considering the linguistic politics involved that Legolas is reasonably articulate in Sindarin, though with some level of accent, but knows approximately zero Quenya outside of loanwords into Sindarin, and even those he mostly didn’t learn as a kid.

which would be extra hilarious when he and gimli fetch up in Valinor in his little homemade skiff, if the first elves he meets have never been to Middle Earth and they’re just standing there on the beach reduced to miming about what is the short beard person, and who are you, and why.

this is elvish dialects and tolkien, okay. there’s a lot of canon material! he actually initially developed the history of middle-earth specifically to ground the linguistic development of the various Elvish languages!

Legolas: Alas, verily would I have dispatched thine enemy posthaste, but y’all’d’ve pitched a feckin’ fit.

Aragorn: *eyelid twitching*

Frodo: *frantically scribbling* Hang on which language are you even speaking right now

Pippin, confused: Is he not speaking Elvish?

Frodo, sarcastically: I dunno, are you speaking Hobbit?

Boromir, who has been lowkey pissed-off at the Hobbits’ weird dialect this whole time: That’s what it sounds like to me.

Merry, who actually knows some shit about Hobbit background: We are actually speaking multiple variants of the Shire dialect of Westron, you ignorant fuck.

Sam, a mere working-class country boy: Honestly y'all could be talkin Dwarvish half the time for all I know.

Pippin, entering Gondor and speaking to the castle steward: hey yo my man

Boromir, from beyond the grave: j e s u s

Literally canon

Gimli, in Khuzdul: This is why we don’t teach our language to fucking anybody.

Reblogging the other thread because I’m crying at ghost Boromir and I desperately need to believe Tolkien, as a linguist, would have laughed himself sick at all of these

acoolguy: iron man: holy shit we gotta beat thanos captain america: yeah we gotta beat thanos thor:...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 15:38:36 -0400

acoolguy:

iron man: holy shit we gotta beat thanos

captain america: yeah we gotta beat thanos

thor: guys we gotta beat thanos

the hulk: we have to beat thanos

winston: room for one more?

the avengers: holy shit winston

winston: overwatch

lord-kitschener: Amazing how many websites that refuse to block Nazi content (whether because of muh...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 14:22:07 -0400

lord-kitschener:

Amazing how many websites that refuse to block Nazi content (whether because of muh freeze peach or because it’s supposedly not manageable) find it easy and breezy as fuck to censor LGBT content/put it behind a “sensitive to the innocent children” wall

assnickles: friendshipboats: I’m all aglow and now I know CUTE...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 13:05:35 -0400

assnickles:

friendshipboats:

I’m all aglow and now I know

CUTE SHIT CUTE SHIT

shaiza: fishslave: april 2017, november 2017, june 2018...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:49:35 -0400

shaiza:

fishslave:

april 2017, november 2017, june 2018 🍑

Just gonna pick the lil bitch up then huh

pro-gay: catbountry: wanderingtycho: This is what Kurt Cobain...

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 10:33:04 -0400

pro-gay:

catbountry:

wanderingtycho:

This is what Kurt Cobain wanted.

He would fucking love this.

WHERE’S THE FULL VERSION OP

ahsadler:

Tue, 26 Jun 2018 09:16:33 -0400

ahsadler:

wakaflackalypse: classicalmonoblogue: bogleech: just-shower-thoughts: Willy Wonka sent out his...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 20:43:51 -0400

wakaflackalypse:

classicalmonoblogue:

bogleech:

just-shower-thoughts:

Willy Wonka sent out his chocolate bars worldwide, and 5 white kids (4 with first-world problems) still won.

To be fair, his goal was apparently to send a stern warning about the evils of entitlement by murdering them in ironic ways.

Also, the rich, spoiled, first world white kids aren’t presented in the story as having gotten the tickets by chance, the story is very clear that they and their families used their privilege and power to game the system - taking what was initially presented as a random selection and cheating by leveraging their disproportionate resources - wasting mountains of chocolate in pursuit of gold…

Willy Wonka and the Discourse Factoty

o-kau: what do other people have against subtitles? like bitch,.. my ears are Not Friends with my...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 19:27:46 -0400

o-kau:

what do other people have against subtitles? like bitch,.. my ears are Not Friends with my brain, let me have my captions

shingojira: hey whats up

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:11:15 -0400

shingojira:

hey whats

up

babashookbitch: rexkataki: babashookbitch: rexkataki: bab...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 16:54:46 -0400

babashookbitch:

rexkataki:

babashookbitch:

rexkataki:

babashookbitch:

rexkataki:

babashookbitch:

rexkataki:

babashookbitch:

treefrogsoup:

okay, as a straight guy I have a complaint

So what do you call a group of women?

Friends

Then why are a group of men a threat? A group of women can be a threat if they wanted to

The difference is that women have to want to be a threat to be one whereas men just be like that

Not all men are like that

And not all bacteria are pathogenic but we still wash our hands out of fear of the ones that are so what’s your point?

My point is if you make men always seen as a villain then some of them will be the villain out of anger

Sounds like a poor way to make people think they’re not a threat. Glad to know men are perpetuating their own stereotype.

homiedepot: melymbrosia: Why would u celebrate ur child being...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 15:38:42 -0400

homiedepot:

melymbrosia:

Why would u celebrate ur child being a Gemini

Not a celebration, a warning

theparadoxspace: steam summer sale mood

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 14:22:12 -0400

theparadoxspace:

steam summer sale mood

mjm-hetaturtle: one-time-i-dreamt: The tumblr app updated and the logo was every post in one photo...

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 13:05:41 -0400

mjm-hetaturtle:

one-time-i-dreamt:

The tumblr app updated and the logo was every post in one photo inside the “t” and staff refused to explain why they did it or how they collected every post on the site to layer them. People were confused and complaining so staff finally shut down the site.

That is not a dream, that’s a prophecy

invaderperidot: babelady: when that seasonal depression hit someone add a pic im on mobile

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:49:15 -0400

invaderperidot:

babelady:

when that seasonal depression hit someone add a pic im on mobile

beautyyytime: Why one eyebrow always comin out Gucci and the other eyebrow comin out Walmart

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:33:11 -0400

beautyyytime:

Why one eyebrow always comin out Gucci and the other eyebrow comin out Walmart

evikholin: brain: u gotta be… The Best™ me: ok so we’ll work hard then? brain: no work… only Best.

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 09:16:39 -0400

evikholin:

brain: u gotta be… The Best™

me: ok so we’ll work hard then?

brain: no work… only Best.

artist-ernst: Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, Max...

Sun, 24 Jun 2018 20:43:48 -0400

artist-ernst:

Illustration to “A Week of Kindness”, Max Ernst
Medium: collage,paper