Guilt, loneliness and depression walk into a bar..

ao3 is crazy because you'll read the most gut-wrenching 200k word slowburn that leaves you sobbing into your sweater at four in the morning and the author will be applejacksmonstercock

later you find out that applecock is like a) the nicest lady in the world, b) in her late fifties and c) is a well respected senior member of a career you didn't know existed like head mop taxonomist or chief piano refurbishment factor or secretary of racehorses and suddenly a few of the comments in the longest orgy scene are even funnier.

mutual did not see the post i reblogged specifically for them. 13 dead, 65 injured.

mutual reblogged the post i reblogged specifically for them from someone else. 78 dead, 1250 injured.

In Anglish, it can be hard to talk about science worldken, technology workingcraft, organization bookkeeping, and government lawcraft. It can be yet-harder to talk about tongues themselves, and the workings of them. The throughline is seen: The more unworldly a thing, the harder it is about which to talk. But the hardest...

The hardest thing about which to talk, is the thing done with ones and twos and so forth. Of putting them together, and all the other doings with them. As you see, I haven't even a word (yet!) for the kind of thing that ones and twos are.

i was gonna suggest "countings" maybe but oops thats from latin too :(

"tell" seems like it'd be too confusing

Little child! You think I didn't think of all the words like "count"!

But, yes, since we cannot "count", or "add", only togetherput, nor have we a word for that thingkind which we would togetherput... The odds are against us!

German for "number" is Zahl, and its English cognate is tale, which is attested as meaning "count", but that's not that different from tell. (Both of which, weirdly enough, are unrelated to tally. Too bad, because "tallying" would have worked pretty well.)

It doesn't wholly sate my whims, but "count" or "compute" might be "reckon." There is a great deal of overlap in meaning here with other everyday English words, but "reckon" is a little less everyday than most, and you could make it stand out a little bit with a following word like "up" (cf. "count up, add up") or "out" (cf. to "work something out"). One who counts or computes could be a "reckoner," which seems fair to me.

A "numeral" or a "number" is sometimes called a "figure" in English, which you could trace over as "shape." Or, if that's too like other words, mayhap you could do something with "mete" (as in "to measure"). "Meter," the French word for a oneness of length, is from Latin, but "a thing which measures" could still be a "meter" in English, without straying from wholly Theedish roots. Words like "lot, share, deal" also are the wordhoard of the kind of practical, everyday reckoncraft that the Angles and Saxons were broadly using, though mayhap they're not as workable for such an open thought as "a number."

Scorecraft (that is to say, "arithmetic") is likely going to always need a fairly basic wordhoard. But lots of reckoncraft takes everyday words in a new or narrow way, so maybe that's not so bad. One already speaks of "six times four" or "taking five from seven." One might just as well speak of "giving four to six" or "cutting twelve by two[s]." "Addition" could be just "giving" (though "putting together" truthfully works well too), "subtraction" be "taking" or "taking apart," "multiplication" be "timesing" and "dividing" be "cutting."

And one could raise four to the might of two to get sixteen, or get the third root of eight. (I don't know what the Anglish for "cube" or "square" would be; in Theedlandish a "triangle" is a "three-corner," so you might call a "square" a "four-corner," which would partially trace over the Latin word "square" is grounded on; but mayhap that's too hard to tell apart from "rectangle"). To carry over the words of calculus, perhaps one could look at Newton's "fluxions" and "flow"?

An "integer" could just be a "whole [number]" (shape, meter, etc), a "rational number" could be a "cuttable [number]", and a "real number" a "true number." An "irrational number" would then be an "uncuttable number," and an "imaginary number" mayhap a "dream number" or a "fake number."

To speak of tongues, it is clear that Anglish is a West-Thedish tongue.

It does not enfold its words much.

Its deedwords know only two times: the past, and the now. To speak of other times one must use helping deedwords such as "will", "shall", "have", or "going to" with the helping deedword folding, and the main deedword staying unfolded. When speaking of the now, deedwords take a following -s when the doer is the lone third man. When speaking of the past, the most deedwords take a following -ed, and do not show the doer. Other deedwords wander their selflouds in the past.

Its namewords know no kinds, and two reckonings: the lone, and the many. For most namewords the many is shown by an -s, but some others wander their selflouds instead.

Anglish has ruins of a birthing namefall, an -'s that shows that the earlier saying owns or births the following nameword. Unlike a true namefall, this 's sticks to a whole namesaying and not a specific nameword. That is, one says "the Queen of England's dog" and not *"the Queen's of England dog".

Anglish has fast wordrank. In most speeches, the doer comes first, then the deed, and only then the done.

In fraining, the wordrank wanders. If it has the words "who", "what", "where", "why", "when" (and so forth) they come first, then the helping deedword "do", the doer, the unfolded deed, and the done, leaving off any in whose stead the frainingword stands. In other frainings, the helping deedword "do" comes first, then the doer, the unfolded deed, and the done.

Anglish has a wealth of selflouds, and many withlouds too, some of which are seldom found, such as the two "th" withsounds made with the tongue and the teeth, one stevened, and one not.

I come here late with an offering for the riddle of ones and twos: name it twocraft. For, while the doings of ones and indeed *naughts* take up a main part of twocraft, do not we already, in twocraft, riddle men of *ones* and *naughts*? how could a man bespeak his fellows of more than *one* one, were he not riddling in twocraft?

twocraft also has the same wordmake as deercraft, for it is true that there are many deer in the world, and they take from and give to each other in twocraft ways.

This is so fucking funny

oh no the horrors-

wait hang on. it’s past 9 pm. false alarm, i cannot trust the horrors

HOW did this get ANY notes

My favourite rule is never trust anything you feel about your life after 9pm

London mutuals what is there to do that’s cheap and not alcohol based?

bongs at croydon

there’s a bloke at clappham common who will suck your dick for £4.50 hell even play with your balls for an extra quid

I have 0 desire to meet you let alone give you money

£3.50?

being on this app and also having a lot of bisexuals in your social circles will deadass make you forget 100% straight people actually exist sometimes

That does not deserve to hide in the tags

Two days ago my husband said "...and he was pissed" and I said "don't say that around the kids!" so he corrected himself to "and he was liquid angry" and I've been laughing since

He is an ungrateful man 😔

Don’t tell him I was weak.

'The machines we have now are not conscious', Lunch with the FT, Ted Chiang, by Madhumita Murgia, 3 June/4 June 2023

https://www.ft.com/content/c1f6d948-3dde-405f-924c-09cc0dcf8c84

Marge said trans rights

Silly phone, you're not detecting an analog audio accessory, you're detecting soup, from the bowl of soup I dropped you in.

I love this in every way possible. What is it from? Where can I read more?

The pitfalls of experimental archaeology and puppies.

link to source:

“Unraveling the Linothorax Mystery, or how Linen Armor Came to Dominate our Lives.”

https://jhupress.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/unraveling-the-linothorax-mystery-or-how-linen-armor-came-to-dominate-our-lives/

holy shit read the article. it’s short but wild

We found that even more of a threat than rain was one’s own sweat on a hot day. So, yes, it does need waterproofing, both inside and out. We did a number of experiments along those lines, and found that rubbing a block of beeswax over all sides of the armor provided nice waterproofing. It also makes the armor smell nice! When you wear it for a couple hours, your own body heat softens the glue a bit and makes it conform to your body shape, so it is much more comfortable to wear than rigid types of armor. Our reconstructions weighed about 10 pounds–about one third the weight of bronze armor that would provide the same degree of protection.

Honey i gotta go to war… not to smell my bee armor or hang with the boys or anything no.. uhh we need to uh do war things?

#i've definitely read this before and i've probably reblogged it before but like.#no one in this thread is mentioning that they actually shot someone with an actual arrow in this armor.#they were like 'we've got to test this in practice' and instead of getting a mannequin or something they had an actual person wear it.

They what?

from the article:

a good life-size mannequin is expensive but i guarantee it would've cost way less than they were spending on all that linen.

Academics are just like that.

sometimes i say things on twitter and then make a little graph about it

what does this mean

moot what does this mean

minimum wage needs to be $1000 an hour. rent needs to be $10. groceries need to be $2 total. and i need a back massage that ends in me getting my back blown the Hell out

the best kind of media is when it’s so terrible and/or all over the place that it accidentally births really compelling characters and narrative points. it fucks severely.

At 2 a.m., a homeless cop was caught collecting bottles !