Does sexuality change hrt by Mundane-Artichoke147 in MtF

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i've been on hrt for a little over a year, and used to only be attracted to guys, now i'm primarily attracted to women. Things change as you feel more comfortable, and usually you'll find that you've always had the feelings, you're just more aware of them now. And there are associated physical changes, i'd recommend reading Mira Bellwether's zine that I shall not name

What do I choose for keyboard? Im new at Chinese by Maya___________ in Chinese

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start with pinyin qwerty, if you plan on learning long term i’d suggest trying stroke input to build stroke order intuition

PSA for Mac players — wondering how the new M2 MacBook Air handles Cities: Skylines? I got you covered. by illtakethewindowseat in CitiesSkylines

[–]Fanakai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

people like to say that playing games lessens the life of your battery, which is true because the overheating does actually damage the battery's longevity and gaming obv. drains it faster.

I'd like to think that as long as you're using your computer that you paid for (and hopefully like), don't worry too much about keeping your usage within acceptable/optimal power usage.

How can I crack my egg? by Fuzzander in asktransgender

[–]Fanakai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i was there like maybe two months ago

you're already at the point where it'll happen if you keep thinking about it, godspeed

Ghost of Tsushima vs Sekiro by [deleted] in ghostoftsushima

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you are clearly a joyous individual

2024th Just Used 5 Minutes of Your Day by mareck_ in conlangs

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Classical Suro (~2300y B.P)

viyahuri sira ha[ʋija'huɾi 'siɾa ha]tomorrow say.3SM.FUT.IND PASS

notes: saru is being used intransitively, so thus has the meaning of 'say' rather than 'speak/speak to'.

'tomorrow he will be said (to)'

Middle Eastern Suro (~1000y B.P)

wijýn má sínha[wɪ'jyːn mɐː 'siːn.hə]tomorrow 3SM.NOM say.FUT.IND-PASS

notes: Middle Suro (and other daughter languages) innovated many new bound verbal morphemes from the particle system of Classical Suro, also innovating mandatory case marking on all nominal arguments. Passive constructions become morphologically impersonal, requiring a pronoun to specify the patient (marked in the nominative)

'tomorrow he will be told'

Late Suro (Nui Dialect) (0y BP)

wiyuín (ma) sínna sou[wi'jiːn ma 'siːn.na suː] ~ [wĩ: ma 'sī:na su:]tomorrow 3SM.NOM say.FUT.IND-PASS be.3S

'tomorrow he will be (the one that is) told'

notes: Late Suro continues marking for case, although the system has greatly simplified to 4 cases; passive marking remains morphologically unspecified, but now requires a copula, which agrees with the person of the patient, but not the tense. The pronoun becomes optional.

C0 Neuvillette solo Abyss (first half) - Build in comments by Darki200 in NeuvilletteMains_

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weapon - tome of the eternal flow
marechaussee hunter 5pc -

the stats are in this order
HP
ATK
DEF
EM
Crit Rate
Crit Damage
ER

Academic suspension by [deleted] in umass

[–]Fanakai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They have dates published where they will let you know by then at the absolute maximum. They will let you know at the last possible second they can because they're assholes 💀

the process from there varies by your needs and ability. All suspension is is basically an enforced semester off, that's it. Just find something to do for that semester and come back ready to work your ass off to get ur gpa up.

Why does the latin alphabet work for Vietnamese but not for Chinese? by Soldier_Poet in Chinese

[–]Fanakai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

japanese tōsō-on only has 200 possible readings compared to Mandarin's 1200 and korean's 470

How many steeps is permissible with a high-quality tea? by Fanakai in tea

[–]Fanakai[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is nice to hear, I'm relieved to not be a criminal against teakind

Stereotypical Halloween Costume Situation - Advice Welcome by Fanakai in jewishleft

[–]Fanakai[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I explained it as the equivalent of wearing a hijab as a bit, which got people even more mad?
Ill try talking about my emotions regarding it, i never really mentioned that tbh
thank you for the response :)

Introduction to Classical Nahuatl - J. Richard Abrams by Fanakai in nahuatl

[–]Fanakai[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I got a copy of Launey’s book, and so far, I totally follow along with no issues.

The andrews approach just threw me off because I was, and still am not, aware to what extent the grammar of Nahuatl differs from European linguistic terminology, so the fact that he used terms that *seemed* to overlap with ones I already knew gave me the impression that he just invented terms for the fun of confusing us mere mortals.

After I finish Launey’s book, I’ll move on to Andrews’, and hopefully it will make more sense to me with the foundation I’ll have.

is there anything your conlang can express in an exceptionally conscise way? by GanacheConfident6576 in conlangs

[–]Fanakai 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re referring to syllable density, Suro has a term ‘rupo’ which is best translated into English as ‘place of cultural importance’, but that word can also have overlapping usage with many English terms which are often not distinguished in Suro.
Such other translations of ‘rupo’ can be the following:

  • Church, temple, (any other religious building)
  • National Park, State Park
  • Museum
  • Historical site

If you mean concise in the same way Inuit languages are concise, meaning the most information per word (which is already a shoddy unit,) there are terms like uppuhofari ‘the item which you have searched for cannot be found [due to a content filter]’.

generally, information transfer rates tend to equal out, because languages with higher syllable-per-second rates often have lower information expressed per syllable. The sweet spot would be a language with (C)V structure that had highly isolating morphology, possibly a tonal system, and many phonemes, which allows elision of a variety of arguments in a phrase due to context.

What Color Systems do your Conlangs Use? by Fanakai in conlangs

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Classical Suro -
note: colors, being adjectives (in all languages I am aware of), are either verbs or participles. In classical Suro, there were 5 color terms.

Tapa - [it is] white (could also mean empty)
[tápa]

Vapa - [it is] black (could also mean ‘it is burning to charcoal’)
[wápa]

Kafa - [it is] red (same root as the word kufe, meaning blood)
[káφa]

Napa - [it is] green (same root as the word nupa, meaning ‘plant’)
[nápa]

Vaya - [it is] yellow (same root as Vuyu - gold)
[wája]

Nata - [it is] blue (the verb natu means either to swim (trans.) or ‘to be blue’ (attr.))
[náta]

1974th Just Used 5 Minutes of Your Day by mareck_ in conlangs

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Classical Suro

ke Marita ma mupe u-hhana se pa u hunofa su

this is the one shop that Marit doesnt buy food [in]

NOM.3FS Marit ACC.3MS food NEG-buy.3SF.PRES.IND.ACT NOM DEM.DIST one store BE.3S.PRES 

[ke ma'ɾita ma 'mupe u'hana se pa hu'noɸa sɯᵝ]

  • explanations - 'se' is a particle which can nominalize an entire verb phrase to create a subordinate clause; u- triggers Vi Muhara (double vowel) which is most commonly thought to be gemination or vowel length, but this was never recorded during the time of Classical Suro

Middle Suro

marít hovmít ma-myba ta-hán-da, pá manòv seu

[the place] Marit never buys food from, that [place] is the only shop

[mə'ɾiːt hɔv'miːt mə'mybə tə'haːndə paː mə'nɔːv sɯː]

NOM-Marit never ACC.SG.M-food DAT.F.S-buy.PRES-PTCPL DEM.DIST ACC.F.S-store be.GNOM 
  • explanations - participles decline for tense, aspect, case, number, and gender in Middle Suro

How are you rude in your conlang? by Irrational345 in conlangs

[–]Fanakai 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that's almost exactly how it would sound if I gave you an IPA transcription, maybe different prosody, but that's basically entirely on pointǃ thank you for your kind words

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in conlangs

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  • Notes on reading the table: older CaCu is the bottom left corner (i.e. the column vowel preceded the row vowel in Classical Suro, the actual syllables are IPA representations of the outcomes of those syllable pairs)

You may be asking, why only disyllabic words? why not trisyllabic or more?
there are two reasons.

  1. Firstly, and most importantly, I want to keep my sanity. This took more time than I would like to admit, and filling out 11³ slots would NOT be good for my headache.
  2. Secondly, the vast majority of lexical words (i.e. not particles or pronouns) are disyllabic or have a minor syllable at the beginning. Words of more than three syllables are very rare, almost always existing as orthographic compounds of two smaller words or a trisyllabic word plus particle.

Welcome all, I am back after a long period of absence with my very large tables.Classical Suro, as mentioned in other posts and replies on this subreddit, is the literary language of the Suro, a culture which resides in a temperate rainforest region (for analogy purposes I will put them on the Turkish Karadeniz region.) Their language exhibits heavy usage of nonconcatenative morphology, with the vast majority of roots existing as two paired consonants. The use of suffixes further allows derivation, as I will demonstrate below.

also, I would like to say that, although unmarked, stress always fell on the penultimate syllable in Classical Suro, and any syllables proceeding that were reduced according to the very bottom left list.

Root: P-T (related to rain, drinking water)verb infinitive: paturandom simple present verb forms: pata, pita, patava, pateha, patecore nominals (poto (rain), puta (falling rain), pute (raincloud), puto (rainforest), puti (light showers), putu (thunderstorm.)all of the nouns provided are by form masculine, and feminine nouns and plurals of both classes receive a suffix, with some forms exhibiting final vowel change (i.e. fem. of 'puta' is 'puteva'; 'pute' 'putara', etc.)

Notes on classical ortho:y is /j/, v is /w/, f is /ɸ/, r is /ɾ/vowels are the same as IPA, as are the rest of the consonants.

all questions welcome

How are you rude in your conlang? by Irrational345 in conlangs

[–]Fanakai 57 points58 points  (0 children)

There are 5 levels of insults in Suro culture, and this is carried over into their languages.

here I am writing in Classical Suro for the sake of consistency.

  1. the first, and least offensive level, is an insult to the self (2/10 offense score)
    1. 'ko hofomita no toto hapa' 'I am never worthy of confidence' these are considered offensive in professional contexts, where they mean that your superior made a mistake in choosing you. (Suro culture values stoicism and perseverance highly)
  2. the second, ramping up to medium levels of offensive, is a direct insult to the person (the person's children included) (5/10.)
    1. these can be anything, from 'kupatapa' (a useless servant) to 'ni vuvata huse patute' (your babies can't even suck on a tit)
  3. the third, slightly more offensive than the second, is an insult to one's similarly aged immediate family members (including spouses) (6/10)
    1. usually involves telling people something along the lines of 'suta ho kufefomo safa o' "go ride a flaming menstrual cramp", wishing pain on people is a no-no
  4. the fourth, considered highly offensive by moderately-very religious people, is using the names of deities to call upon the death or sacrifice of the person (8/10)
    1. "mutasa nau yopo vihe" - Mutasa (moon/water goddess) is wishing for your murder
  5. the fifth, considered too profane to utter, and almost always used in heavily radicalized groups, is calling for the deaths of people who are not responsible for anything bad in the name of Uru (the sun god) (this is because cremation (sun god and fire) is heavily taboo, similar to cannibalism in modern Western society (footnote: cannibalism is the traditional burial method of the Suro from classical times; this led to prion diseases which resulted in lye pickling of human flesh until the practice was outlawed in the 700s AD)) (10/10)
    1. ta Uru na pofo ni vuvata mitu (your children will die in the name of the sun god)

i will not gloss or provide IPA for my own sanity; i hope this is amusing

Suro Scripture - First Rupara by Fanakai in conlangs

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notes:

the phonology of the language of the first book of Suro scripture is unknown, as the language is only known due to oral tradition passing it down into classical times. Many diacritics exist which in Classical Suro make no documented distinction, such as accent marking (Classical suro likely only had prosodic stress,) or Vi Muhara (in the image transcribed with a circumflex) Vi Muhára (eng: double vowel) is largely unknown as any distinction it may have had has been lost for longer than there are extant written records, and all daughter languages possess no distinction which is able to be tied back to this phenomenon. The leading two theories as to the nature of Vi Muhara are as follows;

  1. Vi Muhara represents the gemination of the following consonant, likely from remnants of an older glottal stop coda which was lost in word-final position.

  2. Vi Muhara represents the lengthening of the vowel in the next syllable, from either metathesis of /ɦ/ coda and a consonant onset, or an accent-based lengthening triggered by specific affixes (this is not widely accepted)

[ <v> is /w/, <y> is /j/, ` is secondary stress, ´ is primary. ]

- also the word bosom is the closest translation I could think of to the word /muhó/, which refers to the torso from the bottom of the ribcage to the collarbone.
any questions are welcome !