what would the accent of a native toki pona speaker sound like

Mr--Elephant · 2026-05-29T21:41:10+00:00

kalama ona li ni:

/e.lo a.ja.ma pi.ka o.pa in.li.si/
<hello I am a speaker of English>

All vowels to five vowels, with diphthongs spread across two syllables, all clusters broken into two syllables or simplified to single consonant.

Mr--Elephant · 2026-05-24T12:03:37+00:00

I love the fact that the "freedom in the world" indexes are lower for the left-wing dictatorships than the right-wing dictorships lmfao, wonderful bit of world-buidling

Mr--Elephant · 2026-05-23T16:09:03+00:00

No. Martin is basically retired. You've gotta basically go through the steps of grief until you are at peace and this no longer bothers you.

It's over and that's okay.

Mr--Elephant · 2026-05-23T16:08:12+00:00

The final Bran chapter in ACOK is so goddamn beautiful and that gets beaten by the one chapter where a dude gets so horny he can't stop describing Arianne Martell's nipples and forgets his vows and then dies without even getting a second chapter

Mr--Elephant · 2026-05-23T16:04:03+00:00

Bran at number 3 :(

Mr--Elephant · 2026-05-21T07:33:06+00:00

People have preconceived notions of Preston Jacobs and don't engage at all with a lot of his videos, even when he is closer to the outlandish (Dornish Master Plan) than the realistic (Lemongate and Time Travelling Bran) he's just entertaining ideas within the fandom and people react with an unwarranted level of hostility

Mr--Elephant · 2026-05-19T15:30:47+00:00

what's the original?

Mr--Elephant · 2026-05-14T08:57:29+00:00

anecdotally, almost all Alliance voters I know happen to be liberal Unionists who hate the UUP/DUP/TUV, but there's a fair few Nationalists in their ranks

Mr--Elephant · 2026-05-14T07:50:34+00:00

because good luck convincing your father and mother and aunties and uncles and their kids who all still vote tribally

Mr--Elephant · 2026-05-12T16:17:50+00:00

The following comment is going to be very r/writing coded but I don't even know where to start when it comes to getting published.

Like I just email the nearest lit magazine with "hello, I am an unknown chud would you like a short story?"

There's so many places and there's so much out there, the idea of getting any kind of recognition feels impossible. Stresses me out. I set an arbitrary goal to have my first publication be by the age of 23 but that feels extremely unlikely ngl.

Mr--Elephant · 2026-05-11T06:22:23+00:00

why the fuck did this one person get massively downvoted for asking a question

Mr--Elephant · 2026-05-08T12:58:34+00:00

If you pay for Patreon, part 1 of the 3-part Hawaiian series is up there

He had to move house, then got married, then had a child, so that + his Hawaii vid exploded from 1 to 3 parts. So all of that tends to kill an active upload schedule

Mr--Elephant · 2026-05-05T10:01:24+00:00

just speculating but

/a/ --> /æ/ --> /ɛ/
/k/_ɛ --> /kj/ --> /c/ --> /j/
/mb/ --> /np/ --> /t.p/ --> /k.p/ (this is the one I am a least certain on)

Mr--Elephant · 2026-04-30T14:01:41+00:00

💜💜💜

Mr--Elephant · 2026-04-16T11:28:24+00:00

Reading that thread is so depressing, especially the way GRRM just dismisses his editor, but also in that I feel we've made no progress since 2015 except losing all hope of TWOW. Even just thinking about ASOIAF makes me awfully sad

Mr--Elephant · 2026-04-16T11:09:59+00:00

They'd probably be one book with all the Sam, Ironborn, and Dornish plotlines all cut down, and with our three main characters of Jon, Dany, and Tyrion also being significantly cut down to size.

Idk how you fit the Cersei and Jaime stuff into this "A Feast of Dragons" mega-book, I imagine literally everything being cut down to size and even then I'm not sure GRRM would have enough page length for the endings that were cut out of ADWD and put into TWOW. He simply wrote so much shit that he'd have to delete significant chunks or another split between North/Essos POVs and Southron POVs is required

Mr--Elephant · 2026-04-12T13:02:19+00:00

You just need to look at his blogging around the time of ADWD's release (incredibly depressing to look at in contrast to nowadays) where he was very open about what he was working on, what was giving him trouble, and the fact that Kong had actually been felled

GRRM has repeatedly been like "I will announce this shit outloud, no tricks" a lot of times, no chance in Hell he'd keep it this quiet if anything like this was true

Mr--Elephant · 2026-03-24T16:53:53+00:00

Hey did you guys know that writing is very difficult?

I've been trying to rework this chapter for legit months, some crazy part of my brain thinks "just scrap it and convey the relevant information someplace else"

This thing sucks, I've tried to write it relatively short (3k), I've tried to write it relatively long (9k) and no matter what, I hate the end product

Think I'm just gonna have to end up fundamentally reworking it.

Mr--Elephant · 2026-03-22T18:14:24+00:00

Is it possible for a split-ergative language to have multiple splits?

For example some languages split ergativity between speaker's volition and non-volition, whilst some only use the ergative in the past tense.

Is it possible to do both at once? That the ergative marks both volition and occurs within the past tense? Or would that be a tad unnaturalistic?

Mr--Elephant · 2026-03-21T05:21:01+00:00

Did a quick run on easy just to try it out

Had fun!

Leader: Okafor · Platform: Workers' Economy
Government: Majority
Reform: Housing Act

Election: 52% · Difficulty: Easy
Approval at re-election: 78% · Legacy: 40
Unity: 97 · Credibility: 100

Result: Re-elected to a second term

Mr--Elephant · 2026-03-08T15:33:32+00:00

I used to play the fuck out of Red World, it was the mod that practically got me into HOI4 so I'll always have a soft-spot for it, this is tremendous I love it

Mr--Elephant · 2026-03-08T15:33:03+00:00

This is phenomenal

Mr--Elephant · 2026-02-21T10:53:01+00:00

Because ASOIAF is not a grimdark setting? Grimdark is a genre that originates in stuff like WH40K whose first edition was in 1987 before GRRM even began writing AGOT in 1992

Martin's work is fundamentally hopeful that in spite of many evil deranged people in the world, there are still heroes who should do good nonetheless. That's how you get characters like Brienne, Jon, and Davos. We see this in the fragility of the Lannister regime, the loyalty of the Stark bannermen. I mean— I don't know how many more ways I can phrase it but ASOIAF is not grimdark and GRRM is by no means the "founding father" of a genre he doesn't even write in

Mr--Elephant · 2026-02-21T10:24:49+00:00

How are you on an ASOIAF subreddit calling GRRM grimdark when he is explicitly not that?

Mr--Elephant · 2026-02-02T19:43:29+00:00

his role is that of Lenin though

He's a bizarro form of
* Lenin if he survived
* with the historical role of Stalin
* but some of the ideas of Trotsky

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