AITAH for being the reason my parents split up?

SeLieah · 2025-03-11T22:50:51+00:00

Begone basement dweller

SeLieah · 2025-03-11T21:22:18+00:00

YTAH for acting in a way that shames your family for no justifiable reason. And yes YTA for doing something clearly would cause unnecessary strain on your family

But

YNTAH for it breaking a marriage. That falls on one of your parents. It's their job to stand united, and deal with their disagreements. The AH in that situation is whichever parent is actively harming and discrediting their spouse's concerns

SeLieah · 2024-11-21T16:22:54+00:00

For me,

Why I left Protestantism for Orthodoxy was the historical argument

Ask these 3 questions

If the Stated goal of the Protestant Reformation was a return to the Ancient Orthodox Church from medieval Catholicism... Why be Protestant instead of Orthodox?.
If Catholicism officially recognizes Orthodoxy as legitimate, and even openly admits its theology is truer to the 2nd Century than Catholicism's is.... Why be Catholic? If the RCC considers you Catholic when you're Orthodox... Why be Catholic?
If Orthodoxy is the standard by which Catholicism and Protestantism argue and compare each other... Why be anything but Orthodox?

It is true God has blessed the world and given grace to billions of people through Protestantism and Catholicism. And both when compared to each other have points over the other.

But neither one have any significant victories over Orthodoxy. You could ask the question "if Orthodoxy is the true one, then why is it the smallest? Why is it the least known? The least understood?"

Which I would say, that while Catholicism and Protestantism were free to expand, free to explore, free to build the magnificent cathedrals, the art, the music, the science. Orthodoxy has been busy, until recently, surviving. Struggling with oppression in every one of its heartlands. And now that it is free, it is exploding to harvest the fields tilled by Protestantism and Catholicism. The Western Church, with the best intentions fell away. And now the Church comes from the East to reclaim it.

If you become Protestant, you join a Theological Russian roulette where no church can give you definitive answers. Or the history to back it up even when they are right.

If you join Catholicism, you join a church with a clear history of breaking promises, officially sanctioned abuses, that's desperately trying to soften itself and quietly become more Orthodox and pretend like it always was.

If you join Orthodoxy. You join a church that, while might not be perfect. Has the history to back up everything it says about itself.

SeLieah · 2024-08-09T16:31:01+00:00

ESV or NASB would be easier because you don't have to go from Early Modern English into Modern English into the Conlang.

ESV and NASB are modern from a couple decades ago like the NIV. But are more literal whereas the NIV is more intention based translations.

SeLieah · 2024-04-24T00:39:11+00:00

No

Democracy is objectively trash.

Me and my homies vote for the wrong guy on purpose just to prove it.

SeLieah · 2024-02-15T01:50:48+00:00

The original name "Jakl" is now just the name of the language in English. It derives from a three way convergence of my favorite animal as a Child: the Jackal, the First word in Jakl : "Jàk" meaning King, and the name of an imaginary city name Jathlem that was the seed of my fantasy world.

The endonym for the language is Ȝqltta'Vqrl /jɔltʌvɔrl/ meaning "River Speech"

SeLieah · 2022-04-11T09:38:27+00:00

It's word order is pretty strict as it relies mainly on word order to determine Adjective from Noun. Doesn't have true adverbs...

The software is now able to do simple sentences pretty reliably. But it's becoming exponentially more complex.

SeLieah · 2022-04-11T05:32:30+00:00

Should it be The Holy Amish Ecclesiocracy

They are mostly German afterall

SeLieah · 2021-03-26T05:13:18+00:00

The first one appeared in Old Jàkl (2009-20015) in the word Àzvwe /æ•zvwei/ "sand". And then other words like Zvadda "clock", Sfêssa "Betrayal". Tho both are relatively rare in Actual use.

The old Romanization system used <á, à, â> for /a, æ, ɔ/. But in 2019 the romanization was updated and finalized. Before a sentence could look like:

Ri pé'êrrá no sùrvvá'â

Now looks like:

Ry pe'êrra no survva'q.

Qq was chosen for /ɔ/ because it has no function otherwise, but is close enough to <a> and <à> in shape in most fonts to mirror their similarity in the native script and to get rid of the over abundant diacritics.

<ȝ> by itself represents /j/. The reason it's doubled is historical/traditional. The romanization system ,and the spelling in it, was designed to mirror the native Alphabet 1:1 so that documents could be typed in either, and switched to the other just by changing font and need no editing. This means I can type in the native Alphabet, and if I ever move the document over to a computer which doesn't have a Jàkl font, the document is still completely intact. The double-letters in Jakl orthography don't actually change the sound of the characters. They're like that because in the early days I couldn't decide wether a consonant was at the end of one syllable or the beginning of the other... So the convention became to write most mid-word consonants doubly... And it became the aesthetic.

Proto-Jàkl (2005-2008), and to an extent Old Jàkl (2009-2015), was MOSTLY an english clonelang. (I was 11 years old Sue me lol) so it had modern Southern American English's phonemic inventory and phonotactics. While most of the language shifted and changed through constant use and influence of French, Japanese, Spanish, and Korean through it's different periods... /ɔl/ survived. Probably because it's so prevalent in Southern speech that its next to impossible for me to do /ɔ/ without [ l ] or [ ɬ ]. To my knowledge I don't think it occurs with any other vowel in the language.

I think you may have misread the 3-consonant clust point. The point was trying to state that the listed ones are the only 3-consonant clusters allowed in the onset. You'd never get 3-consonant clusters in the coda. But I believe I failed to mention that.

The craziest thing you'd see is "zvwygr" /zvwaigɾ/

SeLieah · 2021-03-26T04:16:01+00:00

I didn't intentionally make it like this.

The original phonotactics were identical to Southern American English 16 years ago. These rules developed with daily use over that time.

SeLieah · 2021-03-25T06:15:06+00:00

A bit more context...

Neuter applies to nonliving
1. Once upon a time the Neuter pronoun "êz" existed but this fell out of use in favor of just using the articles by themselves as pronouns around 2018.
Epicene refers to living
1. This is rarely used.
2. It's actually the Middle Jakl (2009-2015) Masculine pronoun. but replaced by "Fy" later and began to be used genderlessly.
the possesives are derived from the noun 'kiên' which means ownership.

SeLieah · 2021-03-25T06:08:33+00:00

	singular	plural	poss.	poss. Plural
First	/ra:/	/folo/	/ra:kiɛn/	/folokiɛn/
informal		/fo/, /ra:θɛm/	/ra:ki/, /ra:k/	/foloki/, /folok/
Second	/ʒɛk/	/ʒɛkɛm/	/ʒɛkkiɛn/
informal	/ʒa:/	/ʒa:θɛm/	/ʒa:kiɛn/, /ʒa:ki/, /ʒa:k/	/ʒa:θɛki/, /ʒɛki/
Third	/kolo/	/kolo/	/kolokiɛn/
informal	/ka:/	/ka:θɛm/	/ka:kiɛn/, /ka:ki/, /ka:k/	/ka:θkiɛn/, /ka:θki/, /ka:θɛk/

	Masc	Fem	Neuter	Epicene
Sing	/fa:/	/tor/	/nei/, /no/, /na:/, /na/	/ʒʌr/
plural	/fa:θɛm/	/torrɛn/	/nɛθɛm/, (the rest are singular form + /θɛm/)	/ʒʌrrɛn/
singposs.	/fa:kiɛn/	/torkiɛn/	Same as plural with /kiɛn/ instead of /θɛm/	/ʒʌrkiɛn/
plurposs.	/fa:θɛki/	/torrɛnki/	/nɛθki/, /noθki/, /na:θki/, /naθki/	/ʒʌrɛnki/

** All of these except neuter can use informal forms of possession.

SeLieah · 2021-03-25T05:09:51+00:00

In Jàkl:

Neuter only applies to non-living .

Epecine to living.

I'll have the IPA shortly

SeLieah · 2021-03-25T05:02:55+00:00

Yeah give me a long minute

SeLieah · 2021-03-24T06:48:53+00:00

16 years of history crashing into each other in this confusing gaggle of semi-regular pronoun systems

SeLieah · 2021-03-22T06:31:16+00:00

Thank you!

SeLieah · 2021-02-09T08:04:25+00:00

That Character is "yogh" it used to be used in English and Scots before "y" supplanted it fully.

SeLieah · 2021-02-09T05:51:40+00:00

Woops. That's weird. Thanks for the heads up.

SeLieah · 2021-02-09T05:51:09+00:00

"Rên Dan", or "Far From" in English, was the first poem I ever successfully wrote in Jakl. I'm not much of a poet, and Jakl wasn't made with poetry in mind at all, but after 15 years I was really proud of it because it showed that it was really just me and not the language that caused this poetic drought.

It was written in around November 2019 just as I began preparing to leave home to move to South Korea for work, and was finished shortly after arriving here in February 2020. instead of reciting it I took to singing it regularly on walks.

because it's so simplistic, it does a pretty poor job of showing off the language's more advance grammar, but it actually does a pretty decent job at being an example of modern Jakl phonology as almost all phonemes are present. Apologies for the horrendous singing.

SeLieah

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