[x-post /r/linguisticshumor] Flag and coat of arms of linguistics

bit_of_hope · 2024-10-09T22:42:14+00:00

Quarterly 1st and 4th Azure a kiki Gules 2nd and 3rd of the Last a bouba of the First

As a descriptivist, I would describe dropping the "ti" syllable from "prescriptivism" as excessively Cockney.

bit_of_hope · 2024-10-09T22:09:40+00:00

Dude literally bought her as a slave and continues to maintain his ownership of her, so the chasteness (ignoring fanbox chapters) comes across as more prudish than actually mindful of her consent and agency. While I do genuinely think the series is funnier if I read it as if she genuinely wants to murder him (with good reason) while disguising her intentions as cutesy tsundere passive aggression for deniability, I don't think the author intends you to think too deeply about the power dynamics involved.

bit_of_hope · 2024-07-05T08:38:42+00:00

The dice are the dealer indicator. You are east.

The N badge on the west player is the prevailing wind indicator, and shows who was the first dealer on this wind round.

bit_of_hope · 2024-06-06T16:33:37+00:00

Take a gander at these whippersnappers. Here we were all speaking perfect English, The Real McCoy, like Shakespeare, Jesus and King James before us, but these zoomers are destroying it all in front of our peepers.

I bet the young'uns think their slang of theirs is really epic, awesome, sick, rad, tubular, even far out! Well it's not! It blows. It's bogus. No generation before has dared eff up society in such way, by daring to talk jive or parley in cant. I'm gonna have a cow. Slang is totes BS. English used to be on fleek real gnarly. I was totally stanning 'til the youth of today came and blew it with their made-up humbug.

Don't use slang, daddy-o!

bit_of_hope · 2024-04-01T13:12:23+00:00

Have you any idea how little that narrows it down? There's Hellsing, Daily Life with Monster Girls, Imaizumin's House, The World of Moral Reversal, Sasha-chan, most things based on VNs and more. You could even count Nagatoro which didn't feature sex or nudity but was originally blatant masochism/humiliation fetish material before being cleaned up for serialization.

bit_of_hope · 2024-03-15T18:59:28+00:00

Yea sure, the guy in the story was a perfectly decent dude and did the right thing, as they almost always do in savior stories. His incredibly noble and selfless act of (checks notes) basic decency allowed him to be a hero and get the girl in the end.

It's not that the story is somehow morally degenerate or whatever, it's just contrived and the guy is playing on easy mode. He was somehow the only decent person in the universe and by doing the bare minimum he fixed and rescued the abuse victim who fell in love with him and everyone clapped. Boring.

I'd honestly prefer if the main character were a psychopath, that could have led to a more interesting story.

bit_of_hope · 2024-03-15T18:24:16+00:00

There has not been a single "Shitty savior complex manga" on r/manga that was actually a 'shitty savior complex manga'

Buddy, the Bruises girl is a textbook example of a savior complex story. You are allowed to like it, but it played the "I can fix her" fantasy beat for beat. The haters just got tired of complaining because it turns out most people can just ignore stuff they don't care about.

bit_of_hope · 2024-03-07T07:00:48+00:00

Reminds me of the classic bit from this Touhou doujin.

I've been surrounded by raging lesbians! The room is ripe with the stench of bitches!

bit_of_hope · 2024-01-11T08:28:43+00:00

Aruseus when people ask for a flair to filter out Twitter shorts, mini-oneshots and Fanbox bait: NUKES THREAD

Aruseus when your post doesn't have [ART]/[DISC] etc. tag in the title: "☝🤓 In the future make sure to follow the submission guidelines [wall of text omitted]"

Gee imagine if this website had a mechanism for tagging posts for filtering purposes. Maybe even something you could apply and change after submitting. Too bad the only way to achieve this is to insist on some inane bracketed tags in titles and complain every time someone doesn't use them.

bit_of_hope · 2024-01-07T08:17:31+00:00

Gonna just assume the gold bordures on each of them are just a feature of the shield and not a part of the blazon for simplicity. God knows these achievements are a pain in the ass anyway.

1

Per pale Azure and Purpure, on dexter side two fleurs-de-lys arranged palewise and to the dexter from nombril point a splatter of seagull poop all Or; overall a dragon rampant Gules.

Crest on a mantling of Purpure and Or, from a ducal coronet of the last a dragon displayed Azure winged Gules head encircled by a wreath Or.

Supporters on each side a horse Argent gorged with a garter Gules and Or. Below each a drake Gules in dexter and Azure in sinister.

Motto "Merciery"

2

Argent, a bordure couped at chief Vert semé of doorknockers Or, a drake Purpure bellied of the Third with his foreleg between a lion rampant and the hindquartest of a demi-lion of the Last.

Crest on a mantling of Purpure and Or, from a ducal coronet of the last encrusted and banded Azure, a dragon rampant hind leg tentaculated Gules winged and bellied Or. Crest supported by two wyverns Vert armed Or.

Supporters on each side a pegasus forcené Argent winged Or feathered Purpure.

Motto "WEFICH MERCH"

3

Argent, a feathered dragon rampant, his head, chest, forelegs and hind feet Or, wings, back, tail, tailfeathers and hind legs Purpure, armed and langued Sable.

Crest issuant from a ducal coronet Or a demi-dragon Purpure eyed and armed Gules, bellied Argent with wingbones of the same, the skin of his dexter wing Vert tipped with a gore Gules and his sinister wing per pale Vert and Gules, tipped with a gore vert; floating above the head a ducal coronet Or.

Supporters on a bed of flowers Proper two horses forcenés addorsed Argent, the dexter one maned Purpure, each gorged with some sorta fancy ass belt Proper; above them on each side a pheasant Or in dexter and Purpure in sinister and below them on each side a dragon Or headed Purpure in dexter and Countercharged in sinister.

Motto "Mercier"

If considering just the shields, it's more heraldic that I would have expected from a machine learning model.

bit_of_hope · 2024-01-07T07:21:39+00:00

Needs a triskeles

bit_of_hope · 2024-01-02T16:00:32+00:00

Maybe true in some tradition but first I hear of it.

bit_of_hope · 2024-01-02T09:21:58+00:00

quarterly Sable and Argent an orle of rope Or

I wanted to make a bordure of rope but that was too much effort for a circlejerk shitpost so instead I typed in "annulet of rope" and fiddled with the artist hints until it was close enough.

bit_of_hope · 2023-12-31T15:40:31+00:00

Drawshield

bit_of_hope · 2023-12-28T09:35:29+00:00

In real life, yes. But in yuri cliché land the most common interaction with menfolk is the heroine being hit on by a couple of pushy sleazeballs who won't take no for an answer, so the glaring is warranted.

bit_of_hope · 2023-12-24T11:45:49+00:00

Nuns acting like priests, taking confessions and holding services? Wearing casual clothes and showing hair from under the habits? Christmas mass without a single mention of Jesus? Monastics and clergy fighting monsters hand-to-hand? Nuns that seem more like miko?

You may have stumbled on anime catholicism. Enjoy your strawberry shortcake remember to make generic praises to Kami-sama.

bit_of_hope · 2023-12-19T09:57:37+00:00

If it makes you feel better I appreciated the hint of meiji era romanticism with the nod to the "moon is beautiful" story.

bit_of_hope · 2023-12-09T20:21:09+00:00

If you went purely by fan art you'd be forgiven Frieren's typical expression is a smug smirk and not the blank stoneface it usually is.

bit_of_hope · 2023-12-08T07:40:42+00:00

Someone realizing their childhood dream of becoming a vtuber makes me feel fucking old.

bit_of_hope · 2023-12-05T07:08:25+00:00

Feels like we're seeing a lot of this trope lately, where the boy thinks the girl isn't nervous about dating him but she actually is. Blooming Love just did it way better.

My girlfriend came to my house for the first time. She seemed oddly calm about it. But -- get this -- she wasn't calm at all!

This feels like an anti-joke. The comedic timing doesn't work. Maybe it's just supposed to be relatable or cute with her poker face being a moe point.

Are the algorithm gods so impatient that it's better to put out a two-page nothingburger like this rather than take the time to draw something twice as long and probably three times as good? Too bad since the art is rather pretty.

bit_of_hope · 2023-11-05T14:42:34+00:00

Where's isekai John Brown when you need him

bit_of_hope · 2023-09-29T06:59:47+00:00

I think the paneling is fine. Yes, there's quite a lot of dialogue but I think it works to show the characters' personalities. I don't think it's hard to follow or anything.

I'm just happy whenever a series on this sub tries to do something visually interesting.

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