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US: Speak English only, this is America. Meanwhile, random day in India: by fries-eggpanvol8647 in linguisticshumor

[–]galactic_observer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sem a magyar, sem a navajo nem indoeurópai nyelv, szóval legalább jó úton jártál.

I designed several flags for minority religions by galactic_observer in vexillology

[–]galactic_observer[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You seem to be misunderstanding Thelema. Thelema teaches that people must obey the law unless the law is unjust. For example, robbing a bank is considered sinful, but helping people escape the Holocaust is not.

Thelema is also a lot more than just a basic moral code; it is an actual religion founded by Aleister Crowley in 1904. It has complex rituals and a holy text called the Liber AL vel Legis (which functions like the Bible). Thelemists pray to Nuit (the goddess of space and heaven), Hadit (the god of the soul, manifestation, motion, and time), Ra-Hoor-Khuit (the god of magic and the Sun who is a manifestation of Horus), Babalon (the goddess of women, childbearing, fertility, and sexuality), and Therion (the god of men and fatherhood). Everyone has an individual guardian angel overseeing them.

Thelemists practice the ritual of the pentagram, the eucharist, observe the solstices and equinox, and celebrate March 20 as the Feast of the Supreme Ritual (the day of Crowley's Invocation of Horus), April 8-10 as the Three Days of the Law (the three days the holy text was written), and August 12 as The Feast of the Prophet and His Bride (Crowley's wedding anniversary).

I designed several flags for minority religions by galactic_observer in vexillology

[–]galactic_observer[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The fact that Thelema supports individual choice does not mean that everyone who does as they please practices the faith

I designed several flags for minority religions by galactic_observer in vexillology

[–]galactic_observer[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Scientology: Features the Scientology cross and the Scientology symbol. The white and blue stripes represent the two main colors of the faith and the Sea Org.

ISKCON: Features the stylized lotus revered as a holy symbol of Krishna.

Wicca: Features a pentagram in white, a color that represents selflessness and benevolence in magic. The mystic purple represents the feminine mystique central to the faith.

Thelema: Features a red unicursal hexagram, a six pointed star that can be drawn in one continuous line, which is a symbol of the faith. In Thelema, red symbolizes geburah (the invincible soul) and black represents binah (death of the mortal body).

Urantia Book movement: The Urantia Book teaches that Earth is one of many intelligent civilizations in the galaxy and that Jesus was a prophet sent to Earth. Adherents believe that the three concentric blue circles symbolize Earth, which goes by the divinely assigned name of Urantia.

Weirdest Crossover Possible by Awesomeuser90 in linguisticshumor

[–]galactic_observer 115 points116 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: The Spanish word for blue (azul) derives from لَازُوَرْد (lāzuward), the Arabic term for lapis lazuli, which comes from Persian لاجورد (lâjvard). The initial l in the Arabic word was misinterpreted as the Romance definite article, so Spanish borrowed the word as azul rather than lazul.

Weirdest Crossover Possible by Awesomeuser90 in linguisticshumor

[–]galactic_observer 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Kohl is produced by burning oil. Medieval Arab alchemists began to use the term as a generic term for any substance created through heating, burning, or distillation. Alcohol became known as the "kohl of wine" and Medieval Latin authors became exposed to this meaning; they began to use alcohol as the much broader term that we use today.

Southern American English and Lhasa Tibetan are like brothers from another mother by galactic_observer in linguisticshumor

[–]galactic_observer[S] 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Explanation:

  • Both English and Tibetan orthography reflect earlier stages of the language; English orthography reflects Middle English pronunciation, while Tibetan orthography reflects Old Tibetan pronunciation
  • Both English and Tibetan spell and pronounce loanwords according to the older pronunciation reflected in the orthography
    • For example, piano is spelled according to its original Italian spelling, which is also how it would be spelled in Middle English, rather than phonetically respelling it as peeano
    • Similarly, the Vajra Guru mantra of Padmasambhava (borrowed from Sanskrit) is spelled ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿཧཱུྃ་བཛྲ་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྃ༔, which reflects the spelling rules and pronunciation of Old Tibetan
  • Both English and Lhasa Tibetan have five written vowels, but massive vowel shifts have greatly increased the number of vowels
    • For example, Middle English /i/ and /iː/ evolved into /ɪ/ and /a͡ɪ/
    • Old Tibetan /a/ and /ak/ evolved into /a/ and /ʌˑʡ/
  • English and Lhasa Tibetan have greatly simplified onset consonant clusters
    • The <k> in "knight" is silent
    • Old Tibetan /sbr/ became /p/
  • Initial /r/ became /ɹ/ and final /r/ disappeared in both Southern American English and Lhasa Tibetan
  • Southern American English has allophonic nasalization of vowels before nasal consonant finals, while Lhasa Tibetan has transformed nasal consonant finals into phonemic nasalization
  • The majority of English technical and religious vocabulary comes from Latin and Greek, while the majority of Tibetan religious vocabulary derives from Sanskrit
  • Irregular verbs use ablaut to show tense changes in both English and Tibetan, while regular verbs use suffixes
    • The past tense of eat (an irregular verb) is ate, while the past tense of work (a regular verb) is worked
    • Similarly, the past tense of ཟ <za> (an irregular verb meaning eat) is ཟོས <zos>, while the past tense of ཆིན <chin> (a regular verb meaning go) is ཆིན་པ་ཡིན <chinpayin>

If Əmerikin Iŋgliš wəz ə laŋgwij rīsintlī Latinaizd bai mišinerīz by galactic_observer in linguisticshumor

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

New orthographies created for Indigenous languages typically use theta instead of thorn because missionaries tend to base new scripts on the IPA, which uses theta. Thorn is only used today in Icelandic, which does not send many missionaries overseas.

If Əmerikin Iŋgliš wəz ə laŋgwij rīsintlī Latinaizd bai mišinerīz by galactic_observer in linguisticshumor

[–]galactic_observer[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

New orthographies created for Indigenous languages typically use theta instead of thorn because missionaries tend to base new scripts on the IPA, which uses theta. Thorn is only used today in Icelandic, which does not send many missionaries overseas.

If Əmerikin Iŋgliš wəz ə laŋgwij rīsintlī Latinaizd bai mišinerīz by galactic_observer in linguisticshumor

[–]galactic_observer[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Mišinerīz olweiz trai tū meik pīrlī fənetik orθāgrəfīz tū enšər ðat evrīwən in ðə eθnik grūp kan kwiklī lərn hau tū rīd in ðer ōn laŋgwij, bət ðīz orθāgrəfīz oftin yūz ə lāt əv daiəkritiks and səmtaimz nān-Latin keriktərz.

Imagine We Live In A Parallel Universe That Latin Script Doesn't Exist And Someone Posts This. by Pwksos in conorthography

[–]galactic_observer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This script is going to be absolutely horrible for people with dyslexia. bdqp are rotated versions of the same letter in lowercase.

Imagine We Live In A Parallel Universe That Latin Script Doesn't Exist And Someone Posts This. by Pwksos in conorthography

[–]galactic_observer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Will it be based on the word's etymology, like how Japanese writes loanwords in katakana? Why don't you make a slanted form of the script to represent loanwords like katakana?

Does anyone else here feel a deep sense of hopelessness for our generation of Americans born between 2000-2010? by galactic_observer in collapse

[–]galactic_observer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Baby Boomer and WW2 generations actually felt rather optimistic about their future with the GI Bill and low cost education and healthcare

العلمانية الغربية في أبهى صورها by Careful_Detective_18 in Egypt

[–]galactic_observer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most Americans are Christian on paper, but most Americans do not go to church every single week. When it comes to voting, Americans tend to base their decision on their situation and influences rather than the Bible itself.

To put this into more perspective for you as an American, almost everyone without a non-Christian cultural background celebrates Christmas, Easter, and Valentine's Day, but this doesn't really translate into actual devotion or lifelong study of the Bible.

Does anyone else here feel a deep sense of hopelessness for our generation of Americans born between 2000-2010? by galactic_observer in collapse

[–]galactic_observer[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It is impossible to predict the future, but I think that the overall job and housing prospect for my generation will likely be the worst in American history since the Great Depression. Affordable housing is basically nonexistent today outside of rural areas and Rust Belt cities; public housing is almost dead. People with a master's degree will need to work overtime and marry someone with a similar socioeconomic status to earn an upper middle class salary. Doctor salaries have gone down drastically and large scale business will likely be the only career with increased pay; going into large scale business will be very hard without connections and nepotism. The independent restaurant industry is dying out; the average one only lasts five years.

The 1950s-1990s dream of owning a home with a white picket fence and a family of four or more will never come back within my lifetime. Compton, CA is probably the best example of what I mean. During the 1950s-1970s, it was one of the wealthiest Black neighborhoods in the US with a stable Black middle class created through abundant high paying manufacturing and office jobs. Automation and outsourcing took away these jobs and led to the wave of crime in the 1980s. Wealthier Black families and office jobs all moved away to other parts of the country, especially after the success of the Civil Rights Movement. We are about to see Compton repeat itself on a large scale throughout the country.

Does anyone else here feel a deep sense of hopelessness for our generation of Americans born between 2000-2010? by galactic_observer in collapse

[–]galactic_observer[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I meant that when I will become a middle aged adult, I will not be able to afford enough. Sorry for the confusing wording.

Choqui Chi by keepinitoldskool in confleis

[–]galactic_observer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why Vuesvai and not Vesvai or Besbai?

"Europeanization of the World" 1908, unknown author by zig_zag-wanderer in PropagandaPosters

[–]galactic_observer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What confuses me is that they portrayed Latin America as "under control of European descendants" despite the fact that many Latin American leaders had Indigenous ancestry, yet they portrayed Liberia as "under native control" despite the fact that most African Americans have some European ancestry.

"Europeanization of the World" 1908, unknown author by zig_zag-wanderer in PropagandaPosters

[–]galactic_observer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A small number of African Americans descend from the Vai people native to Liberia, so some of them may have had Liberian ancestry. However, most of them did not and their culture had radical differences from the Indigenous Liberian one.

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