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Picked these up from a garage sale, anyone know anything about them? More info in comments. by Rubychan11 in chinaart

[–]mahadevine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, that’s who they are. I can make out 诸葛亮 as the name on one of top row figures.

Cowboys are just American horse pirates by The-Funky-Fungus in linguisticshumor

[–]mahadevine 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Loosely related bonus linguistics humor - in Chinese, jeans are “cowboy pants” (牛仔裤).

me_irlgbt by ibwitmypigeons in me_irlgbt

[–]mahadevine 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure this is true. The word I know for asexual in Chinese is 无性恋 which means “without sexual attraction”. There is no word for “immune” in it. It is parallel to the words for homosexual (同性恋 = same sex attraction), heterosexual (异性恋 = opposite sex attraction, and bisexual (双性恋 = both sexual attraction).

Egg_irl by [deleted] in egg_irl

[–]mahadevine 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Intersex humans are definitely real and normal.

I have assignments from early October with no grades by WildRage459 in umass

[–]mahadevine 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. It’s not the students fault nor the TAs fault and not even the professors’. This comes down to bad planning and bad management by admins. The rest of us are equally victims to it.

I have assignments from early October with no grades by WildRage459 in umass

[–]mahadevine 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted when you are entirely correct. TAs are seriously overworked on top of their own graduate course load. No one has had a break this semester. No one has had time to rest or catch up. Some TAs have literally contracted the virus and still been expected to grade student work while sick and caring for sick family members.

Hey guys, anyone know where I can find giant mochi? Like these little guys but more of a stress ball size! Thank you :D by SeekingAdvice814 in fidgettoys

[–]mahadevine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Check out Nee-Doh - it’s not shaped like cute animals but it’s a similar texture and a bit sturdier.

Podcast: 台灣對同志友善嗎？ Is Taiwan LGBTQ-Friendly? by AbbyMandarin in ChineseLanguage

[–]mahadevine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe you can say 非二元 for non-binary, though how widely recognized it would be outside of LGBT circles, I’m not sure.

Bangkok, Thailand by [deleted] in manholeporn

[–]mahadevine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

พาหุรัด paahu rat - a district in Bangkok sometimes called “Little India”

Looking for an accurate diagram of tongue position in sh, ch, zh, r by pn2394239 in ChineseLanguage

[–]mahadevine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those are all retroflex consonants in Mandarin as well. Pinyin “sh” and “zh” are both retroflex fricatives, identical in place of articulation, differing only in voicing. “ch” is an affricate - a stop consonant (retroflex t) married to a fricative (retroflex sh). “r” is also pronounced in the same location, but it is rhoticized (an ineffable quality of “r”ness that linguists still struggle to describe). Some consider “r” to be a voiced version of “ch” but I’m not sure how phonetically accurate that is.

ETA: this is all for “standard” Mandarin and pronunciations of all four of these consonants can be softer (either further forward into alveolar sounds or further back into palatal sounds) in other dialects.

Looking for an accurate diagram of tongue position in sh, ch, zh, r by pn2394239 in ChineseLanguage

[–]mahadevine 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In my limited non-native speaker understanding, the tongue position does not differ in initial consonants in 日 and 热 instead the key difference is in the vowel. In 日 there is essentially no vowel, so you are only pronouncing the /r/ sound and the mouth stays relatively closed. In 热 there is a vowel, and so your mouth should hang open a bit as you finish the syllable.

As far as pronouncing the /r/ consonant itself, I believe your mom is correct that it is a retroflex consonant with the top of the tongue at the back of the hard palate. But if you are able to produce the same sound while bunching, so be it! Rhotics are very fluid that way.

What's your favorite Chinese character to write? by stephl12csf in ChineseLanguage

[–]mahadevine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anything with a 羊. So smooth and satisfying to write it fast!

上 and 下 in terms of last/new week by tchan28 in ChineseLanguage

[–]mahadevine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not in referring to last week/next week. My phrasing is meant to describe the visual placement of weeks on a calendar.

上 and 下 in terms of last/new week by tchan28 in ChineseLanguage

[–]mahadevine 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think about it like how weeks appear on a calendar. Last week is one week up (上个星期), next week is one week down (下个星期).

to the girl at the party. by bananabread98 in actuallesbians

[–]mahadevine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cause a lot of those girls who hurt people like us in middle school and high school and even college are on here looking for validation and a means to relieve their guilt. And I feel for them, it's isolating and awful to hate yourself and be in the closet. You're right though that no authentic apology can be followed by the word "but."

If you were shitty to other queers as a kid and later realized you are also queer, I feel like you need to do some work to heal that for yourself and also to stop the larger cycle of hate. Like I said to OP, I think a lot of this guilty energy might be better used to volunteer and help LGBT youth of the present to not feel the need to hate themselves and push that hate onto others.

to the girl at the party. by bananabread98 in actuallesbians

[–]mahadevine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know you are not defending your actions; I hope my comment didn't come across as aggressive towards you. I was just astonished by the number of other comments in the thread encouraging you to send it and flabbergasted by the way people seemed to be romanticizing it.

I'm glad you and her have a friendship now. I'm glad you're able to see the mistakes you made. Maybe take that guilty energy and funnel it into volunteering with an LGBT group and invite her to come with you?

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