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Itβs fun to use contractions inappropriately, but itβs hard to explain why thatβs
thats a common interest we've
Yeah, but people get annoyed by it, like when you throw soda cans in the trash canβt the recycle bin

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It's the last day of April
Wake up babe, new meta layer just dropped
I donβt know who needs to hear this
but itβs time to move the noodles to the pot
I love when a meme gets so many steps away from its source material that it would be completely incomprehensible if I didn't know what today's date was
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One thing I love about Murderbot that I donβt see talked about much is how it literally translates everything it hears. I think itβs easiest to notice with swears. This is most obvious in Fugitive Telemetry with the crew of the Lalow. They say things like βthat pickerβ and βpenis moveβ and βpussing corporates,β some of which confuse even the Preservation humans. But it does it all the time.
In System Collapse, Tarik says βmotherlessβ (as opposed to something like motherfucking) and the BE corporates say things like βlame-skulledβ and while you could think those are just futuristic insults as a result of linguistic drift (which they could also be), I think theyβre just literal translations. It becomes more noticeable when you see how religious terms are rendered: βoh high one! Oh deity!β Which is likeβ¦sure. They could literally be saying that. But imo it makes more sense if MB is translating something theyβre saying in another language.*
I think the most notable case of this is when Thiago calls Amena βmy daughter.β On first read I literally thought it was just a Preservation thing but then I realized it made a lot more sense to me (a 21st century American) if he was saying something like mija but MB was just literally translating it into its archive bc thatβs how it processes language.
This is also the reason for Amenaβs use of Second Mom and Third Mom. It sounds kind of clunky in English but Chinese does a similar thing which sounds perfectly natural in that language (e.g. da-ge, er-ge, san-ge for first/oldest brother, second (oldest) brother, and third (oldest) brother).
Anyway! Itβs a fun little detail I really enjoy about MB. There are definitely way more examples but I didnβt have time to track them all down.
*Donβt ask me which languages. Linguistic drift Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
The one that most obviously struck me as signposting this convention is Murderbot's constant use of the set phrase "humans and augmented humans". That's clunky as hell at face value, but it makes a lot of sense if interpreted as a diegetic translation artifact, with "augmented humans" being a literal translation of some word in whatever language Murderbot is "really" speaking which has no snappy English equivalent.

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Sure Iβll reblog that
Hey! how make much did you make an hr on your first job and what was the job?
ILONA MAHER as LUISA MADRIGAL
Dancing With The Stars (33x06)
thereβs a used bookstore in rural western massachusetts (the montague book mill) whose motto is βbooks you donβt need in a place you canβt findβ and i just feel like that summarizes tumblr too
posts you donβt need on a site you canβt search

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You're right and you should say it.
no because this is genuinely what i sound like and nobody outside of sw prequels fandom believes me π
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I do think it's kind of funny when plot summaries are like "character A encounters the last person they expected...their ex." Idk about you guys I'd be less surprised if my new coworker/roommate/random dance partner was my ex than I would if it was, like, Megawati Sukarnoputri the first woman president of Indonesia.
Any of my exes could plausibly attend the same conference as me. But I'd be really surprised to encounter former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
Which of these would surprise you more to find on the doorstep?
Your ex
Megawati Sukarnoputri, the first woman president of Indonesia
This poll is ambiguous if you (a) Don't have an ex or (b) Are Egyptian diplomat Hassan Gamal Ahmad Hassan, whose marriage to Megawati Sukarnoputri was anulled in 1972.

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I have been saving this since last year. Happy Earth Day everyone.
literally has been in my queue for an entire year. you just canβt miss reblogging.
gotta queue this for next year too