Dabbing Since The 90s

Having the hiccups is how it feels to be poisoned in a video game

the thing about writing fantasy stories is that language is so based on history that it can be hard to decide how far suspension of disbelief can carry you word-choice wise - what do you call a french braid in a world with no france? can a queen ann neckline be described if there was no queen ann? where do you draw the line? can you use the word platonic if plato never existed? can you name a character chris in a land without christianity? can you even say ‘bungalow’ in a world where there was no indian language for the word to originate from? is there a single word in any language that doesn’t have a story behind it? to be accurate a fantasy story would be written in a fantasy language but who has the time for that

Tolkien had the time apparently

LIsten. Linguistics Georg, who invented over 10,000 conlangs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted. 

I had a major existential crisis over whether it was appropriate to use the word “chronological” in a story where Greek Mythology and Khronos had never existed, and it was only solved when I realised that a language cannot be divorced from its historical context, but that it was possible to take the Tolkien approach and pretend you translated the story from a fantasy language into English, that I managed to free myself from that thought loop.

Don’t care if you dont like Marvel, this is an amazing edit that deserves to be seen

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