Don't tell me that it's over, it's only just begun

For example, American Sign Language and French Sign Language are related and I’ve known ASL users who have said they could stumble through communication with people who use LSF.

British sign language is completely unrelated to ASL however. The two languages have almost nothing in common. BSL is related to Australian sign language but Auslan and BSL still aren’t the same language.

Mexico from what I gather has at least three completely unrelated sign languages, though LSM is the most widely used. Mainland China and Taiwan use completely different unrelated sign languages despite both countries using Mandarin. Portuguese sign language is influenced by Swedish sign language while Brazilian sign language is influenced by LSF. In most of Canada they use ASL but in Quebec they have their own unique sign language that’s still related to ASL and LSF. Nicaraguan sign language is a unique language naturally developed by children in a school for the deaf and is completely unrelated to the sign languages around it in other Spanish speaking countries.

Something about sign language linguistics is so fascinating to me. It's only because of events LIKE the creation of Nicaraguan Sign Language that we know what early language creation can look like. Deaf people are one of the only groups that can be easily deprived of language and not taught to communicate, which is tragic and causes a lot of problems in so many ways. However that also allows them to be a group that can independently create a language when they have access to community.

When this news broke my dad told me and my siblings, all of us who are US Citizens, born and raised in the US, that we have to carry some form of official documentation on us, especially because we live in a city that has been heavily targeted by the Trump administration for being a sanctuary city. My grandmother was staying with us and even though she is my non-latine grandmother, and she's a US citizen, my dad and aunt made the decision to have my dad drive her back home to New Jersey because she has an accent and her documents are back home.

As someone who is latine and south asian, I need you to know that this will not just affect latine people! My non-latine cousin was pulled over by ice about two weeks ago just for being brown! However this will disproportionately affect latine people. Just today ICE was seen on the street by my home and my work! One of my duties at work is to make sure that ICE does not come into our elementary school because we're a predominantly latine school. I HAVE TO MAKE SURE ICE DOES NOT KIDNAP 5 YEAR OLDS. That is the reality of the situation.

I want it to be known that I have been scared before because I'm living as a person of color in the United States. I have been scared before because of being a south asian born post 9/11. I have been scared before being a latina growing up during the Dreamer movement, despite being a citizen. However, before this week I have never been scared enough to feel the need to carry documentation proving I am a citizen of the damn country I was born in! Now I feel that scared though. Especially because a few months ago, for the first time in my life, someone assumed I didn't speak English. Another person of color assumed I didn't speak English and shit talked me in the CVS aisle because they assumed I didn't speak English. And then a week ago I also got mistaken for not speaking English when I went to the doctor's office and chatted with the receptionist in Spanish and then was handed Spanish paperwork to fill out.

Anyways, the point is the fact that I have seen maybe two? three? posts about this on here is upsetting and immensely telling. Speak up. Talk about the fact that this is happening because it will not stop with targeting latines. It will become worse. It already is because the government is going to punish immigrants for "making light of" charlie kirk's death. Not for celebrating, or joking, for making light of.

incredible

you say “nail jello to a tree” and most people think jello all by itself.

but if you put any actual thought into what you’re doing and then give it just a little support

well gosh. look what happens.

Small (mice/rats/guinea pigs/mole/bats/etc) Medium small (rabbit/racoon/opossum/etc) Medium (fox/hare/capybara/koala/etc) Medium large (cougar/wolf/seal/hyena/boar/etc) Large (zebra/grizzly bear/lion/kangaroo/etc) Large large (elephant seal/moose/rhino/hippo/camel/etc) Even larger (elephant/giraffe/etc??) Whales???

Hella curious because I live in an urban area and the largest wild (debatable) mammals I've seen are rats (so sad), and it blows my mind that there are whole ass truck size moose walking around people's streets

Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams

I say this because in nearly all LGBTQ media with minors a parent is either a perfect ally, or good in general and getting used to it, or they are both homo/transphobic and abusive in general. It is expected (at least in my conversations) that if the parent is accepting of that part of your identity with no other context , than you should be grateful and let them in. this applies to any olive branch from an abuser, but especially queer kids because not settling as a minority over the absolute bare minimum is always considered a flaw of themselves.

although Simon accepts the nice words, he still keeps his distance from his dad unless absolutely necessary and not for quality time (like getting his tutoring with the drugs) and doesn’t hide not wanting him there. this is never treated as Simón being selfish or icy.

Doesn’t change the fact that he’s an active addict who shoves Simon around when he (Micke) gets upset. Subtract seven parenting points.

He’s not a homophobe, but he’s still standing there on negative 5 points.

“Do you know what's making me cheerful at the moment? It's Pride month. The fact that Pride Month is existing and is flourishing and is something that's happening at a time when the world seems to be getting in some corners worryingly intolerant and weirdly backward.”⁠

“When I was a kid, the idea of being non-binary wasn’t something that existed. It wasn’t a concept. I’ve seen that emerge and people are able to express themselves through that. It only ever seems positive as far as I can see. When I was a teenager, I remember gay rights being weaponised politically. That always felt ugly and nasty. We look back on that, 30 years later, and those people are clearly on the wrong side of history. Now, there is a similar weaponisation of these topics being taken by mostly the right wing, or certain sections of society, to create friction and conflict and division where it needn’t be. It’s just about people being themselves. You don’t need to be bothered about it. F**k off and let people be.” 

David Tennant: the man, the myth, the legend

I say this because in nearly all LGBTQ media with minors a parent is either a perfect ally, or good in general and getting used to it, or they are both homo/transphobic and abusive in general. It is expected (at least in my conversations) that if the parent is accepting of that part of your identity with no other context , than you should be grateful and let them in. this applies to any olive branch from an abuser, but especially queer kids because not settling as a minority over the absolute bare minimum is always considered a flaw of themselves.

although Simon accepts the nice words, he still keeps his distance from his dad unless absolutely necessary and not for quality time (like getting his tutoring with the drugs) and doesn’t hide not wanting him there. this is never treated as Simón being selfish or icy.

growing up autistic i've always been very prone to language mirroring and i pick up hesitation forms so quickly i often explain upfront that it's not on purpose and i'm not mocking or purposefully mimicking someone in a conversation.

i also pick up affirmatives unintentionally and nearly immediately. in a lot of languages, people have a way of gently saying "yes, yes, yes, yes," repeatedly while receiving a list of instructions. in english this often is along the lines of "yes, mhm, okay, yep. got it. okay."

i took a kendo class in which everyone but me spoke Japanese as a first language and i was expected to answer instructions in Japanese and i began so formal but quickly fell into extremely casual, repeated affirmatives. i have very little experience with Japanese, so note this is only what i picked up in one particular place with this particular group, but it was fast nodding and repeated "ah. mm."

when i lived in norway and learned the language on the fly by immersion, i got completely stuck doing the affirmative H, which sounds like a gasp. i couldn't stop doing it for months after i moved home, and some of my friends near Oslo also used it as a hesitation form, so it was a double whammy.