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1200 and earlier are almost totally unintelligible

which means that people who are aro and ace kind of have to navigate a soup of other people’s trauma that we trigger by existing, and definitely trigger by taking up space and CERTAINLY trigger by offering observations like this one.

if you are ace and aro and have shared here, thank you. it means a lot to me, and i am sure it means a lot to others as well.

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best guess (2025) – lucy dacus

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from let July be July by Morgan Harper Nichols

@probably-ace-ok This is beautiful.

Also, I'm very confused by the lack of difference between "búhos" and "lechuzas" in English, like if both things were even close to being similar.

I guess it's the same thing with ravens to me: I know about the differences: it's just what I've learned to see ravens and crows as variations in the same type of animal.

- azor

However, Yiddish has different specific words for the mother of your son's spouse and the mother of your daughter's spouse, and a specific single word which means "both sets of parents of a married couple." IDK why that's what I thought of, but I think it's cool. There's also a single word that means "the youngest person in a particular family."

They're all Columbidae the same way that a raven and a crow are both Corvidae, yes, but there is a general logic to which word gets used for which. Whether it's wrong or right, idk.

She looked down at her computer screen, then back up, looking quite annoyed. "How can that also be brown? They're not the same colour!"

a fact I learned far too late

We have different words in Polish: "wrona" for crow and "kruk" for raven. The problem is that in Polish "wrona" is feminine and in English "crow" feels slightly more masculine (it's not as clear as English doesn't have grammatical gender but still) and with "raven" and "kruk" it's the opposite. But also "raven" is very clearly associated with "kruk", so usually our brain just short-circuits with translating those.