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Since not everyone can be Luo Binghe (the meme, the legend)...

please vote for Hua Cheng in @the-ghost-bracket! (we got him a lot closer but he's still losing by ~2%)

Like, it’s so much clearer this time around that acting clingy/weepy when talking to Shen Qingqiu but fully mature and strong (even to the point of intimidation and/or general bitchiness) isn’t only a Binghe thing; Qing Jing disciples are just like that. Ning Yingying and Ming Fan absolutely demolishing the Little Palace Mistress in Hua Yue City only to end up sandwiching their shizun in a sobbing hug as soon as they recognize him is the same type of behavior.

SQQ raised his disciples to be capable and principled (Ming Fan quotes him as teaching that a slight should be repaid twofold, which echoes SY’s reason for liking Bing-ge’s character in PIDW— that he repaid every good and bad deed without fail), but he also unconsciously taught them that it’s safe (and often rewarding!) to be vulnerable and affection-seeking with him in specific.

I'm sorry, I don't want to come across as harsh, but this is honestly ignorant as fuck.

I'm not gonna claim to know everything about the importance of studying dead languages, but I think I can safely say that it would probably be a really bad thing if we lost these languages to time if we didn't have people studying them.

We can lose hundreds if not THOUSANDS of years of story-telling history if these languages end up forgotten.

Additionally, you can make up new words as needed by mashing together Dead Words.

Lots of scientific jargon use Latin and Ancient Greek exactly because they're dead languages - the meaning of those words are set in stone. Studying those languages can help you understand and remember the extremely complex strings of words common in those topics.

Latin is the Mother of Romance languages. Just studying Latin can make it easier to adapt to the grammar rules of the other Romance languages, or even help you Frankenstein out a meaning of a simple paragraph.

All translation is a series of compromises. Even if Ye Olde Latin Text has been translated to English again and again and again, there WILL BE several points where the translator had to circumnavigate the translation to a phrase because the exact tone and concept is difficult to convey in English!!! (I am bilingual and this problem frustrates me to no end!!)

And that's approaching this problem in good faith. We have a history of people outright lying about their translation credentials, deliberately translating a text "wrong" for their own benefit, or adding flourishes that drastically change the tone of the translation. Reviewing that 18th-century English translation of some 13th-century Latin book instead of just thoughtlessly reprinting it is vital to having a clear understanding of that book and placing it in its proper context.

We have a LOT of untranslated archived material that have text written in dead languages, Latin included. Translating these provide us history.

And last but not the least:

- “all american bitch” is so alex claremont-diaz it’s crazy. “i got class and integrity. just like the goddamn kennedy, i swear” “i know my place, and this is it” “i don't get angry when I'm pissed. i'm the eternal optimist. i scream inside to deal with it.”

- same with “bad idea right?” like, it’s just him coded

- lacy is henry about alex before the red room. he worships him so much but he thinks alex doesn’t like him and henry knows he can never have him. “i see you everywhere. the sweetest torcher one could bear” “smart, sexy lacy i’m losing it lately” “lacy, oh lacy, i just loathe you lately, and i despise my jealous eyes and how hard they fell for you” LIKE COME ON

- “ballad of a homeschool girl” gives me ‘henry feeling separated from the rest of society because of who he is’ vibes. “the party’s done and i’m no fun, i know, i know.”

- “making the bed” is actually just henry when he leaves alex at the lake house “push away all the people who know me the best, but it’s me who’s been making the bed.”

- “get him back” is one of the most alex songs in the world. i don’t rlly think an explanation is needed for that. like, just the name alone SCREAMS alex. “do i love him, do i hate him? i guess it’s up and down” “i want sweet revenge and i want him again.” ALSO THIS LINE, “ he said he’s six-foot-two and i’m, like, ‘dude nice try’” LIKE COME ONNNN

- “love is embarrassing” is henry when he sees alex dancing with and kissing the girls at the new year’s party. “i told my friends you were the one after i’d known you like a month. and then you kiss some girl from high school” “you found a new version of me, and i damn near started world war III. jesus, what was i even doing.” everything about this song is henry actually.

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and