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Golp: a roundel purpure.

Roundels are circles in heraldry. They are named according to their color, which also has its own lingo. Let’s meet them!

Bezant: roundel or (gold) 🟡

Plate: roundel argent (silver) ⚪️

Torteau: roundel gules (red) 🔴

Pomme: roundel vert (green) 🟢

Hurt: roundel azure (blue) 🔵

Golp: roundel purpure (purple) 🟣

Pellet: roundel sable (black) ⚫️

The kid was picked up by an ambulance 30 minutes later.

Now as an adult working in security I get SO MANY folks- upper-middle aged mostly- coming to me to 'rat out' people they think are faking it.

I was once sent into a bathroom because a client demanded that the "fucker won't get out, so go drag them out"- I was NEVER going to do that, so I did a wellness check instead. You know who it was? A person recently released from the hospital after a car accident. They had a hole in their skull and major hearing loss. They couldn't answer the owner because they couldn't HEAR the owner.

Another time about a homeless man who got around town by kicking the ground from his wheelchair. "You know he doesn't actually need that thing, his legs work fine, it's just for pity points"- Oh, so he's not paralyzed, his wheelchair is performative? Funny story Dale, I actually know that guy, he was backed over by a truck and has chronic pain from his shattered pelvis. But sure, let's make him stand up and walk everywhere so nobody feels too bad for him and tries to help him or something.

"She doesn't need that scooter, I've seen her get out of it."

"Look how fat he is, because he just rides around and refuses to get up."

"She doesn't really need that cane- she comes here without it all the time"

Some AAVE speakers pluralize 'child' as 'childrens'. People get racist about this ("It's already plural!"), but 'children' actually comes from Middle English speakers doing the same thing: slapping their plural marker on word already pluralized by an extinct plural marker.

To oversimplify: in Old English, 'childer' ('ċildra') was the plural of 'child' ('ċild'). Middle English developed an '-en' plural marker, which we see in 'oxen'. Instead of updating to 'childen', people slapped their preferred '-en' onto the end of 'childer' - so now we have 'child-er-en'. AAVE carries on this tradition with 'child-er-en-s'.

"Pure" language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.

Pronouns

An accent

(Note: most of accents is in the vowels, and I feel I still have mostly New England vowels - which I can turn up if needed for effect. Dialect is all the rest - word choice, idiom, cadence, etc.)

This (and being on the spectrum) contributed to me being a bit of a sponge for accents, tics, manners of speech, and dialect, such that I picked up the New England “wicked” as in “aw sick dude that was wickit good” as easily as I picked up the Arizona “y’all” I was exposed to in college and still use to this day.

Hell, I spent a good portion of my senior year in high school with a British accent 24/7, using as much British vocab as I could, just to be better at it for my role in “No Sex Please, We’re British”. I was believably British to the New Englanders around me, and did a good enough job in the show to impress/not offend the very British father of one of my castmates.

Now, when people listen to my local radio commercials, they tell me they can hear my Colorado accent. Which… tbh, that confuses me. I don’t *think* I have a Colorado accent, I say “ColoRAWdo” instead of the native “ColoRAAHdo”. To me, I’m still very clearly Not From Around Here.

"Trans people existing does literally nothing negative to your lives you crybaby wimps.

Your life is getting harder and costlier because of the oligarchs, not trans people"