#chapter 15.8

Just wanted to let those of you who haven’t been paying attention over on the new site know that I just finished migrating Arc 14. We’re on the homestretch now!

I hope to be back to liveblogging proper by next week at the latest.

In the English dub of Madoka Magica: Rebellion, Madoka's parents are voiced by Taylor Hebert.

Sorry, I mean, they're voiced by

a Taylor,

and an Hebert.

I have a friend with whom I tend to discuss linguistics and translations. This friend, Glass, speaks Spanish as a second language, non-natively, which means that language comes up a lot.

I also sometimes talk to them about Worm, which they haven’t read (this makes me feel a lot safer about discussing it outside the blog than I usually do).

So when I encountered an Anglo-Spanish pidgin in Worm, of course I had to talk to them about it!

Krixwell: So here's a thing you might appreciate The last chapter of Worm I read included some lines in an Anglo-Spanish pidgin 

Glass: Huh What'd it sound like?

Krixwell: ----- “To gustaria livir?” She asked, in the local’s anglo-spanish pidgin.  Do you want to live? His eyes widened as he seemed to realize she was there.  “Eres an gwarra engel?” “No,” she replied.  She brushed his hair out of his face with one hand.  “No an engel.”  Not an angel. “Livir,” he breathed the word before slumping over. -----

Glass: "Livir" That's... weird to hear It's an English word with a Spanish sort of conjugation

Krixwell: And later: ------ “Eres okay,” she said, in his language.  “Eres livo.” It’s okay.  You’re alive.  She forced herself to smile as reassuringly as she could. ------

Glass: Now that I think about it that's just the actual word for live/alive (vivir/vivo) but with an L

Krixwell: Nice.

Glass: If "live" were directly used in Spanish as a loanword it would probably be "livear" “Eres an gwarra engel?” Something like "are you a war angel?"

Krixwell: I interpreted it as "are you a guardian angel", but you'd know better than me and "war angel" makes more sense with the setting of the specific scene 

Glass: In Spanish I believe it would be "¿Eres un ángel de guerra?" The U in "guerra" doesn't get pronounced, but I guess that's where the pidgin part comes in

Krixwell: There and in the construction of the compound using the English format

Glass: Oh, and in Spanish "eres" means "you're" so I'm surprised "eres okay" didn't get translated as "you're okay"  And in fact I'm surprised it's not "estás okay" or whatever the pidgin variant of "estás" would be The actual way to say "you're okay" would be "estás bien" which uses another word for "you're"

Krixwell: I did translate it as "you're" before the POV character gave her translation.  Honestly, "you're" makes a little more sense.

Glass: I wonder if this is an actual pidgin

Krixwell: It would be like Wildbow to use an actual one

Glass: The words "an" and "engel" are intriguingly ambiguous about which language they come from "an" could be from English "a"/"an" or Spanish "un"/"una"/"unos"/"unas"

Krixwell: I like how it ends up getting spelled like in Norwegian. The latter, I mean

It's come to my attention (via Sharks) that there's a bit of confusion about the current hiatus and the WordPress migration, so let me clarify a few things:

I'm currently manually mirroring the blog's contents to WordPress, due to Tumblr making stupid executive decisions and being quite likely to die as a site within the next year or two.

(For anyone not in the know about that: Tumblr suddenly went "no porn, guys" and entrusted their bots, which have long proven to be completely incapable of identifying whether something is porn or not, with identifying whether a post contains porn or not. Any post they flag is blocked from public view and requesting a review by a human on an old flagged post is a pain in the ass. And it doesn't even stop the porn bots because they can just tag everything with #sfw and, for now, the bots believe it.)

There's a lot of blog to go through and I have limited time each day to do it, so it might take a while. I'm currently at 6.9 after about a month of this, so I hope to be finished around March. Ideally earlier.

The reason I'm not blogging more chapters while I do this is that I can't trust my Tumblr posts to stay accessible anymore. I have multiple backups from before the NSFW ban took effect (December 17, 2018), but anything I post after that is unsafe, and any further backups taken afterwards would potentially miss any posts (new or old) that have been flagged.

The WordPress site is already available to view, but since I'm not finished mirroring it (and fixing the mess left by the automatic Tumblr mirroring suddenly partially working after I'd dismissed it as broken and started doing it manually), I consider it under construction.

The site can be found here.

When the migration is finished, I will continue liveblogging on the new site.

I will also update this blog with links to new posts on the WordPress site as long as Tumblr stays functional enough to let me do that.

Comments are, for now at least, enabled on the WordPress site, but I will not be reading them.

...pulling exclusively from songs that are already on my main playlist:

Worm itself: Ghetto Rainbows by Insane Clown Posse

Brockton Bay: Theme For Great Cities by Simple Minds

Skitter: Here Comes a Thought from Steven Universe

Grue: Spooky Scary Skeletons by Andrew Gold

Tattletale: Icarus by Emma Blackery

Regent: Everybody Do The Flop by LilDeuceDeuce / Hearts Are Made For Breaking by Disneyfanatic2364

Bitch: Dogsong by Toby Fox

Imp: Shake It Off by Taylor Swift

Panacea: River Run Red by Rachel Rose Mitchell

Glory Girl: Megalovania by Toby Fox / I Burn from RWBY

Marquis: Bonetrousle by Toby Fox

Bakuda: Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom (Creeper Rap) by Dan Bull

Coil: I Can't Decide by Scissor Sisters

Leviathan: Under the Sea from The Little Mermaid

Behemoth: Pompeii by Bastille

Legend: The Hero Within by James Paget

Alexandria: Reach Out by Westlife

Armsmaster: Popular by Eric Saade / Ambitions by Donkeyboy

The Wards: Ward by C418, from Minecraft

Trickster: Desperado by The Eagles (cover by Westlife)

Jack Slash: Mack the Knife from The Threepenny Opera (cover by Westlife)

Siberian: TIGER by Neil Cicierega

Bonesaw: Like a Surgeon by Weird Al Yankovic