#grammar hell

My students: "Why does Russian have FIVE words for "same" and why do they all hate me personally?"

okay but seriously though. You know that feeling when you're learning a language and you think you've got a simple word figured out and then BAM the language is like "actually we have seventeen different versions of this and you will use the wrong one every single time"?

That's Russian learners with Russian words for "same".

But .. same? It's such a basic concept??? Russian said, "hold my vodka" and gave us одинаковый, такой же, тот же самый, один и тот же, AND один.

Each one fits specific contexts, and if you pick wrong you sound like google translate having an existential crisis.

i wrote a whole blog post breaking down when to use which one.

Day 9/100

It's day 9 because I said so! After learning a lot more of how Unity works, I've gotten into a good stride of getting stuff to work on my own. Equipping items and changing between them is finished. Next, I'll be working on attacking and basic enemy implementation. When I was on a group project for school a few years ago, I was in charge of creating the enemies, so this isn't as daunting as it was back then.

When I'm not in a good spot to work on the game, I've been drawing monster ideas and looking through the asset store. Looking through the asset store has been a lot of fun for some reason. Seeing what's available (or not available) out there has been a great source of inspiration. For example, I was looking for a basic 3D model to attach to my external storage object b/c its grey box was just really boring. After looking at a few chests and storage containers, none of them felt fun. So I was thinking what would fit but be fun for a magical girl to store their stuff in. Landed on cats. Maybe they can walk around your hideouts or follow you around the city for extra carrying capacity.

These examples are taken from the Cambridge dictionary website.

1 - opinion (unusual, lovely, beautiful)

2 - size (big, small, tall)

3 - physical quality (thin, rough, untidy)

4 - shape (round, square, rectangular)

5 - age (young, old, youthful)

6 - colour (blue, red, pink)

7 - origin (Dutch, Japanese, Turkish)

8 - material (metal, wood, plastic)

9 - type (general-purpose, four-sided, U-shaped)

10 - purpose (cleaning, hammering, cooking)

It was made of a (1) strange, (6) green, (8) metallic material.

It’s a (2) long, (4) narrow, (8) plastic brush.

Or even:

She was a (1) beautiful, (2) tall, (3) thin, (5) young, (6) black-haired, (7) Scottish woman.

Native English speakers use this order without even thinking about it. So much so, that if you asked them to describe it, they probably wouldn't be able to. But they are instinctively able to tell you if a sentence is using correct or incorrect order. It just sounds wrong.

And it couldn't just be that simple. Take the phrase: big, bad wolf. It sounds right, but doesn't obey the order of adjectives; why?

Adlaut Reduplication

Reduplication is when the root or stem of a word (or part of it) or even the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change.

It is used to imply plurality, intensify or even derivate from the original meaning and create new words. It makes the tone more expressive or figurative.

Eg. hocus pocus, okey dokey, riff raff, pitter patter, ding ding, fancy schmancy....

Inventory is finished! Well mostly. I need to implement the magic inventory but that will come later. At least now any extra inventories I need will be crazy easy to set up. The UI is god awful rn and I really want to work on it but I'm saving that as a reward to myself in the future for doing the boring stuff first.

I want to stick to a 90's aesthetic to correlate with the game's influences but I'd also like to add some weirdness to maybe make it feel like a 90s that didn't exist or the 90s in another version of earth. Idk but for the UI I want to do a glittery pink goo look like the old windows media player. I don't know how to explain it but the sims 1 UI is a big influence on how I want the phone and in world ui to feel. Like if a different unheard of operating system became the default os. Eventually, I'd like the ui's color to be customizable so you can make it match your magical gal's look.

Here's a look at the crappy alpha inventory complete with the only 3 things a magical girl needs to vaporize evildoers with one hit. Jesus christ, speaking of, did anyone else think it was kinda anti-climactic in sailor moon crystal that she could turn every bad guy into flakes with a single attack? If I was one of the sailor scouts I'd be fucking pissed like why did I transform and run halfway across juban just watch sailor moon get ptog yet again. At that point she'd have to start paying me.