#theme: language

Username: @is-this-pronculant

Status: on hiatus since april.

Started: March 2026

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Theme: language

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{PT: A little possum approaches with a gift!}

❀ Carnalexic ❀ Carnagelexic ❀ Vivisectlexic

{Pt: Carnalexic, carnagelexic, vivisectlexic.}

Carnalexic- A lexic gender connected/related to, described by, or just is the word "carnal".

Carnagelexic- A lexic gender connected/related to, described by, or just is the word "carnage".

Vivisectlexic- A lexic gender connected/related to, described by, or just is the word "vivisect".

Words derived from the base word- i.e. carnally, vivisection- can be included, but it's up to the individual.

Note: HOOOLY HELL I FINALLY DID IT ALL. HSHSGDHG. i seriously lacked motivation but. BUT. I was determined to finish. Finishing tasks with adhd is.. Notoriously challenging. (<- understatement of the fucking century.) I ended up just using a term I've had on the backburner for this but I DONT CARE BECAUSE ITS DONE. AND its a two for one. WEEPING. I WAS SO LATE BUT ITS DONE.

(yes Jazmin Bean was in mind for carnagelexic.)

For day 8 of Jester's birthday coining event!

Robert A. Johnson, The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden

Andrew Sean Greer, Less

Wiktionary definition of the Irish Gaelic word for ‘pulse’, chuisle

  Jack Gilbert, The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart

Jeanette Winterson, The Passion

Call the Midwife (2012–), 1x01

Andrés Neuman, ‘Translating Each Other’ in World Literature Today (trans. George Henson)

Erich Segal, The Class

Nizar Qabbani, Language

Love, Actually (2003) dir. Richard Curtis

Peter Newmark, A Textbook of Translation

Kim Thúy, Ru

 R. F. Kuang, Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence

Luigi Pirandello, One, None and a Hundred Thousand (trans. Samuel Putnam)

Sierra Demulder, ‘Heart Apnea’ from The Bones Below

Andrea Gibson, Maybe I Need You

ACT 1: EXPOSITION there are days, father is here to stay, and there is so much to do that mother can’t breathe. and there are days father is away and there is so little to do that mother. can’t breathe.

ACT 2:  RISING ACTION sometimes we have family discussions and as we talk, talk and talk; mother drowns, drowns and drowns; the pressure cooker screams, screams and screams; until the maid runs in, crying someone in her village is dead Amma nods her head in empathy.

ACT 3:  CLIMAX mother, her tongue, Slips, slides and stumbles over this foreign language her husband and children converse in so effortlessly - A world she is invited to, but not welcome in. Hovering on the threshold, never in, nor out we watch her performance with sympathy.

ACT 4: FALLING ACTION Mother should leave. But won't. Can't. The implicit permission to rebel not granted. Sometimes she looks at me the way I look at myself: abandoned. betrayed. lost. alone.

{PT: A little possum approaches with a gift!}

❀ Philologist Occuden

{PT: Philologist occuden}

An occuden identity based on being a philologist; when being a philologist is intrinsic to and strongly influences one's identity. One may identify stronger with being a philologist, or have it be a larger part of one's identity, than the average experience other philologists typically have.

Colors inspired by these language-related conceptum terms by @crowdsourcedgender. I was at a loss for colors, going mostly with yellow.. but those flags inspired me. So now the flag looks like ice cream! Yayy! Meant to represent how colorful language is :) the middle yellows are to represent history and paper, and the browns are for academia.

For day 3 of Jester's birthday coining event!

Possibly because as a trio stan and Rayllum fan I had previously talked about almost everything you can say about their scenes in 1x04, but on my most recent (meta) rewatch, I found what struck me the most about the episode in many ways was Viren's very specific script writing, re: the language he uses.

Not only is every other line like, consisting of a core series Motif Word, which would be enough on its own, but it's interesting seeing the way Viren is already reflecting core series' concepts both in a straightforward way and in a more "presenting this concept as genuine but twisted underneath" kind of way.

Take Viren's line here, for example:

It would disgrace Harrow's memory to allow the kingdom he loved to be lost in darkness.

and pair it with Karim's from 5x04 (separate parallel post here.)

The Sunfire Kingdom is lost in darkness.

Which you could argue is true for all of Xadia since the Stars (and the "searing light of their own self-righteousness") left, but whatever.

Then you also have language that is repeated throughout the series in different ways.