Tavish/jane
This is the most perfect Tavish/Jane comic ever. Not least because of that glimpse of light rose curtains, fancy wallpaper, and the delicate flowery teapot—they’re in Tavish’s home, aren’t they, enjoying a quiet morning together? Ah, domestic bliss.
To illustrate the consequences of the typological differences, Table 4 shows two Finnish phrases with their English translations.
Needs segmentation of seikkailu though.
seikka ‘thing, matter, factor’ [cognate w/ English sake] +il(e)- (frequentativ) +u (nomen verbum)
“state of habitually doing things”, i.e. “adventure”
Finnish frequently using transparently derived expressions for concepts expressed by unanalyzable words in English is a pretty major difference between the two languages as well.
This does not mean the meaning would be necessarily predictable from the bare structure though. E.g. asiointi, where all the morphemes — asia+(o)i+nti — are synonymous with the counterparts in seikkailu, means regardless simply “running errands”.
Or consider this set of words:
kirja “book”
kirjata “to log”
kirjoittaa “to write”
kirjasto “library”
kirjoa “to embroider”
kirjo “spectrum”
kirjava “variegated”
kirje “letter”
kirjasin “typeface”
kirjallisuus “literature”(if #5 thru #7 sound out of place, it’s because the original meaning of the root √kirja- is something like “decorative mark”, and the formal morphological derivation order does in no way match the actual historical chronology here; many forms including kirja are best considered back-formations.)
I don’¨t understand even my own language anymore my life is ruined congratulations
OH PLEASE
TRY TO LOOK AT ELROND’S FACE WITHOUT CRYING
THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE
SFHSAFDHSHCHD
THE LAST HALF OF THE VERY LAST GIF
HOW THE FUCK DID I NOT NOTICE THIS BEFORE
HOW THE FUCK DID I NOT NOTICE THIS BEFORE
A Waste of Character
Wasting a character or not fully developing one is a crime.
In writing, it’s tough to come up with interesting people. Finding the perfect balance between gray areas or allowing the character to be molded over the course of the story is hard work. It all needs planning and thinking.
It’s not a punishable offense, but it should be.
