abluerowan:

So the James Webb telescope just took a picture of a galaxy that is 29 million light years away.

If that wasn’t cool enough NASA decided to peel away all the cosmic dust in order to see the bones of the Galaxy itself.

AND IT’S BREATHTAKING

sinorim-pisani:

mar-and-the-idea-graveyard:

sinorim-pisani:

tl;dr Linguistic anthropology except it’s about Danny Phantom???

Wake up, new danny phantom obsession just dropped ya’ll:

It’s time to talk about GHOST LANGUAGE!!

But not the canonical Esperanto, which is a cool and interesting decision on the show’s part.

I mean the idea that the ghosts have an entirely new form of communicating that sounds like static and space and ice and fire and everything a creature can feel, all condensed into what is essentially a massive creole language!

I’m a huge fan of authors who, when describing non-esperanto based “ghost speak”, choose to take a more eldritch noise approach. Danny, for instance, when using the language of the ghosts, is often said to sound like all the noise of a wintery atmosphere; words like frost, ice, static, tingle, sharp, quiet and cold are employed to connect Danny’s speech with his ghost core qualities. It is a fantastic way to bring an eerie and disquieting sense to Danny, and to indicate to us readers that ghosts have a unique and deeply ingrained method of communication beyond the use of human tongues.

To read way too much into something so little, I think that this could indicate that ghosts communicate with their cores! (I know, you’re like Sinorim are we back to the ghost cores??) YES, we are back to how interesting ghost cores are!!

Big Question #1: If every creature-turned-ghost that spoke some form of human tongue throughout ANY period in human history, ended up in the Infinite Realms, how would they best be able to communicate?

In Danny Phantom, what makes a ghost a ghost (beyond the whole being dead thing) is their core, and their Obsession, which can be said to be an emotionally charged motivation that stems from strong emotional stimuli during life. Ghosts are creatures of feeling, of sentiment and emotion and memory, and all of those both factor into and stem out of a ghostly core. So to make a couple leaps: if a ghost could not communicate with a human tongue to its neighbor (who would be unable to understand the words), but they both have that commonality of a core and therefore a heightened sense of emotional minutiae, I would say logically the ghosts would then begin to develop a “language” based on feeling and sense. Multiply that effect by…..infinity, tack on a couple millennia, and you end up with a ghostly wordless creole language.

Big Question #2: Since a ghost’s core, and subsequently their emotional cognizance and memory, is pretty much like a human fingerprint (individual and quite distinct), how would their language output be affected, and how would others actually be able to comprehend it?

This one is as easy as the difference between po-tay-to and po-tah-to, to-may-to and to-mah-to! What?? But that’s just a joke, you say?? While it is a silly set of phrases, it also really concisely demonstrates the vast diversity of pronunciation, and is basically the reason why an international phonetic alphabet exists. Between pronunciation, accents, and the development of linguistic dialects, I think I can say that, at least on the comprehension side, a universal understanding of the Big Emotional Sentiments would have developed over time.

The interesting part lies in the idiosyncrasies of memory. A little side discussion - Danny has an ice core. Why? No idea! but I’m hazarding a guess that it may have something to do with his MEMORY and the emotions he felt when he died. Perhaps he felt the cold metal of the portal walls against him, perhaps the shock itself reminded him of the numbness associated with freezing temperatures or frostbite, maybe he felt a wintery sort of loneliness (it makes sense I swear), and all of that contributed to his development of an ice core. I can use Vlad as an example too, but I’ll save that for another time.

So when Danny uses the Language of the Ghosts, he is understood by other ghosts because of a collective awareness of emotional sentiments. However, because of his ice core, which was determined by his individual emotional cognizance and henceforth informs his development, his form of ghost language will always be touched by his memory of the cold. When other ghosts hear Danny in their language, they’ll not only understand what he is communicating, but they’ll also be able to understand who Danny is, from the little touches of his cold memory that are infused in his communicating, once again thanks to his ice-based ghostly core.

And when humans hear it, they get super bad vibes because they can’t understand the sounds and memories and feelings that the ghosts trying to broadcast to them!

I’m imagining poor Danny first learning he could speak the language, and then trying to show it off with his friends and being sad that it freaks them out when all he was trying to say was “You guys are the best” T.T

Good god this turned into an entire essay.

Does any of this even make sense?

Ultimately I just think that it’s super cool that authors make Danny sound like the wintery freaky eldritch creature that he could be when he’s speaking to ghosts XD

To be continued!

Yes! thank you! whenever I try to even imagine the Infinite Realms at all, language is a Thing™ that must be addressed. I know it’s a cartoon show that aired years ago but that everyone communicates effortlessly despite the difference in time and culture says a lot, either they share a common language automatically, or they are perceived as such.

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I’ve never whipped out a notebook to take notes so fast before!

Of course there may have been an attempt made to create a Lingua Franca - despite the somewhat isolated existence of the Time Locked Lands, I think there would probably have still been an awareness of the other ghost communities and cultures that existed around the regions these lands maneuvered throughout. We know that ghosts can speak, and that they actively use words to communicate verbally in whatever language they are choosing to communicate in, so I’m positive an effort was made to find a method of purely verbal communication that would be universally acknowledged and understood by any ghost. It would pretty much be like something necessary for continued survival assurance, to go with an instinctual interpretation.

But I think at some point in the past, there may have been a realization that….there were almost TOO many linguistic branches merging and mixing together, and yet still more languages barely mixing into the Lingua Franca at all (like the tongue spoken in Mattingly, or any severely isolated ghost community). Because we’re talking ghosts that have come from every where, any where, any time, any age etc - the Infinite Realms are infinite in many ways XD That’s so many people to factor into one language!

In the case of Esperanto, perhaps that drive to create a common verbal communication continued on a surface level throughout the zone, which leads us to Wulf, who uses Esperanto exclusively because he may still believe that it is the only way he will be understood. However, if the ghosts came to realize that not even spoken Esperanto would be universally accessible to EVERYONE in the Realms, then this is the point where I posit that they would to turn to Core communication, which I feel is inherently non-verbal! It makes sense that spoken language would have been the first thing the Realms as a whole would have turned to - it’s familiar, and proven to be accessible and functional in their real world lives. But once Esperanto develops, and ghosts eventually realize that there are so many obstacles in establishing it as the One Form of Socialization, then I think an almost accidental discovery of their ability to share emotional sentiments on a weirdly deep level is probable.

It could also definitely be a “class” or social issue! In the fandom, we have these distinctions that are made between ghosts that are made by a real world creature entering the Realms, ghosts that are born in the Infinite Realms, and ghosts that are manifested out of overarching mechanical concepts. Perhaps the idea of non-verbal communication (the whole eldritch noise core language theory) is something almost reserved for the ghosts that are real world made - since Esperanto can only get them so far, and their real world language is only comprehended by a small percentage of ghosts, they would then turn to CoreComm (I’ve decided to abbreviate it lmao) as a primary method of interaction. Whereas ghosts that are born in the Realms are most likely often interacting in Esperanto, because they are more exposed to the ghost communities that CAN understand them verbally using the Lingua Franca. That’s not to say they don’t eventually come to develop an understanding of CoreComm, but it’s not strictly out of necessity the way real world made ghosts would need it to be.

On one hand, it could once again explain Wulf - if Wulf is a ghost that was born in the Ghost Zone (seeing as he’s an anthropomorphic wolf that speaks) then it stands to reason that he communicates in Esperanto, once again because it’s the primary method of interaction he believes is well understood.

On the other hand, if Wulf was a wolf from the real world turned ghost, then it’s possible he hasn’t developed the same deep understanding of emotional minutiae as other ghosts, or even that his emotions as an animal are way difficult for human ghosts to comprehend, and therefore he has a harder time communicating in and understanding CoreComm (and this could be where we get dialects of non-verbal communication <.<).

Esperanto itself doesn’t seem to be purely linked with the afterlife or with liminality - it’s simply a language that can be learned, although it’s primarily the Ghost Zone Lingua Franca - which allows for the idea the Tucker and friends were able to learn it. But where’s the fun in that? Where’s the unique sense of ghost in a learnable spoken language?

I feel like CoreComm could become one of those things that made a ghost a bit twitchy or uncomfortable if they didn’t indulge in it. A core is what connects them to the zone (the afterlife) and to each other, it’s a huuuge part of who they are, so not indulging in a little ghostly emotional sharing could result in a sense of displacement. Like a pool that steadily fills up and up and up until it overflows everywhere, unless it’s drained in some way. I’m still on the angst of Danny being sad he can’t actively use CoreComm with the people he loves in the real world T.T

Going back to the actual show now, and the idea of active translation - it would be kind of fun to think about the idea that the entire time, all the ghosts are communicating with CoreComm, and the show is actively translating what they’re saying to the viewers XD That would definitely be an explanation for the apparent ease with which all the ghosts understand Modern American English.

But where do Tucker and Sam and Jazz come into all of this ghost language rambling?

How does measurable liminality fit into the idea of core communication? If the above three are liminal…can they eventually begin to understand the unique way ghosts share themselves with each other?

Wow. This is gonna turn into a full-fledged thesis.

lottie-littlejohn:

terriblerealestateagentphotos:

Breakfast bath.

enki2:

trans-raiden:

a girl must see her special little character at least once a day lest she get consumed by rage and start throwing rocks at people

worlds-smallest-epsilon:

nick-nonya:

momusu-saval:

What if you put toothpaste on your dick and I used it as a toothbrush😍

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lizardsfromspace:

One of the interchangeable ghouls running in 2024 is talking up his plan to tie voting rights to passing a civics test & it’s amazing watching people discuss this in neutral terms

ALT

A lot of the response to this is “oh, that’s great, next let’s restore civics education in schools”, but the entire point is that they’re not going to improve civics education. The age range gives a hint: this is a ploy to disenfranchise young voters, by, presumably, demanding they pass a test the state won’t train them for in order to get rights granted by the states. It’s like saying “oh, yes, literacy tests for voting makes sense, it’ll really inspire the South to educate black people”. It uh. Didn’t. And I think many of the people agreeing know that and support it bc it’s disenfranchising, but some seem to just agree bc it’s “COMMON SENSE” and they’re not digging any deeper?

This would be a civics test authored by a far right administration, to be clear. The tests we give immigrants are already propagandistic nonsense, imagine that in the hands of the “slavery taught people valuable skills” crowd

Also, his amendment would allow young people who can’t pass the test to vote if they join the military. This is a “service guarantees citizenship” amendment

ALT

pillsburysoyboy:

What is your biggest writing sin?

Italic abuse

Comma poisoning

Run-on sentence hell

“I forgot the plot”

Thesaurus overload

What is a paragraph break?

Six pages of description

Too many conlangs

Forgot which character is talking

Other (put in tags)

bixbiboom:

inthefallofasparrow:

thatgirlonstage:

greyhoundone:

anarchy-in-new-vegas:

oriko-mikuni:

triviallytrue:

brighterflowers:

everyone’s talking about how “prev tags” is an integral part of how people use the site and now the update’s ruined it and blah blah blah, but you can’t fool me! I remember back when everyone was griping about how it’s a degenerate innovation from twitter migrants and that real tumblr users write out the tags themselves

let it be known that i still hate it

#copy pasting out the tags is still just better

wordswithkittywitch:

#‘previous tags’ what you’re giving me homework? Required reading?

I don’t care that much that it killed prev tags bc yeah that was a v new thing anyway

I DO care that it destroyed an actually-integral and time-honored site feature, which is the ability to back up the reblog chain to someone who had not added an inane comment you didn’t care about including on your own reblog

Guys. Death to 'prev tags’, but you can still jump to a previous reblog.
Click on the user name (red line) to go to the top of their blog.
Click in the blue rectangle to go to their specific reblog of the post.

You can also tap the date to get to that specific reblog. It’s just the name and icon you can’t tap. Tapping the name or icon takes you to the person’s blog (which, honestly, makes sense); tapping literally any other part of the reblog header takes you to that specific reblog (which, admittedly, doesn’t, unless you’re used to tumblr’s bullshit logic).

alithographica:

“Stop being funnier than me on my own post” is one of my favorite healthy tumblrisms, along with things like “hang on lemme look that up…yeah this is funny” and explicit tone indicators (positive). Like yeah let’s build a world where we playfully format healthy interactions. You made a post and you wanted to be the star but damn, you’ve really gotta hand it to this other person for their really funny addition, so here’s the internet equivalent of giving someone a friendly punch on the shoulder while making sure they know they got a good grade in social interaction

aofi-humananimalgirlfeet:

charlottan:

Pokemon Estrogen and Pokemon Testosterone

yea i know team rocket

augustdementhe:

i-have-approximately-4-bones:

i-have-approximately-4-bones:

i-have-approximately-4-bones:

bogleech:

thetinybutimportantthings:

aviculor:

thellamamongler:

aplpaca:

aplpaca:

That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. I’d thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They can’t even interbreed. They don’t have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.

These

are more genetically compatible than These

and that’s why morphology-based phylogeny has Issues

@aviculor

The problem is perspective. People always think dogs are the ‘standard’ animal, the metric to use for whether or not two organisms “look like” they’re related. When in fact they’re a massive outlier due to the fact that we fucked up this lineage of wolf beyond recognition with selective breeding. It’s why people always say “breed” when they mean “species”, especially when talking about groups like lizards which can’t even be defined cladistically since some of them are closer to snakes than each other. To say nothing of fish.

I once read an article that emphasized there is no such thing as a fish. Sharks and rays, lamprey, lobe-finned fish like lungfish and coelacanth, bichir and sturgeon, and of course the multiple infraclasses of more “modern” fish groups are all only very distantly related to one another. They’ve maintained semi-similar body structures only because there are limited ways to efficiently move through water as a vertebrate. 

This

And this

Are more distantly related from one another than you and I are from a lungfish

Which is absolutely fuckin wild.

Not only that, but all of us air-breathing land vertebrates, all the lizards and chickens and people and frogs, are closer to one another than those three “fish” are to one another as well.

these

are genetically closer than these

and…

these

are genetically closer than these

and my personal favorite, it really fucks with people…

these

are more genetically similar than these

COOL. 

grimnocs:

More miraculous doodles ft chat n tigress banter

diadraws:

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