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a while ago I read this sci-fi short story from the 50s where a guy is kidnapped and interrogated by aliens using a very sophisticated lie detector, but he realizes that the lie detector works off technical truth, and with some careful phrasing and misdirection, he manages to make them believe that humans are a race of immortal, overpowered, omniscient telepathic beings. and it works.
my favorite part is when he tells them that humans are "capable of transportation without the aid of spaceships or any vehicles, just by using mental power to control physical matter". it's true, we can. it's called walking.
i'm trying to give actual shape to the blurry Estraven from my head
one thing i hate about english is your open compound words. what do you mean it's a light switch and not a lightswitch or a water bottle instead of a waterbottle. get real
Run away further, it's Bad Love
its christmas eve and look whos on tumblr
all of us
How do you say “tree” in European languages
by linguaspace_/instagram
for tlhod secret santa 2024!
how puf would react to u coming out as gay
RIP Csónakos you wouldve loved tankcsapda
that neuron activation feeling I get when Gethen is mentioned in a work of UKLG
just read Solitude, I need to cry and think
I recommend József Attila fr! he is controversial but interesting, sometimes a bit too overused but summarizes an era well and has that edgelord vibe imo (and I think Ján Smrek did a lot of pretty good translations of his works)
AND PRESSBURG! I need to watch it finally - my sister kept talking about it and how there are some inaccuracies and just unrealistic cringe stuff, but it's good that it exists and talks about things like these
Nebudem ťa volať "bráško", Nebudem ťa volať "kamoš", Oboch už v živote mám, Tak mi s tým trochu pomôž Ako voláš niekoho, S kým zdieľaš ťarchu zrady, S kým padal si vo vojnách, S kým staval si tie hrady S kým vymenil sis' slová, No komu viac nerozumieš ? Bol si tu celý ten čas, Tak povedz mi: čo o nás vieš? Ezer év együtt, Hogy történhetett ez meg? Különböző szavak, De ugyanaz a természet Próbáljunk meg nem határokat Húzni egymás közé Ne nézzünk egymásra, Nézzünk együtt előre! Még mindig ugyanazt a folyót ünnepeljük, Még mindig te vagy az én igazi északom, Igyunk hát mindkettőnkre, Nőjön a boldogságunk, Lássuk egymást napról napra többet, És ne féljünk többé attól, Ami közös bennünk
should I do a TLHOD reread where I read the original and the Hungarian translation simultaneously? (and tbh The Dispossessed too, I haven't finished the Hungarian edition yet)
this made me so emotional. I should be asleep and not szlovmagyposting on tumbli, but oh well. it reminded me of this poem by a poet Hungarians learn a lot about
here, the original Hungarian and the Slovak translation:
https://www.babelmatrix.org/works/hu/József_Attila-1905/A_Dunánál/sk
Nebudem ťa volať "bráško", Nebudem ťa volať "kamoš", Oboch už v živote mám, Tak mi s tým trochu pomôž Ako voláš niekoho, S kým zdieľaš ťarchu zrady, S kým padal si vo vojnách, S kým staval si tie hrady S kým vymenil sis' slová, No komu viac nerozumieš ? Bol si tu celý ten čas, Tak povedz mi: čo o nás vieš? Ezer év együtt, Hogy történhetett ez meg? Különböző szavak, De ugyanaz a természet Próbáljunk meg nem határokat Húzni egymás közé Ne nézzünk egymásra, Nézzünk együtt előre! Még mindig ugyanazt a folyót ünnepeljük, Még mindig te vagy az én igazi északom, Igyunk hát mindkettőnkre, Nőjön a boldogságunk, Lássuk egymást napról napra többet, És ne féljünk többé attól, Ami közös bennünk
also! I just needed to look this up as a Hungarian, because yes, while the word sántál makes sense to me, it just sounds old school, we use sántít more nowadays
and ofc I needed to look it up in a Hungarian dictionary and let me nerd out about this one for a bit (bear with my English and the possibly wonky translation of this text)
so the word I looked up was sánta (lame), the noun from sántál/sántít
so basically,, Hungarian got the word from an old Slavic word group, possibly before the 11th century, when the Slavic nasal a still existed (btw if anyone knows about this nasal a, feel free to yap about it, I'm interested)
originally it used to mean something like to walk slowly, haltingly and then in Hungarian the meaning changed to to limp
and then some Slavic languages borrowed it back from Hungarian, apparently Serbo-Croatian and Slovene also have it as šantati
oh wow, I just had a szófosás here (basically a word for yapping in Hungarian, it literally means word-diarrhea)
Random Slovak š-words etymology:
Šajn (as in "nemám šajnu") — from German "(Geld)schein", the Austro-Hungarian banknote.
Šampón — from English "shampoo", from Indian "čāmpo" (to press)
Šanca — from French "cheance" (accident, luck), from Latin "cadentia" (falling) — used first for a good result when throwing a die.
Šanovať — from German "schön" (pretty)
Šantiť — from Hungarian "sántál" (to limp)
Šarkan — from Hungarian "sárkány" (dragon, virago, vixen, Xanthippe), from Proto-Turkic "siāŕgan" (carp, dragon)
Šarlatán — from German "Scharlatan", from Italian "ciarlatano", a blend of "ciarlatore" (chatterer) and "cerretano" (hawker), the latter coming from the village of Cerreto di Spoleto, known for its tricksters.
Šašo — from "šach" due to their clothes' black-and-white chessboard pattern
Šelma — from Middle High German "schelme" (plague)
Šovinizmus — from N. Chauvin, an excessively patriotic First French Republic soldier famous from the play "La Cocarde Tricolore"
Štamgast — from German "Stamm" (trunk, tribe) + "Gast" (guest)
Šuhaj — from Hungarian "suhanc", from "suhancár" (Swiss) since the Swiss often used to serve abroad as guards, mostly young men, hence the Slovak meaning
ok. i think i've calculated the left hand of darkness characters' ages. a fair bit of this is me headcanoning but WHATEVER
(under the cut is sorve, genly, estraven, arek, ashe, and estraven & ashe's kids' ages)
sorve harth rem ir estraven: so we'll start with the only character we're given something adjacent to a canon age for: sorve. except the canon age is wrong. genly says he looks around 19-20, but this basically can't be the case because of ~textual inferences~ that can be made. we know that siblings are allowed to be kemmering partners until someone gets pregnant, and then they have to stop. we also know that vowing kemmering after said pregnancy is what gets you exiled. we don't know exact dates, but we can guess that estraven was exiled shortly after sorve's birth because of this (or maybe even during the pregnancy if you think arek is the one who carried him), and while we don't know the exact cause of arek's death, we can assume it was shortly after estraven's exile from estre because of how he always talks about the events together. so we can infer that arek died pretty much right after sorve was born, and we know arek died fourteen years before the events of the story. that puts sorve at roughly fourteen years old, and knowing genly, he probably overestimated because sorve was tall or something
genly ai: we know he's under thirty, at least as per estraven's assessment. estraven could be wrong about this, because genly definitely was for sorve, but i also trust estraven's judgement a little more here (and it helps that genly's the one translating the journal entries, so he could've just added a footnote if estraven was wrong but he didn't). now, estraven specifically says "not thirty", which typically means twenty-nine in formal english (think any of the austen novels, where "not two and twenty" means twenty-one). technically, he could be anywhere from like, 18-30, but at the very least, not thirty means he's in his 20s, and i think 29 works perfectly fine.
therem harth rem ir estraven: estraven's age is a tad bit more complicated to calculate, but still doable. we're given the ages of his mom, esvans (who's 70+), and his son, sorve (who, as i've explained, is roughly 14). this is complicated because it's said that gethenians generally stop having kids and start using contraceptives at about twenty-four, and have all their kids young. if you calculate back from esvans's age, that puts estraven at roughly 46, but if you calculate back from sorve's age, that puts estraven at thirty-eight MAX. you could use either of these calculations and you'd have enough textual support to do so, but i'm going to choose to use sorve's age for a few reasons: - it's more plausible to me that genly's data point about gethenians mostly choosing not to reproduce past twenty-four is based on recent data and not esvans's generation (especially because this choice is facilitated by contraceptives, and it would make sense for that to be a more recent scientific development) - estraven has two kids with ashe (more on that later) who are ten at oldest, and if he is 46, he would've had to father them at 36. if gethenians generally stop reproducing after 24, this is a bit too much of a stretch for me. so, like i said, that puts estraven at a maximum of 38 years old, but i actually think he's even younger than that. as mentioned earlier, estraven has two other kids with ashe. he and ashe vowed kemmering ten years before the beginning of the story (they were partners for seven years and have been separated for three), and although it's possible that they had their children before that, i doubt it just because of how estraven talks about it ("we were kemmerings for seven years and had two sons" at least kind of implies that the sons were born during the duration of that seven years). so with all that, if gethenian reproduction doesn't tend to happen past ~24 and estraven's kids with ashe are ten or younger, he'd be around 34, and would've had sorve around 20 (which is very plausible to me). hell, if his kids with ashe aren't the same age, the math probably means estraven is EVEN YOUNGER and sorve was a teen pregnancy baby, which also tracks imo.
arek harth rem ir estraven: this one is easy, arek is canonically a year older than estraven, which puts him at roughly 21 at the time of his death (potentially younger).
ashe foreth rem ir osboth: again, by assuming ashe's kids are ten or younger, ashe is 34 max, likely younger.
estraven & ashe's kids: all we know is that there's two of them, and they both could be anywhere from 3-10 years old (realistically, 5-10 years old, because the youngest kid being 3 or 4 would mean that estraven had sorve at thirteen or fourteen, which is very implausible even for a "sorve was a teen pregnancy" headcanon). we don't know if the kids are the same age or not either
ok there you have it, thank you for coming to my TED talk
I love it when I suddenly get a bunch of notes on my Earthsea posts
Like hello fellow tumblr tag searcher, seeking anyone else who's going feral over these people. Welcome. Glad you're here.
I am infected by Ai's pure pleasure in our achievement. Looked at soberly it is as bad as ever, up here.
There's lots of problems with USA public education but also a lot of you were just drawing Naruto characters kissing while your history teacher tried to tell you about the Scramble for Africa
average frantic fanfic night with my besties
except the protagonist is Mézga Aladár or Áts Feri
Shoutout to Hanna and Benedict and their 225 year age difference tumblr would NOT be able to handle them
az Időfutárt soha nem olvastam, csak a címét hallottam, de ezen kacagtam egy jót
aztán felmentem a Wikipédiára
HOGY MI
Shoutout to Hanna and Benedict and their 225 year age difference tumblr would NOT be able to handle them
reading The Matter of Seggri rn and I thought back to the night when I couldn't fall asleep bc of the insect-like inhabitants of Rocannon...
the Hainish were something else fr
as Merriment put it:
My ancestors must have really had fun playing with these people's chromosomes.
BOY the ancient Hainish messed with so many human planets’ genetics.
drawn while listening to the bbc radio adaptation