Nettle Briar @Ulfra_Wolfe@awoo.space

I wanna be a research bitch. Like do research for people and learn shit through it. History, family history, stuff like that

@Shotagonist@mastodon.social Some people called me out on showing pics of my operator, so whatevs.

Admittedly, my photography skills need work

In the land of the blind, no man is king.

This is more "me" than my shell ever will be.

Duality.

(But if you really know Old Germanic, you're gonna get a lot of it.

If you know Old Germanic AND, say, old Latin, and say... Middle French, you're pretty solid on pretty much getting the gist of Middle English)

Specifically: Old English, back when English was much more a Germanic language is is virtually unintelligible to anyone today without training.

And in languages, lingual drift is what you get with population drift. That's a big reason why there were so many different languages that made it hard for people to communicate. They split up.

You get populations splitting apart, coming back to meet each other, and then coming up with whole new words that were really your old words but different now. (Example: "shirt" and "skirt" used to just mean "skirt", which is to say shirt. English dropped the k to h)

@Shotagonist@mastodon.social I miss my Gara. Sold her to make room for my latest Mirage Prime.

Polari is a linguistic deviation. So is Ebonics -- whether the original term referring to the language of all descendants of Black African slaves, or the modern term of Vernacular English. It's language, it evolves and changes and combines into something new & interesting.

There are people that would frown on that idea. There's also people in Singapore who look down on Singlish. Or Spanglish. But that's a linguistic deviation. It's valid. It's legit.

One trick to linguistics is to learn to not be elitist about linguistics. If you look at language with a sense of equality, and not as an institution on high that's Cambridge-approved or whatever, it morphs and evolves a *lot*, and every culture has a stereotype of each other.

@Shotagonist@mastodon.social I swap it up a LOT nowadays. I just love them all and their different playstyles.

@Shotagonist@mastodon.social Even late game, when I'm underpowered in damage? I can use the Corinth to just blast damage entire crowds to the ground and let my team mates use finishers.

@Shotagonist@mastodon.social Not as fun as the Corinth. Every shot from the Corinth is heaven to my ears. And the secondary + blast damage lets me take out crowds, and show off skill shots 'cause I cannot shoot anything solid with the secondary, HAS to be an air shot.

@Shotagonist@mastodon.social Bombarding people with the Zarr with Mirage's double attacks and using an archwing in the Plains of Eidolon is better than sex.