Nettle Briar @Ulfra_Wolfe@awoo.space

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)

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.

Send me the best you've got. Send me your strongest machines.

Is this the best you've got? Is this your strongest machine?

Now with one powershot, you'll see what vengeance means.

https://awoo.space/media/gOQPgxjE_Pe5SudgzV4

https://awoo.space/media/jfOuI3-5yJxMt5ojxcA

Always be twice the gem than they are.

FINALLY beat Slay the Spire with the Ironclad. By 1 HP. Skin of my frikkin' teeth.

Strategy: Lots of defense and attacks that give wounds, get card draw for wounds, use them.

Then also build up strength behind my shield and then POUND THEM TO DUST.

Last attack against the shapes boss was a whirlwind attack that did, like, 24x6 points of damage :V

I swear, can't look anywhere in this world without seeing another reason to just... quit

"I was fired for criticizing Trump." I actually know someone that works for the same bosses.

https://thenib.com/i-was-fired-for-criticizing-trump

I am remarkably less good with the Ironclad and constantly keep building up what seems a decent deck just to die to doing the metaphorical equivalent of dying due to slipping on a banana peel.

I recorded it, too, should upload it to youtube, but it would make a boring Let's Play.