elilla @elilla@queer.party

had to go out to work in the ~office~. like it's 2019 reënactment or s/t. and it's like 3500°C outside.

at least I get to play with this summer look a bit more

I think it’s time for a #reintroduction ^.^

hello comrades! 🙋‍♀️💖🍭 I’m a Brazilian trans woman living in Germany 💕 I often toot selfies and stuff about The Trans Experience, queerness, linguistics, fiction (mostly fantasy). I’m anarchist, vegan, polyamorous, and a mom.

Some things I like: nail polish, antifa, conlangs, linux, outfits, #bujo, EZNL, plushies, girls, sweets, Rojava, hormonal biohacking, orchids, queer-created fiction, revolution
#introduction

> Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal æsthetic might seem real. But it is true. An enquirer (among many) asked what the [Lord of the Rings] was all about, and whether it was an 'allegory'. And I said it was an effort to create a situation in which a common greeting would be « Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielmo », and that the phase long antedated the book. I never heard any more.

#Tolkien #LotR #conlang

1. Melissa (Greek μέλισσα) ‘honeybee’ ≅ general Tupian Jandira ‘honeybee’, name of my grandmother who raised me as a baby
2. ‘Mel’ is feminine (not neutral) in my language and it sounds almost like an inversion of the shortened form of my deadname.
3. Alphabetically one letter forward from deadname; symbolically a step forward.
4. But matches it in sonorous liquid consonants.

#transgender #mtf #name

From: « Les Amies de Place Blanche », Christer Strömholm.

This made me happy.

(source and more: https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/catalog?f%5Bcollection_name_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Les+Amies+de+Place+Blanche+by+Christer+Str%C3%B6mholm&f%5Bsubject_geographic_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Paris)

#transgender #sapphic #wlw

snake net from sockdreams to go see a cutie 💕

I love Germany but this high school class segregation bullshit is just ridiculous. I can’t fathom how is this Brave New World nonsense just taken to be normal and acceptable.

I think the most calming thing anybody has ever told me was ‘even if we don’t talk for months it’s ok, if then you want to message me I’ll be glad‘

I try to pass it forward 😌

good night good people, I hope your days are filled with love and the presence of those who care about you

this one tho (ep.4). damn. and I thought the first game hit hard…

#meatpunks

this sound truck accidentally captured mid-fieldwork just hit my jp nostalgia right in the feels

#Japan

Tōhoku speakers have a realisation of word-final /tu/, /ti/ which comes out as a very long, voiceless affricate /tɕːːːː/. /ki/ can be affricated too. these are detected as "noise" by audacity and reduced along with actual noise.

luckily voiceless consonants aren't essential to my research and they still stay audible, albeit quieter, but it's tricky. voiceless strident _are_ turbulent aperiodic noise after all.

this recording has an electrical whistle/noise that's almost identical to my tinnitus and it makes it super hard to test if the noise reduction filter is working >.>

it’s funny how small improvements to UI can break workflows.

tried compiling #audacity 2.4 for better HiDPI support, and for the spectrogram/waveform multiview. but in the new version, when you add a point label with Ctrl+M, it puts the focus in the label for you to write text.

makes sense for most cases, but I don’t need named labels, just to mark points—literal tens of thousands of them. the extra ESC to escape the text input makes the new version not worth it for my use case.

gay weather

from childhood up until the first half of my 2nd bachelor's, I used to spend a lot of time in libraries. found lots of cool stuff by random browsing. then somehow the online took over and I started reading at home on devices.

I see all these discussions of libraries as community centres, as places to hang out, and feel like I'm missing out. maybe it would be cool to take a walk, leave the mobile in the locker and just read.

guess I chose a bad moment to think about this 🙈

> African-American Vernacular English speakers use 'be' to mark a habitual grammatical aspect not distinguished in Standard English. For ex., to 'be' singing means to sing habitually, not to presently be singing. In one experiment, children were shown drawings of Elmo eating cookies while Cookie Monster looked on. Both black and white subjects agreed that Elmo _is_ eating cookies, but the black children said that Cookie Monster _be_ eating cookies.

#AAVE #linguistics
http://www.umass.edu/synergy/fall98/ebonics3.html

didn't expect a can of paint to be so hashtag relatable

often wish I had access to "A Student's Dictionary of Classical Chinese" in Pleco even though I can't read Chinese and don't do Sinology at all, just to see what words used to mean, but it's 42€ for occasional bouts of curiosity

also there’s nothing I’ll miss from academia as much as access to OED and the Kokugo Daijiten. these data should be public institutions already, come on