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rionaleonhart) wrote2018-11-05 08:00 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2018-11-05 08:00 pm
She Stays. She Stays. She Stays.
I've finished the fourth season of The 100, and with that I've now watched every season of The 100 available with my Amazon Prime trial. I've had a great (if frequently distressing) time, but I don't have any current plans to seek out season five. (All else aside, I've heard people saying that season five was bad for my OTP. You bet I love Kane and Abby enough to drop the show that gave them to me for their sake. So long as I don't watch it, they're fine!)
Watching The 100 has been a ridiculous and stressful experience, and I'm glad I embarked on it.
Spoilers for 4.11, 'The Other Side'; highlight to read:
Jasper and Monty continue to clearly be boyfriends right up until the end and I sort of can't believe they didn't kiss in Jasper's (very intense) death scene. Jasper begging Monty 'say you love me' broke my heart.
Rei hasn't watched The 100 but happened to be present for that scene, and was very confused when I expressed my frustration that the characters didn't kiss once in the course of the show. 'Wait, aren't they boyfriends? That was definitely a boyfriends death scene.' I'm glad to have support in my view.
Something that really interests me about The 100 and that I haven't yet talked about in my entries is Trigedasleng, the language the grounders speak. I picked up on the fact that at least some phrases were derived from English (one of the first things I noticed was that 'be quiet', shof op, sounded a lot like 'shut up') and assumed at first that it was a creole. Apparently it's not intended to be a creole, though; it's just a future form of English after rapid evolution. (I was surprised at first that English could have changed so much after only a century, but the creator of Trigedasleng has pointed out that grounders probably don't have much in the way of life expectancy; a rapid turnover of generations and an unstructured society would enable the language to evolve very quickly.)
Some other interesting details from the creator's Tumblr posts:
- The word 'hashta', meaning 'about' or 'in regard to', is derived from 'hashtag'. (source)
- The word 'like' came to take the place of 'is' on account of 'like' as a filler word. 'I'm the Commander': 'Ai laik heda' ('I', then 'like', then 'head'): 'I'm, like, the head'. (source)
- The word for 'bullshit' is derived from 'Trump'. (source)
It's all so interesting! I keep saying the words aloud to myself, trying to work out their roots. In this post, the language's creator says that 'I forgive you' is 'Ai wigod yu op. If you really want to make a big show of it, you can say Ai wigod yu klin.' I regard you up? I regard you clean? (EDIT: I think wigod is actually 'we-good', rather than 'regard'.) Yumi means 'the two of us'; that presumably comes from 'you-me'. Another word for 'us, including you', which can incorporate more than two people, is oso: 'us all'? 'Us, not including you' is osir: 'us here'?
This is making me miss university. Languages are so interesting! Even when they don't technically exist!
Watching The 100 has been a ridiculous and stressful experience, and I'm glad I embarked on it.
Spoilers for 4.11, 'The Other Side'; highlight to read:
Jasper and Monty continue to clearly be boyfriends right up until the end and I sort of can't believe they didn't kiss in Jasper's (very intense) death scene. Jasper begging Monty 'say you love me' broke my heart.
Rei hasn't watched The 100 but happened to be present for that scene, and was very confused when I expressed my frustration that the characters didn't kiss once in the course of the show. 'Wait, aren't they boyfriends? That was definitely a boyfriends death scene.' I'm glad to have support in my view.
Something that really interests me about The 100 and that I haven't yet talked about in my entries is Trigedasleng, the language the grounders speak. I picked up on the fact that at least some phrases were derived from English (one of the first things I noticed was that 'be quiet', shof op, sounded a lot like 'shut up') and assumed at first that it was a creole. Apparently it's not intended to be a creole, though; it's just a future form of English after rapid evolution. (I was surprised at first that English could have changed so much after only a century, but the creator of Trigedasleng has pointed out that grounders probably don't have much in the way of life expectancy; a rapid turnover of generations and an unstructured society would enable the language to evolve very quickly.)
Some other interesting details from the creator's Tumblr posts:
- The word 'hashta', meaning 'about' or 'in regard to', is derived from 'hashtag'. (source)
- The word 'like' came to take the place of 'is' on account of 'like' as a filler word. 'I'm the Commander': 'Ai laik heda' ('I', then 'like', then 'head'): 'I'm, like, the head'. (source)
- The word for 'bullshit' is derived from 'Trump'. (source)
It's all so interesting! I keep saying the words aloud to myself, trying to work out their roots. In this post, the language's creator says that 'I forgive you' is 'Ai wigod yu op. If you really want to make a big show of it, you can say Ai wigod yu klin.' I regard you up? I regard you clean? (EDIT: I think wigod is actually 'we-good', rather than 'regard'.) Yumi means 'the two of us'; that presumably comes from 'you-me'. Another word for 'us, including you', which can incorporate more than two people, is oso: 'us all'? 'Us, not including you' is osir: 'us here'?
This is making me miss university. Languages are so interesting! Even when they don't technically exist!
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...actually, “yumi” is Bislama for “we”. (Third person plural for an unspecified group of people is “ol” or “olgeta”, which I assume comes from “all together”.). There may actually be some influence from South Pacific Pidgen languages. (The South Pacific Pidgen languages are, these days, all Creoles, although one is called Pijin and one is called Tok Pisin, confusingly enough.)
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This is so interesting! And, now that I check, the creator of Trigedasleng actually talks a bit here about being inspired by Melanesian Pidgin.
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If a building is for a specific thing in Trigedasleng, is it called the equivalent of "House of"? Because, speaking a bit of Fijian and then going to Papua New Guinea, I notices that the Fijian construction "vale ni", which literally meant "house of" was used for lots of things (including photography shops being "house of photography" and then in Papua New Guinea, the veterinary clinics were Haus blong Sik Dogs.